American Teen | It might better be called American Middle-Class White Midwest bi13581855 Besides some scenes that appear staged for the camera, the Nanette Burstein's film stumbles a few other ways, most notably how it's so thoroughly unoriginal and reminiscent of just about every senior-year-of-high-school documentary you can name. It also feels uncomfortably like those silly MTV half-docs Laguna and The Hills, and Burstein's cameras seem to be too lucky too often. I'm ..

Lauren Conrad - Conrad Forced Out Over Fame (ContactMusic) bi13581855 THE HILLS star LAUREN CONRAD giving up her Hollywood home because she has become too famous for her neighbours. The reality TV star-turned-style icon has told ..

Conrad forced out over fame (world entertainment news via Yahoo! UK & Ireland bi13581855 The Hills star Lauren Conrad giving up her Hollywood home because she has become too famous for her neighbours

The Hills - The Complete Third Season (DVD Talk) bi13581855 If a tree falls the forest, and no one there to hear it, does make a sound? What the true meaning of life? What came first, Cher or the dawn of time? Many questions plague our mere existence, adding a level of ambiguity all surrounding events

GOLDEN GIRLS (New York Post) bi13581855 SEEING double? How about triple? You're not going crazy. You're watching television, where tall, thin, gorgeous and ditzy girls are as plentiful as they are identical. From the beautiful blondes on the "The Hills" to the stunning brunettes on..

Director: 'American Teen' documents 'real' high school life (The Pantagraph) bi13581855 The rites of teen passage have inspired feature films as diverse as ?American Beauty? and ?American Pie.? Nanette Burstein?s documentary ?American Teen? demonstrates that a nonfiction account of adolescence as engrossing as any scripted drama

Our Picks for the week of 8/14-8/18 (The Source Weekly) bi13581855 Mosley Wotta CD Release Party thursday 14 Mosley Wotta, aka Person People?s The Rook, aka Bend?s walking talent show Jason Graham drops new buzz-generating EP entitled ?Scrap Mettle? and throws a big ol? party some special friends to celebrate. The EP, consisting of five tracks of Wotta?s now well-known precise and cerebral delivery shows the local hip-hop mastermind at best: ..

High school: Beyond the labels (The Sacramento Bee) bi13581855 The Princess, the Jock, the Rebel, the Brain and the Basket Case. The film "American Teen" more acccurate than "reality" shows like "Laguna ," left, says Megan Krizmanich, one of the teens profiled the new documentary. "I used to watch 'Laguna ' and compare my life to it," she says

Now that the ceremonies are over, let the athletes shine (The Telegraph) bi13581855 BEIJING - The morning after the night before, jogging through the streets at 6 o'clock, a city where history just happened. She was yawning herself awake on Saturday, perhaps slightly hung over, maybe more relieved that the Games now can begin. Finally

Olympics: Let athletes be the story (Orange County Register) bi13581855 Miller column: Here's hoping athletic competition - not politics - dominate the headlines for the next two weeks

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Echo Park, Santa Monica Beach honored as 'Great Places' - Los Angeles Times bi13581855 LAist Echo Park, Santa Monica honored as 'Great Places' Los Angeles Times, CA - 4 hours ago By Cara Mia DiMassa Times Staff Writer The Santa Monica and the neighborhood of Echo Park are being singled out as "Great Places America" by the Santa Monica Also Named a Top 10 Great Public Space LAist Nick or Treat(TM) at California's Great America Celebrates MarketWatch all 11 news articles..

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