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Several other bits of Hopper-related news recently caught FishbowlLA’s attention. In a Wednesday Q&A with The Guardian, architect Amanda Levete brought up his name when asked about the best advice she was ever given:

About four years ago, I sat next to Dennis Hopper at dinner. I’d just come back from Las Vegas, where we’d been commissioned to design an art gallery. I’d found it apocalyptic. When I told him so, he just said, “Relax, babe – if you can’t enjoy Vegas for a few days, there’s something wrong.” He was right: I was being far too uptight.

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After a week spent monitoring the site about two hours per day, he makes a somewhat porous argument in the San Diego Free Press. In the sense that like the Oscars, there are only so many slots to be filled, so inevitably many deserving publications will always be left out of the EP honor roll:

Why are so many of the nation’s very best newspapers seldom allowed into the coverage on the left side of the [Google News] page, and why do they never appear in the Editor’s Picks section?

That small prestigious group of the excluded is made up of organizations such as the Los Angeles Times, winner of 41 Pulitzer prizes (only the NYT and WashPost have won more), the Chicago Tribune and the Boston Globe, which since 1941 has won 20 Pulitzers. Esquire and Vanity Fair, two magazines that have produced devilishly daring investigations, and The New Yorker and Harper’s and The Nation don’t appear in Google News. The Atlantic, during the week appeared just once during my monitoring of the site.

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She will be based out of the Crain’s newsroom in the Hearst Building and have a couple of weeks to get settled before the magazine’s Digital Conference in San Francisco September 20. Delo gets the bump just a year after starting out with Ad Age covering the social media beat:

As head of Ad Age‘s San Francisco bureau, Cotton will expand her coverage to Bay Area ad agencies, consumer-focused startups, ad tech and venture capital firms. She will, to put it in old-fashioned journalism terms, “follow the money,” which increasingly flows from the world’s biggest brands to tech platforms such as search, social and video to reach consumers. She’ll also cover the personalities creating change, so expect to see her at meetups, parties and events.

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Thursday at Dodger Stadium was Vin Scully bobblehead night, and the  broadcast legend was asked to throw out the first pitch.

You didn’t really expect the 84-year-old to throw out his arm by tossing from the mound, did you?

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The interchangeable sets of featured radio show teams include DJ Laz and his KXOL 96.3 FM morning show sidekick Liliani Gonzalez. Both recently relocated to the west coast from Miami.

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“The one central tenet of our magazine is that it’s a really relentlessly optimistic magazine,” said editor-in-chief Jacob Ward. “We believe that technology and science are gonna make the future better than it is today.” So, if you’ve got a scoop on the next innovation that will save us from the apocalypse, better pitch it before anyone else does.

Read more in How To Pitch: Popular Science. [Mediabistro AvantGuild subscription required]

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“It’s funny, the one place where we all end up is the Santa Barbara Film Festival,” Feinberg told FishbowlLA via telephone yesterday shortly after arriving in the rain. “It’s weird. Some of us can’t make it to Telluride, some of us can’t make it to Toronto. But the one that it just seems, year after year, all the usual LA Oscar beat writers end up at is Santa Barbara.”

Everything is walking distance in Telluride. It’s also a place where, with a very few exceptions, outlets pay the same hefty price for journalist passes as attendees. And because locals are used to living next to the likes of Ralph Lauren, Oprah Winfrey and Tom Cruise, the already secluded event has a welcome, casual feel for A-list attendees. Starting with today’s traditional kick-off picnic.

“At the end of last year’s awards season, George Clooney told me Telluride had been one of the highlights of the circuit, which he was on for a whole six months,” Feinberg recalled. “He felt that he could walk around here with no bodyguards, no entourage… Of course, one or two people might still ask him for photos. But it’s nothing like LA or Toronto.”

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A good comeback, but the Obama team has always been adept at social media. Clint Eastwood, on the other hand, doesn’t even appear to have a Twitter account. But the empty chair he scolded last night does:

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For reasons unknown, Eastwood tossed aside a prepared speech and decided to ad-lib it. Bad idea. The veteran actor should know that improv is harder than it looks, and he isn’t exactly a graduate of The Groundlings. Though only scheduled for 5 minutes, Eastwood spoke for over 10, addressing an imaginary President Obama in an empty chair, whom he imagined to be hurling obscenities, and veering wildly from topic to topic without making much sense.

The Romney campaign responded to the disaster by saying, “You can’t look at him at through the same political lens that you would other politicians. He’s Clint Eastwood.”

Anyhow, watch and cringe.

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According to TMZ, four different adult film studios are interested in making movies with Stodden, who may be considering the new career path. She told TMZ, “I’m not going to say yes and I’m not going to say no.” When asked what her husband thought of the porn offers, Stodden said, “He seems a little frightened right now.”

With her lucite stiletto heels, revealing outfits, and teased blonde hair, Stodden has been working a classic stripper look since first becoming tabloid fodder. But she identified herself as a model/actress/singer, even releasing a handful of songs. And most Hollywood hopefuls that turn to porn don’t have their husband’s Lost royalty checks to fall back on, so maybe Stodden’s just toying with us.

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The prime time sitcom will be loosely based on Fox’s family life and dealings with Parkinson’s disease. Schneider writes that instead of the usual two-week pitch process, it took just two days for Fox and his project partners – Sony Pictures Television, producers Will Gluck and Sam Laybourne – to consummate a deal:

That’s partly because NBC’s whopping [guaranteed] 22-episode order was too big to ignore — and too much for the other networks to match. Major episodic commitments were a bit more common in the 1990s, but the networks long ago stopped making such risky, pricy bets. But a show starring an icon like Fox doesn’t come along every day. Gluck calls it “The Michael J. Fox Exception.”

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“I began my career working for Danielle Steel, had positions at Universal Pictures Marketing and Full Picture, then was vp at Starworks Group,” Cornwall tells FishbowlLA. “Last October, I founded a company called Revel Collective and remain responsible for branding, curation, producing and development for clients like The Art of Elysium and Alain Mikli. I also will remain the entertainment editor for Wonderland, Man About Town and Rollercoaster magazines.”

A few weeks ago, the position of Flaunt executive editor was dissolved, with title holder Maxwell Williams leaving the magazine as well. In his place, Cornwall and Bedard are looking to hire a pair of editors based separately in LA and New York. (Flaunt co-founders Luis Barajas and Jim Turner remain on board as, respectively, editor-in-chief and creative director.)

“We’re taking our time to make sure the candidates are the right fit,” she explains. “We want people who are fully engrossed in the fine art, music, fashion, beauty and philanthropic worlds nationally and internationally.”

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As Glass and his star tell LA Times reporter Amy Kaufman, there was a key difference between the radio and film production processes. The decibel level:

“We turned a corner where you felt comfortable shouting at me,” Birbiglia said. “And vice versa,” Glass added with a smile.

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Thanks to today’s LA Weekly piece by Adam Popescu, chances are what’s left of her stealth student cover will soon be gone. While she asked that her last name not be used in the article, it’s not going to be difficult for fellow students to figure out which Rachel is which. Then again, it’s not like she stumbled into her profession by accident:

As a high school junior in Orange County, Rachel was a cast member for a season of MTV reality show Laguna Beach. Even then, she knew she wanted to be in the adult industry. Today, she owns her own production company and writes and directs most of her material.

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