The event was part of an ASU west coast swing titled “Covering the Business of Entertainment,” which has also encompassed visits to studio lots. From the Reynolds Center report about the panel discussion:

Kaufman said that reporters have to be careful about what information is on and off the record. It’s not a good idea to ruin a relationship with a publicist or contact, she added.

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The memo, via LA Observed:

To: The Staff
From: John Corrigan, Assistant Managing Editor

Pop culture aficionados have long sought out the work of Chris Lee. His keen sense of story and gift for words has led to scores of memorable pieces, including Hollywood foodies, Muslim punk rockers and the “club girls” who prowl the Sunset Strip for celebrity gossip.

His takes on celebrities rank among the very best, and the most eclectic. Zack Galifianakis, Gustavo Dudamel, Angelina Jolie, Jerry Lewis, Kanye West … all have gotten the Chris Lee treatment, to the delight of readers. He also chronicled Michael Jackson’s attempted comeback, and shared a Times Editorial Award in 2010 for his role in the breaking news coverage of Jackson’s death.

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Actually, Shaw is still in the beautiful women business, but now operates without the troublesome constraints of “bum crack” edicts or allowable breast exposure decrees. In 2011, he launched his own quarterly magazine Treats! (NSFW), to immediate buzz and acclaim:

The new title has grabbed the attention of influential tastemakers and industry icons around the world for its tasteful displays of female full-frontal nudity, luxe-y aesthetic, and underpinning of fashion-world credibility. And now subscriptions are flooding in as far away as the Netherlands, Russia, Brazil, and Malaysia, as well as such entrenched style hubs as London and Tokyo.

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Earlier this month, the former LA Times music writer penned a piece entitled X-Men Sexploits: Tales of Debauchery from the Set, while this spring, it was a Newsweek op-ed about the preponderance in studio films of “full frontal dude-ity.” Now comes a very salacious interview feature with former WWE wrestler Joanie “Chyna” Laurer, who credits hardcore porn with rescuing her from a forlorn life of multiple suicide attempts.

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Lippman is the 14th voluntary exit from the Calendar section in a little under two years, an unusually high rate of departures at a time when newspaper jobs are increasingly hard to come by. We’ve heard grumblings about the section’s editor, Sallie Hofmeister, but as Kevin Roderick points out, Lippman was a Hofmeister hire, and his departure is apparently nothing to do with his boss.

After the jump, the updated list of Calender refugees:

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Anyway, the post-Apocalypse LAT Calendar section is still losing talent. Today’s exit: one of the last remaining senior television writers Maria Elena Fernandez. That makes three senior writers whom have left Calendar in the past month (music critic Ann Powers and reporter Chris Lee being the other two).

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And the Publisher’s Prize went to Ken Bensinger and Ralph Vartabedian for sticking with a Toyota crash story that ended up causing one of the largest auto recalls in history. There’s the real breaking story. Get it? Huh? Breaking.

Complete list and a podcast with Russ Stanton is here.

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Carrie Does Big… at the Box Office: Despite dismal reviews (Carina Chocano notwithstanding), it looks as though Sarah Jessica Parker just stuck a Christian Louboutin boot up Harrison Ford‘s ass. That’s Fendi: 1, Fedora: 0.

Backlot Fire Deemed Accident: The fire that tore through Universal Studios backlot has been determined to be a terribly unfortunate mistake. If we were cruel, we’d follow with “Not unlike many other things that come out of Universal.” But we’re not cruel. See?

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Almost the minute that Chris Lee goes on vacation, the LA Times leaps to fill the Theresa Duncan info void. Keeping Lee’s seat warm, Steffie Lee writes a fan-girl tribute to Duncan’s blog, which she claims was neglected in other news stories. No new facts and at least one old fiction are presented (“broke their lease”).

Nelson must not have read Lee’s second piece, as she uncritically accepts the blog posts:

She routinely skewered the establishment (Artforum, she said, was a “fading critical powerhouse”)

Artforum’s editor, Tim Griffin, was one of those named in the harassment diary prepared by Duncan and Blake.

Writing about the couple’s move to NYC, Nelson asks a question, but answers it herself:

What happened to the love affair with Los Angeles? For one thing, Blake had been hired as a designer at New York-based video giant Rockstar Games.

Nelson must not know that he’d worked there before, and that his job that wasn’t as a game designer, but rather a graphic artist, meaning–it’s not a promotion.

Nelson has combed Duncan’s blog to catch some of the usual touchstones–Art Luna, the Alfa Romeo, Jean Seberg–but misses quite a bit, such as Duncan always celebrated her own birthday on Halloween, or that the artist who collected lovers’ heartbeats was Dario Robleto, who showed with Blake. She reads the blog all right, but not much else. This piece would be fine if Steffie had a MySpace page, but as big-city journalism, it’s banal crap.

This is the second tribute piece that the LAT has run, and FBLA can’t help but wonder why? The Times paid little or no attention to Duncan when she was alive, but once her Google numbers went up, the paper was all over her.

Poulet runs a site for true Duncanophiles, as does The Seaword.

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Chris Lee, LA Times writer and FBLA’s Kate Coe exchanged notes on their Theresa Duncan/Jeremy Blake stories.

When did you first get the story?

CL:I got it on Monday (7/23) but wrote and reported most of it Tuesday morning. Daily Calendar goes to the printer at 3:00 pm so it was a scramble.

KC: I pitched it to the Weekly the minute I learned she died.

Had the two stories always been the plan?

CL: No. I was heading down to San Diego to cover Comic-con the day the first one ran and there was no plan for a folo. But info kept on coming my way, some really hot stuff, and my editor made the decision to keep me on the story.

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Anthony Ramirez of the New York Times was one in a long line of journalists who were dazzled by the late Theresa Duncan’s real intelligence, beauty and wit. He replies to Amy Alkon’s questioning why he didn’t check out Duncan’s claims to a degree from the University of Michigan, and an impressive sounding thesis (neither did Chris Lee at the LA Times). He wrote:

but a point of information: most people don’t lie to us or need to, especially in a light feature story about children’s cd-roms. if ms. duncan had seemed emotionally troubled at the time, or something else seemed amiss, we probably would have checked her resume. but there are only so many hours in the day and she wasn’t exactly running for high office.

One of the many people interviewed for the LA Weekly piece, film editor Jonathan Alberts recalled Duncan as coming back to work one day after an interview and saying

I talked rings around that guy!

More from Alberts, who was the editor of The History of Glamour below:

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Schwarzenegger is Getting Fat: Proof that the media’s obsession with celeb bodies is not limited to a single gender, the LAT publishes this puzzling piece about the aging, sagging, depressed body of the Governator.

And… Scene: Please, someone kind editor somewhere, declare that Chris Lee no longer has to write anymore “flavor of Park City” stories. This is clearly exhausting the poor reporter.

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Paris Gets Probation: This story appeared, um, everywhere moments after it happened Monday, but here goes: Paris Hilton pleaded no contest and was sentenced to three years probation for alcohol-related reckless driving. According to the LAT, “She … can reduce her probation by a year if she completes 40 hours of community service.” To which, we hear she said, “I already gave up sex for a year! What more can I give?”

LA Fitness: It’s not enough, anymore, to look like you live at the gym. Now your gym has to look good enough to live in.

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