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Widow Resurrects Marilyn Monroe For Sales Of The Crypt
1:50AM Brian Moylan | Wanna spend eternity on top of Marilyn Monroe? The widow who owns the crypt in the mausoleum above the star’s final resting place has put the plot up on eBay, even though her husband is interred there. Creepy! More »
Big Screen
The Horror Of Pre-Photoshop Editing
5:24AM Hamilton Nolan | Here, perhaps the single most bootleg photo editing job ever, which spared 1971 LA Times readers the horror of seeing Charlton Heston bare-chested. Click to enlarge it right this instant. [LAT via Sociological Images]
Online
Newspapers Purging Websites Of ‘News’
12:21AM Hamilton Nolan | The LA Times has a new website! So does Newsday! And you know both these papers are in some serious trouble, so these redesigns better work. What’s their secret success formula? Not so much boring “news”. More »
Online
Perez Hilton Will Not Apologise For Being An Awful Person
7:30AM Foster Kamer | Perez Hilton got a fawning LA Times profile today. Instead of taking the opportunity to win fans back after recent publicity snafus, he used it as a platform to define his brand going forward: that of a professionally insufferable dick. More »
Print
LA Times: ‘What If TMZ Got Michael Jackson’s Death Wrong?’
5:09PM the cajun boy | Well you knew this was coming after the LA Times got scooped in their own backyard—An article went up yesterday on their website wondering, “How would we have reacted if TMZ had been wrong about Michael Jackson’s death?” More »
