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• Brigitte Bardot's shifting passions
• Television review: 'Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That'
• Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice get happy and craft 'I'm Having Fun Now'
• Commentary: When the family business is crime
• How I Made It: TV casting director Lori Openden
• Google's digital music plan grabs interest of record companies

Brigitte Bardot's shifting passions Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:00 AM PDT The French film icon is as passionate as ever, but it's for the care of creatures rather than people. Her outspokenness on this and more has ruffled feathers. The French film icon is as passionate as ever, but it's for the care of creatures rather than people. Her outspokenness on this and more has ruffled feathers.

Television review: 'Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That' Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:00 AM PDT A PBS series brings wonders of the natural world to preschoolers. The Cat in the Hat is back — again — with his red bow tie and rave-ready stripey soft topper. This time he comes not, as he did in the first book to bear his name, only to make "fun that is funny" but rather in the name of science: "The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That," an American-Canadian-British co-production beginning Monday on PBS, designed to teach the wonders of the natural world to preschoolers lulled into believing they are just watching a cartoon.

Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice get happy and craft 'I'm Having Fun Now' Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:00 AM PDT The duo match talents and leave their Bob Dylan songwriting ideals behind, freeing them to experiment on their new album. Even though Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice are one of L.A. indie rock's most doe-eyed couples, their debut album together as Jenny & Johnny emerged from a breakup. They'd split with one of their favorite musicians — Bob Dylan.

Commentary: When the family business is crime Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:00 AM PDT Film and TV projects such as 'Animal Kingdom,' 'Winter's Bone' and 'Boardwalk Empire' show new twists in depicting these law-flouting groups of renegade relations. Criminal gangs have been family affairs since long before the James Brothers saddled up to spread mayhem across the American West. But in today's pop culture, more and more, it appears that the "family" that slays together stays together.

How I Made It: TV casting director Lori Openden Posted: 05 Sep 2010 12:00 AM PDT Now head of talent and casting for the CW, Openden networked before it was called 'networking' and helped create stars and hits on major TV networks. The gig: As executive vice president of talent and casting for the CW, Lori Openden finds all those pretty people who fill the network's teen-angst shows, including "The Vampire Diaries," "Gossip Girls" and the highly anticipated "Nikita" and "Hellcats."

Google's digital music plan grabs interest of record companies Posted: 03 Sep 2010 12:00 AM PDT Music labels, hoping to lessen their dependence on Apple's iTunes, have all but rolled out the red carpet for Google in talks to offer music through its Android mobile service as well as through Web browsers. Google Inc., which is developing a digital music service, is winning over record companies that are hoping the technology company can loosen Apple Inc.'s grip on the digital music market.

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