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Before he became executive director of the L.A. Police Commission, Django Sibley was a beat cop in Hull, Britain. Like most of his colleagues, he didn’t carry a gun.
Django Sibley, who spent about two decades in the LAPD inspector general’s office, will be the next executive director of the Los Angeles Police Commission.
Movies
Inside ‘Elvis’ director Baz Luhrmann and Austin Butler’s painstaking re-creation of an iconic performance, weeks before Presley’s tragic death.
One police commissioner broke ranks from her colleagues by arguing that a proposed salary of nearly half a million dollars was too high for the next LAPD chief given the city’s financial constraints.
Van Halen, “Unchained”
Bradley Cooper says chairs on a film set are a downer. Other famed filmmakers including Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino have banned phones on set.
Books
‘Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks’ ranks No. 39 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it wasn’t just a taxonomy. It was a reclamation.
Television
The veteran character actor from ‘The Shield’ and ‘Justified’ is having a standout year, playing the Ghoul in Prime Video’s ‘Fallout’ and a role in Season 3 of ‘The White Lotus.’