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'Person of Interest' Detained in LA Car Arson Case ABC News A Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter is shown at a fire in West Hollywood, Calif., on Friday Dec.30, 2011. (Mike Meadows/AP Photo) Twelve more suspected arson fires broke out early Monday in the Los Angeles area, and a "person of interest" was ... See all stories on this topic » ABC News

Hollywood's take on Obama: Less gushing this time Chicago Sun-Times (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File) NEW YORK — Hollywood loves the Next Big Thing, and four years ago, that was Barack Obama, the equivalent of a breakout movie star. "He is 'The One,'" said Oprah Winfrey, his biggest and most influential celebrity ... See all stories on this topic »

Celebrity leftovers: The fascination with crumbs stars leave behind BBC News Why are some people drawn to such celebrity ephemera? It's one of the great cultural phenomena of the 21st Century - the appetite for learning about famous people's lives, no matter how banal the details. Gossip magazines and newspapers are stuffed ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

When Hollywood excludes girls, how can Lego market to them? San Francisco Chronicle (blog) But it's Hollywood's appropriation of the story that makes it massively popular with a new generation, grounding it in pop culture and inciting the creation of a slew of toys timed to hit stores around the same time the movie hits theaters. ... See all stories on this topic » San Francisco Chronicle (blog)

Ted Haggard talks scandal, 'Celebrity Wife Swap' CNN (blog) Audiences will soon see him, his wife and their kids on ABC's "Celebrity Wife Swap." So why would Haggard want to enter the spotlight again? "So many people are fixated on the scandal as though it is the only thing in [my family's lives] and actually ... See all stories on this topic »

Cruise's 'Mission' stays on top with $31.3 million as Hollywood has solid ... Washington Post The Paramount release led a solid New Year's weekend as Hollywood managed fair business to end a sluggish year on a more promising note for 2012. Domestic revenues closed out at $10.22 billion for 2011, down 3.4 percent from 2010's, according to ... See all stories on this topic »

Hollywood stuntman no longer a fall guy at home in Nevada Las Vegas Review-Journal By SANDI HOOVER CARSON CITY -- Hollywood stuntman Bruce Barbour pauses in front of an enormous flat-screen TV in his Carson City living room to rewind a 1990 clip from Glen Ford's last Western, "Border Shootout." When Barbour's character taunts Ford's, ... See all stories on this topic »

Classic Hollywood: Dean Tavoularis give films an artist's touch Los Angeles Times The Oscar-winning production designer and painter has brought his stylish eye to collaborations with such directors as Francis Ford Coppola and Arthur Penn. Dean Tavoularis at his home. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times) By Susan King, Los Angeles Times ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times