November 5 - November 11, 2006
Friday, Nov. 10
Let's just pretend you're back in college and trying to get an internship at NBC. You enter this crazy contest...
Its Valencia theme park (aka Six Flags Magic Mountain) is one of the properties up for sale and Bloomberg News...
Not by much - the median price of an existing home in Los Angeles County was $545,000, according to HomeData...
Consider the source and all that, but the NY Post's Page Six reports that Sitrick & Co. was hired and...
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig's speech at USC last night drew a high-octane crowd of owners and team executives. The McCourts...
Word floating around that LAT editors got wind of the WSJ's plans for a page one story on the Times-Tribune...
Times-Tribune war: Did the LAT get wind that the WSJ was planning a major piece on the culture clash between...
Thursday, Nov. 9
The December Vanity Fair profile on Eli Broad gets into his not-so-wonderful relationship with David Geffen - and helps explain...
Funny how earnings conference calls bring out the politician in many an executive. And with it, the illusion of success....
The New York press just loves stories about under-30 Sammy Glick types getting a movie made. The latest variation on...
Santa Clara appears to be the new site for the SF 49ers, which broke off negotiations with San Francisco city...
J.C. Penney and Kohl's appear to be picking up some former Robinsons-May customers who might not be all that happy...
It's still a story no one can get their arms around. Almost 24 hours after the Broad-Burkle bid for the...
Wednesday, Nov. 8
Aw, heck, let me throw another log on the fire - namely a Defamer item that cites "current whispers" (whoever...
Downtown's transition from condos to rentals is well underway. Nearly 1,500 apartments will enter the downtown market in the second...
Shares in the Long Beach-based health care company fell almost 11 percent on Wednesday, to $34.87. It might seem a...
Ah, to be on the outside looking in. Word that Eli Broad and Ron Burkle are jointly submitting a bid...
It's risky to directly connect stock prices with national election results, but for what it's worth, shares of both Amgen...
Post-election blues: So you thought the markets had gotten past the mid-term elections weeks ago? Apparently, no one expected that...
With the Democrats now in control of the House, Westside Congressman Henry Waxman will likely become chairman of the House...
Tuesday, Nov. 7
This could be an interesting match. O'Shea is described as a very midwestern guy, "about as un-L.A. person as I...
LAT publisher David Hiller announces departure of Baquet: Folks, We have published a story on the website that Dean Baquet...
Well, he signed off on shuttering the storied City News wire service last December, part of a 27-person reduction at...
Sure, there's been some action on TradeSports.com and the Iowa Electronic Markets on who will win tonight, but it's nothing...
Why should Disney just license its characters to videogame developers when it could make the games itself and not have...
Wall Street anticipation: Expect a pretty low-key session as traders await the results of the election. A Democratic takeover of...
Monday, Nov. 6
Snaring a ticket over the weekend to see "Borat" took some doing. When I showed up at the AMC in...
With the ongoing stock options scandal, this has been the quarter of the revenue release, with companies delaying earnings pending...
George Joseph is 84, after all, so it's not that big a shock. But the announcement was buried in the...
Gasoline conspiracy?: There has to be something behind the huge decline in pump prices, right? The LAT explores the various...
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The funeral for Mark Lacter will be held Sunday, Nov. 24 at 12 noon at Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles 90045. Reception to follow.
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