Going Hollywood isn’t meant as a compliment. It’s a knock on superficiality, a dig suggesting image trumps substance. “Hollywood” being all glitz and glamour, life-of-luxury stuff. Except that’s a facade. And a good one. Because Hollywood is hard. You probably know some of them, so you’d agree: Like athletes, people in that business rely on…
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By Andrew Dalton | Associated Press LOS ANGELES — While screenwriters are busy back at work, film and TV actors remain on picket lines, with the longest strike in their history set to hit 100 days on Saturday after talks broke off with studios. Here’s a look at where things stand, how their stretched-out standoff…
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THOUSAND OAKS — Rams cornerback Derion Kendrick returned to the team facility and participated in a walk through Thursday, defensive coordinator Raheem Morris said. It marked the first team activity Kendrick has participated in since his arrest early Monday morning on a felony count of carrying a concealed weapon. Kendrick spoke with Morris on Wednesday…
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An 18-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday night, Oct. 18, on suspicion of leaving the scene of a crash that injured a 12-year-old girl in Santa Ana earlier that morning, authorities said. Investigators served a search warrant on a home in Santa Ana and found a blue, four-door sedan believed to be involved in the crash…
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By Andrew Dalton | Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Burt Young, the Oscar-nominated actor who played Paulie, the rough-hewn, mumbling-and-grumbling best friend, corner-man and brother-in-law to Sylvester Stallone in the “Rocky” franchise, has died. Young died Oct. 8 in Los Angeles, his daughter, Anne Morea Steingieser, told the New York Times on Wednesday. No cause was given.…
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COSTA MESA — Chargers safety Derwin James Jr. will renew hostilities with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce on Sunday, a personal rivalry between two superb players whose meeting near the goal line on Sept. 15, 2022, at Arrowhead Stadium resulted in a body-slam heard around the football world. A quick review: Kelce appeared headed…
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There was one final rush Saturday night that hit Caleb Williams, trudging off the field after a flatlining loss in which USC’s superman had finally faced his kryptonite. A bellowing blur of white streaked towards him, a Notre Dame fan clad in a plain tank top with vengeance on his mind, visibly bumping USC’s quarterback…
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Earlier this week, the Hotline offered our midseason review, a look at the best and worst of the Pac-12 at the halfway point of fall like no other. Now, let’s cast an eye to what should be a riveting stretch run. The conference has six ranked teams, three Heisman Trophy contenders, a handful of playoff…
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By Lauren Mascarenhas Retired Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Mary Lou Retton experienced a “scary setback” in her fight against a rare form of pneumonia this week, after showing remarkable progress towards recovery just days ago, her daughter said Wednesday night. Retton is still in the intensive care unit and is “really exhausted” after the setback,…
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By CHRIS MEGERIAN and SEUNG MIN KIM WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will deliver a rare Oval Office address Thursday night as he prepares to ask for additional billions of dollars in military assistance for Israel and Ukraine, deepening American involvement in two very different, unpredictable and bloody foreign conflicts. The speech will be an…
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