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- Los Angeles is the largest city in California in both population and area with more than 3.6 million people in the city and more than 9 million in LA County. In the Athens/Inglewood area, there are 4,000 more women than men while there are twice as many men to women in the Civic Center/Elysian Park area. Women also outnumber men by about 3,000 in the Mid-Wilshire area, where all the trade including Moving Pictures are based, while in Hollywood men are estimated to outnumber women by almost 4,000. Overall women outnumber men in LA by 20,000.
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- The best guides to what is going on in-and-around Los Angeles during the AFM are the daily Calendar section of the Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly, a weekly freebie that can be picked up today at most bars, restaurants and, strangely enough, given that it is free, book stores.
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- Large foreign communities in LA, which may help sales companies in their pitch to US distributors, include the Germans, with a local population of 937,000; the Brits with 710,000, many of them in Santa Monica; the Irish with 646,000; the Italians, who should be doing their bit for the Il Postino box-office, with 308,000; and the French with 206,000.
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- Hot openings in LA this Friday include David Ward's comedy, Down Periscope, with Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, Rob Schneider, Harry Dean Stanton and Bruce Dern; and Jon Avnet's romance, Up Close & Personal, with Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer.
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- Last weekend's big opener in LA was Stanley Tong's Rumble In the Bronx with Jackie Chan which rang up a weekend gross nationally of US$9.8 million, enough to knock John Woo's Broken Arrow, with John Travolta and Christian Slater, off the top slot which it had held for two weeks.
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