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May 6 -May 12, 2010 • Vol. 87, No. 18
Target stabbing
suspect said to
have deep history
of mental illness
Layla Trawick, 34,
is accused of violent
rampage inside store at
Santa Monica/La Brea
shopping complex.
FROM CITY NEWS SERVICE
WEST HOLLYWOOD — A
woman who allegedly stabbed
four people in a Target store in
West Hollywood remains behind
bars in Lynwood, while one of
the victims of the attack was improving at a hospital.
Layla Trawick, 34, of the
Northern California city of Antioch, was arrested Monday by
an off-duty sheriff’s deputy and
security personnel who responded to screams in the store.
Trawick is being held on $1
million bail on attempted murder charges filed Wednesday. At
Real, and spectacular
Layla Trawick, of Antioch,
was stopped by an off-duty
sheriff’s deputy who was
shopping Monday in West
Hollywood.
press time, she was scheduled
to appear in court Wednesday
in Beverly Hills, according to
STABBINGS page 4
PHOTO BY GARY MCCARTHY
“Seinfeld” star Julia Louis-Dreyfus soaks in the hoopla Tuesday morning, as she received the 2,407th star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame. As the classic sitcom’s first cast member to receive the honor, Louis-Dreyfus joked that her
career in comedy allowed her to “make jokes about how in high school I was voted ‘Girl Most Likely to Wind Up on
Hollywood and Vine.’” Officials said a rare misspelling on the star, identifying her as “Luis,” will soon be corrected.
LaBonge’s
house is
burglarized
PHOTO BY MCKENZIE JACKSON
Louis Soto, who has owned Huston’s Pit Barbecue for 19 of the 60 years it has been in
Hollywood, said its prospective new owners are not expected to alter the menu.
Ownership change expected
at longtime Hollywood eatery
BY MCKENZIE JACKSON
SPECIAL TO THE INDEPENDENT
At least three times a week,
beef ribs, pork or specially
cooked strips of chopped meat
adorn the plate of Greg Kimble.
Kimble, a Hollywood visual
effects supervisor, has dined
regularly on the delicious barbecue meals from Huston’s Pit Bar.
B.Cue, a Hollywood restaurant,
since he moved to Tinseltown in
1991.
“Everyone was so friendly
right when I walked in the door,”
he said. “And once you try the
food — you’re done.’”
Now, Kimble and many of
the family-owned Hollywood
eatery’s customers are facing the
idea that the restaurant, which
many say has produced some of
the best Texas-style food in Los
Angeles, may have to turn-off its
decades-old barbecue pit because
of the struggling economy.
That doesn’t sit well with their
hearts or stomachs.
Kimble said Huston’s, which
sits on North Cahuenga Boulevard, is the only barbecue restaurant in Hollywood and it would
be devastating if it closed.
“For the neighborhood it
would be catastrophic, because
barbecue food is unlike any other
type of food,” he said. “It is rare
to find a place that has lasted as
long as this one and is as deeply
embedded into the community as
this one. This is a hangout place
and when you lose something
like that you are losing more than
dinner.”
Huston’s tasty rib slab meals,
chicken-and-ribs combo and
barbecue sandwiches have been
served in Hollywood since 1944,
and have survived six different
name changes, at least three different owners and a change in
location.
Huston’s owner of 19 years,
Louis Soto, said his small, unas-
Councilman Tom LaBonge
revealed Tuesday that his Silver
Lake home was burglarized on
Friday, and he encouraged his
neighbors to be more vigilant in
protecting their properties.
“Like many other people in the
city of Los Angeles, unfortunately, my family was the victim of a
crime last week,” LaBonge said
in a statement.
“Two burglars broke into our
home in Silver Lake and stole
some personal items belonging
to my wife.”
“Fortunately, no one was home
at the time and we were all safe,”
he added.
LaBonge said a neighbor gave
police a description of the burglars. He said anyone with additional information should call
Los Angeles Police Detective
Steve Henderson at (213) 9474266.
“There has been a surge in
crime in the Los Feliz/Silver
Lake/Franklin Hills area,” LaBonge said. “I encourage all residents to enhance their neighborhood watch programs.”
LaBonge plans to hold a community meeting within the next
two weeks to discuss crime in
the area.
suming restaurant has been the
neighborhood barbecue joint for
60 years.
“I have never seen any other
barbecue around here,” he said.
“You have to have good barbecue. I see repeat customers constantly — sometimes three, four
times a week.”
Soto said during the economic
recession, business has slowed by
30 percent. On average, he said
the restaurant sees 80 customers
each day; it used to serve about
150 patrons in the same amount
of time.
Since Huston’s serves fewer
customers, Soto has had to cut • Calendar, page 2
his operating hours and lay off
one employee. It is now run by • Arts & Entertainment,
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Soto, his 31-year-old son Jose,
and 24-year-old nephew Adrian.
Within the next two months the
barbecue joint is set to be sold to
two Santa Monica businessmen.
If the sale does not go through,
TNT
On the basic cable series “Southland,” which once aired on
NBC, loud bleeps are used to conceal curse words that can
nonetheless be easily discerned by viewers.
What the bleep are
people saying on TV?
BY LISA RESPERS FRANCE
CNN
Seems like you can’t turn on
the television nowadays without
hearing someone say something
you shouldn’t say on television.
It’s not just “South Park,”
home of the frequent bleep, or
HBO comedy specials, where Fwords fly fast and frequently, or
even broadcast TV, where words
that still can’t be listed on in a
family publication are now part
of everyday speech.
Now such language is even
part of the august environs of
C-SPAN: During congressional
hearings investigating alleged financial fraud by Goldman Sachs,
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan,
repeating a word in a Goldman
memo, read an adjectival variation of the S-word aloud. In fact,
it came up more than a dozen
times during the hearing.
And then there was Vice President Joseph Biden, who made
news when an open microphone
captured him telling President
Obama “This is a big f***ing
deal!” in reference the passage of
health care legislation
The foul-mouthed politicians
may just be following a trend.
Experts say cursing on TV has increased, and not just on cable stations where it has become almost
de rigueur. On broadcast television, characters and reality stars
are saying whatever the bleep
they feel like.
“[Cursing on television] has
been creeping up for quite some
time,” said Brian Steinberg, television editor for Ad Age. “Shows
like ‘Southland’ have tried to take
it as far as it could and bleep [a
certain] word out, even though
it was quite clear what the word
was.”
There have been countless examples of curse words used on
television -- quite often during
live broadcasts, including Bono’s
“f***ing brilliant” during the
2003 Golden Globes and expletives uttered by Cher and Nicole
Richie during live events. The
language helped precipitate a fight
by the Federal Communications
Commission, which regulates the
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PHOTO BY BILL JONES
Sandra stirs controversy, and Samuel L. doubles down.
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R&B
FILM
LOVE MOVEMENT
LAUGH OUT LOUD
Al B. Sure (pictured), Christopher Williams and Bobby Brown join
forces for the Secret Garden Rendezvous “Grown & Sexy Tour.” The
kings of new jack R&B will be backed by the Blue Crew Band featuring
The New Legends, Lil B. Sure, Landon Brown, Porscha Coleman
and Chyno Soul. May 8. Pasadena Civic Center, 300 E. Green St.,
Pasadena. (626) 449-7360
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JUST DANCE
The American Cinematheque presents a special screening of William Wyler’s “Funny Girl,” the award-winning film debut of Barbra Streisand (pictured) as
she re-creates her legendary Broadway role as renowned comedienne Fanny Brice, who made the world laugh even as her own life was crumbling. The film
will be introduced by “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy, executive producer Dante De Loreto and a series cast member Lea Michele, who will sing a rendition of
“Rain on My Parade.” May 8, at 7:30 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. (323) 314-7000
ROCK
PLANET ROCK
The kings of salsa will gather for L.A.’s Salsa Festival. With a lineup that
includes Gilberto Santa Rosa, Luis Enrique, Willy Chirino and Oscar
DeLeon (pictured), this Friday night show is sure to sizzle. May 7. Gibson
Amphitheatre, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City. (818) 6224440
DANCE
BAILAMOS
30 Seconds To Mars (pictured), with a new album entitled “This Is War,” is more than a just a reference to the band’s personal battles; it is a commentary
on global crises and economic turmoil and homage to their now infamous million dollar lawsuit with Virgin Records. The rock band performs with Shiny Toy
Guns and Neon Trees. May 15. Greek Theatre, 2700 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles. (323) 665-3125
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The Fountain Theatre’s Forever Flamenco series this month continues with
Antonio Triana and Jesus Montoya as guides for dancers Fanny Ara, Marina
Elana (pictured) and Ryan Zermeno. Shows feature a roster of worldclass Flamenco dancers, singers and musicians drawn from the rich pool of
Flamenco artists in Southern California, with additional guest artists brought
from San Francisco, Albuquerque and Spain. May 16. Fountain Theatre,
5060 Fountain Ave., Los Angeles. (323) 663-1525
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS :
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‘Why would I
have any regrets?’
BY TODD LEOPOLD
CNN
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In “Mother and Child,” Samuel L. Jackson portrays a high-powered lawyer with an eye on Naomi Watts.
Star power, in films big and small
One of the most
prolific actors in
Hollywood, a single
weekend brings out
both sides of Samuel
L. Jackson.
BY OLU ALEMORU
STAFF WRITER
Synonymous with his halting
delivery and any number of cool
looks — from the Jheri-curled
Jules Winfield in “Pulp Fiction”
to the blonde villain in “Jumper” — Samuel L. Jackson has
notched up a lifetime’s worth of
larger-than-life characters.
Of course, for comic book and
movie blockbuster fans alike,
he makes a telling appearance
as Nick Fury in this weekend’s
“Iron Man 2.” For those of a
mind to see Jackson’s theatertrained dramatic chops, then the
independent drama “Mother and
Child” might be the best way to
experience his skill as an actor.
As the title suggests, the film
is a female-driven story that connects three characters, Naomi
Watts (Elizabeth), Annette Bening (Karen) and Kerry Washington (Lucy), respectively, as an
adopted child, the mother of that
child and a woman going through
surrogacy.
Having been given up by Karen, Elizabeth is a cold-hearted
lawyer who will let nothing interfere with her dream of becoming a judge.
However, Karen is no slouch
in the unlikable stakes: she works
as a physical therapist in a rehabilitation clinic, while caring for
the elderly mother who made her
give up her child when she became pregnant at 14.
Meanwhile, Lucy verbally
spars with her mother Ada (S.
Epatha Merkerson) and becomes
exasperated by the lack of support from her husband Joseph
(David Ramsey) as they prepare
to adopt the baby of an opinionated college student, Ray (Shareeka Epps).
Written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia (“Things You Can
Tell Just By Looking at Her”),
a noted chronicler of the female
psyche and a celebrated director
on such HBO fare as “The Sopranos,” “Six Feet Under,” and “In
Treatment,” Garcia manages a
double whammy.
Handing Jackson the role of
Paul, boss of the Los Angeles
law firm that hires Elizabeth, he
not only transforms him into a
calm, regular guy, but one who is
putty in the hands of a dominant
woman — especially when she
decides to seduce him.
But, as Jackson joked, the honestly depicted sex scene might
bring him more kudos. “I might
get some new fans,” he said, talking about the film in Los Angeles
last week. I’ve done a couple [of
sex scenes]. “I sort of had one in
“Eve’s Bayou” and there was one
with Juliette Binoche in “In My
Country.”
And even the traditional, cinematic awkwardness of shooting
a love scene just after actors have
first met, didn’t seem to slow the
Jackson swagger.
“It’s easier to do it that way to
see if they’ve got any chemistry,”
he said. “Fortunately, she was in
charge. As the guy, I just showed
up and asked the requisite questions — where can I not touch,
and sorry if I get excited.”
In finding the key to his character, a widower with a large
family circle, Jackson said he approached the role no differently
than as if he was battling giant
snakes on a plane.
“Hopefully, you approach
the work the same way,” he explained. “[First of all] it was
there on the page. But the bigger
moving feast, is the bigger mov-
ing feast. Maybe you get better
craft service and a bigger trailer.
“But in those big budget films
like ‘Iron Man’ and ‘Star Wars,’
there’s an expectation of superheroism that’s already out there
and you don’t have to worry
about it. You just go in there and
be a little boy.”
He added: “This story [though]
is about real people, real emotions and you’ve got to work that
out so when people look at it they
can have honest feelings about
who these people really are.”
Of course, that shouldn’t be a
problem for Jackson, who as the
self-styled “hardest working man
in showbiz” knows exactly who
he is.
Yet Jackson, who boasts 10
projects in development on the
IMDB film, not to mention his
multi-picture deal for the Nick
Fury character, confesses to one
fear.
“I get scared sometimes when
I’m not working, when I don’t
know what I’m doing for the next
one and a half to two movies,” he
said. “I’m like, aww shucks, is
it over, [are] they done with me
now? I’m not one of them damn
vampire kids. What am I gonna
do?”
Coupled, with crime DVD
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Jackie Earle Haley stars as
Freddy Krueger in the remake
of the horror classic “A
Nightmare on Elm Street.”
‘Nightmare’
doesn’t sleep
at box office
The remake of the horror classic “A Nightmare on Elm Street”
killed the competition at the
weekend box office, debuting
with $32.9 million, according to
final figures released today.
Last week’s box office champ,
“How to Train Your Dragon,”
slipped to number two, bringing
in $10.6 million to raise its sixweek total to $192.2 million, according to Hollywood.com BoxOffice.
The comedy “Date Night”
placed third with $7.6 million
in ticket sales, while the romantic-comedy “The Back-Up
Plan” earned $7.3 million. The
kids comedy “Furry Vengeance”
debuted in fifth place with $6.6
million.
Rounding out the top 10 were
“The Losers” ($5.9 million);
“Clash of the Titans” ($5.85 million); “Kick Ass” ($4.5 million);
“Death at a Funeral” ($4.1 million); and “Oceans” ($2.6 million).
The top 12 films over the
weekend grossed $91.7 million,
down 39 percent from the same
weekend last year, when the top
12 earned $150.4 million.
here isn’t much in the way
of an extras package on
the DVD of “It’s Complicated,” a well-received slice
of middle-age romantic comedy
that has grossed more than $214
million in worldwide box office
since its Christmas Day theatrical
release. Director Nancy Meyers,
whose style of high-gloss, upper
middle class sheen is instantly
recognizable to anyone familiar
with the more recent entries in her
filmography (“Something’s Gotta
Give,” “The Holiday”), leads the
discussion on a commentary track
that only the most devoted fans of
this movie would find essential
in any way. Unaware of any such
cult that has formed around this
counterintuitively agreeable trifle,
it’s as difficult to imagine any
commercial interest in the informercial-like making-of featurette.
In their roles as a woman in an
affair with her ex-husband, the
lusty and emotionally desperate
philanderer, and the requisitely
sensitive
waiting-in-the-wings
guy, Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin
and Steve Martin deliver escapist
comedy with the gravitas of actors
who could, just as credibly, share
billing on a much more seriousminded film. But that wouldn’t
be as fun; for anyone with a home
video habit, their collective participation alone warrants, at minimum, an obligatory screening.
— André Herndon
•••
In “Godspeed,” Charlie Shepard (Joseph McKelheer) is a faith
healer who claims that he can
heal any ailment as long as the
person believes. His handsome,
clean-shaven face, matched with
a gift of gab, causes many to
flock to him and his mission. But
his swindling ways are halted by
tragedy, after his wife and child
are murdered by unknown as-
sailants while he is holed up in a
motel with another woman. After
abandoning his work and home to
enter a life of deep forest solitude,
his old drinking habits, which resurfaced just before the deaths,
worsen.
While questioning his faith in
a restaurant, he drunkenly blots
out all the words in the Bible he
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be irritating, especially in the beginning, but perhaps it was an intentional device by director Robert Saitzyk to keep the audience in
the literal dark until he was ready
to unearth everyone’s dark past.
Upon that consideration — and
You gotta have a story.
Talent helps. Talent is necessary, the veteran music and movie mogul Jerry Weintraub says.
“You still need something to sell.
You can’t just sell anything,” he
says.
But you gotta have a story. A
hook. A draw.
And Weintraub (“Please call
me Jerry,” he says straightaway
in a phone interview) has plenty
of stories. He’s worked with big
names for 50 years — Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan
and George Clooney among
them. They roll out, one upon
another, his gravelly Brooklyn
voice rumbling with the force
and propulsion of a New York
subway train.
There’s the one about calling
Presley manager Colonel Tom
Parker every day for months,
wanting to put the King on tour,
and scrambling to come up with
a million dollars as security. The
one about telling powerful agent
Lew Wasserman a truth that could
have gotten him fired. The time
he couldn’t play tennis at a club
in Kennebunkport, Maine — no
Jews allowed — until a businessman named George H.W. Bush
stepped in on his behalf.
There are stories about Sinatra. About John Denver, whom
he managed. About politics and
movies and religion, about remaking the concert business with
his company Concerts West,
about producing “Nashville” and
“Diner” and “The Karate Kid”
and the “Ocean’s” films.
And about Weintraub’s father,
a jewelry salesman who taught
young Jerry the value of a tale
through “the Star of Ardaban,”
an inexpensive star sapphire that
the elder Weintraub carried with
him on his calls, equipped with
an elegant case, armed guards, a
Brinks truck and a silver tongue.
The stories are between hard
covers now, in his book “When
I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m
Dead,” co-written with “Tough
Jews” scribe Rich Cohen, who
began what was intended to be an
article for Vanity Fair in 2006.
“We wanted it to read like a
novel, meaning we wanted it to
be one big story — the story of
the kid from Brooklyn, who tried
and failed and finally made it
— and included only those stories which were part of the bigger
story, or came up naturally along
the way,” Cohen says via e-mail.
He loved the sweep of Weintraub’s life: “He was a book, an
epic, a real-life novel of the sort
that might have been written by
Saul Bellow. Simply put, I fell in
love with the guy.”
Weintraub spoke from his
home somewhere amid the glitter and sparkle of Southern California.
The story you tell in the beginning, about the Star of Ardaban,
is a theme throughout the book,
about the power of the story as
well as the power of the talent.
I’m happy to see that you read
it. (laughs)
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Mery Streep and Alec Baldwin in “It’s Complicated.”
considers to be false, leaving very
few. A mysterious girl named Sarah (Courtney Halverson), who is
intently watching his every move,
seeks Charlie’s help in confronting her troubled brother, Luke
(Cory Knauf). The encounter,
however, turns into a dark journey that reveals lustful cravings,
deep-seated fears and secrets, and
ultimately the truth about his family’s murder.
The premise is intriguing, but
if you enjoy watching a film that
you can actually see most of the
way through, then the 98-minute
“Godspeed” may present an insurmountable challenge. Roughly
an hour of it is presented with
very dim lighting and, in some
cases, there appears to be none
at all. During those scenes, many
questions arise, none of them having to do with the narrative: “Who
is that?” “What are they doing
now?” “What’s going on?” It can
a set of new, well-lit scenes set in
the forest or along Alaska’s icy
paths — “Godspeed” becomes
much easier to not only watch, but
digest and accept.
McKelheer delves into a number of emotions, that being hope,
fear, sadness, happiness, loneliness and rage. To his credit, he
transitions into each seamlessly
and without pause.
Knauf, however, may have stolen the show, as he dives into his
deranged character. He displayed
many of the signs, like sudden
outbursts, irrational reasoning behind his actions and a continual
need to repeat himself in tones
that grow stronger the more a
person does not comply with his
demands. With this, he keeps the
film moving, and eventually eases
some of the leftover resentment
from being kept in the dark for too
long. — Leiloni De Gruy
Do you consider the sizzle
more important than the steak?
No. ... In retrospect, the Star of
Ardaban taught me about events,
and how to make things an event,
and how to package things and
make them more important than
they really were. But you still
need something to sell. You can’t
just sell anything. [My father]
happened to have a lot of wonderful things to sell, but he used
the Star of Ardaban to attract
people.
You mention you felt like
[Woody Allen’s hustling talent
manager] Broadway Danny
Rose when you started. Was
there a sense that you had to put
your faith in people who weren’t
the most talented?
No, because when I was Broadway Danny Rose, I had faith in
them. ... I believed in my artists.
Everything’s that’s Cirque du Soleil right now — contortionists,
jugglers, acrobats — those were
the people I was around.
Yeah, I went through a period
in my life when I used to read
critics and they bothered me. But
I got to a place ... that I stopped
paying attention to critics, because it’s one person’s opinion.
You can’t please everybody
— not everybody likes corned
beef and not everybody’s going
to enjoy a corned beef sandwich,
so you just have to go with the
flow.
Let’s talk about some of the
names in your book: Colonel
Tom Parker.
I loved him very, very much.
WARNER BROS.
Weintraub (far left, with
“Oceans”
star
George
Clooney, tells stories about
names like Sinatra, Presley,
Dylan and Wasserman.
And you know he doesn’t have
the greatest reputation.
Yeah, but I don’t agree with
that. I personally did business
with this man for a very, very
long time, with he and Elvis.
We made tens and tens and tens
of millions of dollars together. I
never saw him do anything illegal or wrong with Presley. Their
relationship was very strong. It
had bumpy roads, like every relationship does, like every father
and son argue. [But] I don’t believe Elvis would have been as
successful without Tom Parker.
... He did what he thought was
right at the time.
How about Elvis?
He was very, very smart. He
was a very, very nice guy. He was
completely aware of the level of
fame because that’s what destroyed him. He was cloistered,
he was locked up all the time, he
couldn’t go out to a restaurant
unless we closed the restaurant,
he couldn’t go to a movie unless we closed the theater ... it’s a
very hard way to live. Listen: He
gave up his freedom knowingly
because he was such a huge star.
What do you make of the music business nowadays?
I don’t know, is there one? I’m
a country-western fan. ... I like
country music because they tell
a story, and I like songs that tell
stories.
Did you like putting on concerts more than movies? Two
different kinds of shows.
No. The concert business for
me — and the reason I gave it
up — was a very tough business.
I owned the concert business;
there wasn’t a concert business
without me. And I was doing it
all over the world, not just in the
United States. So I traveled quite
a bit. And that’s why I say in the
book that I could have been a
better father. But I had to give up
something to get something. And
I found myself on the road most
of the year. Ten months a year,
11 months, maybe 12. So I didn’t
get to the ballet recitals and the
Little League games and so on
and so forth. So I wasn’t as great
a father as I could have been. But
then one day I woke up and said:
‘Wait a minute, I gotta change
this up.’ So I did.
Is that your biggest regret?
The time that got away from
you?
Honestly and truly, I have no
regrets. You know the [Edith]
Piaf song? No regrets, no regrets.
I have no regrets. My life — I’m
72 years old. I’m vital, and strong,
I have all my wits about me, I
have a hit book, I have a wonderful life and I’m doing a million
things in the theatrical business.
Did it bother you when clients Why would I have any regrets?
like John Denver were criticized I can’t have any regrets. They’d
have to give me a lobotomy.
in the media?
PAGE 4
MAY 6, 2010
Hollywood Station officer was
drunk at time of deadly crash
PHOTO BY GARY McCARTHY
Monday’s stabbing incident occurred at this busy Target store on La Brea Avenue.
Shoppers recount horror
STABBINGS FROM PAGE 1
inmate records, although charges had not yet been filed in the
case.
Paramedics sent to the store in
the 7100 block of Santa Monica
Boulevard at 12:48 p.m. Monday took one person to a hospital
with critical injuries, along with
another patient with less serious
injuries, said county fire Inspector Frederic Stowers.
The more seriously injured
person’s condition was upgraded
from critical to serious, a sheriff’s sergeant said today.
The two other stabbing victims
were treated at the scene and did
not require hospitalization, nor
did two additional people with
minor injuries, Stowers said.
Deputy Clay Grant was on the
second floor of the store when he
heard screaming, spotted the suspect, identified himself as a law
enforcement officer and arrested
her at gunpoint, Sgt. Josh Mankini of the sheriff’s West Hollywood Station said.
“It appears the stabbings were
random,” Mankini said.
Trawick was carrying two
bloody knives when she was arrested, deputies said.
Entertainment journalist Allison McNamara was shopping when she encountered the
screaming woman in the aisle
that separated the skin-care and
kitchen sections, the Los Angeles
Times reported.
“She was yelling ‘I’m bipolar.
There’s no witness protection
program,’” McNamara said. She
said she saw the woman stabbing
the upper back and shoulder of a
male shopper, who had crouched
down and covered up to fend off
the attack.
“You could see where the knife
was going into his back,” McNamara said. “The knife had ridges
and a tag on it. She was going
as fast and strong as she could.
Four to six inches were covered
in blood. She looked like she was
going to stab everyone there.”
A woman identified as Trawick’s mother told the Times
that her family had been trying
in vain to get her additional care
from mental health professionals.
One shopper told KCAL9 that
when she made “direct eye contact with her, that’s when she
started running toward me. She
looked insane.
“I heard her saying there’s no
witness protection program, I’m
no bipolar, there’s no witness
protection program,” the shopper
said.
Numerous people in the store
called 911, thinking a man with a
gun was involved in a crime, but
that was not the case, Mankini
said.
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File No. 20100604102
The following person(s) is (are) doing business
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C & C Global Services, 678 Ranlett Ave., La
Puente, CA 91744
Registered owner(s):
Cesar Pereira, 678 Ranlett Ave., La Puente, CA
91744
This business is conducted by an Individual
The registrant commenced to transact business
under the fictitious business name or names listed
above on N/A.
I declare that all information in this statement is
true and correct. (A registrant who declares as
true information which he or she knows to be false
is guilty of a crime.)
S/ Cesar Pereira
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of
Los Angeles on May 5, 2010.
NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of
Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement
generally expires at the end of five years from
the date on which it was filed in the office of the
County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision
(b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days
after any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to section 17913 other than
a change in the residence address of a registered
owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement
must be filed before the expiration.
The filing of this statement does not of itself
authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious
Business Name in violation of the rights of another
under Federal, State, or common law (See Section
14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Original
5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27/10
HIN-1855327#
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100489818
as:
D&E Non-Emergency Medical Transporatin,
8415 Oakdale Ave. Winnetka, CA 91306, County
of LA.
Evangeline N. Arceo, 8415 Oakdale Ave.
Winnetka, CA 91306
This business is conducted by an individual
above on 4-9-2010
S/ Evangeline N. Arceo, Owner
Los Angeles on April 9, 2010
An off-duty Los Angeles police officer was drunk when she
was killed in a Feb. 25 collision
in Diamond Bar, the police chief
disclosed, but basic facts about
the accident remained under
wraps.
KTLA, citing the coroner’s report, said Jacqueline Montalvo’s
blood-alcohol percentage was
0.18 percent, well beyond the
0.08 percent threshold for drunken driving. But as is often the
case in investigations involving
police, coroner’s investigators
would not confirm that.
Sheriff’s deputies investigated
the crash, but news that the officer was drunk was not made public until the police chief chose to
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Deputy John Rodriguez, the
investigator assigned to the case,
Downturn affects local eatery
RESTAURANT FROM PAGE 1
the restaurant would face a July
1 closing date. Although he
wouldn’t give the name of the
restaurateurs, Soto said they
have promised not to change the
menu.
“I am going to continue to
work with them,” he said. “They
are just bringing money in and
are going to fix the place up.”
Soto said it would be foolish
to take the barbecued food out
of a restaurant with a name that
evokes Texas cuisine.
“Someone did that before,
turned it into a soul food restaurant, he said. “They changed the
whole style of cooking and it was
a complete disaster.”
According to the Hollywood
Chamber of Commerce president
and CEO Leron Gubler, most
nightclubs and restaurants in
Hollywood have experienced a
20-25 percent reduction in profits
over the last several years.
“Obviously you get a different
reaction on how things are going
from different businesses,” he
said. “A lot of them though are
Original
5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27/10
HIN-1853817#
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100557051
as:
Ludobites, 762 East Slauson Ave., Los Angeles,
CA 90011, County of Los Angeles
931 East Walnut St., Unit 214, Pasadena, CA
91106
Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number:
AI #ON: E0499192009-5
Mobi Munch, Inc., Nevada, 931 East Walnut St.,
Unit 214, Pasadena, CA 91106
This business is conducted by a Corporation
above on N/A
Mobi Munch Inc.
S/ Chi Hang Tang, CEO
Original
5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27/10
HIN-1853326#
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100523161
as:
Design Haus 24, 914 S. Wooster St. #303, Los
Angeles, CA 90035, County of Los Angeles
Rachel Chulew, 914 S. Wooster St. #303, Los
Angeles, CA 90035
above on N/A
S/ Rachel Chulew, Owner
Original
5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27/10
HIN-1852620#
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100550205
as:
LRay Records, 538 N. Spaulding Ave., Los
Angeles, CA 90036, County of Los Angeles
Lindsey Bachelder, 538 N. Spaulding Ave., Los
Angeles, CA 90036
LAPD
Jacqueline Montalvo, 37, had
a blood-alcohol level of 0.18
when she crashed her car and
died Feb. 25. At least one
more person was seriously
injured in the accident.
told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune on Tuesday that he didn’t
know where Montalvo was coming from or going when the accident occurred. He told the
newspaper he had not seen the
coroner’s report and had no other
evidence to suggest Montalvo
was drunk at the time of the collision.
At least one other person was
seriously injured in the wreck,
which involved as many as four
vehicles.
Montalvo, 37, had 11 years
with the LAPD and was assigned
to the Hollywood Station.
She was driving her 2009 Infiniti G37 sedan north on Grand
Avenue near Longview Drive
when she lost control of the car,
which swerved across then median into oncoming traffic.
above on N/A
S/ Lindsey Bachelder, Owner
Original
5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27/10
HIN-1850661#
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100512433
as:
Arya Travel, 978 Hancock Ave., West
Hollywood, CA 90059, County of LA
Farid Zekri, 978 Hancock Ave., West Hollywood,
CA 90059
above on April 15, 2010
S/ Farid Zekri
Los Angeles on April 15, 2010.
Original
4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20/10
HIN-1847923#
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100451209
as:
M & M Auto Glass, 474 Witmer St., Los
Angeles, CA 90017
Mynor Rustrian, 474 Witmer St., Los Angeles,
CA 90017
above on N/A
S/ Mynor Rustrian, Owner
still not feeling the recovery yet.
A lot of businesses that I talk to
are optimistic, though.”
Soto said the slow business is
due to the economy.
“I don’t think people are just
going to say I don’t want any
more barbecue,” he said. “If
you like barbecue, when you try
one of our sandwiches you get
hooked.”
Despite the downturn in
business, customers that visit
Huston’s enjoy getting a little
barbecue sauce on their fingers
and faces. On Monday, Jason
Dezorse, 36, of Hollywood said,
“The pork is usually the best. It
would be a big loss if it closed
because there isn’t anything else
around.”
Dezorse’s friend, Aljazi, 32,
said family restaurants like Huston’s are needed in Hollywood.
“Especially for tourists, they
want to try something different,”
she said. “Not something like
McDonalds.”
Soto said he is proud to have
such a popular eatery.
“When people come in for the
first time, and then get up and
tell me how good the food is, it
makes me feel really good,” he
said. “Three weeks ago, some
tourists from Belgium said, ‘Man
you have the greatest sandwiches,’ and came back three times.”
Soto began working at Huston’s in the 1960s as a dishwasher. He purchased Huston’s from
the previous owner for $1 when
he tried to close the restaurant.
He then moved the barbecue spot
from its location on Wilcox Avenue to its current location.
Soto took every brick from
the barbecue pit at Huston’s old
location and used it to build the
barbecue pit that has cooked
pork, chicken and beef for tourists, Hollywood residents and
celebrity clientele such as Tobey
Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio and
as recently as last month, Clint
Eastwood.
Kimble said the restaurant’s
rich history, which includes a
brief ownership by actor Mickey Rooney in the late 1980s, is
something the Huston’s needs to
market in order to adjust to the
tough economic times.
Original
4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20/10
HIN-1847920#
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100498154
as:
1. Rent-A-Roast, 2. Bob Zany’s Comedy Outlet,
18034 Ventura Blvd., #271, Encino, CA 91316.
AI #ON: 1330223
Bob Zany Enterprises, Inc., 6903 Amestoy Ave.,
Lake Balboa, CA 91406.
This business is conducted by a Corporation.
above on 4-13-1990.
Bob Zany Enterprises, Inc.
S/ Robert E. Tetreault, Jr., President
New filings
4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6/10
HIN-1840978#
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100438005
as:
Active Body Chiro-Care, 8590 Sunset Blvd.,
West Hollywood, CA 90069, County of LA
James Hogan, 8306 Wilshire Blvd. #256, Beverly
Hills, CA 90211
above on 3/31/10
S/ James Hogan, Owner
Los Angeles on March 31, 2010
New Filings
4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6/10
HIN-1840647#
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100446536
as:
M & J Liquor, 7405 Crenshaw Blvd. Los
Angeles, CA 90043, County of L.A.
Yohannes A. Tesfai, 7405 Crenshaw Blvd. #3, Los
Angeles, CA 90043
above on 2001
S/ Yohannes A. Tesfai, Owner
Original
4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6/10
HIN-1840064#
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100485481
as:
Hollywood Sweets, 3912 Revere Avenue, Los
Angeles, CA 90039, County of Los Angeles.
AI #ON: 3277487
Hollywood Sweets Gourmet Chocolates, Inc.,
California, 3912 Revere Avenue, Los Angeles,
CA 90039.
This business is conducted by a Corporation.
above on N/A.
Hollywood Sweets Gourmet Chocolates, Inc.
S/ Paula Sorge Moynihan, President
Original
4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6/10
HIN-1838850#
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100415038
as:
Advanced Clinical Trials, Inc., 6333 Wilshire
Boulevard, Suite 402, Los Angeles, CA 90048,
County of Los Angeles
Pacific Sleep Medicine, A California Medical
Corporation, 615 West Carmel Drive, Suite 100,
Carmel, IN 46032
California, Entity #C1760281
This business is conducted by a Corporation
above on N/A
Pacific Sleep Medicine, A California Medical
Corporation
S/ By: Yury Furman, MD, President
Los Angeles on March 26, 2010
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MAY 6, 2010
Bullock’s adoption of Black baby stirs a fierce online debate
BY LISA RESPERS FRANCE
CNN
It was supposed to be just a picture of a happy new mother showing off her beautiful adopted son.
But when Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock appeared
on the cover of People magazine
with her newly adopted AfricanAmerican baby, the image stirred
discussion in the black community and on blogs aimed at that
readership.
“We have a poll up right now on
the site that asks a question about
interracial adoption,” said Marve
Frazier, chief executive officer
of Bossip.com and chief creative
officer for its parent company,
Moguldum. “For the most part
people have been saying it’s great
that she adopted a baby from the
United States.”
Still, the topic of transracial
adoptions is a sensitive one, made
even more so when the adopted
parent is a celebrity.
In a piece appearing on the site
Black Voices, writer Lola Adesioye notes that Bullock joins
other stars, including Madonna
and Angelina Jolie, who have adopted black children. Madonna
and Jolie’s children are African
and Bullock’s new son, Louis, is
from New Orleans, Louisiana.
“As Bullock’s case shows, a
white celebrity adopting a black
child raises questions as well as
suspicions,” Adesioye writes.
“Why do they want a black baby
as opposed to a white one, when
there are also white kids who are
up for adoption?”
Bossip.com CEO Frazier said
Bullock had already engendered
sympathy from her readers when
news broke of alleged infidelities by Bullock’s husband, Jesse
James.
“She just seems like such a regular person,” Frazier said. “She’s
never really been on that ‘Hollyweird’ trip and that makes her so
much more relatable.”
What has thrown some fans for
a loop, Frazier said, are reports of
a photo of James wearing a German military hat while appearing
to give a Nazi salute. The image
prompted questions about James’
racial views and made some Af-
rican-Americans leery, Frazier
said.
James’ attorney, Joe Yanny,
said the hat was a gift from a Jewish mentor and denied that his client was anti-Semitic. James once
lived for nearly a month in an Israeli kibbutz, Yanny said.
The online magazine Clutch,
which is aimed at African-Ameri-
player in “The Blind Side” to her
real-life adoption.
“When I saw the trailer my first
thought was ‘not another white
savior movie!’ “ wrote a commenter who identified herself
as “Margaret.” “But in real life
— our kids need homes. I’m glad
to see that Sandra Bullock chose
to adopt a child from the United
“This is a PR move to get her image back on track. She had a big
Oscar win and then immediately
this thing came out with her husband and that started to take luster
away from her shine.”
But according to the interview
Bullock gave to People magazine,
she and James began the adoption
process four years ago — well
before any scandal — and finally
brought the baby home in January. She told the magazine she has
filed for divorce from James and
plans on completing the adoption
as a single parent.
Natasha Eubanks, founder of
the blog Young, Black and Fabulous, said Bullock has long enjoyed popularity among black
audiences “as America’s sweetheart.”
“Her movies cross cultural
lines and every movie she has
people can relate to it,” Eubanks
said. “She’s never been a glamour
puss, she’s always just been very
much the girl next door.”
Eubanks is a native of New Orleans, as is Bullock’s new son, and
said the actress is well-known for
her ties to the city, most notably
as one of the first celebrities to donate generously to the Hurricane
Katrina relief effort. Eubanks said
she applauds Bullock’s decision
to adopt from a group that has
historically found it difficult to
find homes.
“Young black men have it the
hardest when it comes to adoption in the United States,” said
Eubanks, who added that she has
yet to see any negative comments
about the adoption from her readers. “The fact that she chose to
adopt a baby from the U.S. just
makes us love her even more.”
The curse of changing times
CURSING FROM PAGE 1
The timing of this magazine cover has aroused suspicion
among some African-American bloggers.
can women, asked its readers
“Do you think Sandra Bullock is
using her new black son to curtail the negative publicity on her
husband’s scandalous affairs? Or
is Bullock like many adoptive
mothers who simply want to give
children in need a happy home?”
The responses of commenters
ranged from “God bless anyone
who wants to adopt” to “Suspicious with the timing.” One person
commenting raised the parallel of
Bullock’s starring role as a woman whose family opens its home
to a disadvantaged black football
States. Too many of our babies
are in the system.”
Author and host of the Mack
Lessons Radio show podcast
Tariq Elite was more caustic.
The writer, actor and lecturer
who has appeared on “The Tonight Show” as well as VH1 and
MTV posted a skit online that he
billed as an “exclusive” interview
with Bullock’s newborn, Louis,
discussing his “business relationship” with the actress.
“People find [the skit] hysterical, but they also find what I said
in it to b e very true,” Elite said.
airwaves, that led all the way to
the Supreme Court last year.
The justices upheld the FCC’s
“fleeting expletives” policy,
which allows the commission
to crack down on networks with
fines and punishments when even
one curse word is used.
Melissa Henson, director of
communications and public education for the Parents Television
Council, said her group has had
to make its peace with certain
words.
“We’ve come to the point
where we have sort of given up
and accepted the fact that some
words are part of the vernacular
on primetime TV,” she said.
“Some of the milder profanities, like ‘hell’ and ‘damn,’ don’t
even register now when we hear
them on TV,” Henson said. “What
we have seen, particularly with
the advent of the popularity of
reality TV, people are becoming
more and more comfortable with
bleeped obscenities.”
The bleeped versions of those
words, some of which the late
comedian George Carlin immortalized in his routine “Seven
Words You Can Never Say on
Television,” help to pave the way
for viewers to become more comfortable with the coarseness of
language on TV, Henson said.
So it’s no longer shocking
to hear a woman called a word
which rhymes with witch or some
other expletive, even on shows
viewers might assume would be
family-friendly, she said.
“It’s not just on reality shows.
[It’s] also on scripted comedies
and some animated primetime
programs like ‘Family Guy’ and
‘American Dad,’ where, given the
high number of young viewers,
you would think they would use a
little bit more discretion with the
language they use,” Henson said.
Brand consultant Daniel Coffeen, who wrote an essay in defense of profanity, disagrees.
“People make too big a deal out
of f***ing everything. I don’t understand it.”
But what about the children
who are exposed to such language? Coffeen said that good
parenting is the best way to show
your child what’s acceptable and
what is not.
“What I teach my kid is that
there are things I can do that he
can’t do. I can curse, I can drink
tequila, I can go out at night, I
can cross the street by myself,”
he said. “There are things that
grown-ups can do that kids can’t
do.”
While an adjunct professor
at the University of CaliforniaBerkeley, Coffeen was once reprimanded for cursing in front of
his students. But his belief dovetails with that of comedian Carlin, who in the “Seven Words”
monologue pointed out that there
are “no bad words.”
“Bad thoughts, bad intentions
... and words,” Carlin said.
Much of the language trend
has to do with competition, observes Ron Simon, a curator for
The Paley Center for Media. In
a 500-channel multimedia universe, broadcast television has to
contend with many more outlets
for an audience.
“The [broadcast] networks are
trying to show that they are the
equivalent of those other forms of
entertainment,” he said. “Obviously what can be said in American culture has expanded.”
After all, he pointed out, something like a Biden slip of the
tongue is no longer limited to
those who catch the moment.
“Those types of things now go
viral,” Simon said. “Now everyone in the country can see it because of things like YouTube.”
It could be that television is
only mirroring the real world, and
the real world has gotten coarser.
In February, the California Assembly passed a resolution to
establish the first week of March
as “Cuss Free Week” throughout
the state.
Given all that, Coffeen would
rather have television focus on
good programming.
“Obviously I don’t give a [expletive],” Coffeen said. “The offense to me is sh***y art, it’s bad
television. It’s the same bourgeois
family on the same formulaic sitcom that, to me, is a moral and
aesthetic offense.”

THE LOS ANGELES

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