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Letters. You write, we retch. Old News. Steve Lowery ponders sweet, sweet pixie poon. Wonkette’s Weekette! Fruitcakes! Commie Girl. Happy Birthday, U.S.A.! Architects of Abu Ghraib David Addington and John Yoo pop back up like a bad piece of pork. Rebecca Schoenkopf, per usual, is outraged. Action of the Week! What does SEIU want? Justice! When do they want it? Oh, about now. Third Degree. Francisco Juarez is born on the Fourth of July.

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SWEET PIXIE POON Apocalypse Countdown How silly. [Mick Farren’s “2012: Apocalypse Soon?” June 19.] EVERYbody knows the world ended last October 26 so just lie down and shut up. –“newmoon” Via lacitybeat.com The odds of this occurring are about as possible as the government passing a law that every citizen living in the USofA be required to learn the Spanish language by age 12. –“MulhollandDrive5” Via lacitybeat.com What a lame and flaky (and lazy) article. You could have easily (with a couple of mouse clicks) discovered that Jenkins doesn’t think or say the Mayan calendar ends in 2012. It’s a cyclical process that simply starts over just like our calendar ends and starts over at midnight on New Year’s Eve. Man, what a cheesy punk you are. –“Curt” Via lacitybeat.com Ho-hum. Yet another pop-culture treatment of 2012 that confuses marketplace fantasies with serious research. Your seventh paragraph begins with explaining the astronomy of the Galactic Alignment (which, by the way, is the title of my 2002 follow up book to Maya Cosmogenesis 2012) and opines doubtfully that such an alignment “supposedly” happens. You cite Anthony Aveni’s misleading comment from the New York Times article. He – a “scholar” – craftily leaves out the “solstice” qualifier and thus his statement appears to be correct. Most disturbingly, your characterization of me as an “heir to the psychedelic school of wildly eclectic thinking” is 1) laughable, 2) inaccurate, and 3) completely misses the point of my work, which you failed to summarize, except in the generalized paraphrase of the galactic alignment that seems to just appear from nowhere. This concept’s connection to 2012 was not proven before my pioneering work in 1994 demonstrated its occurrence within the dark rift in the Milky Way (Xibalba be), and its relation to the galactic center (the womb of the Great Mother), the sacred ballgame (sacrifice rites at the end of a cycle), Izapa (the origon place of the 2012 calendar), and the Maya Creation

Mythology (which encodes spiritual teachings as well as the galactic alignment astronomy). You’d think none of this work even existed from reading your article. Fascinating how the pop media does that, time and time again. My two decades of self-funded work should be clearly identified for what it is – a pioneering, well-researched reconstruction of a lost cosmology. And then, over there, we have doomsday fools, opportunistic come-latelies, carnival barkers, UFO abductees, alarmist Rapture novelists, elixir guzzlers, and crop circle chasers. –John Major Jenkins Via lacitybeat.com Mick Farren replies: I had an inkling when writing the 2012 story that this might happen. In a comparatively short, nutshell account of the various end time theories, some theorists are bound to pout about a perceived lack of coverage. I also sensed a rivalry between those who espouse opposing scenarios for the coming four years. John Major Jenkins might seem less disingenuous in his condemnation of “doomsday fools, carnival barkers, UFO abductees,” etc., if he didn’t share a well-paid public stage with so many of them. To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, this is the way the world ends, not with a bang or whimper, but with complaining prophets.

BY STEVE LOWERY

Monday, June 23 And so comes video of “surfers” roughing up a few “photographers” on the beach at Malibu. The “photographers” were there to get some shots of actor Matthew McConaughey without his shirt because the world couldn’t get along with the scant 6,439,874 already in existence. It was as they advanced upon the McConaughey that they were set upon by a band of local “surfers” – their rounded guts suggesting they’re paying someone to paddle out for them – who asked them to leave and may have mentioned something about pushing things inside of them. When the “photographers” refused, the “surfers” started yelling and then chased at least one of the “photographers” into the surf, throwing him down and tossing his camera into the ocean. The “photographer’s” brethren, true to a nature which hovers somewhere between lowlife and kid who eats scabs for a quarter, didn’t so much come to their colleague’s aid as film him getting pummeled in hopes of selling it to some desperate “news organization” such as TMZ or the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. Tuesday, June 24 A brand-new, 10,000-foot-long taxiway opens on the south airfield at Los Angeles International Airport. The taxiway provides a buffer zone for planes moving between the southern runways at the airport, an area that has been the site of numerous near-misses. In fact, from 2000 to 2003, LAX had the most runway close calls of any U.S. airport, and between 2006 and 2007 there were 16 more. A close call on the ground may not seem like a big deal until you consider that the worst disaster in aviation history occurred on the runway at Tenerife in 1977 when one plane taking off hit another taxiing, resulting in the deaths of 583 people. LAX’s problems had been blamed on a lack of maneuverable space and the fact that most airport personnel were busy being dicks to people just trying to pack nine pieces of luggage into a subcompact car at the curb. Yeah, thanks for the support, tinhorn asswad! The new runways will provide safety and piece of mind and will be available to those willing to pay a safety ($17) and piece of mind ($43) surcharge. Wednesday, June 25 The Los Angeles Coliseum, home to two Olympics, the original Dodgers, many a classic USC football game, one totally bitchen Ronnie James Dio concert and the kind of trough urinals usually only available to lower animals and higher-class South Carolinians, may be getting a new name. I’ve always been partial to Jack. But this is one of those naming rights situations where some company will slap its name in front of the Coliseum making it the The Terminex Coliseum or some such thing.

Nuclear Fallout Generally, it’s a pleasure to respond to smart and insightful criticisms of my work [Letters, June 19], but this one is so odd and off the mark that I ignored it until my editor decided to print it in L.A. CityBeat. No longer. Mr. Cornelius Van Sant simply has no idea what he is talking about. The interview wasn’t partisan and explored a very serious and important subject. In other words, this blurted blather is just plain moronic. Comments like these, which unfortunately get to live on under the article, serve to do nothing more than suggest that L.A. CityBeat has some readers/ranters a few kilotons short of an atomic blast. –Michael Collins Via lacitybeat.com Send letters to editor@lacitybeat.com or do it up old school: Letters to the Editor, LA CITYBEAT, 5209 Wilshire

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Selling the naming rights is just one way to raise the $100 million needed for necessary renovations to the Coliseum. You know, there was a time when people were outraged if they slapped some crass corporate logo on an athletic facility, one of the few places where all strata of American culture come together – well, before luxury boxes and seat licenses and separate entrances. But that was at a time when people still got angry if some company tried to use a Beatles song to sell shoes; a different, stupider time, when we had principles and standards and didn’t think the entire purpose of life was the attainment of money and things that money buys. Idiots. Thanks for setting us straight, MTV. Thursday, June 26 In other landmark news, the L.A. Times Building is for sale. Yes, word comes that new Times owner Sam Zell, who looks a lot like a garden gnome only with more killing power, has decided to sell the building, one of the few recognizable structures downtown. Zell, in an e-mail to remaining Times employees – all 16 – called the building “iconicâ€? and recognized that it was “deeply intertwined with the history of this company,â€? but said it is underutilized, owing in large part to the fact that he’s laid off most of the staff. This is called self-fulfilling destruction, you know, like Ronald Reagan with the federal government. Zell said selling the building is in “our best interestâ€? (when we went to your schools, your churches, your institutional learning facilities!) which most people believe means he’d like to make as much money off the building as he can so he can chase some sweet, sweet pixie poon. Friday, June 27 Remember that bit above about us having no principles or standards? Well, today a federal judge issued a restraining order prohibiting the sale of a tape/ DVD showing actor Verne “MiniMeâ€? Troyer having sex with a former girlfriend. The tape was allegedly stolen from the actor’s home and was expected to fetch about $100,000 from adult video distributors. Remember when federal judges made rulings regarding school desegregation? Now they’re necessary to tell us that it’s probably not cool to steal and then sell videos of 2-foot-8 actors having sex. No word if the judge’s order applies to the Blu-ray edition. Saturday, June 28 The Los Angeles Avengers of the Chuck E. Cheese-inspired Arena Football League fire head coach Ed Hodgkiss after a disappointing season that saw the team miss the AFL playoffs with only four wins in 14 games. Team owner Casey Wasserman announced that along with Hodgkiss, he would also dismiss Brent Winter, whose main duties included directing the offense and making sure the piĂąata was filled before every game. Sunday, June 29 The best album this year is Sigur RĂłs’ Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust. Ask for it by name.!

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Tom Brokaw Is Your New Tim Russert! A week and a half ago NBC newsman and Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert died, and the earth stopped in its orbit and let out a wild yawp of despair for the most wonderful person who ever lived. Speculation quickly ensued about who would replace Russert in a job that he alone among all living humans was uniquely suited to do: sit in a chair and ask politicians questions. And now we know who will host Meet the Press until the “election,� which will be called off at the last minute when we start bombing Iran. It’s Tom Brokaw! Tom Brokaw comes from South Dakota and talks funny. He attained fame and created a virtual cottage industry as the cultural ambassador for World War II porn enthusiasts by fetishizing a generation of people unfortunate enough to be born before the creation of the XBox and the abolishment of the draft. This generation was superior to all generations before or after, with the exception of Tim Russert, who was better than all of them combined. –Sara K. Smith Vito Fossella Can’t Catch a Break Vito Fossella, Staten Island’s beloved congressman, won America’s heart with his drunk-driving, mistresshaving, love-child-fathering ways. Of course, such a free spirit could not stay in Congress so he planned not to run for re-election. The Staten Island Republican Party searched and searched for somebody to run for Fossella’s spot, and all these people said, “Uh, no thanks, I have to floss my dog,� and finally a nice man named Frank Powers said “OK, I’ll do it,� but now he is dead. Maybe our Vito will reconsider his retirement plans. Two more years! –SKS Obama Nixes Stupid ‘Great Seal’ Remake The national press corps is not used to covering a “confident� Democratic presidential candidate, at least in this decade. So much confidence, in fact, that the candidate won’t always bend over backwards to talk to the press, or to leak internal drama to the press! Ergo, the press has decided that Obama is arrogant. And when they saw Obama speak behind a new “great seal� of his on Friday – definitely the lamest stunt we can remember from Hopey – this confirmed to the press that Obama is too arrogant. Obama arrogantly got the message and arrogantly ditched the great seal and did some other arrogant stuff, like believe he might actually win this thing. –Jim Newell Rove to Republicans: Obama Is Totally ‘That Guy’ at the Country Club Brilliant Republican strategist Karl Rove is not Arrogant, or an Elitist. He has helped his party help poor people and the underrepresented by flying young men and women to Iraq, which they may colonize for a brighter, more prosperous future. Rove knows what an Elitist is, and it is Elitist Barack Obama. This morning, Rove was speaking with a group of poor, Average Americans known as “Republican insiders at the Capitol Hill Club� to describe, in layman’s terms, Barack Obama: he is like “that guy� at the “country club� who, uh, won’t be sociable with the other members. And if Bitters know one thing, it’s the subtle internal politics of country club cocktail hours. ABC News was on the scene: ABC News’ Christianne Klein reports that at a breakfast with Republican insiders at the Capitol Hill Club this morning, former White House senior aide Karl Rove referred to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, as “coolly arrogant.� “Even if you never met him, you know this guy,� Rove said, per Christianne Klein. “He’s the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.� –JN

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Perchance You Mean ‌ Our Nemesis? We are familiar with that rapscallion of ancient archetype, the flaneur who disregards the trappings of wealth, the bonhomie of chums, for McGovernish tobacco “pullsâ€? and conical spirits! The American people will not stand for a candidate who hates the atmosphere of country clubs. –JN Gay Governor Charlie Crist Makes Up Girlfriend in Interview The New York Times Magazine’s Deborah Solomon has a reputation for being very “forwardâ€? in her weekly interviews. Or sometimes it’s just very unprepared, like that time she asked Stephen Colbert about his dad, and Colbert said his dad died in a plane crash when he was 10, and Solomon responded, “I’m so sorry. I had no idea.â€? Ha ha, weird! She is terribly awkward, which made this Sunday’s interview with Florida’s secretly gay Governor Charlie Crist such a profound occasion. They talk about dumb things for most of the interview. Nothing really “meaty.â€? But just as you’re thinking, “GODDAMNIT, DEBORAH, ASK HIM ABOUT THE SECRET GAY FUCKING, YOU FUCKING PHILISTINE,â€? she asks, “Your personal life is not that

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY U.S.A.! BY REBECCA SCHOENKOPF

TUESDAY Dobson Rails Against Fruitcake Constitution You know who hates edible Christmas gifts and loves the New Testament? James Dobson, that’s who! And that’s why he despises Barack Obama and his delicious fruitcake Constitution for pointing out that Leviticus says a lot of wacky shit about shellfish. Wait, did that last bit make zero sense? Then it still makes one million times more sense than what Focus on the Family’s leader will be saying on his radio program today. Here are some other things he has to say about Your Barry, according to an ADVANCE COPY of the segment: t i* UIJOL IF T EFMJCFSBUFMZ EJTUPSUJOH UIF USBEJUJPOBM understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology.” t i)F JT ESBHHJOH CJCMJDBM VOEFSTUBOEJOH UISPVHI UIF gutter.” t 0CBNB B $POTUJUVUJPOBM MBX QSPGFTTPS TVCTDSJCFT to “a fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution.” James Dobson also hates John McCain and will probably sit out voting for president altogether this time, so there’s that. MORE FRUITCAKE FOR THE REST OF US. –SKS

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ust when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, masters of evil John Yoo and David Addington pop back up, like Jason or a platter of undercooked pork, to tell the U.S. Congress how much they’d really like to take that water and pour it over your blindfolded and Saran-wrapped face. Happy Birthday, U.S.A.! Now, I know people who know John Yoo – that’s right, suckas! Your editrix is exactly one degree of separation from the man who wrote the memo legalizing torture for BushCo by way of the unitary executive theory – and I’ve been told “not as stupid as he pretends to be” would be a reckless understatement. In fact, they say, though he’s incredibly unprepossessing and innocuous-seeming, he’s actually just as smart as you’d expect a top lawyer for the U.S. making torture law would be. But did you see his Congressional testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last week? Could he have pretended to be any stupider? I swear, if you’d stuck a Coors in his hand and somehow made him handsome, he could have been any of the big dumb hunks of alcoholic electrician man I so like to date. Here’s Rep. Keith Ellison (you remember: the dude with the Koran) questioning Yoo: “The memo was implemented at some point. Is that right?” Here’s John Yoo: “Duuhhhhh.”

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et’s start over. Here’s Chairman John Conyers: “Could the President order a suspect buried alive?” Yoo: “Uh, Mr. Chairman, I don’t think I’ve ever given advice that the President could order someone buried alive.” Golly gee, Mrs. Cleaver. He also refused to understand the question of whether his torture memo had been implemented: “What do you mean by ‘implemented,’ sir?” It went on for the questioner’s allotted 10 minutes. Meanwhile, David Addington – Cheney’s slavering id – was even worse; where Yoo valley-girled his way out of the questions, Addington sneered and sniggered at his interlocutors. My favorite,

of a typical Republican candidate. For starters, I hear you’re not a property owner.” Now that is one clutch segue. How else is his personal life, say, different? You were married nearly 30 years ago, but the marriage lasted less than a year. Do you prefer living alone? I got married and divorced because it didn’t work out. I haven’t found the right one since. It’s really that simple. You can’t find one woman in all of Florida? Maybe I have. Stay tuned. And then Crist’s mother appeared in the interview room, knocked out Solomon, and repeatedly asked her son, “Why can’t I meet this nice girl?” Crist said that his gal is very shy and does not like to be pressured so BACK OFF. –JN

by far: Rep. Jerrold Nadler: “Professor Yoo is quoted as saying that under certain circumstances, it would be proper and legal to torture a detainee’s child to get necessary information. Do you agree with that?” Addington: “I don’t agree or disagree with it, Mr. Chairman. I don’t plan to address it. You’re seeking legal opinion and, as we told you in Exhibit 4, I’m not here to render legal advice to your committee. You do have attorneys of your own to give you legal advice.”

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know David Addington isn’t the devil because Albert Brooks said in Broadcast News that the devil would be reasonable, and genial, and that he wouldn’t be wearing a tail and horns. But what of our high court? Well, clearly they’re not the devil either, though it’s not for lack of trying. I get the garden-variety greed and corporatism. Wrong, yes, but it’s not something that would make you scratch your head in a fuddle. I get the partisanship of staying the Florida Supreme Court’s order to count the state’s votes. I get a whole host of the queer things those black-robed cats cook up. It was news that the Supreme Court voided D.C.’s gun laws? There was someone who thought they wouldn’t? But one thing about the Supremes’ latest string of decisions is so utterly

shocking – even to someone who watches them, like me, and who thought she was absolutely inured to the unerring despair they could visit upon the nation – I can’t even get it into my puny mortal noggin. The Supreme Court cares about as much about a defendant’s inalienable right to a fair trial as it did about equal protection claims pre-Bush v. Gore. (Okay, to be fair, which I always am, they did rebuke the administration on habeas corpus.) So how is it that they’re now taking really seriously our inalienable right to confront our accuser in court – so seriously that if an accuser isn’t available, her police reports about alleged abuse are inadmissible? Oh, that doesn’t sound that bad? Get this: She isn’t available for the defendant to confront in court because before she could, THE DEFENDANT KILLED HER. Does that sound like the Taliban to anyone else? Does that sound like those Sharia courts where, like Dave Chappelle and what he’d need as a prospective R. Kelly juror, in order to get a rape conviction you’d need video, two forms of age verification for the underage girl, and his grandmother in the frame giving an affirmative ID? Or otherwise the girl gets stoned? John Yoo and David Addington aren’t the only things popping back up when you least expect them: I think my lunch did too.!

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George Bush’s Flight Plans Ruin 40,000 British Vacations George W. Bush, that guy who dances sometimes and gave up golf for the troops, is spending the waning days of his presidency touring the world and bumming out millions of foreigners every day. About a week and a half ago, it was Great Britain’s turn to be wildly inconvenienced by the American President. He and his entourage of two 747s and four helicopters flew into Heathrow Airport instead of, say, a military base that does not host thousands of international flights every day. At least 69 flights were cancelled and 40,000 travelers’ plans were disrupted so that George Bush’s planes could land in blissful solitude. According to Willie Walsh, the chief executive of British Airways, … the disruption began two days before the president’s visit on June 15 and lasted for the two days that his party stayed in the U.K. Heathrow was reduced to one working runway for 30 minutes on June 15 and 16, after its other runway was closed temporarily for the arrival and departure of Air Force One. Who will our wonderful president annoy next? Stay tuned! –SKS Vietnamese Guy Who Kicked McCain’s Ass for Five Years Endorses McCain Tran Trong Duyet is a Vietnamese retiree and “amateur ballroom dancer.” He’s one of those foreign folks that the Western press describes with such words as “sprightly,” like when, say, Barbara Walters interviews the Dalai Lama and calls him “cute” or “adorable.” Ha ha, wacky old Asian men! You just want to fold them into a sparkly lunchbox and take them home as a present for your kitty cat. But in Duyet’s case, he would proceed to beat the shit out of your cat, which is what he did to John McCain as head of the Hoa Lo prison – the “Hanoi Hilton” – during WALNUTS!’ famous Captivity. Let’s see what cute things he has to say! “McCain is my friend,” said 75-year-old Mr Duyet as he feeds the caged birds he now keeps in his garden in this coastal city. “If I was American, I would vote for him.” See? If John McCain had been a *bird*, then Duyet would’ve politely fed him. What’s not to understand about this? –JN Bush Thanks Philippine President for Producing Humans That Feed Him President George W. Bush today played White House host to Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the most powerful woman in American history. He used the occasion to congratulate Filipinos everywhere for their remarkable contributions to the world. He did this, of course, by singling out his Filipino cook. ’Cause that dame churns out one helluva steak ’n’ baked. But Tuesday, welcoming Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to the White House, President Bush couldn’t resist getting in a joke about his chef. First, said Bush, “I want to tell you how proud I am to be the president of a nation that – in which there’s a lot of Philippine Americans. They love America and they love their heritage.” Second, he continued, “I am reminded of the great talent of the – of our Philippine Americans when I eat dinner at the White House … . And the chef is a great person and a really good cook, by the way, Madam President.” [Awkward silence, followed by tit squeeze and hyena laugh.] Also, George Bush knows everything about everything:

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THE REACHING HIGHER COALITION LAX, Thursday, June 26 Standing next to the Bradley terminal, with a sea of Service Employees International Union members around me, I got Gil Cedillo on the horn. “I see a bunch of people in purple shirts, but I don’t see Gil Cedillo!” I told him. “Huh?” he explained. ! Just then my mom rang in. “Where are you?” she asked over the din of Si, se puede! “I’m at the airport, for a SEIU thing,” I told her. “Oh, how fun!” she said. “What do they want?” Justice, I told her. And when do they want it? Oh, right about now. This week’s Action of the Week! was gearing up for next month’s contract negotiations with LAX, and all the usual suspects were there: SEIU (but always), Justice for Janitors, a couple chicks in yellow Bus Riders Union T’s, and 10 uniformed cops, two traffic officers, and three of the brave men from the TSA. LAX is bound by Los Angeles’s living wage ordinance, but the mandated $11 per hour is no longer a living wage, SEIU organizer Brian Rudiger said. Due to LAX’s “massive part-time-ization, [our] average member is making $19,000 a year.” Only three percent, he said, have access to affordable health care. Meanwhile, next to a lady with a mop, the slim and blonded Janice Hahn stood next to kindly-looking Bill Rosendahl (probably beats his dog) and the Rev. Lewis Logan of Bethel AME as she said “‘The working poor’ should not be a phrase.” That’s right! But according to Ann Coulter, who knows these things, Hahn was a little bit off; it’s “working families” that shouldn't be a phrase, since it's a euphemism for “families where no one is working.” Thanks, Ann! If you happen to feel differently, take note: Over the next 10 years, the city will be investing $8 billion in modernizing the airport. The Reaching Higher Coalition suggests we might – maybe – think about plowing some of that into people, too.!

Kiss My Ass, House, and Kiss It Now It’s Day Two of Hillary Clinton’s return to the Hill! Today she met with the House Democratic Caucus, the members of which formed a single file line to pretend that they hadn’t STOLEN THE ELECTION from her. Charlie Rangel: “She is no longer Bill Clinton’s wife, she is a national and international leader in her own right.” Nancy Pelosi: “She has emerged from this campaign as the most respected political figure in America.” Rahm Emanuel: “Since her campaign started, I have literally masturbated to Hillary Clinton every 15 minutes. Right now, I am masturbating to Hillary Clinton.” –JN Ted Haggard Finishes Spiritual Restoration, Is No Longer a Homo! American hero Ted Haggard, the former pastor of a MEGACHURCH in Colorado Springs who quit in 2006 after fucking male prostitutes while on meth, has finally finished his holy “Spiritual Restoration” program, and can do whatever he wants. And all he wants to do is bang his wife and worship Jesus and live in his old house, with Jesus! –JN THURSDAY Obama Ahead in Millions of Battleground States Oh, hey, look, it’s another poll, from the Numbers People! Exciting new statistics show that Barry Obama is ahead of John McCain in the Muslim state of Michigan, plus Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Colorado. This was a poll among likely voters, which your boyfriend Chuck Todd cautions may not be the best measure in a year when turnout is expected to be OFF THE CHAIN Y’ALL. (Chuck prefers registered voters to likely ones, because he is an Elitist.) The point is, John McCain will win in a landslide when a Terrorist Meteor hits Ohio’s beloved Cornhole Tournament and all of America’s likely voters are deported to Guantánamo. –SKS Supreme Court Strikes Down D.C. Handgun Ban, Immediately Shoots at Random People They’ve been talking about it for a while, but the ACTIVIST judges of the Supreme Court today struck down Washington, D.C.’s ban on handgun ownership, voting along Ideological Lines. Hooray! Because we all have guns, and now we don’t have to hide them under our pillows with the safety off anymore, which was not safe in the first place. Justice Antonin Scalia’s majority opinion went along the lines of: “If a bunch of blacks in Anacostia shoot each other, how the hell does that affect me, Tony Scalez?” –JN

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Economy Is Somehow More Perfect Than Previously Thought In today’s edition of Wonkette Economic Newz(TM), the economy grew by 1% in Q1 2008!!!! The original estimate was still an awesome 0.9%, which was awesomer than Q4 2007’s 0.6%, which was awesome too because HOW CAN A PERFECT ECONOMY EVEN GROW AT ALL? Also, the Dow is down like 300 points and Oil is over $140/barrel and Congress has renamed our economy “Jesus’s Money Thing” because why not. –JN FRIDAY Senator Norm Coleman Sleeps in a Drawer Norm Coleman, the hobo senator from Minnesota, rents a basement room from a Republican campaign consultant so he doesn’t have to sleep in the back of a freight car when he’s in Washington. Senator Coleman is supposed to pay $600 a month in rent, but he missed a couple of payments over the past year because he is a degenerate as well as a hobo. Senator Coleman’s landlord is a gentleman named Jeff Larson, whose employer has helped the senator with fundraising 'n' stuff. Also Larson is the chief executive of the Minneapolis Saint Paul 2008 Host Committee, which is hosting the Republican National Convention. But enough about their completely above-the-board connections! Apparently this apartment is a frightful dungeon that would terrify all but the most desperate vagrants, and Jeff Larson is a monster: “I rent a cramped bedroom from him, with no kitchen … . It’s a place to lay my head,” the senator told a reporter. Somebody needs to notify the proper authorities that a Republican pervert is keeping an impoverished, starving senator in his basement Incest Dungeon, the end. –SKS Bobby Jindal Is Insane, GOOD GOD, and Will Now Castrate Humans Vice presidential “hopeful” and Louisiana’s Mexican boygovernor, Bobby Jindal, has just signed into law a very special bill, because he is incapable of vetoing anything and also because HE IS NOT OF THIS WORLD. The bill (now law) here is called “the Sex Offender Chemical Castration Bill, SB 144, authorizing the castration of convicted sex offenders.” You know, forced castration of human beings, by The State. SB 144 by Senators Nick Gautreaux, Amedee, Dorsey, Duplessis and Mount provides that on a first conviction of aggravated rape, forcible rape, second degree sexual battery, aggravated incest, molestation of a juvenile when the victim is under the age of 13, or an aggravated crime against nature, the court may sentence the offender to undergo chemical castration. On a second conviction of the above listed crimes, the court is required to sentence the offender to undergo chemical castration. This bill also provides that a court may instead order a physical castration instead of the chemical castration. It’s funny, because it’s unconstitutional. And you know how the liberals like to complain about that business. Don’t they know we’re at war, with the sex offender terrorists? Jindal knows, because his “boyish good looks” have surely attracted the wrong sort of Louisiana trash, at soda fountains, for his entire life: Not only as the Governor of this great state, but as a father of three children, I believe that sexually assaulting a child is one of the very worst crimes and I am glad we have taken such strong measures in Louisiana to put a stop to these monsters’ brutal acts. I want to send the message loud and clear – to the Supreme Court of the United States and beyond – make no mistake about it, if anyone wants to molest children and commit sexual assaults on kids they should not do so here in Louisiana. Here, we will do everything in our power to protect our children and we will not rest until justice is won and we have fully punished those who harm them. Jindal clearly fucks little boys, all the time, including his own. Right? –JN Marriage Amendment Has Utterly Predictable Cosponsors Hey guess who’s cosponsoring yet another one of these “protecting marriage from being forever defiled by hot gay action” Constitutional amendments? Two terrible hypocrites: an adulterous bathroom goblin and an adulterous diaper fetishist. Larry Craig and David Vitter should have gay diapered bathroom sex and then filibuster the crap out of each other, because that is what Jesus wanted when he wrote the Fruitcake Constitution. –SKS Need … More … Unity “A day after Obama wrote a $4,600 check to Hillary Clinton, First Read has learned Bill and Hillary Clinton have returned the favor, donating the maximum to the Illinois senator’s campaign, a Clinton spokesperson says.” And Patti Solis Doyle has already spent all of this Unity Money on snow shovels for the upcoming Florida battle. –JN Breaking: House Passes Sweeping ‘National Corvette Day’ Legislation, Making Oil Cost Like Four Cents Now that a gallon of gas costs approximately “go fuck yourself” dollars across the nation, the United States House of Representatives is saving the middle class again by introducing legislation that is not only a waste of all human resources, but actually mocks America by romanticizing something which no one can afford. Three cheers to Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) for his “National Corvette Day” bill, for its deserved praise of the “dependence on insanely expensive foreign oil” concept. –JN

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The Smithsonian lost interest due to the “given by mistake factor”, being addressed here.

Historical Artifact; She, The Gate That Born The Child

The 1921 Los Angeles inspiration for the Gate sculpture came from the science supported quantum physics picture in Mexico 1531 known as “the Lady of Guadalupe” 1921 in Mexico there was a revolution which tried to destroy the Guadalupe picture, and so this special tribute was forged for the USA, as told to Giles by a Cathedral historian 1991 when he was hired as an on-call welder and repairman

This is a notice of respect to Mexican Americans of Los Angeles regarding the priceless, unique, sculpture; The Gates of the Lady of Guadalupe from St. Vibiana Cathedral 1921.

The Guadalupe 1531 emblazonment occurrence is supported by science. The two daunting questions being: the source of the colors and how those colors were applied on the fabric. We acknowledge the verbal message of 1531 is hear-say but it seems to resonate with the picture.

2001, La Opinion Newspaper, L.A. did a respectful article regarding the transfer of ownership of that Artifact that occurred 1n 1999 which needs clarity regarding the intention of the transfer This is also a respectful notice to Vatican, Rome that the 1531 Lady of Guadalupe phenomena is not just Catholic.

Giles dismantled the Gates Sculpture in 1996. In 1999 the business manager of the Cathedral gave the Gates to him with a receipt. When St.Vibiana was sold in 2000, Giles’ neighbors, Nick and Jessica, who bought and sold furniture on Ebay, asked him if they could list the Gates and see what happens. He said; “Yes, if it doesn’t lock me in to a sale” and then the controversy started.

Recent documentation, 4/08 has been presented to both, La Opinion news and the L.A. times, 6/08 that confirms it was specifically gifted to Giles by the Cathedral business manager as directed by the Pastor. The Los Angeles Times, article of Jan 31, Feb.1, and Feb. 6, 2001, had been misinformed ( a semi-understandable political response which now deserves clarity), it was not an accident. This misunderstanding has caused threats. For instance, CBS news reported “he was told to return it or else!” and the LA Times said it was mistakenly given by a construction supervisor. Giles’ Aunt Barbara and Uncle Charles told him not to call again and have since passed away, thinking he had tricked the Church. This media slant also caused a bank officer to get up from her desk and tell him he was being watched with no place to hide. A Man at the Silver Lake Dog Park told him he was going to be shot. The LA Times stated “The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Conservancy and an attorney with a powerful Los Angeles law firm said they want the gates returned.” It was misleading for the L.A. Times headline to say, “Officials Ask Welder to Return Historic Church Gates,” such wording giving the impression that the Cathedral was asking. The Archdiocese has never asked. The pressure came from the real estate developer who bought the Old Cathedral. We tried to cooperate but at least a small picture of the Lady, staying with the Gates was not negotiable

A meditation place, HLOE, Historical Ladies of Enlightenment also includes Joan of Arc, Harriett Tubman, Rahab of Jericho; At 2023 S.E. Hawthorne Ave, Portland, Oregon, this is where the Gates will go for now until a permanent place of 200 sq. ft. or so with pedestrian traffic can be found. A video documentary , “Gift of Love”; is a rough edit about this project progress. It can be seen at www.galaxyb4u.com. (no charge) Dr. Frank Ochberg, secret service psychiatrist for President Carter and Giles’ former boss 1980, responded to Giles request for a review of the situation. His letter of March 2001, said to have respect for the symbol of hope. And this has been the effort. Ochberg’s letter can be seen on the above website. Dr. Ochberg’s website is www.giftfromwithin.org

Many fitting secular donation efforts have been rejected due to the misinformation; Olvera Street Pueblo, the National Smithsonian Museum, the Mexican Historical Cultural Center, the Zeta Newspaper of Tijuana, Mexico for a border memorial to their murdered journalists , and other efforts as well… 18 months of delays and double talk from the previous General Manager of Olvera Street Pueblo, brought an official rejection on Dec.11, 2004, the Lady of Guadalupe eve. Their largest annual event. 6 Months of waiting for the Mexican Cultural Center got a no thanks for this cultural treasure and then was introduced to the Smithsonian by them, which confirms the cultural relevance.

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was looking for a good Patriot to interview for this special Fourth of July issue in your hot little hands, when a tipster let me know Chuck Baldwin would be at a We the Veterans protest Sunday in front of a VA nursing home in Brentwood. Baldwin, presidential nominee for the American Constitution Party, is one interesting cat, and very, very Patriotic, in your typical terrifying fascist Constitution Party way. He wasn’t among the dozen people there when I arrived, and so I went over to a Mexican-American dude a lady said would be able to tell me all about the protest. By the time Baldwin got there, I couldn’t have cared less, engrossed as I was in a conversation with an erudite, eloquent, and very angry Marine Corps Vietnam combat veteran. –Rebecca Schoenkopf

How long have you been doing this? This is the 13th Sunday in a row. I have to admit, I haven’t made them all. Father’s Day, my kids wouldn’t let me come. And Mother’s Day, of course, I spent with my mama, my 97-year-old mom. We’re all from California; I grew up in Santa Monica. I remember coming here as a kid, right when I got my license. I used to bring a guy here every day, Mr. Miller. He got the cancer. And then I’d bring his wife when it went terminal. They had legions of doctors, nurses, candy stripers. Veterans were treated much differently than they are today. There’s so many of us today, more living veterans than at any time in our nation’s history. CARES – Capital Assets ... I don’t know the rest of the initials, but they don’t “CARE” – CARES hangs its hat for future veterans’ services on a study that says there will be less and less veterans, and there’s more living veterans now than any time in our history, so who’s bullshitting who here?

LA CityBeat: So what’s the protest? Francisco Juarez: Look at the sign behind you. [I look. It reads “Gateway to Veterans Park.”] What’s wrong with it? That’s a sham. It gives the impression they want to make a park for veterans. But the elite in Brentwood – they were instrumental in putting this fence up, for veterans supposedly. But on their website, they said they’d turn the north campus into “Central Park West.” We the Veterans want to keep the spirit and intent of the grant deed of 1888. Approximately 80 percent of the land that was deeded to the veterans in 1888 is being used for everything but its stated intent and purpose. For example, these 16 acres are controlled by Richmark Entertainment. They were already kind of putting it in our faces; they’ve sponsored some very lavish private parties here where booze flows right next to longstanding veterans’ rehab programs. They’d have huge private parties, with tents and air conditioning. At first I thought it was a stand down – where they take vets off the streets, shower ’em, give ’em a haircut. Nope, it was a party. Surveys show it takes about five “touches” before a program works for homeless people. [Derisively] But the Veterans Administration is very proud of its onetouch program. This is the biggest, busiest VA of all. It touches people east to Nevada, as far north as Santa Barbara. If we can stop this land grab, the politicians who’ve run interference for them ... we’re tired of that crap. We want to uphold and perpetuate the spirit and intent of the grant deed of 1888. It’s really a moral issue: This country is sending people to Iraq and Afghanistan, creating veterans every day, and then is taking veterans’ land

and making “Central Park West”? Post Traumatic Stress Disorder claims are the highest in history. You cannot expect people to see the carnage of war and expect them to be the same after that. It’s the plot and storyline of Rome; it turned its back on its veterans. It could [sic] give a shit. If you’re not gonna take care of the people you send to defend the nation or – supposedly – spread democracy ... they’re pawns in this, and then you flaunt a park in front of them? What do you think of Iraq and Afghanistan? [Quietly] It’s a continuation of Vietnam and Korea. I’m guilty by association of spreading “democracy” where it’s not wanted. And now they’re killing my younger brothers and sisters. How can I blame them for being there? They are pawns. So what should be done with this space if it shouldn’t be a park? It’s space, valuable space, that could be used for a model of healing. With PTSD, you need quietude! The power brokers don’t want it; God forbid, veterans might start getting healed. See behind you? That’s Brentwood School right there, one of the wealthiest private schools in the nation. What’s it doing on federal land? The governor’s got two kids in there, and he just cut veterans’ programs.

Did you see the article in The Nation about how they deny PTSD claims by saying the vets had it before they went to war? Yeah, I read that. [Shakes his head.] It’s shocking how the Bush administration talks-talks-talks about the troops but then cuts them off the rolls. [Evades a bit] In the group, we have political differences between ourselves, but as long we focus on saving this land ... . It’s a land heist! These men and women, my brothers and sisters, having the land pulled out beneath them because someone wants a public park or a statue of themselves! If the senator of this area would instruct his staff to meet with us, we could explain further, but they call us “disgruntled veterans” or “agitators.” We just want to honor the terms and conditions and the spirit and intent of the land grant of 1888. A park? You’re opening up Pandora’s Box when you want to mix the public with veterans who are healing. Last week, a late-model Mercedes SUV very intently rolled up and the guy shouted at me, “We need the park!” I said, “Then why don’t you negotiate the swap of your golf course?” It’s right there! It’s just the haves and the have-nots. The haves are always gonna take away anything they can. You know, we have two World War II

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ydropower entrepreneur Chris Catlin is frank about his personal investments in oil, and they appear to be doing all right. He’s drinking vodka at lunchtime in swank Santa Monica surroundings, his enormous frame draped in expensive clothing and sprawled out on a leather bench. “Oil just blows renewables out of the water in terms of energy density,” he says, waving his hand dismissively, “it’s going to be a hell of a challenge to replace it.” Even if Catlin is pessimistic that we’ll rise to that challenge gracefully, he intends to make a profit trying. Five years ago, when gas was two dollars a gallon, he founded Bourne Energy, a Malibubased company aiming to manufacture new varieties of hydro-electric equipment to harness tides, waves, and river currents. Since then, the flow of capital toward alternative energy and other green technologies has risen, along with energy prices, from a trickle to a torrent which last year equaled tens of billions of dollars. Much of that money comes off one street in Silicon Valley, and the Bay Area has already become a green tech hub. But the Southland is also a potential center of the emerging industry, potentially creating millions of skilled jobs and transforming energy production, transportation systems, waste disposal, water reclamation, landscaping, structural design, and every other fever dream. We looked into a few of the mad scientists hoping to do well, do good, and do the hustle.

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s a former energy futures trader, Catlin understood in the early ’80s that that industry was changing. As a surfer, sailor, and diver, he understood the formidable power of the tide. Now he’s an impassioned advocate of hydropower, already the cheapest and most utilized of all renewable energy sources. “Solar is insanely expensive,” he says through a piece of salmon, though he admits it might do for the Australian outback. Nuclear and biofuels are also overpriced, he says, though he grudgingly gives windmills due credit. Presently Bourne is focused on its RiverStar system, in essence an underwater windmill. The rotor hangs from a floating hull secured in place by a cable strung across the river. Each self-contained unit will be easily mass-produced with standard steelpress equipment of the type used to manufacture cars, Catlin says, and

installed in whatever quantity necessary for a given application. Each would cost $20,000 and produce enough power for 12 American houses at two to three cents per kilowatt-hour over its lifetime. That beats by a wide margin coal power prices, at upwards of 10 cents per kilowatthour, a standard of economic feasibility commonly used by energy investors. The device’s effect on navigation is unclear, though Catlin says it would not interfere with barges. Patents are pending on what Catlin says are Bourne’s revolutionary wave- and tidal-generation devices. TidalStar is conceived as a pair of floating rotors that harness tidal current in both directions. OceanStar, the wave generator, will be a giant, horizontal, fin-like device with turbines along one edge, moored 300 feet underwater. A mile-long section of fin will produce about 1,000 times as much as a RiverStar unit and will appear as little more than a line of whitewater far offshore. Bourne and its nine employees are in the process of raising the approximately $4 million they need to produce and install prototypes of RiverStar and TidalStar over the next year, possibly in India and New Orleans, respectively. The following year, Catlin wants to raise another $4 million to build an OceanStar prototype somewhere north of here, where the waves, if not the people, are fiercer.

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espite its high cost, solar energy has lately become the most fashionable green tech enterprise, and there are signs that the industry will become lucrative. Prodded forward by California’s self-imposed renewable power mandates, 3,500 megawatts of solar power production has already been contracted for construction statewide. Per those mandates, 15,000 to 17,000 more megawatts of renewable energy capacity will have to be built over the next 12 years, and most of that will be solar. Whoever can produce the most power for the least cost will win the contracts to build that capacity, likely totaling $45 to $50 billionwith-a-B. Last November, Google announced that it was embarking upon an effort to produce enough electricity to power San Francisco with renewables – and at a lower cost than coal. One of their first investments was $10 million in eSolar, a company that hopes to cut the price of

utility-scale solar thermal production to below that threshold. Business incubator Idealab created eSolar in January 2007 and is nursing the company in its headquarters in downtown Pasadena. Public relations man Stephan West says that eSolar is in a sensitive developmental period – and is not yet divulging details about either its technology or finances. Instead, he directs me to the company’s vague and goodlooking website. Executive VP Robert Rogan, meanwhile, says only that eSolar’s system requires less capital than do those of its competitors. Given that Idealab has weathered several shareholder lawsuits over the years, perhaps it’s no surprise that they’re keeping a veil of secrecy over their latest venture. According to that good-looking website, eSolar hopes to beat its several established rivals, such as Palo Alto-based Ausra and the Israeli company Solel, both of which are on similar quests to cheapen existing solar technologies, by harnessing economies of scale. Its power plant model involves a field of mirrors focusing solar rays on a central tower to boil water that then drives turbines. This model has been around for decades, but eSolar’s plants will be made up of modular units designed for easy assembly and mass-manufactured to cut costs: one plant might have 20 modules, and each module – a cluster of mirrors around one tower – will be able to produce 25 megawatts. Asked for comment on his competition, Ausra Executive VP John O’Donnell says that his company’s plants, which will heat molten salt in long tubes with parabolic mirrors, will be less expensive to manufacture and use half the land that power-tower models do. “Everything is cheap until you build it,” he says. “$10 million is just a drop in the bucket.”

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cross town in Santa Monica, SolarReserve is also taking a stab at solar thermal. Founded in January by private equity firm US Renewables Group, the company plans to produce powertower solar thermal plants similar to eSolar’s. Like Ausra, SolarReserve’s plants will use molten salt rather than water as a thermal element. “We did water at Solar One,” CEO Terry Murphy says of the advantage of molten salt. “That’s why we did Solar Two.” An environmentally innocuous mix of sodium and potassium nitrates similar to garden fertilizer, the salt – unlike water – has a

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few miles east of Idealab, behind a nondescript stucco cluster off the 210 freeway, Soliant Energy spokesman Marc Cortez is about to show me to the garage where company engineers are putting the finishing touches on a unique prototype solar collector. On the way out to it, we pass a giant array of conventional solar panels undergoing testing in the adjacent lot by Soliant’s rivals at EI Solutions. They’re the flat, black, 12-percent-efficient silicon panels that one often sees atop homes and businesses. Hoping to supplant these, Soliant has designed a collector that concentrates solar rays with a lens onto a piece of photovoltaic material about the size of an eraser head, normally achieving three times the efficiency of the conventional panels. Soliant co-founder Brad Hines used to engineer NASA telescopes at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, an experience that helped him design the key element of his company’s product, the concentrating lenses. After that, he worked for 14 years as an engineer with photovoltaic manufacturer Energy Innovations, another Idealab company and ironically the parent of EI Solutions next door (the solar industry is still a very small world). In 2006, he founded Soliant with colleague Michael Deck and shortly thereafter the two won a first round of venture capital from a consortium of green technology investment firms. Built with the help of a $4 million Department of Energy grant, the prototype array is about three feet by six and can produce 600 watts on a clear day. It looks like a row of square headlights mounted on a rack that rotates them along two axes#

to track the sun. Like the conventional panels, Soliant’s collectors are not designed for utility-scale production, Cortez says, but would be attractive to a commercial operation with lots of rooftop square footage and high energy demands, such as a factory or a warehouse. Soliant has set up a manufacturing plant in Mexico and expects to bring its product to market within a year. The very prototype I’m looking at, Cortez says, is headed back to the Department of Energy in a few weeks for testing to fulfill the terms of their grant.

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ike a worm wiggling across a dung heap, Karen Bertram of International Environmental Solutions transforms garbage into sustenance. Deep in the suburban wastelands of Riverside County is the Romoland headquarters of IES. From afar, their facility appears to be just another random industrial formation, a large steel-framed edifice with a stack above a vast, incomprehensible array of tanks and tubes. The leaders of the Norco Equestrian Society, who want to deal with their horse manure backlog, a few Indian businessmen on a mission hosted by the Department of Commerce, and an immaculately-dressed Hemet city councilmember are already there when I arrive, milling about the machinery behind IES vice president Toby Cole. Beneath the stack is IES’s Advanced Pyrolysis System, a century-old technology with which the company harnesses the river of waste pouring from our homes and businesses. The machine is not discriminating: It devours anything except nuclear waste, including caustic chemicals, sewage, and biomass. It certainly eliminates the need to sort recyclables. “It loves plastic,” says Bertram, the company president, as we stand before a conveyor belt feeding a stream of ground-up garbage into the thermal oxidizer tank. Metal and glass spit out the end unchanged. Everything else is reduced in volume by 92 percent. Bertram is a tiny woman with boundless energy. Throughout our tour of the facility she talks nonstop and battles the incessant ringing of her BlackBerry. A lawyer by training, she started a little pyrolysis operation in Long Beach back in 1993, and in 2001 founded IES with 72 small investors. Now she’s supposedly entertaining an offer of $20 million from some unnamed venture capitalists. That doesn’t stop her from handing me a huge folder of graphs and tables, investorrelations material demonstrating the merits of Advanced Pyrolysis. She says IES still welcomes small expressions of faith. The technology overview is simple.

Ground up waste is fed into a huge airtight cylinder, the thermal oxidizer, which is made of two-inch-thick steel and in which county inspectors once detonated a bomb. There it is heated to 1800 degrees Fahrenheit in an oxygen-free atmosphere, and it separates into gasses such as hydrogen and carbon dioxide and a dry carbon substance similar to charcoal. The flammable gasses are combusted to heat more incoming waste or run through fuel cells to generate electricity. The char is a good fuel and a potent fertilizer. The useless gases are blown out of the stack, but Bertram claims that by utilizing emission controls, pyrolysis creates fewer pollutants than would be produced by burying waste. I ask Cole about the white plume blasting out above us as the machine runs. “It’s mostly condensation,” he says, “if it wasn’t so cold you wouldn’t even see it.” But according to a Berkeley advocacy group called the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), whose members consider the promises of pyrolysis advocates a fraud, the Romoland plant is even dirtier than two nearby conventional incinerators. Pyrolysis, says David Ciplet of GAIA, releases toxic metals such as mercury and lead along with oxides, and wastes raw materials that could be better recycled. Bertram dismisses these claims as having “no basis in fact” – a paltry argument, especially from a lawyer. IES is only permitted to process 50 tons of waste daily, but it has applied for permission to handle more. The plant hasn’t yet cleared the bureaucratic hurdles to become a power-provider, either. But that eventuality is close at hand, Bertram says, and within three months IES will be selling enough electricity to power about 260 homes. Their fuel will be medical waste, for which they’ll charge $20 a pound. Bertram’s ambitions extend further, as well. One day, she hopes, IES will produce a million gallons of biodiesel from algae raised in tubes, perhaps fed by carbon dioxide scrubbed out of the stack above us.

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lessed with cheap energy for decades, our society has become accustomed to wasting it copiously. Conservation is the cheapest and most sensible way to cut our energy bills, and it requires no wizardry. Through his Venice-based company, Sun Illumination, Inc., conservation advocate and entrepreneur Karl Roth has long been hoping to produce a set of devices that capture and distribute sunlight around buildings. But after a fruitless decade of effort he is still the sole owner and employee of his company,

and he hasn’t yet secured any of the ostensibly easy capital flowing toward green technology. He drives a beat-up old hatchback and depends on an unreliable hobo to maintain the company computer. While developers of a fanciful scheme to build an island in outer space have recently raised $10 billion for their efforts, he says ruefully, Sun Illumination has been unable to scrape up a measly three hundred grand for a device that might spare the world a noxious cloud of coal smoke. He blames venture capitalists, who he says won’t bother with anything that needs less than $50 million, and the business and environmentalist communities, which have embraced solar panels at the expense of more sensible conservation measures such as his. “We need to start thinking like the Indians,” he says, demonstrating with an equation that a $70 investment in florescent lighting can be equivalent to an $18,000 investment in photovoltaic panels. “We need to start doing with what we’ve got.” In a reasonable world, Roth’s invention would have been adopted centuries ago. It consists merely of a sun-tracking reflective dish that focuses sunlight through a hole in the roof, at which point it is distributed around the building by a number of ordinary mirrors. The system would remove the absurdity of simultaneously paying for heat-generating lamps and air conditioning. It would improve the feel of the inside of a building and increase worker health and productivity. It would be hugely advantageous for any factory or warehouse in the Southwest that shells out thousands a month for lighting while the sun blazes down outside. Each dish provides the equivalent of 54 100-watt bulbs, which might save a typical WalMart $100,000 annually. The invention is simple and inexpensive, and there doesn’t appear to be a catch. An electrician with a vocational education, Roth came up with his idea 20 years ago after watching a program about future technologies that featured a fiber optic daylighting system. That system was wildly expensive, though, so he started thinking of ways to cheapen the basic concept. Now, he’s struggling to raise the $9,000 he needs to secure international patents on the result. He says potential partners have offered money, but he wouldn’t give them any managerial power at the company, and they backed out. “You can’t just work hard and have a great idea and be successful,” he concludes bitterly.

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As green technology becomes increasingly lucrative, a handful of local investment firms are focusing squarely on the industry: US Renewables Group of Santa Monica manages a number of private equity funds totaling over half a billion dollars. USR invests solely in renewable energy companies, mostly biofuels, geothermal and solar. USR is the founder of SolarReserve, mentioned above, and owns all equity in the company. Santa-Monica based Funk Ventures, run by entrepreneur and German transplant Andy Funk, provides venture capital to small clean technology companies. Recently his company has worked with Richard Branson to create Virgin Charter, which sells seats on charter planes’ normally empty return flights in order to cut waste in the airline industry. Century City’s Angeleno Group is a private-equity firm. Their portfolio includes companies working in biofuels, automotive technology, solar cells, wind turbines, and rechargeable batteries, among other things. They have invested in Altra Biofuels, a local company that focuses on biodiesel and cellulosic ethanol. In February, the company opened a factory in Ohio that has the capacity to produce up to 100 million gallons of ethanol per year, and expects to open a larger plant in Indiana soon, both financed by $165.5 million in debt. Altra spokesman Stefan Pollack did not return calls. Craton Equity Partners, based in West Los Angeles, invests in water treatment technologies, waste conversion and green building materials. Their most recent investment was in GigaCrete, which manufactures a recyclable, long-lasting, lightweight, CO2absorbing concrete material from waste materials. EnLink Geoenergy Services, Inc., another company in Craton’s portfolio, manufactures heat pumps for geothermal power plants. Transformative Capital, based in West L.A., invests in and advises clean technology startups. The company is currently working with groups in waste-toenergy, wind, solar and biofuel technologies, according to CEO Mark Chasan. Gurminder Singh is co-founder, president and CTO of Transformative.

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which he served in short pours so we could enjoy the flavors without getting slammed. Of the various wines we tried, the Sardinian Cannonau was most noteworthy, a perfect match to the beef that brought out the sweet-and-sour flavors. We finished our meal with a “deconstructed sundae” – all the ingredients of an ice cream sundae laid out like a build-your-own-dessert kit. It was a clever presentation for an enduring favorite, and if you are particular about the ratio of bittersweet chocolate sauce to toffee, nuts, and whipped cream, you can’t do better without owning an ice cream shop. We left Mirabelle comfortably full, very happy, and wondering why the place wasn’t packed when others around it were jumping. This is a classic by Sunset Strip standards, and deserves recognition for keeping standards high in a tourist swamp.! (The author halfheartedly apologizes for the Latin/English pun in the title.) Mirabelle, 8768 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, (310) 659-6022. Open daily for lunch, weekend brunch, and dinner. Wheelchair access problematic, full bar, valet parking. Call for reservations.

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mayfly that is 20 hours old is an elder of its species, and might be sought out by younger relatives about where to find the tastiest diatoms, the freshest algae. As with so many other things, longevity is a matter of degree. A restaurant that is 20 years old in Rome is a newcomer, while one that is 20 months old on the Sunset Strip is on its way to being an institution. So when a restaurant thrives on the Strip for 37 years, it shows a lot of staying power. Mirabelle is low-key compared to some of the hot spots here, but hot spots burn out and this place hasn’t. The long, low building looks like it sank into the ground after it was completed, and once you walk down the stairs you have the choice of dining in the airy, slightly nautical bar or a darker and more formal dining room. The bar is quite pretty, but the dining room seemed quieter and we wanted to talk. From the name we had expected French cuisine, which they apparently did serve decades ago, but nowadays the menu is eclectic contemporary – charcuterie and crabcakes, pastas and smoked rib eye. We started with a chopped salad ($8) and an order of the crispy gnocchi ($12), the latter a main course that our server said would work as an appetizer for two. We nibbled tapenade and sipped sangria while we waited and chatted about wine with Michael Duddie, the manager who doubles as sommelier. When we asked him to just surprise us with whatever went best with our food, he got a gleam in his eye and bustled off. The salad soon arrived, and it was the standard chop with a more interesting flavor profile than usual – slightly bitter greens offset by the sweetness of gala apples, richness of gorgonzola, and candied and cayenned pecans used as subtly

Still Spitting Out Feathers … After eating crow last week for accidentally placing a restaurant in the wrong city, this week I need to do so for a typographical error in French. In my review of Le Petit Jardin, I absent-mindedly added an “e”: and made it Petite Jardin. Both words mean “little,” but one is male, one is female – and since Jardin is a masculine word, the adjective must match. However you spell it, the food at Petit Jardin is still excellent … . For Sake’s Sake … I went to the Tokyo Table sake night last week, and like everyone else, I didn’t win the guess-that-sake challenge. In a room away from the other tastings, they had set out two unlabeled flasks – you had to try a sip of each, and then without leaving the table, guess what each one was. Since we had all tried these two sakes, along with about 20 others, in the next room mere moments before, this should have been easy – but over a hundred people were there, and nobody got both right. I didn’t really mind, because it was a fun evening of ambling from place to place trying delectable modern Japanese food and sipping sake. All the same, it would have been nice to win that bottle of fine sake and $100 gift certificate to the restaurant. Your next chance to win it yourself is July 16 – call (310) 657-9500 … . Sweet Dandelion Wine … Murano Restaurant in West Hollywood is presumably named after the island near Venice, most of a country away from France, but its cuisine is described as Italian-French fusion. (The closest foreign country to Murano Island is actually Slovenia, but Slovenian fusion hasn’t caught on much in L.A., or anywhere else that I know of.) Anyway, Murano has a new chef, Joe Anguiano, who has cooked at star restaurants like Le Cirque in New York, Miro in Santa Barbara, and Bistro 45 in Pasadena before settling in here. His new summer menu has some interesting items like pork porterhouse with roasted figs and sautéed dandelions, or white corn agnolotti with squash blossoms, pecorino, and aged balsamic. It isn’t at all Venetian, but really, do we care? Still in Style … Wine and cheese go together like … like cheese and wine, y’know? Culinary best buddies. So it was no great brainstorm that Maison 140 in Beverly Hills decided that a sunset pairing menu would be a great weekday draw. The inspiration was not just serving wine and cheese, but having a representative of the winery there to answer questions – and to sell the package of wine tastings with various cheeses for only $25, which is a pretty fine bargain for Beverly Hills. In July, the wine is St. Supery, and the cheeses are always from Froma on Melrose. Reservations can be made at (310) 407-7795 … . Sunday Garden Dreaming ... Bistro Garden has a great idea about how to wind down your weekend – have a three-course Sunday dinner with a glass of wine for a mere $39. There are two choices for the first two courses, plus a chocolate soufflé for dessert. Stretch that weekend as long as you can, and call (818) 501-0202 to reserve. –Richard Foss Is there a Slovenian restaurant in L.A. that I ought to know about, or any other unusual culinary outposts? Let me know – I’m at Richard@richardfoss.com.

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here’s nothing dorkier than growing up and having kids, except for admitting to your stillstoned, still-free-to-take-an-uninterruptedcrap non-parent friends that you were fool enough to join the overpopulation movement. So, to semi-sweeten that first of many bitter parenting pills, if you’re like me (hatching three kidlets in four years ... and somehow haven’t stuck my head in the oven yet) you’re all too happy to ditch the pee stick and partake in a maternal dose of retail therapy. Only this time, you won’t be buying for yourself. And if your spawn has anything to do with it, you might not ever again. Will you swallow your procreator status and do the Walk of Shame to Target, loading up on corporate cookie-cutter baby wear, or suck it up and defiantly dress your offspring like the cool, anti-establishment misfit you used to be (or claimed to have been)? If it’s the former, good luck. You’re on your own. But if you opt for cool, L.A.’s got you (or in this case, your baby) covered.Exactly where do the local indie-obsessed breederati flock to accessorize their number one accessory? To a dozen or so trendy punk tot shops cropping up in Hollywood, Pasadena, Seal Beach, Sherman Oaks, Silver Lake, Venice, and Whittier. “Rocker Moms, Not Soccer Moms” is the official (or superficial) motto at Sugar Baby on the Sunset Strip, where Hollywood’s big spender mamarazzi go to costume their future Johnny Cash rockabillies and Bettie Page pinups in embroidered country/western snap-up plaids, vintage material halter dresses, and wise-ass punk baby tees. Designer onesies are so darn cute, aren’t they? Not to the Sugar mamas who kidnapped baby’s essential first outfit on the “Highway to Hell,” then played punch-drunk Boggle with AC/DC’s classic thunderbolt logo. The outcome: a best-selling “AB/CD” witty onesie (one soon-to-be dirtied deed that at $38.95 doesn’t come dirt-cheap).

Middle-aged, card-carrying Big Hair Anonymous parentals can scoop up Sugar Baby’s “Louder Than Black Sabbath” inscribed babywear (bummer they don’t come with matching earplugs). And for Jah’s toddling Rastafarians, Roots Rock Baby offers teeny Bob Marley T-shirts that say, “No Baby, No Cry” in red, yellow, and green letters. Daddy’s post-bedtime bedlam bong hit not included. If punk isn’t your flavor (or your wee glamour puss’s), choose from Sugar Baby’s frilly expanse of extra-poofy petticoat tutus (for an extrapoofy $84.95 each). Or, for about half the price, your cherub rocker can feebly stage dive at the next painfully before-hours Baby Loves Disco bash (which happens to be July 19 at the bar at Social Hollywood on Sunset) in a satin sash tutu with faux rose petals floating inside tufts of tulle. Don’t overlook – but you couldn’t! – Seal Beach designer Theresa Miraglia’s handmade MiniMANIACS crumb catchers: big, sturdy cotton/ pleather novelty bibs that wipe out pastel overkill and outlast inexperienced eaters. Novelty inserts include chunky rapper chains and dollar signs; dice and poker chips; chopsticks and plastic sushi; and safety pins and zippers with no other function than fashion, tucked neatly (and safely) behind clear, mildew-resistant vinyl. You won’t find slurp and burp sets with names like these at the Children’s Place: “Poser Baby,” “Ahh So Baby,” “High Roller,” and “G-Dog.” When your baby masters saliva control, upgrade to Miraglia’s neo-vintage concert flyer tees, featuring iron-ons of the Dead Kennedys, the Misfits and Social Distortion. Hip or not, dressing a baby like a grown-up is like putting a sweater on a dog. Both are oblivious victims of their owner’s fashion sense (or nonsense). And, sure, turning a newborn into a clone of Joey Ramone, whose name he can’t yet pronounce, seems wrong, but not when it’s done right and for the right reasons – by parents who are still punk rock enough to give Sweatshop Watch retailers like babyGap and Old Navy the one-finger salute right where it counts: the cash register.!

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id you catch Oprah’s recent day devoted to YouTube? She had the two little billionaires who started it, along with some of the site’s most watched faces as her guests, from Britain’s opera-singing cell-phone salesman to the happiest dog you’ve ever seen on a skateboard. And if you’ll all look under your seats, you’ll find – that’s right – dog poop! I watch Oprah. I watch The View. Need I say that I’m married? YouTube has become such an ingrained daily thing in so many of our lives it’s hard to believe it’s only been around for three years. Nearly every day friends e-mail me links to new wonders and I try to do the same. They’re the new emoticons: Why tell someone you’re hung over when you can e-mail them a link to the whiskey-scented ’50s kids show Andy’s Gang that gets the mood across so much better? Lacking digital special effects, it’s impressive what they were able to accomplish solely via the magic of animal cruelty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_bPacW9Kc8. (What are you, a stenographer? Just go to our website, www.lacitybeat.com, and click on it.) YouTube is changing things. You plus a video camera might add up to fame or infamy. You needn’t even have anything to do with YouTube for it to affect you. My friend Jonathan Richman has never used a cell phone or computer in his life, and says he never will. But fans record his shows on their cell phone cameras, upload them on YouTube, and folks who do use computers see the clips, get interested and now have swelled Jonathan’s audiences some 30 percent. If you missed him at the Mint a couple of weeks ago, here he is: http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=01zF46z0NbM. Oprah means well, but I get the impression we don’t move in the same circles. It was nice that she brought on a couple whose Dirty Dancing wedding dance had been YouTubed, and that she had Patrick Swayze pop out and surprise them (and surprised me, too: On recent tabloid covers he looked like he’d banged his head on death’s doorjamb a few times.) But I’d rather have seen Oprah get Dick Cheney on, play this clip: http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I, and then surprise him by bringing out the

remains of American servicemen. With millions of videos to choose from, you can go from Cheney to a vicious Hillaryized adaptation of Downfall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Ky1_pyn6Q or cleanse the palate with a couple of hookers tussling outside a 7-Eleven: http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=4ncN2zMd12g. With the 382,000 viewings it’s had at press time, you’d think 7-Eleven would be sponsoring these things. I love the time machine aspect of YouTube. Just this morning my friend Diane in Omaha sent me a 1944 clip of a contortionist outfit called the Ross Sisters doing the most improbable things with their bodies while singing a song called “Solid Potato Salad.” Who needs crunking?: http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=-qvfMB8UvI8. What’s missing from today’s music? Most everything that’s there in this clip of James Burton doing a fuzz bass intro to Brenda Holloway singing a Zombies song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh-B5Obbnhs. You’ll find stuff from this morning, and from 90 years ago, goofy stuff, profound stuff, stuff you never knew existed, and some that shouldn’t, but it’s all there on the human pageant that is YouTube. And sometimes you’ll meet a friendly ghost that’ll make you cry: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=yZzK_I5S7so. The Coolest Thing Ever? I dimly recall a friend telling me about a sci-fi writer whose protagonist traveled back in time just so he could slip into recording studios and remix his favorite albums to his standards. Anyone care to enlighten me on who this is? I tend to forget the names of writers whose ideas I envy so. I’ve been thinking about it because another friend turned me on to a site full of something that isn’t supposed to be out in the world: Go to http://philspector.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/sgt-peppers-lovely-hotcross-bun/. There you’ll find posted mp3s of each separate track of four Sgt. Pepper songs, the actual out-of-the-can master tracks, that you can download and remix to your lonely heart’s content. Try it. It’s like playing God.!

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Week of July 3 ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Here’s the first rule of panning for gold: Go to a slow-moving stream where flecks of the precious metal have been found by others in the past. The second rule is this: Although gold is carried along by the current, it’s heavier than water and thus rarely appears right on the surface. Look deeper. A third pointer is that if you do ultimately find substantial treasure, it’ll be because you will have gradually accumulated a number flakes and nuggets over an extended period of time. You’ve got to be patient. Now, Aries, apply everything I just said to your search for metaphorical gold.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

In his song Get Behind the Mule, Tom Waits tells us to Never let the weeds get taller than the garden. That’s advice you should heed in the coming weeks. But don’t go overboard and become a fanatic who acts as if weeds are evil demons from the ninth level of hell. Keeping a few well-trimmed wild plants and a mushroom or two would be quite healthy. You need a bit of messy serendipity mixed in with your law and order.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

In her book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard notes that there is only a tiny difference between the lifebloods of plants and animals. A molecule of chlorophyll contains 36 atoms of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon arrayed around an atom of magnesium, while a molecule of hemoglobin is exactly the same except for an atom of iron instead of magnesium. I offer this as an apt metaphor to illustrate the choice you have ahead of you: As similar as the various possibilities may seem, the simple thing you put at the center of each option will make a tremendous difference.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

It’s Beautify Yourself Week, dear Cancerian. A conspiracy of cosmic proportions is preparing the conditions necessary for you to capitalize handsomely on this opportunity. At this very moment, there is beauty behind you and beauty in front of you. There is beauty to your left and beauty to your right, beauty above you and beauty below you. All you have to do is inhale, drink in, and otherwise suck up this lushness. It will interact synergistically with the splendor that is also welling up in you, and you will transform into an almost unbearably gorgeous work of art.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

Are you up for some cutting-edge slashing and smashing and crashing? I’m talking about slashing the price you’ve been paying for following your dreams; smashing beliefs that made sense years ago but are irrelevant now; and crashing parties where your future teachers and allies are gathered. Once you get the hang of all that, Leo, you can move on to other brilliant demolitions, like cracking codes, breaking trances, and shattering spells cast on you by the past.

I’m not a big fan of Disneyland, but that doesn’t mean I can’t borrow its ideas for your use. The fact is, Scorpio, the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to identify your own personal versions of frontierland, adventureland, or tomorrowland. I’m not talking about experiences and places that resemble glitzy theme-parks, but rather the wild and thrilling things that gently shock your mind into expanding. You’re in a phase of your cycle when you’ll tend to generate good luck and helpful synchronicity by pushing your imagination beyond its usual fantasies.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

When Tom first arrived in Santa Cruz from South Carolina at age 22, he was homeless and had $110. He quickly scored a temp job as a laborer, doing menial tasks at construction sites. His first assignment was at a place where a delivery truck had accidentally dropped a load of lumber at the bottom of a hill instead of at the top where a new house was to be built. Tom’s job was to carry the heavy boards and beams up the hill one by one. He felt a bit like Sisyphus in the Greek myth -- that forlorn character whose punishment by the gods required him to push a boulder up a hill again and again, only to have it plummet down each time as he reached the peak. Unlike Sisyphus, things got better for Tom. During the next 15 years, he became a successful real estate agent. One day he sold the million-dollar house that had been built from the wood he’d once toted up the hill. This is a perfect time, Virgo, for you to predict and plot out a long-term personal triumph that will match Tom’s.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

It’s the Power-Gathering Season for you, Libra. A good way to energize your efforts would be to define clearly and imaginatively what power means to you. I’ve got two riffs to get you started. First, here’s one from a famous French ruler whose name I’ll withhold so as not to distract you from the riff itself: “I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.� Here’s the second definition, from poet Dennis Holt in his newsletter “Quincunx�: “Power is what sends the woodpecker down from his tree to poke for worms in the muddy road one morning after all-night rain on a ridge above the Pacific within earshot of the surf.�

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Beginning in 1951, the U.S. government regularly set off nuclear bombs in the desert 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Most of the 1,021 explosions occurred underground, though for 11 years some were also done in the open air. Tourists used to flock to Las Vegas to watch the mushroom clouds, which were visible from that distance. As far as we know, the detonations ceased in 1992. Also as far as we know, the unusual lifestyles of Las Vegas’s inhabitants are not the result of mutations in their DNA caused by radioactive contamination. Let’s use this scenario as a departure point for your own personal inventory, Sagittarius. What dangerous or tempestuous events from your life are now safely confined to the past? Are there any lingering consequences from them? If so, what might you do to heal?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

By the year 2100, some human beings will be married to sophisticated robots. So concludes David Levy, who got a doctorate from a Dutch university for his thesis, “Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners.� Let’s use his prophecy as a jumping-off point for your meditation, Capricorn. In your fantasies about togetherness, are you unconsciously harboring any unrealistic desires for robotic perfection? If so, are they interfering with your ability to have deep and satisfying relationships with interesting but flawed people? Take inventory of any tendencies you might have to want artificial partners. Then dissolve those delusions.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Dear Rob: After a long stretch of patiently putting up with God’s mean-spirited tricks, I decided I’d had enough. So I fired Him. Now I’m going to create a brand new deity from scratch. Do you

By Rob Brezsny have any recommendations on what qualities a truly cool divine being might possess? - Awakening Aquarius.

Dear Awakening: One quality your fresh god should have is an appreciation for your originality. You also deserve a deity who likes it when you take your fate into your own hands. That’s all I’ll say. It’s a good time for you Aquarians to shun other people’s ideas about the divine influences and brainstorm extravagantly about what’s true for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

What are the differences between tacky, meaningless fun and beautiful, constructive fun? What are the distinctions between dumb, trivial pleasure and smart, life-exalting pleasure? I’m hoping that meditations on these subjects will inspire you to overcome any laziness you might have about cultivating happiness. It’s a perfect time for you to attempt this monumental accomplishment, you see. You’re at a potential turning point in your astrological cycle, a time when you could get in the habit of treating your hero’s journey as if it were an ever-evolving celebration.

In addition to the horoscopes you’re reading here, Rob Brezsny offers EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. To access them online, go to RealAstrology.com. The Expanded Audio Horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. Rob’s main website is at FreeWillAstrology.com. Check out his book, “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings� “I’ve seen the future of American literature, and its name is Rob Brezsny.� - Tom Robbins, author of “Jitterbug Perfume� and “Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates�

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FRIDAY + REEL LIFE From Cinefamily’s press release, condensed: 1 p.m.: We light the grill. We begin the festivities. Early arrivers stake out good seats. 4 p.m.: Fourth of July Music Mystery Movie! From our own personal collection, a 35mm print of this rare ’70s Fourth of July musical celebration featuring tons of great country stars! 8:09 p.m.: Virtual Fireworks Show! According to the Farmer’s Almanac, the sun will set at 8:09 p.m. We wouldn’t want you to miss the fireworks, so we’ll be screening best-of videos from international fireworks competitions, experimental films, and enough jingoistic eye candy to make you oooh and aaah – in your BRAIN. Welcome to the future! Bring a picnic basket – we recommend a real one.

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nist Chris Morris’s Watusi Rodeo on Indie 103.1 at 9 a.m., and then amble on over to Safari Sam’s for a long, lazy, sit-yer-ass-down Brunch Americana. Not only do you get all the buttermilk pancakes you can tuck inside your belly, but the Dust Devils and the incongruously angel-voiced Russell Scott (and His Red Hots) will croon away your hangover. Actually, they probably won’t. They’ll probably be really loud. You should have another drink instead. Noon-4 p.m. All ages. Free. Safari Sam’s, 5214 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, (323) 666-7267.

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Eight dancers, a composer who’s worked or recorded with a posse that ranges from John Cale to Yo-Yo Ma to Todd Rundgren, and a site-specific artist converge on L.A.’s waters with TaskForce. Multiple locations include the water court at California Plaza (an exquisite place to see dance), the Port of L.A., and Malibu’s shore, but today’s Liquid Landscapes site is under the Spring Street Bridge, at the Studio for Social Sculpture and at the neighboring Cornfield. Stephan Koplowitz’s landscape-inspired pieces erupt all over town from June 29 to July 6. 3 p.m. 1745 North Spring St., L.A. Park behind the Farmlab building on Baker Street. www.taskforceproject.com.

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Claire and Josh Hate Themselves But Love Each Other. A tea-party/love comedy show where the bizarre and the mundane intertwine as two young people struggle to connect. But fear not, this is no What Happens in Vegas – the nature of self-worth, introspective deprecation, and philosophical musings all crash headlong into the goofy yet touching mores of traditional dating, and that gooey, sticky business often referred to as “love.� An existential roll in the hay for the accidental self-loather, with the distinct possibility of a culminating moment involving a metaphysical orgasm. 8 p.m. $10. Steve Allen Theater, 4773 Hollywood Blvd., L.A., (323) 666-4268. –Daniel Stainkamp

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WEDNESDAY 0 SCENE + HEARD Gas up the Vespa, grab a rudeboy, and put Quadrophenia on for another spin: It’s a Mods & Rockers doubleheader. First up is Athens, GA. – Inside Out. The 1987 Tony Gayton documentar y covers the once quintessential college town music scene, with inter views and per formance footage from R.E.M., the B-52s, Love Tractor and more. Following is Two Headed Cow, Gayton’s take on psychobilly concern the Flat Duo Jets. The flick is most notable (to us) for the yak-yak-yak of Jack White, Exene Cer venka, Cat Power, Mojo Nixon and a cavalcade of stars. 7:30 p.m. $7-$10. 6712 Hollywood Blvd., L.A. Tickets available at fandango.com.

FOURTH OF JULY FESTIVITIES FRIDAY, JULY 4 Artesia. Enjoy family-friendly tournaments, stars and stripes bingo, a chili cook-off, and live music, all at Artesia Community Park, 18750 Clarkdale Ave, (562) 860-3361. 8 a.m.-dark, fireworks at 9. Free. Baldwin Park. Food vendors and live Motown music at Sierra Vista High School, 3600 N Frazier Ave, (626) 813-5245, ext. 317. 5 p.m.-dark, fireworks at 9. Free. Cabrillo Beach. Hosting Golden State Pops Orchestra and San Pedro bands, demonstrations from the U.S. Coast Guard and LAPD’s firefighting boat and an artillery demonstration firing cannons off coastline. 3800 Stephen M White Dr, San Pedro, (310) 548-7401. Noon-dark, fireworks at 9. Free.

Calabasas. Calabasas High School. Gates open at 5 p.m., fireworks at 9. 22855 W. Mulholland Hwy, (818) 222-2782. $10, kids under 2 free. Tickets available at Calabasas Tennis & Swim Center and Juan Bautista de Anza Park.

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Castaic Lake Celebration. Food, swimming, pony rides and games. 32132 Castaic Lake Dr, (661) 257-4050. 5 p.m.-dark, fireworks at 9. $25 a carload or $5 a person walk-in. Kids under 5 free. Cerritos. “Let Freedom Ring Celebration� with rides, food, a classic car show and a bell-ringing ceremony. Cerritos Civic Center, 18125 Bloomfield Ave, (562) 916-1254. Fireworks at Cerritos High School. 4 p.m.-dark, fireworks at 9. Claremont. Come to a rock ’n’ roll concert by the LCR band at Pomona College, followed by fireworks display. East Sixth Street and North Mills Avenue, (909) 399-5460. 6:30 p.m.-dark, fireworks at 9. $6 pre-sale or $8 at gate. Diamond Bar. “4th of July Blast� at Diamond Bar High School, with food and a performance by the Ravelers at 5 p.m., fireworks at 9. 21400 Pathfinder Rd, (909) 839-7070. Admission and parking free. Gardena. Afternoon festival featuring food, games, and entertainment at 6 p.m., with fireworks at 9. Rowley Park, 13220 S Van Ness Ave, (310) 217-9537. Free. Hollywood Bowl Fireworks. Join Randy Newman and the Los Angeles Philharmonic for an evening of music, plus special appearances by Dodger greats. Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N Highland Ave, (323) 850-2000. 7:30 p.m., $10-$114 plus activity fees. On site parking.

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Long Beach. The Queen Mary bills itself as California’s largest fireworks display, with carnival rides, games and 15 live bands, including Girlicious and the Spazzmatics. 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach, (562) 435-3511. 10 a.m.-dark, fireworks at 9. Adults: $44.95, kids 5-12: $21.95, under 5 free.

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Marina del Rey. Watch fireworks ignite from a floating barge in the Marina’s main channel, between Fisherman’s Village and the Breakwater. Marina Beach, 4101 Admiralty Way, (310) 305-9545. Fireworks at 9, but arrive early, as parking lots get full by 6. Free. Malibu. Fireworks at Sea. Two shows will be launched over the Pacific coast. Head there to find a spot in the sand for free. 8:30 p.m., 80 Malibu Colony Rd, Malibu. 9 p.m. Also 30100 Pacific Coast Hwy, Malibu. Pasadena. “Americafest� with performances from the California Philharmonic Orchestra and five of the country’s best Drum and Bugle Corps. Rose Bowl, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr, (626) 577-3101. 8:30 p.m. $13, kids under 7 free. Parking on site $15. Pico Rivera. Carnival rides, vendors and food at Pico Rivera’s four-day festival, fireworks Friday night. Smith Park, 6016 Rosemead Bl, (562) 801-4453. Pre-sale tickets available, call for more info. Pomona. “Kaboom! 2008,� in more ways than one: featuring trucks, motocross and fireworks. Pomona Fairplex, 1101 W McKinley Ave, Pomona. (909) 865-4070. Gates at 5 p.m., fireworks at 9:15 p.m. Cost is $14-$45, kids under 2 free. Parking is $9. Purchase your tickets at the Fairplex credentials office or online at ticketmaster.com. Redondo Beach. Live music, arts and crafts, and science workshops. Seaside Lagoon, Pier, King Harbor area. (310) 746-7650. 2 p.m.-dark, fireworks at 9:30. Free.

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n exciting new movie opens this week about a man trapped by his public persona – a cantankerous hero with extraordinary talents, a surly streak, a drinking problem, and a knack for leaving destruction in his path. Will Smith? Hancock? Huh? Who’s talking about Hancock? I’m referring, of course, to Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Alex Gibney’s new documentary about the creator of “Gonzo journalism,” who committed suicide in 2005. Gonzo runs two hours, but, thanks to Gibney and his contributors, it never feels overlong. It would be impossible to overestimate the influence Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and his other work had on a generation of journalists. The influence may have not always been a positive thing – young writers tended to try to sound like Thompson rather than project their own voices as strongly – but it was undeniable and sometimes liberating. Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) takes a relatively straightforward, chronological approach, whipping through the early biographical details before slowing down to tell us about Thompson’s first career breakthrough, with the book Hell’s Angels. He includes footage of Thompson as a guest on the TV quiz show To Tell the Truth, flanked by two obvious actors, made up to fit some TV producer’s notion of bikers. (Who knew?) It’s as surreal as anything in his later work. After Hell’s Angels came his campaign for sheriff of Aspen County and his famous piece for Scanlan’s about the Kentucky Derby – his first truly Gonzo story, and the first he did with illustrator Ralph Steadman. A year later, in 1971, Gonzo came to its greatest fruition with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in which Thompson, under both his own name and as Raoul Duke, forged the persona he would never escape. (Thomp-

son was later pissed when Garry Trudeau appropriated his autobiographical character for Doonesbury’s Uncle Duke, which raises all kinds of interesting issues about whether public figures “own” the “rights” to themselves and about the extent to which the protagonist of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Thompson himself or a fictional creation.) Thompson’s political concerns led to Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, a collection of his Rolling Stone coverage of the 1972 election, which George McGovern’s campaign manager Frank Mankiewicz famously called “the most accurate and least factual account of the campaign.” Among the talking heads in Gibney’s film are McGovern, Gary Hart, Jimmy Carter, pollster Pat Caddell, and even – gulp! – Pat Buchanan. (Many of us first heard of Buchanan through a Thompson dispatch.) Also on hand are both of Thompson’s wives, his son, Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner, Steadman, Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Buffet, and literary executor Douglas Brinkley. Johnny Depp, who portrayed him in Terry Gilliam’s film version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, acts as Thompson’s voice, reading from his works in voiceover with occasional appearances onscreen. (The film doesn’t mention that Depp also footed the bill for the extravagant final sendoff celebration Thompson had designed for himself years earlier.) Gibney uses a fair amount of footage from Gilliam’s film, as well as from three films shot by Wayne Ewing (including Breakfast with Hunter, which was released theatrically in 2003). But more fascinating is his incorporation of real bits of rare source material, such as the original audio tape Thompson and companion Oscar Zeta Acosta made while “searching for the American Dream” in Las Vegas (later transcribed in Fear and Loathing). At times, it’s hard to tell where Thompson’s voice ends and Depp’s begins or to

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atherine Breillat, the French writer/director, continues to catch us off-guard with her latest, The Last Mistress. In earlier films, she shocked us either with extremely explicit sex-cum-violence (Anatomy of Hell) or with sudden explosions of mayhem that seemed to come from nowhere (Fat Girl). This time she shocks us by, well, not shocking us – a roundabout way of saying that this may be the Breillat film for people who can’t stand Breillat films. To date, her features have almost all been from original screenplays; her very few adaptations have been based on the prose work of ... Catherine Breillat. But this time around, she has adapted a novel by 19th-century writer Jules-AmĂŠdĂŠe Barbey d’Aurevilly (filmed at least once before for French TV). The central character here is Ryno de Marigny (Fu’ad AĂŻt Aattou), who is in the process of breaking up with his longtime mistress, Vellini (Asia Argento), to clear the deck before marrying the notably younger (and “purerâ€?) Hermangarde (Roxane Mesquida, the Parker Posey look-alike who also played the “pretty sisterâ€? in Fat Girl). When Hermangarde’s grandmother, the Marquise de Flers (Claude Sarraute, a writer making her film acting debut at 80) is informed that Ryno has recently been seen exiting Vellini’s house, she demands an explanation of his situation. Ryno relates the history of his relationship with Vellini in a flashback that occupies more than half the movie. An incurable rake, he initially dismisses her as “that ugly muttâ€? ... loud enough for her to hear. Not surprisingly, she seems to loathe him; as a result, she almost instantly becomes his object of obsessive desire. Despite her marriage to an ancient British nobleman with an occasional resemblance to Willie Nelson, Ryno pursues her to the point of assault, sparking a duel challenge from the geezer. That does the trick: Ryno allows himself to be shot, thereby triggering Vellini’s passion. Much to the attending physician’s dismay, even before the bullet is removed, Vellini sensuously, creepily licks Ryno’s wound – presumably fishing for a metaphorical reciprocation. The two take off together to North Africa, where they spend several years, even giving birth to a little girl, whose sudden demise turns their relation-

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DIMINISHED CAPACITY After suffering a concussion, Chicago newspaper editor Cooper (Matthew Broderick, lowkey, as usual) is demoted to comics detail until he regains his short-term memory. When Cooper’s mother summons him to Missouri to care for his senile Uncle Rollie (the always underappreciated Alan Alda), who is suffering from the title affliction, the

duo is christened “slow and slower.” Rollie’s dementia, though, is a strain only seen in movies, leading to eccentric behavior like tying baited fishing line around every key of his typewriter so nibbling fish can “write” poetry. Of all the interesting places Cooper and Rollie could go, a baseball memorabilia show is about last on the list. But when Rollie produces a rare, retirement-bankrolling baseball card, the pair hightail it to a card convention along with Cooper’s ex-girlfriend Charlotte (Virginia Madsen). All this might’ve been funny, or whimsically melancholy, had director Terry Kinney shown a more confident style or kept the reins tighter on Sherwood Kiraly’s adaptation of his own novel. Rollie’s attempt to sell the valuable card before he loses it floats between limp slapstick and pale drama, although it does allow Dylan Baker to hijack the movie as an obsessive Cubs fan. Otherwise, Kinney and company rarely take their characters’ problems very seriously. So neither do we. (Mark Keizer) (Laemmle’s Music Hall 3)

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THE UNKNOWN WOMAN Recent flicks like Captivity and Funny Games have been derided as worthless excuses for torture, delivered with a wink. Giuseppe Tornatore, best known for the saccharine Cinema Paradiso, has made a prestige thriller that’s just as grating – a rape-revenge flick that swaggers in as though it deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. Irena (Kseniya Rappoport) is a Ukrainian prostitute in a xenophobic Italian town. In lazy, interrupting flashbacks, we

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THE WACKNESS New York City, summer, 1994: Newly elected mayor Rudy Giuliani pledges to clean up Gotham by cracking down on “quality-of-life” offenses like loud boomboxes, public urination, and graffiti. Kurt Cobain is dead, while tracks from the Notorious B.I.G.’s as-yet-unreleased debut album circulate on mix tapes. And Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) has just graduated from high school. While his classmates bounce the city for Amsterdam, Luke deals weed from an ice cream cart, crushes on Stephanie (Olivia Thirlby, the thinking boy’s dream girl), and barters drugs for therapy from her stepfather, Dr. Squires (Sir Ben Kingsley). By July, the trip loses focus, and one wonders less about what’s going to happen next than where all this is going. But Peck’s turn as a white kid who’s into hip-hop is endearing rather than annoying, and Sir Ben tears into his role as a very poor role model. Although there is the stock yearbook-photo masturbatory fantasy, there are also delightful whimsical moments, as when the city sidewalk lights up like a dance floor. And writer-director Jonathan Levine (All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) unsentimentally infuses a keen sense of nostalgia for a city whose grit has since been gentrified and a musical genre whose authenticity has been overproduced into slick pop. (Annlee Ellingson) (Landmark West Los Angeles, Pacific’s ArcLight, Laemmle’s Monica 4)

WALL•E Five years after directing Finding Nemo to historic success, Pixar co-founder Andrew Stanton has managed to set an extraordinary new bar, not just for animated movies, but for the film industry at large. The astonishingly simple yet profoundly moving tale centers on a lonely maintenance robot, who has spent more than seven centuries cleaning, sorting, organizing, and collecting earth’s junk, leftovers from before mankind abandoned the increasingly uninhabitable planet. But the appearance of a new probe – and a fetching female robot named Eve – set WALL•E’s circuits aflutter, putting into motion an adventure that will determine the very future of mankind ... and the earth. Though it’s become something of a cliché to declare each new Pixar effort “one of the greatest animated films in history,” it’s a shoe that, more often than not, fits. All but certain to become the breakaway hit of the summer, WALL•E is truly a film for the ages, a marvel as much for the audacity of its storytelling as for the expertise of its animation. A cautionary fable, an old-fashioned romance, a paean to the power of the movies, a poem to the magic of dreams, and an edge-of-yourseat adventure film, this is the kind of movie Hollywood was supposed to have long since forgotten how to make. We can thank our lucky stars that Stanton and Pixar haven’t. (Wade Major) (Citywide)

ALSO OPENING THIS WEEK: Holding Trevor. Rosser Goodman (DaddyO) directed this stor y of a gay twentysomething (Brent Gorski, who also wrote the screenplay) searching for love. (AK) (Laemmle’s Sunset 5)

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SHOWTIMES JULY 4-10, 2008 Note: Times are p.m., and daily, unless otherwise indicated. All times are subject to ch ange without notice.

BURBANK AMC Burbank 16, 140 E Palm Av, (818) 953-9800. Call theater for titles and showtimes. AMC Burbank Town Center 8, 210 E Magnolia Bl, (818) 953-9800. Get Smart Fri-Sun 10:25 a.m., 1:10, 4,

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6:55, 9:40; Mon-Thur 1:30, 4:10, 6:55, 9:40. Hancock Fri-Sun 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30; MonThur noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10. The Happening Fri-Sun 10:40 a.m., 1:05, 3:25, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30; Mon-Thur 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Fri-Sun 10:45 a.m., 1:35, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15; MonThur 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15. Kung Fu Panda Fri-Sun 11:15 a.m., 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Mon-Thur 2:05, 4:25, 6:45, 9:15. Sex and the City Fri-Sun 12:25, 3:40, 7:05, 10:10; Mon-Thur 12:55, 4, 7:05, 10:10. WALL-E Fri-Sun 10:50 a.m., 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:25; Mon-Thur 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25. Wanted Fri-Sat 11:25 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:50, 10:40; Sun 11:25 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:50, 10:35; Mon-Thur 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35. AMC Burbank Town Center 6, 770 N First St, (818) 953-9800. Get Smart Fri-Sun 11:15 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35; Mon-Thur 2:15, 4:55, 7:40, 10:35. Hancock Fri-Sun 10:30 a.m., 1, 3:30, 6, 8:30, 11; Mon-Thur 1, 3:30, 6, 8:30. The Incredible Hulk Fri-Sun 10:20 a.m., 1:10, 4:05, 7, 9:55; Mon-Thur 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:55. Iron Man Fri-Sun 10:45 a.m., 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:50; Mon-Thur 1:55, 4:50, 7:45, 10:50. WALL-E Fri-Sun 11:50 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30; Mon-Thur noon, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25. Wanted Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:55, 5:40, 8:35, 11:20; Sun 12:10, 2:55, 5:40, 8:35, 11:05; Mon-Thur 12:20, 3:05, 5:50, 8:35, 11:05.

CULVER CITY, MARINA DEL REY The Bridge: Cinema De Lux & IMAX Theater, The Promenade at Howard Hughes Center, 6081 Center Dr, Westchester, (310) 568-3375. Get Smart Fri-Sun 11:30 a.m., 2:05, 4:40, 7:30, 10:05; Mon-Thur 2:05, 4:40, 7:30, 10:05. Hancock Fri-Sat 10:05 a.m., 10:45 a.m., noon, 12:20, 1, 2:15, 2:35, 3:15, 4:30, 4:50, 5:30, 7, 7:20, 8, 9:10, 9:30, 9:50, 10:30, 11:15, midnight, 12:20 a.m.; Sun 10:05 a.m., 10:45 a.m., noon, 12:20, 1, 2:15, 2:35, 3:15, 4:30, 4:50, 5:30, 7, 7:20, 8, 9:10, 9:30, 9:50, 10:30; Mon-Thur noon, 12:20, 1, 2:15, 2:35, 3:15, 4:30, 4:50, 5:30, 7, 7:20, 8, 9:10, 9:30, 9:50, 10:30. The Happening Fri-Sat 10:25 a.m., 12:30 a.m.; SunThur 10:25 a.m.. The Incredible Hulk noon, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25. Iron Man 12:20, 3:15, 6:15. Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D Thur only, midnight. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Fri-Sat 11:30 a.m., 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10, 11:45; Sun 11:30 a.m., 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10; Mon-Thur 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10. Kung Fu Panda Fri-Sun 11:15 a.m., 1:40, 4:05, 6:30; Mon-Thur 1:40, 4:05, 6:30. The Love Guru Fri-Sat 9:15, 11:30; Sun-Thur 9:15. Sex and the City 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:35. Thomas the Tank Engine: The Great Discovery Sat-Sun 10 a.m. WALL-E Fri-Sat 11:15 a.m., 12:15, 1:40, 2:40, 4:05, 5:05, 6:30, 7:30, 8:55, 9:55, 11:20, 12:20 a.m.; Sun 11:15 a.m., 12:15, 1:40, 2:40, 4:05, 5:05, 6:30, 7:30, 8:55, 9:55; Mon-Thur 12:15, 1:40, 2:40, 4:05, 5:05, 6:30, 7:30, 8:55, 9:55. Wanted Fri-Sat 10:45 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1:25, 2:25, 4:05, 5:05, 6:45, 7:45, 9, 9:30, 10:30, 11:45, 12:15 a.m.; Sun 10:45 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1:25, 2:25, 4:05, 5:05, 6:45, 7:45, 9, 9:30, 10:30; MonThur 11:45 a.m., 1:25, 2:25, 4:05, 5:05, 6:45, 7:45, 9, 9:30, 10:30. You Don’t Mess With the Zohan Fri-Sun 11:15 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 7:10; Mon-Thur 1:50, 4:25, 7:10. Culver Plaza Theatre, 9919 Washington Blvd, (310) 836-5516. Forgetting Sarah Marshall 11 a.m., 3:35, 8:10. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Fri-Tue 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 5:05, 7:45, 10:15; Wed 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 10:15; Thur 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 5:05, 7:45, 10:15. Iron Man 11:05 a.m., 3:40, 8:10. Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 11 a.m., 1:05, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:45. Mongol 11:30 a.m., 2:10, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20. The Visitor 1:30, 6:10, 10:35. The Wizard of Oz Wed only, 7. You Don’t Mess With the Zohan 1:15, 5:50, 10:25. Loews Cineplex Marina Marketplace, 13455 Maxella Av, (310) 827-9588. Get Smart Fri-Sun 11:50 a.m., 2:40, 5:15, 8, 10:35; Mon-Thur 1:45, 4:30, 7:05, 9:50. Hancock Fri-Sun 10:10 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 12:30, 1:30, 2:50, 3:50, 5:10, 6:10, 7:30, 8:30, 10, 11; Mon-Thur 12:30, 1:15, 2:50, 3:30, 5:10, 5:45, 7:30, 8:30, 10, 10:45. Kung Fu Panda Fri-Sun 10 a.m., 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30; Mon-Thur 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30. WALL-E Fri-Sun 10:20 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 12:50, 1:50, 3:15, 4:25, 5:45, 7, 8:10, 9:45, 10:30; Mon-Thur 12:50, 1:50, 3:15, 4:25, 5:40, 7, 8, 9:45, 10:30. Pacific Culver Stadium 12, 9500 Culver Bl, (310) 8557519. Get Smart 11:25 a.m., 2:05, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10. Hancock Fri-Sat 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., noon, 12:30, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 4, 4:30, 5, 5:30, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9:25, 9:55, 10:25, 10:55, midnight; Sun-Thur 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., noon, 12:30, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 4, 4:30, 5, 5:30, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9:25, 9:55, 10:25, 10:55. The Incredible Hulk 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:35, 7:15, 10. Kung Fu Panda 11:55 a.m., 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40. The Love Guru Fri-Mon 12:15, 2:40, 5:40, 7:50, 10:05; Wed-Thur 12:15, 2:40, 5:40, 7:50, 10:05. Sex and the City Fri-Sat 11:05 a.m., 2:10, 5:20, 8:25, 11:30; Sun-Thur 12:35, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15. WALL-E Fri-Sun 11:20 a.m., 12:20, 2:20, 3:20, 5:15, 5:45, 8:05, 8:45, 10:35, 11:30; Mon-Thur 11:20 a.m., 12:20, 2:20, 3:20, 5:15, 5:45, 8:05, 8:45, 10:35. Wanted 11:45 a.m., 2:25, 5:25, 8:15, 10:50.

UA Marina, 4335 Glencoe Av, (310) 823-1721. The Incredible Hulk 10:10 a.m., 1:10, 4:10, 7, 10:10. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 12:10, 5:20, 10:40. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 9:30 a.m., 11:50 a.m., 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40. The Love Guru 9:50 a.m., 3, 8:10. Sex and the City 9:40 a.m., 4, 10:20. Wanted 10:20 a.m., 11 a.m., 1:30, 2:20, 4:20, 5:10, 7:20, 8, 10, 10:30. You Don’t Mess With the Zohan 12:50, 7:40.

DOWNTOWN & SOUTH L.A. Laemmle’s Grande 4-Plex, 345 S Figueroa St, (213) 617-0268. Get Smart Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50; Mon-Thur 5:20, 8:10. Hancock Fri-Sun 1, 3:20, 5:40, 8, 10:15; Mon-Thur 5:40, 8. Kung Fu Panda Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:35; MonThur 5:40, 8:20. WALL-E Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7, 9:25; Mon-Thur 5:30, 8. Magic Johnson Theaters, Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, 4020 Marlton Av, (323) 290-5900. Alvin and the Chipmunks Wed only, 10 a.m.. Get Smart Fri-Sun 10:55 a.m., 1:50, 4:35, 7:10, 9:55; Mon-Tue 1:50, 4:35, 7:10, 9:55; Wed 10:55 a.m., 1:50, 4:35, 7:10, 9:55; Thur 1:50, 4:35, 7:10, 9:55. Gunnin’ for That No. 1 Spot Fri-Sun 10:05 a.m., 2:30, 7:05; Mon-Thur 2:30, 7:05. Hancock Fri-Sat 10 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 12:30, 1:15, 1:45, 2:15, 3, 3:45, 4:15, 4:45, 5:30, 6:15, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:45, 9:30, 10, 10:30, 11:15; Sun 10 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 12:30, 1:15, 1:45, 2:15, 3, 3:45, 4:15, 4:45, 5:30, 6:15, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:45, 9:30, 10, 10:30; MonTue 12:30, 1:15, 1:45, 2:15, 3, 3:45, 4:15, 4:45, 5:30, 6:15, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:45, 9:30, 10, 10:30; Wed 10:45 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 12:30, 1:15, 1:45, 2:15, 3, 3:45, 4:15, 4:45, 5:30, 6:15, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:45, 9:30, 10, 10:30; Thur 12:30, 1:15, 1:45, 2:15, 3, 3:45, 4:15, 4:45, 5:30, 6:15, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:45, 9:30, 10, 10:30. The Happening 12:15, 4:50, 9:25. The Incredible Hulk Fri-Sat 11 a.m., 1:55, 4:30, 7:40, 10:50; Sun 11 a.m., 1:55, 4:30, 7:40, 10:40; MonWed 1:55, 4:30, 7:40, 10:40; Thur 4:30, 7:40, 10:40. Kung Fu Panda Fri-Sun 10:10 a.m., 12:35, 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:45; Mon-Thur 12:35, 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:45. The Love Guru Fri-Sun 10:20 a.m., 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15; Mon-Thur 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15. WALL-E Fri-Sun 10:35 a.m., 11:25 a.m., 12:05, 1:25, 2:05, 2:35, 4:10, 4:40, 5:05, 6:45, 7:15, 7:50, 9:20, 9:50, 10:20; Mon-Tue 12:05, 1:25, 2:05, 2:35, 4:10, 4:40, 5:05, 6:45, 7:15, 7:50, 9:20, 9:50, 10:20; Wed 10:35 a.m., 11:25 a.m., 12:05, 1:25, 2:05, 2:35, 4:10, 4:40, 5:05, 6:45, 7:15, 7:50, 9:20, 9:50, 10:20; Thur 12:05, 1:25, 2:05, 4:10, 4:40, 5:05, 6:45, 7:15, 7:50, 9:20, 9:50, 10:20. Wanted Fri-Sat 10:30 a.m., 11:05 a.m., 1:35, 2, 4:25, 4:55, 7:20, 7:45, 10:10, 10:40; Sun 10:30 a.m., 11:05 a.m., 1:35, 2, 4:25, 4:55, 7:20, 7:45, 10:10, 10:35; Mon-Tue 1:35, 2, 4:25, 4:55, 7:20, 7:45, 10:10, 10:35; Wed 11:05 a.m., 1:35, 2, 4:25, 4:55, 7:20, 7:45, 10:10, 10:35; Thur 1:35, 2, 4:25, 4:55, 7:20, 7:45, 10:10, 10:35. University Village 3, 3323 S Hoover St, (213) 7486321. Hancock Fri-Sat 11:15 a.m., 1:30, 3:45, 6, 8:15, 10:30, 12:40 a.m.; Sun-Thur 11:15 a.m., 1:30, 3:45, 6, 8:15, 10:30. WALL-E Fri-Sat 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30, midnight; Sun-Thur 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30. Wanted Fri-Sat noon, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20, 12:40 a.m.; Sun-Thur noon, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20.

HOLLYWOOD ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood, 6360 Sunset Bl, (323) 464-4226. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Wed only, 8. Hancock Fri-Sun 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., noon, 12:45, 1:30, 2, 2:40, 3:15, 4, 4:30, 5, 5:45, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9:30, 10, 10:30, 11:10, 11:50, 12:20 a.m.; Mon-Thur 11 a.m., 11:35 a.m., noon, 12:45, 1:30, 2, 2:40, 3:15, 4, 4:30, 5, 5:45, 7, 7:20, 7:50, 8:30, 9:30, 10, 10:30, 11:10, 11:50. The Incredible Hulk 11:40 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 8:10, 10:50. Iron Man Fri-Sun 10:25 a.m., 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05; Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05; Thur 7:15, 10:05. Kung Fu Panda Fri-Sun 10:20 a.m., 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10; Mon-Thur 11:50 a.m., 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 9:40. The Love Guru Fri-Sun 10:30 a.m., 1:20, 4:20, 7:40, 10:20; Mon 11:10 a.m., 1:20, 4:20, 7:40; Tue-Thur 11:10 a.m., 1:20, 4:20, 7:40, 10:20. Mongol 11:05 a.m., 2:15, 4:55, 7:45, 10:25. Sex and the City Fri-Sun 10:05 a.m., 1:05, 4:35, 8:15, 11:15; Mon-Tue 1:05, 4:35, 8:15, 11:15; Wed 11:15 a.m., 2:25; Thur 1:05, 4:35, 8:15, 11:15. The Wackness 11:25 a.m., 1:55, 4:45, 8:05, 10:35. Wanted Fri-Sun 10 a.m., 10:40 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 1:10, 1:45, 2:10, 4:10, 4:25, 4:40, 7:10, 7:35, 8, 9:50, 10:15, 10:40, 12:10 a.m.; Mon-Tue 11:15 a.m., 1:10, 1:45, 2:10, 4:10, 4:25, 4:40, 7:10, 7:35, 8, 9:50, 10:15, 10:40; Wed 1:10, 1:45, 4:10, 4:25, 7:10, 7:35, 9:50, 10:15; Thur 11:15 a.m., 1:10, 1:45, 2:10, 4:10, 4:25, 4:40, 7:10, 7:35, 8, 9:50, 10:15, 10:40. Grauman’s Chinese, 6925 Hollywood Bl, (323) 4648111. Get Smart 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:30. Los Feliz 3, 1822 N Vermont Av, (323) 664-2169. Get Smart 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30. Hancock 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30. The Visitor 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30. Mann Chinese 6, 6801 Hollywood Bl, (323) 4613331. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian 1:10, 4:30. The Fall 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 10:20. Get Smart Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Thur 12:30, 3:30.

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The Happening Fri-Wed 7:50, 10:10. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 1, 4, 7, 9:50. Private Screening Thur only, 6:30, 8. The Strangers 12:50, 3:20, 5:40, 8, 10:40. You Don’t Mess With the Zohan 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10. Pacific’s El Capitan, 6838 Hollywood Bl, (323) 4677674. WALL-E Fri-Sat 10 a.m., 1, 4, 7, 9:45, 12:20 a.m.; Sun-Thur 10 a.m., 1, 4, 7, 9:45. Pacific’s The Grove Stadium 14, 189 The Grove Dr, Third St & Fairfax Av, (323) 692-0829. Get Smart FriTue 11:25 a.m., 1:20, 2:20, 5:20, 7:30, 8:10, 11:05; Wed 11:25 a.m., 1:20, 2:20, 5:10, 7:30, 8:10, 11:05; Thur 11:25 a.m., 1:20, 2:20, 5:20, 7:30, 8:10, 11:05. Hancock Fri-Sat 9:25 a.m., 9:45 a.m., 10:10 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 12:15, 12:40, 1:50, 2:30, 2:45, 3:15, 4:30, 5:10, 5:50, 7:15, 7:45, 8:05, 8:30, 10, 10:30, 11:10, 12:15 a.m., 12:30 a.m.; Sun 9:25 a.m., 9:45 a.m., 10:10 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 12:15, 12:40, 1:50, 2:35, 2:45, 3:15, 4:30, 5:10, 5:50, 7:15, 7:45, 8:05, 8:30, 10, 10:30, 11:10; Mon 9:25 a.m., 9:45 a.m., 10:10 a.m., 11 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 12:15, 12:40, 1:50, 2:30, 2:45, 3:15, 4:30, 5:10, 5:50, 7:15, 7:45, 8:05, 8:30, 10, 10:30, 11:10; Tue 9:25 a.m., 9:45 a.m., 10:10 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 12:15, 12:40, 1:50, 2:30, 2:45, 3:15, 4:30, 5:10, 5:50, 7:15, 7:45, 8:05, 8:30, 10, 10:30, 11:10; Wed 9:25 a.m., 10:10 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 12:40, 1:20, 1:50, 2:35, 3:15, 4:30, 5:15, 5:50, 7:15, 7:45, 8:30, 10:05, 10:45, 11:10; Thur 9:25 a.m., 9:45 a.m., 10:10 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 12:15, 12:40, 1:50, 2:30, 2:45, 3:10, 4:30, 5:15, 7:15, 7:45, 8:05, 8:40, 10, 10:30, 11:20. The Incredible Hulk 10:35 a.m., 1:40, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35. Iron Man 10 a.m., 4:25, 10:25. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Fri-Mon 9:30 a.m., 12:05, 2:45, 5:30, 8:05, 10:50; Tue 9:30 a.m., 12:05, 2:45, 5:30, 8:05, 10:40; Wed 9:30 a.m., 12:05, 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 10:40; Thur 9:30 a.m., 12:05, 2:45, 5:30, 8:05, 10:40. Kung Fu Panda Fri-Wed 11:20 a.m., 2, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10; Thur 11:25 a.m., 2:05, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10. The Love Guru Fri-Sat 9:35 a.m., noon, 2:35, 5:05, 7:40, 10:05; Sun-Tue 9:35 a.m., noon, 2:35, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20; Wed 9:35 a.m., noon, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20; Thur 9:35 a.m., noon, 2:35, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20. Sex and the City 9:20 a.m., 12:35, 3:55, 7:20, 10:40. Wanted Fri-Sat 10:20 a.m., 10:55 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 1:15, 1:55, 2:25, 4:15, 4:55, 5:25, 7:10, 7:55, 8:25, 10:15, 10:55, 11:25, 12:25 a.m.; Sun-Mon 10:20 a.m., 10:55 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 1:15, 1:55, 2:25,

4:15, 4:55, 5:20, 7:10, 7:55, 8:25, 10:15, 10:55, 11:25; Tue 10:20 a.m., 10:55 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 1:15, 1:55, 2:25, 4:15, 4:55, 5:20, 7:55, 8:25, 10:45, 11:15, 11:35; Wed 10:20 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 1:15, 2:25, 4:15, 5:20, 7:10, 8:25, 10:15, 10:55, 11:25; Thur 10:20 a.m., 10:55 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 1:15, 1:55, 2:25, 4:15, 4:55, 5:20, 7:10, 7:55, 8:25, 10:15, 10:55, 11:25. You Don’t Mess With the Zohan Fri-Tue 5:15, 10:45; Wed 3:50, 11; Thur 5:15, 10:45. Regent Showcase, 614 N La Brea Av, (323) 934-2944. Finding Amanda Fri-Sun 5:30, 7:30, 9:30; Mon-Thur 7:30, 9:30. Vine, 6321 Hollywood Bl, (323) 463-6819. Vista, 4473 Sunset, (323) 660-6639. Wanted Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:40; Mon-Thur 4:15, 7, 9:40.

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, UNIVERSAL CITY Century 8, 12827 Victory Bl, (818) 508-6004. Get Smart 11:05 a.m., 1:45, 4:35, 7:20, 10:10. Hancock 10:20 a.m., 11:25 a.m., 12:40, 1:50, 3, 4:10, 5:20, 6:30, 7:40, 8:50, 10. Hellboy II: The Golden Army Thur only, midnight. The Incredible Hulk 10:45 a.m., 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 9:55. Kung Fu Panda 10:25 a.m., 12:35, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50. WALL-E 10:15 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:45, 2, 3:15, 4:30, 5:45, 7, 8:15, 9:30. Wanted 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15. Loews CityWalk Stadium 19 with IMAX, 100 Universal City Dr at Universal CityWalk, (818) 508-0588; IMAX Theater (818) 760-8100. Get Smart Sun 11:05 a.m., 1:40, 4:35, 7:20, 10; Mon-Thur 1:40, 4:35, 7:20, 10. Hancock Sun 10:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 11:40 a.m., 12:10, 12:40, 1:05, 1:30, 2:10, 2:40, 3:10, 3:35, 4, 4:40, 5:10, 5:40, 6:05, 6:30, 7:10, 7:40, 8:10, 8:35, 9, 9:40, 10:10, 10:40, 10:55; Mon-Wed 11:50 a.m., 12:10, 12:40, 1:05, 1:30, 2:10, 2:40, 3:10, 3:35, 4, 4:40, 5:10, 5:40, 6:05, 6:30, 7:10, 7:40, 8:10, 8:35, 9, 9:40, 10:10, 10:40, 10:55; Thur 12:10 a.m., 11:50 a.m., 12:10, 12:40, 1:05, 1:30, 2:10, 2:40, 3:10, 3:35, 4, 4:40, 5:10, 5:40, 6:05, 6:30, 7:10, 7:40, 8:10, 8:35, 9, 9:40, 10:10, 10:40, 10:55. The Happening Sun 10:35 a.m., 1, 3:20, 5:35, 8:15, 10:35; Mon-Thur 1, 3:20, 5:35, 8:15, 10:35. Hellboy II: The Golden Army Thur only, 12:01 a.m. The Incredible Hulk Sun-Tue noon, 3, 5:45, 8:20, 10:55; Thur noon, 3, 5:45, 8:20, 10:55. Iron Man Sun 11:10 a.m., 2:15, 5:15, 8:25; Mon-Thur 2:15, 5:15, 8:25.

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Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D Thur only, 12:01 a.m. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Sun 11:20 a.m., 1:55, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Mon-Thur 1:55, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20. Kung Fu Panda: The IMAX Experience IMAX Sun 10:55 a.m., 1:10, 3:25, 5:50, 8:05, 10:25; IMAX Mon-Tue 1:10, 3:25, 5:50, 8:05, 10:25; IMAX WedThur 1:10, 3:25. The Love Guru Sun 11:15 a.m., 1:35, 4:10, 7:05, 9:25; Mon-Thur 1:35, 4:10, 7:05, 9:25. Meet Dave Thur only, 12:01 a.m. The Strangers Sun-Thur 5, 10:50. WALL-E Sun 10:45 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:20, 1:20, 2, 2:50, 3:50, 4:30, 5:20, 6:20, 7, 7:50, 8:50, 9:30, 10:30; Mon-Wed 12:20, 1:20, 2, 2:50, 3:50, 4:30, 5:20, 6:20, 7, 7:50, 8:50, 9:30, 10:30; Thur 12:20, 1:20, 2, 2:50, 3:50, 4:30, 5:20, 6:20, 7, 7:50, 8:50, 10:30. Wanted Sun 10:40 a.m., 11:50 a.m., 12:50, 1:50, 2:30, 3:40, 4:50, 5:30, 6:10, 7:30, 8:30, 9:10, 10:20; Mon-Wed 11:50 a.m., 12:50, 1:50, 2:30, 3:40, 4:50, 5:30, 6:10, 7:30, 8:30, 9:10, 10:20; Thur 11:50 a.m., 12:50, 1:50, 2:30, 3:40, 4:50, 5:30, 6:10, 7:30, 8:30, 9:10, 10:20, 11:15. You Don’t Mess With the Zohan Sun 11:45 a.m., 2:20, 8; Mon-Thur 11:55 a.m., 2:20, 8.

NORTHRIDGE, CHATSWORTH, GRANADA HILLS Mann Granada Hills, Devonshire St & Balboa Av, (818) 363-3679. Get Smart 11:30 a.m., 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20. Hancock Fri-Sat 11 a.m., noon, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 4:05, 4:30, 5, 6:40, 7, 7:30, 9, 10, 11:30; Sun-Thur 11 a.m., noon, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 4:05, 4:30, 5, 6:40, 7, 7:30, 9, 10. The Incredible Hulk 10:40 a.m., 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10. Kung Fu Panda 10:50 a.m., 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20. WALL-E 10:30 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 1:10, 1:50, 3:50, 4:40, 6:30, 7:10, 9:10, 9:40. Wanted 11:40 a.m., 2:20, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30. You Don’t Mess With the Zohan 11:20 a.m., 9:30. Pacific’s Northridge Fashion Center All Stadium 10, 9400 N Shirley Av, (818) 501-5121. Get Smart FriSat 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:20; Sun 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:05; Mon-Thur 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:05. Hancock 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15. The Happening Fri-Sat 11:40 a.m., 5:10, 10:35; Sun 11:40 a.m., 5:10, 10:25; Mon-Thur 5:10, 10:25. The Incredible Hulk Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 10; Sun-Thur 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45.

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2, 7:40. Kung Fu Panda Fri-Sat noon, 2:30, 5, 7:35, 10:05; Sun-Thur noon, 2:30, 5, 7:35, 9:50. The Love Guru Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:15, 5:35, 8, 10:30; Sun-Thur 12:50, 3:15, 5:35, 8, 10:10. Sex and the City Fri-Sat 12:20, 3:40, 7, 10:10; SunThur 12:20, 3:40, 7, 10. WALL-E Fri-Sun 11:30 a.m., 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55; Mon-Thur 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55. Wanted Fri-Sat 11:10 a.m., 1:55, 4:45, 7:30, 10:25; Sun 11:10 a.m., 1:55, 4:45, 7:30, 10:20; Mon-Thur 1:55, 4:45, 7:30, 10:20. You Don’t Mess With the Zohan Fri-Sat 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:50; Sun-Thur 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:45. Pacific’s Winnetka All Stadium 21, 9201 Winnetka Av, Chatsworth, (818) 501-5121. Get Smart Fri-Sun 10:20 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 1:15, 2:15, 4:05, 5:10, 7:15, 8:05, 9:55, 10:45; Mon-Thur 11:20 a.m., 1:15, 2:15, 4:05, 5:10, 7:15, 8:05, 9:55, 10:45. Hancock Fri-Sat 10 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., noon, 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 4:05, 4:30, 5, 5:30, 6, 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9, 9:30, 10, 10:30, 11; Sun 10 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., noon, 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 4:05, 4:30, 5, 5:30, 6, 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9, 9:30, 10, 10:30; Mon-Thur 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., noon, 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 4:05, 4:30, 5, 5:30, 6, 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9, 9:30, 10, 10:30. The Happening 2, 7:05. The Incredible Hulk 11:15 a.m., 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Fri-Sat 11:10 a.m., 2:10, 5:05, 7:50, 10:50; Sun-Thur 11:10 a.m., 2:10, 5:05, 7:50, 10:45. Iron Man Fri-Sun 10:15 a.m., 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15; Mon-Thur 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 11:05 a.m., 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45. Kung Fu Panda 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:45, 7:25, 9:50. The Love Guru Fri-Sat 10:40 a.m., 1:05, 3:35, 5:55, 8:15, 10:45; Sun 10:40 a.m., 1:05, 3:35, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30; Mon-Thur 1:05, 3:35, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30. Sex and the City 12:35, 3:55, 7:20, 10:35. WALL-E Fri-Sat 10:05 a.m., 11:05 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 12:30, 1:45, 2:35, 3:05, 4:25, 5:05, 5:45, 7, 7:40, 8:20, 9:45, 10:25, 10:55; Sun 10:05 a.m., 11:05 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 12:30, 1:45, 2:35, 3:05, 4:25, 5:05, 5:45, 7, 7:40, 8:20, 9:45, 10:25; Mon-Thur 11:05 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 12:30, 1:45, 2:35, 3:05, 4:25, 5:05, 5:45, 7, 7:40, 8:20, 9:45, 10:25. Wanted Fri-Sun 10:45 a.m., 11:25 a.m., 12:15, 1:35, 2:15, 3:10, 4:25, 5, 5:55, 7:10, 7:55, 8:40, 9:55, 10:40; Mon-Thur 11:25 a.m., 12:15, 1:35, 2:15, 3:10, 4:25, 5, 5:55, 7:10, 7:55, 8:40, 9:55, 10:40.

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SANTA MONICA AMC Santa Monica 7, 1310 Third Street Promenade, (310) 395-3030. Get Smart Fri-Sun 11 a.m., 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10; Mon-Tue 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10; Wed 1:35, 4:25, 10; Thur 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10. Hancock Fri-Sun 11:15 a.m., 12:30, 1:45, 3, 4:15, 5:30, 7, 8, 9:30, 10:30; Mon-Thur 12:30, 1:45, 3, 4:15, 5:30, 7, 8, 9:30, 10:30. Kung Fu Panda 2, 4:30, 6:50, 9:20. WALL-E Fri-Sun 11 a.m., noon, 1:30, 2:30, 4, 5, 6:30, 7:30, 9:05, 10:05; Mon-Thur noon, 1:30, 2:30, 4, 5, 6:30, 7:30, 9:05, 10:05. Wanted Fri-Sun 11:30 a.m., 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:20; Mon-Thur 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:20. Laemmle’s Monica 4-Plex, 1332 Second St, (310) 394-9741. David & Fatima 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50. Expired Sat-Sun 11 a.m. The Fall Sat-Sun 11 a.m. Fighting for Life Sat-Sun 11 a.m. The Last Mistress 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50. Mongol 1, 4, 7, 9:55. Roman de Gare Sat-Sun 11 a.m.. The Wackness 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:45. Loews Cineplex Broadway, 1441 Third Street Promenade, (310) 458-1506. Get Smart Fri-Sun 11:10 a.m., 2, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20; Mon-Thur 2, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20. Hancock Fri-Sun 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:30, 10; Mon-Thur noon, 2:20, 4:45, 7:30, 10. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Fri-Sun 10:25 a.m., 1:10, 4, 6:45, 9:30; Mon-Thur 1:10, 4, 6:45, 9:30. Wanted Fri-Sun 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45; Mon-Thur 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45. Mann Criterion, 1313 Third Street Promenade, (310) 395-1599. The Incredible Hulk 10:50 a.m., 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10. Iron Man 1:20, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 11 a.m., 1:40, 4:10, 7, 9:30. The Love Guru 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50. Sex and the City 12:10, 3:20, 6:50, 10:10. You Don’t Mess With the Zohan 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20.

SHERMAN OAKS, ENCINO ArcLight Sherman Oaks, 15301 Ventura Bl, Sherman Oaks, (818) 501-0753. Fast Times at Ridgemont High Mon only, 7:30. Get Smart 11:25 a.m., 2:10, 5:20, 7:55, 10:35. Hancock Fri-Sat 10:15 a.m., 11 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 12:40, 1:50, 1:55, 2:35, 3:10, 4:20, 5:10, 5:50, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9:30, 10, 11, 11:50, 12:15 a.m.; Sun 10:15 a.m., 11 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 12:40, 1:50, 1:55, 2:35, 3:10, 4:20, 5:10, 5:50, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9:30, 10, 11; Mon 10:15 a.m., 11 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 12:40, 1:50, 1:55, 2:35, 3:10, 4:20, 5:10, 5:50, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 10, 11; TueThur 10:15 a.m., 11 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 12:40, 1:50, 1:55, 2:35, 3:10, 4:20, 5:10, 5:50, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9:30, 10, 11. Hellboy II: The Golden Army Midnight Thur only,. The Incredible Hulk 11:20 a.m., 2:25, 5:35, 8:40, 11:20. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Fri-Sun 11:30 a.m., 2:10, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45; Mon-Thur 11:30 a.m., 2:15, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45. Kung Fu Panda 11:05 a.m., 1:30, 4, 7:20, 9:40. The Love Guru 11:40 a.m., 2, 4:25, 7:25, 9:55. Sex and the City 10:40 a.m., 2:05, 5:15, 8:20, 11:25. WALL-E Fri-Sat 10:30 a.m., 11:15 a.m., noon, 1, 1:45, 2:30, 3:30, 4:15, 5:05, 7:05, 7:35, 8:10, 9:35, 10:15, 10:55, midnight; Sun-Thur 10:30 a.m., 11:15 a.m., noon, 1, 1:45, 2:30, 3:30, 4:15, 5:05, 7:05, 7:35, 8:10, 9:35, 10:15, 10:55. Wanted Fri-Sat 10:45 a.m., 11:35 a.m., 12:15, 1:25, 2:20, 3, 4:05, 5, 5:45, 7:10, 7:50, 8:35, 9:50, 10:40, 11:30, 12:05 a.m.; Sun-Wed 10:45 a.m., 11:35 a.m., 12:15, 1:25, 2:20, 3, 4:05, 5, 5:45, 7:10, 7:50, 8:35, 9:50, 10:40, 11:30; Thur 10:45 a.m., 11:35 a.m., 12:15, 1:25, 2:20, 3, 4:05, 5, 5:45, 7:10, 7:50, 8:35, 9:50, 10:40. You Don’t Mess With the Zohan 4:45, 10:30. Laemmle’s Town Center 5, 17200 Ventura Bl, Encino, (818) 981-9811. The Last Mistress 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:45. Live and Become 12:45, 3:50, 7, 10. Tell No One 1, 4, 7:10, 10. Trumbo 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 9:55. The Visitor 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55. Mann Plant 16, 7876 Van Nuys Bl, Panorama City, (818) 779-0323. Get Smart 10:50 a.m., 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10. Hancock 10:30 a.m., 11:10 a.m., noon, 12:30, 1, 1:40, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 4:10, 5, 5:30, 6, 6:40, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9:10, 10, 10:30, 11. The Happening 11 a.m., 1:30, 4:05, 6:30. The Incredible Hulk 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 9. Kung Fu Panda 11:15 a.m., 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15. The Love Guru 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50. WALL-E 10:50 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:10, 1:20, 2, 2:40, 3:50, 4:30, 5:10, 6:20, 7, 7:40, 8:50, 9:30, 10:10. Wanted 10:40 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 12:50, 1:30, 2:10, 3:40, 4:20, 5, 6:30, 7:10, 7:50, 9:20, 10, 10:40. You Don’t Mess With the Zohan 10:30 a.m., 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40. Pacific’s Sherman Oaks 5, 14424 Millbank St, Sherman Oaks, (818) 501-5121. Get Smart 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45. Hancock 12:15, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:35. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 4:10, 10:25. Iron Man 12:50, 7:20. Sex and the City 12:45, 4:05, 7:15, 10:20.

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WEST HOLLYWOOD, BEVERLY HILLS, CENTURY CITY AMC Century City 15, 10250 Santa Monica Bl, (310) 277-2011. Hancock Thur only, 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30. Laemmle’s Music Hall 3, 9036 Wilshire Bl, (310) 2746869. Diminished Capacity Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:30; Mon-Thur 5, 7:20, 9:30. Live and Become Fri-Sun 1:40, 5, 8:10; Mon-Thur 5, 8:10. The Unknown Woman Fri-Sun noon, 2:50, 5:40, 8:30; Mon-Thur 5:40, 8:30. Laemmle’s Sunset 5 Theatre, 8000 Sunset Bl, (323) 848-3500. Expired 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10. Holding Trevor 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10. The Last Mistress 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10. Tell No One 1, 4, 7, 9:55. Beverly Center 13 Cinemas, 8522 Beverly Blvd., Suite 835, (310) 652-7760. Baby Mama 12:20, 3, 5:40, 8, 10:20. Bigger, Stronger, Faster 12:10, 2:30, 4:40, 7:30, 9:50. The Foot Fist Way 12:30, 2:40, 5:10, 7:10, 9:20. The Happening 1:10, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10:10. Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10. Indian and the Nurse noon, 1:30, 2:30, 4:05, 5, 6:30, 7:30, 9, 10. Made of Honor 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50. Son of Rambow 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30. Speed Racer noon, 2:50, 6, 9. The Strangers 1:10, 3:20, 5:20, 7:20, 9:40. What Happens in Vegas 12:30, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:40.

WESTWOOD, WEST L.A. AMC Avco Center, 10840 Wilshire Bl, (310) 475-0711. The Incredible Hulk 1:40, 9:30. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Fri-Sun 10:40 a.m., 1:25, 4:10, 7, 9:45; Mon-Thur 1:25, 4:10, 7, 9:45. Kung Fu Panda Fri-Sun 10:15 a.m., 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15; Mon-Thur 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15. Wanted Fri-Sun 11:20 a.m., 1:55, 4:30, 7:25, 10; MonThur 1:55, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45. You Don’t Mess With the Zohan Fri-Sun 11:05 a.m., 4:20, 7:05, 9:40; Mon-Thur 4:20, 7:05, 9:40. Laemmle’s Royal Theatre, 11523 Santa Monica Bl, (310) 477-5581. Brick Lane 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45. Landmark’s Nuart Theater, 11272 Santa Monica Bl, (310) 281-8223. Cabaret Midnight Fri only,.

Chris & Don: A Love Story Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50; Mon-Thur 5:10, 7:30, 9:50. The Rocky Horror Picture Show Sat only, midnight. Landmark’s Regent, 1045 Broxton Av, (310) 281-8223. WALL-E 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10. The Landmark West Los Angeles, 10850 W Pico Bl, (310) 281-8223. Encounters at the End of the World 11:10 a.m., 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45. Finding Amanda Fri-Sun 11:05 a.m., 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10:15; Mon 11:05 a.m., 1:15, 3:30; Tue-Thur 11:05 a.m., 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10:15. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson 11:10 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30. The Last Mistress 11:50 a.m., 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25. The Love Guru Fri-Tue 11:30 a.m., 1:40, 3:50, 6, 8:10, 10:20; Wed 11:30 a.m., 1:40, 10:20; Thur 11:30 a.m., 1:40, 3:50, 10:20. Mongol Fri-Sun 11 a.m., noon, 1:50, 2:50, 4:40, 5:40, 7:30, 8:30, 10:20; Mon 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20; Tue 11 a.m., noon, 1:50, 2:50, 4:40, 5:40, 7:30, 8:30, 10:20; Wed 11 a.m., noon, 1:50, 2:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20; Thur 11 a.m., noon, 1:50, 2:50, 4:40, 5:40, 7:30, 8:30, 10:20. Tell No One 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:25. Trumbo 11:40 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7, 9:25. The Visitor 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55. The Wackness noon, 1:15, 2:30, 3:45, 5, 6:15, 7:30, 8:45, 10. Majestic Crest Theater, 1262 Westwood Bl, (310) 4747866. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 12:30, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9. Mann Bruin, 948 Broxton Av, (310) 208-8998. Get Smart 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30. Mann Festival 1, 10887 Lindbrook Av, (310) 208-4575. The Love Guru 1:40, 7:10. Sex and the City 3:50, 9:30. Mann Village, 961 Broxton Av, (310) 208-5576. Hancock Fri-Sat 10:30 a.m., 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50, 12:15 a.m.; Sun-Mon 10:30 a.m., 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50; Wed-Thur 10:30 a.m., 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50. Private Screening Tue only, 8.

WOODLAND HILLS, WEST HILLS, TARZANA AMC Promenade 16, 21801 Oxnard St, Woodland Hills, (818) 883-2262. Get Smart Fri-Sun 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:10; Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:10. Hancock Fri-Sat 10 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 11:25 a.m., 12:10, 1:15, 2, 2:50, 3:45, 4:35, 5:30, 6:10, 7:15, 8:10, 8:45, 9:50, 10:50, 11:20, 12:15 a.m.; Sun 10 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 11:25 a.m., 12:10, 1:15, 2, 2:50, 3:45, 4:35, 5:30, 6:10, 7:15, 8:10, 8:45, 9:50, 10:45; Mon-Wed 11:30 a.m., 12:10, 1:15, 2, 2:50, 3:45, 4:35, 5:30, 6:10, 7:15, 8:10, 8:45, 9:50, 10:45; Thur 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10. The Happening Mon-Wed 10:30.

The Incredible Hulk Fri-Sat 11:20 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:35; Sun 11:20 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:30; MonWed 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:30. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Fri-Sat 10:55 a.m., 1:40, 4:45, 7:40, 10:40; Sun 10:55 a.m., 1:40, 4:45, 7:40, 10:35; Mon 1:40, 4:45, 7:40, 10:35; Tue 4:45, 10:35; Wed 1:40, 4:45, 7:40, 10:35. Iron Man Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:35, 10:45; Sun-Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:35, 10:40; Tue 1:30, 7:35; Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:35, 10:40. Kung Fu Panda Fri-Sun 10:10 a.m., 12:35, 3, 5:25, 8, 10:25; Mon-Wed 12:35, 3, 5:25, 8, 10:25. The Love Guru Fri-Wed 11:45 a.m., 2:05, 4:25, 7, 9:20. Sex and the City Fri-Sat 10:20 a.m., 1:25, 4:40, 7:50, 11; Sun 10:20 a.m., 1:25, 4:40, 7:50, 10:45; Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:40, 7:50. WALL-E Fri-Sat 10:15 a.m., 11:40 a.m., 12:15, 12:55, 2:10, 2:45, 3:30, 4:50, 5:20, 6:05, 7:20, 7:55, 8:40, 9:55, 11:15, 11:55; Sun 10:15 a.m., 11:40 a.m., 12:15, 12:55, 2:10, 2:45, 3:30, 4:50, 5:20, 6:05, 7:20, 7:55, 8:40, 9:55; Mon-Wed 11:40 a.m., 12:15, 12:55, 2:10, 2:45, 3:30, 4:50, 5:20, 6:05, 7:20, 7:55, 8:40, 9:55. Wanted Fri-Sat 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:45, 2:10, 3:30, 5:05, 6:20, 7:55, 9:15, 10:40, 12:05 a.m.; Sun 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:45, 2:10, 3:30, 5:05, 6:20, 7:55, 9:15, 10:35; Mon-Wed 11:35 a.m., 12:45, 2:10, 3:30, 5:05, 6:20, 7:55, 9:15, 10:35. You Don’t Mess With the Zohan Fri-Sun 10:50 a.m., 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 10; Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 10. Laemmle’s Fallbrook 7 Cinemas, Fallbrook Mall, 6731 Fallbrook Av, West Hills, (818) 340-8710. Brick Lane Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7, 9:15; Mon-Thur 12:10, 2:30, 5:20, 8. Get Smart Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55; Mon-Tue 2:20, 5:10, 8:10; Wed 11:30 a.m., 2:20, 5:10, 8:10; Thur 2:20, 5:10, 8:10. Hancock Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:55; Mon-Tue 1:10, 3:30, 6, 8:30; Wed 11 a.m., 1:10, 3:30, 6, 8:30; Thur 1:10, 3:30, 6, 8:30. Love Story 2050 Fri-Sat 2:30, 6, 9:30; Sun-Thur 2, 5:30, 9. Mongol Fri-Sun 1, 4, 7, 10; Mon-Tue 2, 5, 8; Wed 11:10 a.m., 2, 5, 8; Thur 2, 5, 8. The Rocky Horror Picture Show Fri only, midnight. The Unknown Woman Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10; Mon-Thur noon, 2:40, 5:30, 8:20. WALL-E Fri-Sun noon, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10; MonThur noon, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45.

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atre, Santa Monica, (323) 466-3456. Aerotheatre.com. Summer Laughter – Mr. Hulot’s Holiday, 7:30; followed by The Big Day (Jour de Fete). American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood, (323) 466-3456. Egyptiantheatre.com. Screen Actors Guild 75th Anniversary – Yankee Doodle Dandy, 7:30; preceded by discussion with costar Joan Leslie. CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre, Hollywood, (323) 655-2520. Silentmovietheatre.com. Don’t Knock the Rock ‘08 – The Wrecking Crew, 8. New Beverly Cinema, L.A., (323) 9384038. Newbevcinema.com. Ugetsu Monogatari, 7:30; Sansho the Bailiff, 9:25.

FRIDAY, JULY 4 CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre Mondo America!: The 1st Annual Cinefamily 4th of July BBQ Blowout Featuring The Fantastic Sights and Sounds of Virtual Fireworks and Other Movie Mayhem!, 1 pm-midnight. New Beverly Cinema The Blue Angel, 7:30; Lola (1981), 9:35. Reservoir Dogs, midnight.

SATURDAY, JULY 5 American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre Summer Laughter – The Breakfast Club, 7:30; followed by Summer School. American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Mods and Rockers – All You Need Is Love, Program 1, noon; Program 2, 1:30; Program 3, 5; Program 4, 8:30. Each program introduced by director Tony Palmer. CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre John Huston’s Beautiful Losers – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 7. Gore Comedies – Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, 10. New Beverly Cinema The Blue Angel, 3:10, 7:30; Lola (1981), 5:15, 9:35. The Delta Force, midnight.

SUNDAY, JULY 6 American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre Summer Laughter – A Day at the Races, 7:30; followed by Room Service. American Cinematheque at the Egyptian

Mods and Rockers – All You Need Is Love, Program 5, 2:30; Program 6, 4; Program 7, 7:30. Each program introduced by director Tony Palmer. CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre George Kuchar in N.Y.C., 8. New Beverly Cinema Blade Runner: The Final Cut; Alien: The Director’s Cut. Call theater for showtimes.

MONDAY, JULY 7 American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Mods and Rockers – The Space Movie, 7:30; followed by discussion with filmmaker Tony Palmer. New Beverly Cinema Blade Runner: The Final Cut, 7:30; Alien: The Director’s Cut, 9:50.

TUESDAY, JULY 8 CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre Special Event – Sunrise, 8; with live music by My Education of Austin, Texas. L.A. County Museum of Art, Leo S. Bing Theatre, L.A., (323) 857-6010. Lacma.org. Tuesday Matinees – The Phantom Tollbooth, 1. New Beverly Cinema Blade Runner: The Final Cut, 7:30; Alien: The Director’s Cut, 9:50.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 9 American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre Summer Laughter – Valley Girl, 7:30; followed by Real Genius. American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Mods and Rockers – Athens, Ga. – Inside Out, 7:30; followed by Two Headed Cow. CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre Silent Wednesdays: Silent Sirens – Why Change Your Wife?, 8. New Beverly Cinema Blade Runner: The Final Cut, 7:30; Alien: The Director’s Cut, 9:50.

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he 88 are one of my very favorite bands: sun-drenched pogo-pop around a sweet core of evil, a bon-bon injected with cyanide. Their Saturday show at the Roxy, as part of the Sunset Strip Music Fest, was their first in a year, which is cruel and unusual and evil. Like them. Crueler? We had to stand through Derby first. The Portland band started promisingly, all sensitive and adorable and looking all of 25. The singer was tall and slender and broody and doe-eyed and could have used a haircut, and he seemed to like him a lot; he’d mastered the long stare into nowhere so each girl there could think he was eye-fucking her Sting-style, tantra baby all night long. Derby was sort of whispery and Garden Statey, but with a drivinger beat at least a few times before they’d revert back to another shoegaze ballad. I dunno; they’re no Prenup. After the first song, the girls on the floor whooed. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t for the music. It must have been 15 o’clock (or at least 11:30) before the 88 came on, because I and my girlfriend are a thousand years old. But missing my soothing cup of Matlock was entirely worth it once the driving notes of “Hide Another Mistake� sounded out, the crowd instantly bopping along. From there they slid into “All Cause of You,� a song whose evil isn’t as manifestly apparent as some of their others, but I’m sure it’s in there somewhere and I just never noted it (at least, that’s what I’m hoping; I do like my sunshine with a bit of bite), like all those sighing tweens who never figured out that “Every Breath You Take� is about a stalker. The band slid into a powerful little funk number I hadn’t heard before (off the coming album, perhaps, but the goodly portion of new stuff the 88 played was usually preceded by the admonition that it was indeed

new). The white girls at the front of the stage tried valiantly, but honestly they had no idea what to do with The Funk. The pogo for “Nobody Cares� worked out a lot better. Which is maybe why New Wave caught on with all those ’80s white kids in the first place? With the new material, singer Keith Slettedahl was really sounding like Davy Jones – which was odd, because every other sunshine pop band I love (George Fryer, etc.) has always sounded to me just like the Monkees, and yet I’d never put it together with the 88 before, and all I could think about was The Brady Bunch, which is not only sort of insultingly stupid but also made me feel more middle-aged than usual (though not as middle-aged as the Hawaiian shirt dude next to me who was singing along to every song, just like I was, and I hoped nobody thought we, age-appropriate as we sort of were in the fresh-faced crowd, were together), and then the singer pretended for a moment he was going to smash what we think was a 335 F-hole Gibson, but he was just kidding, and then they encored with some boring Wingsy-sounding song, and I knew they would end with “Coming Home,� because duh it was an actual hit (Sears, etc., etc., and I have absolutely no problem with a young band selling their music for what they can; it’s Sting shilling for Jaguar when presumably he doesn’t need the money that really gives me the squicks), and once I’d gotten a little bit of it out of my system, we could leave, except they hidden-tracked us at the very end with a meanfucking Zeppelin, for serious, that was so good – so fucking good, these skinny white pop boys in their grown-up shoes (no tennies, they, and I appreciate it) – and baby baby baby do you like it? Yes.!

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TREY GUNN Music for Pictures (Trey Gunn) An alumnus of King Crimson who learnt Frippertronics at the knee of Robert Fripp himself, Gunn guns to establish himself as second-gen proggy Godfather with this selection of reworked themes and cues. Originally culled from a series of TV documentaries done for Russian wonder-boy director Pavel Runimov, these 29 tracks display Gunn’s mastery of the Warr touch guitar, an exotic species of axe that can be strummed, plucked or tapped with a Chapman Stick. Fans of the Durruti Column or the tricky soundtrack-prog Goblin used to whomp up for Dario Argento’s full-throttle horrorflicks will dote on this hardnosed psychedelia. –Ron Garmon

2 ROBOTS Sex With 2 Robots–the Remixes (Digital Records) This is a case of being roofied by robots. Much like vodka and Ritalin, our loves of the Roland 303 and fetish for anthropomorphized machines are two great tastes that ‌ well, you get the idea. This DJ/ production team here blends both like so many have done before them, yet undeniably, the chemistry is still there. In this remix album of their own work, “Sex With 2 Robots,â€? these androids prove that they are quite adept at playing with their own equipment. All your favorite components of sexy robot music are here. Low distortion in the vocoder voice? Check. Thick, penetrating acid synth lines, pulled out like melting rubber? Check. Grooves that straddle the ambiguous labels of “electro,â€? “breaksâ€? and “houseâ€?? Check. Ironic lyrics about drugs, sex, and technology delivered in a come-hither monotone? Ch-ch-check. Let’s just say, if Benny Benassi, Kraftwerk and Nintendo turn you on, this is your bootie call. –Ramie Becker

PRINCETON Bloomsbury (Striking Peasant) Each track on this four-song EP is based lyrically on a member of

the hyper-intellectual Bloomsbury set of early 20th century London. For instance, the strikingly profound couplet “Doodley doodley do/ Ooh-wa ooh-wa ooh� is clearly a steadfast declaration of the group’s extreme disdain concerning post-impressionists whose tendency to manifest imperialistic aesthetics in their work Princeton finds loathsome. OK, so that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but despite the faint air of pretense throughout Bloomsbury, and the disparity between instrumental drapes and lyrical carpet, these L.A. power-poppers still manage a surprisingly original and enjoyable pop recording. Their sound consists of shiny vocals, soft backup yelping, bright xylophone vamps, unexpectedly heavy orchestral string crescendos, sweet flute flutters, amiable piano tickling and jaunty banjo strumming. With any dewy plaintiveness evaporating quickly enough to avoid becoming emo, the elements at work establish a milieu of levity and tenability that one can enjoy without, or perhaps despite, the lyrics. –Daniel Stainkamp

successfully utilized the noise and hooks of the likes of Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr., few have even dared to be the next Black Flag. Oakland’s own Annihilation Time feature vocalist Jimmy Rose channeling his inner Henry Rollins while running the buzzsaw riffs of HĂźsker Dß’s Bob Mould to create our generation’s own version of middle-class suburban rage. The lyrics reeking of the same discontent with idleness (“Get a Jobâ€?), WASP alpha males (“Splashbackâ€?), and shitty girlfriends (“Bad Luckâ€?) says less about the music’s originality but more about the angst that prevails in our world. Zen Arcade or Damaged it is not, but it don’t look them over. –Carman Tse

PRENUP Hell to Pay (Yep Roc)

The first time I listened to Hell to Pay (last week) by the cynically named Prenup, I thought it sounded like college – 1992 or so, when “Life Is a Highway� and “Girlfriend� were all over my FM dial, and there is nothing not to like about that. But I was moving, and the GARLAND JEFFREYS s/t (Collector’s Choice) movers stole my iPod, and most of my CDs are gone from when I This clever, gifted singer-songwriter never cranked his act much past loaned them to my dad in the nursing home that jacked them all, and Manhattan cultdom, but that’s only tragic if you buy into star-making here was this Prenup CD, right there in my suitcase fresh from abroad, bullshit or cling to the daft idea showbiz validates anything. My hopes and I listened for four days as I unpacked a disgraceful amount of shit for me and my son and the cozy comforts of Prenup soaked into my are this CC reissue of this 1973 Atlantic LP (his second major-label bones. It helped that I may have made out the week before with singer effort after 1970’s Garland Jeffreys & Grinder’s Switch on Vanguard) will get his winsome urban folk-blues before a slightly wider audience Fiachna O’Braonain (ex–Hothouse Flowers) in London after I’d met and so raise the general level of earhole self-respect a notch or three. him through mutual friends in Paris, and if I read that sentence I’d want to punch me too. On the seventh listen, Hell to Pay turned into a Jeffreys junking his old band and recruiting the wizard likes of Dr. John, David Bromberg, Bernard Purdie and David “Fathead� Newman time machine; all of a sudden, it wasn’t college anymore; it was 1987, and I was a high school freshman, hearing in the sexy whispery bass was a smooth move and brings a nice sense of tension between vocals “Somewhere Down the Crazy River�-era Robbie Robertson. so much turbo-weight support and the star’s once-over-lightly Then I was minus-three, hearing a little bit of Jerry Garcia, circa intellectuality. Imagine a Ringo Starr album for sophisticates. –Ron Garmon Workingman’s Dead, and then Levon Helm singing “Cripple Creek� channeled from even further into my pre-nativity. I’ve now listened to Hell to Pay one million times and expect to eventually be transported ANNIHILATION TIME Annihilation Time III: Tales of the back to the Big Bang. This is not masterful songwriting – it repeats Ancient Age (Tee Pee) itself a lot – but it is sad and sexy and heartfelt and soul and blues In the wake of the revivalism of the ’80s American indie scene, and rock, and hotshot lyrics are for weenies. All you need is a good an oft-overlooked and large part of that movement was its terrific yowl, a whisper, some purty guitar, and a fine memory. and diverse hardcore punk faction. While many bands today have –Rebecca Schoenkopf

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THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS THURSDAY, JULY 3

The Constantines. Famed Canuck art-punkers command plenty of respect worldwide from fellow musicians, but they’re still hitting the smaller stages. For now. The Troubadour, West Hollywood, troubadour.com Fair to Midland. The schizoid prog band from Texas has grown in fame with the help of System of a Down mainman Serj Tankian, who released the group’s latest album. Vault 350, Long Beach, vault350.com. Also Sat. at Malibu Inn. Golden Animals. The hippie White Stripes? Knitting Factory, Hollywood, knittingfactory.com. One Hawaii Concert. Program features historic Hawaiian music and Hula event, featuring performers Na Leo, Keali’i Reichel, and Weldon Kekauoha. Santa Monica Pier. Free. Twilightdance.org.

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Some things don’t change. Ol’ Jim Heath from Corpus Christi is still tellin’ his Texas-sized whoppers to a raging backbeat, and that in a nutshell is the magic of a Reverend Horton Heat show. Long before there was a Hootenanny, celebrating all things rockin’ and poppin’ and hootin’ and hollerin’ (see Saturday, below), the Rev. was pretty much an anomaly in modern rock clubs. Thanks to Sub Pop Records, he made that leap from the sawdust circuit, and he’s never looked back. His trio is joined tonight by some familiar faces: His buddies from the grunge days, the ever-tight and rollicking Supersuckers; as well as that wild-eyed hair-bear biker bunch calling themselves Nashville Pussy. –Joshua Sindell

FRIDAY, JULY 4

Don McLean with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra. American Pie and fireworks … pick up the Levys in your Chevy and get thee hence! Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Laguna Hills, pacificsymphony.org.

SATURDAY, JULY 5

Dear and the Headlights. The Phoenix indie-rock band is known for its endearing melodies. Knitting Factory. Hootenanny 2008. The annual rockabilly/punk/roots music event features three stages and more than 20 performers, including Mike Ness of Social Distortion, Tiger Army, Glen Glenn, BR549’s Chuck Mead, Throw Rag, Royal Crown Revue. Oak Canyon Ranch, Irvine Lake, thehootenanny.com.

SUNDAY, JULY 6

Banyan. Jazz-rock crew made up of local indie stars (Mike Watt, Stephen Perkins, etc.). Safari Sam’s, Hollywood, safari-sams.com. Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers. J.D. Wilkes and his hillbilly howl are just the most prominent elements of this in-your-face rockabilly crew. Spaceland, Silver Lake, clubspaceland.com.

MONDAY, JULY 7

American Idols Live. It’s like your TV springs into real life or something! Staples Center, downtown Los Angeles, staplescenter.com. David Banner. The rapper is about to drop The Greatest Story Ever Told. House of Blues Sunset Strip, West Hollywood, hob.com. Princeton. Echo Park-based trio melds chamber pop and folk in an ear-pleasing way. Silverlake Lounge, Silver Lake, foldsilverlake.com. Under the Influence of Giants. Shake what yo’ mama gave ya with these local funk-groove merchants. Spaceland, Silver Lake, clubspaceland.com. Stevie Wonder. The legend shares his songs in the key of life. Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, hollywoodbowl.com.

TUESDAY, JULY 8

Dark Lotus, Haystak. Detroit rap collective (including Shaggy from Insane Clown Posse) purveys lyrics of murder and mayhem to the masses. House of Blues Sunset Strip. Mondo Generator, Year Long Disaster. Nick Oliveri (ex-Queens of the Stone Age) leads punk group Mondo Generator; white-hot trio Year Long Disaster fuse Zeppelin, White Stripes and Jeff Buckley. Viper Room, West Hollywood, viperroom.com. Yaz. Definitive ’80s synth-dance band returns with original members Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet. Orpheum Theatre, downtown Los Angeles, laorpheum.com.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 9

Natasha Bedingfield, The Veronicas, Kate Voegele. Upbeat pop from well-scrubbed women from England (Bedingfield), Australia (Veronicas), and Ohio (Voegele). House of Blues Sunset Strip, hob.com. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Avant rockers with a Dadaist sense of humor and spectacle. With the Monty Python-referencing Edmund Welles. The Troubadour, West Hollywood, troubadour.com. Thou, Leech, Lake of Blood. Underground metal skronks forth! The Smell, downtown L.A., thesmell.org.

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LOWN SUMMITS: A ladyfriend’s end-of-week plans having zigged when mine zagged, I was left alone in L.A. last weekend, which was how the trouble started. I’d planned a decorous romantic evening, followed by Tantric exercises leading into an illicit Burner party up in the hills, the elegant debauch of which would produce copy for this, my column. Instead, I had transcripts to prepare for a plutonium hand-grenade of a cover story dumped in my lap on Thursday (and yours next week, kiddies; o just you wait) and no time at all for social exertions. This was how I wound up getting bitched at by Neil Innes for the evil state of American journalism on Friday night. The lead Bonzo Dog was in the rarest of jet-lagged form at the kickoff of the ninth annual “Mods & Rockers� fest at the Egyptian. Opening with “(I’m the) Urban Spaceman� (“My greatest hit,� he chortled), the songwriter for Monty Python wheezed his way through Lennon & McCartney pastiches, satirical pop-tarts and the entirety of “The Bruces’ Philosopher’s Song,� the room croaking lustily from the barroom vowelhowl opening of “Eeeeeee-manuel Kant was a real pissant.� Innes interpolated several unkind remarks on the subject of Fox News throughout the show, which he was more than glad to repeat as he signed my CD of The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse afterwards. The gravamen of the Rutle-in-Chief ’s remarks was that the great weight of lying done by the American mainstream media in service of oil companies, Halliburton, and suchlike Brobdingnagian swine was turning the whole world into pigshit. Since these are sentiments I wholeheartedly share, I confined myself to Bud Abbott one-liners like “Indeed� and “Right on, mang.� I loped off to Little Joy on Sunset Boulevard, where the ever-delightful Dance Commander had arranged a meeting with Chicken John Rinaldi, freelance anarchist and onetime joke-candidate for mayor of San Francisco. Chicken regarded me with the same grinning unease as Jimmy Carter, in whose gimlet-eye I’d basked after asking about those pesky French indictments against his old pal Donald Rumsfeld. We all repaired to the Bonnelli Gallery in Chinatown, where they were giving away free daiquiris to anyone who slipped on a banana peel on the way in. I AM CURIOUS (Echo): Saturday night, I went to Book Soup to hear Beat editor Rebecca Schoenkopf read tales of her pieces to incredulous friends. There was a touched man out on the street giving away 20-dollar bills, which was as good a cue as any to haul my act over to Echo Curio on the furtherest fringes of Sunset. This storefront gallery/performance space has been a loud, colorful and ill-advertised hub in the Echo Park arts scene for about a year and a half. “We’re happy to be the first tier for bands that wind up at the Smell,� grinned Grant Capes, sardonic co-owner of the friendly co-op. “We tell the bands we book here that you’ll be interacting with the local community, and that sometimes means the occasional drunk walking in off the street and trying to sing along. We once had a girl run into traffic and some guy gave a beautiful impromptu performance on our rooftop.� Like the Smell, Echo Curio’s sole instance of cop trouble came from a noise beef, this time from yet another self-described “loudest band in L.A.� that drove patrons into the street. “We tell acts not to bring a Marshall stack,� Grant added, “a combo amp would be fine.� “WARRIORS! COME OUT AND PLA-AY!� An art auction at the Curio made immediate prospects for music small, so I drifted west via public transport, picking up a haul of CDs from Amoeba and Virgin before legging it south to the New Beverly to observe a sacred, if long-neglected, personal rite – the Saturday Night Horror Movie. The midnight show was Humanoids from the Deep, a 1980 ultraviolent aesthetic atrocity from New World Pictures featuring Doug McClure, Vic Morrow and an elite cast of naked starlets battling giant mutant salmon bent on raping and eating an astounded humanity. I took this in with aid of three tiny sprigs of psilocybe cubensis, which I ingested one by one, holding each to the flickering Eastmancolor light. Time on the screen passed uproariously until the bloody maternity-room climax, when I sauntered out into the night air and caught a bus downtown. Exiting at First Street, I legged directly to a shuttle idling at the customary rendezvous point in Little Tokyo and bade the driver take me to the party. It was close to 4 a.m. when I arrived, stepping off at a super-secret underground partyworks that had the added advantage of being over a mile closer to my house. Sniffing spoor of a dead party, I tottered for home just as the last fat fungus I’d consumed began to detonate in my head. I covered most of the remaining distance through a neighborhood right out of Walter Hill’s The Warriors, but none of the thugz I encountered along the way seemed to want any piece of a clearly-deranged hillbilly with an ugly steel spike of a pen hanging around his neck. I was home listening to Beggars Banquet by the time the middle distance began to melt away.! –Ron Garmon

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wo of the bigger outdoor theaters offer As You Like It this summer. As I like it: Ellen Geer’s staging of Shakespeare’s comedy at Theatricum Botanicum. As I like it not: Kevin P. Kern’s version for the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company. I was surprised by how much I liked the Theatricum production. I saw three renditions of the play in 2006 (Cornerstone Theater, Independent Shakespeare, and A Noise Within). Although all were excellent, in different ways, I was ready to suspend all trips to the Forest of Arden for another five years. Yet in 2008, the same play is concurrently at two venues in L.A.’s northwest expanses – far enough away from those 2006 productions, geographically, that the audience base is almost completely different. As I watched the Kingsmen edition, on the campus of Cal Lutheran in Thousand Oaks, I was so unengaged that I wondered why I was there. Some of the problems are endemic to the Kingsmen’s general layout, with no fixed seating. Most spectators bring their own chairs and blankets. For $75, a group of up to six people can buy a “box� – a marked-off spot on the lawn near the stage. Not surprisingly, most theatergoers instead select $15 admission to the terrain behind the optimistically large “box� area. Whenever I’ve been there, a grassy gap separates the people in the “boxes� from the masses, dissipating the energy coming from the stage. The actors aren’t allowed to invade that space. They seem distant. No walls define the sides of the amphitheater, and other campus events sometimes distract. During the first act last Friday, a group of maybe 50 people – who had nothing to do with the production – sauntered past the amphitheater on the audience’s left, talking among themselves. They returned during the second act, going in the opposite direction, seemingly oblivious to the noise they made. More quaintly, the croaking of frogs from a creek also competes with the electronic sound system. The production is supposedly set in the ’70s, but many of the songs and costumes are late-’60s-ish. Dressing melancholy Jaques

(Eric Zivot) as a troubled Vietnam vet was a creative touch, and the play’s wrestling match was one of the most brutal I’ve seen, with the help of a couple of beanbag chairs wielded as weapons. But generally the ensemble looks drab and anonymous. Brief visual impersonations of ’70s political figures feel strained. A big unit set takes up too much of the stage, nearly erasing the play’s distinctions between court and countryside. Meanwhile, in Topanga, the Theatricum Botanicum also has permanent set pieces, but they’re tucked against the sides of the stage, allowing much more wide-open space in which to draw those distinctions between locales. The Theatricum is in a natural valley, with hills on three sides and a wall on the fourth (although motorcycle and airplane noise occasionally intrude). The hills and the aisles are creatively used throughout the production. Rows of permanent seating are sharply raked, so that everyone has close and unobstructed views. The Theatricum’s edition is set in 19th century America – again, indicated primarily by songs and costumes. The motley fool Touchstone looks and talks like a Shakespeare-quoting dandy from Mark Twain. Women play the traditionally male roles of Jaques and Adam, but Geer rejects any topical political gestures. The blithe mingling of blacks and whites in this Reconstruction-era forest is ignored as effortlessly as the plot’s many improbabilities. Instead, the era is used simply to point out the expansive universality of Shakespeare’s themes and language. As I sat in a dappled glen on a perfect Sunday afternoon, watching Willow Geer’s Rosalind and Mike Peebler’s Orlando, I was again reminded of just why this play is staged so often. !

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Adam Baum and the Jew Movie This amusing and probing 1999 comedy by Daniel Goldfarb (of Theatre 40’s recent Modern Orthodox) pits a would-be assimilated Jewish movie mogul (Richard Kind) in 1946 against a gentile, leftist screenwriter (Hamish Linklater through last weekend, Nicholas Brendan beginning this week), whom he has hired to write a movie about American antiSemitism. The writer wants to make the film more Jewish; the mogul wants to sell tickets in Kansas. Their dispute coincides with the bar mitzvah of the mogul’s cosseted son (Gregory Mikurak). Kind masterfully reveals the man’s defensive insecurities behind his brusque exterior. Paul Mazursky directs. Hayworth Theatre, 2509 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. (323) 960-4442. plays411.com/ jewmovie. Closes July 20. As You Like It See Stage column. In On It Daniel MacIvor’s shape-shifting play uses only two actors (Josh Gordon, Blake Anthony) to portray a playwright and his ex-lover as they rehearse a new play, as well as the shell-shocked characters in the play. The performances are intriguing under Michael Van Duzer’s direction, but the play changes perspective and time frame so often that the audience seldom feels “in on it.” Solving the puzzle is more interesting than the puzzle itself. The Production Company at Chandler Studio Theatre, 12443 Chandler Blvd., Valley Village. (800) 838-3006. theprodco.com. Closes July 12. It’s Only Life A revue of witty, introspective cabaret songs by John Bucchino (A Catered Affair), mostly about singles’ affairs of the heart, is deftly staged by Daisy Prince, with a mostly goldenthroated and interpretively savvy cast: Joan Almedilla, Jessica Phillips, Billy Porter, Lucas Steele, Jamison Stern. Brent Crayon’s music direction and a sharp design team create a

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GETTING OUT FROM WITHIN THE SHUFFLE The resurrection of B.S. Johnson’s ‘The Unfortunates’ BY ANTHONY MILLER

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