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Sunday, 20 October 2013

Christina Applegate's Husband -- Photographer's Footage Shows the Angry Face-Off

Christina Applegate's Husband
Photog's Footage Shows
Angry Face-Off

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Christina Applegate's husband was mercilessly hounded by a paparazzo -- and may have gotten annoyed enough to reach out and smack the guy.

As TMZ first reported ... Porno for Pyros bassist Martyn LeNoble was briefly detained by police after a weekend incident where a freelance pap (not one of TMZ's) accused him of getting physical.

LeNoble told cops he was trying to stop the photog from shooting his family during their daughter's birthday party -- when the guy challenged him to a fight in a back alley.

The photog's own video backs that up, as he tells Martyn ... "Let's fight over there. Let's go to the alley. Let's see if you're a man."

Look, the paparazzo is clearly being an antagonistic jerk ... but LeNoble does appear to smack the guy's camera at some point.

Ultimately, the pap decided not to press charges ... maybe because he knew just how much he had baited LeNoble.

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TV's Top Showrunners Talk Deleted Scenes, Network Censorship, More

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Liz Meriwether, Dan Harmon, Aaron Sorkin

How I Met Your Mother's Carter Bays is still mourning the loss of Goodwin Games. New Girl's Liz Meriwether is coming clean about the do's and don'ts of "vagina" talk. And Community's reinstalled showrunner Dan Harmon is simply relieved security let him back on the lot.

Below, 13 top showrunners from this year's Power List offer candid responses about scrapped plans, debates in their writers room and the thing they wish they knew before becoming a showrunner.

PHOTOS: Power Showrunners: Inside the Minds Behind 'Walking Dead,' 'Bates Motel,' 'Arrow'

Before I became a showrunner, I wish someone had warned me about …

Beau Willimon (House of Cards): Fraturday -- when a night shoot on Friday night continues until Saturday morning. Think long weekend, but the opposite of that.

Aaron Sorkin (Newsroom): Having to write a second episode after the pilot.

Liz Meriwether (New Girl): All the sleep I would get! It's almost too much sleep!

Christopher Lloyd (Modern Family): Executives and notes. I'm often reminded of a story about Marvin Gaye. In his prime, he was a big strong guy, who fancied himself a decent boxer. One day he met this heavyweight fighter (not a champion, but a contender) and told him he wanted to spar with him. They made the date and Marvin Gaye came in kind of cocky, sure he was going to beat this guy, demanding that the guy not go easy on him, and … the guy kind of beat him up. Afterward, a reporter who had observed the whole thing asked the boxer why he'd done so and he said, "This is what I do all day long. This is all I've ever done. How could he disrespect me like that? This ring is my office."

Dan Harmon (Community): Capitalism.

Mara Brock Akil (The Game): The hair and makeup department! There should be a whole course on how to negotiate that!

Betsy Beers (Grey's Anatomy, Scandal) Keeping up with a network episodic schedule. The pace takes your breath away -- especially when you first start out -- and living at the office becomes the new normal. Oh, and the constant and endless supply of sugary food groups at said office. Beware …

The most memorable debate in our writers room this past year was …

Kurt Sutter (Sons of Anarchy): If the skittish white guy in the alley outside our office was dealing crack or meth.

Carter Bays (How I Met Your Mother): First prize: Did Walt mean what he said on the phone with Skyler or was it all a smokescreen because he knew the cops were listening in? Runner up: Should we do a season nine?

Sorkin: Whether a particular line should reference Bridget Jones or Holly Golightly.

Harmon: Whether to replace departing castmembers with NFL players or just keep grabbing dead people from Breaking Bad.

Bill Lawrence (Cougar Town): Generally, these are about where to order lunch when we're working. No one has nailed this yet.

Craig Thomas (How I Met Your Mother): Whether or not to reveal "The Mother" from our show's title (Side-bar: I've decided to start avoiding the phrase "titular mother," because gross).

STORY: 10 Power Showrunners: A Day in the Life, From Carlton Cuse to Jenji Kohan

The toughest scene I had to write this past year was …

Sutter: Figuring out new and imaginative ways to blow shit up, kill a guy, chase down/run from an enemy. Adding original, organic action to the show gets more difficult every season.

Meriwether: Some reshoot stuff. But a lady never talks about reshoots unless the lady has a drink in her. Half a drink, to be honest.

Matthew Weiner (Mad Men): Don and Ted deciding to merge their companies.

Sorkin: The scene that opened with the season premiere and ended with the season finale.

I can't believe I got away with …

Meriwether: Getting Nick and Jess together. But now I feel like I jinxed it.

Weiner: Bob Benson's shorts.

Harmon: Seasons four, three, one and two in that order.

The moment I wish had made it to air but didn't was …

Meriwether: So many moments. There was one particular joke for Winston in the premiere that we couldn't get away with because of Standards and Practices. Lamorne [Morris] knocked it out of the park. I guess you're not allowed to use the word "in" as it relates to the word "vagina." It turns out almost no prepositions are allowed near that noun.

Beers: There was a wonderful scene from last season in episode 219 -- Olivia Pope, who is starting to undress in her bedroom, remembers Jake Ballard has placed surveillance in there. She proceeds to taunt him through the camera. A terrific performance from Kerry Washington -- and a nice twist at the end when we find out it isn't Jake Ballard who is watching!

Bays: The last six episodes of The Goodwin Games.

Sorkin: The scene in "One Step Too Many" that explained the title of the episode.

STORY: The Hollywood Reporter Names the 50 Power Showrunners of 2013

The episode from this past year that I wish we could do over would be …

Meriwether: The premiere.

Thomas: I'll up the ante on this question and go from "episode" to "series": I wish we could do The Goodwin Games over with the same amazing cast and crew, but on a network that would give it a real shot.

Bays: It's not from this last year, but season seven's "The Burning Beekeeper" will follow me to my grave. One more week of writing, one more week of shooting, one more week of editing, and it could have been something awesome. But that's how it goes when you have a 24 episode season. Sometimes you run out of time.

Sorkin: I've never written anything I wish I couldn't do over.

Weiner: What are you trying to say?

My proudest accomplishment this year was …

Harmon: Convincing security to let me back on the lot.

Lloyd: Finding a way to take two common sitcom stories -- a birth story and a proposal story -- and make them both funny and surprising, and ultimately touching.

Willimon: Remaining sane. Writing and producing 13 hours of story in six months is a form of voluntary insanity. A delicious, rewarding, exhilarating form of insanity, mind you. It takes a special breed of folks to put in 80 hour weeks for half a year. Luckily on our show the inmates get to run the asylum, and between our cast, crew, writers and designers, there's not other asylum I'd rather be committed to.

Thomas: The brief three or four seconds in May/June when Carter and I had two shows on TV (HIMYM and the all-too-short-lived The Goodwin Games.)

Lawrence: Hiring and empowering talented people like Adam Sztykiel (Undateable), Jeff Astrof (Ground Floor), Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker (Surviving Jack) and Blake McCormick (Cougar Town) to run our TV shows. Then I just step in and take credit for all their hard work. Any work they can't do is handled by Jeff Ingold and Randall Winston (my partners). I generally just drink a lot of coffee.

STORY: Power Showrunners: 10 to Watch for 2014

If my writers were to describe my style as a showrunner in five words or less, they might say …

Salim Akil (The Game): Salim -- Loveable asshole.

Sutter: Control. Control. Control. Control. Weepy.

Lloyd: Respectful, respectfully demanding, always late.

Meriwether: "Go back to set, Liz."

Weiner: "You're looking tall today, sir."

Harmon: "Quick, he's sleeping, stab him."

Lawrence: Moderately effective, disorganized chaos.

Bays: Handsome, handsome, handsome, handsome, handsome!

Sorkin: Nobody on our show uses five words or less.

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The World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine

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Saturday, 19 October 2013

Interview with Mayor Annise Parker (Offthekuff)

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Ga. to review tough death penalty provision

FILE - This undated provided by the Georgia Department of Corrections shows convicted murderer Warren Lee Hill. Georgia, the first state to pass a law prohibiting the execution of mentally disabled death row inmates, is revisiting a requirement for defendants to prove the disability beyond a reasonable doubt to be spared execution on those grounds _ the strictest burden of proof in the nation.(AP Photo/Georgia Dept. of Corrections)

ATLANTA (AP) — The state that was the first to pass a law prohibiting the execution of mentally disabled death row inmates is revisiting a requirement for defendants to prove the disability beyond a reasonable doubt — the strictest burden of proof in the nation.

A state House committee is holding an out-of-session meeting Thursday to seek input from the public. Other states that impose the death penalty have a lower threshold for proving mental disability, and some don't set standards at all.

Just because lawmakers are holding a meeting does not mean changes to the law will be proposed, and the review absolutely is not a first step toward abolishing Georgia's death penalty, said State Rep. Rich Golick, R-Smyrna, chairman of the House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee.

Georgia's law is the strictest in the U.S. even though the state was also the first, in 1988, to pass a law prohibiting the execution of mentally disabled death row inmates. The U.S. Supreme Court followed suit in 2002, ruling that the execution of mentally disabled offenders is unconstitutional.

The Georgia law's toughest-in-the-nation status compels lawmakers to review it, Golick said.

"When you're an outlier, you really ought not to stick your head in the sand," he said. "You need to go ahead and take a good, hard look at what you're doing, why you're doing it, weigh the pros and cons of a change and act accordingly or not."

Thursday's meeting comes against the backdrop of the case of Warren Lee Hill, who was sentenced to die for the 1990 beating death of fellow inmate Joseph Handspike, who was bludgeoned with a nail-studded board as he slept. At the time, Hill was already serving a life sentence for the 1986 slaying of his girlfriend, Myra Wright, who was shot 11 times.

Hill's lawyers have long maintained he is mentally disabled and therefore shouldn't be executed. The state has consistently argued that his lawyers have failed to prove his mental disability beyond a reasonable doubt.

Hill has come within hours of execution on several occasions, most recently in July. Each time, a court has stepped in at the last minute and granted a delay based on challenges raised by his lawyers. Only one of those challenges was related to his mental abilities, and it was later dismissed.

A coalition of groups that advocate for people with developmental disabilities pushed for the upcoming legislative committee meeting and has been working to get Georgia's standard of proof changed to a preponderance of the evidence rather than proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Hill's case has drawn national attention and has shone a spotlight on Georgia's tough standard, they say.

The process has taken an enormous amount of education, said Kathy Keeley, executive director of All About Developmental Disabilities. Rather than opposition to or support for the measure she's pushing, she's mostly encountered a lack of awareness about what the state's law says, she said.

The groups are hoping to not only express their views at the meeting, but also to hear from others to get a broader perspective, Keeley said. The changes should be relatively simple and very narrow in scope, targeting only the burden of proof for death penalty defendants, she said.

Ashley Wright, district attorney for the Augusta district and president of the state District Attorneys' Association, said prosecutors question the logic of changing a law that they don't see as problematic and that has repeatedly been upheld by state and federal courts.

"The district attorneys don't believe that you change a law for no reason and, in this case, the law appears to be working," she said. "Where has a jury done a disservice? Why are we putting all our eggs in the defendant's basket and forgetting that there's a victim?"

Prosecutors agree that the mentally disabled shouldn't be executed, and defendants are frequently spared the death penalty when there is proof of their mental disability supported by appropriate documentation from credible and reliable experts, she said.

But Hill's lawyer, Brian Kammer, argues that psychiatric diagnoses are complex, and "experts who have to make diagnoses do not do so beyond a reasonable doubt, they do it to a reasonable scientific certainty."

Furthermore, he said, disagreements between experts make the beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard nearly impossible to meet.

"Even where evidence is otherwise seemingly overwhelming that a person has mental retardation, one dissenting opinion that splits a hair on one or more pieces of evidence can result in that person who's almost certainly mentally retarded being executed," Kammer said.

In Hill's case, a state court judge concluded the defendant was probably mentally disabled. In any other state, that would have spared him the death penalty, Kammer said.

Additionally, three state experts who testified in 2000 that Hill was not mentally disabled submitted sworn statements in February saying they had been rushed in their evaluation at the time. After further review and based on scientific developments since then, they now believe Hill is mentally disabled, they said.

The state has dismissed the doctors' new testimony, saying it isn't credible. And courts have ruled that Hill is procedurally barred from having a new hearing. His lawyers had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case based on the new evidence, but the high court this month declined to take it up. Hill has a challenge on different grounds pending before the Georgia Supreme Court. But he has exhausted his challenges on the mental disability issue, Kammer said.

Even if changes are made to Georgia's law, they will likely not be retroactive and wouldn't apply to Hill, Keeley said.

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Apple Will Announce the New iPads on Oct. 22nd

As was foretold by the ancients, Apple will hold its holiday iPad jamboree on October 22nd. We'll see some new tablets, sure. But there also might be a trove of other odds and ends awaiting us next week.

Valentino, THR Host 2nd Annual 'Power of Style' Luncheon

From left: Laura Myones Ruf, Ashley Greene and Donna Langley

On Wednesday, a slew of Hollywood's biggest executives, producers and agents ditched their Blackberry's and iPhones to enjoy The Hollywood Reporter's intimate "Power of Style" luncheon held at Valentino's Beverly Hills flagship boutique.

The second annual event celebrated THR's just-out style feature, "Power Dressing at the Top of the Ladder," which examines how Hollywood's top female execs have shed their once-stereotypical sensible pumps in favor of feminine, yet still professional looks from the likes of Marni, Jimmy Choo and yes, Valentino, too.

"I like to dress for comfort and pick what feels right at that particular moment," said Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, president of international distribution at Warner Bros. Pictures, who joined colleague Sue Kroll, president of worldwide marketing and international distribution, at the mid-day festivities. "It's really about how I feel, and depends on whether I have formal or casual meetings."

PHOTOS: Inside the 2nd Annual Power of Style Luncheon

Industry compatriots at Wednesday's lunch -- which was held on Valentino's airy, mirrored second floor designed by noted British architect David Chipperfield -- included Universal TV chief Bela Bejaria, Universal Pictures chairman Donna Langley, Showtime exec vp of corporate communications Trisha Cardoso, HBO senior vp of media relations Nancy Lesser, Warner Bros. executive vp of marketing Blair Rich, 3 Arts' Molly Madden, Gersh Agency's Leslie Siebert and Slate PR's Ina Treciokas. How I Met Your Mother actress Cobie Smulders and Twilight star Ashley Greene were also on hand.

"I'm so impressed that [THR and Valentino] were able to get all these busy, powerful women in one room at the same time," Greene said, clad in a floral embroidered Valentino dress that she was "obsessed" with. The starlet agreed with THR senior style writer Merle Ginsberg, who penned the magazine's "Power of Style" piece, that power and style indeed go hand in hand.

"Style is empowering," Greene said. "There's something about clothes that you feel good in that gives you that extra boost of confidence. I really love that there's a focus on that within our industry now."

The room of power ladies nibbled a light lunch of kale salad, chicken breast roulade provencal (or foraged mushroom risotto for the vegetarians of the group) and gold-dusted vegan carob truffles for dessert. Some even enjoyed a glass (or two) of Perrier Jouer.

All agreed on one very important point: when getting dressed, comfort is key. "I like to be stylish and comfortable, [which] usually starts with what my day looks like," said Langley, wearing a Tom Ford sweater.

Bejaria, who wore a Michael Kors top and Diane von Furstenburg slacks, echoed the same thought: "[Before coming here], I went with, 'will I be comfortable in this?' Before and after this, I'll be at meetings so I brought my Indian bangles to spruce it up a little bit. Ultimately, it was about being comfortable." The colorful arm candy, it turned out, were procured from the Cerritos vintage boutique owned by Bejaria's mother.

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Cardoso, who mixed a Vince top with Topshop patterned pants and Christian Dior pumps, concurred. "For these kinds of events, I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in and that show my personality."

Flanking the edges of the white table-filled room were a trio of models clad in Valentino's sheer panel shift dresses and black and white glittering tuxedo-inspired gowns perfect for impending awards season work obligations.

"That top is unbelievable," cooed UTA motion picture agent and partner Blair Kohan to Dreamworks Animation producer Latifa Ouaou, who wore an understated feathered creation by producer Stephanie Danan's Co label.

"I just went to her spring preview and grabbed it off the rack," Ouaou said of the find, just before jumping up to reveal a pair of sophisticated black wide leg pants that streamlined the ensemble. "I told her, I'm leaving with this. And I did."

As Kohan (who planned on changing from her maroon-hued Prada slacks into more casual maroon-hued Rag & Bone jeans after lunch) and Intuition Productions president Keri Selig traded tales about "the best on-call tailor in town," Valentino store manager Kathy Gohari was busy showing off Smulders' killer stems.

"I can't stop thinking about your legs in that dress!" Gohari exclaimed to the room, as the actress stood and smiled in a red pleated Valentino number.

Once the last vegan truffle was consumed and guests were given boxes of macarons celebrating THR's soon-to-launch style website, Pret-a-Reporter, a selection of guests -- including THR editorial director Janice Min -- stayed to peruse the shop's shoe selection in an effort to support Dress for Success, the non-profit professional women's dress organization that received 10 percent of the afternoon's proceeds.

Comfort may have been the golden rule of the day. But Universal's Langley had one parting piece of fashion sage:

"It's all about the accessories."

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