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EXCLUSIVE: After 38 years as an Oscar-season fixture at the Beverly Hilton, the annual Nominees Luncheon is on the road to Hollywood. I had heard the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made the decision to move the event, a major one during the Oscar season, to the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland…

Voters in Beverly Hills soundly rejected a ballot initiative yesterday that would have allowed the Beverly Hilton to build a 37-story condo-tower next to the hotel. Measure HH was defeated by nearly 56% of those casting ballots — 5,510 to 4,373 — although some absentee and provisional ballots remain to be counted. The…

California's Fair Political Practices Commission has found "no evidence" to support the allegation that the Wanda Group used foreign money to influence the outcome of a local ballot initiative in Beverly Hills in a dispute over who should have the right to develop a piece of property there. The Wanda Group, the…

A union representing hotel workers at the Beverly Hilton has accused the Wanda Group, the Chinese multinational conglomerate that owns AMC, the world's largest cinema chain, of using foreign money to influence the outcome of a local ballot initiative in Beverly Hills. Read the press release here. The allegation is the…

The clouds are looking heavy and gray over the Golden Globes this afternoon. After the rare L.A. rain this morning, things were supposed to clear up by showtime, but it's not looking that way over at the Beverly Hilton. Our folks in the field tell me the red carpet is dry, but the ride up to the hotel and the atrium…