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• Club girls air kiss and tell
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page embrace the 'Inception' of smart projects
• The Monitor: So long to 'The Hills'
• Opera is Rufus Wainwright's 'main squeeze'
• A trip into the vault at Warner Bros.
• Los Lobos discovers you can go home again
• The Sunday Conversation: Joshua Bell brings classical music to the masses
• Dennis Hopper, easy-rider art enthusiast
• Outfest's '4 in Focus' spotlights varied group of filmmakers

Club girls air kiss and tell Posted: 10 Jul 2010 07:14 PM PDT Pretty, young women who freelance for celebrity media outlets move in the A-list inner circles and get the scoops. But is it ethical? Pretty, young women who freelance for celebrity media outlets move in the A-list inner circles and get the scoops. But is it ethical?

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page embrace the 'Inception' of smart projects Posted: 11 Jul 2010 12:00 AM PDT They may be in a $160-million summer movie, but don't be fooled: It's the exception to the rule. The two young actors eschew celebrity for serious work. They may be in a $160-million summer movie, but don't be fooled: It's the exception to the rule. The two young actors eschew celebrity for serious work.

The Monitor: So long to 'The Hills' Posted: 11 Jul 2010 12:00 AM PDT This week, MTV's once-groundbreaking reality series comes to a halt, badly limping and in need of euthanasia. It's been a mighty fall for a show that helped cement the idea of reality TV as soap opera and also stretched the formal boundaries of the genre. And at the end, all that's left is ash.

Opera is Rufus Wainwright's 'main squeeze' Posted: 11 Jul 2010 12:00 AM PDT The creator of 'Prima Donna' is not one himself when it comes to his varied musical career. Classical music is often maligned for its apparent insistence that aspiring acolytes display proper credentials before becoming a true follower. Once admitted to the fold, you must bow to the altar of knowledge and denounce uncomplicated pleasure as the ultimate blasphemy. No matter what denomination you choose (chamber music, new music, opera, orchestra), you can be sure the repertoire is studded with landmines, the detonation of which will instantly out you as a Philistine or worse: not serious.

A trip into the vault at Warner Bros. Posted: 11 Jul 2010 12:00 AM PDT A series at the Hammer Museum offers a glimpse of the Hollywood factory system in its heyday. All types of films are represented, including overlooked classics ('The Strawberry Blonde') and hot potatoes ('Wonder Bar'). We pay lip service to old Hollywood, to the storied age of the movie studios, but do we really know what happened on those fabled lots? Do we understand that world that is no more? A fascinating new series put together by the UCLA Film & Television Archive offers a window into that reality and a whole lot more.

Los Lobos discovers you can go home again Posted: 11 Jul 2010 12:00 AM PDT The band returned to East L.A. to record its upcoming album, 'Tin Can Trust,' and found that the vintage chemistry still works magic. David Hidalgo stood on a concrete loading dock outside the tiny recording studio where he and the other members of Los Lobos were working feverishly on the final track for their new album, "Tin Can Trust."

The Sunday Conversation: Joshua Bell brings classical music to the masses Posted: 11 Jul 2010 12:00 AM PDT Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell, 42, returns to the Hollywood Bowl on Thursday with a program of Mahler and Bruch. The boyish classical superstar talked about music, friends and adrenalin rushes from his home in New York.

Dennis Hopper, easy-rider art enthusiast Posted: 11 Jul 2010 12:00 AM PDT Hollywood made him famous, but that was just one of his aspects. He also championed artists, and made art as well. As an exhibition of his work opens at MOCA, he is remembered by some who knew him. It was a year ago, late on a June gloom Venice afternoon, when I last sat down with Dennis Hopper. We had been working for over 18 months on a publication of his photographs for Taschen Books. It was our last meeting before the book went to print and he was reading, with a mix of curiosity and bemusement, a biography I had written for the publication.

Outfest's '4 in Focus' spotlights varied group of filmmakers Posted: 11 Jul 2010 12:00 AM PDT L.A.'s gay and lesbian film festival screens movies by up-and-coming directors Javier Fuentes-Leon, Jake Yuzna, Myriam Aziza and Adriana Maggs. One of the most consistently compelling sections at Outfest, L.A.'s annual gay and lesbian film festival, has been its "4 in Focus" category, which spotlights the works of four first-time feature filmmakers.

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