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Nicole LaPorte

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Author of Guilty Admissions and The Men Who Would Be King: Movies, Moguls and a Company Called DreamWorks.
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Nicole LaPorte is a journalist living in Venice, Calif., and the author of The Men Who Would Be King: Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks.

She writes the monthly Prototype column for The New York Times Sunday Business section, and is a frequent contributor to The Daily Beast/Newsweek, where she was formerly the Senior West Coast reporter.

After a four-year stint at The New Yorker, working in what was then known as the “typing pool,” and later as an assistant to senior editors, LaPor…

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The Hell of Runaway Production on Families: ‘Not a Way to Live’

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Nicole LaPorte wrote about L.A.’s struggling real estate market, the battle over Brentwood Country Club’s barbed-wire fence, the spec script market comeback and how Hollywood DEI is now D-I-E. When it came time for Alex’s daughter to pick an outfit for prom, Alex was 2,000 miles away, in an apartment in Toronto, watching some of her children’s biggest moments via FaceTime.
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The shocking budget disaster hitting one of L.A.'s ritziest school districts.

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By Nicole LaPorte
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Sophia Strauss left and Sarah Hoffmeister, right, celebrate following their graduation from Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach, CA, and a walk along the Strand path from Hermosa Beach Pier to the Manhattan Beach Pier, right, on Thursday, June 11, 2020. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) MANHATTAN BEACH EPITOMIZES THE American dream, SoCal style. Here, Aviator Nation isn’t so much a brand as a way of life, worn alike by volleyball moms and their kin.
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What really happened during the $100 million Brink’s truck stop heist

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By Nicole LaPorte
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