This weekend, the annual fall Grand Palais event Paris Photo has expanded for the first time to Los Angeles. A total of 60 art galleries and a dozen specialized book publishers are camped out on the Paramount Studios lot through Sunday, offering all sorts of sights for sore SoCal eyes.

LA gallery Ambach & Rice for example is showcasing new works by German artist Martina Sauter, who likes to work with old film stills, and a separate series of photographs of swimming pools at large LA homes. The event is also hosting what it bills as the first local screening of Johan Grimonprez’s 2005 short Looking for Alfred:

The film explores the idea of doubles and false identities by way of Ron Burrage, the renowned professional Hitchcock lookalike. It is a surrealist combination of Hitchcock’s trademark cameos as well as Grimonprez’s first reference to Hitchock’s The Birds and the actress Tippi Hedren, all critical narrative devices in the artist’s subsequent full-length feature Double Take.

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Who better to write up coverage of the 50th anniversary plaque dedication and gala that took place Wednesday at Hollywood’s famed Magic Castle than a correspondent who goes by the Twitter handle @MagicScribe and describes himself as “a sub-par journalist who can do a few card tricks.”

Mike Larkin certainly knows all the Mail Online tricks that have made his outlet the most trafficked newspaper website in the world and a staple of The Drudge Report. The outlet’s local brand of Web hocus pocus, tapped out assembly-line style at several westside offices, often includes a top-heavy celebrity headline and as many gigantic photos of Hollywood boldface as possible. In other words, no Tom LaBonge here.

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AFI 40th Anniversary: The party brings out Tippi Hedren, Angela Lansbury, Clint Eastwood and Billy Crystal’s scrumptious, scrumptious ear.

But What He Really Wants To Do Is Blog: The filmmaker behind Kurt Cobain About a Son, AJ Schnack, is gaining as much media attention for his heartbreaking work as for his blog.

Maybe They Should Have Cast Italians: Paramount Vantage is pushing back the release date of The Kite Runner to give the three Afghan boys who appear in the film time to flee their home country, lest a “culturally inflammatory rape scene in the film” puts their lives at risk.

Entertainment Law is fascinating.

Drop and Give Me Eternity
The Proverbs 356 Co. v. Abundant Life Fellowship and World Outreach. Living Epistles claims Lord’s Gym stole its artwork depicting Jesus Christ doing pushups.

Radical Rick
Damian Fulton v. Lions Gate Entertainment. Radical Rick creator Damien Fulton says Lions Gate owes him $5 million for negligently letting the multimedia rights to the comic series expire.

Tippi Hedren
Tippi Hedren v. Kirkwood Productions. The actress claims she was injured on a movie set when the studio roof collapsed and soaked her with water.

The Other White Meat
Universal City Studios v. Cargill Inc. Meat-processing company Cargill Inc. misappropriated characters from the movie “Babe” in its advertisements, Universal City Studios claims.