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Taste Art In West Hollywood: Opening Gala At The London West Hollywood
The restaurant Gordon Ramsay at The London played art gallery last night for an intimate celebration of fine art and haute cuisine. Four works by Colombian artist Fernando Botero were on display in the restaurant’s front room, on loan for the evening from The Tasende Gallery in West Hollywood. The works were accompanied by four courses of food and wine by Chef Anthony Keene and Sommelier Jeremy Roberts for The Avenues first Taste Art event of October.To prepare for the event, gallery owner Betina Tasende showed Chef Anthony Keene a selection of images of Botero’s art, currently on display right now at her gallery. Keene chose the works that spoke to him the most, and he based the evening’s dishes on one piece each. At the dinner, when asked about the connection between fine art and fine dining, Chef Keene humbly declined to compare his food to Botero’s art. “The words ‘fine dining’ seem a little pretentious.

Hollywood Shooting: 2 Killed In Hollywood Clothing Store Shooting
Via KTLA HOLLYWOOD — Two people have been shot and killed at a clothing store in Hollywood. The shooting took place inside a T-Shirt warehouse on Sunset Boulevard just before 1:00 this afternoon, according to the LAPD.   Sunset Boulevard has been closed in both directions at Serrano Avenue while police conduct and investigation. No word if anyone else has been hurt, although an ambulance has been called to the scene. Distraught family members were escorted out of the building by detectives. Investigators say both victims are men and that the shooting appears to a murder suicide..

Osama: over to you, Hollywood
Who will be the key players in the blockbuster that’s sure to come–Given Hollywood’s eagerness to meditate on Osama bin Laden’s biggest atrocities, you can guarantee that it won’t hold back now his death has gifted it the chance for some sweet catharsis.Kathryn Bigelow is already making a project called Kill Bin Laden in time for the 2013 Oscars, but this is problematic. Not only will everyone have forgotten about the raid by then, but what if Bigelow decides to make it ” shock horror ” intellectual–No, to properly capitalise on the current global mood, we need a populist director such as Michael Bay (The Rock, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon) to turn this weekend’s events into a kneejerk, all-American blockbuster to be released on Independence Day.Now that Barack Obama has shed his bookish image, he can be played by someone tough such as Denzel Washington or ” better yet ” Wesley Snipes in his full Blade get-up (pictured). Then there are the US soldiers who raided the compound ” perhaps Kiefer Sutherland (Jack Bauer), Matt Damon (Jason Bourne), one of the Transformers, and the retired WWF tag team Legion of Doom– For comic relief, Sohaib Athar ” the man who inadvertently livetweeted the raid ” could be played by Omid Djalili.Speaking of which, there’s a prime opportunity to use the technology that created the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network to allow Clyde, the orangutan from Every Which Way But Loose, to portray both Donald Trump and George W Bush. Finally, there’s Bin Laden himself; a role for Catherine Zeta Jones or the little girl from the Narnia films–Part-24, part-Rambo, all-Kickass ” and with a soundtrack by Bruce Springsteen, John Cougar Mellencamp and every single country singer ever ” this film will make you laugh and cry and whoop, and contemplate both the horrific nature of what actually happened and the cell-based organisational structure of al-Qaida . ..

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