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'Wild Target' MPAA rating: PG-13 for violence, some sexual content and brief strong language Running time: 1 hour, 38 minutes Playing: ArcLight, Hollywood; Landmark, West LA

'You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger' MPAA rating: R for some language Running time: 1 hour, 38 minutes Playing: ArcLight Hollywood; Landmark Cinemas, West L.A.; AMC Century City

When a tricked-out concrete skate plaza designed in part by local skateboard pros opened at a West Los Angeles city park in July, it was a dream come true for sk8er dudes and dolls. But apartment dwellers across the street from the Sawtelle-area Stoner Skate Plaza at Stoner and Nebraska avenues say the slides and grinds of skateboarders who disregard posted hours have shredded their dreams of a good night's sleep. Forget about a Sunday afternoon nap. With the number of urban skate parks and plazas on the rise in Los Angeles and elsewhere, such clashes over carving and kickflips are likely to become more common.

When even fellow developers and local politicians looking to generate jobs call your proposed project way too big, it's probably time to go back to the drawing board. That appears to be the case with the plan for Bundy Village & Medical Park, which earlier this year prompted street protests, petition drives and hundreds of "Fight Bundy Village" lawn signs from Westchester to Pacific Palisades. The Los Angeles Planning Commission in March approved the proposed 1.3-million-square-foot complex of medical offices, retail stores and housing despite residents' and business concerns about increased traffic in the busy Olympic Boulevard corridor.

The federal Department of Veterans Affairs has approved $20 million in funding to convert a little-used building at the West Los Angeles VA campus into therapeutic housing for chronically homeless veterans — a plan that has been years in the making. The action was jointly announced Monday by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), U.S. Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) and Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky. Yaroslavsky said the commitment marked a milestone that "has been a long time coming."

‘Paper Man' MPAA rating: R for language and a scene of sexuality Running time: 1 hour, 50 minutes Playing: At the Landmark, West L.A., and Edwards University Town Center 6 in Irvine

Popular online shopping search engine Shopzilla Inc. has agreed to stay in its Westside offices after Los Angeles officials backed off a plan to raise city taxes on Internet businesses, the company said Friday. Shopzilla has renewed its lease for two floors in the Westside Media Center, an office complex at West Olympic Boulevard and South Bundy Drive. Terms of the agreement with landlord Kilroy Realty Corp. were not released, but industry experts familiar with the deal for the 53,000-square-foot space said it was worth as much as $15 million over five to seven years.

'Neil Young Trunk Show' MPAA rating: Unrated Running time: 1 hour, 22 minutes Playing: At the Nuart, West L.A.

Robert Rosebrock didn't see any action during his two-year stint as an Army draftee in the mid-1960s. He was a corporal who worked as a clerk and a driver for the commanding general at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, after all. But he's made up for it with his two-year skirmish with officials at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Brentwood. For 103 Sundays in a row, Rosebrock has led a group of military veterans in a protest of what they claim is the VA's commercialization of the sprawling Wilshire Boulevard medical center's grounds.

Herbert Zeitlin , a longtime educational administrator who was president of West Los Angeles College in the 1970s, died March 2 of colon cancer at his home in Woodland Hills, said his daughter, Joyce Zeitlin Harris. He was 91. -- times staff and wire reports news.obits@latimes.com