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Ousted by Los Angles financial giant TCW Group, star bond fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach on Monday turned to a firm whose executives had their own bitter breakup with TCW nearly 15 years ago. Gundlach said that he was launching an investment firm called DoubleLine with help from Oaktree Capital Management, a major global investor in bonds and private equity. L.A.-based Oaktree was formed by Howard Marks, Bruce Karsh and a handful of other TCW money managers in 1995, in a move that TCW founder Robert Day at the time branded as "disloyal at the very least."

UC Santa Barbara, according to old stereotypes, may still conjure up the image of a lush campus by the beach, where students can squeeze in a few hours of surfing after class and live in a nearby neighborhood that is one of the nation's best-known party zones. But in reality, UC Santa Barbara over the last three decades increasingly has become a center of scientific research, and its move in that direction was strengthened Saturday with the announcement of a $50-million private donation to energy efficiency research and engineering programs.

The dealer had heard about the two young artists who spent the occasional evening ransacking a hotel room, ripping apart phone books, writing on the walls and getting stoned. Even the artists weren't sure this was art. But Jeffrey Deitch was. He handed them keys to his SoHo gallery and for almost a week they crammed it with 2,000 shredded phone books, and stabbed a broomstick and broken wine bottles in the walls for "Nest," a show that was to remain there for a month. It didn't even survive the raucous opening night party.

Gabriel Kahane, best known as an indie singer-songwriter, was his own charismatic singer-songwriter Saturday night in the West Coast premiere of his affecting "Crane Palimpsest" at the Alex Theatre. As he does in a club, he used a microphone and wore jeans. He accompanied himself on guitar and piano. He also had the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra on hand, and he gratefully used everything at his disposal to merge pop and new music sensibilities naturally and unpretentiously. Composer-performers who write orchestral pieces for themselves as soloists can these days be anything they like.

DoubleLine Capital, formed by star bond fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach after he was fired by L.A. money management firm TCW Group last month, on Tuesday registered to launch its first three mutual funds for individual investors. Gundlach, who is in a vicious legal battle with TCW, hopes to lure investors from the TCW funds he had managed for the last decade, including TCW's retail flagship, Total Return Bond fund. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, DoubleLine applied to launch its own Total Return Bond fund, which like TCW Total Return Bond would invest primarily in mortgage-backed bonds.

Jeffrey Deitch stepped into a gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Monday where a photographer was set to take his portrait in front of a painting in the shape of a bull's-eye by Kenneth Noland. But Deitch, 57, had another idea for a backdrop: He suggested "A Lot to Like," James Rosenquist's massive 1962 canvas that occupied another wall in the gallery. "Jim's a friend," Deitch said. The offhand remark illustrates the assets and potential drawbacks that New Yorker Deitch, appointed Monday as MOCA's new director, brings to his new role in Los Angeles and the larger art world.

The Scene: Tuesday night's premiere of "Jeffrey" at the Westwood Playhouse. The comedy about love in the age of AIDS was a big hit off Broadway last year and has arrived in Los Angeles for an eight-week run. After the performance, guests moved to an outdoor courtyard for dessert and a chance to rehash the show, which received good word-of-mouth from all quarters.

Why does the Museum of Contemporary Art's board of trustees dislike art museums? That's the uncomfortable question hanging in the air as the nation's premier contemporary art museum names Jeffrey Deitch, 57, its fourth director in 30 years. In selecting new leadership, trustees shunned candidates from an international museum roster that has grown vast in recent decades. Instead they reached deep into the New York art market to find a director for the critically admired, financially strapped institution.

There were more witnesses when Jeffrey and Kathryn Elliott renewed their vows in the lobby of a doughnut shop than at their first wedding in Hawaii. This time, instead of family and friends, the ceremony was observed by a ring of delighted tourists snapping pictures on their cellphones while a skinny "voodoo priest" in battered Chuck Taylors and a mask fashioned from a paper bag officiated over their declaration of love. The couple ? she's a technical writer for Microsoft; he's a management consultant ?

Jeffrey A. Busby has joined Brandes Investment Management as a portfolio administrator.

Jeffrey Chandler, an influential member of the family that built the Los Angeles Times and the last person with the Chandler name to play a significant role in the newspaper's ownership, has died. He was 70. Chandler, who had been a radio station owner and real estate developer in the San Diego area, died Sunday at his home in Rancho Santa Fe after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer, his family announced. Long a maverick who sought to return The Times to its conservative roots, Chandler was one of three representatives of his family on the Tribune Co. board of directors who forced a sale of the company to a group headed by Chicago real estate investor Sam Zell in 2007.

The gig: As president of Warner Bros. International Television, Jeffrey Schlesinger, 56, oversees sales of Warner television and movie products abroad and oversees a dozen WB-owned production companies in Britain and the Netherlands. International sales of Warner content generates billions of dollars a year in revenue for parent company Time Warner Inc. Tuning in. As a child growing up in suburban Philadelphia, Schlesinger was obsessed with TV. Frustrated with having only a couple of channels, his family took matters into their own hands.

Jeffrey Stenroos, the former Los Angeles school police officer who staged his own shooting last year in a bizarre hoax that caused three schools to be locked down and forced the closure of streets across the western San Fernando Valley, will pay the city a lump sum of $309,000 in restitution, authorities said Monday. In exchange for the restitution, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Richard Kirschner agreed to let Stenroos post bail from Los Angeles County jail pending the outcome of an appeal.

DreamWorks Animation Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg has sold a mansion in Beverly Hills for $9,283,453. The contemporary Mediterranean, built in 1985, sits on a half-acre with a two-story guesthouse, a swimming pool and a cabana with a kitchenette. The 9,173-square-foot house features a two-story-tall foyer, a step-down living room, a library with a wet bar, a theater with a wet bar, a gym and four en suite bedrooms for a total of five bedrooms and six bathrooms. DreamWorks, which created the "Shrek" movies, recently announced plans to open a studio in Shanghai.

Former Newport-Mesa Unified School District Supt. Jeffrey Hubbard took to Twitter last week in a quest to clear his reputation. After being convicted of two felony counts of misappropriation of public funds related to his post as Beverly Hills schools chief, Hubbard confirmed that he was using social media to expose what he termed a wrongful prosecution and conviction and to call attention to others suffering similar circumstances. "In coming weeks I will be exposing the lies and hypocrisy of the BHUSD, a greedy ex-superintendent, outright lies by the LA DA — bye for now," he tweeted Wednesday afternoon.

The former schools chief in Beverly Hills was sentenced Thursday to 60 days in jail for misappropriating public funds. Jeffrey Hubbard, who was the school superintendent in Beverly Hills before being hired to run the Newport-Mesa Unified School District, was ordered to serve his sentence in the Los Angeles County Jail. Hubbard, 55, was convicted in January on two felony counts of misappropriation of public money while he was running the Beverly Hills Unified School District.

"Daaaaaaaddddd!!!!!! I hooked myself!!!!!" The panicked cry echoed off the nearby cliffs and sent me racing into the surf to my 6-year-old son Jeffrey, who had managed to impale himself during his fishing debut. I gently pulled the hook out, a few tears were shed and he rebounded quickly and popped back into the surf trailing his line behind him. This adventure was prompted by "The Kids Book of Fishing and Tackle Box" by writer-illustrator Michael J. Rosen (Workman Publishing: $12.

"Four Stories About the Life of a Coffin" is a promising but slight attempt by writers-actors Stephen Ingle and Gary Davis to build four connected scenes into a saga about a coffin--what it contains, who grieves over it, and (most interestingly) who handles it. The premise is so charged, even inspired, that it's a puzzlement how the results are so half-baked. The first scene perfectly encapsulates the problems.

The Motion Picture & Television Fund has launched a Hollywood fundraising campaign to generate $350 million in support for the charity and its nursing home that was once slated to close. On Thursday the fund announced that DreamWorks Animation Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg had already helped secure more than $200 million in pledges and donations that include his own contribution and those of Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg, Steve Bing, Casey Wasserman and George Clooney. Katzenberg and Clooney are spearheading the campaign efforts.

Jeffrey Zaslow, a Wall Street Journal reporter with a flair for inspirational stories who produced three nonfiction bestsellers, beginning with the 2008 book "The Last Lecture" about life lessons from a dying man, was killed in a car crash Friday. He was 53. Zaslow's death was announced on the website of Detroit's Fox 2 News, where his wife, Sherry Margolis, is an anchor. Zaslow was driving on a snow-covered highway in northern Michigan when he lost control and was hit by a truck.