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‘DICE ARE Taliban

LOADED’
IN UGLY
WILDFIRE
SEASON
California’s millionth
acre of the year burns,
with the windiest
months still ahead.
By Hayley Smith,
Lila Seidman and
Hailey Branson-Potts
3With more than a mil-
lion acres burned fairly early
in the fire season, California
is entering uncharted terri-
tory as the record dry
conditions that have fueled
so much destruction will
soon combine with seasonal
winds that fire officials fear
cracks
down as
protests
erupt
Militants open fire at
flag-raising event. The
overnight rulers face
new concern: cash.
By Marcus Yam
and Laura King
KABUL, Afghanistan —
The Taliban on Wednesday
faced the first known street
Justin Sullivan Getty Images protests against the mili-
FLAMES FROM the Dixie fire cast a glow in the hills near Milford, Calif. More than 1.3 million acres have tant group’s lightning-quick
been scorched this summer, as warming temperatures and worsening drought fuel the fires’ explosive growth. takeover of Afghanistan,
and disorder again erupted
near Kabul’s international
airport, where armed insur-
gents violently rebuffed

Drought dims family’s Eden

will bring unprecedented
dangers.
Officials have attributed
warming temperatures and
worsening drought to the ex-
plosive growth of fires,
mostly in the mountains of
Northern California, this
summer.
And while the fire-prone
state has seen gusty winds
this season, many experts
fear that the impending ar-
rival of strong Santa Anas
and Diablos — which typi-
cally move in around mid-
September — could mark
even more misery for weary
residents and beleaguered
fire crews.
“We’re coming into the
high fire season, and right
now we’re on our knees,”
said climatologist Bill
Patzert. “The weather is the
wild card, and the weather
patterns have shifted. Look-
ing ahead here, it’s hard to
be optimistic.”
Already, strong winds
caused a fire north of Sacra-
mento to explode, burning
through one town and
spurring evacuations. A sec-
ond fire raged in Lake
County, destroying homes.
[See Wildfires, A14]
‘Without water, you are nothing,’ rancher says after
two years of watching his Madera County land shrivel
By Priscella Vega
MADERA COUNTY, Calif. —
Fourteen years ago, Heriberto
Sevilla came across a ranch on the
outskirts of Madera set among
fields of stalk grass and bright wild-
flowers. Pepper trees dotted the
meadow, and children played in the
natural lakes created by heavy
rains.
It was the perfect place to raise a
big family. So the 51-year-old native
of Chilapa, Mexico, bought it and
made sure the property included a
functioning well.
On spring days, he’d lounge in
the backyard. Heriberto taught his
daughters how to ride horses. They
helped him feed the chickens and
sheep. Goats kept the area tidy,
munching on grass. When fruit in
Mel Melcon Los Angeles Times the trees was ripe, he proudly
ARIANNA Sevilla and her father, Heriberto, borrow water from showed his children how to harvest
their neighbor’s line to fill a trough for their animals this month. [See Drought, A8]
Afghans trying to make their
way inside to board outgoing
flights.
President Biden, in a tele-
vised interview, said U.S.
forces would stay in Af-
ghanistan beyond their
scheduled Aug. 31 departure
if necessary to evacuate any
Americans wanting to leave.
“If there are American
citizens left, we’re going to
stay until we get them all
out,” Biden said in an inter-
view with ABC News.
But the administration
made no such pledge for
Afghans desperate to flee
because they fear Taliban
retribution over their ties to
the U.S. military, or others
considered vulnerable be-
cause of work with Western
organizations or advocacy
groups.
Three days after having
overrun the capital, Kabul,
and driven President Ashraf
Ghani into exile, the Taliban
grappled with elements of
basic governance, including
a cash-flow crunch in this
heavily aid-dependent coun-
try.
Ghani, 72, who had
dropped out of sight since
fleeing Kabul on Sunday,
resurfaced in the United Ar-
ab Emirates, which an-
nounced his presence in a

Moms may pay for

terse communique. The
United Arab Emirates is a
close American ally.
The deposed president, a

stepping back from scholar and technocrat, is

now widely reviled in his
homeland for having slipped
away as the Taliban closed

jobs amid COVID in. He said he left to prevent

[See Taliban, A4]

little choice but to leave their

By Don Lee
WASHINGTON — Moth-
ers with outside employ-
ment, among the hardest-
hit by the COVID-19 reces-
sion, are returning to the
workforce in impressive
numbers, aided by the re-
opening of schools and day-
care programs.
But the pandemic has ex-
acted a heavy toll on millions
of moms in terms of job secu-
rity, pay equity and long-
term career opportunities —
losses many will probably
jobs or take on reduced re-
sponsibilities.
In significant numbers,
they endured pay cuts, re-
duced hours, diminished re-
tirement benefits and lost
promotions.
And contrary to the hope
that working from home
would make it easier for
women to balance the new
demands placed on them,
it’s teleworking moms who
may be struggling the most
or falling out of the labor
force, said Misty Heggeness,
a senior advisor and re-
Obstacles to their
flight from Kabul
President Biden pledges
that no Americans will
be left behind in Af-
ghanistan. WORLD, A3
Vaccine rules
for city workers
Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times L.A. City Council
A TRUE ZERO station in Aliso Viejo. Getting stranded is a constant risk for approves mandate for
hydrogen car drivers because stations often malfunction or run out of fuel. full inoculation against
COVID-19 by October.

Hydrogen car vision looks

never recover. search economist at the U.S. CALIFORNIA, B1
Because of increased Census Bureau.
child-care responsibilities “They are getting ex-
brought on by school and tremely burned out, because

like an expensive dead end

day-care center closings, in addition to trying to figure
many women say they had [See Mothers, A14]

stranded with an empty

By Evan Halper
UNITED STATES OF tank on the highway and
stressed out by the repeated
Soon after
Munoz joined the trail-
Maribel

blazing ranks of American

owners of hydrogen cars — a
CALIFORNIA
No state has had a bigger
fuel shortages Mirai drivers
call “hydropocalypses.” She
struggled not to scream at
her phone after driving miles Public Storage
Alex Orlov

group that exists only in Cal-
ifornia — she began to fear
that the low price of the tax-
payer-subsidized Toyota
Mirai she purchased came
with a tremendous cost.
“You can’t have a job and
own this car,” said the 49-
Jeff Chiu Associated Press year-old clothing designer
GREATER parenting demands like home-schooling from Azusa. “Finding fuel for
have put many moms’ careers on hold amid COVID. it becomes your job. It is con-
stant anxiety. I told the guy
at Toyota, ‘If I have a stroke,
Pandemic priorities: Biden outlines plan for booster it’s on you.’ ”
shots and other steps to combat COVID-19. NATION, A6 Munoz found herself
impact on the direction of
the United States than
California, a prolific
incubator and exporter of
outside-the-box policies
and ideas. This occasional
series examines what that
has meant for the state
and the country, and how
far Washington is willing to
go to spread California’s
agenda as the state’s own
struggles threaten its
standing as the nation’s
think tank.
to stations that a hydrogen
fueling app said were work-
ing just fine, only to find
them out of order.
These are the kinds of
hassles that can come with
being an early adopter. But
in the case of California’s
“Hydrogen Highway” — a
network of fueling stations
then-Gov. Arnold Schwarz-
enegger dreamed would lure
masses of Americans to
hydrogen vehicles — even
[See Hydrogen, A7]
billionaire dies
B. Wayne Hughes Sr.,
87, pioneered the self-
storage industry and
became USC’s largest
donor. CALIFORNIA, B1
Weather
Fog clearing.
L.A. Basin: 80/64. B6

BUSINESS INSIDE: Disney unveils new app to let visitors skip park lines — for a fee. A10
A2 T H U R S DAY , AU G U S T 19 , 2 0 21
Why are booster shots necessary?
Scientists point to the rise of the Delta variant coupled with a natural waning of immunity
By Melissa Healy
From the pandemic’s
earliest days, scientists have
counted on COVID-19 vac-
cines to lead us out of the
global health emergency.
But they’ve also been aware
that the immunity provided
by vaccines might not last
very long.
Mounting evidence in
support of that suspicion
prompted the Biden admin-
istration’s endorsement of
booster shots Wednesday as
a way to shore up Ameri-
cans’ biological defenses
against the coronavirus, es-
pecially the highly transmis-
sible Delta variant.
If the Food and Drug
Administration determines
that boosters are safe and ef-
fective, third doses of the
vaccines made by Pfizer-
BioNTech and Moderna will
be available the week of
Sept. 20.
The shots should be ad-
ministered to fully vacci-
nated adults eight months
after they received their sec-
ond dose, the White House
said Wednesday. They’ll be
made available to Ameri-
cans at 40,000 local pharma-
cies and another 40,000 ap-
proved vaccination sites,
said Jeff Zients, the Biden
administration’s coordina-
tor of pandemic response.
Public health officials re-
leased a welter of research
showing that the two vac-
cines most widely used in
the United States have be-
come less effective over time
at blocking infections
among fully vaccinated
Beekeepers in Turkey see a grim future
Wildfires have laid
waste to hives and the
pine forests on which
the nation’s honey
industry depends.
By Zeynep Bilginsoy
ISTANBUL, Turkey —
The wildfires in Turkey have
left little behind, turning
green forests into ashen,
barren hills. The destruction
is being intensely felt by Tur-
key’s beekeepers, who have
lost thousands of hives as
well as the pine trees and the
insects their bees depend
on.
Twelve days of deadly
wildfires have dealt a major
blow to Turkey’s honey in-
dustry and even its longer-
term prospects appear
bleak.
Nearly all of the residents
of Osmaniye, a neighbor-
hood in the southwestern
Mediterranean resort of
Marmaris, are beekeepers.
Their beehives once looked
out to the green hills of
Mugla province, where Mar-
maris is located, and pro-
vided the main income for
many families.
Ali Kaya, 33, is a second-
generation beekeeper. After
his father’s death, he took
over the honey business his
father had set up in 1979. Yet
this month Kaya lost 250
hives in Osmaniye to the
wildfires, as well as the en-
tire ecosystem upon which
his bees depend, so just buy-
ing new hives will not solve
his economic woes.
He says the entire region
is in shock.
“There is nothing left
here, no trees left. Animals
burned. Some people’s
homes and roofs burned,” he
said. “I have no idea what
we’ll do. Our heads are all
messed up, our mental out-
look destroyed. We can’t
think clearly here in Os-
maniye.”
The red pine trees en-
demic to Anatolia span the
Taurus mountain system.
They can be seen along Tur-
key’s coast from the eastern
Mediterranean all the way
to the northern Aegean Sea,
including a great number
around Mugla. The pines
provide a welcoming habitat
for scores of shrubs and
make an ideal environment
for bees.
Bees in Mugla produce a
special pine-based honey.
Unlike most of the honey in
the world, which is created
from the nectars of flowers,
bees in Mugla collect the se-
S L AT I M E S . C O M
BASED ON several recent vaccine studies, officials said they were determined to
avert a rise in COVID-related hospitalizations and deaths among the vaccinated.
adults of all ages.
Officials made clear they
suspect there are two factors
at work: a natural waning of
immunity in some of those
vaccinated and the rising
dominance of the highly
transmissible Delta variant
in the United States starting
in early May.
The new studies don’t
measure how much each fac-
tor has eroded the effective-
ness of the Pfizer and Mod-
erna vaccines. But however
it breaks down, officials said
they were determined to
avert a rise in COVID-re-
lated hospitalizations and
deaths among the vacci-
nated.
GUVEN KARAGOL with a scorched hive in Manavgat, Turkey. “The fires came quickly and my beehives were
burning — I could only watch. Six years of my work, this year’s labor, burned,” he told a Turkish news agency.
cretions of Marchalina hel-
lenica, a scale insect that
lives on pine trees and feeds
on their sap. What they leave
behind, the bees take to
make a nutritious honey.
Wildfires in Turkey
started on July 28 amid a fe-
rocious heat wave and raged
for days across more than
half of the nation’s provin-
ces. As of last week, some
wildfires were still burning in
the provinces of Mugla, Ay-
din and Isparta. At least
eight people and countless
animals have been killed. Vil-
lages and resorts had to be
evacuated, with some peo-
ple fleeing to beaches to be
rescued by sea. The wildfires
also threatened two coal-
burning power plants.
The Turkish government
has promised to rebuild the
many burned homes and
compensate villagers for
their animals, along with
providing other aid. But it
has also been criticized for
its lack of firefighting planes,
poor planning and overall in-
ability to stop the fires.
Samil Tuncay Bestoy,
who heads the Environmen-
tal and Bee Protection
Assn., said hundreds of
thousands of hives were
PERSPECTIVES
“We are concerned that
the current strong protec-
tion against severe infection,
hospitalization and death
could decrease in the
months ahead, especially
among those who are at
higher risk or who were vac-
cinated earlier,” said Dr.
Rochelle Walensky, director
of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
“Our plan is to protect
the American people and to
stay ahead of this virus,” she
added.
The most convincing evi-
dence for vaccines’ dimin-
ishing effectiveness had
come from Israel. Despite
vaccinating roughly 68% of
saved purely by an accident
of timing. Many nomadic
beekeepers, including some
from Mugla, each year move
their hives to Turkey’s in-
land upper plains in the
spring and come to Mugla
from mid-August on for the
pine trees. Those beehives
were spared from burning,
but their whole production
cycle has been shattered.
“Now they don’t have
anywhere to come back to;
there are no forests left,”
said Bestoy, a beekeeper
himself. “The bees and the
beekeepers are waiting at
the plains with no idea of
what to do.”
Since the bees cannot re-
main on the plains for long
because of their feeding
needs, the association was
working to find healthy, tem-
porary forest locations in
Mugla, which is already
highly populated with hives.
It’s a short-term solution
to save the bees but points to
the need for close coordina-
tion among the government,
beekeeping associations
and beekeepers to chart the
way forward. Workers may
have to find new beekeeping
routes or even jobs in other
industries.
Francine Orr Los Angeles Times
its population ages 12 and
older, the nation has seen
cases doubling every seven
to 10 days since June. More
than half of the new infec-
tions occurred in fully vacci-
nated people.
The new U.S. research
makes clear Israel’s renewed
vulnerability is no fluke.
One study published
Wednesday by the CDC that
tracked close to 14 million
residents of New York state
reported that the vaccine’s
effectiveness at preventing
coronavirus infection in fully
vaccinated adults declined
from 91.7% on May 3 to 79.8%
on July 25.
A preliminary study that
Even before the wildfires,
Turkey’s beekeepers were al-
ready suffering from climate
change, with droughts and
high temperatures reducing
the pine trees’ sap and
killing the bugs.
“Beekeeping is a funda-
mental culture of Anatolia,
and we were already warn-
ing that we may lose it to the
climate crisis. These fires
have added fuel to that fire,”
Bestoy said.
Farther to the east,
forests in Antalya’s Manav-
gat district were also incin-
erated. Guven Karagol had
to leave his hives behind
once those flames grew near.
“The fires came quickly
and my beehives were burn-
ing — I could only watch. Six
years of my work, this year’s
labor, burned,” he told Tur-
key’s Ihlas News Agency.
When he returned at day-
break after the fires, he saw
some bees emerging and re-
alized that 20 out of 100 hives
had somehow survived.
“I thought I can’t do this
in a completely blackened
nature; my hopes were shat-
tered,” he said. “These 20
hives gave me hope.”
The Turkish government
has said that the burned
Mayo Clinic researchers
posted online last week
found that between March
and July, the average protec-
tion afforded by the Pfizer
and Moderna vaccines fell
from 78% to 44% in people in
five states where the clinic
operates.
And a report from the
CDC’s COVID-19 Response
Team concluded that
among nursing home resi-
dents — a medically fragile
population that has been
most vulnerable to severe ill-
ness and death — the vac-
cines’ power to prevent in-
fection dropped from 74.7%
in the 10 weeks leading up to
May 9 to 53.1% in the subse-
quent six-week period.
There were some reas-
suring findings too. Over the
five months following full
vaccination, both healthy
adults and those with
underlying medical condi-
tions saw no significant
decline in the shots’ power to
prevent COVID-19 hospitali-
zations, according to anoth-
er new study published by
the CDC.
Scientists’ early surmise
that vaccine-induced immu-
nity against COVID-19 would
wane quickly was based on
previous experience with
other coronaviruses — espe-
cially four species of sea-
sonal coronavirus that have
circulated for as long as
modern medicine has been
paying attention.
Those four members of
the coronavirus family differ
in many ways from the
SARS-CoV-2 virus that
causes COVID-19, not least
because they lead to nothing
Akif Yilmaz Ihlas News Agency
areas will be reforested and
groups have launched cam-
paigns for saplings, but
many experts say the forests
need to be left alone to re-
generate.
Medine Yilmaz, another
second-generation bee-
keeper in Osmaniye, also
lost her hives and had spo-
ken to Turkish officials who
visited the area. She wanted
the remaining trees to be al-
lowed to stay upright to see if
they could regenerate, but
she said authorities were
planning on tearing down
everything.
“We rose up as younger
people and stopped the bull-
dozers. If they come again, I
will lie down in front of them
and not let them cut the
trees,” she said.
Her husband, Yusuf, was
devastated.
“I don’t care about the
houses that burned. Our
only sadness is that nature
has disappeared; our only
livelihood were these pines,”
he said. “Homes will be re-
built, wounds bandaged, but
nature will not heal for 70-80
years.”
Bilginsoy writes for the
Associated Press.
worse than a common cold.
But scientists assumed their
family resemblances would
be revealing.
A 1990 research effort
that involved infecting
British volunteers with
those coronaviruses found
that after a year, most still
had elevated antibody levels
. Those extra antibodies
didn’t shield them from re-
infection when they were de-
liberately exposed again,
but none developed cold
symptoms and most cleared
the virus quickly.
Another study published
in 2020 tested a small group
of healthy people at least
twice a year for more than 12
years. It found that immuni-
ty in people infected by any
of those four coronaviruses
rarely lasted much longer
than 12 months. In some in-
stances, reinfection oc-
curred in as little as six
months.
Early on, the remark-
able effectiveness of the
COVID-19 vaccines made by
Pfizer-BioNTech and Mod-
erna made some scientists
optimistic that the pattern
might change.
In a preliminary report
posted online last month, re-
searchers at the La Jolla In-
stitute for Immunology
found that people who re-
ceived the Moderna vaccine
developed the levels of im-
munity that augured well for
lasting protection.
Even better were the spe-
cific types of immunity the
researchers found, including
the long-lasting T cells that
continue to generate protec-
tive antibodies.
“I thought from the start
there’d be a 50-50 chance
we’d need vaccines in a year,”
said Shane Crotty, a vaccine
researcher at the La Jolla In-
stitute who has co-written
two studies on SARS-CoV-2
immunity. “But we found a
lot of evidence of durable im-
munity that would probably
last for years in most vacci-
nated individuals.”
In Israel, however, so-
called breakthrough infec-
tions have become evident
— especially in older people
and those with health condi-
tions that make them more
susceptible to the virus. Vir-
tually all of the infections
there have involved the
Delta variant, which repli-
cates much more quickly
than its predecessors and
may be able to get past the
immune system’s defenses
while it’s still ramping up.
Israel’s experience fur-
nished some of the first evi-
dence that the anticipated
drop-off in immunity had be-
gun. And since the country is
already administering
booster shots to people over
age 60, it is likely to offer
clues about how well they
will extend protection.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, direc-
tor of the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, said Wednesday
that a third jab will shore up
recipients’ immunity.
“You get a dramatic in-
crease in antibody titers
when you do a third immuni-
zation dose,” he said.
Facui cited a study pub-
lished last week in Science
showing that antibodies ca-
pable of blocking infection
typically begin to decline
roughly four months after a
second dose of Moderna’s
vaccine.
And he pointed to evi-
dence in the New England
Journal of Medicine that it
will take higher antibody
levels to keep the Delta var-
iant at bay.
Some scientists are skep-
tical that antibodies against
COVID-19 will have the last
word on immunity. Against a
wily and fast-changing virus,
they say that “cell-based im-
munity” from T cells and B
cells is a better measure of
protection, and that efforts
to bolster that second line of
defense will yield better and
more durable results.
Crotty said he’s still not
convinced that booster
shots need to be in every-
one’s future.
The U.S. plan to offer
boosters to people eight
months after their second
dose “is a better-safe-than-
sorry kind of decision,”
Crotty said.
“Are boosters required,
or critically needed? I don’t
think the data support
that,” he said.
“Will boosters help? Will
protective immunity be bet-
ter? Yeah! They top off anti-
body levels, and the trials
look great.”
L AT I M E S . C O M
Americans face chaos at Kabul’s airport
Taliban militants have
violently turned away
some. Thousands of
U.S. citizens are still
trying to get out.
By Molly
Hennessy-Fiske
Thousands of U.S. citi-
zens were still struggling to
leave Afghanistan on
Wednesday, some unable to
reach the Kabul airport or,
once they arrived, violently
turned away.
An American who
reached out to the office of
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) for
help trying to evacuate said
the Taliban blocked access
to the U.S. military-occupied
side of the airport and
turned her away.
“My family has at-
tempted to get to the gate at
the airport three times,” she
wrote on WhatsApp. “The
crowds are too big. They
were beat with sticks by
members of the Taliban.”
President Biden and
members of his administra-
tion faced criticism from
lawmakers in Congress for
botching the Afghan evacu-
ation but insisted late
Wednesday that the U.S.
was committed to getting
the remaining Americans
out — an estimated 10,000,
according to the Pentagon —
even if that means extending
the withdrawal beyond his
Aug. 31 deadline.
“If there’s American citi-
zens left, we’re going to stay
to get them all out,” Biden
said during an interview on
ABC News.
Biden said the Taliban
had agreed to let Americans
into the airport and that
“they’re cooperating, letting
American citizens get out.”
His remarks came as the
U.S. Embassy in Kabul is-
sued alerts warning citizens
that it could not ensure their
safe passage to the airport
and that space on evacua-
tion flights would be first
come, first served.
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TALIBAN FIGHTERS patrol Kabul, Afghanistan. Some Americans reportedly
were stopped at Taliban checkpoints and prevented from reaching the airport.
“We’re going to evacuate
everybody that we can phys-
ically, possibly, evacuate,”
Defense Secretary Lloyd J.
Austin III said earlier
Wednesday at a briefing,
adding that officials were at-
tempting to “deconflict”
with the Taliban to create
passageways to the airport
for evacuees.
Gen. Mark A. Milley,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, said the Taliban was
“facilitating the safe passage
to the airport for American
citizens.”
“We fully intend to suc-
cessfully evacuate all Ameri-
can citizens who want to get
out of Afghanistan,” Milley
said. “They are our priority
No. 1.”
U.S. Deputy Secretary of
State Wendy Sherman said
during a separate briefing
that she had heard reports
that the Taliban was setting
up checkpoints and block-
ing the airport, but that she
had not heard of any Ameri-
cans turned away.
Those coordinating the
evacuation — the largest ci-
vilian evacuation since the
Vietnam War, according to
Milley — described it as cha-
otic, plagued by logistical
confusion and delays. Mem-
THE WORLD
bers of Congress from both
parties faulted the Biden ad-
ministration for leaving
Americans at the mercy of
an extremist group.
“Biden must immedi-
ately provide a plan to pro-
tect Americans and get
them back home,” House
Minority Leader Kevin Mc-
Carthy (R-Bakersfield)
posted on twitter.
“Americans are stranded
in Afghanistan. The Taliban
has taken control. The State
Department can’t guaran-
tee Americans safety. Where
is the President?” Buck
posted.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-
Ark.), an Army veteran who
served in Afghanistan, di-
rected staff to assist Ameri-
cans in Afghanistan this
week after his office was con-
tacted by an Arkansan stuck
at a Taliban checkpoint,
spokeswoman Caroline
Tabler said.
“The Biden administra-
tion abandoned Americans
in Afghanistan, forcing them
to seek safety without sup-
port of our government. En-
tirely and unequivocally un-
acceptable,” Cotton posted
on Twitter on Wednesday.
Cotton’s office was help-
ing more than 500 seeking to
Rahmat Gul Associated Press
evacuate from Afghanistan,
many of them U.S. citizens
facing logistical hurdles.
“That was our biggest
barrier and continues to be:
People stuck behind Taliban
checkpoints,” Tabler said,
although she said the office
has also heard from many
turned away from the air-
port despite guarantees of
safe passage from the State
Department. “We’re just try-
ing to support the State De-
partment’s efforts as best we
can. A lot of the people on
the ground feel like they
have not been getting
enough communication.”
She said other members
of both parties in Congress
have contacted Cotton’s of-
fice to set up similar evacua-
tion efforts.
Karen England of
Clarksville, Tenn., contacted
Cotton’s office for help get-
ting an Afghan American
U.S. citizen who had worked
as an interpreter for the U.S.
Army evacuated with his
wife and three children.
She said the man had
been living with her relatives
in the U.S. but returned to
Afghanistan a few months
ago to try to expedite visas
for his wife and two eldest
children (the baby is a U.S.
T H U R S DAY , AU G U S T 19 , 2 0 21
citizen).
England said the man,
whom she did not identify
because of security con-
cerns, had been unable to
reach the airport for days.
“The Taliban was shoot-
ing, he couldn’t even get past
the Taliban to get up to the
military side” of the airport,
she said. “Taxis were refus-
ing to take people to that
side. Then you’ve got to get
to the front of the line.”
England said the State
Department did not assist
them, and she dismissed the
Defense Department brief-
ing Wednesday as “just all
false. They’re saying it’s a
priority, but unless you’re
sitting in the airport, you
can’t get there.”
She said the man and his
family finally reached the
airport Tuesday morning
and “Sen. Cotton’s office did
make sure that when he ar-
rived he got through the gate
safely. People are holding up
their babies trying to get
them through the gate.”
Now, England said, “I
have a sole goal: to apply
pressure to get the other
Americans out safely.”
U.S. groups such as the
Catalyst Fund and the Open
Society Foundations were
also trying to resettle
Afghan evacuees Wednes-
day as charter flights and
private airlines were tempo-
rarily grounded in Kabul.
Mark Malloch-Brown,
president of the Open Soci-
ety Foundations, said his
group had contracted char-
ter flights and submitted
manifests for more than 300
staffers, relatives and mem-
bers of at-risk groups and
have hundreds more wait-
ing. They plan to fly them to
a third country en route to
the U.S., probably in the
Balkans, where the founda-
tion also works, he said.
“We had hoped to have
people out by now, but we
don’t because of delays,” he
said Wednesday. “Through-
put has been slower than ex-
pected, and U.S. flights have
understandably taken prec-
edent. We’ve been told char-
ters like ours have been put
A3
into the queue. We are hope-
ful for progress in the next
day or two.”
Malloch-Brown said he
hoped the Pentagon and
State Department would be
true to their word and add
charters to the mix of de-
parting flights, because “you
can’t just take Americans
and those with [special im-
migrant] visas out. You’ve
got to take this larger group
who have not just worked
with the U.S. but champi-
oned human rights.”
The cost of chartered 737
planes, which seat about 150,
has increased to at least
$500,000 each because of in-
surance and the uncertainty
of when they will be allowed
to depart Kabul. Malloch-
Brown said that when he
talked to staffers in Af-
ghanistan on Wednesday,
their main question was,
“When will a plane get here?”
“People are very anxious;
they’re just desperate to get
out,” he said, despite Tali-
ban checkpoints, insecurity
and deaths reported near
the airport.
“They feel safer going to
the airport than staying,” he
said.
On Wednesday, the New
York-based nonprofit Inter-
national Refugee Assistance
Project filed petitions with
the State Department on
behalf of Afghan special im-
migrant visa applicants it
represents and the esti-
mated 20,000 other appli-
cants and their families —
about 100,000 people total —
awaiting evacuation to the
U.S.
The group’s executive di-
rector, Becca Heller, said
about half of those with
pending visa applications
are mired in bureaucracy,
stuck awaiting final approv-
al by the U.S. Embassy.
“They’re blaming our
own allies for their failure,
for not having a functional
application process,” she
said of the administration.
Heller’s group is assist-
ing several thousand
Afghans with pending visa
applications, some of whom
have waited five years.
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Taliban’s return
leaves China
with concerns
Beijing has flexed its
power across Asia,
but it’s unlikely to do
so in neighboring
Afghanistan.
By Alice Su
BEIJING — The Tali-
ban’s stunning victory in
Afghanistan has left China
facing the troubling
prospect that the newly em-
boldened Islamic funda-
mentalist regime on its bor-
der could upset security and
economic interests across
the region.
As Afghanistan’s largest
and most powerful neighbor,
China could step in to fill the
power vacuum left by the
United States. But it has lit-
Associated Press tle desire to do so. Instead,
WITH THE Taliban firmly in charge, thousands of Afghans are clinging to hopes of leaving the country. Beijing is expected to focus
on improving relations with
and countering the ambi-
influence in Central Asia
with massive investments in
recent years through Presi-
dent Xi Jinping’s Belt and
Road initiative — in part be-
cause an American security
presence in the region freed
China from having to deal
with Afghanistan, said Niva
Yau, a researcher focused on
China and Central Asia at
the OSCE Academy in Kyr-
gyzstan.
Many of the region’s oil
and gas industries have be-
come reliant on China, she
said. “Now, with Af-
ghanistan becoming desta-
bilized, all these billions of
dollars of investments are at
risk because they are ex-
tremely close in proximity to
the Taliban,” Yau said.
Chinese Foreign Minister
Wang Yi discussed Beijing’s
concerns with U.S. Secre-
tary of State Antony J.
Blinken on Tuesday. Wang
criticized the “hasty U.S.
withdrawal” and warned
that China did not want to

New rulers have to contend tions of an extremist govern-

ment, even as some have
suggested that Washing-
ton’s humiliating failure at
nation-building was a win
see Afghanistan “relapse
into a hotbed and shelter for
terrorism.”
The fear of Afghanistan
harboring extremists, par-

with nation’s cash problem for China.

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bloodshed as the group’s
fighters seized the country
with almost no resistance
from the U.S.-trained and
equipped military.
Although the Taliban
was firmly in charge, with its
fighters patrolling the capi-
tal in commandeered police
and military vehicles, the
movement has yet to declare
a government.
Taliban representatives
in Kabul have been having
discussions with figures in-
cluding former President
Hamid Karzai and Abdullah
Abdullah, once designated
as chief executive in a power-
sharing agreement. The
talks have brought former
foes into close proximity;
Karzai and Abdullah met
Wednesday with Anas
Haqqani, who leads a par-
ticularly notorious Taliban
splinter group.
With so much in flux after
the stunning reversals of re-
cent days — the powerful
U.S. military to be gone by
month’s end, ragtag militia
fighters patrolling the
streets with automatic
weapons slung from their
shoulders — thousands of
Afghans clung to hopes of
making it out of the country.
The U.S.-overseen airlift
was picking up pace, mili-
tary officials said, but the
number of those whisked
away to safety was dwarfed
by the desperate throngs
outside the airport, the sole
American-controlled en-
clave in the country. Penta-
gon spokesman John Kirby
said that in the last 24 hours,
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With about 4,500 U.S.
Marines and soldiers over-
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tary described operations
inside the airport as pro-
gressing smoothly, but
Kirby batted away questions
about the chaos outside the
gates, where some Afghans
were beaten or rebuffed by
young fighters demanding
documents as they tried to
make their way inside.
A Taliban promise of
“safe passage” to the airport
for would-be evacuees,
touted by the White House,
appeared to apply mainly to
foreigners, and not even al-
ways to them. Kirby, speak-
ing to reporters, summed up
the grim dynamic by ac-
knowledging that U.S. forces
who once dominated the
landscape could do little to
help people make their way
through the perimeter.
“We’re not outside the
airport,” he said. Referring
to the Taliban fighters, he
said: “And they are.”
Refugee advocacy groups
in the United States, mean-
while, prodded the Biden
administration to do more
to help trapped Afghans in
danger from the Taliban be-
cause of their past ties to the
U.S. military.
The New York-based
nonprofit International Ref-
ugee Assistance Project filed
petitions with the State De-
partment on behalf of about
20,000 Afghan applicants for
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The ruling Communist
Party was quick to excoriate
decades of American inter-
ference: “Whether in Iraq,
ticularly militant groups
seeking independence for
Xinjiang, has long been cen-
tral to China’s policy in Af-
ghanistan. In recent years,
Syria or Afghanistan, we Chinese authorities have ar-
visas, or SIVs. Together with with the same name that have seen that wherever the bitrarily incarcerated an es-
their families, they total borders Pakistan. American military goes, it timated 1 million Uyghurs
about 100,000 people. For the Taliban leader- leaves behind turmoil and and other mostly Muslim
“We don’t know that ship, suddenly the stewards fragmentation, death and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang
there’s a clear plan at all to of the country’s 38 million destruction, a mess riddled in the name of counter-ter-
evacuate” them, said Becca people, one immediate with holes,” Foreign Min- rorism.
Heller, the group’s executive worry has already presented istry spokesperson Hua China is now pressuring
director. itself: cash. Chunying said at a news the Taliban to withhold sup-
Kirby, the Pentagon The U.S.-educated head briefing Tuesday. port from Uyghur militants,
spokesman, said plans were of Afghanistan’s central some of whom were trained
being made to temporarily bank, Ajmal Ahmady, said in Afghanistan in the past.
house about 22,000 people —
SIV recipients and their
the country’s supply of hard
currency, in the form of U.S.
‘This is not In exchange, Beijing can
provide Kabul with a veneer
families — at U.S. military dollars, was “close to zero.” influence that of international legitimacy
bases. That would accom- Writing on Twitter, Ahmady and much-needed help in re-
modate about one-fifth of explained that most of Af- they want. ... construction and devel-
the estimated number still
in Afghanistan.
ghanistan’s $9 billion in re-
serves is held outside the
The psychology opment that will become
crucial as billions of dollars
The Taliban promised to country, inaccessible to the around it is: Do in U.S. aid disappears.
not exact vengeance on peo- new rulers. Last month, Chinese offi-
ple who have opposed the That has already led to a not fall into this cials held a meeting with
group’s takeover, but some
Kabul residents described
plunge in the value of the
currency, the afghani, and
trap.’ Taliban leaders in Tianjin, a
port city near Beijing. They
armed men making unex- many people have not been — Andrew Small, released photos of Wang
pected visits to homes and able to access their savings China expert, on Beijing’s with Mullah Abdul Ghani
compounds, asking whether because most banks were approach to Afghanistan Baradar, the Taliban’s co-
anyone there had worked not dispensing money. founder and political com-
with the U.S. military, the Analysts said dealing mission leader, in the same
government or with Western with financial issues may But the deeper concern room where U.S. Deputy
organizations. prove much harder for the for China, which in recent Secretary of State Wendy
Many Afghans believe Taliban than taking over the years has become more ag- Sherman had been hosted
overt resistance to the new entire country. Vali Nasr of gressive in asserting its in- just days earlier.
rulers would be dangerous Johns Hopkins University’s terests across the region, is Wang called the Taliban
or foolhardy, but Wednesday School of Advanced Interna- an uncompromising Taliban an “important military and
brought a few scattered ges- tional Studies pointed to the that could inspire radical political force in Af-
tures of defiance, with heavy dependence on West- militants beyond its bor- ghanistan” and said the
deadly consequences. ern funding. ders. China’s military power group should “make a clean
Scores of men reportedly “Those billions went and reach are far superior, break with all terrorist or-
attempted to raise an away overnight,” he wrote on but Afghanistan could pose ganizations” including the
Afghan national flag in a city Twitter. That, he said, will a tricky preoccupation. East Turkestan Islamic
square in the eastern city of deeply impact how the Tali- “This is not influence Movement, a separatist
Jalalabad; the Reuters news ban “will or can govern.” that they want,” said An- group from Xinjiang.
agency reported three drew Small, a senior fellow at Baradar said that China
deaths and about a dozen Yam reported from Kabul the German Marshall Fund had “always been a reliable
people injured as Taliban and King from Washington. who has written a book friend of the Afghan people”
fighters opened fire to dis- Times staff writers Tracy about the China-Pakistan and that the Taliban would
perse them. Wilkinson in Washington relationship. China is using “never allow any force to use
A similar small protest and Molly Hennessy-Fiske the leverage it has to attain the Afghan territory to en-
was reported in Khost, capi- in Houston contributed to specific goals, he said: pro- gage in acts detrimental to
tal of the eastern province this report. tecting its economic inter- China.”
ests and ensuring Af- Beijing told the Taliban
ghanistan does not become such commitments would
a hub for militant extremists be “a precondition of the
that might attack China. China’s recognition of Tali-
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journalists at the time.
The two sides’ interests
were much the same then as
they are now: The Taliban
needed economic aid and
help to fend off United Na-
tions sanctions, while China
wanted to prevent Af-
ghanistan from becoming a
base of support for the inde-
pendence movement in its
Xinjiang region. Neither side
was fully satisfied.
China is now more vig-
orous on the world stage and
is openly seeking a regional
leadership role to show Bei-
jing is a more responsible
and stable ally than the U.S.
But Afghanistan is not
where the Chinese wanted to
prove that.
China has expanded its
U.S. presence is … to concen-
trate U.S. resources and en-
ergies on checking China in
the Indo-Pacific,” Shi said.
“The priority has been set.”
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Biden outlines new anti-COVID plans

Booster shot rollout
to begin next month.
Some experts argue
for vaccinating more
worldwide first.
By Eli Stokols and
Del Quentin Wilber
WASHINGTON — Presi-
dent Biden accelerated fed-
eral efforts to combat the
resurgent COVID-19 pan-
demic on Wednesday, offer-
ing many Americans boost-
er shots starting next
month, requiring nursing
home workers to be vacci-
nated, and imploring private
businesses to mandate in-
oculations for staff.
“We’re still in a pandemic
of the unvaccinated,” Biden
said in a speech from the
White House. “Quite frankly,
it’s a tragedy.”
With infections from the
coronavirus’ Delta variant
rising across the country,
the Biden administration
said it plans to provide
booster shots starting the
week of Sept. 20 to adults
who have received the two
required doses of the Pfizer
or Moderna vaccine. People
will be eligible to receive the
boosters eight months after
their second dose, officials
said.
Vaccines, the president
said, were the most effective
protection against the co-
ronavirus, followed by wear-
ing masks.
Keeping his focus on his
top domestic priority in a
week dominated by a foreign
policy crisis in Afghanistan,
Biden outlined the addi-
tional steps that will be tak-
en to combat the pandemic.
His administration is re-
quiring nursing homes that
receive federal Medicare or
Medicaid funding to man-
date vaccinations for all staff
or risk losing those dollars.
And the president threat-
ened to take legal action
through the Department of
Education against gover-
nors that attempt to prevent
A NURSE helps a patient at White Memorial Hospital’s COVID-19 unit in Los Angeles. Administration
health officials want people to get booster shots eight months after their second dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
school districts in their
states from enacting mask
mandates.
Biden also sought to
pressure elected leaders
who “are trying to turn pub-
lic safety measures ... into
political disputes for their
own political gain” — a clear
jab at Republican Govs. Ron
DeSantis of Florida and
Greg Abbott of Texas. The
two governors have sought
to block localities from re-
quiring masks in schools,
even as their states are en-
during deadly surges in co-
ronavirus infections.
“We’re not going to sit by
as governors try to block and
intimidate educators pro-
tecting our children,” Biden
said, adding that money in
the $1.9-trillion American
Rescue Plan enacted in
March could be used to com-
pensate teachers or admin-
istrators whose pay is
docked as punishment for
requiring masks.
Biden noted that vaccine
requirements “have been
around for decades” and
have long protected Ameri-
cans from a host of viruses.
He urged the private sector
to go further in requiring
workers to be vaccinated,
saying that the country’s
continued economic recov-
ery depends heavily on its
ability to get the pandemic
under control.
“It’s time for employers to
stand up,” the president
said. “Do the right thing for
your employees.”
Ahead of Biden’s re-
marks, the federal Depart-
ment of Health and Human
Services announced the
plan for booster shots, ex-
plaining why a third shot is
considered necessary.
“Based on our latest as-
sessment, the current pro-
tection against severe dis-
ease, hospitalization and
death could diminish in the
months ahead, especially
among people who are at
higher risk or were vacci-
nated during the earlier pha-
ses of the vaccination roll-
out,” a statement from ad-
ministration health officials
said. “For that reason, we
conclude that a booster shot
will be needed to maximize
vaccine-induced protection
and prolong its durability.”
Boosters will not be avail-
able until they receive ex-
pected authorization from
the Food and Drug Adminis-
tration, which is evaluating
the effectiveness and safety
of the supplemental shots,
the statement said.
The initial round of
boosters will be given to
healthcare workers and
nursing home residents,
who were among the first to
be vaccinated.
Health officials said they
expect boosters will also be
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needed for those who re-
ceived the one-shot Johnson
& Johnson vaccine. That
vaccine did not roll out until
March, and administration
officials said they needed
more data were to assess
when boosters for those
shots might be necessary.
“Our top priority remains
staying ahead of the virus
and protecting the Ameri-
can people from COVID-19
with safe, effective and long-
lasting vaccines especially in
the context of a constantly
changing virus,” the state-
ment said.
The medical community
is not entirely convinced
vaccinated adults need a
booster shot.
Dr. Celine Gounder, an
infectious disease expert at
Bellevue Hospital in New
York, said on Twitter that
she did not understand the
urgency of deploying boost-
er shots because data have
shown that COVID-19 vac-
cines continue to be effective
at preventing hospitali-
zations and deaths.
Rather than starting a
widespread booster cam-
paign, she said, it would be
more effective to focus on
giving boosters to those who
have weakened immune sys-
tems, nursing home resi-
dents and those older than
80.
Some health experts
have said the Biden admin-
istration would be better off
improving overall vaccina-
tion rates in the U.S. and
abroad. Such a campaign
has the best chance of beat-
ing back the virus and pre-
venting it from mutating,
they have argued.
“There’s NOT just a hu-
manitarian or ethical argu-
ment for holding off on
giving the vaccinated extra
vaccine doses,” Gounder
tweeted Wednesday. “This is
in OUR SELF-INTEREST.
Vaccinating the unvacci-
nated here & around the
world WILL PROTECT US
BETTER.”
The World Health Or-
ganization has urged
wealthy countries like the
United States to defer offer-
ing booster shots until more
poorer countries have made
progress inoculating their
populations.
Tedros Adhanom Ghe-
breyesus, WHO’s director-
general, told reporters
Wednesday that 10 countries
have administered 75% of
the world’s vaccine supply.
Low-income countries, he
said, have vaccinated about
2% of their populations.
“I called for a temporary
moratorium on boosters to
help shift supply to those
countries that that have not
even been able to vaccinate
their health workers and at-
risk communities and are
now experiencing major
spikes,” Ghebreyesus said.
“The divide between the
haves and have-nots will
only grow larger if manufac-
turers and leaders prioritize
booster shots over supply to
low- and middle-income
countries.”

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Hydrogen
cars haven’t
caught on
[Hydrogen, from A1]
the most climate-conscious,
tech-savvy motorists are
asking: What’s the point?
The Hydrogen Highway was
meant to stretch from coast
to coast. But after 17 years, it
has yet to make it past the
state line.
Environmentalists warn
that the futuristic hydrogen
fuel cell cars, marketed as
producing zero emissions,
leave an inexcusably heavy
carbon footprint. The few
automakers that have not
backed away from the con-
cept of powering a passenger
car by splitting off electrons
from hydrogen ions are
struggling to persuade driv-
ers that the vehicles are a re-
liable alternative to zero-
emission battery-powered
ones. And other states that
typically look to California
for climate-friendly trans-
portation inspiration are
taking a pass.
“It started as kind of a
bad bet by the state,” said
Ethan Elkind, director of the
climate program at UC
Berkeley’s Center for Law,
Energy and the Environ-
ment. “Now it has become a
legacy zombie technology.”
California can’t let go of
Schwarzenegger’s vision. In
2004, he famously got behind
the wheel of a clunky
Hummer prototype that ran
on hydrogen to signal that
drivers can have it all: the ex-
cess and convenience of a
gas guzzler, with none of the
emissions. (It turned out
that the hydrogen Hummer
wasn’t so climate-friendly
and never made it to com-
mercial production.)
State officials say the
hydrogen experiment is
merely experiencing the
growing pains of every trans-
portation innovation Cali-
fornia pushed into the main-
stream. The Biden adminis-
tration is right there along-
side California, champion-
ing lucrative subsidies and
demonstration projects
aimed at making hydrogen
fuel an affordable and truly
green alternative, one that it
hopes could complement
the battery-powered electric
vehicle market.
“Ten years ago, people
would have come to me and
said, ‘Why is California sup-
porting battery vehicles?
There is hardly any market,
and they will never be com-
petitive,’ ” said Patty Mona-
han, a member of the Cali-
fornia Energy Commission.
Of course, battery electric
vehicles are all the rage now.
Monahan said the state’s
aggressive push to get driv-
cars can go 400 miles on a full
tank, and they don’t require
waiting around for a battery
to charge.
Yet nearly two decades
into the hydrogen experi-
ment, it remains a uniquely
expensive gambit. The state
has spent $125 million to
make its struggling network
of 50 public hydrogen fueling
stations operational. That
network is still so shaky —
with stations frequently
malfunctioning or out of fuel
— that Toyota provides free
towing and car rental service
to drivers who purchase a
Mirai, as getting stranded is
a constant risk.
“It was a regular sight to
see a car coming in on a flat-
bed when I went to get fuel,”
said Scott Lerner, a writing
instructor at UC Irvine who
leased a Mirai until the hard-
ship of hydrogen motoring
got to be too much. “We
would often have these com-
miserating circles at the sta-
tion, where people would
share horror stories.”
The state is undeterred.
At the end of last year, as
Lerner was retiring his Mi-
rai, the California Energy
Commission was greenlight-
ing an additional $169 mil-
lion for fueling stations. The
panel hopes to help open 111
more stations by 2027, plus 13
that can also service trucks
and buses.
That is a subsidy from the
state of more than $1 million
per station, mostly for a fleet
of about 9,000 private
vehicles. They are mainly
Mirais, but there are also a
smattering of Hyundai and
Honda hydrogen cars on the
freeways. In the latest unen-
couraging sign for Hydrogen
Highway evangelists, Honda
this month announced that
it will soon stop selling the
Clarity, the one hydrogen
model it has available.
The news was met with
relief by some.
“Failure is never some-
thing to celebrate, but nor
is wasting money on dead
end transport solutions,”
Michael Liebreich, a clean-
energy analyst, wrote on
Twitter.
This is not the way things
usually go for California,
which is accustomed to hav-
ing its pioneering policies
enthusiastically embraced
by other Democratic-led
states. In this case, however,
many California transporta-
tion visionaries are ready to
move on and focus all efforts
on battery-powered zero-
emission passenger cars,
which accounted for 1.1 mil-
lion of the more than 14 mil-
RICHARD WONG of Irvine fills up his hydrogen Mirai in July. Wong is happy with his car, but some environ-
mentalists are not: The “100% renewable” hydrogen sold at state fueling stations is made with natural gas.
trap greenhouse-gas-inten-
sive methane from landfills
and farming operations else-
where in the country. The
companies don’t use the re-
sulting biogas, which gets
pumped into natural gas
pipelines, except to generate
carbon credits they rely on
to claim their fuel is green.
“You are still avoiding
those greenhouse gases and
getting all the benefits from
an environmental point of
view,” said Shane Stephens,
founder of the hydrogen fuel
company True Zero.
Some environmental
groups, including the Sierra
Club, see it differently.
“It is not renewable,” said
Sasan Saadat, an analyst at
Earthjustice. “What they are
doing does not make sense.”
There is so much natural
gas involved in the fuel pro-
duction process, he said,
that calling it sustainable is
indefensible. While hydro-
gen could ultimately prove
the most effective method to
cut emissions from trucks
and planes, the Hydrogen
Highway concept for cars
just isn’t penciling out, Saa-
dat said.
The Energy Commission
aspires toward truly renew-
able fuel for hydrogen cars, a
goal achieved by the engi-
neers who run the fueling
station at Cal State Los An-
geles. The caveat is that this
costs a fortune — double or
triple the price of making
other hydrogen fuel, which is
already so costly that Toyo-
ta provides $15,000 fuel cards
to lure drivers into Mirais.
“It’s still a long ways off,”
said Michael Dray, who runs
the Cal State station. He
mocks assurances from
“We think in terms of dec-
ades, not one cycle,” said
Craig Scott, a manager at
the company’s Electrified
Vehicles & Technology Of-
fice.
In Europe, where some
2,000 hydrogen cars and
vans are scattered across
the continent, both BMW
and Jaguar Land Rover are
mulling over the launch of a
hydrogen model.
In the U.S., there are
plenty of Mirai drivers who
share Toyota’s outlook.
These true believers can be
found on Mirai owner Face-
book pages, warring with
drivers posting rants about
getting stranded, waiting in-
tolerably long for fuel and
struggling to get the pump
nozzle unfrozen from their
fuel tank. It is a volatile cor-
ner of the World Wide Web.
“The car was almost
free,” said Feridoon Aslani,
61, an actor and writer. “I am
happy with it.”
He praised his 2017 Mirai
even as he waited two hours
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you learn
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for fuel in Diamond Bar. The
station was overwhelmed by
desperate Mirai drivers
seeking a fill after one of the
scant fueling stations in the
nearby Inland Empire went
down. One car arrived by
flatbed.
But Aslani, who lives in
Santa Monica, said the
$15,000 in free fuel Toyota is
giving hydrogen pioneers
was too good a deal to pass
up, and the vehicles work
fine for Angelenos on the
Westside, where there is a
critical mass of fueling sta-
tions.
Eunjin Hana Joo’s enthu-
siasm for the Mirai she rents
to the hydrogen-curious in
Los Angeles was tempered
after she took two journalist
clients to fill the tank at
Dray’s station. It was disap-
pointing, the 30-year-old
artist said, to learn that
most of the fuel she had been
using was made with natural
gas.
“The point is to reduce
our carbon footprint,” she
Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times
said. “Why are we creating
it?”
Joo, who had been in a
rush to make her next ap-
pointment, found herself
stuck an extra 20 minutes at
the station, because fuel
pumps had shut down in the
heat, another recurring
challenge.
Maribel Munoz knows all
about that. She pulled into
the Diamond Bar station
during the June heat wave to
find that the app had de-
ceived her again. The station
was down — too hot. She had
to wait three hours until it
was cool enough to pump
fuel — and the pump
stopped dispensing at half a
tank.
Munoz vented on Face-
book as she waited. The next
day, she drove to the Toyota
dealer to demand that it buy
back the vehicle.
“There were so many
problems that kept me from
using the car,” Munoz said,
“that I called it my lawn or-
nament.”

ers into hydrogen cars is
meant to help the technol-
ogy rapidly scale up, to the
point where large fleets
of trucks running on diesel
and aircraft powered by
jet fuel could be retired in
favor of cleaner-burning
hydrogen models. Demon-
stration hydrogen trucks are
operational at the Port of
Los Angeles, and 48 hydro-
gen buses are being used by
local transportation agen-
cies.
Hydrogen boosters note
that the far more popular
battery-powered cars are ex-
periencing their own grow-
ing pains, as automakers
and regulators confront
supply-chain challenges and
environmental questions
complicating the push to rid
the planet of climate-un-
friendly internal combus-
tion engines. The hydrogen
lion cars sold nationwide
last year. But the big busi-
ness interests invested in
hydrogen are harnessing
their influence to preserve
the status quo.
Among those lobbying
Gov. Gavin Newsom to
vastly expand California’s
investment in the Hydrogen
Highway are Chevron, Shell,
Toyota, Hyundai and BMW.
Within their ranks is Henry
Perea, the former assembly-
man who wrote the trans-
portation bill mandating
funding for hydrogen sta-
tions. He is now a lobbyist for
Chevron.
The firms assert that the
fuel is green, yet the “100% re-
newable” hydrogen sold at
California fueling stations is
made with natural gas. It
gets branded as renewable
through a scheme in which
hydrogen companies pay to
about senior
hydrogen producers and the
state that all the fuel on the
Hydrogen Highway will be
green within the decade.
“Think very carefully be-
fore investing in this tech-
nology,” said Dray, adding
that the “party line” is de-
living at our
ceptively upbeat.
“Do not be deceived by
these people,” he said. “Big
upcoming
event?
corporations are having a
hard time with this. Major oil
companies are having trou-
ble making the stations run.
The auto manufacturers are
having trouble with the
cars.”
Toyota officials take ex-
ception. They argue that the
A whole bunch.
ridicule of hydrogen car
technology — Elon Musk
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One family’s oasis evaporated by drought

[Drought, from A1]
their bounty. And in the win-
ter, his wife, Sandra, pre-
pared a homemade birria for
holiday festivities from their
goats.
But then a darkness
came over the little Eden the
Sevillas had created.
Amid two years of relent-
less drought, the well’s out-
put slowly tapered off. The
family was forced to buy gal-
lons of precious water from
the grocery store to take
showers, clean dishes and
cook. They borrowed water
from their neighbor to irri-
gate their almond and peach
trees and to feed their goats,
sheep, chickens and horses.
“Without water, you’re
nothing,” Heriberto said.
“Family is the most impor-
tant thing. Plants are beau-
tiful, and my animals help
me relax. But what can we
do?”
The Sevillas are just one
of thousands households
across the San Joaquin Val-
ley whose wells have gone
dry amid increasingly hot
temperatures and drought.
Every year, a new town in
this verdant agricultural re-
gion seems to be pushed
over the brink by water scar-
city — like East Porterville,
an unincorporated commu-
nity in Tulare County, in 2014,
and, most recently, Tevis-
ton, a census-designated Photographs by Mel Melcon Los Angeles Times

place in the same county.
But these issues have
plagued rural towns and un-
incorporated areas here for
decades. And in the era of
the coronavirus, these ineq-
uities have become magni-
fied in an area that already
had some of the highest pov-
erty rates in the state.
“Drought is part of our
life,” said Susana De Anda,
cofounder and executive di-
rector of the Community
Water Center, a nonprofit
environmental justice or-
ganization based in the val-
ley. “We need to ensure we in-
vest in drought-resilient in-
frastructure.... We can’t wait
until wells go dry. That’s a
disservice.”
Even those who can af-
ford to pay upfront for new
wells must join waiting lists
as drilling companies await
the back-ordered equip-
ment they need to build and
install them. Local officials
provide jugs and gallons of
water, and local organiza-
tions offer aid if resources
aren’t already tapped out.
“We’re so inundated,”
said Marliez Diaz, water sus-
tainability manager at Self-
Help Enterprises, a nonprof-
it organization that provides
emergency services such as
water storage tanks and fil-
tration systems across the
valley. In 2020, 121 temporary
water tanks of 2,500 gallons
were installed, 92 new water
wells were constructed and
3,033 households received
bottled water, according to
an annual report.
The drought parched the
natural landscape Heri-
berto once reveled in.
HERIBERTO SEVILLA feeds the sheep and goats this month on his ranch in an unincorporated area of Madera County. Amid two years
of drought, the output of the ranch’s well slowly tapered off, forcing the family to buy water and borrow from their neighbor.
SANDRA SEVILLA washes the feet of daughter Arianna with buckets of water.
“Too many people don’t appreciate water until this happens to you,” Sandra said.
Plants withered, and the
spacious backyard is now all
dirt. Arianna, their 5-year-
old daughter, gets coated
with dust when she pretends
to cook in her cottage play-
house. A patch of yellowing
grass remains, a reminder of
better days when Heri-
berto’s beloved horse grazed
near his hammock. He sold
his companion months ago
to preserve water. He will sell
more of his furry friends in
the coming weeks.
“Too many people don’t
appreciate water,” Sandra
said, “until this happens to
you.”
On a recent weekday
morning, a thin flow of water
trickled from a faucet into a
dirty bowl as she washed
dishes. Sandra hunched for-
ward to meticulously scrub
it with a worn sponge, then
poured the soapy water onto
another plate.
Every so often, she al-
lowed herself to get a bit
more water.
Heriberto lived in the city
of Madera when he arrived in
California in 1994. He picked
tomatoes, onions and garlic
for years until he found his
way south to Santa Ana and
met Sandra, who became his
wife. The two rented a room
and survived off of Heri-
berto’s earnings as a land-
scaper. But city life wasn’t
for them.
This time, he returned
with Sandra to an unincor-
porated area of Madera,
where he found the place
he’d finally get to call his
own.
The first inkling of
drought for the Sevillas hap-
pened in 2019, when the wa-
ter pressure from their well
dropped. Heriberto thought
the pump’s motor might
need to be replaced, or that
maybe a tube broke. He
asked five people familiar
with wells for a diagnosis,
and they all told him he was
running out of water.
Sandra scaled back on
how often she mopped their
home’s tile floors. She
lugged bags of soiled clothes
to stuffy laundromats. If she
dried her hands with a paper
towel, she smoothed it out
and reused it to wipe down
the microwave and kitchen
counters.
Showers were unpre-
dictable. They’d sometimes
have enough water to get wet
and soap up but then have to
wait in the tub, covered in
bubbles, hoping the water
would resume. Most of the
time it didn’t.
Her daughters “would
get mad,” Sandra said. “The
good thing is our neighbor
helped us a lot.”
As the situation wors-
ened, Sandra brainstormed
a new routine. At dawn, she
eked whatever little water
drizzled out of the well into
5-gallon plastic buckets. She
topped it off with her neigh-
bor’s water. Each family
member would shower with
their allotted bucket. What-
ever was left was used to
flush the toilet. Single-use
plastic water bottles were re-
served for washing hands.
The shift in life harkened
back to Sandra’s and Heri-
berto’s childhoods in Mexi-
co, but it came as an unwel-
come shock to their four
daughters and son.
Emilee Sevilla, 21, learned
how to scale back her hour-
long showers to 15 minutes.
She cut down on the prod-
ucts she uses on her hair and
face and no longer lets the
water run while she prepares
to shave her legs, turning on
the shower only when she’s
actively using it, even now
that they’ve received help.
“I’m only 21 and this is
what I have to deal with,” she
said. “At one point I’m going
to have certain struggles
when I grow up, and I guess
in a way it’s mentally prepar-
ing me for the future.”
In October, while her par-
ents were on a trip to Mexico,
Emilee stayed behind with
her younger brother be-
cause of school and work.
She was certain there would
be no water issues with fewer
people in the house.
As she prepared to
shower before a work shift,
however, only foam oozed
out of the shower head.
Shutting the well pump off
and on didn’t work. She
grabbed two water bottles
from the refrigerator and
washed her face in the bath-
room sink.
Over a choppy phone call,
she told her parents what
happened.
Henry Shillings, a long-
time resident who has paid
attention to the water dis-
cussions in the region, saw
Emilee walking in and out of
her home. He knew exactly
what had happened. His
mother had sold her proper-
ty to Heriberto, and he reck-
oned that the well had come
to the end of its life. He
learned their well water flow

Buttigieg, Colorado governor voids 1864 order had dropped to 20 gallons

per minute — hardly any
pressure compared with his

husband Proclamation called Col. John Chivington led

the Nov. 29, 1864, slaughter.
65 gallons per minute.
Without hesitating, he
connected a hose to his well

become forNative
He and his soldiers then
citizens to kill headed to Denver, where
Americans and they displayed some of the
victims’ remains.
that was long enough to
reach the Sevillas’ home.
“We’re neighbors,” he said.
“That’s what neighbors do.

parents take their property.

associated press
WASHINGTON — proclamation that called for
Transportation Secretary
Pete Buttigieg has an-
nounced that he and his hus-
band, Chasten, have become
parents.
Buttigieg, the first openly
gay Cabinet secretary,
posted the news Tuesday on
his personal Twitter ac-
count.
“For some time, Chasten
and I have wanted to grow
our family,” he said. “We’re
overjoyed to share that
we’ve become parents! The
process isn’t done yet and
we’re thankful for the love,
support, and respect for our
privacy that has been of-
fered to us.
“We can’t wait to share
more soon,” he added.
Buttigieg, 39, has talked
publicly about his desire
to become a father since
his campaign for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomi-
nation in 2020.
Earlier this year, he told
the Associated Press that
“we’re still working at that,”
before adding with a smile:
“Stay tuned.”
Buttigieg and Chasten,
32, were married in June
2018. Buttigieg’s father died
six months later.
associated press
DENVER — Colorado
Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday
rescinded a 19th century
citizens to kill Native Ameri-
cans and take their proper-
ty, in a move to atone for
what he called “sins of the
past.”
The 1864 order by Col-
orado’s second territorial
governor, John Evans, even-
tually led to the Sand Creek
massacre, one of Colorado’s
darkest and most fraught
historic moments. The bru-
tal assault left more than 200
Arapaho and Cheyenne peo-
ple — mostly women, chil-
dren and older people —
dead.
Evans’ proclamation was
never lawful because it con-
travened established treaty
rights and federal law re-
garding Native Americans,
Polis said at the signing of
his executive order on the
Capitol steps.
“It also directly contra-
dicted the Colorado Consti-
tution, the United States
Constitution and Colorado
criminal codes at the time,”
the Democratic governor
said to whoops from the
crowd.
Polis stood alongside citi-
zens of the Southern Ute,
Ute Mountain, Cheyenne
and Arapaho tribes, many
Rebecca Slezak Denver Post
COLORADO Gov. Jared Polis rescinds proclamations
issued by a territorial governor during the Civil War.
dressed in traditional re- monuments and statues of
galia. Some held signs say- slave traders, colonizers,
ing, “Recognize Indigenous conquerors and others.
knowledge, people, land” Some states, including Col-
and “Decolonize to survive.” orado, have banned Native
Ernest House Jr., who American mascots in
served as executive director schools.
of the Colorado Commission That movement, coupled
of Indian Affairs under for- with renewed attention
mer Gov. John Hicken- to Evans’ history, also
looper, said Polis’ order is prompted Polis to create an
important for the state’s re- advisory board to recom-
lations with tribes, the ac- mend name changes for the
knowledgment of history highest peak in the Front
and a move toward reconcili- Range of the Rocky Moun-
ation. tains, known as “Mt. Evans.”
“It gives us a place that Discussions are taking place
we were important and that within the Colorado Com-
our lives were important,” mission of Indian Affairs to
said House, a citizen of the choose “more culturally sen-
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. sitive names,” said Alston
A broader push for recon- Turtle, a councilman with
ciliation and racial reckon- the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.
ing has occurred across the Evans governed the terri-
U.S. after the murder of tory of Colorado during
George Floyd, a Black man, three years of the Civil War,
by a white police officer in from 1862 to 1865. He re-
Minneapolis last year. The signed after the Sand Creek
movement has included ef- massacre happened under
forts to remove Confederate his order.
The massacre is one of
several long-ago atrocities
that many Americans don’t
know about, such as the
Snake River attack in Ore-
gon in 1887, in which as many
as 34 Chinese gold miners
were killed. Others occurred
within the lifetimes of many
Americans living today, such
as the 1985 bombing by Phil-
adelphia police of the house
that was the headquarters
of the Black organization
MOVE, killing 11 people.
Rick Williams, a Lakota
and Cheyenne descendant
who studies Native Ameri-
can history, found the origi-
nal Evans order while re-
searching the aftermath of
the Ft. Wise Treaty of 1861, in
which U.S. government rep-
resentatives met with Chey-
enne and Arapaho leaders to
establish a reservation
along the Arkansas River in
eastern Colorado. Williams
said only 10 people signed
the agreement.
“The next two years, it
was hell for Indians because
they didn’t sign the treaty,
and they tried to kill as many
of them as they could. And
when that didn’t work, [Ev-
ans] issued an order to de-
clare war,” Williams said.
One of Evans’ orders
deemed Native Americans
“enemies of the state,” and
the second called for Col-
orado citizens to kill and
steal from them, Williams
said.
We help each other if we
can.”
Two weeks ago, the Sevi-
llas reached a temporary so-
lution with a 2,500-gallon
water tank in their back-
yard.
Hours after they received
their temporary water tank,
Sandra and Heriberto took
a moment of rest in their
backyard. A cool breeze
wafted past them, tickling
their tree’s leaves on a swel-
tering afternoon. They sat in
silence and watched Ari-
anna sit inside her cottage
playhouse. Duke, their Ger-
man shepherd, lay at their
feet.
The tank meant they’d
have one year of guaranteed
clean, precious water, a re-
prieve from buying a new
well, which can be as expen-
sive as a brand-new Ford
Mustang.
Because they under-
stood this gift, their drought
routine would not change.
Sandra left the two buckets
in the tub — Arianna en-
joyed her showers that way.
“Thank God we’re going
to have this help,” Sandra
said as she sipped cold wa-
ter.
Soon they would start
visiting banks in hopes of
qualifying for a loan to pay
for a new well. But in this
fleeting moment, in the face
of a drought that is only ex-
pected to get worse, life felt
normal again.
LOS ANGELES TIMES THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 2021 A9

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A10 T H U R S DAY , AU G U S T 19 , 2 0 21
The NFL and its
winning vaccine
hesitancy drive
MICHAEL HILTZIK
Two months
ago, the Na-
tional Foot-
ball League
resembled a
hive of anti-
vaccine senti-
ment.
Half of the
league’s 32
teams had 50 or fewer play-
ers vaccinated against
COVID-19 in mid-June, at a
time when teams were
permitted to carry rosters of
up to 90 players.
As of Aug. 11, according to
figures the league released
through NFL.com, nearly
92% of all players have re-
ceived at least one vaccine
dose, and 15 teams have 95%
or more of their players
vaccinated.
The Atlanta Falcons
boasted Monday that they
had become the first team
to reach 100% vaccination,
suggesting that vaccination
has become a badge of
honor in the NFL.
What happened? And
what are the lessons for the
rest of us?
The short answer to the
first question is that the
league put its foot down,
hard, on any resistance to
getting vaccinated. The
league made its views
known in a July 22 memo
outlining the consequences
to any of the 32 teams that
experienced a viral out-
break traceable to unvacci-
nated staffers or players.
According to the memo,
unvaccinated players and
their teams would suffer the
brunt of those conse-
quences. Teams that have
to cancel a game due to a
spike among the unvacci-
nated will be considered to
have forfeited the contest,
earning them a loss and the
opposing team a win. The
loss would count against
playoff seeding, among
other competitive draw-
backs.
The defaulting team will
be “responsible for all addi-
tional expenses incurred by
the opposing team.” The
team will also be subject to
additional sanctions from
NFL Commissioner Roger
Goodell if he determines
that the outbreak resulted
from a “failure by team
personnel to follow applica-
ble protocols.”
The league would make
an effort to reschedule
canceled games, but that
could be difficult; the memo
makes clear that it won’t
consider extending the
season to fit those games in.
If the game can’t be re-
scheduled, neither team’s
players will get paid for the
canceled week.
As was the case in 2020,
unvaccinated players or
personnel who test positive
will be quarantined for 10
days and then permitted to
return to action once
asymptomatic.
The NFL Players Assn.
signaled its concurrence
with the memo, telling its
members that the 2021 rules
were basically in accord
with those jointly reached
with the league for the 2020
season, with the exception
of the league’s threat “to
impose additional penalties
on clubs which are responsi-
ble for the outbreak and the
availability of proven vac-
cines.”
The memo had two
evident thrusts. One is that
it aimed to apply peer pres-
sure, not to mention man-
agement pressure, on hold-
out players, since outbreaks
among the unvaccinated
would cost everyone dearly.
It also signaled that the
NFL was placing its not
inconsiderable presence
behind the very concept of
ROGER GOODELL is commissioner of the NFL,
which put its foot down, hard, on vaccine resistance.
vaccination in the battle
against the pandemic.
“We know that vaccines
are safe and effective and
are the best step anyone can
take to be safe from the
coronavirus,” the memo
states.
The 2021 rules built on
the NFL’s experience in
2020, before the vaccine era.
As I reported then, the
league had instituted strict
rules for testing and social
distancing to guard against
outbreaks. There were also
heavy penalties, financial
and competitive, on teams
for breaching league proto-
cols.
Even before the memo’s
release, the NFL was seeing
its vaccination rates on the
upswing: Almost all the
teams had reached 100%
vaccination among their
top-level staff, and more
than 78% of all players had
had at least one shot, with 14
teams having reached an
85% rate. All 32 teams had
reached at least a 50% play-
er vaccination rate.
“We’re pleased with
those numbers, but we’re
not satisfied,” the league’s
chief medical officer, Dr.
Allen Sills, said on the
league’s “NFL Today”
broadcast the day of the
memo’s release. “We want to
see them continue to go up.”
The league’s action
places the spotlight on
vaccine holdouts among the
players and could create a
quandary for coaches: A
second-rank player or
benchwarmer who refuses
the shot can be cut for
chump change, but starters
may be a different story.
One is Minnesota Vi-
kings quarterback Kirk
Cousins, who has said that
vaccination is a “private
matter” but has indicated
that he hasn’t had the shot.
His stance has caused un-
ending frustration for Vi-
kings head coach Mike
Zimmer and has cost Cous-
ins a promotional deal with
a local hospital.
Cousins says he’ll comply
with NFL protocols on
COVID-19, including under-
going frequent tests, and
even offered to be isolated in
a plexiglass cage for team
meetings. But he says he
intends to play every game
this season.
Buffalo Bills wide re-
ceiver Cole Beasley has been
especially insistent on refus-
ing the vaccine. “I may die of
covid, but I’d rather die
actually living,” he tweeted
in June.
How the NFL rules can
be applied more widely is
another question. The rules
depend to a great extent on
team spirit, but that won’t
work in society at large.
Indeed, one hallmark of
vaccine refusal is the lack of
sensitivity by holdouts of
the threat they pose to
people with whom they
come in contact and who
might not be eligible for the
shot, whether because
they’re young children, have
a compromised immune
system or some other medi-
cal reason for going unvacci-
nated.
But the league’s policies
may have a powerful effect
on fans who have been re-
sisting vaccination. To the
extent NFL players are role
models, their willingness to
get vaccinated is a good
sign. The NFL hasn’t consis-
tently showered itself in
glory when it comes to
healthcare issues, but in
this case it’s a model, and a
good one.
Keep up to date with
Michael Hiltzik. Follow
@hiltzikm on Twitter, see
his Facebook page or email
michael.hiltzik
@latimes.com.
Steve Luciano Associated Press
BUSINESS
DISNEY GENIE is a free app for customizing visit itineraries; for a fee, Genie+ will allow parkgoers to reserve
a time for an attraction, replacing the FastPass lanes used at Disneyland and California Adventure, above.
Disney app will let visitors
skip long lines — for a fee
Genie+ launches this fall at its parks in California and Florida
By Hugo Martín
Hoping to ease crowding
problems at its theme parks,
Walt Disney Co. announced
plans Wednesday to launch
a new mobile app that will al-
low parkgoers willing to pay
extra to skip the wait for the
most popular attractions.
The new app, dubbed
Disney Genie, represents
Disney’s latest effort to ad-
dress the parks’ biggest
headache — long attraction
queues — while adding new
ways to generate revenue
from visitors who already
pay as much as $154 per park
trip. The app will launch this
fall at Disneyland, California
Adventure Park and the
parks at Walt Disney World
in Orlando, Fla.
“We’ve made significant
investments in this new
technology, which guides
you through our theme
parks with tips that can help
you reduce time in lines,” the
company said in an informa-
tion sheet.
Industry experts said the
new fees may spark some
grousing, but charging extra
for a better experience is a
growing trend in the theme
park business.
“It may cost you a little
bit more, but there are al-
ways people willing to pay
for that,” said Dennis
Speigel, president of con-
sulting firm International
Theme Park Services. “It’s
where the industry is going
to be heading in servicing
the guests.”
The new app replaces
two older systems at Disney-
land — the free FastPass and
the MaxPass, which cost $20
T-Mobile data breach affects millions
Records on nearly
50 million people, but
no financial data, were
exposed, carrier says.
associated press
NEW YORK — The
names, Social Security num-
bers and information from
driver’s licenses or other
identification of more than
40 million people who ap-
plied for T-Mobile credit
were exposed in a recent
data breach, the company
said Wednesday.
The same data for about
7.8 million current T-Mobile
customers who pay monthly
for service also appear to be
compromised. No phone
numbers, account numbers,
PINs, passwords or financial
information from the nearly
50 million records and ac-
counts were compromised,
T-Mobile said.
T-Mobile also confirmed
that approximately 850,000
active T-Mobile prepaid cus-
tomer names, phone num-
bers and account PINs were
per day — that let parkgoers tives said they will offer more
reserve a time slot for an at- details “closer to launch.”
traction to avoid the tradi- The Genie+ app will
tional queues and instead automatically collect the
zip into an expedited Fast- fees from a credit or debit
Pass lane. card account connected to
There are three compo- the app. To use the app,
nents to the new system: parkgoers won’t be required
8 Disney Genie is a free to connect to the resort’s Wi-
app that recommends a visit Fi network, but Disney offi-
itinerary based on the at- cials say it will improve the
tractions, shows and eat- app’s performance.
eries chosen by users at the During the 2019 fan gath-
start of the day. ering known as the D23
8 Disney Genie+ is a sim- Expo, Disney officials intro-
ilar app that costs $20 per duced Disney Genie, pro-
day at Disneyland and $15 at moting it as an app that al-
the Florida parks. In addi- lows park visitors to custom-
tion to creating an itinerary, ize their visit itineraries by
parkgoers can make reser- giving them real-time tips
vations to get on a ride at a and updates. The app was
specific time, skipping the scheduled to be launched in
traditional queues, much late 2020, a debut probably
the way visitors used the delayed by the closure of
now-retired FastPass or the Disneyland and California
MaxPass. Visitors who make Adventure Park for more
a reservation on the app get than a year due to the
access to a new “Lightning COVID-19 pandemic.
Lane.” Disneyland will op- The parks will continue
erate more than 15 attrac- to offer the traditional
tions with Lightning Lanes, standby lines and the virtual
and the Walt Disney World queuing system used at such
Resort in Florida will in- attractions as Star Wars:
clude more than 40 attrac- Rise of the Resistance at
tions with Lightning Lanes. Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge.
Users can make only one res- Earlier this month, the
ervation at a time. Disneyland resort an-
8 The most popular at- nounced another effort to
tractions, such as as Radi- manage crowds by overhaul-
ator Springs Racers at Dis- ing its 37-year-old annual
ney California Adventure pass program, which was
and Seven Dwarfs Mine canceled in January.
Train at the Magic Kingdom Instead of annual passes
Park in Orlando, won’t be of- that allow holders to visit as
fered for reservation times often as they want — except
on Genie+. Instead, park for certain blackout days —
visitors who want to skip the Disney plans to launch a
lines for those attractions program this month called
will have to pay a separate Magic Key that will require
fee through the Genie app visitors to make reserva-
that will vary based on the tions before going to the
date, the attraction and the parks. The new pass pro-
park. Disney representa- gram will continue to re-
Andrew Kelly Associated Press
T-MOBILE has disclosed a handful of other data
breaches since 2015, but the latest one is the biggest.
exposed. The company said formation, debit or other
that it proactively reset all of payment information or So-
the PINs on those accounts. cial Security numbers were
No Metro by T-Mobile, for- in the inactive file.
mer Sprint prepaid or Boost T-Mobile had said earlier
customers had their names this week that it was investi-
or PINs exposed. gating a leak of its data after
There was also some ad- someone took to an online
ditional information from forum offering to sell the per-
inactive prepaid accounts sonal information of cell-
accessed through prepaid phone users.
billing files. T-Mobile said The Bellevue, Wash.,
that no customer financial company said Monday that
information, credit card in- it had confirmed there was
L AT I M E S . C O M
Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
strict access on many of the
busiest days. Sales begin
Wednesday.
By requiring reserva-
tions, the Magic Key pro-
gram enables Disney to
manage how many park-
goers visit Disneyland and
California Adventure Park
each day, easing crowding
on high-demand days such
as weekends and holidays.
The new annual pass pro-
gram ranges in price from
$399 for Southern California
residents to $1,399 for the
pass with no blackout dates.
Industry experts say the
old annual pass program al-
lowed too many local visitors
into the parks, discouraging
international and out-of-
state visitors who tend to
spend more per visit.
Disneyland’s original
FastPass system was intro-
duced in 1999 to give park-
goers a way to avoid long
queues. Guests grabbed pa-
per tickets dispensed from
kiosks and showed them to
ride operators within a spec-
ified time slot to jump into
shorter FastPass lines.
In 2017, Disney launched a
digital version of the system,
called the MaxPass. It op-
erated from the park’s
smartphone app, but unlike
the free FastPass reserva-
tion system, the digital Max-
Pass cost $20 a day and in-
cluded unlimited downloads
of photos taken by park
photographers.
The advantage of the
MaxPass was that park visi-
tors did not have to stand in
line at a FastPass kiosk to re-
trieve a booking ticket. The
MaxPass app could be used
to book ride times as soon as
guests entered the park.
unauthorized access to
“some T-Mobile data” and
that it had closed the entry
point used to gain access. “If
you were affected, you’ll hear
from us soon,” Chief Execu-
tive Mike Sievert tweeted in
response to a concerned cus-
tomer Tuesday.
The company now says it
will immediately offer two
years of free identity protec-
tion services and is recom-
mending that all of its post-
paid customers — those who
pay in monthly installments
— change their PIN. Its in-
vestigation is ongoing.
T-Mobile has disclosed a
number of data breaches
over the years, most recently
in January and before that in
November 2019 and August
2018, all of which involved un-
authorized access to cus-
tomer information. It also
disclosed a breach affecting
its own employees’ email ac-
counts in 2020. And in 2015,
hackers stole personal infor-
mation belonging to about
15 million T-Mobile wireless
customers and potential
customers in the U.S., which
they obtained from credit
reporting agency Experian.
L AT I M E S . C O M T H U R S DAY , AU G U S T 19 , 2 0 21 A11

Ex-drug exec deflects blame for opioid crisis

Richard Sackler says
he and family, owners
of OxyContin maker,
aren’t responsible.
By Geoff Mulvihill
The former president
and board chair of the com-
pany that makes OxyContin
told a court Wednesday that
he, his family and the com-
pany did not cause the opi-
oid crisis in the United
States.
Richard Sackler, a mem-
ber of the wealthy family
that owns Purdue Pharma,
was asked under oath dur-
ing a federal bankruptcy
hearing whether he, his kin
or the company bear respon-
sibility. For each, Sackler an-
swered simply: “No.”
In statements and court
papers, Sackler family mem-
bers have consistently de-
nied wrongdoing in the opi-
oid crisis, even as the com-
pany they own has twice
pleaded guilty to federal
crimes over its opioid prac-
tices.
But it’s rare for family
members to be asked about
it point-blank in open court.
The hearing in federal Bank-
ruptcy Court in White
Plains, N.Y., was held via
videoconference.
Richard Sackler has not
appeared in public forums in
recent years outside video of
a deposition he gave in a law-
suit in 2015. His denial of re-
sponsibility for the opioid
crisis comes a day after his
MARKET ROUNDUP
CARDBOARD gravestones with the names of opioid overdose victims stand outside the Bankruptcy Court
building in New York where Purdue Pharma’s former president and board chairman testified Wednesday.
son testified that the family
wouldn’t accept a settle-
ment without guarantees of
immunity from further legal
action.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge
Robert D. Drain said
Wednesday that he ex-
pected testimony to be com-
pleted Thursday and final
arguments to begin Monday,
and that a decision is likely
later next week.
During Wednesday’s
hearing, Sackler said he had
laryngitis, and his voice was
sometimes soft.
In response to more than
three hours of questions,
mostly from Maryland As-
sistant Atty. Gen. Brian Ed-
munds, his most common
answer was, “I don’t recall.”
Sackler, whose father
was one of three brothers
who nearly 70 years ago
bought the company that
later became Purdue
Pharma, didn’t recall emails
he wrote a decade or more
ago; whether Purdue’s
board approved certain
sales strategies; whether a
company owned by Sackler
family members sold opioids
in Argentina; or whether he
paid any of his own money as
part of a settlement with
Oklahoma to which the
Sackler family contributed
$75 million.
Often, he answered ques-
tions with more questions,
asking for precision.
Seth Wenig Associated Press
cluding both prescription
drugs and illicit ones such as
heroin and illegally pro-
duced fentanyl, since 2000.)
At another point, Ed-
munds asked whether he
ever had conversations with
sales managers.
“Can you define what you
mean by sales managers?”
Sackler asked.
Edmunds did. Then
Sackler said he didn’t recall
any such conversations.
Edmunds asked about a
disagreement over company
sales targets at one point.
Sackler corrected him.
apparent that the powerful
prescription pain drug was
being misused in some
cases, he said in an email
that Purdue would have to
“hammer on the abusers in
every way possible,” describ-
ing them as “the culprits and
the problem.”
For those reasons, the ac-
tivists crusading against
companies involved in sell-
ing opioids often see Sackler
— who was president of the
company from 1999 to 2003,
chair of its board from 2004
through 2007, and a board
member from 1990 until 2018
— as a prime villain.
Members of the wealthy
family have long avoided the
spotlight in the business
world and welcomed it in
philanthropy. But in recent
years, museums, including
the Louvre in Paris, and uni-
versities, such as Tufts in
Massachusetts, that they’ve
supported have cut ties over
the opioid crisis.
Richard Sackler’s testi-
mony came a day after his
son, David Sackler, testified.
The younger Sackler,
who also served on Purdue’s
board, reiterated what has
long been the family’s posi-
tion: They will agree to their
part of the plan to restruc-
ture Purdue only if family
members receive protection
from lawsuits over opioids
and other Purdue action.
If those provisions do not
stay in the deal, David Sack-
ler said, the family would in-
stead face lawsuits. “I be-
lieve we would litigate the
claims to their final out-
come,” he said.
On Wednesday, Richard
Sackler said the family
would not agree if states that
oppose the deal were not
bound by it and allowed to

Amid caution, stocks drop

When Edmunds asked “You used the word ‘dis- move ahead with lawsuits
him if he knew how many pute,’ ” he said. “It wasn’t a against the company and
people in the U.S. had died dispute. It was a difference of family members.
from using opioids, Sackler opinion.” Under the proposed set-

for second straight session

associated press
Stocks fell broadly
Wednesday on Wall Street,
adding to losses in the mar-
ket a day after the Standard
& Poor’s 500 index had its
biggest drop in four weeks.
The benchmark index fell
1.1%, its second straight loss
after a five-day winning
streak. The selling acceler-
ated in the final hour of trad-
ing, with the S&P 500’s tech-
nology, healthcare, financial
and industrial companies
weighing down the index.
Only the index’s con-
sumer discretionary sector,
which includes a mix of com-
panies that rely on con-
sumer spending, rose as in-
vestors bid up shares in
Lowe’s and other big retail-
ers that reported better-
than-expected quarterly re-
sults. Even so, the S&P 500
remains near its all-time
high set Monday.
The market didn’t react
much initially to the after-
noon release of the minutes
from the Federal Reserve’s
latest policy meeting, which
confirmed that central bank
policymakers have made no
firm decision about when to
start unwinding their sup-
port measures for the econo-
my, which has been steadily
recovering from the pan-
demic-induced recession.
The surge this summer of
virus cases because of the
highly contagious Delta var-
iant now hangs over the
broader market and is blur-
ring the view on the econo-
my’s continued recovery.
The path of the virus and its
impact on consumer spend-
ing and job growth could be a
factor in the Fed’s decision-
making.
“We’re having a pretty
cautious week for the most
part,” said Chris Zaccarelli,
chief investment officer for
Independent Advisor Alli-
ance.
The S&P 500 index fell
47.81 points to 4,400.27. The
Dow Jones industrial aver-
age slid 382.59 points, or 1.1%,
to 34,960.69. The Nasdaq
composite lost 130.27 points,
or 0.9%, to 14,525.91.
Small-company stocks
also fell, sending the Russell
2000 index down by 18.39
points, or 0.8%, to 2,158.78.
The yield on the 10-year
Treasury note rose to 1.27%
from 1.25% late Tuesday.
The minutes from the
Federal Reserve’s policy
meeting last month, re-
leased at 2 p.m. Eastern
time, showed that Fed offi-
cials discussed the idea of
beginning to taper the cen-
tral bank’s extraordinary
support for the U.S. econo-
my later this year, though
they stopped short of a firm
decision on a timetable.
They also concluded that
the economic recovery from
asked him to specify over The previous words of tlement, the family would
which time period. Sackler, 76, are at the heart give up ownership of Purdue
Edmunds did: 2005 to of lawsuits accusing the and contribute $4.5 billion
2017. Stamford, Conn., company over time in cash and control
“I don’t know,” Sackler of a major role in sparking a of charitable funds. Most of
said. He said that he had nationwide opioid epidemic. the money, along with
looked at some data on At the OxyContin sales Purdue’s future profits,
Major stock indexes deaths in the past, though. launch in 1996, he told the would be used to abate the
Daily Daily % YTD % (The U.S. Centers for Dis- company’s sales force that opioid crisis. Some would go
Index Close change change change
ease Control and Prevention there would be “a blizzard of to victims and their families.
Dow industrials 34,960.69 -382.59 -1.08 +14.23 has tallied more than prescriptions that will bury
S&P 500 4,400.27 -47.81 -1.07 +17.15 500,000 deaths in the U.S. the competition.” Mulvihill writes for the
Nasdaq composite 14,525.91 -130.27 -0.89 +12.71 from opioid overdose, in- Five years later, as it was Associated Press.
S&P 400 2,667.07 -25.43 -0.94 +15.63
Russell 2000 2,158.78 -18.39 -0.84 +9.31
EuroStoxx 50 3,656.87 -5.77 -0.16 +17.65
Nikkei (Japan) 27,585.91 +161.44 +0.59 +0.52
Hang Seng (Hong Kong) 25,867.01 +121.14 +0.47 -5.01
Associated Press
the recession was moving terly report cards from
closer to achieving the cen- retailers.
tral bank’s goals on inflation Lowe’s Cos. jumped 9.6%
and employment. As a re- for the biggest gain in the
sult, the Fed is edging S&P 500 after a strong sales
toward an announcement forecast. TJX Cos. rose
that it will begin paring the 5.6% after the parent of T.J.
pace of its Treasury and Maxx, Marshalls and other
mortgage bond buying. stores beat analysts’ sec-
Beyond watching the ond-quarter profit and reve-
Fed, investors sized up quar- nue forecasts.
NONPROFIT
Gabrielle Amster, Wallis Annenberg
PetSpace
Former Palm Springs Animal Shelter Executive
Director, Gabrielle Amster, is the new Director of
Wallis Annenberg PetSpace. Amster brings over
15 years experience in animal welfare leadership.
Gabrielle Amster Annenberg PetSpace is an innovative educational
space and pet adoption center in Los Angeles
focused on the human-animal bond, with a
renowned Leadership Institute.
INSURANCE
Diana Granillo, SullivanCurtisMonroe
Diana Granillo has been promoted to Chief
Operating Officer at SullivanCurtisMonroe.
Bringing her depth of insurance knowledge and
over 30 years of industry experience to the COO
Diana Granillo position, Diana will help the agency reach its
growth goals. Moreover, she plays a vital role
in SCM’s relentless pursuit of exceeding client
expectations.
ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
Enrique Ceniceros, Taylor Design
Enrique Ceniceros, AIA, has joined Taylor Design
as Science and Technology Studio Director. He is
an expert in the adaptive reuse of commercial
and historic structures into state-of-the-art
research and manufacturing facilities, and he has
Enrique Ceniceros
been an active participant in the growth of Los
Angeles as a life sciences cluster.
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OPINION

EDITORIAL
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What’s better than a third vaccine dose? A first dose

group to get to safety.
Getting the COVID-19 vaccine into From the start, too much of our response
to COVID-19 has been governed by our per-
the arms of the unvaccinated is a sonal fears rather than on sound policies. It’s
more effective way to protect lives understandable that fully vaccinated Ameri-
cans will want to maximize their protection
amid the Delta surge. with a third dose, though it’s still not known
exactly how effective that jab would be. Data
now that’s become an expectation. Vaccina- protection to people who already are pretty
tion is still tremendously effective at the safe from a deadly case of COVID-19, the Bid-
original goal. en administration should be spending more
There are exceptions. People with se- of its vaccine-purchasing power on doses for
verely compromised immune systems need nations where the shots have simply been
a leg up on resistance to COVID-19, and an unavailable. Only now is Haiti getting the
emerging body of evidence indicates that first vaccines delivered; its rate of fully vacci-
older adults are at increased risk of hospital- nated people is zero.

T
here is only one reason, many
scientists say, why a booster shot
of one of the mRNA vaccines
could make sense as public
health policy: Not to safeguard
the vaccinated, who are still getting robust
protection from their first two doses, but to
protect the unvaccinated around them from
COVID-19.
That’s because the very high viral load of
the Delta variant makes transmission of the
coronavirus more likely, even from vacci-
nated people.
But if the main benefit of a third dose is
protecting the unvaccinated, science al-
ready offers a much better way: Get the first
doses into those who have been slow or re-
sistant in terms of becoming inoculated,
rather than a third dose into vaccine adopt-
ers. And when the federal government deter-
mines that children younger than 12 can
safely be vaccinated, that will be another big
from Israel — the first nation to vaccinate a
majority of its population, mostly using the
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine — show that pro-
tection from infection wanes over months
and with the advent of the Delta variant. On
Wednesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention released similar
findings. So the concern makes sense.
But infection isn’t the same as having a
life-threatening case of the disease. Hospi-
talization and death rates among the vacci-
nated have risen somewhat, but remain ex-
ceedingly low. The antibodies from the Pfizer
vaccine are very effective against the more
contagious Delta variant.
One strange fact that many people have
forgotten: The original goal of COVID-19 vac-
cine production was not to keep people from
being infected. It was to protect them from
death or serious harm. It just happened that
the vaccines were also remarkably effective
at warding off infection in the first place and
ization and/or death. But at this point, pro- Shipping doses internationally is more
viding third doses to the general population than just a kindness to other countries. Vi-
is a lot of bucks for a relatively small bang. ruses don’t respect national boundaries; one
Want to really bring down hospitali- of the best ways to protect ourselves is to
zations and deaths from Delta? Once the help protect the world.
Pfizer vaccine secures U.S. Food and Drug It’s not dangerous for people to get third
Administration approval, which is now ex- doses in a month or so; any side effects are
pected by Labor Day, that opens the legal expected to be about the same as they were
door to widespread vaccine mandates. Vac- for the first two. Nor is it immoral, especially
cinations are required, starting with federal for those in special circumstances, such as
employees and anyone who wants to travel healthcare workers and the immune-com-
by airline. The nation’s biggest employers, promised. Existing doses of the Pfizer-BioN-
such as Walmart and Amazon, should be Tech vaccine are in place and not headed
planning to impose them now. overseas.
President Biden got that off to the right But as the nation continues investing in
start Wednesday by announcing that nurs- vaccine production, the most effective use of
ing homes had to require vaccination of their those vaccines for now is first doses, and
staffs or forgo federal funding. The Los Ange- then second ones, not third. The easy work of
les City Council voted to require vaccination vaccinating the willing and those with access
of its staff, a week after the L.A. Unified is done. The real trick is in figuring out how to
school system made the same requirement. get those needles to reach billions of un-
And rather than providing a little more touched arms.

LETTERS
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This systemic hypocrisy A study from the UCLA

is one of the main reasons I Fielding School of Public
no longer consider myself a Health on the link between
Catholic. air pollution and COVID-19
Mary Ellen Barnes deaths is being published in
San Pedro the August 2021 edition of
the peer-reviewed journal
:: Environment International.
A key finding is that Los
Gómez and his brother Angeles County neighbor-
bishops have no choice but hoods with the worst air
to deny Holy Communion to quality saw a 60% increase
politicians who defend and in COVID-19 fatalities,
facilitate the killing of mil- compared with communi-
lions of unborn babies. ties with the best air quality.
That’s because all Cath- When people are dying,
olics are subject to the alarms should be ringing.
church’s Code of Canon But the alarm is silent to-
Law, which says those “ob- day as it has been for more
stinately persevering in than 40 years, and I antici-
manifest grave sin are not pate tomorrow the alarm
to be admitted to Holy will continue to be silent. As
Communion.” It’s hard to a resident of the area, I am
imagine a sin graver than beginning to believe no one
presiding over the mass has properly diagnosed the
killing of innocent unborn problem.
babies. Leaders at all levels of
When the church denies government are failing the
these politicians its holiest residents of port communi-
sacrament, it is protecting ties. The Los Angeles
their eternal souls. Accord- County Department of
ing to 1 Corinthians, Chap- Public Health and the
ter 11: “Therefore whoever South Coast Air Quality
eats this bread or drinks Management District really
this cup of the Lord in an need to step up with pro-
unworthy manner will be posals to immediately re-
guilty of the body and blood lieve the pain and suffering
of the Lord. But let a man of people in these communi-
examine himself, and so let ties.
him eat of the bread and Theral Golden
drink of the cup. For he who Long Beach
Patrick T. Fallon For The Times eats and drinks in an un-
LOS ANGELES ARCHBISHOP José H. Gómez, seen in 2016, leads the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. worthy manner eats and ::
drinks judgment to himself,
not discerning the Lord’s In 2000, The Times re-

Leading their church astray body.”

Mike Engler
Santa Barbara
ported that the state of
California was warning that
high levels of diesel exhaust
can cause cancer. Residents
Re “L.A. archbishop’s Biden stance opens a rift in the church,” Aug. 14 :: of San Pedro, confronting
the massive diesel emis-
We atheists and agnos- sions of the ports, immedi-

“W
hoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
Friedrich Nietzsche’s sage observation defines the august Roman Catholic Church: Two thousand tics either laugh or cry at ately began to petition for
years of sanctimonious tilting against the perceived forces of evil have revealed it to be hollow and the quarrel over whether, emissions controls.
within the church, Catho- The result? Silence.
venal.
lics who support abortion Shortly thereafter, the
The stubborn stance taken by Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gómez, president of the U.S.
rights should be able to take South Coast Air Quality
Conference of Catholic Bishops, against the perceived “moral evil” of abortion, and the U.S. bishops’ calculated
Communion. Management District pub-
willingness to consider withholding the Eucharistic sacrament from President Biden for supporting a woman’s bodily We humans exist in such lished a map showing the
autonomy, are the latest jaw-dropping indictments against this battered institution. great numbers because we results of its modeling of air
Biden’s policies regarding climate change, immigration reform, racism, inequality and the death penalty are eclipsed enjoy sexual intercourse. pollution cancer risk in its
by one specious issue — an equation of myriad positives canceled by one negative. Modern humans have ex- jurisdiction. The concentra-
My mother, a former nun and devout Catholic to the end, laughed about her favorite florid phrase from the church’s isted for around 200,000 tion around the two ports
prayer-book sentiments I grew up with: “the odor of sanctity.” There’s an odor here, but it has little to do with purity. years, and couples, espe- was absolutely terrifying. A
Mary MacGregor cially women up until very local physician at the time
La Quinta recently, haven’t been able dubbed the area a “diesel
to control their fertility, death zone.”
often with tragic conse- Despite successful law-
What the bishops ap- If the bishops are going of power are required by resumed federal executions quences. suits from the community,
pear to forget is that at the to be political, their mission oath to adhere to the U.S. last year? The archbishop So for me and the great the ports continue to reso-
time of Communion, a demands they take broader Constitution, and they have and his conservative allies numbers of people world- lutely slow-walk diesel
person is not a president or responsibility. made a willful decision in among the American bish- wide who have figured out exhaust cleanup. Clearly,
a member of Congress, but Diane de Anda some cases to ignore the ops are proposing selective that there is no god, we pursuit of the almighty
simply a recipient of a sac- Playa del Rey basic principles of life and enforcement of church hope that these petty quar- dollar trumps the public’s
rament, as is anyone of the death as seen through the teaching. rels over nothing evolve into health. What a disgrace.
faith who comes forward to :: lens of Catholicism. That is Pope Francis reminds us a recognition that we can all Noel Park
receive the Eucharist. their choice. that Communion “is not the believe in science, and per- Rancho Palos Verdes
Singling out those in gov- Gómez’s decision to call Nicholas J. reward of saints, but the haps adopt the philosophy
ernment makes the bish- out high-profile Catholic Antonicello bread of sinners.” It must of Thomas Paine: “My coun-
ops’ stance political.
Furthermore, there is a
politicians is the proper
thing to do when it comes to
Marina del Rey not be used as a political
weapon.
try is the world, and my
religion is to do good.”
Texas justice
basic hypocrisy in claiming the precious issue of life. :: Christopher Jane Roberts Re “An escalation in Texas
that adherence to Catholic As Americans, these Cappiello Redlands over GOP-backed voting
doctrine requires these politicians have every right How insulting for Gómez West Hollywood measure,” Aug. 13
sanctions, when their ac- to oppose the tenets and to claim that if bishops
tions are in direct conflict
with the position of Pope
principles of the Catholic
Church, but they do not
allow pro-choice politicians,
including Biden, to receive
:: Pollution deaths In the Texas Legislature,
when the minority party
Francis, whose role is the
primary interpreter and
have the right to masquer-
ade as committed followers
the sacrament of Holy
Communion, it could sow
The hypocrisy of the U.S.
Conference of Catholic
are an emergency thwarts the majority, arrest
warrants are issued. In the
enforcer of Catholic doc- of the faith. “confusion with the faithful Bishops is truly breath- Re “Port pollution is chok- U.S. Senate, when the mi-
trine. It is the moral responsi- about what the church taking. ing L.A.,” editorial, Aug. 16 nority thwarts the majority,
Finally, the bishops need bility of Gómez to remind all actually teaches.” If its members want to oh well.
to take a pro-life rather of us what is right and what American Catholics deny Biden the Eucharist, Pollution from the ports Mort Tuchin
than an antiabortion is wrong, what is acceptable know what the church that is their right. But they of Los Angeles and Long Poway
stance — that is, they must and what is not of those teaches on abortion, and should also deny the Eucha- Beach is not just choking
show concern beyond the who practice this faith, and polls consistently indicate rist to those in the church’s Southern California; it is
fetus with regard to policies the reality that the accept- HOW TO WRITE TO US
that a majority of them hierarchy, including them- killing the residents of the
that place those who have ance of Holy Communion is disagree with it. selves, who allowed the fence-line communities Please send letters to
already been born at risk, based on the regular prac- Where was the talk of “moral evil” of the abuse of around the ports. We are in letters@latimes.com. For
be they victims of racism or tice of penance and confes- withholding Communion generations of children and a public health emergency, submission guidelines, see
immigrant children and sion. when the Catholic former protected the molesters but no one is responding to latimes.com/letters or call
their families. Those in high positions U.S. Atty. Gen. William Barr instead of the victims. it as such. 1-800-LA TIMES, ext. 74511.

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L AT I M E S . C O M / O P I N I O N
Larry Elder’s worldview threatens California
JEAN GUERRERO
The California recall
election’s Republican
front-runner, Larry
Elder, has built a career
as a Black radio talk
show host who isn’t
afraid to deny the reali-
ty of systemic racism by
maligning Black peo-
ple. He likes to call himself “the sage
from South-Central.”
The problem is, the statistics he’s
shared over the decades to support his
views and policy proposals are mis-
leading, if not outright false, casting
Black people as unusually crime-
prone. In some cases, the bogus data
come directly from Jared Taylor, a
leading white supremacist Elder has
repeatedly cited in his articles and
books.
If Elder becomes governor, the state
that led the charge against Trumpism
could plunge into an alternate universe
reminiscent of the ’90s, when Cali-
fornia passed a racist three-strikes law
and the anti-immigrant Proposition LARRY
187. ELDER, at a
“He would be a violent ricochet campaign rally
backwards for California and the coun- in July,
try,” Sydney Kamlager, a California embraces
state senator and vice chair of the alarming views
California Legislative Black Caucus, on race that
told me. “We’re not trying to go back to would drive
Jim Crow.” state policy for
Elder told The Times last week that 40 million
he plans to “change the rhetoric about Californians,
how bad the cops are.” Last year, he demolishing
shared a graphic with so-called facts immigrants’
depicting Black people as murderous, rights and
echoing similar claims he’s made on air criminal justice
for decades: “Blacks kill 2x as many reforms.
whites (500) as whites kill Blacks
(250),” and “Blacks, 13% of pop., com-
mit 50% of murders.”
Jeffrey Fagan, a law professor at
Columbia University, said of these
numbers: “This is an extraordinarily
dishonest rendering.” He and other
criminal experts say Black people
don’t disproportionately victimize
whites, nor are they more inclined
toward violent crimes.
Those claims ignore crucial con-
text: “There are more whites in the
United States than there are Blacks,”
David Alan Sklansky, a Stanford Uni-
versity criminal law professor, told me.
Will Biden help LGBTQ Why you should know
Afghans in deadly peril? this enslaved man’s name
‘They are going to do what the
Nazis did to LGBT people. They
are going to try to exterminate us,’
says one Afghan activist.
LZ GRANDERSON
President Biden is held in
high regard in the LGBTQ
community, largely for his
“Meet the Press” interview in
2012, when as vice president
he endorsed same-sex mar-
riage ahead of President
Obama.
As the boss now, Biden has continued
that support: bringing Pride Month cele-
brations back to the White House and cre-
ating an administration with a historic
number of LGBTQ appointees and initia-
tives.
One such initiative is the memorandum
he issued in February in which he explicitly
directed “all agencies abroad to ensure that
United States diplomacy and foreign assist-
ance promote and protect the human rights
of LGBTQI+ persons,” including “protect-
ing vulnerable LGBTQI+ refugees and
asylum seekers.”
Well, Mr. President, it is time to see if you
can keep that promise.
Right now, LGBTQ people in Af-
ghanistan are being hunted by the Taliban.
A Taliban regime that made public execu-
tion of queer people a spectator sport before
U.S. military occupation pushed the regime
back into the shadows. A regime in which
one of its judges told a reporter last month
that gay men will be executed by having
walls toppled on them once the Taliban are
back in power.
Given this horror, will you enforce the
memorandum’s directive “to identify and
expedite resettlement of highly vulnerable
persons with urgent protection needs”?
Even in the height of the U.S. presence in
Afghanistan, LGBTQ Afghans did not live
in safety. A 2009 Justice Department report
stated that “no death sentences are re-
ported to have been dispensed after the end
of the Taliban rule but … this is still techni-
cally possible” under Afghan criminal law.
That such punishment was possible —
even after the overthrow of the Taliban —
shows the extent of persecution queer
Afghans have suffered. Still, the fall of the
Taliban was an opening. Young Afghans felt
comfortable enough to come out to friends
and begin dating quietly through chat
groups and dating apps. Now, the phones
they used to find each other can be confis-
cated by the Taliban and used to hunt each
of them down. Making matters worse, many
dare not get rid of their phones since those
devices may be the only means of communi-
cation that could lead them to safety.
This isn’t theoretical. This is happening
in Kabul right now. Nemat Sadat, a gay
Afghan man and author of the critically
acclaimed book “The Carpet Weaver,” was
forced out of his teaching position at Ameri-
can University of Afghanistan in Kabul and
OP-ED
“Because of that, it’s inevitable that if
there’s any cross-racial offending,
there are going to be more whites
victimized.” John Pfaff, a law professor
at Fordham University, agreed that it’s
a matter of “random chance.”
Government data show violent
crime occurs overwhelmingly between
people of the same race. Higher homi-
cide rates within Black communities
reflect “the role that segregation
played in American crime patterns,”
says Jonathan Simon, a criminal jus-
tice law professor at UC Berkeley. The
suggestion that Black people are ex-
ceptionally violent humans is rooted in
a eugenics-era belief in racial differenc-
es and discredited race science.
In an early “BET Tonight” appear-
ance with Tavis Smiley, Elder said:
“Rape, murder, uh, robbery with ag-
gravated manslaughter, about 90% of
that involves a Black perpetrator.”
Government data show that’s a gross
exaggeration.
In an interview with The Times
editorial board, Elder cited a study
with an unusual finding: “Police are
more reluctant, more hesitant to pull
the trigger on a black suspect.” The
vast majority of crime research, howev-
er, reveals the opposite. “There’s over-
eventually fled the country in 2013.
After rumors began circulating that
Sadat was gay, the Taliban issued a mani-
festo targeting the university and the
Afghan government pressured the school to
fire him. Keep in mind that while the Tali-
ban was pushed back in those years, they
were never fully pushed out. By 2018, the
Taliban had either regained or was contest-
ing more than 45% of the country, according
to U.S. government reports.
Sadat now lives in Washington, D.C.,
where he advocates for LGBTQ equality in
the Middle East. Here’s one of the many text
messages he received this week from
LGBTQ people he knows in Afghanistan:
“We are so scared, we are hiding, we know
they will come after us, but we don’t know
what to do.”
Over the last 20 years, young LGBTQ
Afghans took it upon themselves to be the
vanguard of change, Sadat told me. “They
came out to their families. They told their
friends. They found love. And it’s a very
diverse group of people. People who didn’t
have a lot of means and people who did.”
Now, he points out, the people with means
may be able to escape on their own, but not
the others.
Of the Taliban, Sadat said: “They are
going to do what the Nazis did to LGBT
people. They are going to try to exterminate
us.”
Nazis arrested approximately 100,000 gay
men before the end of World War II, with
thousands ending up in concentration
camps where they were the subjects of
experiments and tortured. An estimated
65% of those held in camps died there.
“People never thought that the U.S. was
really going to withdraw,” Sadat said when I
asked him why more people didn’t leave
sooner. “They really thought the talk was
just political theater for domestic purposes
because no one really believed the U.S.
would create a parallel government with the
Taliban.” He was referring to the agreement
the Trump administration made with the
Taliban without participation from the
Afghanistan government.
Earlier this month, 14 senators signed a
letter asking the State Department to ex-
plain the specific steps it was taking to
enforce the February memorandum. While
LGBTQ people are living under duress all
over the world, America’s responsibility to
people in Afghanistan is obviously unique.
So should our response be to the crisis they
are now facing.
They are on the run.
Their families have turned their backs on
them; some are even turning them in.
Without intervention, they will probably
be massacred.
Now is the time for the Biden adminis-
tration to step in. Whether it could have
forestalled the swift collapse of the Afghan
government this week can be debated. What
is less debatable is its moral duty to rescue
and resettle LGBTQ people who will be
targeted and killed under the Taliban’s rule.
The very people Biden said he would seek to
protect a few months ago.
@LZGranderson
T H U R S DAY , AU G U S T 19 , 2 0 21
Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
whelming evidence that the system
operates more harshly against Blacks
than it does against whites,” said
Sklansky of Stanford University.
Elder’s views were shaped by Tay-
lor, who wants a “majority-white”
nation and wrote a 1999 pamphlet,
“The Color of Crime,” a white suprem-
acist classic. Elder quoted him repeat-
edly between 1998 and 2002. Elder also
featured the white nationalist site
Vdare, with its stated mission to de-
fend the country’s “racial and cultural
identity,” on his website in 2016.
As governor, Elder, who mentored
Trump advisor Stephen Miller, would
veto legislation that conflicts with his
ideology. He told The Times he doesn’t
believe in sanctuary laws or citizenship
for Dreamers. He’s against in-state
tuition, healthcare and driver’s li-
censes for the undocumented. He
opposes birthright citizenship. He
objects to cashless bail and diverting
police funds to social programs.
Elder also said he doesn’t plan to do
much about climate change, and that
he opposes COVID-19 vaccine and
masking mandates. Inaction would
disproportionately harm people of
color, who’ve borne the brunt of those
disasters.
By Clyde W. Ford
ess than 25% of Black Ameri-
L cans have been fully vacci-
nated, the lowest vaccination
rate of any group the Centers
for Disease Control and Pre-
vention tracks. This unacceptably low
rate is the result of many factors, in-
cluding disproportional representa-
tion in essential worker settings, a lack
of access to quality healthcare, and rac-
ism and associated chronic stress.
Looming large in vaccination hesi-
tancy among Blacks is distrust in
American healthcare rooted in medical
racism and experimentation. The
many strategies employed in an at-
tempt to overcome this distrust have
included ministers in the community
spearheading vaccination campaigns
and Black healthcare professionals an-
swering questions during the pan-
demic about past medical malfeasance
and current medical practice.
One untried strategy that could
make a difference: an information cam-
paign that would highlight how people
of African descent have been crucial to
the development of vaccines in the U.S.
— going back more than 300 years. This
strategy offers a source of pride instead
of fear.
The historical record shows that the
very notion of inoculation against a
virus was first introduced in early
America by an enslaved African man
named Onesimus. In 1706, a Boston
congregation gave him to their minister
as a gift — that’s right, churchgoing
Christians thought it was perfectly fine
to present another human being to
their spiritual leader as a gift. The re-
cipient was Cotton Mather, the ac-
claimed Puritan minister and author.
Smallpox had been known and
feared for some time when Onesimus
told Mather around 1716 about an in-
oculation method to prevent smallpox
that had been used on him as a child in
Africa. Onesimus probably came from
Ghana, which had been ruled by sev-
eral Islamic dynasties, and Arabic
medical science had developed several
methods aimed at preventing smallpox
by the 17th century.
According to Mather, Onesimus ex-
plained that scraping the skin of an un-
infected person with a thorn dipped in
“juice” from a smallpox vesicle of some-
one already infected could protect that
person from dying.
Mather struggled to accept a slave’s
wisdom. He verified this recounting by
speaking with other Africans, and with
other ministers who had heard similar
reports from enslaved people they
owned or interviewed. Mather also
learned the inoculation method Ones-
imus had described was common
throughout the Middle East, the Far
East and Africa.
In a letter to what was then called
the Royal Society, he called Onesimus
“a pretty Intelligent Fellow.” Mather
soon became a believer in inoculation,
advocating for it from his pulpit and in
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Of course, the Legislature can, with
its supermajority, stop a Republican
governor from destroying California.
But Elder could embolden the Repub-
lican minority to obstruct funding for
existing programs approved by Gov.
Gavin Newsom, such as the expansion
of healthcare coverage to undocu-
mented seniors, offering state earned
income tax credit for people without
Social Security numbers and provid-
ing COVID assistance for farmwork-
ers.
Elder has long conflated Latinos
with crime. In his memoir, he wrote
that an influx of “legal and illegal His-
panics” near the Convention Center
made the area “gang infested, and
much more dangerous.” He told The
Times he plans to use the “bully pulp-
it,” and favors the term “illegal alien,”
not “undocumented.” He’s sought
advice from Gov. Pete Wilson, who
normalized “invasion” rhetoric.
State Sen. María Elena Durazo
(D-Los Angeles) believes harsher
rhetoric alone could endanger mixed-
status families of color, subjecting
them to more racism and hate crimes.
“When they use immigrants as a scape-
goat, they’re really going after the
whole community,” she said.
Elder seems unable to see racism in
action. He offered an illuminating
anecdote in his interview with The
Times. He said that the first year after
he got a driver’s license, police stopped
him “between 75 and 100 times.” He
continued: “And every time, I did what
my father told me to do, which is to
make sure my left hand was at 10
o’clock, my right hand was at 2 o’clock.
Made sure I said ‘yes sir,’ or ‘no sir.’ ”
Elder rejects the idea that he was
racially profiled. He argues the stops
happened because he “looked young.”
And he believes he survived because
he behaved. As governor, he says, “I
would urge people to comply.”
His gospel of denial and his use of
false race data are dangerous enough
on the radio. If elected, his views on
race and marginalized people would be
front and center, driving state policy
for some 40 million Californians. The
threat to immigrants in this state and
racial justice for all would be cata-
strophic.
@jeanguerre
his writings. This drew the ire of his fel-
low white Bostonians, who resented
the idea that knowledge obtained from
a so-called uneducated, uncivilized Af-
rican could be useful.
Newspapers inveighed against
Mather. Ministers preached his
damnation. An explosive device was
thrown through the window of his
home. Then, on May 26, 1721, the sailing-
ship Seahorse arrived in Boston Har-
bor from the Caribbean, and Mather
wrote in his diary: “The grievous Ca-
lamity of the Small-Pox has now en-
tered the Town.”
As the epidemic spread from the
ship to citizens in Boston, Mather part-
nered with Zabdiel Boylston, a physi-
cian, to administer vaccines via Ones-
imus’ method. Boylston inoculated his
son and his enslaved African workers
before inoculating other Bostonians.
Only six of the 242 people inoculated
using Onesimus’ method died, a mor-
tality rate of one in 40. Among those
who had not undergone the procedure,
the mortality rate was 1 in 7.
Lives were saved. Mather was vindi-
cated. Boylston was lauded. The Bos-
ton inoculations helped pave the way
for English physician Edward Jenner,
in 1796, to develop the smallpox vaccine,
a similar but safer inoculation tech-
nique. The procedure was called “vacci-
nation” because cowpox was used; in
Latin, “vacca” means cow.
Onesimus’ role was largely lost to
history until 2016, when medical histori-
ans voted him “one of the 100 Best Bos-
tonians of All Time” in Boston
Magazine.
The historical record also shows
that enslaved people were the subjects
of vaccine experimentation. For exam-
ple, in 1801 Thomas Jefferson had 50 of
those he enslaved at Monticello in-
jected with a smallpox vaccine, then
daringly exposed them to the live
smallpox virus. Only after they showed
no symptoms would he allow two dozen
of his family members to be vaccinated.
A direct line can be drawn between
inoculation in Boston in the early 1700s
and the COVID-19 vaccine today. For in-
stance, the Pfizer and Moderna vac-
cines use pieces of a virus’ genetic ma-
terial (mRNA) to create an immune re-
sponse.
Black Americans should rightly be
suspicious of an American healthcare
system that has through the centuries
treated them as disposable laboratory
rats. But by highlighting Onesimus’
role in the development of vaccines,
public health officials might be able to
persuade more Black Americans to roll
up their sleeves and receive the
COVID-19 vaccine with pride, knowing
the history of the injection they’re re-
ceiving can be traced back to an en-
slaved African man.
Clyde W. Ford’s latest book is the
forthcoming “Of Blood and Sweat:
Black Lives, and the Making of White
Power and Wealth.” He is a
contributing writer to Opinion.
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State bracing for unprecedented dangers
[Wildfires, from A1]
Then there is the mon-
strous Dixie fire — the sec-
ond-largest in the state’s re-
corded history — now mak-
ing a run toward Susanville.
Dixie has been burning for
more than a month, and the
danger zone now stretches
across a wide swath of the re-
gion from Lassen to Butte.
Firefighters and climate
experts are bracing for a
challenging few months,
with strong winds expected
to move in soon. Winds have
always fanned devastating
fires, but it remains to be
seen how they will combine
with the dry terrain that has
already created so much un-
predictable fire behavior
this year.
“To have fires of this mag-
nitude so early is very unusu-
al,” said Alex Hall, director of
the UCLA Center for Cli-
mate Science. “And in much
of California, historically, the
heart of the fire season — es-
pecially for big fires — is the
time of year when the Santa
Ana and Diablo winds kick
in.”
To Hall and others, the
conditions this year under-
score how the changing cli-
mate is fundamentally alter-
ing the dynamics of fighting
and surviving fires in Cali-
fornia. Many of the ingredi-
ents are in place for another
flame-filled fall.
“The dice are loaded,” he
said. “It’s very likely that we
have much more of the fire
season to come.”
The state passed the
million-acre mark Saturday,
according to the California
Department of Forestry and
Fire Protection — the same
day the Caldor fire ignited
south of Grizzly Flats.
By Wednesday, the num-
ber had already grown to
more than 1.3 million acres.
Cal Fire Assistant Depu-
ty Director Daniel Berlant
said hitting the milestone in
California is a rarity in any
year, and even more so when
it happens this early.
“It’s very concerning that
we’ve already had over a mil-
lion acres by August,” he
said. “We are well ahead of
the acreage in the same time
period last year — and last
year was a record-setting
year.”
Not only have wildfires
arrived earlier this year, but
they have also been destruc-
tive. The multicounty,
635,000-acre Dixie fire al-
ready has reduced the town
of Greenville to ashes.
Strong winds also helped
spur significant growth of
the Caldor fire in El Dorado
County, which exploded
from 6,500 acres Tuesday to
more than 50,000 acres by
Wednesday. Red flag warn-
ings have been issued across
much of Central and North-
ern California.
Officials said it grew so
rapidly at one point that
they had trouble keeping an
accurate perimeter on the
map.
“This fire has done things
that nobody could have pre-
dicted,” Eldorado National
Forest supervisor Jeff Mar-
solais said during a commu-
nity meeting Tuesday, “but
COVID may do long-term harm to moms’ career paths
[Mothers, from A1]
out how to do their job at
home in a telework situa-
tion, they’re also providing
care to their children. And
that kind of multitasking is
extremely hard,” said Heg-
geness, who herself is the
mother of two middle
schoolers and has been
working from home.
She and other experts
fear the pandemic’s long-
term effects will deprive the
economy of needed produc-
tive workers and set back
decades of advances that
women had made profes-
sionally and in corporate
America, including narrow-
ing the pay gap with men.
About a third of all moth-
ers in the U.S. workforce
have scaled back or left their
jobs, or plan to do so, accord-
ing to a survey by Sera-
mount, a consulting firm
that focuses on workplace
inclusion. That’s roughly
8 million workers.
Marian Millikan, 37, is one
of them. “After 14 years with
the same company, I was al-
most there,” she wrote of her
goal of making partner at a
national accounting firm in
Richmond, Va.
When COVID-19 closed
schools and day-care cen-
ters in March 2020, Millikan
worked remotely as she es-
sentially home-schooled her
two children, then 6 and 8.
It was peak tax season.
She shoehorned Zoom
meetings with clients in be-
S L AT I M E S . C O M
FIRE CREWS set a hose line near Milford. Santa Ana and Diablo winds, which tend to come in mid-September, could deliver more misery.
that’s how firefighting has
been in the state this year.”
Both of the fires have
been driven by the heat and
drought, which together
have dried the state’s land-
scape to the point of extreme
combustibility. Strong
winds have fanned their
flames and sent their em-
bers aloft, and the seasonal
Santa Anas and Diablos
haven’t even arrived in full
force.
“September and October
is traditionally when the
largest and the most de-
structive fires have oc-
curred, and primarily that’s
due to the fact that that’s the
time period when, tradition-
ally, we would see wind
events like Santa Anas,”
Berlant said.
“Plus it’s the point of the
season when conditions
have been dried out all sum-
A HAZE of smoke from the Caldor fire lingers in El Dorado County’s Grizzly
Flats. Many ingredients are in place for another flame-filled fall, experts predict.
tween the needs of her kids.
She worked at nights and on
weekends.
Her husband helped out,
but after a month and a
half, bone-tired and emo-
tionally drained, Millikan
went to her employer to see
whether some accommoda-
tions could be made.
“I was told, ‘But we need
you to do all the hours that
you do. There’s a lot of work
that needs to be done,’ ” she
said in an interview.
In early May last year,
Millikan quit, but not before
agonizing over her decision.
Part of it was that she
didn’t want to let people
down, Millikan said; she was
always complimented for
juggling the demands of be-
ing a mother with a corpo-
rate career. “I didn’t want to
seem like I was quitting
when things got tough, be-
cause that’s not what I
wanted it to be,” she said.
Millikan has since joined
a small practice with several
other accountants. She
makes a lot less, but said she
has more time with her chil-
dren and has refocused her
career on helping small busi-
nesses.
Employers are hoping
many more mothers will
return to jobs this fall as
schools reopen. Women are
vital to ending widespread
labor shortages that have
held back businesses and
slowed the overall economic
recovery.
mer long, and it’s the longest
point we’ve gone without
rainfall.”
In Susanville on Wednes-
day, interim City Adminis-
trator Dan Newton — who
was evacuated from his
home this week — worried
that dwindling winds in the
area might mean the fire is
headed for another commu-
nity.
“We are all kind of taking
turns with the imminent
danger,” he said. “It’s hit, ob-
viously, a lot of communities
already.”
The Santa Anas — and
their Northern California
counterpart, Diablos — are a
recurrent weather phenom-
ena in the state, explained
Park Williams, a bioclima-
tologist and associate pro-
fessor at UCLA.
Most years starting
around September or Octo-
Total employment of
women with children under
18 was at nearly 23 million in
July, down by about 1 million
from two years ago.
For women with school-
age children, the unemploy-
ment rate — after jumping to
13.4% in April of last year —
was at 5.4% last month.
That’s slightly lower than
the comparable jobless fig-
ure for all workers, though
experts fear the coronavirus’
Delta variant could set
things back again.
Kelly Mann of Raleigh,
N.C., is among the women
who have just returned to
the workforce, but in a differ-
ent job. It pays a fourth of
her previous salary.
Last year, Mann was a
top manager responsible for
rolling out McGraw Hill’s re-
mote-teaching courseware
for the mid-Atlantic region.
“It was sort of my dream job.
I laid the groundwork for
this job for years,” she said.
But when her three
daughters, ages 11, 12 and 14,
were suddenly faced with
schooling at home in front of
a single computer, Mann
quit the job.
“I knew there was not a
chance my children would
navigate learning online
with their different sched-
ules without my full-time
support.” She added that
her husband could not step
back from his job because
the family needed his larger
salary.
ber, the winds move in from
the high deserts toward the
oceans. They get pressur-
ized and hotter as they trav-
el, and when they hit the
state’s mountain passes and
canyons, they get faster.
“It’s the perfect recipe for
fire as long as all the vegeta-
tion on the landscape is dry,”
Williams said.
The landscape is un-
doubtedly dry this year.
Rainfall and snowmelt have
been scant, and the ongoing
drought is shriveling the re-
gion’s lakes, reservoirs and
vital water sources.
Like monsoons and other
weather patterns, Santa
Anas and Diablos are hard
to predict more than a few
days out, Williams said, so
climate experts can’t say for
sure whether or when they
will happen in a given year.
If they don’t arrive, there
Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times
Mann was so disappoint-
ed in the public school
system’s handling of the
pandemic that she became
an advocate for in-person
learning, and is moving two
of her children to private
school this fall.
That means Mann has
had to start earning money
again. So this month she be-
‘Their entire
lifetime earnings
trajectory is
stunted and on a
totally different
path because
they’re pulling
back today.’
— Misty Heggeness,
Census Bureau economist,
on mothers doing less work for
employers amid the pandemic
gan a new job as an outreach
coordinator for a nonprofit
focusing on education.
At 49, Mann said, “I’m
very much at the age where
when you leave a career at
the level I was at, it’s going to
be extremely challenging to
reenter.”
Laura Sherbin, an econo-
mist at Seramount, said
studies show that relatively
few women who take ex-
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is a chance that California
could see some reprieve
from fire. But there is a
strong probability that they
will show up.
“To have big fires in the
fall really takes a conver-
gence of a few pieces of bad
luck,” Williams said. “Those
pieces of bad luck are: You
need a really big Santa Ana
wind event ... and you need
that to occur before the win-
ter rainy season has really
started up.”
Like the wind, rains are
hard to predict too far in ad-
vance, but most experts said
moisture probably isn’t in
the forecast anytime soon.
“For years I talked about
the race between the Santa
Anas and the rains, which
really determined the fire
season,” Patzert said. “But
the rainy season is coming
later and it’s leaving earlier.
It’s compressed.”
Patzert said there are
other factors that could con-
tribute to a bad fire season
this fall, including dry light-
ning events like the ones
that ignited so many terrible
fires last year.
The August Complex —
the state’s first million-acre
fire — was composed of doz-
ens of smaller fires sparked
by an unusually fierce light-
ning storm that saw more
than 12,000 strikes over 96
hours.
That record-breaking
fire began this same week —
mid-August — last year.
And although climate
change is creating drier con-
ditions on the ground, some
scientists say it is also cre-
ating humidity higher in the
atmosphere, Patzert said.
That kind of instability
could increase the likelihood
of more lighting strike clus-
ters moving forward.
tended time off regain the
careers they once had.
“Traditionally it’s been
very, very hard for women to
take their foot off the gas and
be able to put their foot back
on, because the recruiting
models and the models in
the labor market really
didn’t permit it,” Sherbin
said.
Many experts expect
that when updated salary
data by gender are released,
they will show a significant
reversal for women after
decades of steadily gaining
ground.
In the 1960s and ’70s,
women made less than 60
cents for every $1 of median
earnings for men, but that
started to rise in the 1980s,
and reached a high of 82
cents to $1 in 2019, Census
Bureau data show.
For many mothers, “their
entire lifetime earnings tra-
jectory is stunted and on a
totally different path be-
cause they’re pulling back
today,” said Heggeness, the
Census Bureau economist.
And the rise in remote
work from home may be of
much less help for women’s
careers than people think,
she said.
“If they’re pulling back
today, they’re not at the
meeting when the boss
says, ‘Hey, anybody want to
volunteer to lead this new
project?’ ” Heggeness said.
“They’re not there at the
meeting, and when a promo-
What’s more, the Na-
tional Oceanic and Atmos-
phere Administration is
warning of a possible La
Niña emergence, which usu-
ally means below normal
rainfall for the region,
Patzert said.
Also of concern is contin-
ued exposure to wildfire
smoke, which is blanketing
not only California but much
of the continent.
Smoke from the Caldor
and other fires on Wednes-
day prompted an air quality
advisory in the Bay Area,
while wildfire cameras cap-
tured fiery columns, billow-
ing flames and eerie orange
skies. Studies have found
that wildfire smoke can con-
tain bacteria, heavy metals
and other dangerous sub-
stances.
The conditions are diffi-
cult for both residents and
firefighters working to extin-
guish the flames. Cal Fire
said more than 10,000 per-
sonnel are now battling 12
active large fires across the
state.
Berlant said the agency is
doing its best to keep crews
motivated and healthy, but
weeks of fighting fire — with
no finish line in sight — is
taking its toll.
“We really have to pace
[crews], and ourselves, be-
cause we have many more
months before the winter
season approaches,” he said.
“We have to constantly pri-
oritize our resources.”
So far, drought-related
water restrictions across the
state haven’t affected fire-
fighters’ ability to fight
flames, Berlant said, al-
though he could envision a
scenario in which aerial
crews might have to fly a lit-
tle farther to replenish sup-
plies for water drops.
tion is available, they’re not
selected.”
What pains Lakshmi
Swamy, a 41-year-old pediat-
ric eye surgeon in North Car-
olina, is the cost to patients
and the community at large
when physicians and other
critical healthcare workers
have to scale back or leave
their jobs.
Before the pandemic,
Swamy was treating prema-
ture infants at four hospitals
in Wake County, on call for
trauma emergencies eight
weeks of the year, running
her own outpatient surgical
practice and doing pro bono
work.
When her 13-year-old son
started losing interest in
learning online — “his emo-
tional state just tanked,” she
said — Swamy created a
detailed curriculum and
worked closely with him
from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
The trade-off was a pull-
back from her outpatient
practice. She had to do her
own triage to concentrate
the little time she had to
work on high-risk cases.
Swamy said there’s a seri-
ous shortage of specialist cli-
nicians like her, but she
doesn’t see how she can re-
turn to her previous sched-
ule.
“It’s justified right now
because this is what my fam-
ily needs,” she said. “But
that is the guilt that keeps
me up at night.”
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CORONAVIRUS IN CALIFORNIA
School closes
after rats take
over campus
Rodent invasion shuts
down Schurr High in
Montebello ahead of
its planned reopening.
By Paloma Esquivel
Teachers arrived at
Schurr High School in
Montebello last week to pre-
pare their classrooms for
opening Monday. But in-
stead of arranging books
and desks, they found a hor-
rific scene: dead rats on the
floor, rat nests in the cabi-
nets, excrement on desks.
“There was feces in sev-
eral places in my room,” said
Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times teacher Al Cuevas. “I could
POLICE OFFICERS keep watch at L.A. City Hall on Saturday after protesters and counter-protesters hear rats running around in
clashed at a rally against vaccine mandates. The police union says it has concerns about the city’s mandate. the walls and ceiling. It’s dis-
gusting. Other rooms right
would be closed for “the next
couple of weeks.” In yet an-
other education setback,
students will be put on an in-
dependent study program.
About 90% of Schurr’s
students are Latino and
about 80% are from low-
income families.
In addition to the rat in-
festation, teachers said the
air conditioning system was
not properly working in a
building where many of the
classrooms have no win-
dows. This problem is espe-
cially acute as state
COVID-19 safety measures
recommend improved air
ventilation systems.
Interim Supt. Mark
Skvarna said the district
should have done a better
job identifying the problem
in the run-up to reopening.
Skvarna was hired in March,

Tougher rules for city workers

L.A. council approves
ordinance requiring
full vaccination by
early October.
By Emily Alpert Reyes
and Luke Money
Los Angeles city employ-
ees will have to be fully vacci-
nated against COVID-19 by
early October, unless they
are granted an exemption
for medical or religious rea-
sons, under an ordinance
approved Wednesday by the
City Council.
The law, approved on a
13-0 vote, now goes to Mayor
Eric Garcetti for his signa-
ture. It would permit people
with medical conditions or
“sincerely held religious be-
liefs” that prevent them
from getting the shots to
seek an exemption, requir-
ing regular testing for such
employees.
However, it would not al-
low employees to simply opt
for testing if they wish to
avoid getting vaccinated for
other reasons, because “the
near me were completely
taken over by rats.”
After being confronted
with the teachers’ frustra-
tion and safety concerns,
late Friday the school dis-
trict — which never opened
for in-person learning last
school year — sent an email
to parents of some 2,600 stu-
dents that the campus
CA L I F O R N I A
RE CA L L E L E C T I O N
Elder vows to end
‘war’ on oil, gas
Candidate has harsh
words for Newsom
on fires, but ignores
role of climate change.
Al Seib Los Angeles Times
SIXTH-GRADE teacher Kelsey McFadden guides students into a classroom at By James Rainey
Girls Academic Leadership Academy in L.A. on Monday, the first day of school.
Radio talk show host
CAPITOL JOURNAL Larry Elder slammed Cali-
fornia Gov. Gavin Newsom
a few months after a fiscal
analysis found that the dis-
trict was at high risk of insol-
vency.
“I’m not going to make
excuses that this stuff was
done as well as it could have
been done,” Skvarna said. “I
don’t believe it was done as
well as it could have been
[See Rats, B4]
concert with political con-
servatives.
The state has been one of
the nation’s leaders in turn-
ing away from the burning of
coal, oil and other petro-
leum-based fuels, which sci-
entists describe as major
drivers of the global warm-
ing that intensifies wildfires.
Conservatives contend that
environmental regulations
have gone too far and ham-

Mandate vaccines for all

city’s goal is to have a vacci-
nated workforce,” the pro-
posal states.
“How can we ask Ange-
lenos to be vaccinated if we
are not doing it ourselves?”
City Council President Nury
Martinez said. “We need to
set the strong example for
our communities. The vac-
cines are available, they’re
effective, and they are keep-
ing people out of the hospital
and off ventilators.”
She added: “We cannot,
and will not, be held back by
those who do not want to get
vaccinated.”
Council Members John
Lee and Marqueece Harris-
Dawson were absent from
the vote.
Under the proposal, get-
ting vaccinated is a condi-
[See Employees, B2]
on Wednesday as “utterly in- strung the economy.
competent” in reducing the Elder’s pronouncements
forest fuels that power the have drawn increasing at-
state’s massive wildfires, tention in recent weeks, as
part of a broad critique in polls show him surging to
to end virus nightmare which the top challenger in
the state’s recall election
also trashed the state’s
stringent environmental
the front of the dozens of
contenders who want to re-
place Newsom if he is re-
called in the Sept. 14 vote.
laws and promoted the use During the media event,
GEORGE SKELTON attacks that day. reported 54 new cases. of climate-warming carbon- the challenger continued to
in sacramento Earlier in March, three Everywhere else in the based fuels. lash out at journalists he
female polio vaccinators world, the crippling disease Elder suggested in a vi- perceived as misrepresent-
In June, gun- were shot dead in two sepa- has been vaccinated out of deo news conference with ing his record, took one of his
men in eastern rate assaults in the same existence. U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R- first shots Wednesday at a
Afghanistan Afghan region. In Afghanistan, the Richvale) that he would end fellow challenger and de-
killed five Islamic State extremists just-toppled government the “war on oil and gas” and picted himself as aligned
medical work- and Taliban militants were was trying to inoculate the “attack on the logging in- with former President
ers adminis- active in the area, according 9.6 million children, helped dustry,” adding that he Trump on many issues but
tering polio to international news re- by United Nations funding. would reduce regulation of not a captive of his world-
vaccinations to ports. But the campaign has fracking and de-emphasize view.
children. Afghanistan and neigh- encountered opposition wind and solar power, which Elder tried to keep the fo-
The murderers also boring Pakistan are the only from Islamic extremists he called “not very efficient.” cus in his first extended
wounded several other two remaining countries who believe the vaccine is Elder’s views put him news conference on the emo-
members of polio vaccina- where polio is still endemic. intended to sterilize Muslim outside the political main- tionally charged threat of
tion teams in three separate Last year, Afghanistan [See Skelton, B2] stream in California but in [See Elder, B5]

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men shot in
Playa del Rey

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camp, but police don’t
know what motivated
the attack. B3

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and Matt Hamilton by family. No cause of death was given. with setting fire
“To have known Wayne Hughes is to
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Wayne Hughes Sr., who pio-
neered the self-storage indus-
try with his company Public
Storage and whose epic rise
from sharecropper’s son to largest donor
in University of Southern California his-
tory testified to the promise of postwar
Los Angeles, died Wednesday at age 87.
Spendthrift Farm, the legendary
Lexington, Ky., thoroughbred ranch
Hughes bought a decade and a half ago,
said in a statement on its website that he
a bikini is accused of
its football team, the horses, and his
arson in blaze near
family,” the statement said.
South Lake Tahoe. B3
Hughes was working in real estate in
L.A. in the early 1970s when a business Writer helped
associate, Kenneth Volk Jr., happened
across a self-storage facility outside
Times expand
Houston. When Volk went inside posing Don Angel, a longtime
as a customer, an employee informed journalist for the
Candice Chavez Associated Press
him there was a wait list for units. newspaper’s O.C.
Volk took the idea back to Hughes, UNASSUMING PHILANTHROPIST edition, dies at 91. B5
who immediately grasped its potential. Hughes gave much of his money to charity. He has
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B2 T H U R S DAY , AU G U S T 19 , 2 0 21 S L AT I M E S . C O M

Culver City
school district
requiring shots
COVID-19 rule for
students 12 and older
may be state’s first.
By Melissa Gomez
The Culver City Unified
School District has issued a
COVID-19 vaccine require-
ment for all eligible students
— believed to be the first
such requirement in Califor-
nia — a move the district su-
perintendent said has the
Al Seib Los Angeles Times overwhelming support of
STUDENT NURSE Camille Endicio prepares a COVID-19 shot at a mobile clinic in L.A. in April. The ordi- parents, teachers and staff
nance says city employees who aren’t fully vaccinated must wear masks and keep their distance from others. members.
Children 12 and older are
verely sick.
“It is not a fair trade,” he
said. “We’re obligated to
provide the best protection
to our children and com-
munity.”
California has a number
of school vaccine require-
ments, including polio, diph-
theria, tetanus, measles and
pertussis, but COVID-19 is
not among them at this early
stage. The Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention
recommends that schools
promote COVID-19 vaccina-
tions among staffers, fam-
ilies and eligible students.
The COVID-19 vaccina-
tion rate for teens nation-
wide is lower than it is for

Mandate of city workers

[Employees, from B1]
tion of city employment and
a “minimum requirement
for all employees” unless
they are approved for an ex-
emption.
“We are stepping up. We
are doing what needs to be
done,” Councilman Mark
Ridley-Thomas said.
The ordinance does not
explicitly spell out what hap-
pens if someone refuses to
get vaccinated without an
approved exemption or
balks at other requirements.
Santa Clara County, in con-
trast, said in a memo that
employees who fail to com-
ply with its vaccination re-
quirements are “subject to
release or discharge from
county employment.”
Making vaccination a
condition of employment in-
dicates that unless a worker
obtains an exemption,
“there will be repercussions
that could include ending
your employment,” said Jon-
athan F. Harris, an associate
professor at Loyola Law
School who specializes in
employment law.
But because L.A. city em-
ployees are unionized, that
process is likely to be hashed
out in bargaining over how
the law affects employees,
Harris said. The proposal
specifically states that one
of its provisions — restric-
tions on promoting or trans-
ferring workers who flout
the rules — will not go into ef-
fect until the city has
wrapped up the bargaining
process.
Already, a host of employ-
ers, both public and private,
have announced that their
workers must be vaccinated
against COVID-19. Health
officials have pleaded for
more people to get the shots
as the highly transmissible
Delta variant of the co-
ronavirus has spread, driv-
ing up cases and hospitali-
zations.
As the variant continues
to spread, “it is more impor-
tant than ever that people
get vaccinated as soon as
they can,” Garcetti said in a
statement Tuesday. The
new requirements “will help
protect the health and safety
of those who keep our city
running and the Angelenos
who rely on the services they
provide every day.”
The ordinance also
leaves the door open for re-
quiring booster shots, stat-
ing that they may be re-
quired for employees in ac-
cordance with guidance
from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention and
other health authorities.
The push has alarmed
some employees: When a
city committee focused on
employee relations took up
the issue last month, some
workers phoned in to the
meeting to argue against it,
expressing concerns about
COVID-19 vaccines.
“I just — please — don’t
want to be forced to be vacci-
nated or have the potential
of losing my job. I’ve
dreamed about this job
since I was about 9, 10 years
old,” one caller said.
Labor unions have raised
concerns about the concept.
Freddy Escobar, president
of United Firefighters of Los
Angeles City Local 112, which
represents city firefighters
and paramedics, said the
union is continuing to en-
courage members to get vac-
cinated, “but we do not sup-
port any city policies that
would make it a condition of
employment.”
The Los Angeles Police
Protective League board of
directors said in a statement
Tuesday that it had “many
questions and concerns as
to how this ordinance will
impact our members and we
are working to ensure our
members are treated fairly.”
A spokesman did not im-
mediately elaborate on its
concerns.
And Service Employees
International Union Local
721, which represents vari-
ous city workers including
custodians and sanitation
workers, wants employees to
be able to opt for regular
COVID-19 testing instead of
vaccination for reasons be-
sides medical and religious
exemptions, according to a
union spokesman.
Local 721 President
David Green said the union
strongly encourages em-
ployees to get vaccinated,
but will advocate for “a ro-
bust and frequent testing
option for all workers who
have yet to be vaccinated.”
Members of the public
who called in to Wednes-
day’s council meeting also
largely voiced opposition to
the mandate. They said that
getting vaccinated is a per-
sonal decision — “my body,
my choice” was a common
refrain — and that mandat-
ing the shots somehow vio-
lated their rights.
Councilman Gil Cedillo,
though, said, “We are re-
specting people’s rights and
we are respecting their
choices.”
“For those who are con-
cerned about our decision
here and their rights, let me
say that we respect them
fully,” he said. “You have a
right to work here, and you
have a right not to work. And
that is your choice.”
The ordinance says em-
ployees who are exempted
must undergo weekly test-
ing, which will be provided
free during work hours, if
they regularly report to a
work site.
If they are telecommut-
ing, they will need to get
tested on an “as-needed ba-
sis” whenever they are asked
to report to a site.
The proposed law also
states that employees who
aren’t fully vaccinated must
wear masks and keep their
distance from others at work
sites or when interacting
with the public, unless it is
“physically hazardous” to do
so. Los Angeles Police De-
partment officers have been
repeatedly filmed without
masks despite a directive to
wear them in public, anger-
ing critics who say that offi-
cers are jeopardizing public
health amid lagging vacci-
nation rates reported by the
department.
Attorney Richard W.
Warren, a principal at the
firm Miller Canfield who rep-
resents companies in em-
ployment litigation, said the
“lack of a concrete sanction”
in the ordinance could give
the city an argument that it
does not need to bargain
with unions over the vacci-
nation policy itself, although
unions could insist it has to
bargain over its effects on
employees.
Warren said the city may
have decided to “go ahead
and provide the mandatory
ordinance, but leave the
sanctions to be discussed
with the union.”
U.S. courts have upheld
laws requiring vaccination.
Ben Feuer, a California-
based lawyer who argues ap-
peals for both employers
and employees, said that as
long as union contracts
don’t hinder such rules and
alternatives are provided to
workers with bona fide reli-
gious objections or disabili-
ties, employers can mandate
COVID-19 shots.
“I don’t anticipate even
our more conservative
Supreme Court is going to
broadly prohibit govern-
ments or states from requir-
ing vaccines,” Feuer said.
In a recent letter to its
members, the legal defense
fund for the Peace Officers
Research Assn. of Califor-
nia, a federation of law en-
forcement agencies, ad-
dressed questions about
such mandates.
“Can you be terminated if
you refuse to get the vac-
cine? The short answer is
yes,” the letter said.
Times staff writers Maura
Dolan and Kevin Rector
contributed to this
report.
eligible for the COVID-19
vaccine, which remains
under emergency use autho-
rization by the Food and
Drug Administration. The
Culver City requirement has
a Nov. 19 deadline, and dis-
trict officials hope the vac-
cine will have received full
FDA approval by then.
California has ordered all
K-12 school employees to be
vaccinated or take weekly
coronavirus tests — and a
growing number of school
districts, including Los An-
geles Unified, are mandating
employee vaccines with no
testing option. A spokes-
person for the state Depart-
ment of Education said the
office is not aware of any
other student vaccine man-
date among California’s
1,000 school districts.
Culver City schools Supt.
Quoc Tran said the student
vaccine mandate was issued
after safety protocol discus-
sions with the school board,
teacher and employee
unions and parents — who
agreed that the requirement
would help protect their
schools as much as possible.
The district, which serves
7,100 K-12 students, has 900
employees, who also must
be vaccinated. Students go
back to school Thursday.
“We felt that doing the
minimum is not quite good
enough. We could do more,”
Tran said, adding that the
science and efficacy of the
vaccine drove the decision.
“We are in the context of
constantly crowded places
in school settings. The vac-
cine helps in case our chil-
dren or staff members con-
tract the virus. They have a
lesser chance to be severely
impacted.”
If COVID-19 cases have
slowed significantly by No-
vember, Tran said, the dis-
trict may reconsider.
“If the pandemic is taper-
ing off at that time, then we
will ease off on that require-
ment,” he said.
About 1 in 20 district par-
ents, Tran estimates, are op-
posed to the mandate.
But Tran said the opposi-
tion does not justify with-
holding the policy if it can
prevent a student or staff
member from becoming se-
adults. According to the
CDC, 42.9% of 16- and 17-
year-olds are fully vacci-
nated, as are 32.4% of adoles-
cents ages 12 to 15.
In Los Angeles County,
about 72% of residents ages
12 and older — more than
6.3 million — have received
at least one dose of a vaccine,
according to the Los Angeles
County Department of Pub-
lic Health. About 54% of chil-
dren ages 12 to 15 have re-
ceived at least one dose of a
vaccine, while nearly 64% of
16- and 17-year-olds have re-
ceived at least their first
dose.
Several health experts
expressed support for the
Culver City move.
“The Culver City school
district is very proactive and
moving in the correct direc-
tion to require vaccination of
students who are eligible as
another method of protect-
ing those students, as well as
other students around them
who are not eligible for vacci-
nation,” said Dr. Robert
Kim-Farley, a professor at
the UCLA Fielding School of
Public Health.
Dr. Monica Gandhi, a
professor of medicine at UC
San Francisco, said that by
November, a COVID-19 vac-
cine should have full FDA
approval for adults as well as
children ages 12 and up. She
said she expects data show-
ing that the vaccines are safe
and effective among adoles-
cents will hold up, support-
ing the mandate.
“Parents can always re-
quest exceptions for prior
COVID infection or other
medical reasons, but I think
the data is very sound to
make this mandate at this
time,” Gandhi said.
Dr. Ilan Shapiro, a fellow
at the American Academy of
Pediatrics, said a layered ap-
proach to school safety mea-
sures — which includes vac-
cines and masks — is neces-
sary at schools.
Dina Petringa is among
the Culver City parents who
said they were pleased with
the vaccine policy. Petringa,
whose 15-year-old son is al-
ready vaccinated, said she is
“heartened” to live in a com-
munity that is taking the
virus seriously.

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claim the anti-polio drive is
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I have no idea what other
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$2 I’m just grateful to live in
a country where a nurse can
vaccinate me without the
fear of being mowed down
by bullets.
Just think of the diseases
that have been conquered
by vaccines in the U.S. since
I was a child. Besides polio,
there’s smallpox, chicken-
pox, measles and mumps,
among others.
Unfortunately, we have
our share of anti-vaxxers in
America who are fighting
the universal inoculation
that’s needed to choke off
the spread of COVID-19 and
its highly contagious Delta
variant.
I’m not equating our
anti-vaxxers with the mur-
derous Afghan gangs. But
refusing to be vaccinated
against COVID-19 does
result in more people con-
tracting the virus and dying
from it.
OK, a confession: The
Afghan story touched a
nerve with me. I contracted
polio five years before a
PEOPLE against vaccine mandates protest in front
of City Hall in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday.
vaccine was developed. I’ve
personally experienced
what it can mean not to be
vaccinated.
And I have no patience
with muddled minds and
conspiracy theorists who
adamantly protest being
inoculated, sometimes for
reasons that seem just as
nutty as those held by
Afghan anti-vaxxers.
“People are dying. And
not only are people dying,
but the people who are
vaccinated are being held
hostage. And we need to
live,” Azizza Davis Goines,
president of the Sacra-
mento Black Chamber of
Commerce, told the Sacra-
mento Bee.
Goines advocated man-
Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times
dating that everyone be
vaccinated.
I’m all for that. Require
everyone who’s medically
able to get inoculated.
Grant exemptions for medi-
cal reasons, but not for
religious beliefs.
Spare me arguments
about invasion of privacy.
Privacy was surrendered
when we decided to band
together and become civi-
lized. Public safety comes
first. That means protection
from disease.
The problem with a
blanket mandate is that, for
practical purposes, it’s
unenforceable. Anyway, it’s
probably impossible to pull
off politically. So, forget
that.
We’re starting to do the
next best thing: State and
local governments, public
universities and schools,
restaurants and business
are denying jobs, access and
service to people who don’t
show proof of vaccinations
or periodic testing.
Gov. Gavin Newsom
deserves credit for ordering
all school employees to be
vaccinated or submit to a
weekly test. The state is also
requiring all healthcare
workers to be fully vacci-
nated.
The Los Angeles Unified
School District has taken it
a step further by requiring
weekly testing of students
and employees regardless of
whether they’ve been vacci-
nated.
The L.A. City Council
has voted to require proof of
vaccination to enter certain
businesses. San Francisco
has decided to require proof
of full vaccination to enter
restaurants, bars, gyms and
other indoor venues.
There seems to be wide-
spread agreement —
throughout business and
government — that we must
avoid returning to the de-
pressing life of stay-at-home
shut-ins and closed stores
and restaurants. And the
best way to do that is to
vaccinate everyone.
In California, about 64%
of the population over age 12
has received at least one
dose.
“You’re much more likely
to get the Delta variant if
you’re unvaccinated than if
you’re vaccinated,” says Dr.
Mark Ghaly, secretary of
state Health and Human
Services.
“If you take eight cases of
COVID today, at least seven
would be among people who
are unvaccinated. More
than 98% of those hospital-
ized are unvaccinated.”
Ghaly talks about myths:
“A lot of people think the
vaccine itself may make
them more sick than
COVID. That’s just not the
case. Sometimes they’ll get
mild side effects, but they
won’t need medical atten-
tion.
“Some feel if they haven’t
gotten [COVID-19] yet,
they’re not going to. But
with the Delta variant, if
you’re not vaccinated you’re
just waiting to get infected.
You can only hide from it for
so long. It will find you.
“Another common myth
is that if you’ve already been
infected by COVID, you
don’t need to get vacci-
nated. But you can get it
again and get very, very sick
the second time.”
Polio was beaten only by
vaccine. And that’s what will
conquer COVID-19. We need
to force people to get shots
any way we can.
L AT I M E S . C O M
San Bernardino police gather near the scene where two officers were wounded in a Wednesday shootout
with a man suspected of shooting a county sheriff’s deputy the day before. The suspect was fatally shot.
Grand jury gets Jeremy case
Prosecutors aim to
indict the porn star
after dozens of sexual
assault accusations.
By James Queally
Prosecutors have taken
the sexual assault case
against Ron Jeremy to a
grand jury and will seek to
indict the disgraced porn
icon on dozens of counts of
rape and sexual battery, law
enforcement officials told
The Times this week.
The grand jury will hear
testimony from the nearly
two dozen women who have
accused Jeremy of attacking
them in Southern California,
with some of the allegations
dating back more than a
quarter century, according
to two officials with direct
knowledge of the case. The
officials spoke on the condi-
tion of anonymity in order to
discuss the matter candidly,
as grand jury proceedings
are normally secret.
The news was first re-
ported by XBIZ, a trade
publication that covers the
adult film industry.
A spokesman for the Los
Angeles County district at-
torney’s office declined to
comment.
The attorney represent-
ing Jeremy, Stu Goldfarb,
questioned why prosecutors
were just now seeking an in-
dictment, more than a year
after Jeremy was first
charged with four counts of
rape, sexual battery and
forcible oral copulation in
June 2020.
Goldfarb has repeatedly
expressed frustration that
prosecutors were not plan-
ning to turn over the iden-
tities or addresses of Jere-
my’s accusers before the
preliminary hearing, which
Bikini-clad woman charged in Tahoe-area fire
By Hayley Smith
As California grapples
with multiple devastating
wildfires, officials in El Do-
rado County have arrested a
woman on suspicion of ignit-
ing a blaze near South Lake
Tahoe.
The woman, Viola Liu,
was found at the scene of the
wildland fire on Aug. 11 wear-
ing a bikini and “covered in
scratches and soot,” the El
Dorado County Sheriff ’s Of-
fice said in a Facebook post.
Liu, 43, of Fremont later
admitted to starting the fire
in the area of the Aspen
Creek Tract near Echo Sum-
mit, which was corroborated
by other evidence in the in-
vestigation, sheriff ’s officials
said.
Liu was charged with ar-
son, as well as possession of
a controlled substance, pos-
session of drug parapherna-
lia, and resisting and ob-
structing a peace officer, ac-
cording to the El Dorado
County district attorney’s
office.
DEADLY SHOOTOUT
RON JEREMY at L.A. Superior Court in June. The porn star faces 34 counts of
rape, sexual battery and forcible oral copulation based on allegations by 23 women.
was initially scheduled for
early August.
Earlier this year, Gold-
farb petitioned the state
Supreme Court for relief on
that issue, but he was de-
nied, records show.
Prosecutors allege Jere-
my leveraged his celebrity to
prey on vulnerable victims
along the Sunset Strip in
West Hollywood. Within
days of his arrest, prose-
cutors said, they received at
least 25 new complaints of
sexual misconduct against
Jeremy, 13 of which involved
accusers who said they were
attacked in Southern Cali-
fornia.
Last August, six addi-
tional women told The
Times they had been as-
saulted or groped by Jeremy
at adult film conventions,
clubs and brothels through-
out the United States. At
least one of those victims’ al-
legations has since become
part of the criminal case
She is being held without
bail.
Sheriff ’s and fire officials
did not immediately re-
spond to inquiries about the
size of the fire or how Liu
may have ignited it.
The area is under evacua-
tion orders due to the grow-
ing Caldor fire, which
sparked Saturday and has
already grown to more than
63,000 acres.
That fire on Tuesday in-
jured two people and de-
stroyed multiple buildings,
including a church and an el-
ementary school.
El Dorado County fire-
fighters have also been as-
sisting with the response to
the massive 635,000-acre
Dixie fire burning nearby.
Last week, former college
instructor Gary Stephen
Maynard, 47, was arrested
on suspicion of arson, ac-
cused of igniting a blaze near
the Dixie fire. Maynard is
also suspected in at least six
other fires in the Lassen and
Shasta-Trinity national
forests in the last month,
officials said.
CITY & STATE
Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times
against Jeremy in Los Ange-
les, according to a person
with knowledge of the case.
Prosecutors amended
the complaint against Jere-
my twice last year, adding a
raft of charges that included
an allegation that he sexu-
ally assaulted a 15-year-old
girl at a party in Santa
Clarita. In total, Jeremy
faces 34 counts of rape, sexu-
al battery and forcible oral
copulation stemming from
allegations made by 23 wom-
en.
Jeremy has denied all
wrongdoing.
The decision to bring the
case to a grand jury mirrors
prosecutors’ strategy in an-
other high-profile sexual as-
sault case in Los Angeles.
Earlier this year, Harvey We-
instein was indicted on 11
counts of sexual assault
shortly before he was extra-
dited to California from New
York, where he was impris-
oned following his 2020 con-
A FIREFIGHTER puts out hot spots from an arson near South Lake Tahoe. A
43-year-old Fremont woman has admitted to starting the blaze, authorities said.
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
viction on rape charges in
Manhattan.
In that case, officials told
The Times prosecutors
sought an indictment so
they could skip a public pre-
liminary hearing and hope-
fully preempt any speedy tri-
al issues.
Jeremy’s preliminary
hearing was originally
scheduled to take place in
early August, but Goldfarb
sought a continuance. Court
records show a new prelimi-
nary hearing date has been
set for Oct. 25, but that
would be abandoned if a
grand jury returns an indict-
ment.
On Wednesday, Goldfarb
accused prosecutors of tak-
ing the case to a grand jury
to avoid providing him with
the identities of the accus-
ers.
“Essentially it’s a way of
not having to comply with
the present law in the state
of California,” he said.
T H U R S DAY , AU G U S T 19 , 2 0 21
Wealthy Texas
TV star is sued
by teen accuser
‘Marrying Millions’
reality show figure
was charged in O.C. in
July with sex crimes.
By Richard Winton
A Texas hotel mogul and
reality TV star who is
charged with sexually as-
saulting two teenage girls at
his home in Orange County
is now being sued by one of
his accusers.
In the lawsuit, filed in
Dallas, the girl alleges she
was abused by Bill Hutchin-
son, 63, after she became
friends with his ex-wife’s
daughter and moved in with
the family.
The multimillionaire de-
veloper was charged in July
with one count of rape of an
unconscious person and five
misdemeanor counts of non-
consensual touching involv-
ing two then-16-year-old girls
during their visits to his lux-
ury home in the Emerald
Bay community of Laguna
Beach.
He also faces a charge in
Texas of sexual assault,
which the state classifies as
a second-degree felony.
Hutchinson, founder of
the real estate investment
firm Dunhill Partners and
co-owner of Virgin Hotels
Dallas, has pleaded not
guilty to the charges and in-
sisted he is “not capable of
assault, sexual or other-
wise.”
Hutchinson is also the
star of the reality TV show
“Marrying Millions,” where
he appears with his 23-year-
old fiancee.
In the lawsuit filed Tues-
day, attorneys representing
the girl identified as Jane
Doe 2 allege the attacks be-
gan at Hutchinson’s home in
Laguna Beach between
April 1 and April 5, 2021. The
alleged assaults continued
for a two-month period in
Laguna Beach and in High-
land Park, Texas, an affluent
Dallas suburb, until she re-
ported them to the police in
May.
According to the lawsuit,
Jane Doe 2 met and became
friends with two 15-year-old
girls who were living with
Hutchinson at his home in
Highland Park. One of the
girls was the daughter of
Hutchinson’s ex-wife, and
Hutchinson was the legal
guardian of the other girl.
The suit says Jane Doe 2 fre-
quently spent time with the
two girls for meals, sleep-
overs and vacations.
The lawsuit alleges that
when Jane Doe 2’s parents
moved from Highland Park
to Fort Worth, she agreed to
move in with Hutchinson’s
family so she would not have
to change schools and could
remain with her friends.
According to the lawsuit,
Jane Doe 2 would travel with
Hutchinson and the other
girls to his homes in Miami,
Laguna Beach and a resort
in Arizona. The suit alleges
that during these trips,
El Dorado County Sheriff ’s Office
B3
Hutchinson supplied the
girls with alcohol, and they
smoked marijuana.
“Mr. Hutchinson will
soon learn the hard lesson
that wealth, power and ce-
lebrity does not grant some-
one a license to sexually as-
sault children in Texas or
anywhere else, “said Charles
E. Soechting Jr., one of the
plaintiff ’s attorneys.
The lawsuit also names
Dunhill Partners and ac-
cuses it of financing Hutch-
inson’s sexual abuse of Jane
Doe 2 through his use of
company travel accounts
and company property. It
also alleges he regularly di-
rected employees of Virgin
Hotels to provide the girls
with alcohol.
“Bill Hutchinson is cred-
ibly accused by multiple law
enforcement agencies of
sexually abusing young
teens. He used his money,
power and businesses,” in-
cluding his Virgin Hotels
Dallas, “to groom his vic-
tims,” said John Manly, an-
other of the teen’s attorneys.
“We intend to hold him and
all who enabled him to ac-
count, including the Virgin
Hotel.”
Hutchinson is currently
free on $100,000 bail in the
Orange County case.
In Texas, he is accused of
sexually assaulting a 17-year-
old girl at his Highland Park
house while she was intoxi-
cated. He has denied the
charge and was released on a
$30,000 bond.
Hutchinson faces anoth-
er civil suit in Texas filed by a
woman in her 20s who al-
leges he got her intoxicated
and took her to an apart-
ment where he groped her
and placed her hand on his
penis. According to the Dal-
las Morning News, the inci-
dent was captured on video.
4 men
are shot
in Playa
del Rey
All lived in a nearby
homeless camp. Police
don’t know what
motivated the attack.
By Richard Winton
Four men living on the
streets were wounded in a
predawn shooting Wednes-
day in Playa del Rey near the
Ballona Wetlands Ecolog-
ical Reserve.
Two of the men were ini-
tially in critical condition
after the shooting, which
took place on a stretch of
road where people live in
RVs and cars. By the eve-
ning, all four remained hos-
pitalized and were consid-
ered stable.
Three of the men were
taken to a hospital by a good
Samaritan and a fourth by
paramedics.
Police responded at 5:43
a.m. to reports of gunfire
near West Jefferson and Lin-
coln boulevards, said Officer
Rosario Cervantes, a Los
Angeles Police Department
spokeswoman.
Based on witnesses’ ac-
counts, detectives initially
said they were seeking a fe-
male suspect and a second
person who may have fled in
a black car.
But later the LAPD said
it had no descriptions of
those responsible.
Detectives questioned a
woman at the scene, but she
was not taken into custody.
It is not clear what pro-
voked the shooting. While all
four of the men shot lived at
the nearby homeless en-
campment, the LAPD said
late Wednesday that “the
shooting does not appear to
be related to that fact.”
Investigators also said
the shooting “does not ap-
pear to be gang- or drug-
related.”
Earlier this year, the en-
campment was blamed as
the source of a fire in the wet-
lands.
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Aw, rats! Infestation forces school to close
[Rats, from B1]
done.”
Skvarna said he made
the decision to close the
school largely out of concern
that there might be rodent
droppings or other health
hazards in the HVAC ducts.
The health and safety clo-
sure comes as Montebello
Unified School District offi-
cials for months have touted
their work thoroughly pre-
paring campuses for a safe
return to in-person learning
this month. The district’s so-
cial media are dotted with
photos of workers deep-
cleaning bathrooms, paint-
ing classrooms, inspecting
HVAC systems, pressure-
washing walkways and re-
moving carpet.
“Wonderful work being
done preparing for a safe re-
turn!” read one post.
Some parents said the
late-notice campus closure
is especially painful because
they and their teenagers
have been pressing the dis-
trict to reopen its doors
since last spring, when all
but a few Los Angeles
County school districts re-
opened campuses. Monte-
bello Unified, however, kept
its doors closed all last
school year, saying it was the
safest decision.
“Here we go again, not go-
ing back,” said Sandra Tor-
res, the mother of a 14-year-
old special needs student
who is supposed to start as a
freshman this year at
Schurr. “I’m so tired of so
many setbacks.”
Zoom lessons were im-
possible for Torres’ son Di-
ego, who needed constant
help to stay on track. Mid-
way into last year, she asked
to move him to independent
study, essentially becoming
his teacher while also work-
ing long hours as an inten-
sive care unit nurse.
For a time, she consid-
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and sharing with me that
these conditions are hor-
rific,” he said. “It was just a
horrible situation.... A lot of
people dug in and did a lot of
the hard [cleanup] work
themselves, which shouldn’t
have happened. But we
wanted to prepare for our
students.”
Skvarna said he expects
the school to reopen in 15
days. The exact details of the
independent study program
were unclear Tuesday after-
noon.
“I don’t have the current
plan of attack,” Skvarna
said. “I’m dealing with the
HVAC issue, the cleaning of
the rooms, the sanitizing of
the rooms.”
Skvarna, who has been
working as the district’s in-
terim superintendent for
about four months, said
campuses have been ne-
glected.
“We’re trying to get these
facilities up to standards,”
he said. “I don’t believe they
were before. I believe we
need to put effort and money
into it. I don’t believe it’s
Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times been a priority.”
The district has for years
faced fiscal troubles and
other problems. In 2019, fed-
school would not be opening “We’re talking even years when a little bit more atten- eral officials accused school
its doors. The initial state- back,” said teacher Paul tion needed to be ad- officials of misleading in-
ment from the school dis- Chavez. “It was a noticeable dressed,” he said. vestors in a $100-million
trict said the closure was issue.” In July, when Chavez re- bond sale.
due to “construction and He remembers teachers turned to the school to help David Navar, president of
cleanup work.” recounting being in meet- with summer school, his the Montebello Teachers
“I’m just upset and sad. ings “and having rats fall out desk was “littered with rat Assn., said students deserve
And frustrated. And a little of the tile ceilings and scurry feces,” he said. better than what happened
bit of everything,” Torres to the next classroom.” He brought his shop vac- at Schurr.
said. “More for Diego. He’s As faculty president of uum from home to clean up “The tragedy here is for
not just your typical 14-year- the school, Chavez said he the mess, then sanitized all our students who haven’t
old.... Now he’s so confused made sure the problem was the desks in the classroom, been on the site for 18
about the whole thing: ‘I was brought to the attention of he said. months,” he said. “It should
supposed to start school. school administrators, cus- Then, last Monday, when be a celebration, a welcom-
What’s going on?’ ” todians and the plant super- more teachers returned to ing. Instead they are losing
Teachers say they have visor. They tried to address campus to prepare for the out on valuable instruc-
been complaining about ro- it, Chavez said, but he be- first day of school, he real- tional minutes, and it’s a
dents, the lack of working air lieves the district needed to ized the situation was even tragedy that our students
conditioning and other do more. worse than he thought. are not getting what they de-
maintenance problems for a “I just felt like Band-Aids “People were coming serve, what they have a right
long time. were put on this situation back into their classrooms to, which is an education.”
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HEREBY GIVEN that the
linguistically sensitive
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employment and specialized Registrar-Recorder/County
Clerk's office located at the prepared for the following project:
Case Number (Numero del Caso): 19VECV00116
services.
Downey Tally Center, 9150
Imperial Highway, Downey, NOTICE TO DEFENDANT:
The Request for Proposals
(RFP) is targeted for release California 90242, will be the
Case No.: ENV-2017-1084-EIR
Project Name: 5420 Sunset Project
(AVISO AL DEMANDADO):
THEODORE TSOUANATOS, an individual; MARK
central tally location for the
on or about, August 23, 2021.
The RFP will be posted and CALIFORNIA Project Description: The Project would replace an RICHARDSON, an individual; and DOES 1 through 100,
inclusive,
GUBERNATORIAL existing grocery store, vacant commercial space, fast-
available for download on the
L.A. County “Doing Business RECALL ELECTION food restaurant, and associated parking areas within the
YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF:
with Us” Website at: scheduled to be held on Project Site with a new mixed-use development
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
consisting of 735 multi-family residential units and up (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE):
http://doingbusiness.lacounty. 14, 2021. For voting in EUGENE J. GOLLING, an individual,
person, please visit our to 95,000 square feet of neighborhood-serving
gov/
website at commercial uses, including market/retail and restaurant NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide
The RFP will also be posted https://lavote.net/home/voting uses. The proposed uses would be provided within four against you without your being heard unless you
on the DPSS website at: -elections/voting- buildings that would be up to six stories with a respond within 30 days. Read the information below.
options/voting-in-person to maximum height of 75 feet. The Project would include You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons
find open vote center
http://dpss.lacounty.gov/wps/
portal/dpss/main/business/con locations and hours. Persons
1,419 vehicle parking spaces that would be distributed and legal papers are served on you to file a written
throughout the Project Site in two subterranean parking response at this court and have a copy served on the
tract-opportunities/ requiring multilingual
levels and in one at grade parking level and a total of plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you.
assistance in Armenian,
A Mandatory Proposer's Bengali, Burmese, 548 bicycle parking spaces. The Project would include
Your written response must be in proper legal form if
Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese,
you want the court to hear your case. There may be
Conference to discuss the residential lobbies and leasing offices, pools, spas, and a court form that you can use for your response. You
RFP is scheduled for Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, other recreational facilities. In addition, the Project
can find these court forms and more information at
September 9, 2021, at 9:30 Indonesian, Japanese, Korean,
would provide approximately 96,800 square feet of the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.
A.M., through virtual Mongolian, Russian, Spanish,
Tagalog/Filipino, Telugu, open space areas. The Floor Area Ratio (FAR) on the courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or
conference via WebEx. The
link to the WebEx meeting Thai or Vietnamese regarding Project Site would be a maximum of 3 to 1. To provide the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the fil-
will be released in the RFP. information in the notice may for the Project, the existing grocery store, vacant ing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you
call (800) 481-8683. DEAN commercial space, fast-food restaurant, and associated do not file your response on time, you may lose the
All potential Proposers must C. LOGAN Registrar- surface parking areas would be demolished. case by default, and your wages, money, and property
attend this conference. Only Recorder/County Clerk may be taken without further warning from the court.
County of Los Angeles
Project Location: 5420-5450 W. Sunset Boulevard, There are other legal requirements. You may
those potential Proposers who
8/19/21 1418-1440 N. Western Avenue, 1441 N. Serrano want to call an attorney right away. If you do not
attend the Mandatory
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submit proposals. Northland Village Council District No: 13 - O’Farrell referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you
Church Anticipated Significant Environmental Effects: may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit
The internet is available at Northland Village Church Based on the analysis included in the Draft EIR, the legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit
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8/16, 8/17, 8/18, 8/19, 8/20, you have any questions impacts related to on-site noise during construction and lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online
8/21, 8/22/21 or concerns, please reach on-site vibration during construction (pursuant to the
Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or
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“After that it was just
building the units up, one at
a time. For years and years.
That’s all,” Hughes told GQ
in 2012. “You don’t get money
unless you have a lot of tal-
ent, which I don’t have, or
you work hard, which is what
I do. We don’t have any gold-
en touch here.”
Retired storage execu-
tive Robert Schoff told The
Times in 2019: “I remember
they had 100 facilities, and
then all of a sudden they had
1,000. It was like, ‘Wow!’ ”
By the time Hughes
stepped down as chairman
of Public Storage’s board in
2011, the company’s orange
signs were ubiquitous on
highways across the nation,
and Forbes put his personal
wealth at $3.2 billion.
His retirement did not
last long. He was among the
most high-profile racehorse
owners and breeders, and is
credited with rebuilding the
storied Spendthrift Farm,
which co-owned the 2020
Kentucky Derby winner and
horse of the year, Authentic.
In 2012, he also founded
Agoura Hills-based Ameri-
can Homes 4 Rent, which
quickly became a dominant
force in the emerging indus-
DON ANGEL , 1930 - 2021
Daniel P. Derella Associated Press
BILLIONAIRE DONOR
Wayne Hughes used his fortune to support
USC and pediatric cancer research.
try of single-family home
rentals. He retired from
American Homes in 2019,
turning the reins over to his
daughter.
Hughes gave much of his
money to charity. As of two
years ago, he had donated
more than $400 million to
USC. He gave almost all of it
anonymously, with even
some of his fellow trustees
on the university board igno-
rant of the extent of his
largesse.
When he gave the uni-
versity $5 million to name
the floor of the Galen Center
basketball court for his for-
mer classmate Jim Sterkel,
he insisted on keeping his
identity secret.
“The joy I have in remem-
bering Jim would be signifi-
cantly reduced if people
knew who I was,” he told
Times sports columnist Bill
Plaschke in an anonymous
interview in 2006. Sources
later revealed to the news-
paper that the donor was
Hughes.
His under-the-radar ap-
proach to philanthropy was
consistent with his person-
ality. Long after Glendale-
based Public Storage be-
came a billion-dollar busi-
ness, Hughes maintained
his middle-class habits, eat-
ing fast food, wearing faded
jeans and hanging out with
buddies at the Santa Anita
racetrack.
Bradley Wayne Hughes
was born Sept. 28, 1933, on a
farm in Oklahoma’s Kiowa
County. His parents, who
both had eighth-grade edu-
cations, moved to L.A. in the
1930s, part of the Dust Bowl
migration depicted in “The
Grapes of Wrath.”
The family settled in El
Monte, and he graduated
from Alhambra’s Mark Kep-
pel High School in 1951. After
a stint at junior college,
Hughes won a scholarship to
USC that propelled his ca-
reer and permanently
shaped his identity.
In those years, the foot-
ball team was a source of
enormous pride for the uni-
versity, and its victories over
powerhouse teams boosted
the reputation of USC and
its hometown.
Hughes’ devotion to USC
continued after graduation.
Even after he was a married
father with a business, he at-
tended practices and be-
friended the squad’s stars.
After players such as
Rodney Peete, Marcus
Allen, Lynn Swann and O.J.
Simpson graduated, he kept
up those relationships, en-
tertaining their children at
his home, hiring them on at
his company or investing in
their endeavors.
When Simpson was ar-
rested on suspicion of mur-
dering his former wife, Nic-
ole Brown Simpson, and her
friend Ronald Goldman,
Hughes remained an ada-
mant supporter of the for-
mer running back. He met
with lawyers’ charting a de-
fense strategy, visited Simp-
son in county jail and acted
as a legal guardian for the
couple’s two young children.
Simpson and Hughes ap-
peared to have remained
friends for some time after
the acquittal, but the status
of their relationship in later
years, after Simpson was im-
prisoned in a Las Vegas rob-
bery case, is unclear.
Swann, the Pittsburgh
Steelers star who was in-
ducted into the Pro Football
Hall of Fame, also remained
close with Hughes. Swann
sat on the board of Hughes’
company, American Homes,
but that relationship fell
under scrutiny during the
search for USC’s athletic di-
rector in 2016.
Swann had never run an
athletic program, let alone
worked at a university, but
he was ultimately chosen to
lead one of the nation’s most
high-profile athletic pro-
grams after Hughes indi-
cated to USC’s then-presi-
dent, C.L. Max Nikias, that
he preferred his longtime
friend.
The decision shocked
close observers of college
sports, and the struggles of
the university’s football
team during Swann’s tenure
led to grumblings about
Hughes’ sway at USC.
Nikias denied being influ-
enced by “any donor or
member of the board” of
trustees.
Swann told The Times in
2019, “I am fortunate to have
[Hughes] as a friend. Like
many loyal alums, he has a
deep passion for this uni-
versity and is a generous
supporter.”
Hughes is survived by his
wife, Patricia; son, Wayne
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CANTER, Albert P.
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks -
Hollywood Hills 800-600-0076
www.mountsinaiparks.org
CANTER, Albert Paul
November 6, 1925 - August 16, 2021
Albert Paul Canter son of Ruben and
Fannie Canter died at peace at home on
August 16, 2021. Survived by his wife
Evelyn Canter, daughters Felice Canter
and Susan Kornegay, granddaughter
Jennifer Fear and her husband Max
Fear, his sister Marilyn Aronson and
her family, and his many friends and
relatives.
Hughes Jr.; daughter,
Tamara Hughes Gustavson;
and four grandchildren. He
was preceded in death by his
youngest son, Parker
Hughes, who died in 1998 at
the age of 8 after a long battle
with leukemia.
Following the death of
Parker in 1998, Hughes com-
mitted himself to working
toward a cure for childhood
leukemia, accomplishing as-
tonishing results.
Amid Parker’s cancer
treatment, Hughes
launched a foundation that
focuses on funding pediatric
cancer research. Tax filings
show he and his family have
contributed more than $70
million to the nonprofit,
which distributes money to
healthcare institutions
across the U.S.
The football training cen-
ter at USC’s South L.A. cam-
pus bears one of the few
markers of Hughes’ generos-
ity, with a lobby atrium
named for his late son.
A plaque there reads,
“Our little man wanted to
be a Trojan. And now he is.”
MATHER, Scott
Montgomery
June 1, 1943 - July 29, 2021
Scott Montgomery Mather, husband,
father and grandfather, brother, friend
and longtime Orange County activist

Times journalist led way in O.C.

Steve Straehley, a sports
By Robin Estrin
editor, said Angel was “a
great journalist who knew
on Angel, a long- Orange County as it grew
He enlisted in the Army
after graduating from high
school in 1950 and was de-
ployed to Korea soon after.
ership, The Times stopped
printing suburban editions,
and the bureau withered.
After retiring in 1995, An-
Albert was a part of the Canter
family of Canters Fairfax and worked
for the family institution until he
was 93 years old. He was a dedicated
member of the Westwood Shriners.
a WWII vet who served in the Pacific
theater on the Douglas H. Fox, and a
devoted golfer.
His dedication to his family and
country were heroic. We will miss him
and community organizer for people in
need of shelter died on July 29, 2021
in the home of his daughter, Ginger, in
San Pedro, California. Born in Virginia,
Minnesota on June 1, 1943, he came
with his family to Long Beach where
he graduated from Saint Anthony
High School. Scott worked as an
ironworker in construction (including
the Vincent Thomas Bridge and BART

D
time editorial
writer for the Los
Angeles Times’
Orange County
edition, died of natural
causes at his home in Ross-
moor on Aug. 5 at age 91.
In 1963, Angel was among
the first journalists hired to
launch the Orange County
edition as part of The Times’
strategy to expand into the
region’s fast-growing sub-
urbs and compete aggres-
sively with local papers.
An editorial writer
tasked with, among other
things, endorsing politicians
in a conservative area, Angel
was a moderate who gave
everyone a fair shake, said
John Needham, a colleague.
Angel also edited the
Sunday Opinion column
and Letters to the Editor —
“a tough and very thankless
job,” Needham said.
from a suburb to a power-
house of its own.” He made
“its complicated politics
easy for readers to under-
stand,” said Straehley, who
sat near Angel for a decade.
Angel was a cheerful
presence in the newsroom,
lighthearted in stressful mo-
ments and eager to share
ideas and sources with re-
porters coming up dry, re-
called Dana Parsons, a for-
mer Times columnist.
“Don was the soul of our
staff,” said Gerald Hicks,
who worked with Angel in
the Orange County news-
room for two decades.
Angel was born in 1930 to
a tightknit family of Jewish
immigrants and grew up in
Brooklyn playing stickball
and throwing pennies from
the stoops of his friends’
brownstones, according to
his wife, Joanne.
After marrying his first
wife, Jane Angel, in 1951, he
moved to California, where
he sold insurance and wrote
for the Costa Mesa Lions
Club newsletter.
In 1959, an editor at the
Orange County Register in-
vited him to try out for the
paper, launching a journalis-
tic career that included a
prestigious Knight Journal-
ism Fellowship at Stanford.
He married his second
wife, Joanne Curran Angel,
in 1988 and became a father
to his fifth child at age 70.
During Angel’s three dec-
ades at The Times, the Or-
ange County bureau ex-
panded to at least 200
staffers. It was the news-
paper’s first and largest re-
gional edition, with a daily
circulation of nearly 200,000.
With the rise of the inter-
net and decline in print read-
gel worked as a consultant
for the paper for seven more
years. He served on the
board of the Lung Assn. of
Orange County, volunteered
for the California Highway
Patrol and read to children
at his son’s elementary
school as part of The Times’
Reading by 9 program.
He attended poker nights
in which, Times colleagues
say, no one ever made or lost
too much money.
Angel remained an avid
Times reader, as did his wife.
Unwilling to part with the
morning paper long enough
to share it, the two kept
separate print subscrip-
tions.
Angel is survived by his
wife; children Debbie,
Sherry, Jill, Dan and Robert;
as well as six grandchildren
and three great-grand-
children.
every day.
DAVIS, Carolyn
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks -
Hollywood Hills 800-600-0076
www.mountsinaiparks.org
FEINSTEIN, Aileen P.
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks -
Simi Valley 800-600-0076
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LEFITZ , Nena Joyce
March 1, 1931 - August 17, 2021
Our love, Nena, peacefully passed
surrounded by her family on Tuesday,
August 17th, after a beautiful long life.
Nena was born to Ruth and Herman
Bein in Phoenix, Arizona, and always
had fond memories of being a daddy’s
girl and spending time in her family’s
jewelry store. She moved to Los
in San Francisco), and as an insurance
agent before joining the Saint Vincent
de Paul Society of Orange County. He
actively supported Share Our Selves
(SOS) of Costa Mesa, Catholic Youth
Ministry, restorative justice efforts and
numerous housing initiatives including
Orange Coast Interfaith Shelter in
Costa Mesa and Harbor Interfaith
Services in San Pedro. He now goes
to join the Risen Lord Jesus and his
beloved wife, Kay, his sister Marty and
his beloved grandson, Logan, in the
life to come and leaves behind four
children: Burr (April), Ginger Dearborn
(Stan), Jeff Mather (Chandre) and Kari
Ashcroft (Sharidan), as well as eight
grandchildren: James, Genavieve,
Abigail, Jacob, Rudy, Gavin, Wyatt,
Sophia, his sister, Barbara, and his
brothers Kevin and John. Funeral Mass
will be celebrated at Mary Star of the
Sea Catholic Church, 877 W. 7th St.,
San Pedro, California 90731 at 10:30
AM Monday, August 23, 2021. All are
welcome.
OSSEY, Maurice
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks -
Hollywood Hills 800-600-0076
www.mountsinaiparks.org
WHITMAN, Walter
Lieutenant Colonel U.S. Air Force
Born February 9, 1933 passed away
peacefully July 2,2021.

Elder criticizes Newsom on wildfires Angeles to receive her teaching degree

[Elder, from B1]
wildfires. That could be fer-
tile terrain in California,
where ever-expanding
blazes have taken scores of
lives and caused billions of
dollars in property damage.
Elder spoke from his
home office in the Holly-
wood Hills, while LaMalfa —
one of his newest Republi-
can supporters — appeared
from Plumas County, near
the massive Dixie fire.
The main grist for Elder’s
attack came from a media
report that showed the gov-
ernor had not adhered to his
own goals for forest “man-
agement;” the thinning of
trees and underbrush that
experts agree is essential to
curtailing the damage from
disasters such as the Dixie
fire, the second-largest fire
in California history.
“He’s mismanaged the
forests,” Elder said of New-
som. “He gave a figure that
was off by a factor of seven as
to how many acres of fallen
trees and dry vegetation
that he’s removed.”
That referred to a June
investigation by CapRadio,
a Sacramento public radio
outlet.
“I have no idea why this
isn’t being done,” he said.
“When I become governor,
we’re going to be implement-
ing these commonsensical
kinds of plans so that we can
reduce the severity of these
fires and save lives.”
The public radio report
found that Newsom claimed
the state planned to remove
fuel on 90,000 wildland acres
but completed work on only
a little more than 11,000
acres. CapRadio concluded
that the governor “misrepre-
sented his accomplishments
and even disinvested in wild-
fire prevention.”
Vast tracts of California
forest are managed by the
federal government and
both California and U.S. offi-
cials acknowledge they need
to do a better job of removing
trees and other combustible
material before giant fires
break out.
The state and feds, until
recently directed by Trump,
set a goal of “treating”
500,000 acres a year. But
both local and federal offi-
cials have fallen far short of
that goal.
Newsom tried to regain
momentum on the issue this
year by pledging some $1.5
billion in “wildfire resiliency”
work — thinning overgrown
forests, increasing pre-
scribed burns and replant-
ing trees. The governor’s
staff has said he is taking an
“all-hands-on-deck ap-
proach to the wildfire crisis.”
Experts expressed sup-
port for those promises but
said they will be watching
closely for follow-through.
Elder criticized Newsom
for releasing 20,000 prison
inmates early because of the
threat from the COVID-19
pandemic. He suggested the
felons should have been left
locked up and would have
provided manpower to fight
the forest fires.
He also criticized the
massive shift at Pacific Gas
& Electric, one of the state’s
biggest utilities, to power de-
rived from renewable
sources. Elder said the
spending on wind and solar
power left “less money for re-
moving trees and putting
power lines underground;
the kinds of things that
would have made these fires
less intense.”
Newsom has taken a full-
speed-ahead approach on
the adoption of renewable
fuels, electric vehicles and
other reforms to reduce Cali-
fornia’s carbon footprint. Al-
though Newsom constantly
talks about climate change
as driving the wildfire crisis,
Elder did not mention global
warming during his news
conference.
“Do Californians really
want to put someone who
denied global warming in
charge of fighting wildfires?”
said Nathan Click, a spokes-
man for the anti-recall cam-
paign. (Although Elder pre-
viously cast doubt on the re-
ality of climate change, he
has more recently said he be-
lieves it is real, is caused by
human activity and contrib-
utes to the severity of wild-
fires, but he has decried cli-
mate change “alarmism.”)
When reporters asked
questions unrelated to the
wildfire threat, Elder ap-
peared irritated.
He again rejected the
suggestion that he is a
“Trump Republican,” citing
two policies on which he dis-
agreed with the former pres-
ident and four others on
which he said he aligned
with Trump.
at USC and became the world’s biggest
Trojans fan and “her” football team
until last season. Nena was a “girl’s girl”
and built deep rooted friendships that
lasted a lifetime during her sorority
and teaching days.
After college, Nena married her late
husband, Arthur Lefitz, and they had
two sons, Randy and Danny, whom
they adored. As a family and after
Arthur’a passing, Nena became an avid
traveler, becoming infatuated with
other cultures, languages, and gaining
a deep understanding of the world
around her. After Danny and his wife
Lisa had three daughters, Alex, Sadie,
and Anna, Nena often took them
on her travels to share her love for
experiencing new places and learning.
Aside from traveling, Nena had a
deep appreciation for hiking the Santa
Monica Mountains, which she did
well into her eighties, volunteering
in LA food pantries, weekly bridge
games, taking educational classes, and
spending time with her dear friends
and life partner, Marvin.
Nena is survived by her partner,
Marvin Licker, sons Randy (Marsha)
of Winnetka, CA and Danny (Lisa) of
Greenville, SC; granddaughters Alex
(Jacob) of Charlotte, NC, Sadie of
Greenville, SC, Anna of a Brooklyn, NY;
sister Elaine Cherney of Scottsdale, AZ;
and many dear lifelong friends.
Nena always carried herself with
gumption and independence and
was a roll model many, especially her
granddaughters who were the loves of
her life. She will be forever missed and
adored by all who were lucky enough
to know her.
Nena will be laid to rest at Eden
Memorial Park in Mission Hills in a 10
AM graveside service.
Native of Cleveland Ohio who called
Los Angeles home since September
1945.
Graduated from Hamilton High
School (1950) and UCLA (1954)
where a member of Pi Lambda Phi
fraternity. In addition to military
service, he worked for many years in
the investment industry for multiple
brokerage firms.
Survived by sons Mark (Janet),
Dean (Beth) and Michael Whitman,
grandchildren Victor, Russell and
Veronica Whitman, and brother
Norman L Whitman MD
Memorial with Military Honors
Friday August 20, 2021 at 12:45 pm
Los Angeles National Cemetery
950 S Sepulveda Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90049
In Memoriam
Anthony J. (“Tony”) Sousa
August 19, 1950 - January 12, 2005
“A good man would prefer to be
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evil means.” Sallust
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and colleagues.
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Torrance in Little League series LITTLE LEAGUE

SERIES SCHEDULE
REGIONAL WINNERS
Great Lakes (A): Taylor, Mich.
[Little League, from B10] Great Lakes (B): Hamilton, Ohio
Mid-Atlantic (A): Oaks, Pa.
nia event, Torrance lost its Mid-Atlantic (B): Toms River, N.J.
opener against a highly Midwest (A): Hastings, Neb.
touted Eastlake Little Midwest (B): Sioux Falls, S.D.
New England (A), Hooksett, N.H.
League squad, forcing the New England (B): Manchester, Conn.
team to win five consecutive Northwest (A): Sammamish, Wash.
elimination games to make Northwest (B): Lake Oswego, Ore.
Southeast (A): Nolensville, Tenn.
it to the final. There, Tor- Southeast (B): Palm City, Fla.
rance met Eastlake again, Southwest (A): Lafayette, La.
winning twice to advance to Southwest (B): Abilene, Texas
West (A): Honolulu
the West Regional for the West (B): Torrance
first time in its Little
League’s history. DOUBLE-ELIMINATION SCHEDULE
(all times PDT)
In the regional, which
Today’s games
was held in San Bernardino, 8 Game 1 — Honolulu vs. Manchester,
Torrance again lost its open- Conn., 10 a.m.
ing game but managed to 8 Game 2 — Nolensville, Tenn. vs. Hamil-
ton, Ohio, noon
navigate the elimination 8 Game 3 — Hastings, Neb. vs. Toms
bracket once more, winning River, N.J., 2 p.m.
in extra innings against Ne- 8 Game 4 — Hooksett, N.H. vs. Torrance,
vada before knocking off 4 p.m.
Utah and Petaluma Na- Friday’s games
8 Game 5 — Oaks, Pa. vs. Lake Oswego,
tional from Northern Cali- Ore., 10 a.m.
fornia to qualify for Wil- 8 Game 6 — Taylor, Mich. vs. Palm City,
liamsport. Fla., noon
8 Game 7 — Lafayette, La. vs. Sioux
By then, the team’s par- Falls, S.D., 2 p.m.
ents had bestowed the 8 Game 8 — Sammamish, Wash. vs. Abi-
squad with an unofficial lene, Texas, 4 p.m.
nickname: The Cardiac Saturday’s games
8 Game 9 — Game 2 loser vs. Game 4
Kids. loser, 10 a.m.
“For them to be able to 8 Game 10 — Game 1 loser vs. Game 3
come up on top every single loser, noon
8 Game 11 — Game 6 loser vs. Game 8
time, it’s just a sense of loser, 3 p.m.
pride,” said Krista Cornett, 8 Game 12 — Game 5 loser vs. Game 7
who is president of Torrance loser, 5 p.m.
Little League and has a son, Sunday’s games
Levi Cornett, on the team. 8 Game 13 — Game 2 winner vs. Game 4
winner, 6 a.m.
“You see the hard work 8 Game 14 — Game 1 winner vs. Game 3
and the trust they have to winner, 8 a.m.
have in each other, and the 8 Game 15 — Game 6 winner vs. Game 8
winner, 10 a.m.
respect they have to have 8 Game 16 — Game 5 winner vs. Game 7
with each other, it’s been winner, 11 a.m.
amazing.” Monday’s games
Another key factor: Most 8 Game 17 — Game 15 loser vs. Game 10
winner, 10 a.m.
of the boys on the team — a 8 Game 18 — Game 16 loser vs. Game 9
14-player squad of 10- to 12- Gene J. Puskar Associated Press winner, noon
year-olds — have been TEAMS from Louisiana and Curacao line up prior to the final of the 2019 Little League Baseball World Series. 8 Game 19 — Game 13 loser vs. Game 12
winner, 2 p.m.
playing with and against 8 Game 20 — Game 14 loser vs. Game 11
each other for years, a bond tions. Instead, all 16 teams tween the field and dormito- teams, with each team get- may be exceeded only to fin- winner, 4 p.m.
that Chavez, whose son come from the U.S. — with ries without any other con- ting 250 passes for each ish an at-bat). And pitchers Tuesday’s games
Christian is an outfielder on two teams advancing from tact. game. must rest for a specific num- 8 Game 21 — Game 18 winner vs. Game
the team, said was evident each region, instead of one “They’re really trying to “We’ve watched videos ber of days depending on 19 winner, noon
8 Game 22 — Game 17 winner vs. Game
during the run to Williams- as normal. keep things as safe as pos- [of past Little League World how many pitches they 20 winner, 4:30 p.m.
port. The Little League team sible for the boys and the Series],” Cornett said, “but I throw: four days for 66 Wednesday’s games
“They’ve pretty much all from Honolulu was the other coaches,” Cornett said. don’t think you can really pitches or more, three for 51 8 Game 23 — Game 13 winner vs. Game
played together since T- to advance out of the West “Interaction will be seeing prepare yourself until you to 65 pitches, two for 36 to 50 16 winner, noon
8 Game 24 — Game 14 winner vs. Game
ball,” Chavez said. “We knew Region. Honolulu beat Tor- them as they’re going back get there and you really see and one for 21 to 35. 15 winner, 4:30 p.m.
it was going to be a strong rance in the West Region fi- to their dorms through a what it’s going to be.” Aug. 26
team.” nal, though both teams had gate, and that’s about it.” 8 Game 25 — Game 24 loser vs. Game
Little League rules TV and schedule 22 winner, noon
already secured a Series Parents, family and
Tournament field berth by then. friends will at least be per- Little League games are information 8 Game 26 — Game 23 loser vs. Game
21 winner, 4 p.m.
After last year’s event mitted to attend the games. regulation six innings and All games will be tele- Aug. 28
was canceled because of the In a bubble Originally, organizers played on smaller-dimen- vised by ESPN, ESPN2 or 8 Game 27 — Game 23 winner vs. Game
COVID-19 pandemic, the In an effort to ensure were planning to make sev- sion fields, with 60 feet be- ABC. Torrance opens play 26 winner, 9:30 a.m.
8 Game 28 — Game 24 winner vs. Game
Little League World Series is safety for participants in eral thousand tickets avail- tween each base and 46 feet against New Hampshire at 4 25 winner, 12:30 p.m.
returning this week with this year’s event, all teams able to spectators. But with between the pitching rubber p.m. Thursday on ESPN. Af- Aug. 29
some modifications. will be in a quasi-bubble dur- coronavirus cases rising and home plate. ter that, they will play again Third Place
The biggest change: ing the duration of the tour- around the country, it was Teams also must adhere Saturday (if they lose) or 8 Game 27 loser vs. Game 28 loser, 7
a.m.
There are no international nament. decided to limit attendance to pitching usage rules. No Sunday (if they win). The Championship
teams participating be- Players and coaches will to only those associated pitcher may throw more semifinals and final will take 8 Game 27 winner vs. Game 28 winner,
cause of pandemic restric- be isolated, largely going be- with the participating than 85 pitches in a game (it place Aug. 28 and 29. noon
L AT I M E S . C O M S T H U R S DAY , AU G U S T 19 , 2 0 21 B7

BASEBALL

DODGERS 9 ANGELS 3 CUBS 7 TWINS 8

NL STANDINGS
PIRATES 0 TIGERS 1 REDS 1 INDIANS 7
West W L Pct. GB L10
San Francisco 78 43 .645 — 8-2 Streak Won 6 This month 12-3 Streak Won 2 This month 9-9 Michael Hermosillo homered for the Jorge Polanco drove in the game-
DODGERS 75 46 .620 3 9-1 Home 39-20 Road 36-26 Home 33-30 Road 28-31 first time since 2018, Ian Happ and ending run for the third time in four
San Diego 67 56 .545 12 3-7
Division 32-20 Interleague 12-8 Division 21-32 Interleague 9-7 Sergio Alcantara also went deep, and games, lining a bases-loaded single in
Next: Tonight vs. N.Y. Mets, Dodger Stadium, 7 Next: Today at Detroit, 10 a.m. Chicago took two of three from its the 11th inning for Minnesota, which
Colorado 55 66 .455 23 5-5 TV/Radio: SportsNet LA/570, 1020 TV/Radio: BS West/830 playoff-contending rivals. had blown a two-run lead in the ninth.
Arizona 40 81 .331 38 5-5
Pittsburgh AB R H BI Avg. Dodgers AB R H BI Avg. Angels AB R H BI Avg. Detroit AB R H BI Avg. Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Cincinnati AB R H BI Avg. Cleveland AB R H BI Avg. Minnesota AB R H BI Avg.
Central W L Pct. GB L10 Park ss-cf 3 0 0 0 .222 Pollock lf 5 3 3 1 .309 Ohtani p 4 1 1 1 .269 Grossman rf 4 0 0 0 .237 Ortega cf 4 2 2 1 .329 India 2b 4 0 0 0 .277 Straw cf 4 2 1 1 .267 Kepler rf 6 0 0 0 .205
Hayes 3b 4 0 0 0 .253 Muncy 1b 3 3 2 5 .276 R.Iglesias p 0 0 0 0 --- Schoop 2b 4 0 1 0 .284 Schwndl 1b 4 0 2 1 .390 Votto 1b 4 0 1 0 .281 Rosario ss 6 0 2 1 .278 Rooker lf 2 2 1 0 .202
Milwaukee 74 47 .612 — 8-2 Reynolds cf 3 0 0 0 .306 Pujols 1b 0 0 0 0 .265 Fletcher 2b 4 0 1 0 .297 Cabrera dh 4 0 1 0 .250 Happ lf 5 1 1 1 .186 Castellns rf 4 0 0 0 .313 Ramirez dh 6 2 2 2 .254 Cave lf 1 0 0 0 .178
Oviedo p 0 0 0 0 --- J.Turner 3b 2 1 2 0 .291 Gosselin 1b 4 1 2 0 .276 Cndlrio 3b 4 0 0 0 .273 Duffy 3b 5 0 3 1 .272 Mstakas 3b 4 0 0 0 .216 Reyes rf 5 1 1 1 .250 Polanco 2b 6 0 2 2 .271
Cincinnati 65 57 .533 91⁄2 4-6 d-Gamel 1 0 0 0 .267 b-Beaty 1b 2 0 0 0 .264 Walsh 1b 0 0 0 0 .262 H.Castro ss 3 0 1 0 .268 Bote 2b 4 1 1 0 .200 Aquino lf 3 0 0 0 .211 Mercado lf 1 1 0 0 .215 Dnldsn dh 5 1 1 0 .251
Moran 1b 4 0 2 0 .279 Seager ss 5 1 2 3 .286 Upton lf 4 1 1 2 .225 Nunez 1b 3 0 1 0 .184 Hrmsillo rf 3 1 1 2 .250 Naquin cf 4 1 2 1 .257 Zimmer lf 1 0 0 0 .250 Rfsndr dh 0 0 0 0 .293
St. Louis 61 58 .513 12 7-3 Tsutsugo lf 3 0 0 0 .162 Smith c 3 0 0 0 .260 Lagares lf 0 0 0 0 .239 W.Castro lf 3 1 1 1 .216 Chirinos c 4 1 1 0 .283 Barrero ss 3 0 2 0 .500 Miller 1b 5 1 1 1 .152 Arraez 3b 3 1 1 1 .318
Difo 2b 3 0 0 0 .256 Bellinger cf 4 0 0 0 .179 J.Iglesias ss 4 0 0 0 .266 Greiner c 3 0 0 0 .232 Alcntra ss 4 1 1 1 .194 Barnhart c 3 0 1 0 .268 Chang 3b 3 0 0 0 .188 Sano 1b 4 2 2 3 .216
Chicago 54 69 .439 21 2-8 Polanco rf 3 0 0 0 .199 McKinney rf 3 0 0 0 .202 Adell rf 4 0 1 0 .232 Reyes cf 3 0 1 0 .211 Sampson p 1 0 0 0 .000 Mahle p 1 0 0 0 .050 Gimnz 2b 0 0 0 0 .176 Gordon cf 5 1 1 1 .255
Perez c 2 0 0 0 .153 Lux 2b 3 0 0 0 .222 Marsh cf 4 0 1 0 .216 Totals 31 1 6 1 Rodrigz p 1 0 0 0 .000 a-Akiyama 1 0 0 0 .214 Hedges c 3 0 0 0 .177 Jeffers c 4 1 1 0 .216
Pittsburgh 42 79 .347 32 1-9 Brubaker p 1 0 0 0 .086 Bruihl p 0 0 0 0 --- Stassi c 3 0 0 0 .275 c-Wisdom 1 0 0 0 .253 b-Suarez 1 0 0 0 .172 Clement 2b 5 0 0 0 .233 Simns ss 5 0 1 1 .214
Banda p 0 0 0 0 .000 White p 3 1 0 0 .000 Mayfield 3b 3 0 0 0 .212 Totals 36 7 12 7 Totals 32 1 6 1 Totals 39 7 7 6 Totals 41 8 10 8
East W L Pct. GB L10 a-Castro 1 0 1 0 .210 Totals 33 9 9 9 Totals 34 3 7 3 Chicago 140 001 001 —7 12 0 Cleveland 111 110 002 00 —7 7 2
K.Keller p 0 0 0 0 ---
Atlanta 65 56 .537 — 9-1 c-Nwmn ss 1 0 0 0 .225 Angels 200 000 010 —3 7 0 Cincinnati 010 000 000 —1 6 1 Minnesota 100 150 000 01 —8 10 2
Detroit 000 010 000 —1 6 0 a-grounded out for Mahle in the 5th. b-flied out for Hoffman in the Strikeouts—Cleveland 6: Straw 2, Chang 1, Clement 3.
Totals 29 0 3 0
Philadelphia 61 59 .508 31⁄2 4-6 Strikeouts—Angels 10: Ohtani 1, Upton 2, J.Iglesias 1, Adell 7th. c-struck out for Wick in the 8th. Minnesota 6: Kepler 2, Donaldson 2, Gordon 1, Jeffers 1. E—Plesac
Pittsburgh 000 000 000 —0 3 0
Dodgers 310 302 00x —9 9 0 2, Marsh 2, Stassi 1, Mayfield 1. Detroit 10: Grossman 1, Walks—Chicago 3: Ortega 1, Schwindel 1, Bote 1. Cincinnati 2: (2), Miller (2), Simmons (12), Jeffers (3). LOB—Cleveland 12,
New York 60 60 .500 41⁄2 4-6 Schoop 2, Cabrera 1, Candelario 1, H.Castro 1, Nunez 1, Aquino 1, Barnhart 1. Strikeouts—Chicago 10: Schwindel 1, Bote 2, Minnesota 11. 2B—Miller (3), Rosario (21), Straw (19), Ramirez
a-singled for Banda in the 6th. b-struck out for J.Turner in the 6th. Hermosillo 1, Chirinos 2, Alcantara 1, Sampson 1, Rodriguez 1, Wis- (25), Sano (18), Simmons (11). HR—Ramirez (27), off Thorpe; Reyes
Washington 52 68 .433 121⁄2 3-7 c-lined out for K.Keller in the 8th. d-struck out for Oviedo in the 9th.
W.Castro 1, Greiner 1, Reyes 1.
LOB—Angels 4, Detroit 3. 2B—Fletcher (24). HR—Upton dom 1. Cincinnati 10: India 1, Votto 2, Castellanos 1, Moustakas 2, (21), off Minaya; Sano (20), off Plesac. RBIs—Ramirez 2 (75), Straw
Walks—Pittsburgh 2: Park 1, Perez 1. Dodgers 7: Muncy 1, Pujols Aquino 1, Naquin 1, Barnhart 2. E—India (12). LOB—Chicago 7, Cin- (39), Miller (8), Rosario (39), Reyes (55), Polanco 2 (67), Sano 3
Miami 51 70 .421 14 4-6 1, J.Turner 1, Smith 1, McKinney 1, Lux 1, White 1. (17), off Skubal; Ohtani (40), off Cisnero; W.Castro (8), off
cinnati 7. 2B—Schwindel (8), Ortega (9), Votto (16), Barrero (1). (52), Arraez (31), Gordon (6), Simmons (26).
Strikeouts—Pittsburgh 7: Park 1, Hayes 2, Gamel 1, Moran 1, Difo Ohtani. RBIs—Upton 2 (39), Ohtani (87), W.Castro (35).
Runners left in scoring position—Angels 3 (Gosselin, HR—Happ (14), off Mahle; Hermosillo (1), off Mahle; Alcantara (3),
Wednesday’s results 1, Brubaker 1. Dodgers 9: Muncy 1, Beaty 1, Seager 2, Smith 1, off Hoffman; Naquin (15), off Sampson. RBIs—Happ (34), Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Bellinger 1, McKinney 1, White 2. Mayfield 2); Detroit 0 (Candelario). RISP—Angels 0 for 3; Plesac ......................42⁄3 6 6 5 2 2 73 4.87
at DODGERS 9, Pittsburgh 0 Hermosillo 2 (2), Ortega (19), Schwindel (15), Alcantara (8), Duffy Young .......................11⁄3 3 1 1 1 1 18 10.38
LOB—Pittsburgh 4, Dodgers 7. 2B—J.Turner (18). HR—Muncy 2 Detroit 0 for 1. (13), Naquin (63). S—Sampson. DP—Chicago 1 (Bote); Cincinnati 2
(28), off Brubaker; Pollock (15), off Brubaker; Seager (6), off Runners moved up—Stassi. GIDP—Nunez. Parker .........................1 0 0 0 0 0 8 2.33
Chicago 7, at Cincinnati 1 (Barrero, India, Votto; Barrero, India, Votto). Shaw ..........................1 0 0 0 0 1 12 3.09
K.Keller. RBIs—Muncy 5 (75), Seager 3 (30), Pollock (50). DP—Angels 2 (Adell, J.Iglesias, Adell; Mayfield, Fletcher,
at Colorado 7, San Diego 5 Runners left in scoring position—Pittsburgh 0; Dodgers 1 Gosselin). Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Clase ..........................1 0 0 0 0 1 11 1.61
(White). RISP—Pittsburgh 0 for 0; Dodgers 2 for 3. GIDP—Tsutsugo. Sampson.....................4 5 1 1 0 2 69 2.25 Wittgren ......................1 0 0 0 1 1 13 4.30
at Washington 8, Toronto 5 Garza, L, 2-1 ...............1⁄3 1 1 0 1 0 10 4.76
DP—Dodgers 1 (Seager, Muncy). Angels IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Rodriguez, W, 1-2 .........2 0 0 0 1 3 25 3.38
New York 6, at San Francisco 2, 12 innings Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Ohtani, W, 8-1..............8 6 1 1 0 8 90 2.79 Wick ...........................1 0 0 0 1 0 13 0.00 Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Brubaker, L, 4-13 .........4 8 7 7 2 6 82 5.49 R.Iglesias, S, 27-32 ......1 0 0 0 0 2 10 2.91 Morgan .......................1 0 0 0 0 2 17 2.81 Thorpe ......................11⁄3 1 2 2 3 1 38 4.70
Atlanta 11, at Miami 9 Banda.........................1 0 0 0 2 1 21 4.97 Megill .........................1 1 0 0 0 3 15 11.12 Garcia ......................12⁄3 1 1 1 2 1 35 5.14
Milwaukee 6, at St. Louis 4 K.Keller .......................2 1 2 2 2 2 38 7.85 Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Minaya........................2 2 2 2 2 0 40 3.86
Oviedo ........................1 0 0 0 1 0 10 9.89 Skubal, L, 8-11 ..........62⁄3 6 2 2 0 7 97 4.02 Mahle, L, 10-4 .............5 8 5 5 1 5 99 3.78 Garza Jr., H, 1 ..............2 1 0 0 0 2 23 2.81
at Arizona 4, Philadelphia 2 Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Cisnero .....................11⁄3 1 1 1 0 1 15 2.92 Hoffman ......................2 3 1 1 0 2 22 4.32 Thielbar, H, 8 ...............1 0 0 0 0 1 9 3.66
Bruihl .......................12⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 20 2.84 Ramirez.......................1 0 0 0 0 2 9 4.88 Doolittle ......................1 0 0 0 0 2 10 4.46 Colome, BS, 7-12 .........1 2 2 2 1 0 31 4.24
White, W, 1-1.............71⁄3 2 0 0 2 6 91 3.06 Inherited runners-scored—Cisnero 2-0. Wilson ........................1 1 1 1 2 1 18 2.25 Duffey.........................1 0 0 0 1 1 14 3.55
U—Bill Miller, Doug Eddings, Gabe Morales, John Bacon. T—2:34. U—Adam Beck, Quinn Wolcott, Greg Gibson, Hunter HBP—Sampson (Barrero), Mahle (Hermosillo). Coulombe, W, 3-1.........1 0 0 0 1 0 7 2.61
Tickets sold—52,140 (56,000). Wendelstedt. T—2:25. Tickets sold—27,282 (41,083). T—3:01. Tickets sold—16,922 (42,319). T—4:16. Tickets sold—19,949 (38,544).

AL STANDINGS
West W L Pct. GB L10 ROCKIES 7 RAYS 8 DIAMONDBACKS 4 NATIONALS 8
Houston 70 50 .583 — 5-5 PADRES 5 ORIOLES 4 PHILLIES 2 BLUE JAYS 5
Oakland 68 53 .562 21⁄2 5-5
Seattle 65 56 .537 51⁄2 7-3 Jake Arrieta got clobbered by Colorado Ryan Yarbrough came off the COVID-19 Arizona scored all four runs on four Josh Bell hit a three-run homer off
and left with an injury in his San Diego injured list and worked five scoreless singles and starter Humberto Castel- former teammate Brad Hand, and
ANGELS 61 61 .500 10 5-5 innings as Tampa Bay handed Balti-
debut. Colorado scored five runs in lanos gave up only one run and three Washington won back-to-back games
Texas 42 78 .350 28 3-7 3 1⁄3 innings against Arrieta before he more its 14th consecutive loss, its hits in 51⁄3 innings. The Phillies have for the first time since July 27-29. The
Central W L Pct. GB L10 departed with an injured hamstring. second such streak of the season. lost three straight games. Nationals had earlier dropped 12 of 13.
Chicago 71 50 .587 — 6-4 San Diego AB R H BI Avg. Colorado AB R H BI Avg. Baltimore AB R H BI Avg. Tampa Bay AB R H BI Avg. Philadelphia AB R H BI Avg. Arizona AB R H BI Avg. Toronto AB R H BI Avg. Wash. AB R H BI Avg.
Frazier 2b 4 0 0 0 .310 Joe lf 3 0 0 0 .286 Mullins cf 4 1 1 1 .315 Lowe 2b 3 2 1 1 .234 Herrera cf 4 2 2 1 .250 Ahmed ss 4 1 0 0 .225 Semien 2b 5 2 2 2 .270 Robles cf 5 1 1 0 .209
Cleveland 58 61 .487 12 4-6 Tatis Jr. rf 4 0 0 0 .295 Hmpsn cf 4 0 3 0 .237 Urias 2b 4 0 0 0 .257 WFrnco ss 4 1 3 2 .256 Segura 2b 4 0 1 0 .301 Marte cf 3 1 0 0 .338 Bichette ss 5 0 2 0 .288 Escobar ss 5 2 1 0 .259
Machado 3b 5 0 1 1 .278 Blckmn rf 4 3 2 0 .272 Mntcstle 1b 4 1 1 1 .265 Cruz dh 4 1 1 1 .273 Harper rf 4 0 0 0 .294 Cabra 3b 4 0 2 0 .244 Grrero Jr. 1b 5 0 0 0 .313 Soto rf 2 2 1 3 .304
Detroit 58 64 .475 131⁄2 5-5 Crnwrth ss 3 1 1 0 .280 Story ss 3 2 1 2 .256 Hays rf-lf 4 1 1 0 .240 Meadws lf 4 0 1 2 .234 Realmuto c 3 0 0 0 .262 Kelly c 4 0 1 1 .262 Hernandez rf 4 1 2 1 .317 Bell 1b 5 1 1 3 .241
Nola c 4 1 1 0 .289 Cron 1b 4 1 2 3 .269 Severino dh 4 0 1 1 .235 Phillips rf 0 0 0 0 .217 Gregorius ss 3 0 0 0 .217 P.Smith rf 4 1 1 0 .268 Gurriel Jr. lf 3 0 1 0 .266 Herndz lf 3 0 0 0 .297
Minnesota 54 67 .446 17 7-3 Hosmer 1b 4 0 1 0 .277 McMhn 3b 4 0 2 1 .264 Mateo lf-ss 4 1 1 0 .326 Arzrna rf 3 0 1 0 .280 McCutchen lf 4 0 1 0 .225 Walker 1b 3 1 2 1 .230 c-Smith 1 0 0 0 .000 Thomas lf 0 0 0 0 .135
Myers lf 4 2 2 3 .260 Trejo 2b 4 0 0 0 .222 M.Frnco 3b 4 0 2 0 .214 Choi 1b 4 0 2 2 .246 Miller 1b 3 0 0 0 .213 Rojas lf 4 0 1 0 .286 Valera 3b 3 0 0 0 .225 Kiebm 3b 3 2 1 1 .270
Kansas City 52 67 .437 18 5-5 Grisham cf 4 0 1 1 .259 Nunez c 4 1 1 1 .176 Wynns c 4 0 1 1 .182 Wendle 3b 4 1 1 0 .273 Torreyes 3b 3 0 0 0 .264 Ellis 2b 2 0 1 0 .132 Grichuk cf 2 1 0 0 .250 Garcia 2b 4 0 1 0 .209
East W L Pct. GB L10 Arrieta p 2 1 1 0 .130 Gonzalez p 1 0 0 0 .167 Martin ss 2 0 0 0 .219 Mejia c 4 1 1 0 .258 Falter p 0 0 0 0 .000 C.Smith p 0 0 0 0 .053 McGuire c 1 0 0 0 .259 Adams c 3 0 2 0 .346
b-Pham 1 0 0 0 .243 a-Freeland 1 0 0 0 .143 a-Sntndr rf 1 0 0 0 .240 Krmaier cf 3 2 1 0 .244 Bradley p 0 0 0 0 .000 a-VnMtr 1 0 0 0 .222 d-Kirk c 1 0 0 0 .263 Gray p 2 0 1 0 .111
Tampa Bay 74 47 .612 — 7-3 d-Kim 1 0 1 0 .209 c-Motter 1 0 0 0 .083 Totals 35 4 8 4 Totals 33 8 12 8 Suarez p 1 0 0 0 .250 Clipprd p 0 0 0 0 --- Berrios p 1 0 0 0 .000 a-Zimrmn 1 0 1 1 .242
Totals 36 5 9 5 Totals 33 7 11 7 Baltimore 200 000 110 —4 8 1 Brogdon p 0 0 0 0 --- Castllns p 2 0 2 1 1.000 Dickerson lf 2 1 1 2 .282 b-Stvnsn 1 0 1 0 .216
New York 69 52 .570 5 8-2 San Diego 021 101 000 —5 9 0 Tampa Bay 200 203 01x —8 12 0 Bohm 3b 1 0 0 0 .250 Perlta lf 2 0 1 0 .246 Totals 33 5 8 5 Totals 34 8 11 8
Colorado 301 120 00x —7 11 0 Totals 30 2 4 1 Totals 33 4 11 3 Toronto 011 000 300 —5 8 1
a-popped out for Martin in the 7th.
Boston 69 54 .561 6 4-6 a-grounded out for Bowden in 4th. b-flied out for Crismatt in 6th. Walks— Tampa Bay 6: Lowe 2, W.Franco 1, Arozarena 2, Kiermaier Philadelphia 100 000 010 —2 4 1 Washington 300 001 40x —8 11 1
Arizona 001 110 10x —4 11 0 a-singled for Gray in the 6th. b-singled for Thompson in the 7th.
c-grounded out for Almonte in 6th. d-singled for Hudson in 9th. 1. Strikeouts—Baltimore 8: Urias 2, Mountcastle 2, Severino 2,
Toronto 63 56 .529 10 4-6 Walks—San Diego 2: Frazier 1, Cronenworth 1. Colorado 1: Joe 1. Mateo 1, M.Franco 1. Tampa Bay 5: Cruz 1, Meadows 1, Arozarena 1, a-popped out for C.Smith in the 8th. c-struck out for Thornton in the 8th. d-flied out for McGuire in the 8th.
Strikeouts—San Diego 6: Tatis Jr. 2, Hosmer 1, Myers 2, Grisham 1. Wendle 1, Kiermaier 1. E—Urias (11). LOB—Baltimore 4, Tampa Bay Walks—Philadelphia 4: Realmuto 1, Gregorius 1, Miller 1, Suarez Walks—Toronto 4: Valera 1, Grichuk 2, McGuire 1. Washington 4:
Baltimore 38 81 .319 35 0-10 Colorado 9: Joe 3, Hampson 1, Story 1, Cron 1, Trejo 2, Gonzalez 1. 1. Arizona 4: Ahmed 1, Marte 1, Walker 1, Ellis 1. Soto 3, Hernandez 1. Strikeouts—Toronto 8: Bichette 1, Guerrero Jr.
9. 2B—M.Franco (22), Mejia (11), Wendle (26), W.Franco (7),
LOB—San Diego 7, Colorado 4. 2B—Nola (7), Cronenworth (28), Kiermaier (14), Meadows (26). HR—Mullins (21), off Head; Strikeouts—Philadelphia 4: Miller 2, Torreyes 1, Bohm 1. Arizona 4: 2, Hernandez 1, Smith 1, Grichuk 2, Dickerson 1. Washington 6:
Wednesday’s results Cron (17), Blackmon (19). HR—Myers (14), off Gonzalez; Myers (15), Mountcastle (20), off Armstrong. RBIs—Mullins (42), Severino (30), Marte 1, Rojas 3. E—McCutchen (3). LOB—Philadelphia 5, Arizona Robles 1, Escobar 1, Hernandez 1, Kieboom 1, Garcia 1, Gray 1.
off Bowden; Nunez (8), off Arrieta; Story (16), off Crismatt. Wynns (9), Mountcastle (64), Choi 2 (35), Lowe (70), W.Franco 2 10. 2B—Cabrera (19), Walker (16). 3B—Herrera (2). HR—Herrera E—Berrios (3), Bell (3). LOB—Toronto 7, Washington 8.
ANGELS 3, at Detroit 1 RBIs—Myers 3 (52), Machado (80), Grisham (51), Cron 3 (68), (26), Cruz (67), Meadows 2 (81). SB—Hays (3), Lowe (6). SF—Cruz, (9), off C.Smith. RBIs—Herrera (35), Castellanos (2), Kelly (30), 2B—Hernandez (22), Adams (2). HR—Hernandez (22), off Gray;
at Minnesota 8, Cleveland 7, 11 innings McMahon (61), Nunez (28), Story 2 (58). CS—Hampson (5). Meadows. Runners moved up—Kiermaier, Choi, Lowe. Walker (30). Runners left in scoring position—Philadelphia 3 Semien (28), off Gray; Dickerson (2), off Harper; Semien (29), off
San Diego IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA GIDP—Wendle. DP—Baltimore 1 (Urias, Mateo, Mountcastle). (Gregorius, Herrera, Miller); Arizona 4 (Kelly, Ahmed, Ellis 2). Harper; Soto (20), off Berrios; Bell (20), off Hand; Kieboom (3), off
at Washington 8, Toronto 5 Arrieta, L, 5-12 ..........31⁄3 7 5 5 1 3 64 7.13 RISP—Philadelphia 0 for 5; Arizona 4 for 11. Runners moved Hand. RBIs—Hernandez (84), Semien 2 (72), Dickerson 2 (8), Soto
at Tampa Bay 8, Baltimore 4 Crismatt ....................12⁄3 2 2 2 0 3 38 3.36 Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA up—Harper, Cabrera. GIDP—Miller, Cabrera. DP—Philadelphia 1 3 (66), Zimmerman (39), Bell 3 (65), Kieboom (11). S—Berrios.
Stammen ....................1 0 0 0 0 0 11 3.16 Watkins, L, 2-5.............4 8 4 4 2 2 74 5.62 (Gregorius, Segura, Miller); Arizona 1 (Ahmed, Cabrera, Walker). Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
at New York 5, Boston 2 Pagan .........................1 1 0 0 0 2 15 3.24 Scott ..........................1 0 0 0 1 1 17 4.06 Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Berrios ........................5 5 3 2 3 3 88 3.52
Hudson .......................1 1 0 0 0 1 14 2.50 Fry .............................0 0 3 1 2 0 16 5.64
at Kansas City 3, Houston 2 Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Tate ............................1 1 0 0 0 0 16 4.53
Suarez, L, 5-4 ............42⁄3 8 3 3 4 2 86 1.47 Mayza.........................2⁄3 1 1 1 0 1 18 3.93
Brogdon....................11⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 19 3.94 Cimber .......................1⁄3 2 1 1 0 1 11 2.37
Seattle 3, at Texas 1 Gonzalez .....................3 4 3 3 0 0 42 6.15 Valdez.........................2 3 1 1 1 2 26 5.76 Falter ..........................1 2 1 1 0 1 25 4.35 Hand, L, 5-5, BS, 21-26 2⁄3 2 3 3 1 0 17 3.59
Bowden, W, 2-2............1 1 1 1 0 2 17 6.91 Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Bradley .......................1 1 0 0 0 0 17 2.63 Thornton .....................1⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 6 4.68
at Chicago 3, Oakland 2 Almonte, H, 4...............2 3 1 1 0 2 31 9.00 Head ..........................1 3 2 2 0 3 34 2.49 Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Richards......................1 0 0 0 0 1 9 3.42
Kinley, H, 6..................2⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 13 5.77 Yarbrough, W, 7-4 .........5 1 0 0 0 3 70 4.57 Castellanos, W, 1-1.....51⁄3 3 1 1 2 1 74 2.14 Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Gilbreath, H, 2 ...........11⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 20 5.26 Kittredge .....................1 3 1 1 0 1 22 1.46 C.Smith, H, 1.............22⁄3 1 1 1 1 2 43 5.12 Gray ...........................6 5 2 2 1 4 87 3.90
Bard, S, 20-27 .............1 1 0 0 0 1 11 4.44 Armstrong....................2 1 1 1 0 1 30 8.18 Clippard, S, 4-5............1 0 0 0 1 1 19 2.45 Harper, BS, 0-1 ............1⁄3 2 3 3 1 0 13 1.96
HBP—Arrieta (Story), Gonzalez (Tatis Jr.). WP—Kinley. PB—Nunez Fry pitched to 3 batters in the 6th Inherited runners-scored—Brogdon 3-0. IBB—by Suarez (Ellis). Thompson, W, 1-1 ........2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 9 3.86
Inherited runners-scored—Tate 3-3. WP—Scott. Machado, H, 3.............2⁄3 0 0 0 2 2 18 2.55
TODAY’S GAMES (6).
U—Dave Rackley, Larry Vanover, Nestor Ceja, Marvin Hudson. U—Jeremy Riggs, James Hoye, Adrian Johnson, Brian Gorman.
HBP—Suarez (Marte). WP—Suarez, Falter. PB—Kelly (5).
U—Cory Blaser, Tom Hallion, Mark Ripperger, Phil Cuzzi. T—2:57. Finnegan, S, 4-6.........11⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 19 2.96
T—3:10. Tickets sold—20,692 (50,445). T—3:09. Tickets sold—6,673 (25,000). Tickets sold—7,968 (48,686). T—3:19. Tickets sold—18,336 (41,339).
NATIONAL LEAGUE >>>
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME
NY/Walker (R) 7-7 3.75 7 p.m.
Dodgers/TBD — — SNLA YANKEES 5 ROYALS 3 WHITE SOX 3 BREWERS 6
PHI/Wheeler (R) 10-7 2.56 12:30 p.m.
ARI/Bumgarner (L) 6-7 4.30 RED SOX 2 ASTROS 2 ATHLETICS 2 CARDINALS 4
MIA/Thompson (R) 2-5 2.90 4 p.m.
CIN/Castillo (R) 6-12 4.51 Andrew Heaney pitched seven smooth Hunter Dozier hit a two-run homer in Luis Robert had three hits and two Jackie Bradley Jr. ran home from third
MIL/Woodruff (R) 7-6 2.18 4:45 p.m. innings, Anthony Rizzo hit a two-run the bottom of the seventh inning as RBIs, Eloy Jimenez drove in a run with a base on a wild pitch in the 10th inning,
STL/Lester (L) 4-6 5.32
single in his return from COVID-19 Kansas City posted its 31st come- double and division-leading Chicago and Avisail Garcia hit two homers to
AMERICAN LEAGUE >>> protocols, and New York earned its from-behind victory of the season, beat Oakland, handing the Athletics help Milwaukee win on the road for the
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME sixth straight victory. fourth-most in the American League. their fourth straight loss. 17th time in its last 19 games.
Angels/Quintana (L) 0-3 6.12 10 a.m.
DET/Manning (R) 3-5 6.10 BSW Boston AB R H BI Avg. New York AB R H BI Avg. Houston AB R H BI Avg. Kansas City AB R H BI Avg. Oakland AB R H BI Avg. Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Milwaukee AB R H BI Avg. St. Louis AB R H BI Avg.
Herndz 2b 3 0 0 0 .251 LeMahieu 2b 5 0 0 0 .270 Altuve 2b 5 0 2 0 .273 Merrifield 2b 4 0 0 0 .274 Canha lf 4 0 1 0 .244 Anderson ss 4 0 1 0 .300 Wong 2b 5 0 1 0 .283 Edman 2b 4 1 1 0 .254
BAL/López (R) 3-13 6.14 10 a.m. Renfroe cf 3 1 1 1 .256 Rizzo 1b 4 0 1 2 .278 Brantley lf 3 0 0 0 .325 Lopez ss 4 1 3 0 .277 Marte cf 4 0 1 1 .359 Herndz 2b 4 1 1 0 .233 Adames ss 3 1 1 1 .300 Gldsmdt 1b 5 1 2 1 .279
TB/McClanahan (L) 7-4 3.73 Bogaerts ss 3 1 1 1 .307 Judge rf 1 0 0 0 .285 Correa ss 4 0 2 0 .273 Perez c 3 0 1 0 .275 Olson 1b 3 0 0 0 .279 Abreu 1b 4 0 1 0 .255 Yelich lf 5 1 1 1 .238 Arenado 3b 4 0 0 0 .261
Devers 3b 4 0 0 0 .280 Gallo lf 3 0 0 0 .210 Alvarez dh 4 0 0 0 .286 C.Sntna dh 4 0 1 1 .225 Lowrie dh 4 0 0 0 .258 Jimenez dh 4 0 1 1 .319 Escobar 3b 4 0 1 0 .256 Sosa 3b 1 0 0 0 .259
SEA/Flexen (R) 10-5 3.78 11 a.m. Martinez rf 4 0 1 0 .291 Stanton dh 3 1 1 0 .263 Diaz 3b 4 0 0 0 .294 Benintendi lf 3 1 1 0 .253 Harrisn 2b 4 0 1 0 .250 Moncada 3b 3 2 1 0 .252 e-Peterson 1 0 1 0 .275 O’Neill lf 5 2 2 1 .270
TEX/Howard (R) 0-3 5.61 Plawecki dh 4 0 1 0 .302 Odor 3b 3 1 0 0 .225 Gurriel 1b 4 1 1 0 .311 Dozier 3b 3 1 1 2 .207 Chapman 3b 3 0 0 0 .224 Goodwin rf 2 0 1 0 .241 Narvaez c 4 0 0 0 .288 Molina c 4 0 1 1 .256
HOU/Garcia (R) 9-6 3.30 11 a.m. Verdugo lf 3 0 0 0 .280 Sanchez c 4 2 2 0 .218 McCrmk rf 4 1 2 0 .259 O’Hearn 1b 3 0 1 0 .241 Gomes c 4 0 1 0 .222 Robert cf 4 0 3 2 .341 Pina c 1 0 0 0 .167 Nootbaar rf 4 0 1 1 .222
Dalbec 1b 3 0 0 0 .229 Gardner cf 3 0 1 1 .210 Meyers cf 3 0 2 0 .333 M.Taylor cf 3 0 0 0 .242 1-Kemp 2b 0 0 0 0 .250 Lamb lf 3 0 0 0 .212 A.Garcia rf 4 2 2 2 .274 DeJong ss 3 0 0 0 .199
KC/Minor (L) 8-11 5.35 Vazquez c 3 0 0 0 .254 Velazquez ss 4 1 2 2 .217 Mldndo c 2 0 0 0 .177 Dyson rf 3 0 0 0 .212 Brown rf 2 1 1 1 .209 Vaughn lf 1 0 0 0 .262 Tellez 1b 4 0 1 0 .325 Bader cf 5 0 1 0 .265
OAK/Kaprielian (R) 6-4 3.33 11 a.m. Totals 30 2 4 2 Totals 30 5 7 5 a-Castro c 2 0 1 2 .202 Totals 30 3 8 3 a-Piscotty rf 2 0 1 0 .220 Zavala c 3 0 0 0 .219 Bradley Jr. cf 4 1 0 0 .176 Flaherty p 1 0 0 0 .118
Boston 100 000 001 —2 4 0 Totals 35 2 10 2 Andrus ss 3 1 1 0 .230 Totals 32 3 9 3 Peralta p 1 0 0 0 .079 b-Rondon 1 0 0 0 .263
CHI/Cease (R) 9-6 4.04 MLB b-Moreland 1 0 0 0 .230 a-Taylor 1 0 0 0 .248 d-Dean 1 0 0 0 .207
New York 040 000 01x —5 7 0 Houston 000 000 200 —2 10 0
MIN/Grant (R) 4-6 3.49 4 p.m. Kansas City 000 100 20x —3 8 0 Murphy c 0 0 0 0 .220 c-Urias 3b 2 1 0 0 .245 Totals 38 4 8 4
Walks—Boston 3: Hernandez 1, Renfroe 1, Bogaerts 1. New York Totals 34 2 7 2 Totals 39 6 8 4
NY/Taillon (R) 7-4 3.89 MLB 6: Judge 3, Gallo 1, Stanton 1, Odor 1. a-singled for Maldonado in the 7th.
Oakland 000 100 100 —2 7 0 Milwaukee 000 110 001 3 —6 8 0
Strikeouts—Boston 6: Hernandez 2, Devers 2, Martinez 1, Walks—Houston 2: Brantley 1, Meyers 1. Chicago 100 101 00x —3 9 2 St. Louis 210 000 000 1 —4 8 3
Verdugo 1. New York 7: LeMahieu 1, Rizzo 1, Gallo 1, Odor 1, Sanchez Strikeouts—Houston 7: Altuve 1, Alvarez 1, Diaz 2, McCormick 1,
1, Velazquez 2. Meyers 1, Maldonado 1. Kansas City 2: O’Hearn 1, M.Taylor 1. a-struck out for Brown in the 6th. b-grounded out for Andrus in the a-pinch hit for Strickland in the 5th. b-struck out for Flaherty in the
LOB—Boston 4, New York 8. 2B—Sanchez (13). HR—Bogaerts LOB—Houston 8, Kansas City 4. 2B—Benintendi (13). 8th. 1-ran for Gomes in the 8th. 6th. c-struck out for Sanchez in the 8th. d-struck out for Gallegos in
ODDS (19), off Heaney; Renfroe (22), off Chapman. RBIs—Bogaerts (67),
Renfroe (71), Gardner (23), Velazquez 2 (4), Rizzo 2 (8).
HR—Dozier (10), off B.Taylor. RBIs—Castro 2 (13), C.Santana (58),
Dozier 2 (35). SB—Lopez 2 (15).
Walks—Oakland 5: Canha 1, Olson 2, Lowrie 1, Chapman 1.
Chicago 3: Moncada 1, Goodwin 2. Strikeouts—Oakland 9: Marte 1,
the 8th. e-singled for Hader in the 10th.
Strikeouts—Milwaukee 13: Adames 2, Yelich 1, Escobar 2,
SB—Velazquez (1), Judge (5). SF—Gardner. Runners left in scoring position—Houston 2 (Alvarez, Altuve); Olson 3, Lowrie 3, Harrison 1, Piscotty 1. Chicago 7: Hernandez 3, Narvaez 2, Pina 1, Bradley Jr. 2, Peralta 1, Taylor 1, Urias 1. St. Louis
Major League Baseball Runners left in scoring position—Boston 2 (Martinez, Plawecki); Kansas City 2 (Dozier, C.Santana 2). RISP—Houston 2 for 5; Kansas Abreu 1, Jimenez 1, Moncada 1, Lamb 1. E—Anderson (7), Moncada 11: Arenado 3, O’Neill 2, Molina 1, Nootbaar 1, DeJong 1, Bader 1,
New York 2 (Gallo, Stanton). RISP—Boston 1 for 4; New York 4 for 8. City 2 for 6. (10). LOB—Oakland 11, Chicago 8. 2B—Canha (19), Jimenez (5). Rondon 1, Dean 1. 2B—Goldschmidt 2 (22), Edman (30).
NATIONAL LEAGUE 3B—Andrus (2). HR—Brown (16), off Lynn. RBIs—Brown (37), Marte
Runners moved up—Devers 2, Gardner. GIDP—Bogaerts. Runners moved up—Correa. LIDP—Brantley. GIDP—C.Santana, HR—Adames (17), off Flaherty; A.Garcia (22), off Flaherty; A.Garcia
Favorite Underdog DP—New York 1 (Odor, LeMahieu, Rizzo). (12), Jimenez (21), Robert 2 (14). SB—Marte (12), Canha (11), (23), off Reyes. RBIs—Adames (49), A.Garcia 2 (72), Yelich (32),
Dyson.
at DODGERS -240 New York +195 DP—Houston 2 (Correa, Gurriel; Altuve, Correa, Gurriel); Kansas Anderson (17). SF—Marte. GIDP—Lowrie, Vaughn. DP—Oakland 1 O’Neill (44), Nootbaar (8), Goldschmidt (69), Molina (49).
Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA (Harrison, Kemp, Olson); Chicago 1 (Moncada, Anderson, Abreu). Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Philadelphia -207 at Arizona +179 Pivetta, L, 9-6 ............12⁄3 4 4 4 3 1 57 4.43 City 1 (O’Hearn). Oakland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Peralta ........................2 5 3 3 0 2 43 2.45
at Cincinnati -240 Miami +195 Richards......................4 0 0 0 1 5 57 4.91 Blackburn, L, 0-1........51⁄3 5 3 3 3 3 75 5.06 Strickland ....................2 0 0 0 2 0 32 1.33
Perez ..........................1⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 11 4.70 Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Milwaukee -215 at St. Louis +185 Greinke .......................6 5 1 1 0 0 85 3.43 Romo .......................12⁄3 2 0 0 0 3 24 3.13 Cousins.......................1 0 0 0 0 2 15 0.00
Ottavino ......................1 0 0 0 2 0 18 3.80 Chafin.........................1 2 0 0 0 1 11 0.00 Suter ..........................1 1 0 0 1 1 12 2.76
AMERICAN LEAGUE Taylor ..........................1 2 1 1 0 0 23 3.60 B.Taylor, L, 2-4, BS, 0-4.1⁄3 2 2 2 0 1 10 3.90
Graveman..................12⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 17 0.88 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Sanchez ......................1 1 0 0 0 1 14 3.05
Favorite Underdog New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lynn ...........................4 3 1 1 3 4 88 2.26 Norris .........................1 0 0 0 1 2 17 9.45
ANGELS -127 at Detroit +112 Heaney, W, 8-8.............7 2 1 1 2 4 108 5.51 Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Crochet, W, 3-5 ..........12⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 22 2.48 Hader, W, 4-2...............1 0 0 0 0 1 14 1.66
Britton, H, 10 ...............1 0 0 0 0 1 17 5.71 Singer.......................62⁄3 6 2 2 2 6 92 5.23 Tepera, H, 1.................2⁄3 1 1 1 0 1 17 2.35 Williams, S, 3-6............1 1 1 0 0 2 18 2.23
at Tampa Bay -300 Baltimore +235 Chapman ....................2⁄3 2 1 1 1 1 20 3.79 Tapia, W, 1-0 ...............1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 4 2.70 Bummer, H, 16.............1 2 0 0 1 1 20 3.83 St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Seattle -154 at Texas +139 Luetge, S, 1-3..............1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 9 3.09 Staumont, H, 7.............1 1 0 0 0 1 13 3.40 Hendriks, S, 28-34 .....12⁄3 0 0 0 0 3 23 3.25 Flaherty.......................6 4 2 2 1 8 92 2.68
Houston -192 at Kansas City +167 Inherited runners-scored—Richards 2-0, Luetge 2-0. IBB—by Barlow, S, 7-12 ............1 3 0 0 0 0 20 2.64 Inherited runners-scored—Romo 2-1, Tepera 1-0, Bummer 1-0, Cabrera, H, 21 .............1 0 0 0 0 0 7 3.02
at Chicago OFF Oakland OFF Ottavino (Gallo). WP—Heaney. Inherited runners-scored—Tapia 2-0. HBP—Graveman (Perez). Hendriks 2-0. WP—Lynn. Gallegos, H, 20 ............1 1 0 0 1 2 26 3.12
U—Vic Carapazza, Carlos Torres, Jerry Meals, Jansen Visconti. U—Rob Drake, Will Little, Paul Clemons, Gerry Davis. T—2:49. U—Nick Mahrley, Bruce Dreckman, Ron Kulpa, Nic Lentz. T—3:20. Reys, L, 5-6, BS, 27-29 .2 3 4 1 0 3 32 2.47
at New York OFF Minnesota OFF T—3:41. Tickets sold—39,166 (47,309). Tickets sold—12,278 (37,903). Tickets sold—22,780 (40,615). T—4:03. Tickets sold—25,938 (45,494).

LEADERS MARINERS 3 METS 6 BRAVES 11 NOTES

Through Tuesday’s games games
NATIONAL LEAGUE >>>
BATTING AVERAGE
T. Turner, DODGERS ....... .319
Castellanos, Cincinnati ... .317
Frazier, San Diego .......... .312
Reynolds, Pittsburgh....... .308
Winker, Cincinnati .......... .307
Crawford, San Francisco.. .307
Soto, Washington........... .303
Segura, Philadelphia ...... .301
Harper, Philadelphia ....... .297
Freeman, Atlanta ........... .296
HOME RUNS
Tatis Jr., San Diego ............ 34
Duvall, Atlanta ..................27
Votto, Cincinnati ................26
Muncy, DODGERS ..............26
Alonso, New York ...............26
Riley, Atlanta.....................26
Freeman, Atlanta ...............26
Arenado, St. Louis .............25
RUNS BATTED IN
Aguilar, Miami .................. 84
Albies, Atlanta ..................83
Duvall, Atlanta ..................81
Machado, San Diego..........79
Arenado, St. Louis .............78
Votto, Cincinnati ................76
Tatis Jr., San Diego.............75
Riley, Atlanta.....................73
Reynolds, Pittsburgh...........72
Escobar, Milwaukee ...........72
Swanson, Atlanta ..............72
STOLEN BASES
Tatis Jr., San Diego ............ 23
T. Turner, DODGERS............23
Edman, St. Louis ...............19
Tapia, Colorado .................19
Acuna Jr., Atlanta ..............17
Story, Colorado .................17
RUNS SCORED
Freeman, Atlanta .............. 86
Tatis Jr., San Diego.............83
Taylor, DODGERS ...............81
Cronenworth, San Diego .....80
Albies, Atlanta ..................77
Soto, Washington ..............77
Winker, Cincinnati..............77
T. Turner, DODGERS............76
RANGERS 1 GIANTS 2 MARLINS 9
AMERICAN LEAGUE >>>
BATTING AVERAGE
Brantley, Houston .......... .328
Kyle Seager hit a two-run home run on
the game’s third at-bat and Marco
Kevin Pillar hit a three-run home run in
the 12th inning, lifting New York over
Reigning NL MVP Freddie Freeman hit
for the cycle for the second time and
A’s Bassitt will
Guerrero Jr., Toronto ....... .316
Hernández, Toronto ........ .315
Mullins, Baltimore .......... .315
Gurriel, Houston ............ .312
Gonzales pitched 51⁄3 shutout innings.
Seager’s homer was his club-leading
San Francisco, hours after team owner
Steve Cohen called out its hitters for a
surging Atlanta won for the 13th time in
15 games. Miami pitchers issued five
require surgery
Bogaerts, Boston ........... .307 27th of the season. lack of production. walks with the bases loaded. Oakland Athletics ace Chris
Anderson, Chicago ......... .300
Fletcher, ANGELS ........... .298 Seattle AB R H BI Avg. Texas AB R H BI Avg. New York AB R H BI Avg. San Fran. AB R H BI Avg. Atlanta AB R H BI Avg. Miami AB R H BI Avg. Bassitt has a broken bone in his
Martinez, Boston............ .292 Crawford ss 3 0 0 1 .268 Herndz 3b 4 0 2 0 .289 Nimmo cf 6 0 2 0 .276 Wade Jr. rf-lf 5 1 2 1 .252 Albies 2b 4 1 0 1 .259 Rojas ss 5 0 1 1 .273
Alvarez, Houston ............ .289 Haniger rf 2 1 0 0 .257 K.-Falefa ss 4 0 2 0 .260 McNeil 2b 5 2 1 0 .254 La Stella 2b 5 0 1 1 .248 Soler rf 3 1 0 0 .238 Chshm. 2b 5 1 2 1 .256 cheek that will need surgery to re-
HOME RUNS Seager 3b 4 1 2 2 .218 Garcia rf 4 0 0 0 .243 Alonso 1b 3 1 1 0 .251 Bryant 3b 5 0 0 0 .271 e-Adrinza 1 0 0 0 .242 Aguilar 1b 5 1 1 2 .268 pair, but he sustained no eye dam-
France 1b 4 0 1 0 .283 Peters cf 3 0 0 0 .163 Blannrn 1 0 0 0 .200 Belt 1b 4 0 0 0 .240 Frman 1b 5 4 4 2 .301 Sanchez rf 5 1 1 2 .245
Ohtani, ANGELS................ 39 Toro 2b 4 0 1 0 .254 Pozo dh 4 0 0 0 .211 Sisco 1 0 1 1 1.00 Crawford ss 4 0 0 0 .300 Riley 3b 5 2 3 2 .298 Brinson lf 4 0 0 0 .261 age after being struck on the side of
Guerrero Jr., Toronto ...........35 Fraley lf 4 0 0 0 .216 Clbrsn 1b 3 0 1 0 .250 Conforto rf 6 0 2 1 .220 Ystrzmski cf 4 0 0 0 .218 Swansn ss 4 2 2 0 .265 Diaz 3b 4 3 3 0 .209
Olson, Oakland .................30 Torrens dh 3 0 0 0 .217 a-Lowe 1 0 0 0 .248 Davis 3b 4 0 0 1 .297 Casali c 3 0 0 0 .224 d’Arnud c 3 1 0 1 .223 A.Jackson c 4 2 1 0 .116
the head by a line drive.
Perez, Kansas City .............30 Kelenic cf 1 1 0 0 .150 J.Martin lf 4 0 0 0 .155 Smith lf-1b 5 1 0 0 .249 Posey c 2 0 0 0 .322 Duvall lf 2 0 1 3 .224 DLCruz cf 3 0 2 1 .318 Bassitt was taken to the hospi-
Gallo, New York .................29 Raleigh c 3 0 1 0 .181 Ibanez 2b 3 1 1 0 .213 Villar ss 4 0 1 0 .246 Dickerson lf 3 1 2 0 .237 Herdia cf 4 0 0 1 .231 a-Alfaro 1 0 0 1 .230
Devers, Boston..................29 Totals 28 3 5 3 Trevino c 3 0 2 1 .223 Mazeika c 4 1 1 0 .276 Slater cf 1 0 0 0 .231 Morton p 3 0 0 0 .114 c-Anderson 1 0 0 1 .244 tal after getting hit by a ball from
Lowe, Tampa Bay...............28 Totals 33 1 8 1 Megill p 2 0 0 0 .188 Flores 1 0 1 0 .253 b-Almnte 1 0 0 0 .219 Leon p 1 1 1 0 .186 Brian Goodwin’s bat in the second
Semien, Toronto ................27 Drury 1 0 0 0 .303 Ruf 1 0 1 0 .274 d-Pdrsn rf 0 0 0 1 .241 Totals 38 9 12 9
RUNS BATTED IN
Seattle
Texas
200 000 010 —3
000 000 100 —1
5
8
0
0 Pillar lf 2 1 1 3 .212 Solano 1 0 0 0 .273 Totals 35 11 10 11 inning of a 9-0 loss to the Chicago
Totals 44 6 10 6 Longoria 1 0 0 0 .289 Atlanta 000 412 040 —11 10 0 White Sox on Tuesday night.
Abreu, Chicago ................. 89 a-lined out for Culberson in the 9th. Chatwood p 1 0 0 0 .000 Miami 000 020 106 — 9 12 0
Devers, Boston..................89 Walks—Seattle 2: Haniger 1, Kelenic 1. Texas 1: Peters 1. Totals 41 2 7 2 The veteran right-hander has
Guerrero Jr., Toronto ...........88 Strikeouts—Seattle 6: Crawford 1, Seager 1, France 1, Torrens 1, a-pinch hit for Guenther in the 5th. b-struck out for Morton in the 7th.
Ohtani, ANGELS ................86 Raleigh 2. Texas 6: Hernandez 1, Garcia 2, Peters 1, Pozo 1, J.Martin
New York 000 000 001 014 —6 10 0 c-grounded out for Madero in the 7th. d-walked for Rodriguez in the 8th. shown no signs of a concussion and
San Francisco 001 000 000 010 —2 7 0
Hernandez, Toronto ............83 1. LOB—Seattle 3, Texas 6. 2B—Seager (19), Raleigh (5), Trevino 2
Strikeouts—N.Y. 11: Nimmo 1, Conforto 2, Davis 2, Villar 3, Mazeika 1, Megill
e-popped out for Minter in the 9th. a scan of his brain was normal,
Meadows, Tampa Bay.........79 (8), Kiner-Falefa (22), Ibanez (6). HR—Seager (27), off Foltynewicz. Strikeouts—Atlanta 9: Albies 1, Soler 1, Swanson 1, d’Arnaud 2, Heredia 1,
Olson, Oakland .................79 RBIs—Seager 2 (76), Crawford (37), Trevino (18). SB—Culberson 1, Drury 1. San Francisco 14: Wade Jr. 1, La Stella 1, Bryant 3, Belt 1, Yastrzemski 3, Morton 2, Almonte 1. Miami 12: Chisholm Jr. 3, Aguilar 1, Sanchez 3, Brinson 2, though Bassitt can’t recall every-
Martinez, Boston ...............79 (7). CS—Kelenic (4), Culberson (1), Toro (2). SF—Crawford. Runners Casali 2, Posey 1, Dickerson 1, Chatwood 1. 2B—Conforto (16), Villar (12), McNeil Diaz 1, A.Jackson 2. LOB—Atlanta 11, Miami 7. 2B—Freeman (15), Duvall (13), thing that happened during the or-
Alvarez, Houston................77 left in scoring position—Seattle 2 (France, Seager); Texas 4 (13), Sisco (1), Wade Jr. (9). HR—Pillar (10), off Chatwood. RBIs—Davis (16), Diaz (9). 3B—Freeman (1). HR—Freeman (27), off Madero; Sanchez (4), off
Perez, Kansas City .............77
(Garcia, Hernandez 2, Pozo). RISP_Seattle 0 for 3; Texas 1 for 7. Conforto (30), Pillar 3 (29), Sisco (1), Wade Jr. (39), La Stella (11). Smith. RBIs—Riley 2 (75), Duvall 3 (84), Heredia (25), Albies (84), Freeman 2 deal.
Bichette, Toronto ...............77
GIDP—Garcia. DP—Seattle 1 (Seager, Toro, France); Texas 1 (Trevino, New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA (70), d’Arnaud (15), Pederson (53), Alfaro (19), Rojas (32), Anderson (24), De
STOLEN BASES Kiner-Falefa, Trevino).
Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Megill .........................6 5 1 1
Castro.........................1 1 0 0
2 6
0 2
90 3.21
13 3.31
La Cruz (8), Chisholm Jr. (39), Aguilar 2 (86), Sanchez 2 (11). Etc.
Merrifield, Kansas City ....... 34
Mullins, Baltimore..............22 Gonzales, W, 5-5 ........51⁄3 6 0 0 1 3 92 4.10 May ............................1 0 0 0 0 1 9 4.08 Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Anthony Rizzo was back in the
Sadler, H, 8.................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 12 1.23 Diaz............................2 0 0 0 0 1 19 3.70 Morton, W, 12-4 ...........6 3 2 2 1 9 89 3.47
Straw, Cleveland ................20 Rodriguez ....................1 1 1 1 1 0 25 2.42 Yankees’ lineup after a bout with
Bichette, Toronto ...............18 Swanson, H, 4 .............2⁄3 2 1 1 0 0 16 2.25 Familia, W, 7-3.............1 1 1 0 1 2 16 3.80
Smith, H, 3 .................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 4 5.65 Reed ..........................1 0 0 0 0 2 11 1.93 Minter.........................1 1 0 0 0 2 18 4.34 COVID-19, and closer Aroldis
Moore, Seattle ..................18 Tomlin ........................2⁄3 5 5 5 0 0 23 6.85
Ohtani, ANGELS ................18 Sewald, H, 10 ..............1 0 0 0 0 1 15 2.70 San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Anderson, Chicago.............16 Steckenrider, S, 5-8 ......1 0 0 0 0 0 11 2.06 DeSclafani.................11⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 29 3.26 Smith .........................1⁄3 2 1 1 1 1 13 3.78 Chapman also was activated be-
Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Alvarez......................12⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 19 2.25 Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Kiner-Falefa, Texas .............16
Foltynewicz, L, 2-12 ......6 3 2 2 2 5 91 5.54 Littell, H, 6 ..................2 0 0 0 0 2 23 2.74 Luzardo, L, 2-2.............3 4 4 4 5 4 74 9.68 fore New York’s series finale
RUNS SCORED Evans..........................1 0 0 0 0 0 11 5.21 Garcia, H, 8 .................1 1 0 0 0 0 12 2.89 Okert ..........................1 0 0 0 0 2 17 2.29 against the Boston Red Sox. ... Ma-
Guerrero Jr., Toronto........... 91 Cotton ........................1 1 1 1 0 0 17 7.27 Leone, H, 11................1 1 0 0 0 0 14 1.67 Guenther .....................1 3 1 1 0 1 23 9.45
Sborz..........................1 1 0 0 0 1 15 4.46 Rogers, H, 22...............1 0 0 0 0 1 5 2.02 Madero .......................2 1 2 2 2 2 47 10.50 jor League Baseball’s spring train-
Bichette, Toronto ...............90 Guzman ......................2⁄3 2 4 4 4 0 27 32.40
Semien, Toronto ................86 Inherited runners-scored—Sadler 1-0, Smith 1-0. McGee, BS, 26-30 ........1 1 1 1 0 1 23 2.79 ing exhibition schedule will start
HBP—Foltynewicz (Haniger), Cotton (Kelenic). Watson .......................1 1 0 0 0 0 16 0.00 Campbell ....................1⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 9 8.31
Altuve, Houston.................84 Leon...........................1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0.00 next year on Feb. 25.
Haniger, Seattle.................79 U—Ryan Blakney, D.J. Reyburn, Edwin Moscoso, Brian O’Nora. Chatwood, L, 0-1 ..........2 5 5 3 0 4 43 13.50
Ohtani, ANGELS ................79 T—3:00. Tickets sold—19,119 (40,300). T—4:02. Tickets sold—25,360 (41,915). T—3:49. Tickets sold—6,871 (36,742). — associated press
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BASEBALL

Ohtani pitches, hits Angels to victory

[Angels, from B10]
start with the second-best
home run rate in the Ameri-
can League. But it was also
the extent of the scoring De-
troit would do against him in
an eventual 3-1 win by the
Angels that moved them
back to .500 at 61-61.
Pitching and leading off,
Ohtani extended a stretch
that allowed him to come
into Wednesday with a 1.69
ERA since the beginning of
July. He regularly blew his
fastball by hitters at 94 mph,
used his splitter to finish off
players — Harold Castro,
Renato Nuñez and Miguel
Cabrera among them — and
held the Tigers’ offense quiet
all night.
In addition to the AL
MVP, Ohtani might be
putting himself on the map
for the Cy Young Award.
“Making a case, abso-
lutely,” Maddon said. “He’s
in the middle of everything.
Every award that’s gonna be
given out this year, he’s in
the middle of it.”
The pitching perform-
ance would have been
enough on its own. But
Ohtani helped himself by
hitting a no-doubt home run
430 feet into right field. Jose
Cisnero left a sinker up in the
zone and Ohtani, who had
been 0 for 3 to that point,
turned on it. That the home
run came 81 pitches into a
night in which Ohtani threw
eight innings of one-run
baseball, with nobody
warming up in the Angels
bullpen, just adds to the lore.
“At that point I wasn’t
sure if I was gonna go back
out or not,” Ohtani said
through an interpreter. “I
wanted to get that insurance
run, it was huge for both me
and the team.”
On top of that, the per-
“It’s been brought to my
Halo HR hitters attention, and I sincerely
apologize if I offended any-
Best one-season home run per- body, especially anybody in
formances in Angels history: the Asian community, for
47—Troy Glaus, 2000 what I said about pitching
45—Mike Trout, 2019 and being careful to Shohei
41—Troy Glaus, 2001 Ohtani,” Morris said during
41—Mike Trout, 2015 Tuesday’s broadcast. “I did
not intend for any offensive
40—Albert Pujols, 2016
thing, and I apologize if I did.
40—Shohei Ohtani, 2021
I certainly respect and have
39—Reggie Jackson, 1982 the utmost respect for this
39—Vladimir Guerrero, 2004 guy.”
39—Mike Trout, 2018 Earlier on in that game,
37—Leon Wagner, 1962 Morris said the Tigers
37—Bobby Bonds, 1977 should, “be very, very care-
ful,” when pitching to Ohtani
in a caricatured Asian ac-
Ohtani’s log cent. Maddon said before
Shohei Ohtani’s game-by- the game that Morris hadn’t
game numbers on the way to reached out to the organiza-
building an 8-1 record: tion to apologize, but he felt
the on-air apology was sin-
Date Opp IP ER H BB SO Dec
cere.
4/4 CWS 4.2 12 5 7 — “My take on the whole
4/20 TEX 4.0 0 1 6 7 — thing is that the Detroit Ti-
4/26 TEX 5.0 43 2 9 W gers reacted the way they
5/5 TB 5.0 0 1 6 7 — wanted to,” Maddon said be-
5/11 HOU 7.0 14 1 10 —
fore the game. “And I know
Jack and he apologized.”
5/19 CLE 4.2 25 2 5 —
Ohtani said that he saw
5/28 OAK 6.0 33 4 5 L the video and wasn’t of-
6/4 SEA 6.0 24 0 10 W fended.
6/11 ARI 5.0 25 2 8 — “I didn’t take anything
6/17 DET 6.0 15 1 5 W personally and I have no say
to what the Tigers wanted to
6/23 SF 6.0 16 2 9 —
do or what they did,” Ohtani
6/30 NYY 0.2 72 4 1 — said. “He’s a Hall of Famer,
7/6 BOS 7.0 25 0 4 W he has a big influence in the
7/19 OAK 6.0 0 3 1 8 — baseball world. It’s kind of a
7/26 COL 7.0 15 0 5 W tough spot.”
Besides the Castro home Paul Sancya Associated Press
8/4 TEX 6.0 14 0 6 W
run, the only real trouble SHOHEI OHTANI walks to the dugout after the seventh inning against the
8/12 TOR 6.0 23 3 6 W
Ohtani faced came in the Detroit Tigers. Ohtani hit a homer in the eighth to give the Angels a 3-1 lead.
8/18 DET 8.0 16 0 8 W first inning.
He gave up a single to Schoop at second. 6 2⁄3 innings and struck out the second-to-last hitter he
formance came in the wake Jonathan Schoop, then an- Fortunately for the An- seven. faced before Raisel Iglesias
of a racist comment by Ti- other single to Cabrera. gels, that meant Justin Up- But that effort wasn’t came on in the ninth to close
gers analyst Jack Morris, Cleanup hitter Jeimer Can- ton’s first-inning two-run anywhere near enough to out the game.
made toward Ohtani during delario came up with a home run was enough of- best Ohtani. The eight in- “I’m never satisfied when
Tuesday night’s game. Mor- chance to erase the Angels’ fense against Tigers pitcher nings was a career-high for I don’t go the distance,”
ris was suspended from the two-run lead and hit a fly ball Tarik Skubal. the two-way star — and as Ohtani said.
Bally Sports Detroit broad- to right that looked as if it Besides that, the Angels late as the eighth inning, he Another reminder. There
cast indefinitely before could drop. But Jo Adell ran never got much going reached 98 mph on a fastball is special. And then there is
Wednesday’s game. it down, then doubled off against Skubal, who went to strike out Victor Reyes, Ohtani.

MITCH WHITE came on in the second inning and pitched 71⁄3 innings of shutout ball for the Dodgers.
Muncy has MVP type of night
[Dodgers, from B10]
But after the Dodgers
slugger rounded the bases
for the second time in just
the fourth inning for his fifth
home run in the last four
games, pulling him within
mere percentage points of
Harper for the National
League lead in OPS the fans’
earlier meek cries turned
into a loud endorsement.
“MUN-CY!” “MUN-CY!”
“MUN-CY!”
“It’s good, it’s great,”
manager Dave Roberts said
of hearing the MVP chants.
“Whenever fans recognize
you have a potential MVP,
you’ve got to be doing some-
thing right.”
His two home runs and
five RBIs powered
the Dodgers to a 9-0 win —
and, potentially, himself a
fighting chance in the wide-
open NL most valuable play-
er race.
Aided by Muncy’s bat
and bountiful contributions
from the top of the lineup,
the Dodgers wasted no time
jumping on Pirates starter
J.T. Brubaker.
In the top of the first,
leadoff hitter AJ Pollock —
hitting a hop, skip and a
jump away from .400 since
the All-Star break — singled
to begin the Dodgers’ at-
tack. Muncy then drove a 2-1
sinker into the left-field
bleachers for a two-run op-
posite-field homer.
With a 2-0 lead and no
outs, the Dodgers weren’t
done. Justin Turner hit a
screamer of a double down
the third-base line, and
Corey Seager followed on
the next pitch with an RBI
single to right field to add an-
other run to the scoreboard.
When the dust settled,
each of the Dodgers’ first
four hitters had led off the
game with a hit.
In the bottom of the
fourth, after a walk from
pitcher Mitch White and an-
other single from Pollock —
the outfielder’s third hit of
the game after a solo homer
in the second inning —
Muncy stepped to the plate
again with a four-run advan-
tage.
Clearly unsatisfied with
the margin, he took a 3-2
pitch deep to right field for a
three-run shot that ex-
tended the Dodgers’ lead to
seven, sending Dodger Sta-
dium into a frenzy.
Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
The early cushion of run attacking the zone more fre-
support would’ve been a quently with his fastball,
boon for any pitching staff. changeup and curveball.
But with a Dodgers group “This has been a really
that’s particularly stretched good growth year for Mitch-
thin with injuries, it gave ell,” the manager said. “To
opener Justin Bruihl and re- see him pick us up at various
liever White room to work times has been fun.”
that they took in stride. He continued to hoist the
Hours before the first Dodgers in this game, mow-
pitch, the Dodgers starter ing down Pittsburgh for over
still stood as TBD. two innings before finally
“You know what,” Rob- giving up a hit in the top of
erts said after Tuesday’s the fifth.
game of the next day’s pitch- “He was fantastic,” Rob-
ing plan, “we’re not totally erts said. “This is something
sure yet.” that he’s going to remember
The only thing Roberts for a long time.”
was sure of was that the 26- A beautifully painted
year-old White, who’d outside curveball to strike
thrown 31 innings at the ma- out Pirates second baseman
jor league level, would han- Wilmer Difo — White’s first
dle “the bulk of the game” as batter of the game — and
either a starter or as a re- end the bottom of the sec-
liever after an opener. The ond set the tone for his eve-
team was committed to a ning. The reliever notched
pitching carousel. the longest appearance of
Well, it was a jolly merry- his young career with 71⁄3 in-
go-round as Bruihl made ef- nings of shutout work.
ficient work of the Pirates in White had been checking
12⁄3 innings to begin the eve- in with pitching coach Mark
ning before turning it over to Prior throughout the game,
White, who shut out Pitts- he said. Before the ninth in-
burgh the rest of the way. ning, Prior asked him if he
Roberts expressed confi- wanted to finish the game.
dence in White before the “Let’s do it,” White re-
game, noting his success in sponded.
Bauer accuser
finishes hours
of testimony
[Bauer, from B10]
and phone text messages
from the accuser to four peo-
ple: Bauer, the woman’s cous-
in, her best friend and her Al-
coholics Anonymous sponsor.
Holley attempted to estab-
lish that the messages pro-
vided evidence of the woman’s
state of mind, her activities
and whether she should be
granted a restraining order.
The woman was asked to
explain numerous inconsis-
tencies and messages that ap-
peared to ridicule Bauer.
She was asked about a text
to her AA sponsor after she
had been granted the tempo-
rary restraining order in
which she said Bauer could
slap her in the vagina if he
gave her $50 million.
After reading the text
aloud, Holley asked the wom-
an, “It’d all be OK if he gave
you 50 million dollars, right?”
The woman sat back and
replied, “Not necessarily.”
She was asked why she
took a selfie of her face while
Bauer was in the shower mo-
ments after their second en-
counter then joined him in the
shower.
The photograph was used
as evidence of her facial in-
juries.
She was asked why the
photo she sent to Bauer from
the hospital after she sought
medical assistance did not
show the side of her face that
she alleges he scratched.
She was asked why there
are no records of text mes-
sages to and from her best
friend and her AA sponsor
from May 18-29.
And she was asked about a
recent text exchange in which
her sponsor warned her
against posting a photo of her
looking happy, saying, “Please
don’t post ... You are supposed
to be struggling mentally, not
posting. That would be a ter-
rible mistake. I know you want
to, but it’s terrible for your
case.”
The accuser’s text re-
sponse thanked her sponsor
for the advice and ended with
the phrase “secure the bag.”
Holley asked her if the mean-
ing of that term means “get
the money,” and the woman
responded, “I’m not sure.”
After the cross-examina-
tion, Doreen Olson, one of the
woman’s attorneys, returned
to the central point of the
hearing, asking the woman
why she is asking for a re-
straining order.
“What happened was not
consensual,” the woman testi-
fied. “If they were going to put
out their side of the story, it
was fair to me to show that it
was far beyond [consensual]
choking.
“I knew I would be slut-
shamed, but it was worth it for
me to get protection from
Trevor Bauer.”
Two witnesses were called
Wednesday afternoon, one by
each side. Holley called pa-
thologist Dr. Jennifer Ham-
mers, who downplayed the ac-
cuser’s facial injuries after re-
viewing her medical reports.
“[The woman] described
forceful punches with a closed
fist [to her face]. My expecta-
tion would have been that I
and the people who examined
her would have seen more ex-
tensive injuries on the skin.
“[She] also described
forceful punching in her geni-
tal region, which based off my
review was a bruise high up in
the pubic region, which is ac-
tually above the genitalia, and
‘I knew I would be
slut-shamed, but it
was worth it for me
to get protection
from Trevor Bauer.’
— Trevor Bauer’s
accuser,
on why she is seeking a
permanent restraining order
there is no pattern to that in-
jury.”
Garelick called the accus-
er’s best friend and work asso-
ciate. The accuser went to her
house in San Diego after driv-
ing back from Bauer’s Pasa-
dena home May 17, the morn-
ing after the second en-
counter. The friend testified
that the woman had two black
eyes, bruises behind her ears,
a swollen lip and cheekbones,
and scratches on the side of
her face.
“All she wanted to do was
lay in bed at my house,” the
friend said. “She said she’d
thrown up, her head hurt, she
couldn’t open her jaw, she
could barely talk.”
In addition to Bauer, other
witnesses approved to be
called by the accuser include
the woman’s cousin, her fa-
ther, and Dr. Ellen Stein, an
expert on sexual assault
whom Bauer’s team fought to
have excluded from testifying.
L AT I M E S . C O M T H U R S DAY , AU G U S T 19 , 2 0 21 B9
THE DAY IN SPORTS

Granada Hills won’t allow fans at game

on the school’s policy has not out a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 win at the with what coach Robert
staff and wire reports
been returned. Western & Southern Open Saleh said was a head injury.
— Eric Sondheimer in Cincinnati, her first WTA The offensive lineman was
Granada Hills Charter is Tour event since the French placed on the exempt/left
refusing to allow home or Open in late May. squad list the following day.
visiting fans for Friday’s ETC. ... The Chicago Bears are
football game against Ar- Nebraska announced without both of their top two
leta. Record LPGA that the NCAA was looking draft picks. Coach Matt
The school is sticking by into its football program Nagy said quarterback
its policy established in the prize announced amid allegations Cornhusk- Justin Fields was out of
spring when high school ers staff improperly used practice because of a groin
sports resumed following The AIG Women’s British analysts and consultants injury, while second-round
COVID-19 restrictions even Open set a new standard for with the knowledge of coach pick, offensive lineman
though state, Los Angeles prize money at the LPGA Scott Frost and even moved Teven Jenkins, was facing
County and CDC guidelines Tour majors by announcing workouts off campus last back surgery.
have changed and permit a record purse of $5.8 million, year when such activities
spectators. with plans to boost it by an were banned during the Coming off the Tokyo
City Section Commis- additional $1 million for next pandemic. ... West Virginia Olympics, the U.S. women’s
sioner Vicky Lagos said she year. The winner this week and Ohio agreed to a three- national soccer team will
has told Granada Hills it will receive $870,000, com- game football series. play a series of four matches
would not be permitted to pared with the $675,000 that in September and October.
host playoff games unless Sophia Popov won last year Bernat Armangue Associated Press An attorney for 22 women The team will play Paraguay
there’s equal opportunity for at Royal Troon. The Wom- DOMINIC THIEM pulled out of the U.S. Open and who have filed lawsuits ac- in Cleveland on Sept. 16 and
fans to attend. en’s British Open starts will miss the rest of the year because of a wrist injury. cusing Houston Texans again on Sept. 21 in Cincin-
The West Valley League Thursday at Carnoustie, quarterback Deshaun Wat- nati. They’ll also play South
discussed at a meeting last Scotland. cause of a right wrist injury. she was sidelined by a left son of sexual assault and Korea on Oct. 21 in Kansas
week the possibility of pre- Thiem was hurt in June wrist injury. She reached her harassment said he and City, Kan., and on Oct. 26 in
venting Granada Hills from Pennsylvania officials while playing in the Mallorca last major semifinal there in some of his clients have spo- St. Paul, Minn. ... U.S. men’s
being allowed to host league held out the potential for Open and said the pain re- 2017. CoCo Vandeweghe, ken to the FBI about the soccer coach Gregg Berhal-
football games unless fans taxpayer-paid subsidies to turned last week after he hit who also reached those case. Tony Buzbee told the ter will be going with a bigger
from both teams were al- help entice the U.S. Golf a ball during training. Doc- semifinals, also was Associated Press that the roster to deal with three
lowed. Assn. to bring more Opens tors recommended he wear awarded a wild card. The for- FBI “reached out to me, and games crammed into a sev-
“No spectators due to and elite amateur events to a wrist splint for six more mer No. 9-ranked American I responded.” ... New York en-day span when 2022
COVID restrictions,” Arleta two courses in the state, a weeks before resuming has battled injuries and is Jets guard Alex Lewis is re- World Cup qualifying starts
coach Bill Coan said. “It’s news organization reported. training. ... Two-time cham- No. 160. tiring from playing football, in September. General man-
their school. Our home pion Venus Williams will be according to a person with ager Brian McBride said the
games will be open.” Defending champion back at the U.S. Open after Down a set and a break to direct knowledge of the deci- U.S. men’s national team will
An email sent to Granada Dominic Thiem pulled out being given a wild card. 17-year-old Coco Gauff, the sion. The 29-year-old Lewis bring in at least 26 players,
Hills executive director Bri- of the U.S. Open and will Williams hasn’t missed the second-ranked Naomi last practiced on Aug. 5, three more than are eligible
an Bauer seeking comment miss the rest of the year be- U.S. Open since 2006, when Osaka fought back to pull when he came off the field to suit up for each match.

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team’s Hudl library. CalPreps.com and place Alemany and Inglewood stronger opponents if they Shade denotes home game. *Exhibition ** at Williamsport, Pa.
There’s also an app from them in 14 divisions for 11- have picked up key players are the only ones available or
GoRout that allows coaches man football. from St. Bernard. not play at all.
to upload opponents’ plays It should lead to more While last spring was all
and send a signal to their competitive early games in Big games about rewarding loyal play- TODAY ON THE AIR
athlete’s belt pack (iPhone the playoffs but also enable Aug. 27: Long Beach Poly ers by finding ways to play TIME EVENT ON THE AIR
on waist) during scout prac- schools in strong leagues plays at Gardena Serra in games, get film and not BASEBALL
tices, getting rid of hand winning multiple section an annual matchup that worry about wins and losses, 10 a.m. Angels at Detroit TV: BSW R: 830
signals and play cards. titles. Much focus will be on usually gets decided on a this fall will be about starting 11 a.m. Oakland at Chicago White Sox TV: MLB
Sherman Oaks Notre the Trinity League to see final drive. Santa Ana Mater over, renewing program
4 p.m. Minnesota at New York Yankees TV: MLB
Dame has purchased a 100- how many schools get placed Dei travels to Texas to play culture and selling the posi-
7 p.m. New York Mets at Dodgers TV: SNLA
gallon container for water on outside of Division 1. Duncanville. tives of playing football.
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the sideline, so water bottles Oct. 1: St. John Bosco and Lots of programs don’t
can be used individually Mater Dei begin the Trinity have enough players for BASKETBALL
St. Bernard 4 p.m. WNBA, Minnesota at Connecticut TV: NBA
while maintaining physical League at St. John Bosco. freshman teams.
distancing. transfers Bishop Alemany hosts Gar- Others don’t have enough 7:30 p.m. WNBA, Atlanta at Sparks TV: SpecSN
The exodus of players dena Serra in the Mission players to have junior varsity COLLEGE SOCCER
New playoff system from Playa del Rey St. League. Wilmington Ban- teams — at least to start the 4 p.m. Women, UC Irvine at UCLA TV: Pac-12,
For the first time, the City Bernard following the brief ning will be at San Pedro to season. Pac-12LA
Section and Southern Sec- tenure of coach Manuel decide the Marine League An education-based high GOLF
tion will place schools in Douglas will strengthen title. school sports experience is 3 a.m. Women’s British Open, first round TV: Golf
playoff divisions at the end of several teams with top trans- Oct. 8: Los Alamitos will supposed to be about teach- 11 a.m. Northern Trust Open, first round TV: Golf
the regular season based on fer students. play host to Huntington ing life lessons. HORSE RACING
performance and power It looks similar to when Beach Edison to decide the Winning always helps, but 9 a.m. Trackside Live! TV: TVG
rankings rather than what a Harbor City Narbonne and Sunset League title. getting teenagers to compete
2 p.m. Saratoga Live TV: BSSC
school did in recent years. Los Angeles Hawkins had a Oct. 15: Norco, which and perform at their best is
LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL: WORLD SERIES
The Southern Section is similar exodus of players ended Centennial’s 57-game the ultimate goal with the
going to rank eligible playoff after coaching changes. league winning streak in the hope it leads to success off 10 a.m. Honolulu (Hawaii) vs. Manchester (Conn.) TV: ESPN
teams from using Mission Hills Bishop spring, hosts the Huskies in a the field. Noon Nolensville (Tenn.) vs. Hamilton (Ohio) TV: ESPN
2 p.m. Hastings (Neb.) vs. Toms River (N.J.) TV: ESPN
4 p.m. Hooksett (N.H.) vs. Torrance (Calif.) TV: ESPN
MIXED MARTIAL ARTS
THIS WEEK’S PREP FOOTBALL SCHEDULE 6 p.m. Professional Fighters League, light-heavyweights TV: ESPN
and welterweights
Today’s games Bloomington at San Gorgonio, 7 p.m. Norco at Vista Murrieta, 7 p.m. ange Glen, 7 p.m.
SOUTHERN SECTION Bonita vs. La Serna at California, 7 p.m. Norte Vista at Hesperia, 7 p.m. Bakersfield at Los Alamitos, 7 p.m. PRO FOOTBALL
Bosco Tech vs. Santa Ana Calvary Chapel at Segerstrom, Northview at La Puente, 7 p.m. Birmingham at Calabasas, 7 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Exhibition, New England at Philadelphia TV: NFL
Nonleague 7 p.m. Nuview Bridge at La Sierra, 7 p.m. Bishop Diego at Santa Maria Righetti, 7 p.m.
Buena Park vs. Cerritos at Gahr, 7 p.m. Buena at Oak Park, 7 p.m. Oak Hills at Antelope Valley, 7 p.m. Bishop Montgomery at Santee, 7 p.m. 6 p.m. CFL, Edmonton at British Columbia TV: ESPN2
Chino at Western, 7 p.m. Orange Lutheran at Gardena Serra, 7 p.m. Brentwood at San Luis Obispo Mission Prep, 6 p.m.
Cajon at Carter, 7 p.m.
Corona at Ramona, 7 p.m.
California at Schurr, 7 p.m. Orange Vista at Beaumont, 7 p.m. California City at Fillmore, 7 p.m. RUGBY
La Palma Kennedy at Long Beach Jordan, 7 p.m. Pacific at West Valley, 7 p.m. Canoga Park at Canyon Country Canyon, 7 p.m.
Linfield Christian vs. Loara at Glover Stadium, 6:30 p.m.
Camarillo vs. Hart at College of Canyons, 7 p.m.
Palm Springs at Yucaipa, 7 p.m. Carlsbad at Great Oak, 7 p.m.
3:30 p.m. Major League Rugby Draft TV: FS2
Cerritos Valley Christian at St. Paul, 7 p.m.
Ontario Christian vs. Crean Lutheran at Portola, 7 p.m. Paramount at Mira Costa, 7 p.m. Edwards AFB Desert vs. St. Monica, 7 p.m. SOCCER
Chaminade at Oaks Christian, 7 p.m.
Santa Fe vs. Summit at Miller, 7 p.m. Pasadena at Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, 7 p.m. El Camino Real at Cathedral, 7 p.m.
Chino Hills at Ayala, 7 p.m.
INTERSECTIONAL Citrus Hill at Colony, 7 p.m. Patriot at Rialto, 7 p.m. Long Beach Cabrillo at Hawkins, 7 p.m. 3 p.m. Copa Sudamericana, Paranaense vs. Quito TV: beIN1, beINes
Coachella Valley at Canyon Springs, 7 p.m. Peninsula at Dominguez, 7 p.m. Los Angeles Marshall at Mary Star, 3 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Copa Sudamericana, Libertad vs. Santos FC TV: beIN1
San Pedro vs. St. Anthony at St. Pius X-St. Matthias, 7 Pioneer at Bellflower, 7 p.m. Miami (Fla.) Central at St. John Bosco, 7 p.m.
p.m. Compton Centennial at Perris, 7 p.m.
Corona Santiago at Heritage, 7 p.m. Placentia Valencia vs. Fountain Valley at Westminster, 7 Montebello at Garfield, 7 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Copa Libertadores, Barcelona vs. Fluminense TV: beINes
Corona del Mar at Downey, 7 p.m. p.m. Morro Bay at San Marcos, 7 p.m.
Friday’s games Costa Mesa at Laguna Beach, 7 p.m. Quartz Hill at Oxnard, 7 p.m. North Hollywood at Santa Paula, 7 p.m. 7 p.m. CONCACAF League, Deportivo FC vs. TV: FS2 R: 1330
CITY Desert Hot Springs at Indian Springs, 7 p.m. Rancho Mirage at Hemet, 7 p.m. Oceanside at San Clemente, 7 p.m. Communicaciones FC
Diamond Bar vs. El Dorado at Placentia Valencia, 6 p.m. Ridgecrest Burroughs vs. Paraclete at Antelope Valley Paso Robles at Lompoc, 7 p.m.
Nonleague College, 7 p.m. Rosamond at Littlerock, 7 p.m. TENNIS
Eastside at Riverside Prep, 7 p.m.
Arleta at Granada Hills, 7 p.m. Riverside North at Grand Terrace, 7 p.m. Rosemead at Granada Hills Kennedy, 7 p.m.
Bell at Franklin, 7 p.m.
Edison vs. Servite at Santa Ana Stadium, 7 p.m. 8 a.m. ATP/WTA Western & Southern Open, early rounds TV: Tennis
El Monte vs. Azusa at Citrus College, 7 p.m. San Bernardino at Desert Mirage, 7 p.m. San Marcos Mission Hills at Chaparral, 7 p.m.
Bernstein at Taft, 7 p.m.
El Rancho at Don Lugo, 7 p.m. San Gabriel at Mountain View, 7 p.m. Santa Maria St. Joseph at Charter Oak, 7 p.m. 10 a.m. ATP/WTA Western & Southern Open, early rounds TV: BSSC
Carson at Los Angeles Roosevelt, 7 p.m. San Juan Hills vs. Santa Margarita at Saddleback Col- Santa Ynez at Nipomo, 7 p.m.
El Toro vs. La Mirada at Excelsior HS, 7 p.m.
Chatsworth at Grant, 7 p.m. lege, 7 p.m. South Pasadena at Lincoln, 7 p.m.
Elsinore at Vista del Lago, 7 p.m.
Chavez at San Fernando, 7 p.m. San Marino at Norwalk, 7 p.m. Tesoro at Carlsbad La Costa Canyon, 7 p.m.
Cleveland at Palisades, 7 p.m. Firebaugh at Lynwood, 7 p.m.
Santa Ana at Millikan, 7 p.m. Vista at Paloma Valley, 7 p.m.
Crenshaw at Westchester, 7 p.m. Fontana vs. Granite Hills at Apple Valley, 7 p.m.
Dorsey at Fairfax, 7 p.m. Foothill vs. Cypress at Western, 7 p.m.
Fullerton vs. Garden Grove Pacifica at Bolsa Grande, 7
Santa Ana Valley at Ocean View, 7 p.m.
Santa Rosa Academy at Bermuda Dunes Desert Chris- 8-Man TENNIS RESULTS
Gardena at Sun Valley Poly, 7 p.m. tian, 7 p.m. CITY
Huntington Park at Rivera, 4:30 p.m. p.m. $3-MILLION WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN tolina (4), Ukraine, 7-5, 2-6, 6-4; Elena Rybakina,
Saugus at Santa Barbara, 7 p.m. Nonleague
Legacy at Maywood CES, 7 p.m. Glendale at Gabrielino, 7 p.m. At Cincinnati Kazakhstan, d. Elise Mertens (15), Belgium, 6-3, 6-2;
Segerstrom at North Torrance, 7 p.m. Sherman Oaks CES at Sotomayor, 7 p.m.
Manual Arts at Mendez, 7 p.m. Glendora vs. West Ranch at Valencia, 7 p.m. Surface: Hard-outdoor Petra Kvitova (11), Czech Republic, d. Veronika Kuder-
Silverado at Palm Desert, 7 p.m.
Marquez at Eagle Rock, 7 p.m. Heritage Christian at Harvard-Westlake, 7 p.m. INTERSECTIONAL MEN’S SINGLES (second round)—Pablo Carreno metova, Russia, 6-2, 6-4; Naomi Osaka (2), Japan, d.
Simi Valley at Ventura, 7 p.m.
Narbonne at Reseda, 7 p.m. Hillcrest vs. Riverside Poly at King, 7 p.m. Lancaster Baptist at Lone Pine, 7 p.m. Busta (7), Spain, d. Dominik Koepfer, Germany, 6-4, Coco Gauff, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; Jil Teichmann, Switzerland, d.
South El Monte vs. Alhambra at Moor Field (Alhambra),
Roybal at Panorama, 7 p.m. Indio at Shadow Hills, 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 6-2; Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, d. Alexander Bublik, Bernarda Pera, 6-1, 6-4; Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, d.
South East at Jefferson, 7 p.m. Inglewood at Loyola, 7 p.m. Thousand Oaks at Westlake, 7 p.m. Kazakhstan, 6-3, 7-5; Felix Auger-Aliassime (12), Cana- Jennifer Brady (13), 6-7 (2), 5-4, retired; Ashleigh Barty
JSerra vs. Sierra Canyon at Brmingham, 7 p.m. Saturday’s games da, d. Karen Khachanov, Russia, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4; (1), Australia, d. Heather Watson, Britain, 6-4, 7-6 (3);
Washington at Los Angeles Hamilton, 3 p.m. Trinity Classical Academy at Campbell Hall, 6 p.m.
Jurupa Valley at Ontario, 7 p.m. Tustin at Capistrano Valley, 7 p.m. CITY Guido Pella, Argentina, d. Fabio Fognini, Italy, 6-1, 7-5; Victoria Azarenka (14), Belarus, d. Alison Riske, 6-2,
SOUTHERN SECTION Keppel at Hoover, 5 p.m. Hubert Hurkacz (9), Poland, d. Andy Murray, Britain, 7-6 7-5; Belinda Bencic (10), Switzerland, d. Shelby Rogers,
Upland at La Habra, 7 p.m. Nonleague
Nonleague Laguna Hills vs. Katella at Glover Stadium, 7 p.m. Valley View at Temecula Valley, 7 p.m. South Gate at Los Angeles Wilson, 1 p.m. (4), 6-3; Andrey Rublev (4), Russia, d. Marin Cilic, Cro- 7-6 (1), 6-1; Paula Badosa, Spain, d. Aryna Sabalenka
Agoura at Channel Islands, 7 p.m. Lakeside vs. Arlington at Ramona, 7 p.m. Verbum Dei at Hawthorne, 7 p.m. atia, 5-7, 6-3, 6-1; Daniil Medvedev (1), Russia, d. Mac- (3), Belarus, 5-7, 6-2, 7-6 (4); Barbora Krejcikova (9),
Aliso Niguel at Huntington Beach, 7 p.m. Lancaster at Serrano, 7 p.m. Village Christian at La Salle, 7 p.m. SOUTHERN SECTION kenzie McDonald, 6-2, 6-2; Casper Ruud (8), Norway, d. Czech Republic, d. Dayana Yastremska, Ukraine, 6-1,
Alta Loma at Colton, 7 p.m. Lompoc Cabrillo at Nordhoff, 7 p.m. Warren at Long Beach Wilson, 7 p.m. Nonleague Reilly Opelka, 6-7 (5), 6-0, 7-6 (4); Alexander Zverev 7-6 (5); Garbine Muguruza (8), Spain, d. Caroline Gar-
Anaheim Canyon vs. Sunny Hills at Buena Park, 7 p.m. Los Altos at Hacienda Heights Wilson, 7 p.m. West Covina at Monrovia, 7 p.m. Bassett at Cantwell-Sacred Heart, 5 p.m. (3), Germany, d. Lloyd Harris, South Africa, 7-6 (3), 6-2; cia, France, 6-4, 6-3; Ons Jabeur, Tunisia, d. Iga Swiatek
Apple Valley at Mission Viejo, 7 p.m. Magnolia vs. Godinez at Santa Ana Valley, 7 p.m. Whittier at San Dimas, 7 p.m. Pasadena Poly vs. Savanna at Western, 10:30 a.m. Lorenzo Sonego, Italy, d. Tommy Paul, 7-6 (9), 6-2; John (6), Poland, 6-3, 6-3.
Aquinas at Etiwanda, 7 p.m. Marina at Arcadia, 7 p.m. Woodbridge at Portola, 7 p.m. Redlands East Valley at San Jacinto, 7 p.m. Isner d. Jannik Sinner (11), Italy, 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-4; Gael $115,000 CHICAGO 125
Arrowhead Christian vs. Capistrano Valley Christian at Mayfair at Chaffey, 7 p.m. Workman at Garey, 7 p.m. Rowland at Cathedral City, 7 p.m. Monfils, France, d. Alex de Minaur (14), Australia, 6-3, At Chicago
Tesoro, 7 p.m. Moorpark at Royal, 7 p.m. Xavier Prep at St. Pius X-St. Matthias, 7 p.m. Western Christian at Temecula Prep, 6 p.m. 7-5; Diego Schwartzman (10), Argentina, d. Frances Surface: Hard-outdoor
Arroyo Valley at Sierra Vista, 7 p.m. Murrieta Mesa at Temescal Canyon, 7 p.m. Tiafoe, 6-1, 3-5, 6-4. SINGLES (second round)—Claire Liu d. Anna Kalin-
Barstow at Rubidoux, 7 p.m. Newbury Park vs. Burbank at Burbank Burroughs, 7 p.m. INTERSECTIONAL INTERSECTIONAL WOMEN’S SINGLES (second round)—Karolina Mu- skaya, Russia, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Storm Sanders, Australia,
Bell Gardens vs. Troy at Fullerton HS, 7 p.m. Newport Harbor at Yorba Linda, 7 p.m. Alemany at Highland (Utah) Lone Peak, 7 p.m. El Cajon Christian vs. Rancho Christian at El Cajon Gran- chova, Czech Republic, d. Bianca Andreescu (7), Cana- d. Varvara Gracheva (8), Russia, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4; Ann Li
Big Bear at Victor Valley, 7 p.m. Nogales at Baldwin Park, 7 p.m. Anza Hamilton vs. Escondido Charter at Escondido Or- ite Hills, 7 p.m. da, 6-4, 6-2; Angelique Kerber, Germany, d. Elina Svi- (3), d. Oceane Dodin, France, 6-3, 6-1.

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SHOHEI OHTANI hits his MLB-leading 40th home run of the season during the eighth inning in Detroit.
Ohtani gives Tigers
real double whammy
Angels star pitches eight innings
for win and slugs his 40th homer
ANGELS 3, DETROIT 1
By Ethan Sears
There are times when it’s
easy to forget that what
Shohei Ohtani is doing is all
but unprecedented. And
then there are times like
Wednesday night.
Ohtani, pitching and hit-
ting leadoff, made one mis-
take all game. The rest will
go down as one of the best in-
dividual games played in
Major League Baseball this
year.
Little League
series has rare
L.A. entrant
Torrance’s ‘Cardiac
Kids’ first County
team since 1994 to
reach Williamsport.
By Jack Harris
For the first time in al-
most three decades, a Los
Angeles County team will
participate in the Little
League Baseball World
Series beginning Thursday.
Torrance Little League
will open play in Williams-
port, Pa., after finishing sec-
ond in the West Regional
last week, becoming the first
L.A. County team since
Northridge in 1994 to reach
the final stage of the na-
tional tournament.
“Coming to Williamsport
is surreal,” coach Javier
Chavez said. “It’s the biggest
stage in Little League base-
ball. Playing on these beauti-
ful fields and stadiums and
having the exposure for the
kids … it’s a dream come true
for all of us.”
Here are five things to
know as the event gets
SPORTS
T H U R S D A Y , A U G U S T 1 9 , 2 0 2 1 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / S P O R T S
That mistake — a first-
pitch curveball that Willi
Castro took deep in the fifth
inning — accounted for the
lone run Ohtani gave up over
eight innings. He threw just
90 pitches. He struck out
eight. He hit his 40th home
run, which leads the majors.
“What could you possibly
say that has not already
been said?” Angels manager
Joe Maddon said after the
game.
Even giving up a home
run is rare for Ohtani, who
came into Wednesday’s
[See Angels, B8]
LITTLE LEAGUE
WORLD SERIES
Torrance vs.
Hooksett, N.H.
What: First-round game
in the Tom Seaver bracket
of the Little League Base-
ball World Series in Wil-
liamsport, Pa.
When: Today, 4 p.m.
TV: ESPN
Championship: The
survivor of double-elimi-
nation play in the Tom
Seaver bracket will face
the winner of the Hank
Aaron bracket in the title
game on Aug. 29 at noon
PDT. TV: Ch. 7
underway.
‘Cardiac Kids’
After advancing with
ease through its district
tournament earlier this
summer, Torrance walked a
tightrope in the Southern
California and West Region
championships.
In the Southern Califor-
[See Little League, B6]
OHTANI struck out eight and gave up one run over
eight innings against the Tigers to improve to 8-1.
MATER DEI quarterback Elijah Brown runs for yardage against St. John Bosco last season. Mater Dei and
St. John Bosco have long established themselves as the best two teams in the Southern Section Division 1.
THE MAD SCRAMBLE BEGINS
New season has a clear top two and everyone trying to avoid the virus
ERIC SONDHEIMER
ON HIGH SCHOOLS
The 2021 high school
football season begins this
weekend with a 10-week
regular-season schedule,
four weeks of playoffs and a
week of state bowl games.
That’s the best-case scenar-
Nic Antaya Getty Images
Paul Sancya Associated Press
PREP FOOTBALL ’21
io. Since the coronavirus is
still around, everyone needs
to prepare for interruptions,
interventions and adjust-
ments when positive test
results are discovered.
Here are some story lines
to watch:
Parity has vanished
Predicting which teams
B10
Bauer won’t
testify in
his defense
Pitcher will cite 5th
Amendment right,
attorney says, as end
of hearing nears.
By Steve Henson
At the end of 12 hours of
grueling, often emotional
testimony from the woman
accusing Trevor Bauer of
sexual assault, she re-
minded the court Wednes-
day of the central reason be- Marcio Jose Sanchez AP
hind her request for a re- MAX MUNCY rounds
straining order against the the bases after hitting
Dodgers pitcher. a three-run home run.
“I did not consent to
bruises all over my body that
sent me to the hospital and
having that done to me while
Muncy,
Dodgers
I was unconscious,” she tes-
tified.
The hearing in Los Ange-
les County Superior Court is
to determine whether a tem-
porary restraining order
against Bauer should be ex-
dominate
tended to the full five years
allowed under state law. Yet,
it has unfolded as a de facto
Pirates
trial with both sides repre-
sented by high-powered law His two home runs
firms presenting mountains
of evidence. and five RBIs back the
Attorneys on both sides job on the mound by
told Judge Dianna Gould-
Saltman at the end of the Bruihl and White.
day Wednesday that the
case should be completed DODGERS 9
Thursday. Marc Garelick, PITTSBURGH 0
one of the accuser’s attor-
neys, said Bauer will be By Luca Evans
called to testify, but his at-
torney, Shawn Holley, said The chant was so weak
the pitcher plans to invoke
his 5th Amendment rights
that, at first, it seemed al-
most like a question.
and decline to answer ques- In first baseman Max
tions to avoid self-incrimina- Muncy’s initial at-bat in
tion. Wednesday’s game against
In a July court appear- the Pittsburgh Pirates, be-
ance, the woman’s attorneys tween pitches, a faint few
estimated her testimony smatterings of “M-V-P” rang
would take about two hours. out amid a packed Dodger
Instead, she testified for six Stadium crowd.
hours Monday, three hours Perhaps the lack of con-
Tuesday and nearly all viction was due to San Diego
morning Wednesday, walk- Padres shortstop Fernando
ing the court through her in- Tatis Jr. and his 34 home
timate encounters with runs this season. Perhaps it
Bauer on April 21 and May 16 was due to the stretch run
and the medical care she re- that Philadelphia Phillies
ceived after the second en- outfielder Bryce Harper is
counter. having. Perhaps it was the
The cross-examination fact that Muncy had cooled
by Holley dissected reams of off ever-so-slightly since the
Instagram direct messages All-Star break.
[See Bauer, B8] [See Dodgers, B8]
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
might be succeed in South- in a big way.
ern Section Division 1 has That doesn’t mean oppo-
become too easy. Bellflower nents won’t try to shock the
St. John Bosco has reached world. Anaheim Servite,
the championship game Corona Centennial,
eight consecutive seasons. Chatsworth Sierra Canyon
Santa Ana Mater Dei has and Norco can dream of
been to the final every sea- being competitive in the
son since 2016. There is no Division 1 playoffs this sea-
parity. These two programs son. But facts are facts and
have separated themselves [See Sondheimer, B9]
L AT I M E S . C O M / S P O RT S T H U R S DAY , AU G U S T 19 , 2 0 21 DD1

Trout’s message hits home

Following advice from the Angels veteran, rookie Adell responds with the first grand slam of his career
By Jack Harris

Jo Adell walked out of the

batting cage and into the
classroom Tuesday after-
noon.
Just as the Angels rookie
outfielder finished up a
pregame hitting session,
Mike Trout showed up to
dispense some subtle advice
to his young teammate.
For the better part of 10
minutes, Trout (now 30 with
three most valuable player
awards) offered Adell (a 22-
year-old with three career
home runs to that point)
compliments and critique.
Trout was impressed by
the former first-round pick’s
improved discipline at the
plate, an approach that had
clearly improved since a
poor debut season a year pri-
or. But, he keyed in on some
small changes that he
thought might benefit Adell
too.
“He was like, ‘I like to let
you play your game, and do
you. I think it’s important
you’re true to yourself and
do you. But every once in a
while, when I see something,
I’m going to point it out,’ ”
Adell recalled later, smiling
as he described a moment of
mentorship that was brief
but important — an interac-
tion that, by the end of the
night, was already paying
dividends on the field.
One of Trout’s biggest
pieces of advice to Adell had
been “to stay on the fastball”
and remain aggressive even
against some of the hardest
throwers in the league.
In the ninth inning of a
tied game hours later
against the Detroit Tigers,
Adell took it to heart, ham-
mering an elevated 97-mph Alex Gallardo Associated Press
sinker from Gregory Soto DESPITE BEING SIDELINED since mid-May with a calf injury, Angels center fielder Mike Trout, left, with right fielder Jo Adell last
over the inner half of the August, has been able to be a source of support and guidance for Adell and other younger members of the team.
plate for his first career
grand slam, lifting the An- whether such talk is just lip debut a few weeks later.
gels to an 8-2 win. service for a losing team or They are all names the
“When I hit it, I turned
and Trout was at the stair-
‘He was like, “I like to let you actually leaving a lasting im-
pact on a club in transition.
Angels will be counting on in
the near future. Marsh and
well in the dugout,” Adell
said. “I looked over and [he]
play your game, and do you. I But, even before Tuesday,
there has been no shortage
Adell will both compete for
an open outfield spot next
just went crazy. … Having
that mindset throughout
think it’s important you’re true of examples to back up the
atmosphere Maddon has
season. Sandoval, Detmers,
Suarez and Jaime Barria will
the game today helped me
just let loose.”
to yourself and do you. But described.
Trout and Fowler, after
be candidates for the rota-
tion. Austin Warren and José
It was the kind of se-
quence Angels manager Joe
every once in a while, when I all, are accompanying the
Angels on their current trip
Quijada could be factors in
the bullpen.
Maddon has been witness-
ing all season — optimistic
see something, I’m going to even while continuing to re-
hab their injuries. Quintana
“Guys that have had op-
portunity have really taken
glimpses of growth he be-
lieves the team can build up-
point it out.” ’ and Junior Guerra, one of
the veteran relievers who
advantage of it,” Maddon
said. “For now, and for next
on, a reinforcing foundation Paul Sancya Associated Pres — J O A DELL , on Mike Trout’s tutelage has struggled this season, year.”
that he views as necessary to are almost always tailed on Which is why, even as
building a brighter future. the field by younger pitchers they’re running out of time
“I love the culture this fectiveness or a combination has been on the injured list things, attributing the emer- who, in many cases, have re- to make a playoff push this
group is building right now,” of both. twice. And, outside of closer gence of several young play- placed their role on the ros- season, the Angels see a way
Maddon said. “The veterans Trout has been out since Raisel Iglesias, the Angels’ ers — such as Adell and ter. to continue building toward
have a great influence on mid-May with a calf injury, experienced bullpen has Brandon Marsh in the out- When Marsh, the Angels’ something bigger too. On
these young guys: How do leaving a gaping hole in the varied from unspectacular field and pitchers Patrick top position player Tuesday, Trout and Adell
you act? How do you handle middle of the lineup that has to inconsistent. Sandoval, José Suarez, Reid prospect, was called up for provided a reminder of the
a moment? How do you han- become increasingly diffi- “There’s a lot of stuff that Detmers and others on the his debut last month, he strides that can still be
dle a situation? It’s been cult to fill. Veterans Anthony didn’t roll right for us to this mound — to influence called it “a blessing” to pick made.
fabulous to watch and listen Rendon, Dexter Fowler and point,” Maddon acknowl- they’ve received from the the brains of teammates in “Just getting to sit down
to.” Justin Upton have been edged Tuesday, with his rest of the group. the clubhouse and video and talk for 10 minutes about
The Angels’ 2021 season, plagued by injuries as well. team slipping ever further “It’s not obvious,” Mad- room. what I’m thinking and what
of course, will largely be re- On the pitching side, Dy- out of the American League don said. “But these are the Detmers, the club’s top I want to do and how we’re
membered for what that vet- lan Bundy and José Quin- wild-card race. things I’m most pleased pitching prospect, de- going to get there,” Adell
eran core couldn’t do — ei- tana lost their spots in the But then, Maddon tried with.” scribed a similar excitement said, “that’s about as good as
ther because of injury, inef- starting rotation. Alex Cobb to put a positive spin on Only time will tell ahead of his major league it gets.”

Stafford says sloppiness is part of process

He views three
interceptions in joint
practice as a product
of being aggressive.
By Gary Klein
One pass was tipped and
intercepted by a Las Vegas
Raiders safety. Another,
seemingly thrown up for
grabs, was picked off by a
cornerback. Then another
tipped pass was intercepted
by former Rams linebacker
Cory Littleton.
Those three turnovers by
quarterback Matthew
Stafford stood out Wednes-
day as the Rams held the
first of two joint practices
with the Raiders at the
Rams’ Thousand Oaks
training facility.
Neither Stafford nor
Rams coach Sean McVay
sounded overly concerned.
“I made a couple poor de-
cisions that I wish I had back
— that’s practice,” Stafford
said, adding that the Rams
were using, “some of the new
stuff that we’re putting in,
and I want to make sure I get
reps at it. I’ve got to do a bet-
ter job of making sure that
we end up with the ball at the
end of every play.”
McVay is not playing
starters or other important
role players during pre-
season games, making joint
practices with the Dallas
Cowboys and the Raiders
significant opportunities to
evaluate players, play-calls
and schemes.
The Rams traded
quarterback Jared Goff and
two-first round draft picks
to the Detroit Lions for
Stafford, the No. 1 pick in the
2009 NFL draft.
Last season, Stafford
passed for 26 touchdowns,
with 10 interceptions.
McVay noted that two of
the passes intercepted
Wednesday resulted from
tipped balls “that really
didn’t have anything to do
with” Stafford.
“He’s aggressively trying
things out,” McVay said, “so
then you can learn how to be
smart with that decision-
making thought process
when the games really
count.”
Stafford, preparing for
his 13th NFL season, was
looking forward to Thurs-
day’s workout.
“Going to have good
days, going to have bad days
— especially out here on the
practice field trying stuff,”
he said, “and just want to
learn from all of them.”
The two-hour practice
was interrupted several
times because of skirmishes
between players.
The workout ended not
long after Rams receiver
Robert Woods absorbed an
aggressive hit that coaches
MATTHEW STAFFORD says of his decision-making: “I’ve got to do a better job
of making sure that we end up with the ball at the end of every play.”
and players generally frown
upon in what is regarded as a
controlled setting.
“I didn’t like how sloppy it
felt overall,” McVay said of
the practice. “There was a
lot of breaks in the action be-
cause of unnecessary stuff.
It wasn’t exclusive to one
side or the other.”
Rams defensive lineman
Sebastian Joseph-Day and
Raiders offensive lineman
Richie Incognito were in-
volved in one of the dust-
ups.
“I felt like they were doing
some cheap stuff out there
and I just let them know
that,” Joseph-Day said.
“One thing led to another —
and we had a friendly talk.”
Said Stafford: “Hope-
fully, we can play a little bit
more ball and not be push-
ing and shoving as much” on
Thursday.
Other observations from
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
the joint practice:
8 Much was conducted in
light rain and misty condi-
tions. Stafford took one deep
shot to receiver DeSean
Jackson, but the pass fell in-
complete.
8 Stafford looked sharp in
seven-on-seven red-zone
drills, completing several
touchdown passes.
Backup John Wolford
also had a touchdown pass
to tight end Brycen Hop-
kins.
8 The Rams struggled to
run the ball effectively. Dar-
rell Henderson found space
on a few plays but was other-
wise neutralized. One good
play was nullified by a hold-
ing penalty. Running back
Cam Akers, who suffered a
season-ending right Achilles
injury before training camp,
attended the workout wear-
ing a plastic boot.
8 Van Jefferson used his
size and strength to make a
tough catch in traffic. Jeffer-
son later left the practice be-
cause of what McVay de-
scribed as a forearm issue,
but the receiver returned to
finish the workout.
8 Rams rookie defensive
back Robert Rochell inter-
cepted a pass by Raiders’
back-up quarterback Mar-
cus Mariota.
8 Raiders receiver Hunt-
er Renfrow made several im-
pressive catches.
8 Rams punter Corey Bo-
jorquez boomed several
punts. McVay has said there
is not a competition between
veteran Johnny Hekker and
Bojorquez, but Hekker said
during offseason workouts
he is approaching every situ-
ation as a competition.
8 Edge-rusher Leonard
Floyd (ankle) did not prac-
tice. Offensive lineman
Tremayne Anchrum was
sidelined because of an aller-
gic reaction to something he
ate, McVay said.
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Media
giants
team to
stream
abroad
Comcast, ViacomCBS
are targeting smaller
European markets
with SkyShowtime.
By Meg James

Comcast Corp. and Via-

comCBS are joining forces
to create an international
streaming service, Sky-
Showtime, to gain a pres-
ence in nearly two dozen
smaller European countries,
including Spain, the Czech
Republic and Sweden.
The move, announced
Wednesday, raises ques-
tions about whether the two
U.S. media giants are big
enough to compete on their
own, particularly in foreign
markets where Netflix and
Amazon have been op-
erating.
By combining forces in
small and medium Europe-
an markets, the two compa-
nies — both late entrants to
the streaming wars — ap-
pear to recognize the chal-
lenges they face in becoming
a global streaming jugger-
naut. The new service is ex-
pected to debut in 2022, sub-
ject to regulatory approvals,
and offer more than 10,000
hours of content. It will pig-
gyback off the Sky brand,
which is well known in much
of Europe.
“This is a good aggrega-
tion strategy to bundle a lot
of great content into one of-
fering,” said Dan Rayburn, a
principal analyst at Frost &
Sullivan. “They are repur-
posing a bunch of content
that they already own, and
making it available in new
territories and under a new
brand.”
The joint venture comes
amid signs of saturation in
the streaming space.
Netflix startled Wall
Street last month when it
announced its subscription
numbers were slowing amid
Jason Armond Los Angeles Times [See SkyShowtime, E6]
AN EMOTIVE Sheku Kanneh-Mason digs deep as he performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Bowl on Tuesday.

MUSIC REVIEW

A Hollywood moment
ext month will mark 16 years since a
Cello star Sheku Bowl for many reasons — the atmosphere, the so-

N 24-year-old Venezuelan conductor

known only to industry insiders
made his U.S. debut at the Holly-
wood Bowl looking like he already
owned the place.
Back this summer for his longest Bowl resi-
dency with what has been since 2009 his Los Ange-
Kanneh-Mason
wows in his
Bowl debut, with
cial attraction, the hopes for one of those rare
nights when music, typically little rehearsed, tri-
umphs over distraction and acoustical adversity.
Midway through Dudamel’s current three-week
residency, you come for what is starting to feel like
guaranteed greatness.
Last week, Dudamel brought to new life Dvo-
Jay L. Clendenin L.A. Times

There’s no ‘I’
in ‘Ted Lasso’
It’s about teamwork —
les Philharmonic (and will continue to be for an- rak’s “New World Symphony” in the most capti- and a lack of egos,
“coach” Jason
other decade or more, if the orchestra has its way),
Gustavo Dudamel has now fully paid off the mort-
Dudamel leading. vating concert performance I have heard of that
overplayed warhorse anywhere. He came close to Sudeikis says of the
gage. doing that again with Elgar’s “Engima” Variations comedy. The Envelope
The Hollywood Bowl is his. At age 40, he is its BY MARK SWED on Tuesday. Comics ................... E4-5
paterfamilias. Before Dudamel, you went to the MUSIC CRITIC Dudamel has done something [See Bowl, E2]
What’s on TV .......... E6

MOVIE REVIEW

It’s unusually humane horror ‘Queens’ cast’s

‘The Night House’
pulls the rug out from
under you but also
cushions your fall.
JUSTIN CHANG
FILM CRITIC
The scariest moments in
“The Night House,” an ele-
gant nerve-jangler about the
sometimes lethal cost of
waterfront real estate, are
marvels of jump-scare engi-
neering. They’re shivery lit-
tle reminders of what can
happen when ominous mu-
sic, assaultive sound design
and serpentine camera
[See ‘ Night House,’ E3]
secrets of success
Awkwafina, Bowen
Yang and co-stars
discuss their real-life
journeys, offer advice.
By Danielle Broadway
Nearly 18 months since it
premiered on Comedy Cen-
tral, “Awkwafina Is Nora
From Queens,” co-created
by actor-rapper Awkwafina
and based in part on her own
life, returns Wednesday for
Season 2 — and while it fea-
tures the absurd moments
Searchlight Pictures and quirky humor of the
REBECCA HALL keeps the tension building playing a recently widowed woman. first, it’s also a story of self-
discovery. This season, both
Nora (Awkwafina) and her
cousin Edmund (Bowen
Yang) are learning that
“growing up” isn’t linear and
there’s no such thing as
“having it all.”
As she navigates life as an
Asian American woman in
her late 20s while living with
family in Queens, N.Y., Nora
must overcome her self-
doubts while navigating re-
lationships with family and
friends. And her journey
isn’t always an easy one.
Nora idealizes Edmund’s
“perfect” life — attending an
elite school, working at high-
paying tech jobs, living away
[See ‘Queens,’ E6]
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You got the
beat, so get
on your feet
Pasadena Playhouse’s
new season lets you
dance to a Go-Go’s
jukebox musical.
By Ashley Lee
The Pasadena Playhouse
has got the beat: The re-
gional theater will kick off its
2021-22 season with a re-
imagining of “Head Over
Heels,” the musical comedy
featuring the hits of the Go-
Go’s.
This “Head Over Heels,”
running Nov. 9 through Dec.
12, won’t be a replica of
Michael Mayer’s 2018 Broad-
way production, which sets
songs like “Our Lips Are
Sealed,” “Vacation” and
“Mad About You” to the
story of Philip Sidney’s 16th
century prose poem “Arca-
dia.”
Instead, the Playhouse
staging trims the running
time to an intermission-less
90 minutes (while keeping
the majority of the songs in-
tact) and swaps a medieval
setting for that of a concert
not unlike the shows that
made the band a mainstay of
the Los Angeles punk rock
scene. And it will put the au-
dience at the center of the
action, with immersive and
interactive elements.
It’s a bold pick, especially
amid a pandemic.
“Our world has changed
dramatically because of
COVID: the loss of people, of
social connectivity, of
missed opportunities and
what we thought last year
and this year would have
been,” said Danny Feldman,
Pasadena Playhouse pro-
ducing artistic director.
“Restarting the engine
with our pre-pandemic lens
Commanding
performance
[Bowl, from E1]
else important during this
residency: Guide young solo-
ists in their Bowl debuts. On
Tuesday, British cellist
Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s con-
fident, commanding per-
formance of Elgar’s Cello
Concerto had some of the
same qualities of Dudamel’s
Bowl debut.
The main difference is
that Kanneh-Mason arrives
already a star, so much so
that at age 22, he seemed
practically overdue for his
first Bowl concert. He was
well known as a teenage cel-
list on British TV when he
turned heads at Prince
Harry and Meghan Markle’s
wedding in 2018, but that
event catapulted him to in-
stant international Insta-
gram celebrity.
The classical world was
ready for Sheku, as everyone
called him. A few months
earlier, he had released his
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Instead, it’s about looking at
ourselves as a cultural insti-
tution and how we can en-
gage with audiences and
theater altogether in new
ways.”
The jukebox musical —
which will be directed, chor-
eographed and conceived by
Jenny Koons and Sam Pin-
kleton — centers on the cri-
ses of a royal family.
“At the core of this show is
a group of people who dis-
cover they are missing some-
thing and go on a search,
only to find that the thing
they were missing was in
each other all along,” said
Koons. “It felt like the per-
fect thing for this moment,
because it’s a party that re-
minds people of the possibil-
ities of themselves and the
world.”
With a cast of just eight
and a five-piece band, the
site-specific reimagining will
include a completely new ar-
rangement that includes
traditional theater seating,
couches onstage and a
standing-room area for au-
dience members to dance
throughout the show. Ticket
holders can get as involved
in the action as they prefer.
“The whole thing is cre-
ated through the spirit of
consent and hospitality,
from start to finish, whether
that means you want to sit in
a seat with your grand-
parents and have the best
time or you want to be on the
dance floor the whole time,
or something in between,”
Pinkleton said.
Plus, the performers
won’t be limited to a tradi-
tional proscenium stage.
“Every seat is actually the
best seat,” Pinkleton added.
“It destroys the aristocracy
model of theater seating.” If
you think you have a terrible
heavily hyped bestselling
first recording, “Inspira-
tion,” which mixed a dynam-
ic performance of Shostako-
vich’s First Cello Concerto,
conducted by none other
than Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla,
with a hodgepodge collec-
tion of bits by Bob Marley,
Saint-Saëns, Leonard Co-
hen and unexpected others.
His Los Angeles debut, a re-
cital with his sister, British
pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason
(who was also scheduled to
appear with the L.A. Phil at
the Bowl this summer but
who ran into visa problems),
confirmed the presence of a
major artist in the making.
As Dudamel had been,
Sheku Kanneh-Mason ap-
peared right at home, right
away at the Bowl. He made a
statement.
Elgar’s elegiac concerto,
so dated seeming in 1919
when it was new, its pastoral
romantic musing out of sync
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THE SONGS of the Go-Go’s will highlight the Pasadena Playhouse’s 2021-22 season. Band members, from
left, Kathy Valentine, Belinda Carlisle, Gina Schock, Charlotte Caffey and Jane Wiedlin in January 2020.
can still feel safe,” Feldman
said.
The Pasadena season
also will include the Los An-
geles premieres of “Teenage
Dick” (Feb. 1–27), Mike
Lew’s modern take on
Shakespeare’s “Richard III,”
directed by Moritz von
Stuelpnagel; “Ann” (March
23-April 24) Holland Tay-
lor’s solo show about former
Texas Gov. Ann Richards,
directed by Benjamin Ends-
ley Klein; and “Freestyle
Love Supreme” (July 12-Aug.
7), the hip-hop improv show
from the creators of “Hamil-
ton” set to receive a special
Tony Award next month. A
fifth show will be announced
at a later date.
Joan Marcus “This isn’t just a new sea-
THE PLAYHOUSE’S season includes “Freestyle Love Supreme,” a hip-hop im- son; it’s the first season of
prov show from the creators of “Hamilton,” including Lin-Manuel Miranda, left. the ‘new world,’ ” Feldman
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quire all patrons to be vacci- PCR test taken within 72 vibe, it’s not necessarily a This is the moment when
nated and wear masks in- hours prior to entering the sweaty, packed, pre-pan- we’re going to start seeing
side the theater. Ticket hold- venue. demic dance club; it’s more what has come out of all of
ers under 12 or those who Additionally, the Play- of an environment where ev- everything that’s happened,
need a reasonable accom- house is equipped with a eryone is still distancing and and that is thrilling to me.”
Photographs by Jason Armond Los Angeles Times
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL opens Tuesday’s concert at the Hollywood Bowl by conducting the national anthem.
with Britain’s post-World of all sorts, Elgar’s wistful-
War I angst, was catnip to ness contains something
Jacqueline du Pré. She made that suits young soloists in
a famed recording at age 20 search of soul-filling maturi-
that put her and the then-ne- ty, and that’s especially so for
glected concerto on the map. Kanneh-Mason. His playing
While taken up by cellists is big and bold. He digs
deeply for the cello’s deepest,
most poignant character.
Photogenic, he emotes for
the screen, every bow stroke
getting its own emotive facial
expression. He skips along
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RESPECT C heft to shore up the want for find that way. After Tues- dime as the members of El-
1:00 4:25 7:00 majestic seriousness. The day’s performance. the re- gar’s gang each made an ap-
ANNETTE E amplification was loud, sub- cording is already a docu- pearance. I normally don’t
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TELEVISION REVIEW
The perils of getting away from it all
Hulu’s ‘Nine Perfect
Strangers’ takes the
wellness industry to
creepy extremes.
LORRAINE ALI
TELEVISION CRITIC
The promise of healing
and transformation at an
upscale health and well-
ness resort takes an omi-
nous turn in Hulu’s eight-
part drama “Nine Perfect
Strangers.”
The series, which pre-
miered Wednesday with
three episodes, follows a
group of emotionally bat-
tered guests into a 10-day
reinvigoration process at
the exclusive Tranquillum
House in the California
wilds, tracking their “prog-
ress” as they succumb to
the unorthodox “proto-
cols” of the boutique spa’s
mysterious director,
Masha (Nicole Kidman).
Wholeness and well-be-
ing are a spooky pursuit in
this hour-long series,
based on Liane Moriarty’s
bestseller of the same
name, where the guests’
tortured pasts collide with
Masha’s murky intentions.
In turn, she’s being threat-
ened by an anonymous
stalker over either her dan-
gerous methodology or her
past life as a high-powered
business executive, both
revealed in fragmented
flashbacks.
“Nine Perfect Strang-
ers” joins two other recent
series that warn against
the perils of getting away
from it all: Fox’s sequel to
the 1970s-’80s favorite “Fan-
tasy Island,” with Roselyn
Sánchez taking on Ricardo
Montalbán’s role as the en-
igmatic (Ms.) Roarke, and
NICK (Hugh Jackman) and Watts (Thandiwe Newton) with a client in the tank.
MOVIE REVIEW
Memorable mystery
A sci-fi private eye in
nostalgia biz searches
for dame with device
called ‘Reminiscence.’
By Katie Walsh
In our current movie land-
scape, which churns with re-
makes, sequels and seem-
ingly endless comic book
characters, it’s notable (and
laudable) when a new release
takes a big, bold and, yes,
original swing. Lisa Joy’s
“Reminiscence” is one such
big swing. One of the brains
behind “Westworld,” Joy
makes her feature directorial
debut with her Black List-ap-
proved script for this dystopi-
an detective story in which
the private investigator
gumshoes his way through
memory to solve the mystery.
Like any good noir, it
starts with a femme fatale.
Dressed in a red ballgown,
backlit by piercing sunlight,
Mae (Rebecca Ferguson)
wanders into Nick Bannis-
ter’s (Hugh Jackman) place
of business with a request.
It’s classic noir stuff, down to
the hardboiled, philoso-
phical narration Nick pro-
vides. But the city they’re in is
a waterlogged, postapoca-
lyptic Miami, humanity
clinging to the vestiges of civi-
lization that remain above
the rising seas (it will come as
no surprise that the wealthy
live in an area called the Dry
Lands).
Nick, a vet of the Border
Wars, is in the nostalgia busi-
ness. Using a tank called the
Reminiscence developed for
interrogation purposes, he
facilitates trips down memo-
HBO’s “The White Lotus,”
which satirizes the guests
at a high-end Hawaiian re-
sort.
But the Hulu miniseries,
which David E. Kelley (“Big
Little Lies,” “The Undo-
ing”) adds to his list of lux-
uriously appointed myster-
ies starring Kidman, takes
its unwitting visitors on a
more metaphysical ride
than its predecessors,
which is equal parts in-
triguing and frustrating.
What exactly is in the
morning smoothies served
to the guests, and why are
resort staffers drawing
their blood upon arrival?
And who is Masha behind
the flowing gowns and icy
blond Rapunzel locks? As
one of the participants
handpicked for the “trans-
formative journey,” Fran-
ces, a lonely romance nov-
elist portrayed with humor
and depth by Melissa Mc-
Carthy, refers to the guru
as an “amazing mystical
Eastern Bloc unicorn.”
“Nine Perfect Strang-
ers” also stars Michael
Shannon, Asher Keddie
and Grace Van Patten as
the grieving Marconi fam-
ily; Bobby Cannavale as a
broken soul struggling with
addiction issues; Regina
Hall as a devastated di-
vorced woman; Samara
Weaving and Melvin Gregg
as a couple who’ve lost
their spark; and Luke Ev-
ans as a journalist who
keeps his cards very close
to his vest. Tiffany Boone
and Manny Jacinto play the
two most prominent mem-
bers of the resort’s seem-
ingly Zen but ultimately
conflicted staff. Jonathan
Levine directs all eight epi-
sodes.
Each guest reveals se-
crets along the way that ul-
timately affect the group
ry lane for those who have
nothing to look forward to
and choose instead to look
back. It’s like hypnosis meets
sensory deprivation, except
Nick and his partner, Watts
(Thandiwe Newton), can
watch the whole memory
play out like a movie, absorb-
ing everyone else’s nostalgia.
If “Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind” undertook
the question of erasing fond
memories, “Reminiscence”
wonders about the hazards
of what it means to visit them
again and again.
These nostalgia trips are
an innovation of that other
classic noir narrative device:
the flashback made literal.
When Nick falls head over
heels for the mysterious Mae
before she up and vanishes,
he dives headfirst into his
memory and the memories of
others to find her. It’s an in-
teresting take on the dead or
disappeared wife trope, fig-
ures usually seen smiling si-
lently as paragons of purity
and virtue in the memories of
men. Nick doesn’t like what
he finds when he goes looking
for Mae, turning up drugs,
murder and unsavory asso-
ciations with gangsters.
“Reminiscence” is a rumi-
nation on living in the past,
filtered through the detective
genre in a fresh and innova-
tive way, making a mystery
out of memory. It’s also a big,
earnest romance that’s
sometimes a bit too in love
with the sound of its own
voice, often bogged down by
endless pontificating on the
nature of storytelling. Watts
offers a bit of sour sarcasm to
temper some of the senti-
mentality, her cynicism cut-
ting through the syrupy ro-
mance like acid whenever
NICOLE KIDMAN stars as the boutique resort’s mysterious director, Masha, in “Nine Perfect Strangers.”
‘Nine Perfect
Strangers’
Where: Hulu
When: Any time
Rating: TV-MA (may be
unsuitable for children
under age 17)
and change the course of
their quest for wholeness.
“Nine Perfect Strangers”
takes the wellness industry
to creepily absurd ex-
tremes as it keeps you
guessing — and vowing ne-
ver to trust a fruity health
drink again.
Ben Rothstein Warner Bros.
‘Reminiscence’
Rated: PG-13, for strong
violence, drug material
throughout, sexual content
and some strong language
Running time: 1 hour,
56 minutes
Playing: Starts Friday in
general release; also on
HBO Max
Nick’s been hitting the tank
too hard.
The modern noir style
and genre innovation are
such a neat cinematic twist
that it’s a bit of a letdown that
the world doesn’t always feel
fully fleshed out. One of the
juiciest villains, St. Joe (Dan-
iel Wu), has the best back-
story, but his screen time is
jettisoned for a cartoonishly
sketched New Orleans cop
played by Cliff Curtis, a fan-
tastic actor saddled with a
character that’s too two-di-
mensional to care about.
Like “Westworld,” “Remi-
niscence” is a daring and fu-
turistic sci-fi story based in a
familiar genre and driven by
familiar human emotions:
love, loss, betrayal, regret.
The dystopian elements are
also all too real, from climate
change to class warfare to
border wars to internment
camps.
Joy is merely relaying the
writing on the wall, looking at
our own history, diving into
our own collective memories,
to imagine our future. It’s a
larger reminder that some-
times looking back is worth
the effort.
Katie Walsh is a Tribune
News Service film critic.
SURE, guests are smiling now, but all is not as it seems at Tranquillum House.
A well-crafted
thriller on grief
[‘Night House,’ from E1]
moves are flexed to the state-
of-the-art max. I’m as weary
of cheap jolts as the next hor-
ror fan, but the jolts in this
movie don’t feel cheap; if any-
thing, they feel curiously
plush, even luxuriant. The di-
rector, David Bruckner,
doesn’t just mindlessly apply
the electrodes; even when he
jars you to attention, he al-
ways seems to be drawing
you into something deeper
and more atmospheric. He
delivers a scare you can sink
into.
He also knows that, when
you’re entering haunted-
house terrain this unabash-
edly derivative, even a little
investment in psychological
tension can pay off in a big
way. The moments that stay
with you in “The Night
House” aren’t the scary ones
so much as the tense ones,
and to see Rebecca Hall in ac-
tion is to immediately grasp
the difference. As Beth, an
upstate New York school-
teacher cycling through
shock, grief, rage and fear af-
ter her husband’s suicide,
Hall puts you on edge almost
as much as the house in ques-
tion. She’s a brooding pleas-
ure to watch here; sometimes
you fear less for her than for
the people unfortunate
enough to get in her way.
You suspect that Beth
didn’t suffer fools gladly
when her husband was alive,
and she suffers them even
less gladly now. In one juicy
early scene she has a meeting
at school with a parent, one
of those entitled busybodies
who’s chosen the worst pos-
sible day to try and bump up
her kid’s grade. After a few
minutes of passive-aggres-
sive negotiation, Beth calmly
announces, “My husband
shot himself,” taking a cold,
mirthless delight in the wom-
an’s shock and shame as the
details come spilling out. The
exposition is for our benefit
too: We learn about the de-
pression Owen (Evan
Jonigkeit) apparently bat-
tled in private, the gun he ap-
parently purchased in secret
and the little boat in which he
did the inexplicable deed.
That boat, still tethered
to the dock just below their
gorgeous lakeside house, is a
grim reminder of tragedy. So
is the house itself, which Ow-
en, an architect, designed
and built over much of their
14-year marriage. Now his
restless spirit seems to live
on in the very walls of his
stylish glass-and-wood cre-
ation, manifesting itself in
bloody footprints and self-
operating audio equipment
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‘The Night
House’
Rated: R, for some
violence/disturbing
images and language
including some sexual
references
Running time: 1 hour, 48
minutes
Playing: StartsFriday in
general release
For your safety
The Times is committed to
reviewing theatrical
film releases during the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Because moviegoing
carries risks during this
time, we remind readers
to follow health and safety
guidelines as outlined by
the CDC and local health
officials.
and also in dark dreams that
tear at Beth’s grip on reality.
What disturbs her most,
though, isn’t what her hus-
band might be up to now; it’s
what he was up to in his final
days and weeks.
What is Beth meant to
conclude from the unset-
tlingly occultish design
sketches she finds among
Owen’s things? Or the photo
she finds on his phone of a
dark-haired woman to whom
she bears an unmistakable
resemblance? The script, by
the duo of Ben Collins and
Luke Piotrowski (“Super
Dark Times”), has fun mari-
nating in these and other
possibilities, stranding Beth
in a labyrinth that abounds
in weird doublings and dop-
pelgängers. And Bruckner, a
skilled horror craftsman
whose previous films include
2017’s “The Ritual” (and
omnibus-style freakouts like
SARAH GOLDBERG plays a close friend, movingly,
to a tormented Rebecca Hall in “The Night House.”
E3
Vince Valitutti Hulu
“V/H/S” and “The Signal”),
treats each new wrinkle in
Beth’s investigation with just
enough seriousness to entice
you along.
The puzzle may ulti-
mately be less than the sum
of its intricately ludicrous
parts, and its attempts to
merge grief and horror — to
show them as flip sides of the
same emotional coin — pales
beside a thematically similar
thriller such as “The
Babadook.” Still, it’s hard
not to appreciate the unique
care with which Bruckner
and the writers have worked
out their story. And it builds
to a doozy of a fog-and-mir-
rors payoff, terrifying and
weirdly seductive in equal
measure, that seems to be rif-
fing on the Emily Dickinson
poem “Because I could not
stop for Death.”
Owen, despite or perhaps
because of his ambiguities,
remains something of a
handsome cipher in a movie
that keeps leading you back
to Beth, into the recesses of a
mind with its own long his-
tory of dark impulses and
buried traumas. Those re-
cesses are something of a
sweet spot for Hall, who’s es-
pecially good at undercut-
ting her imposing physicality
(she towers over most of her
co-stars) with a tremulous
vulnerability. Here, as in the
biographical drama “Chris-
tine,” though in a very differ-
ent emotional register, she
shows you a keenly intelli-
gent mind, chafing against
social niceties and hovering
at the brink of madness.
But the movie isn’t a one-
woman show: It’s smart
enough to give Beth any
number of sharply etched
foils, including a concerned
neighbor (Vondie Curtis-
Hall), a mysterious outsider
(Stacy Martin) and, most
movingly, a close friend
(Sarah Goldberg) who re-
minds her that she isn’t alone
in her turmoil. In these mo-
ments, “The Night House,”
for all its hellish visions and
demonic symbols, emerges
as an unusually humane
chiller: a movie that delights
in pulling the rug out from
under you but also cares
enough to cushion your fall.
Searchlight Pictures
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SUDOKU
KENKEN
Every box will contain a number; numbers depend on the size of the grid. For a 6x6
puzzle, use Nos. 1-6. Do not repeat a number in any row or column. The numbers in each
heavily outlined set of squares must combine to produce the target number found in the
top left corner of the cage using the mathematical operation indicated. A number can be
repeated within a cage as long as it is not in the same row or column.
HOROSCOPE
By Holiday Mathis
Aries (March 21-April 19):
Confluent interests natu-
rally organize into a group
effort that elevates all indi-
vidual contributions, includ-
ing your own. What happens
next: a wonderful becoming.
Taurus (April 20-May
20): Even as you try new
styles, add skills and work to
accommodate fresh de-
mands, a strong core at your
center remains unchanged.
Gemini (May 21-June 21):
Unfriendliness is a failure of
awareness you avoid as you
strive to create an atmos-
phere of support, inclusion
and ease around you.
Cancer (June 22-July 22):
When telling a story, you
dwell on the parts that suit
you; a good audience asks
questions. If curiosity is not
forthcoming, consider if you
have the right audience.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):
Acting out of frustration
usually fixes nothing. Solu-
CROSSWORD
Edited By Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
By Tomas Spiers
ACROSS
1 Champagne choice
5 Technical detail, briefly
9 Faith that acknowledges
the value of all religions
14 Mysterious character
15 2012 Best Picture
16 Use
17 Chichén __: pyramid site
18 Thought input?
19 Texas battle site
20 Money for a visit to the
Colonel?
23 Like a roulette wheel
24 Callas offering
25 LIRR org.
28 Money for some golf
course features?
32 Coll. application stat
35 Brunch serving
36 Trash pile emanations
37 Good evening omen, it’s
said
39 Contract part
40 Wile E. Coyote once
attached one to a
balloon
41 Soccer star with six
Ballon d’Or awards
44 __ Aviv
45 Money for government
expenses?
48 Paella cooker
49 Back __: making a
comeback
50 Forum wear
53 Money for
meteorological studies? 13 “Who am __ judge?”
58 Toyota hybrid
60 “__ arigato”: Japanese
“thanks a lot”
61 Borzoi and Brittany
62 Ho-hum
63 Its national
animal is the
Arabian oryx
64 Let out
65 Shift gears
66 Sales staff
67 Monopoly card
DOWN
1 __-a-brac
2 Baby __: candies
3 Begin to remove, in a
way
4 Vessel for a spot
5 Close call, maybe
tions come from a calm
place. You strive to keep
your cool.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
You know what it’s like to feel
different, and you’d rather
not judge anyone. Judgment
removes you from the pre-
sent, which is where power
and pleasure come from.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
You’ll attract people to your
cause. Once they get in-
volved, it becomes their own.
That this purpose means
something different to each
is proof it’s worthwhile.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21):
You’ve figured out this puz-
zle before, but that gives you
little advantage. This disas-
sembled jumble must once
again be built piece by piece.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21): Avoidance would be
an effective coping tech-
nique except for the linger-
ing fear that the thing you’re
avoiding will catch up to you.
Face it head-on.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): There will always be peo-
6 Rotate inward while
walking, as one’s foot
7 Journey with stroking
8 Cough syrup ingredient
9 Sweat bit
10 Toll booth pricing unit
11 “Just listen”
12 Shot spot
21 __ under: give in
22 Bug
26 Succinct
27 Early Sierra Club
member Adams
29 Put to the test
30 Book of Samuel
aggressor
31 Nutritional fig.
32 Wrap one’s
mind around
33 Hepta- minus two
34 Lender’s activity
38 Pet-training word
39 Winter hrs. in Ill.
41 Cape user
42 Perfect example
43 Structured internet
listing
46 Spy __
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ple who have what you want.
Use them as inspiration, not
discouragement.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): You’ve become attached
to a certain outcome. You
didn’t anticipate this.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March
20): You should not have to
chase your equal. Equals are
magnetized by a reciprocal
attraction. Chasing makes
things run.
Today’s birthday (Aug.
19): You were born to lead.
Your plans are inspired, and
the way you communicate
them gets others to help you
build amazing new circum-
stances, business and re-
lationships. The best part is
seeing loved ones thrive with
the care and modeling you
give. Savvy negotiating nets
an October win. Cancer and
Scorpio adore you. Your
lucky numbers: 6, 2, 4, 1, 9.
Mathis writes her column
for Creators Syndicate Inc.
The horoscope should be
read for entertainment.
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47 Really rich
51 Pointy-hat wearer
52 Longhorn rival
54 Lomi-lomi salmon
might be served at one
55 Scotland’s __ of Arran
56 Decision-making
column heading
57 Began, as a co.
58 Judy Woodruff ’s
network
59 Actress Issa
ANSWER TO
PREVIOUS PUZZLE
8/19/21
BRIDGE
By Frank Stewart
Cy the Cynic told me he
was having lunch at a deli
when there was an incident
at a nearby Apple store.
“I think I saw a robbery in
progress,” Cy said. “Does
that make me an iWitness?”
When Cy was today’s
South, he and North bid
boldly to a game. West led
the queen of hearts, winning,
and continued hearts. Cy
ruffed the third heart and
led the jack of trumps. West
took his ace and led a fourth
heart, which the Cynic had
to ruff in his hand.
Cy picked up the trumps
but led a diamond from
dummy to his jack. West
took the queen and cashed a
heart: down two.
Cy had witnessed enough
to make a winning play. East
ASK AMY
Almost exes need to stop
Dear Amy: I have been
dating a man for over two
years. He is good with my
kids and I appreciate that,
given that they aren’t his
children.
I am not divorced, and
occasionally meet up (if you
know what I mean) with
my not-quite ex-husband,
“Dan.” It doesn’t happen
often, but 20 years of emo-
tions between us emerge
and I just don’t know how to
say no, I suppose.
Dan is also dating some-
one else and they have a 1-
year-old. It would be devas-
tating to all parties if our in-
volvement were discovered.
What would your best advice
be so that I can move for-
ward? (My ex won’t pay for
divorce and I can’t afford it.)
Confused
Dear Confused: It’s truly
inspiring how you and your
not-quite-ex manage to put
yourselves first, in every sin-
gle aspect of your romantic
and parenting lives.
Imagine, if you are able,
how this scenario would play
out if your children exhibited
your poor judgment and de-
liberately hurtful choices.
You: “Son, why are you
fathering a child while you
are still in high school?”
Son: “Um, I just don’t
know how to say no, I sup-
pose.”
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ARGYLE SWEATER By Scott Hilburn
BLISS By Harry Bliss
L AT I M E S . C O M / CA L E N DA R
had failed to respond to
West’s opening bid, so after
East showed the ace of
hearts, West had to hold
both minor-suit queens.
After the Cynic draws
trumps, he should take the
K-A of diamonds. When the
queen falls, Cy leads the jack
of clubs for a backward fi-
nesse: queen, ace. Then a
club toward his K-9 lands the
contract.
You hold: ♠ J 10 9 6 3 ♥ 4 2
♦ A J 5 ♣ K J 9. Your partner
opens one club, you respond
one spade and he bids two
hearts. What do you say?
Answer: Partner has “re-
versed.” He shows longer
clubs than hearts and extra
strength — in some styles,
enough to expect to bid
game or slam. To bid three
clubs or 2NT would be rea-
sonable.
In some systems, you
You: “Daughter, why are
you sneaking around and ly-
ing to us?”
Daughter: “I wasn’t really
doing anything wrong (if you
know what I mean). And be-
sides, I didn’t want to devas-
tate you with the truth.”
So my best advice for you
would be to knock it off.
Perhaps you and Dan are
drawn to each other because
you share this vacuum space
where your mutual impulses
are like a narcissistic black
hole, swallowing up all the
other people in your lives.
Stop sleeping with your
ex. Get a divorce (yes, you
can afford it).
Do not entangle your
children into an emotional
relationship with another
partner of yours until you
choose to live completely
honestly. Even if you have a
high tolerance for nonsense,
your kids deserve some sta-
bility.
Dear Amy: We all come
from different backgrounds,
I’m aware of that. My sib-
lings and I were raised to
thank people for gifts ver-
bally or with a note, some-
times both. My children
were taught the same.
My oldest son and his
wife have several children.
They were never taught
that. My daughter-in-law’s
family of origin has always
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might rebid the five-card
spade suit. The important
thing is to realize that you
won’t stop below game.
West dealer
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acted entitled.
I struggle with the fact
that there is never a “thank
you” unless we are together
when they receive a gift.
I love them and want to
give to them for special occa-
sions. Sending money in
cards or gifts through the
mail, it’s always the same.
The only way that I know
that it arrives is by the track-
ing number.
There have been a few
times I’d call just to find out
if something arrived. I am on
a limited budget. How
should I best handle this?
Upset Grandmother
Dear Upset: These adults
are your son’s children. Evi-
dently your son didn’t get
the family memo about how
important it is to appropri-
ately express gratitude for a
gift. You obviously lay the
blame for this rudeness on
your daughter-in-law but
you should share your frus-
tration with your son.
Otherwise, if you are
truly tired of the frustration
when your generosity goes
unnoticed, you should stop!
Keep in touch with your
grandchildren but find an-
other outlet for your gener-
osity.
Send questions to Amy
Dickinson by email to ask
amy@amydickinson.com.
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AWKWAFINA , left, Lori Tan Chinn and BD Wong star in “Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens,” back for Season 2 on Comedy Central.
The secrets of their success
[‘Queens,’ from E1]
from home — without realiz-
ing that he’s as unhappy as
she is.
Now, both characters are
struggling — except this
time, it’s in the process of
forging their own versions of
fulfillment. It’s a reminder
that everyone has their own
definition of “success,” and it
might not be what we — or
they — expect.
Before the premiere of
Season 2, “Nora From
Queens” cast members Awk-
wafina, Yang, Lori Tan
Chinn (who plays Nora’s
grandmother), BD Wong
(Wally, Nora’s father) and
Jennifer Esposito (Brenda,
Wally’s girlfriend) spoke to
The Times about the experi-
ences that have informed
their characters on the show
and shaped their own jour-
neys.
What are some specific life
experiences that you drew
on to portray your charac-
ter in Season 2?
Awkwafina: I think in
Season 2, I drew more from
my perspective. I also ad-
dressed a couple of things,
like, for instance, the ab-
sence of my mom.
Chinn: I have used basi-
cally two women in my life-
time as role models and I
have played mainly these
women. I come from a back-
ground of the first Chinese
that came to America —
gold mining, [building] the
railroads and everything —
from near the Pearl River
Delta. I’m born here, but
plenty of influences from
those women, from that era
and that region. They’re
loud, boisterous and don’t
hold anything back, and [I
drew from] my auntie basi-
cally for this role.
All of us, all of our par-
ents and my generation,
were match-married. That’s
a big difference. Somebody
like BD, a decade later on,
Comcast, ViacomCBS join for service
[SkyShowtime, from E1]
increased competition. The
crowded landscape, coupled
with the high costs of launch-
ing and producing program-
ming for a streaming service,
forces companies like Com-
cast and ViacomCBS to re-
calibrate their priorities.
In the U.S., Comcast
rolled out its advertising-
supported streaming serv-
ice, Peacock, a year ago.
Peacock has grown
steadily with more than 54
million sign-ups, according
to Comcast, and it has about
20 million active monthly
users. Last month, Comcast
said it would also provide
Peacock for free to the 20 mil-
lion subscribers of Sky, the
London-based satellite TV
service that Comcast ac-
quired nearly three years
ago.
Earlier this year, Viacom-
CBS, which owns the Show-
time premium channel, re-
branded its CBS-centric
streaming offering into
Paramount+, which in-
cludes content from Nickel-
odeon, Comedy Central,
CBS and the Paramount
Pictures movie studio.
Paramount+ now has
about 42 million subscribers
maybe his parents met each
other and got married the
usual way, “Let me propose”
and all this. But my parents
didn’t have that chance. My
dad had a choice of two
women, and he chose the
prettiest one. So, my influ-
ence is that, I know their
walk, I know their breathing,
I know their personalities.
They’ve helped me through
many roles that I’ve played.
Wong: I’ve always felt so
lucky to have been able to
become a parent, and that
has drawn a great deal on
my relationship with Nora
and with Awkwafina. So, I
think that’s the mainstay
that I feel, while Wally starts
dating again. He’s dating
Brenda, who we met in
Season 1, and as that rela-
tionship gets deeper, it
threatens to influence
Wally’s relationship with
Nora.
Some very complicated
things happen as a result of
that and also some very
hilarious things. So, the
thing that I would say draws
from my own personal life is
the fact that I’m actually a
parent and I can actually
say, “Oh, I understand how
he feels.” I know there is a
moment when I actually —
I’m not a widower but I did
have a separation and a new
relationship. So, that’s very
similar to what Wally has
experienced.
The way that I looked to
my son for approval of the
people I was dating, I really
relate to that. I mean, I get
very emotional thinking
about it because I know now,
as I’m telling you this, that’s
what I was drawing from in
my relationship onscreen
with Nora, is my own per-
sonal feelings about how
deeply invested I was that
my son accepted the people
that I dated, [and] in fact
the person that I ended up
with, most importantly.
Yang: In Season 2, Ed-
THE NEW streaming service will be a 50/50 joint
venture, and will be available to 90 million homes.
globally, according to Via-
comCBS.
Nonetheless, both Com-
cast’s and ViacomCBS’ of-
ferings have largely been
overshadowed by Disney+,
Netflix and HBO Max, which
boast more blockbuster con-
tent — and more subscrib-
ers. For example, Disney+
has more than 116 million
subscribers.
Comcast and Viacom-
CBS executives said the new
venture won’t alter their
strategies to operate sepa-
rate streaming services do-
‘Awkwafina Is
Nora From
Queens’
Where: Comedy Central
When: 10 p.m. Wednesday
Rating: TV-14-L (may be
unsuitable for children
under the age of 14 with an
advisory for coarse
language)
mund makes this big aspira-
tional shift and he is taking
this big risk and plunging
into the world of acting and
starting from square one
with no connections. In fact,
he does not want the con-
nections, even though he
has specific resources that
might expedite his way into
this weird sector of show
business that he wants to be
a part of. I very much experi-
enced the same thing not
that long ago.
I had graduated college,
[and] I was on this path to
going to med[ical] school. I
was determined to follow
through on it. Then there
was just a moment of true
reflection that made me
realize, “Maybe [acting] is
the right thing.” So I relate
to Edmund deeply on that
level of just thinking, “I don’t
think my value system in life
up until this point has been
necessarily correct. Maybe
this is my last chance to
change that.” I really think
that’s interesting because
there is this potentially
weird sense of urgency
about going for what you
want.
I think Edmund’s having
all these things taken away
from him, whether it’s status
or his education or his mon-
ey, [and] he is just able to
assess in a moment of crisis
what’s important to him and
whether or not he’s being
honest about what’s impor-
mestically — or in other
parts of Europe. The compa-
nies plan to go it alone in the
more lucrative regions of Eu-
rope, including Great Brit-
ain, Germany, Austria and
Italy.
London-based SkyShow-
time will be a 50/50 joint ven-
ture, enabling the two com-
panies to share the expense
of building and running a
streaming service in coun-
tries with different lan-
guages and regulations.
The proposed service ul-
timately will be available to
tant to him. At least he’s
able to vocalize that it’s
acting. And I definitely
experienced that as well.
If you could, what advice
would you give younger
Nora?
Awkwafina: I would tell
my younger self to not worry
as much. I think there’s a
world where I wouldn’t tell
her anything. I think that
everything that happened in
my life, when I started to
figure out who I was and
what made me genuinely
happy, what fulfilled me,
made the things that I used
to really not like about my
life a little bit easier to di-
gest. That maybe everything
happens for a reason.
I guess I would tell her a
combination of, like, “It
might suck for a little bit,
but just bear with me.”
Yang: For younger Nora,
I would say, “Try to evaluate
what you are dealing with
day to day — evaluate what
it means and how you feel
about still living with your
dad or your grandma. And if
you’re happy, then great. If
not, then why?” That’s
obviously a heavy thing to
tell a child.
You should try to have
some benchmark moments
of self-definition as you get
older — that will only help
you recalibrate your inner
compass.
Wong: My advice for
young Nora is not that dif-
ferent from the advice that
older Nora gave younger
Nora, because the show is
called “Awkwafina Is Nora
From Queens.” Those of us
watching the show know
what is going to happen to
her.
I mean, we don’t know
what’s really going to hap-
pen to Nora on the show, but
we do know the Nora who
became Awkwafina — a
magical, incredible influ-
encer, fashion icon, award-
consumers in 90 million
homes, Comcast and Via-
comCBS said. Rayburn, the
analyst, said the new service
would be considered a suc-
cess if it attracted 10 million
subscribers in its first year.
ViacomCBS will fold its
recently launched Pa-
ramount+ service in the
Nordics — Sweden, Den-
mark, Norway and Finland
— into the SkyShowtime
venture, suggesting the
Shari Redstone-controlled
company already has found
that region of Europe to be
tough sledding.
“With the launch of
SkyShowtime we are well-
positioned to utilize our
global content engine to cre-
ate a compelling streaming
offering, quickly and at scale,
with a smart strategic
phased investment,” Raf-
faele Annecchino, chief exe-
cutive of ViacomCBS Net-
works International, said in
a statement.
Executives declined to
say how much SkyShowtime
would cost consumers or
provide details about its gov-
ernance or management
team. Comcast will provide
the Peacock platform and
its technology will run
L AT I M E S . C O M / CA L E N DA R
Zach Dilgard Comedy Central
winning actor, someone who
has every right to be proud
of herself, very proud of her
journey and the work that
she’s done.
So, I’d say, “It’s going to
be OK, honey. It’s going to be
OK, and you don’t have to
worry. Don’t be so hard on
yourself.”
Chinn: Oh, my gosh, I
would probably give her the
same, “Be good,” and that’s
all. I’m thinking [from the
place of] two generations
[older] — not her mother’s
generation but [her] grand-
mother’s. I would say, “Make
sure you don’t binge on the
food, honor your friends and
be truthful.”
[As the character] I don’t
know she goes and smokes
pot or any of that stuff, I can
only guess. So, yeah, that
would be the advice from a
grandmother. Make sure
that you call your grand-
parents and your parents —
you know, the usual thing.
Because you’ll be sorry
when they’re gone.
Esposito: I don’t know,
because Brenda, to me,
she’s wise, but then she’s
completely kooky, which I
love. She’s so completely off
the wall, which is so interest-
ing to me. I think she’s a lot
like Nora, actually. They
have a lot more in common
than they don’t because
[Brenda’s]'s very much her
own person, especially what
we see in Season 2.
There’s a commonality in
her and Nora in that aspect.
So, I think she would tell her,
“Keep going, keep doing
what [you’re] doing and be
weird.” I mean, Brenda
makes spoon art, so I don’t
know how much advice she’s
going to give her as far as,
like, a relationship or getting
a job. And, “Messy is actually
where you learn, where you
grow, where you find love for
yourself, for others. It’s
completely the place you
want to be.”
SkyShowtime.
“This partnership pro-
vides an innovative ap-
proach to quickly scale inter-
nationally and monetize
content across Europe,”
Dana Strong, Sky’s group
chief executive, said in the
statement.
Company insiders dis-
missed suggestions that the
joint venture was a prelude
to a larger collaboration — or
a merger between the two
companies. Instead, the new
initiative is intended to help
the two American compa-
nies compete in regions
where they have scant name
recognition and where con-
sumers have displayed little
interest in signing up for four
or five different streaming
services.
The companies hope to
make the service available to
customers in Albania, An-
dorra, Bosnia and Herzegov-
ina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Fin-
land, Hungary, Kosovo,
Montenegro, Netherlands,
North Macedonia, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia,
Spain, and Sweden.
“Overall, it makes sense,”
Rayburn said.
TV Highlights
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Big Brother (N) 8 p.m. CBS
Brooklyn Nine-Nine In the
first of two new episodes,
Capt. Holt and Amy (Andre
Braugher, Melissa Fumero)
manage the precinct as it is
understaffed due to officers
calling in sick. 8 and 8:30
p.m. NBC
Coroner In the aftermath of
the COVID-19 pandemic,
Jenny (Serinda Swan)
investigates the death of a
caregiver as this drama
returns for its third season.
8 p.m. The CW
Holey Moley (N) 8 p.m.
ABC
Beat Shazam (season fina-
le) 8 p.m. Fox
Grown-ish When her boss
uses some of her ideas with-
out giving her credit, Zoey
(Yara Shahidi) tries to
decide whether to speak up.
8 p.m. Freeform
Making It With everyone
spending so much time at
home, hosts Amy Poehler
and Nick Offerman chal-
lenge contestants to create
an outdoor space that
would be the perfect hang-
out for an entire family.
9 p.m. NBC
The Outpost Garret and
Luna (Jake Stormoen,
Maeve Courtier-Lilley)
embark on a rescue mission
in this new episode. 9 p.m.
The CW
When Nature Calls With
Helen Mirren In this new
episode of the nature
footage comedy, a deer
keeps dropping names of
famous friends. 9 p.m. ABC
Top Chef Amateurs (N)
9 p.m. Bravo
Alone The three finalists
make a last stand in the
season finale. A retrospec-
tive special looking back at
past seasons follows. 9:30
and 11 p.m. History
The Hustler (N) 10 p.m.
ABC
Accused: Guilty or Inno-
cent? A retired coal miner
shoots his best friend to
death at a Christmas outing
in the season premiere.
10 p.m. A&E
Restaurant: Impossible
(N) 10 p.m. Food Network
SPECIALS
Gubernatorial Debate
Candidates involved in the
Sept 14 recall election an-
swer questions. 7 p.m. The
CW
SPORTS
Baseball The Angels visit
the Detroit Tigers, 10 a.m.
BSW; the New York Mets
visit the Dodgers, 7 p.m.
MLB and SportsNetLA
2021 Little League World
Series Honolulu versus
Manchester, Conn., 10 a.m.
ESPN; Nolensville, Tenn.,
versus Hamilton, Ohio,
Noon ESPN; Hastings, Neb.,
versus Toms River, N.J., 2
p.m. ESPN; Hooksett, N.H.,
versus Torrance, 4 p.m.
ESPN
WNBA Basketball The
Atlanta Dream visit the
Sparks, 7:30 p.m. SportsNet
TALK SHOWS
CBS This Morning Mindy
Kaling; Mark Zuckerberg,
Facebook. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS
Today Hugh Jackman; Jill
Martin. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC
Good Morning America
Eugenio Derbez; a perform-
ance by the cast of “Chi-
cago.” (N) 7 a.m. KABC
Amanpour (N) 11 p.m.
KCET; 1 a.m. KLCS
The Tonight Show Octavia
Spencer; Common; Black
Thought; Seun Kuti. (N)
11:34 p.m. KNBC
The Late Show Sean and
Dylan Penn; Crowded
House performs. (N) 11:35
p.m. KCBS
Jimmy Kimmel Sean Hayes
guest hosts; Tracee Ellis
Ross. (N) 11:35 p.m. KABC
Late Night Cecily Strong;
Patton Oswalt. (N) 12:37
a.m. KNBC
Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m.
KABC
Tiffany Roohani Freeform
YARA SHAHIDI in a
new “Grown-ish.”
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CBS Entertainment Big Brother (N) Å Neighborhood B Positive Bull (TV14) Å News Å Stephen Col-
Tonight (N) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å bert (11:35)
NBC Access Holly- Brooklyn Nine- Brooklyn Nine- Making It (TVPG) With every- Law & Order: Organized Crime News Å The Tonight
wood (TVPG) Nine Capt. Nine (TV14) one spending so much time (TV14) Stabler faces the Show: Jimmy
(N) Å Holt and Amy Jake and at home lately, Nick and consequences of a failed Fallon (TV14)
manage an Amy create Amy task the makers with drug bust; Bell is forced to Octavia
understaffed a system to creating an outdoor space choose between the job and Spencer. (N)
precinct. balance work that would be the perfect her family; Gina gets an un- Å
(N) Å and childcare. hangout for the entire family. expected visitor. Å
(N) Å (N) Å
CW Gubernatorial Coroner (Season premiere) In The Outpost (TV14) Garret News Å Sports Final News Å Friends
Debate (N) (7) the wake of COVID-19, Jenny and Luna set out on a rescue (N) (10:45) (TVPG)
investigates the mysterious mission; Tobin proves his Å (11:35) Å
death of a care worker. (N) loyalty. (N) Å
ABC Wheel of For- Holey Moley (TVPG) (N) Å When Nature Calls With Helen The Hustler (TVPG) Larry News Å Jimmy Kimmel
tune (TVG) Å Mirren (TV14) A deer who David, magic and Katy Perry Live! (TV14)
can’t stop dropping her fa- are clues to discovering the (N) (11:35) Å
mous friends’ names. (N) Å hustler. (N) Å
KCAL Family Feud News Å News Å News Å Sports Central black-ish Å black-ish Å
FOX Extra (TVPG) Beat Shazam (TVPG) (Season Fantasy Island (TV14) Å News Å Extra (TVPG) TMZ (TVPG)
(N) Å finale) (N) Å Å Å
Tiffany Roohani Freeform MyNet Big Bang Å Big Bang Å Schitt’s Creek King of Queens King of Queens Seinfeld Å Seinfeld Å The Simpsons Dateline Å
YARA SHAHIDI in “Grown-ish” on Freeform. KCET This Land Is Doc Martin Martin helps The Heart Guy (TVPG) Hugh’s The Mallorca Files (TVG) Å Amanpour and Company Å
Your LandLouisa hand out awards at world is changed forever
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SERIES Ruth and Margaret. Å their baby. Å
Å
Brooklyn Nine-Nine In the first of two new episodes, UNIVISION La Rosa de Diseñando tu amor (TVPG) Si nos dejan (TV14) (N) La hija del embajador (N) Noticias Noticiero Uni-
Capt. Holt and Amy (Andre Braugher, Melissa Fumero) Guadalupe (N) vision
manage the precinct as it is understaffed due to officers call- KOCE The Carpenters (TVG) (7) Å Bee Gees: One Night Only (TVG) Å Eat Your Medicine: The Pegan Diet (TVG) Å
ing in sick. In the second, Jake (Andy Samberg) and Amy de- KDOC News (N) Dateline Å Dateline Å Family Guy Family Guy Seinfeld Å Seinfeld Å
vise a system to balance work and childcare. Stephanie Beat- KLCS No Passport Roadtrip Nation: Making It Bal- Rick Steves’ Travels & Tra- Rick Steves Special: Andalucia: World News Å News Å
riz, Terry Crews and Joe Lo Truglio also star. 8 and 8:30 p.m. Required ance (TVG) Å Europe Å ditions The Best of Southern Spain
NBC Thursday, August 19, Prime-time: Premium Cable Channels
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Jenny (Serinda Swan) investigates the death of a caregiver Cinemax The Campaign Bad Words ›› (2014) Jason Bateman. A Lottery Ticket ›› (2010) Bow Wow, Brandon Cruel Intentions ›› (1999)
›› (2012) misanthropic adult enters a national spell- T. Jackson. After winning $370 million, a Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan
as this drama returns for its third season. Eric Bruneau, Will Ferrell. ing bee by way of a rules loophole and inex- young man must survive a holiday weekend Phillippe. (R) (11:10) Å
Roger Cross, Ehren Kassam and Nicholas Campbell also (R) (6:30) Å plicably bonds with a precocious boy whose with greedy neighbors before he can claim
star. 8 p.m. The CW strict father is pressuring him to win. (R) Å the prize. (PG-13) Å
Encore Dallas Buyers Club ››› (2013) Matthew Men in Black II ›› (2002) Tommy Lee Jones, Men in Black 3 ›› (2012) Will Smith, Tommy
Beat Shazam (season finale) (N) 8 p.m. Fox McConaughey, Jennifer Garner. Learning Will Smith. Two interstellar agents try to Lee Jones. Agent J goes back in time and
that he has AIDS, Ron Woodroof smuggles stop an alien disguised as a lingerie model joins forces with Agent K’s younger self to
Grown-ish When her boss uses some of her ideas without medicine into the United States to fight the from destroying the world. (PG-13) Å save his partner, the agency and mankind’s
giving her credit, Zoey (Yara Shahidi) tries to decide disease. (R) (7) Å future. (PG-13) Å
whether to speak up, which could jeopardize her internship. EPIX Breaking News Scrooged ››› (1988) Bill Murray, Karen Kingpin ›› (1996) Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid. A Bill & Ted Face
Also, Jazz (Chloe Bailey) goes to therapy and seeks medical in Yuba County Allen. A ruthless TV-network chief meets one-handed salesman, an Amish farm boy and a pretty con the Music
leave from the track team, and Aaron (Trevor Jackson) tries (2021) (R) the ghosts of Christmases past, present and artist pull bowling scams to get to a $1 million tournament (2020) (PG-
to make a good impression on someone. 8 p.m. Freeform (6:20) yet to come. (PG-13) Å in Reno. (PG-13) (9:45) Å 13) (11:40)
HBO Dunkirk The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (2020) Barry The White Lotus (TVMA) Small Town Tig Notaro:
Making It With everyone spending so much time at home, ››› (2017) Gibb, Robin Gibb. Brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb Rachel shares some harsh News: KPVM Drawn (TV14)
hosts Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman challenge contest- Fionn White- find early fame in the 1960s and go on to write over 1,000 truths with Shane and Pahrump Animated. Å
ants to create an outdoor space that would be the perfect head, Tom songs, including 20 No. 1 hits. This film follows the group’s confides in Belinda, who’s (TV14) Å
Glynn-Car- meteoric rise as they navigate the complexities of working reeling from bad news of her
hangout for an entire family. 9 p.m. NBC ney. (6:10) Å so intimately alongside family. Å own. (9:51) Å
The Outpost Garret and Luna (Jake Stormoen, Maeve Showtime Dexter Dexter (TVMA) Dexter Dexter (TVMA) Dexter and Dexter (TVMA) Dexter Desus & Mero Scary Movie
Courtier-Lilley) embark on a rescue mission in this new epi- (TVMA) (7) must save a life; Deb has the Homicide team race to must protect himself when (TVMA) Actor V › (2013)
Å a confrontation with a key catch the Doomsday Killers LaGuerta closes in on his John Turtur- Ashley Tis-
sode. Jessica Green, Anand Desai-Barochia and Aaron suspect. Å before their final act. Å secret. Å ro. (N) Å dale. Å
Fontaine also star. 9 p.m. The CW Starz The Kid Detective ››› (2020) Adam Brody, City of Lies ›› (2018) Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker. Dis- The Dilemma ›› (2011) Vince
Sophie Nélisse. A once-celebrated kid de- graced LAPD detective Russell Poole teams with journalist Vaughn, Kevin James. (PG-
When Nature Calls With Helen Mirren In this new epi- tective, now 31, continues to solve trivial Jack Jackson to uncover the truth behind the murders of 13) (10:55) Å
sode of the nature footage comedy, a deer keeps dropping mysteries. (R) (7:17) Å Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. (R) Å
names of her famous friends. 9 p.m. ABC TMC Cloud Atlas Fences ››› (2016) Denzel Washington, Viola Davis. Now working as a Out of Time ›› (2003) Denzel Washington,
Top Chef Amateurs (N) 9 p.m. Bravo ›› (2012) garbage collector in 1950s Pittsburgh, a former baseball star creates ten- Eva Mendes. Considered a suspect in a
Tom Hanks, sion in his family when he squashes his son’s chance to meet a college deadly arson, a police chief must cover his
Alone The three finalists make a last stand in the season Halle Berry. football recruiter. (PG-13) Å tracks while trying to prove his innocence.
(R) (5) Å (PG-13) Å
finale. A retrospective special looking back at past seasons
follows. 9:30 and 11 p.m. History Thursday, August 19, Prime-time: Cable News Channels
7:30 pm 8:00 pm 8:30 pm 9:00 pm 9:30 pm 10:00 pm 10:30 pm 11:00 pm 11:30 pm
Accused: Guilty or Innocent? A retired coal miner shoots Paid Program Paid Program Daybreak: Europe (TVG) Å
Bloomberg Markets: Asia Technology (TVG) Å Markets: European Open Å
his best friend to death at a Christmas outing in the season
CNBC Shark Tank Shark Tank (TVPG) Å The News With Shepard Smith Super Heists (TVPG) Å Dateline (TVPG) Å
premiere of this true-crime series. 10 p.m. A&E
CNN Don Lemon (7) Don Lemon Tonight (N) Å Anderson Cooper (TVPG) Å Cuomo Prime Time Å Don Lemon Tonight Å
SPECIALS CSPAN Politics and Public Policy Today (6) Å Politics and Public Policy Today Å
Gubernatorial Debate Candidates involved in the Sept. CSPAN2 Poetry and Ac- Eric Berkowitz, Dangerous Ideas John McWhorter, Nine Nasty Author Discussion on Poetry Eric Berkowitz, Dangerous Ideas
14 recall election answer questions. 7 p.m. The CW tivism (7:07) (7:54) Words and Activism (9:58) (10:49)
Fox B Evening Edit Kudlow Å Kennedy Å Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program
SPORTS Fox News Ingraham (7) Gutfeld! (N) Å News Å Tucker Carlson Å Hannity Å
Baseball The Angels visit the Detroit Tigers, 10 a.m. BSW; MSNBC Last Word (7) The 11th Hour (N) Å The Rachel Maddow Show Last Word Å The 11th Hour Å
regional coverage, 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. MLB; the New York Mets NEWSNTN Banfield (7) The Donlon Report Å On Balance With Leland Vittert NewsNation Prime Å Banfield Å
visit the Dodgers, 7 p.m. MLB and SportsNetLA SN-1 News News News News News News
2021 Little League World Series Honolulu versus Man- Thursday, August 19, Prime-time: Cable
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Hamilton, Ohio, Noon ESPN; Hastings, Neb., versus Toms A&E The First 48 The First 48 (TVPG) (N) Å Accused: Guilty or Innocent? I Survived a I Survived a
River, N.J., 2 p.m. ESPN; Hooksett, N.H., versus Torrance, (TVPG) (7) (Season premiere) (N) Å Serial Killer Serial Killer
4 p.m. ESPN AMC Sixteen Candles ›› (1984) Molly Ringwald, Anthony Mi- Pixels › (2015) Adam Sandler, Kevin James. (PG-13) (9:45) Å
chael Hall. (PG) (7:45) Å
NFL Preseason Football The New England Patriots visit Animal P Deadliest Deadliest Catch (TVPG) Å Deadliest Catch (TV14) Å Deadliest Catch (TVPG) Å Deadliest Catch: Bloodline
the Philadelphia Eagles, 4:30 p.m. NFL Catch (7) Å (TV14)
WNBA Basketball The Atlanta Dream visit the Sparks, BBC A Star Trek: TNG The Shawshank Redemption ›››› (1994) Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman. Two life sentenc- The Shawshank Redemption
(7) Å es for a 1947 double murder land an innocent man in a corrupt Maine penitentiary. (R) Å ›››› (1994) (R) Å
7:30 p.m. SportsNet
BET Bringing Down the House ›› (2003) Steve What Men Want ›› (2019) Taraji P. Henson, Tracy Morgan. (R) Å
Martin, Queen Latifah. (PG-13) (6:30) Å
TALK SHOWS
Bravo Million Dollar Million Dollar Listing New York Top Chef Ama- Bravo’s Chat Monster-in-Law ›› (2005) Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda.
CBS This Morning Mindy Kaling; Mark Zuckerberg, Listing NY (7) (TV14) (N) Å teurs Å Room Å (PG-13) Å
Facebook. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS CMT Last Standing Ace Ventura: Pet Detective ›› (1994) Jim Carrey. (PG-13) Å Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls ›› (1995) Jim Carrey. Å
Comedy The Office (TVPG) (7:45) Å The Office Å The Office Å The Office Å The Office Å The Office Å The Office Å The Office Å
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OUTSTANDING
AMA SERIES
THE MOST NOMINATED CAST OF THE YEAR
 THE CRAFT

Powers
gone wild
The giggling ‘Boys’ VFX team exercises its
own abilities — the more ‘bananas,’ the better.
BY MICHAEL ORDOÑA

N
O T L O N G ago, look awesome, and what’s gonna
“The Boys” give the fans all of those thrills
showrunner Eric that we’re known for?’ ”
Kripke told The “We see these powers once or
Times, “We usually twice, but we’d put just as much
start with depth of character and time and research into those as
psychological truth, then politi- we would for, say, a hero power
cal or societal commentary, and like Starlight or Homelander,”
then we go to shocking, bananas Szpak-Fleet says of the series’
moments.” main characters.
The black comedy about “Especially with ... Love
late-stage capitalism in which a Sausage,” says Oxley-Butler, with
T H U R S D A Y , A U G U S T 19 , 2 0 21

monolithic corporation, Vought, that little hint of a giggle these

has proliferated people with
superpowers (“supes”), and the
vigilantes out to stop them en-
joyed one of its most “bananas”
moments in the Season 2 episode
“The Bloody Doors Off.” The
Emmy-nominated visual-effects
team had its hands full with
shocking moments.
In it, our mostly nonpowered
heroes infiltrate a secret Vought
facility, a mental institution that’s
the “Boys” version of the Island
of Misfit Toys. Locked in the
LOS ANGELES TIMES
VFX vets can’t suppress (Szpak-
Fleet giggles as well) when talk-
ing about the supe whose power
is a male organ that extends like a
massive tentacle 15 feet or longer.)
“That was a ... large power we
had to tackle. Even though it was
Amazon Studios / Rising Sun Pictures
a giant, you know, penis, we still
had to figure out how would this
giant penis operate.”
Both laugh delightedly. Oxley-Butler recalls her an- emerges from a cell with the STORMFRONT (Aya
Szpak-Fleet says, “As far as I swer: “ ‘Um, I think there’s a lot of power to compact things — or Cash) fires her lethal
know, there’s nothing in the texture reference online.’ ” people — with a hand gesture. plasma lightning in the
history of cinema like that. If Another one-off power that “Our special-effects friends asylum sequence.

cells are supes on whom Vought’s
experiments have gone wrong.
Their powers can be mere curi-
osities or terrifying and lethal,
and many have minds damaged
by the ordeal. When an accident
frees them all, it’s party time.
“It’s the hardest and biggest
episode we’ve had to do, because
there were so many powers”
THE ENVELOPE
there were, I’d like to know,
because it would have saved us a
lot of time. We had a prosthetic
on set so the actor [whose charac-
ter is attacked by Love Sausage]
would have something to hold
onto. But ultimately, we skinned
over the whole thing with visual
effects. There was a lot of de-
tailed discussion.”
required intensive work is the
powerful shock wave one inmate
generates that sends the vigilan-
tes’ van rolling. The practical
special-effects crew made the
real vehicle flip over while the
visual-effects team digitally
created its undercarriage (rather
than use a van with a real engine)
and the shock wave’s impact in
created this thing we call the
‘blood lollipop’; it’s a 360-degree
blood explosive. That blood hits
the walls, then we add to it.
“Stormfront’s powers were
great too; her plasma lightning,
the way she [seemingly] ‘killed’
Cindy.”
With so many one-off super-
powers (16 shown on the security
appetite changes in post.... The
original concept was more practi-
cal than visual, like Indiana Jones,
so we weren’t as prepared for it.
It hit us really hard, and co-
ronavirus hit right when we

among the inmates, says visual-
effects supervisor Stephan Szpak-
Fleet. The VFX for that episode
took about six months, noted
visual-effects producer Shalena
Oxley-Butler. “Some powers were
written into the script; Stephan
and I were like, ‘What other
powers can we have in here?
S8
Oxley-Butler asks, “Didn’t we
research boa constrictors?”
“Yeah, how it would wrap
around someone’s neck. And
close-ups of skin on male geni-
talia. One of the vendors working
on it called and said, ‘Can we get
some reference?’ ” Szpak-Fleet
falls out of the Zoom frame
the grass and air.
“We looked at a lot of slo-mo
footage of real explosions, the
distortion in the air, how they
affect the ground and the envi-
ronment,” says Szpak-Fleet.
“Cindy [Ess Hödlmoser]
crushing the guy like a toothpaste
container is my favorite,” he says
office monitors alone), were any
particularly difficult to achieve?
“Acid Face,” says Szpak-Fleet,
immediately. One of the patients
has the power to regurgitate acid.
Unfortunately, he discovers his
own face is not immune to it.
“Oh, my God, dude. We have a
fantastic prosthetic team that did
started it, so suddenly, everyone’s
working from home. The world
changed overnight, and we have
to do a close-up of a guy whose
face is getting burned by acid.
“It perfectly tracks that this
poor idiot is a lab experiment,
so he has the worst power — he
can burn his own face off,” says

What can we achieve and make it laughing as he relays this. of the mysterious patient who a great job, but sometimes the Szpak-Fleet, laughing. 8
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THE CONTENDERS
Imperfections
are baked in
A
The worse the oven N AC T I N G teacher once
told Nicole Byer she would
failure, the funnier — and never have a career because
her “face was too expressive.”
instructive — ‘Nailed It!’ That person’s bitter remark
couldn’t have been more mistaken. The
host Nicole Byer finds it. effortlessly charismatic Byer recently
She understands the received her second consecutive Emmy
nomination as host of the competition
power of perseverance. show “Nailed It!” after having been the first
Black woman ever nominated in the catego-
BY CARLOS ry last year.
Five regular seasons, plus two holiday
AGUILAR spinoffs into the unpretentious bake-off
show where perfectionism isn’t one of the
ingredients, Byer finds replenishing excite-
ment in her banter with French co-host
Jacques Torres, a renowned pastry chef,
and the eclectic contestants that populate
S10
the Netflix program’s chaotic kitchen.
“I get to meet three new people every
day. The framework of the show doesn’t
change, but the interactions change, the
challenges change,” she says in a recent
interview. “That keeps it super fresh and
fun.” From the latest season where bakers
came in pairs, dubbed “Nailed It! Double
Trouble,” her favorite participants were two
hilarious and stylish drag queens: Selma
Nilla and Lagoona Bloo.
Helming reality television didn’t figure
among the opportunities Byer originally
sought out. Stand-up comedy and acting
have always been her prime sources of
artistic fulfillment. But when “Nailed It”
came her way, she was honest about her
lack of experience and learned on the job.
“When people are like ‘fake it till you make
it,’ that’s truly what I did,” she says.
Guided by the “yes and” philosophy of
improv troupes, which demands the per-
former takes a piece of information from a
scene partner and builds on it, Byer’s
method to her role relies on spur-of-the-
moment reactions. That spontaneity is not
only pivotal for the enjoyment of those
watching at home but for everyone on set
who stands on the sidelines for the couple
hours it takes the amateur dessert-makers to
complete their challenging tasks.
Ultimately, the worse the results, the
more comedy she can mine. “If it tastes
terrible, that’s good for me, because now I
have something to comment on,” she says.
“If something is wonderful and good, that’s
what it is. It’s wonderful and good. What
else can I say about it?”
Still, the experience hasn’t increased her
interest in baking, or cooking in general.
Byer does, however, consider herself a
competitive person, so if she ever found
herself on the other side of the judges table
vying for the trophy, she is certain she’d
win.
Such infectious confidence transcends
her professional facet, and when other
women asked her how they could feel the
same, she put together a tongue-in-cheek
book titled “#VeryFat #VeryBrave: The Fat
Girl’s Guide to Being #Brave and Not a
Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-
Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini.” The
bombastically titled tome released in 2020
mostly comprises pictures of her in a bikini
with empowering humor.
Beyond the frosted realm of her breakout
streaming hit, Byer has consistently found
work voicing animated characters in series
such as “Tuca & Bertie” or the revamped
“Rugrats,” more recently in the animated
feature “Vivo” (on Netflix). Her aspirations
for the near future include acting in films
and scripted episodic content.
“I just want to keep making people laugh,
truly,” she says. “I just want a career that
spans a very long time, and then I can retire
and buy a yacht!”
Byer hopes that the recognition for
“Nailed It!” opens the door for others who
wish to take a more casual, less buttoned-
up, approach to hosting. “I’m not a very
uptight person. I present the show in a way
that I would want to watch a show being
presented to me, where it’s like, ‘Wow, this
host seems like she’s having a very nice
time,’ ” she adds.
The ongoing popularity of the show,
now a fan-favorite concept with iterations
in half a dozen countries, continues to
surpass Byer’s notions of success.
For the candid Emmy nominee, the
resonance the project has had with audi-
ences is the poignant reward for her work.
People often reach out to tell her it’s the
only show everyone in the family can agree
to watch while spending time together.
“Honestly, that’s heartwarming and really
f— cute,” she says. Part of the appeal, she
believes, is that beneath the laughs lies a
message of personal acceptance despite
failure.
“We should normalize not being good
at everything. I feel like on social media,
we all try to present that we are the crème
de la crème of whatever. But honestly, it’s
kind of fun to not be incredible at some-
thing that you enjoy doing,” Byer notes. “I
like pole dancing. I’m not great at it, but it
brings me joy. I like seeing the progress. It’s
fun. If you burn things in the oven some-
times, but you enjoy the process and maybe
you do it with a significant other or your
kids, the whole journey is better than the
product. People are missing out on just
enjoying life.” 8
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 L
U C I A A N I E L L O , Paul W.
Downs and Jen Statsky,
showrunners (and, in Downs’
case, co-star) behind “Hacks,”
HBO Max’s first season jugger-
naut that landed 15 Emmy nominations, are
not, in fact, hacks. Far from it: Among them
they share credits at such lauded shows as
“Broad City,” “The Good Place” and “Parks
and Recreation,” for a start.
And as they proved with their new Jean
Smart/Hannah Einbinder comedy about a
veteran funny woman on the down slide
who hires a Gen-Z “canceled” up-and-
comer to help with her jokes, they share a
unique insight into what “funny” means
today. All three joined The Envelope via
Zoom to explore how comedy has gotten
more earnest — and far less binary.
Your star Jean Smart is versatile and
electric on screen, but she’s not a stand-
up comic. How did that affect bringing
her character, Deborah Vance, to life?
Lucia Aniello: We spent a lot of time
making sure the joke said something about
the woman — and Jean is so absolutely,
fully present in the moment, that lends
itself to believability as a stand-up. With
the best stand-ups, it’s not about the jokes
they tell; it’s how they tell it, right?
Paul W. Downs: Jean comes from thea-
ter, and she’s really prepared. In the epi-
sode where Ava [Einbinder] uses the wax
figure for her [phone’s] Face ID, she was
like, “How do you like this pose?” She had
rehearsed standing still.
Jen, you worked on “The Good Place,”
and creator Michael Schur’s company
Fremulon is an executive producer on
“Hacks.” Do you feel like there’s DNA
from shows like “Good Place” in this
series?
Jen Statsky: “Parks and Recreation” and
“Good Place” and “Broad City,” which is a
show we all worked on, are incredibly
different shows, but there is something in
the DNA — people needing each other,
making each other’s lives better, helping
each other. Some of those shows may tend
toward a more saccharine view than ours,
[but] when we talked about “Hacks,” we
wanted it to be rude but never mean. At the
heart of this show is two women who really
need each other, which is something I think
all those shows are also about.
Shows like “Seinfeld” and even “The
Office” reveled in a kind of ironic de-
tachment, and the pendulum seems to
have swung in the other direction for
comedy. Why is that?
Downs: There are three buckets: Some
things are sweeter, some are sour and then
there are some that have a little of both, like
ours — a bitter sweetness to it. It’s defi-
nitely cyclical.
Aniello: It’s certainly a trend — but also
S12
a result of when there were three networks
there was a small window for what come-
COMEDY HAS changed,
agree Jen Statsky, left, Paul
W. Downs and Lucia Aniello.
dies could be. Now comedies get to be
whatever you want them to be, and the
audience can find their thing because there
are so many options.
Do you ever wonder if you’re existing
in a moment now the way Deb did back
in the day — where things you let slide
now are what someone like Ava will call
you out for 20 years down the road?
Aniello: Probably. Maybe. We tried to
be aware of making things feel equal for
everybody we work with.
Downs: It’s hard to predict the way in
which context shifts for any art form. The
moment we’re really in is the reckoning
that society is having with the way we’ve
treated women. So hopefully we’re pushing
culture forward and on the right side of that
moment, even if we tell a joke that someone
someday says, “Wow, that fart joke was
really wrong.”
Aniello: So by the time we have an Ava,
maybe it’ll be a reckoning on how we
treated the Earth.
Downs: They’re going to be like, “Debo-
rah Vance got a Styrofoam cup from that gas
station!” And we all know how Deborah
Vance loves a fountain soda.
Deb could retire — her home shows us
she has enough wealth to do so. Why
does she fight so hard, then?
Statsky: For Deborah, the work is what
fills her days. She’s a shark; she just has to
keep moving. But her calendar is kept full
for a reason. If she keeps going, she maybe
Ryan Pfluger doesn’t have to think about the other stuff
she hasn’t thought about for a long time.
THE CONTENDERS Paul, as the guy here — what have you
learned about women in comedy from
Their jokes
writing this show?
Downs: Sometimes I feel like a traitor to
my gender, because I think women are
funnier than men. What’s been the most
remarkable thing for me is the amount of
women who are stand-ups or writers who
have a point are so emotionally moved by the show.
You’ve heard “representation is important,”
but I didn’t fully grasp what it means for
people to see themselves and see their
experience showcased on TV and how
powerful that can be.
With Jean Smart as an aging comic, the ‘Hacks’ showrunners
Is female comedy different from male
keep a sharp focus on the woman, not the stand-up act. comedy?
Aniello: What is male, what is female?
BY RANDEE DAWN I’m hoping that instead of living in such a
binary world where we say “this is female,
this is male, this how they do comedy” that
we’re moving toward a world where it’s just
all comedy that speaks truth to power. And
to me that’s non-gendered. 8
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 T ’ S T O UG H T O H UG someone when
you’ve got your arms crossed.” ¶ This sounds
like one of those earnest nuggets of wisdom
that Ted Lasso might say, kind of like, oh, I don’t
know, “takin’ on a challenge is a lot like ridin’ a horse ...
if you’re comfortable while you’re doin’ it, you’re probably doin’ it
wrong” or maybe “I believe in hope. I believe in Believe.” Only Ted
Lasso hasn’t said this line — yet. Jason Sudeikis, the man who created
and plays the folksy, optimistic soccer coach on the hit Apple TV+
series, reserves the right to impart that piece of wisdom at some
point in the show’s third season, which he and the show’s writers are

beginning to map out now. He has yes. But a community college in Kan-
been keeping it in his back pocket, sas, where they take basketball seri-
waiting for the perfect moment. ously. But he never played, wound up
The line came up ... well, how did it doing a play instead, building on the Apple TV+

come up? A conversation with improv performing he’d done in high

Sudeikis is a journey full of detours,
beginning at, say, the healing powers
of psychedelic mushrooms and even-
tually alighting on the many reasons
why Eddie Murphy’s Axel Foley is a
superhero in “Beverly Hills Cop,” a
movie Sudeikis fondly remembers
seeing with his father when he was 9.
“It forged my sense of right and
wrong, good and evil, friendship and
the power of wanting to do the right
thing for the right reason and sticking
to your guns,” Sudeikis says.
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school, and the rest is history.
But whether it was team sports or
comedy groups, Sudeikis craved
company. He could never bring him-
self to do stand-up. “Too scared,” he
says. Succeed or fail, he wanted some-
one next to him.
“That way, if we get stuck on an
island, I can eat them or they can eat
me or use me as a floating device or
vice versa, you know, for a chance of
some sort of survival,” Sudeikis, 45,
says, chuckling.
that the vibe (everyone talks about the CO-STARS for his life, what life? The last couple
“Ted Lasso” vibe) of optimism that Nick of years — and the year ahead — have
courses through the series can’t pos- Mohammed, been devoted to writing, filming and
sibly exist in a business famous for left, and editing “Ted Lasso.” (“No rest for the
displays of ego and selfishness. Brendan wicked,” Hunt puts it.)
Sudeikis counters, saying arrogance Hunt play That February night you saw
is absent from the intent of the show, assistant Sudeikis wearing the hoodie, deliv-
the creation of the show, the realiza- coaches and ering a rambling acceptance speech at
tion of the show. Talking about “Ted are also the virtual Golden Globes? That’s his
Lasso” feels weird to him, wrong even. nominated vibe right now. Three o’clock in the
He uses a PG-rated form of a crude for Emmys. morning, not high (“I was not smoking
term for self-pleasuring to describe On Page 14, pot,” he says, laughing at the widely

But I digress.
We’re talking about hugs, being
open to the signs the universe might
be sending, fighting cynicism and
how “Ted Lasso,” beloved as it may be
at this moment in time, wasn’t exactly
universally embraced when its first
season premiered last August. “The
dad pants of sitcoms,” one critic
wrote.
“And I imagine if that person could
string together 10 of those lines, they’d
work as a writer and not as a critic,”
Sudeikis says, fixing a smile during a
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So even though “Ted Lasso” is
named after the gentle, pun-loving
coach Sudeikis plays, it’s very much a
team effort, more so as the show has
established its characters — the Eng-
lish players Lasso leads, the assistants
who keep him honest and the team
owner, Rebecca (Hannah Wadding-
ham), who hires this no-nothing
American to spite her soccer-loving
ex-husband and then comes around to
his generous spirit, particularly after
forging a friendship with Keeley
(Juno Temple) ... and ... and ... well,
his resistance to talking about himself
because it is not in harmony with
what “Ted Lasso” is about.
“Jason has done a lot of good stuff,”
says longtime friend Brendan Hunt,
who co-created “Ted Lasso” and plays
an assistant coach on the show, “and
this is probably the best thing he’s
done.” Hunt mentions Sudeikis’ work
on “Saturday Night Live,” the “Hor-
rible Bosses” movies, “We’re the Mill-
ers” and more, noting that if, in fact,
“Ted Lasso” is the apex of his career
(it is), it is probably because it is “the
Sudeikis held assumption that he was stoned)
wears a shirt and fully embracing every tangential
in support of thought that enters his mind. (Don
three Black Cheadle, a friend and fellow nominee,
English jokingly gestured for Sudeikis to wrap
footballers up his speech. Waddingham tells me
who were she simply fixes him with a stare
harassed when he strays off the verbal path.
online after She demonstrates, and it’s as terrify-
July’s UEFA ing as you might think.)
Euro final. “You want to love the art in your-
self, not yourself in the art,” Sudeikis
says, quoting revered Russian actor
and teacher Konstantin Stanislavski.

video interview a few weeks ago.
Heeeey. Easy on the critic-bashing, I
reply. Criticism is its own creative art,
and a valuable one. A few minutes
later, Sudeikis circles back, saying he
appreciated me saying that. “I’m not
railing on that line. It is a good line.
But I gotta bring my man in the arena,
my point-guard energy to it too.”
The sports analogy is crucial to
understanding Sudeikis and what
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it’s a deep bench. The second season,
currently airing, gives the entire cast
even more opportunities to shine.
“It’s a company of players,” says
Waddingham, one of seven cast mem-
bers to earn an Emmy nomination.
(The show itself picked up 20 nods, a
record for a first-year comedy.) “No
one thinks they’re more important
than anyone else. People could easily
think we’re being cheesy, but the fact
most from his heart and full of his
DNA.”
“So he’s offering more,” Hunt says.
“He’s always had this much to offer.
He just hasn’t been afforded the
chance to do so, at least not in this
fashion.”
Sudeikis will cop to that, saying
that he feels proud of the show, that
he aimed at a target, hit it and that
process is the “culmination of a lot of
“That speaks to me toward how ego
can get in the way and how power can
corrupt, especially in this business.”
That’s why he loves team sports, he
adds, because “that would be beaten
out of you.”
“Ensemble art is all I’ve ever really
gravitated toward, because you’re
competing against yourself and you’re
competing with things that are in you
— ego, apathy and cynicism,” Sudeikis

makes “Ted Lasso” work as a show
both on and off camera. Sudeikis
started playing basketball in fourth
grade, continued through high school
and was good enough to earn a schol-
arship to Fort Scott Community Col-
lege in Kansas. A community college,
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is we really bloody dig each other.
And it has to be honest. Otherwise
everyone would smell a rat.”
Waddingham isn’t joking. And, yes,
people could easily think that the love
fest among the show’s ensemble and
creative team is too good to be true,
people’s hard work and effort and
giving a damn.” But don’t ask him
about the show’s popularity, the
reasons behind it or if it has changed
his life, because he can’t (won’t) speak
to the show’s reception (“that’s noth-
ing I have any control over”) and, as
continues, riffing on the “vibe” of
“Ted Lasso.” “Know that you as an
individual can beat those three away
and then with like-minded people
filled with an intentional desire, you
can destroy them, you can obliterate
them.” 8
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Jasper Savage Hulu
ALEXIS BLEDEL
Handmaid Emily Malek
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Guest Actress in a Drama
What direction would you like
to see the writers move your
character? To continue trying to
heal, maybe finding a healthy
outlet for her anger.
Tell us a secret about your
character that only you know:
The way her mind works on
things scientifically. I think a
flood of emotions is tough for her
to process.
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What was your most challeng-
ing scene in Season 4? The
scene where Emily is forced to
confront the Martha who
changed the course of things for
her in Gilead.
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10 CELEBRATED PARTS
OF THE WHOLE ‘TALE’
The ‘Handmaid’ acting nominees describe their on- and off-screen challenges and triumphs.
Sophie Giraud Hulu
MADELINE BREWER
Handmaid Janine Lindo
Supporting Actress
in a Drama
Tell us a secret about your
character that only you know:
She’s a great karaoke singer.
What was your most challeng-
ing scene in Season 4? The
most challenging, rewarding,
delicate, wonderful, supportive
moment that was still incredibly
difficult because it was like try-
ing to put so much trauma into
one little body, one little Janine,
was the scene with me and Ann
[Dowd as Aunt Lydia] in Episode
8.
If you could say one thing to
Margaret Atwood, what would
that be? I don’t need to say
anything to Margaret Atwood.
She knows what she did.
Jasper Savage Hulu
ANN DOWD
Aunt Lydia Clements
Supporting Actress
in a Drama
What direction would you like
to see the writers move your
character? I want Aunt Lydia to
have a wild affair with Cmdr.
Lawrence.
What was your most challeng-
ing scene in Season 4? Truth be
told, the most challenging scene
was all of them. Each scene, like
in every season, has its own
complexity. Remarkably, produc-
tion made it possible for us to
work in the middle of a pan-
demic, and we were all so grateful
to be back.
Who is the funniest cast mem-
ber off-screen? There are a lot
of hilarious people on that set,
but I’m going to say Elisabeth.
The two of us have been together
a long time, and she cracks me
up. All it takes is a look, and I’m
in.
Jasper Savage Hulu
O-T FAGBENLE
Luke Bankole
Supporting Actor in a Drama
What direction would you like
to see the writers move your
character? Move me to the
Caribbean. Toronto winters are
kind of severe, and if my charac-
ter could go through his trauma
while being in the sun, that
would really help.
What was your most challeng-
ing scene in Season 4? In Sea-
son 3, there was a scene where
Luke kind of flirts with this other
woman in Canada. And it got me
thinking, “Is there a part of his
private life we don’t get to see?
Has he been a monk?” I made one
decision about a secret romantic
life, but when the scene was
dropped, I kind of went back to
Luke’s monkish ways.
Who is the funniest cast
member off-screen? Oh, I
mean, take your pick. But today,
I’m going to go with Amanda
Brugel [former Martha Rita Blue].
She’s just hilarious. There’s actu-
ally a video on my Instagram of
her rapping and dancing while in
her character’s costume, which is
just one of the funniest videos
I’ve ever seen.
Sophie Giraud Hulu
MCKENNA GRACE
Gilead wife Esther Keyes
Guest Actress in a Drama
What direction would you like
to see the writers move your
character? I would just be hon-
ored to come back and have some
cool scenes. It doesn’t matter to
me what they are.
What was your most challeng-
ing scene in Season 4? When I
was sitting there holding the
knife and giving Ms. Lizzie Moss
my back story. I was honored to
be able to tell a story like that of
Mrs. Keyes’ to raise awareness,
but it just hurt to imagine what
women like her have to go
through every day.
Who is the funniest cast mem-
ber off-screen? Ms. Nina Kiri
[handmaid Alma]. She’s a hoot.
We always had this thing where
we’d walk onto set and do “The
Real Housewives of Gilead.”
 H E N T H E E M M Y N O M I NAT I O N S were announced last month, it was no surprise that “The Hand-

W maid’s Tale” did well across the board, pulling in 21 nods. But the fact that the Hulu drama earned 10 nomina-
tions in the acting categories alone certainly was noteworthy and maybe more than a little unexpected. Ex-
cept perhaps to the folks behind the show’s casting. ¶ “When we put this ensemble together years ago, we
didn’t cast just for the pilot,” says Sharon Bialy of Bialy/Thomas & Associates, nominated (alongside Sherry Thomas and
Russell Scott) for eight casting Emmys since 2014, four of them for “The Handmaid’s Tale,” including this year. “We were
thinking which actor, years from now, can keep climbing, challenging the writers. That’s why this group has been rec-
ognized.” ¶ Here we asked all 10 nominees for some insights into their characters and life on set.

BY DANIEL VAILLANCOURT

Sophie Giraud Hulu Sophie Giraud Hulu Sophie Giraud Hulu Sophie Giraud Hulu Sophie Giraud Hulu

MAX MINGHELLA ELISABETH MOSS YVONNE STRAHOVSKI BRADLEY WHITFORD SAMIRA WILEY
Cmdr. Nick Blaine June Osborne Serena Joy Waterford Cmdr. Joseph Lawrence Moira Strand

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Supporting Actor in a Drama Lead Actress in a Drama Supporting Actress Supporting Actor in a Drama Supporting Actress
in a Drama in a Drama

What direction would you like
to see the writers move your
character? It’s been exciting to
receive the script a little bit blind
as to where things may go. That’s
one of the parts of this process I
cherish, so I wouldn’t want to
lose that.
What was your most challeng-
ing scene in Season 4? We shot
a scene in Episode 9, Lizzie and I,
If you could ask the writers to
move your character in any
one direction, what would it
be? I have pretty strong instincts
about what feels right for June,
and I am always making sure we
remember that this is a person
who has been through extreme
trauma and isn’t a normal person
capable of having normal experi-
ences.
What direction would you like
to see the writers move your
character? Gain political trac-
tion in Canada as a free woman
with her baby, while being tor-
mented that June will take the
baby away from her one day,
given what she did to [her hus-
band] Fred.
Tell us a secret about your
Tell us a secret about your
character that only you know:
Early in his marriage, a child was
lost.
Who is the funniest cast mem-
ber off-screen? The way Lizzie
dresses when she comes to work
cracks me up, because she clearly
just does not care. I think people
expect big-time actresses to be
worried about their clothes, and
What direction would you like
to see the writers move your
character? Love and romance.
Honestly, seeing Moira have a
girlfriend this season was so nice
and so sweet. I feel like Moira is
so deserving.
What was your most challeng-
ing scene in Season 4? Episode
6, on the boat, when June is try-

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that was outside. It was abso-
lutely freezing. I don’t do par-
ticularly well in the cold, so you
can see it in my performance
[laughs]. My face looks swollen
by icicles. I’m just trying to
breathe.
Who is the funniest cast mem-
ber off-screen? It has to be
Bradley Whitford. I might be
What was your most challeng-
ing Season 4 scene? Directing
the train crossing scene at the
end of Episode 3! We shot it over
two days and had different
weather on both days. One day it
was raining, which was great for
the end of the scene when they
are running, and the second day
was beautiful, without a cloud in
the sky, which is when we shot
character that only you know:
She eats Twinkies at night. Duh.
What was your most challeng-
ing scene in Season 4? Not so
much a scene, but more about
navigating the relationship with
Fred [Joseph Fiennes] as well as
navigating the relationship with
Mark Tuello [Sam Jaeger]. It was
a fine line this season of political
Lizzie dresses like a plasma
donor. I mean, she should put out
a line of sexless loungewear.
If you could say one thing to
Margaret Atwood, what would
that be? I always have this inse-
curity because I live in her world,
but she never wrote my charac-
ter. I guess I would ask her what I
want to ask anybody who’s con-
ing to steal a lifeboat. Lizzie and I
haven’t had a scene like that in a
long time. Most of our scenes
have been flashbacks. But also,
we were on a boat in the middle
of the night. It was freezing. We
were 30 minutes away from
shore. There was so much wind.
.… It was pretty intense.
If you could say one thing to

biased, because he’s probably my
closest friend in the cast, but
Bradley does make me laugh like
no other. He’s a great storyteller,
a very charismatic person. I think
that sort of comes through in his
performances. He’s a real movie
star.
the interior of the van. Thank
God for my DP Stuart [Biddle-
combe], who was able to make it
match and look gorgeous.
If you could say one thing to
Margaret Atwood, what would
that be? Thank you. Just thank
game versus interior emotions.
nected with the show or has seen
the show: “Do you think I suck?”
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Margaret Atwood? Margaret
Atwood used to write on my
Instagram sometimes [using]
emojis. Having such a great
writer use emojis, I just felt there
was so much meaning behind
that. Since then, new emojis have
come out. I want to ask, “What’s

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you from the bottom of my heart. your favorite new emoji?”
 Rainbow
of roles
I
T ’ S B E E N A particularly
queer Emmy year. Not
only did “Pose” breakout
Mj Rodriguez make his-
tory as the first trans
Parts are opening up performer to be nominated in a
lead acting category, but other
to LGBTQ actors. openly LGBTQ actors earned
nods for playing LGBTQ charac-
Next up? More ters, including Carl Clemons-
chances to portray Hopkins and Hannah Einbinder
(“Hacks”), Billy Porter (“Pose”)
heteros. ‘I can do and Samira Wiley (“The Hand-
maid’s Tale”).
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so many different Even better, long-out queer
stars such as Gillian Anderson
things,’ is one attitude. (“The Crown”), Jonathan Groff
(“Hamilton”) and “Saturday
BY DANIEL Night Live” standouts Kate Mc-
Kinnon, Bowen Yang and host
VAILLANCOURT Dan Levy were recognized by the
academy for playing everything.
This latter lauding, however,
remains a rarity. John Benjamin
Hickey — whose Colin in “In
Treatment” is heterosexual — has
been outspokenly gay for years,
but Emmy-nominated Emma
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Corrin was not yet publicly queer
when she was cast as Princess
Diana in “The Crown.”
Similarly, Jonathan Bailey was
still in the closet when he won
the role of ladies’ man Viscount
Anthony in “Bridgerton.” The
fact that his newly minted sex
symbol status — which spans
fans of all genders and orienta-
tions — remains intact is note-
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worthy, but would he have been
called to audition at all had his
sexuality been widely known?
“Once they come out, lesbian,
gay and bisexual actors have
rarely been considered for
straight leading roles,” says
GLAAD director of entertain-
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ment media Jeremy Blacklow.
“We look forward to a time when
Phil Caruso HBO Max / WarnerMedia
MJ RODRIGUEZ of
“Pose” has made trans
history. T.R. Knight,
below, of “The Flight
Attendant,” says parity
has not been reached.
LGBTQ actors can bring their
full, authentic selves to their
work without the fear of dis-
crimination.”
“I went to Juilliard. I’m a
trained, classical actor. I can do
so many different things,” says
Wiley, who was closeted when
she landed the role of Poussey in
“Orange Is the New Black” but
out when cast as Moira in “Hand-
maid’s.” Both roles are lesbian,
and Wiley nearly declined the
invitation to audition for the
latter, which earned her a first
Emmy in 2018. “I didn’t want to
be put into a category where I
could only play LGBT charac-
ters. I wanted to just be seen as an
actor. And I definitely want to be
seen for straight roles too.”
According to Wiley, queer
Eric Liebowitz FX performers are more than quali-
fied to play hetero parts. “That’s
the lens we’ve all grown up look-
ing through,” she says. “Every
television show I’ve seen grow-
ing up, every picture in a maga-
zine, every depiction of love.”
“Of course queer actors can
play straight, straight actors can
play queer,” adds T.R. Knight,
Emmy-nominated in 2007 for
playing hetero heartthrob George
in “Grey’s Anatomy” and who
now — alongside fellow out “The
Flight Attendant” cast member
Griffin Matthews — plays gay in
that Emmy-nominated series.
“The question is, ‘Is that opportu-
nity being given equally, or even
close to equally?’ And the answer
to that is definitely ‘No.’ ”
Wiley and Knight agree that
the access LGBTQ actors have to
straight parts is at the mercy of
casting directors, those frontline
gatekeepers who — in the ab-
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sence of clear direction from
showrunners and/or studio executives
— control who’s called in for which
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roles. “When someone’s motive is

inclusive casting, inclusive represen-
tation — straight or queer or any-
where on that spectrum,” continues
Knight, “they see things differently.”
Casting directors point out that
every situation is different. “There
isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer for
every single situation,” stresses Kim
Miscia, a nominee this year alongside
business partner Beth Bowling for
casting “The Flight Attendant.” “It’s a
very complex issue that needs to be
addressed on a case-by-case basis,
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with sensitivity toward the creative

process and an eye toward casting Hannah Einbinder as Ava in the HBO comedy "Hacks."
unrepresented people.”
“In the 22 years we’ve worked
together, we’ve always brought in gay HBO Max Sophie Giraud Hulu

and straight actors for straight and

gay roles,” says Emmy-nominated
Sharon Bialy of Bialy/Thomas &
Associates, speaking of herself, busi-
ness partner Sherry Thomas and
associate Russell Scott. “I would never
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Valentine Hendry, an out lesbian and “They’re just putting everything out DAN LEVY strong allies,” echoes Wiley. “It’s not
LGBTQ activist who’s a first-time there in a way that’s really challeng- (top left, gonna be just up to us.”
nominee this year for casting “Brid- ing.” with “Creek” Flanking his fellow advocates,
gerton.” Hendry does make some Bowling goes a step further, confid- cast), John Grammy, Tony and Emmy winner

not allow a gay person to play a
straight role. When I’m forced into
that corner, my instinct is to say that’s
not fair. I would like the world to be
open to everybody.”
For each casting director inter-
viewed here, a trans role is often
where the open-door policy slams
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concessions, depending on the cir-
cumstances of the role. “If the actor
predominantly had to play their
character’s gender at birth [through
most of the story], and the character’s
transition happened at the end, I
think that could be up for discussion.”
“It’s still such an underrepresented
ing that she and Miscia would not
hesitate to cast a trans actor in a cis
part. “As I was recently discussing
with a prominent showrunner, if a
trans actor comes in, nails the role
and is the best actor, then that’s who
we should cast. There is a movement.
I think Hollywood — the industry as a
Benjamin Porter is proud to be part of the solu-
Hickey, tion. “For my entire life, a character
Samira like Pray Tell was not possible, a show
Wiley, like ‘Pose’ was not possible. We have
Hannah to acknowledge how far we’ve come,”
Einbinder. he concludes. “We are the change
we’ve been fighting for. Every time
one of us gets a role, every time one of

shut. “I fully believe trans people community that takes the most hostil- whole — is aware of that.” us gets recognition, it’s moving the
should play trans roles,” says Kelly ity from the public,” adds Thomas. “In any movement, people need needle.” 8
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 THE CONTENDERS

THE ‘FIRSTS’ ARE

JUST A BONUS
In a genial chat, Bowen Yang and RuPaul note
their roles in TV history, reminisce about
working together and explain the drive to create.
BY GREGORY ELLWOOD

R
UPAUL and Bowen Yang are unquestionably LGBTQ
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trailblazers. Over three decades, the towering Super-

model of the World has brought the art of drag into the
mainstream with an individual career that has defied
the odds and spearheaded a global franchise that is the
Emmy-winning “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” The multi-
talented Yang is not only the first featured player (as
opposed to full cast member) from “Saturday Night Live” to earn a
supporting actor in a comedy nomination, but also the first Chinese
American. They are on the verge of landing in the record books this
Emmy season and they also have, for lack of a better word, history.
¶ Here, The Envelope listened in as the two pioneers talked to each
other on a video call — RuPaul from Los Angeles and Yang from New
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York — about Emmy history, mentorship and the power of “Dynasty.”

¶ Their conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

RuPaul: I haven’t seen you Yang: I’m bummed that it got

since we did “SNL” together. But
I have a lot of great memories
from that happening.
Bowen Yang: Do you?
RuPaul: But the No. 1 memory
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cut. I don’t know how you feel
about this, when things like this
happen, when you’re so racked
with disappointment. I remem-
ber that was one of the most

is us in the sketch that got cut. disappointing shows for me,

Where we’re the bitchy coal because I was so emotionally
miners. invested, because it was you. I
Yang: Am I one of the only was like, “Who else is going to
people in television history come along who I’m so inspired
RUPAUL: who’s thrown a drink in RuPaul’s by? Who I’ve looked up to for so
free of old face? I can’t believe I got to do long? Who’s done so much?”
notions. that. RuPaul: But that sketch,
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RuPaul: Oh, God, it was so it does live on YouTube. And

World of Wonder funny. it is ha-larious. It is so twisted.
So twisted.
Yang: I remember you and
[“Drag Race” executive producer]
Tom Campbell sat in an office
with me and James Anderson, the
co-writer on that sketch. We were
just quoting “Dynasty” for hours,
and I was like, “This is heaven.”
RuPaul: How did you get
introduced to “Dynasty”?
Yang: I was introduced very
late to “Dynasty,” because my
parents didn’t know what TV
was. I was probably introduced
when I started doing comedy in
New York with my friend Oscar
Montoya, and he was like, “We
should reenact the scene from
‘Dynasty.’ ” It was when Alexis
[Joan Collins] and Dominique
Deveraux [Diahann Carroll] were
fighting. Not the scene that we
had based the coal miner sketch
on, but when they finally come to
blows in someone’s bedroom.
RuPaul: On [“SNL”], you went
from writers room to featured
player. What was the chronolog-
ical order?
Yang: I auditioned a handful
of times to be in the cast. I was
like, “It’s never going to happen,
but let’s just have fun with it.”
This was right around the time
when I listened to your Marc
Maron [podcast] interview. It
was just so illuminating, and it
was like, “Just don’t take life too
seriously.” I really kind of sus-
tained that idea throughout my
audition process. Then by my
final meeting with Lorne [Mich-
aels] ... he hired me as a writer.
He had the intention of putting
me on camera, but he kept saying,
“You’re going to be scrutinized in
a way that other people might not
be, and so I want to make sure
that you’re set up for success as
soon as you’re thrown out there
in front of the camera. Because
you are going to be evaluated
differently, based on these things
that are not in your control but
are completely dictated by what
society thinks.”
Speaking of mentorship, do
you feel like you are now starting
to look back on “Drag Race,” as
this figurehead, as someone who
is able to launch careers? In ways
you’re changing the material
reality of these people who come
on the show. Is there a through-
line into what you hope is upheld
by these girls leaving the show
and performing outside of it?
RuPaul: I hope that what we
go through here, in the process of
creating the show, and making
and filming the show, they can
carry that experience with them.
Because our challenges are based
on things that I’ve done in my
career and crafted to challenge a
person to be willing to die in
their old self and be reborn into
their higher self.
Yang: That happens all the
time.
RuPaul: All the time. And that
is life. You have to be willing to
let go of old ideas and open your-
self up and channel the source.
So that’s what I hope the girls
continue to do. And it’s not easy
to do.
Yang: So, this is my first Em-
mys campaign event, and I’m
thrilled that it’s with you. What
advice do you have? I mean,
you’ve collected plenty of hard-
ware here. What’s your advice on
campaigning, in general?
RuPaul: Honestly, it’s a cliché,
but being nominated, the period
of being a nominee, it’s a long
period, and it’s so exciting, be-
cause it’s sort of a very exclusive
club. And you’re nominated, and
I think it’s the first time it’s ever
happened where a featured play-
er on “SNL” was nominated.
Yang: For a featured player,
but it’s a matter of timing. Back in
the day when you had Eddie
Murphy pop off, I mean, the
Emmys, the categories were
different back then. I’m just the
beneficiary of really fortunate
timing in all of this. It’s great. But
this is what I always take away
from you, “Don’t take life too
effing seriously.” But then isn’t
campaigning for Emmys, the
pageantry of this, isn’t that taking
life seriously?
RuPaul: Well, I’ll tell you what
it is. It’s taking all of the people
who work with you to help create
this incredible machine of come-
dy and beautiful pictures, it takes
their work seriously. Because you
represent all of the people at
“SNL,” and all of the comedy
clubs you’ve visited, and all of
the people who have supported
you throughout your career.
That’s the serious part. The fact
that you’re being recognized is
recognizing all of those people.
So, yes, it’s important to not take
life too effing seriously, but there
are things that one should take
seriously. And that is the kind-
ness and love and support that all
the people who have championed
you throughout your life — this is
actually for them.
Yang: I want to ask you about
something else that’s historical.
You are maybe on track to be the
most awarded person of color in
Emmy history. Does that mean
something to you? Because I
think even if it doesn’t, it still is
tied very neatly into the fact that
you, as RuPaul, have put more
Black and brown queer people,
trans people, what have you, on
TV than anyone else, ever. Ever!
RuPaul: It does mean some-
thing to me. I have all the scars to
show you from a career in show
business. Actually, I climbed up
on stage, the first time for money,
in 1982, and I’ve been doing it
ever since. It’s been a long, hard
road, but I have enjoyed every
minute of it. I dig being creative
and music and colors and shapes
and the laughter from people and
discovering something really
beautiful in these contestants,
every season. So, the history sort
of means other people are keep-
ing track of things.
Yang: Yeah, yeah.
RuPaul: I’m keeping track in
my heart and in my experience
and in my own story. What it
means to other people, that I’ve
been the first to do this, or in
history, or all that stuff, that’s
great. That’s fine. But for me, it
enriches my experience. What
other people think of me is none
of my business. I didn’t get into
this thing to try to get other
people to like me or love me or
validate me. I did it because I
have to do it. I did it because I
love to create. I’d be doing this
had I not become famous. I’d be
doing this in some form or fash-
ion.
Yang: I got really drained
recently, when I was going to
Pride events in the city. Things
were reopening, and COVID
cases weren’t too bad here. So, I
was kind of out and about. I love
meeting people, but I did find
myself feeling drained by the end
of each experience, being like,
“Oh, people are really coming at
me with their emotions.” And
that’s beautiful, but I feel like
there was procurement that was
taken out of that. What I realized
was, in order to recalibrate, the
only way to give back to yourself
is to create, to make something
for you. And it’s not a self-
serving thing. It’s not selfish.
It’s something that is neces-
sary, in order to keep moving
through it.
RuPaul: That’s right.
That’s that touchstone to
your heart and the thing that
gets you out of the house
and that drives you forward.
Because it cannot be for the
validation of people out-
side of you. We’ve tried
that trick. It never works.
And I can understand.
Every time someone says,
“Oh, you’re the first this.
Oh, you’re the first time
...” People right now are
obsessed with, “You’re the
first in history to do this.” BOWEN
It’s like, “Wait, what? Oh, YANG: good
great. That’s not really timing.
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why I’m doing it, but I’ll
take it.” 8 Chris Pizzello
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CORRIN
as Diana in
“The Crown.”

Des Willie

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THE GOLD STANDARD

Asterisk for the

E M M Y VO T E R S C A N N EV E R have enough reminders
that a nominated show A) exists and B) that they liked it ...
they really, really liked it! On the comedy side this year,
new episodes of “Ted Lasso” are dropping weekly just as
Television Academy members are filling out their ballots. Some people

privileged?
never stopped watching the show’s first season, replaying it repeatedly in
hopes that the title character’s relentless optimism would blunt the never-
ending parade of bad news looping through this last year and a half. To
them, the fresh episodes felt like manna from heaven. (Too dramatic?
How about fresh-baked biscuits?) ¶ On the drama side, the latest season
of “The Crown” premiered Nov. 15, which feels like a couple of lifetimes
Nah. Even with COVID disadvantaging other top-tier ago. But it too will have a refresher of sorts with the arrival of the new
movie “Spencer,” Pablo Larraín’s look at Princess Diana’s decision to split
TV dramas, ‘The Crown’ remains Emmy-worthy. from Prince Charles, starring Kristen Stewart in the title role. “Spencer”
will premiere in a couple of weeks at the Venice Film Festival. Yes, that’s
BY GLENN WHIPP after Emmy voting ends, but there’s already a healthy debate, based on
the trailer alone (which is always a good idea) about who plays Di better
— Stewart or “The Crown’s” Emma Corrin. And look at that ... we’re
thinking about “The Crown” again! ¶ But, really, with this year’s emaci-
ated Emmy drama series field, “The Crown” won’t need much in the way
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of reminders or heated arguments to prevail, as you’ll see as you pour

yourself a cuppa and peruse this early look at the drama category races.
DRAMA SERIES
“The Boys”
“Bridgerton”
“The Crown”
“The Handmaid’s Tale”
“Lovecraft Country”
“The Mandalorian”
“Pose”
“This Is Us”
Should win: “The Crown”
Will win: “The Crown”
Do we need to put an
asterisk by “The Crown’s”
inevitable win because the
pandemic delayed the new
seasons of “Stranger
Things,” “Better Call Saul,”
“Ozark,” “Killing Eve” and
reigning Emmy drama
series champ “Succes-
sion”? Nah. And I say that
not just because I love the
Dodgers and Lakers and
believe their 2020 champi-
onships were legit, short-
ened seasons notwith-
standing. Peter Morgan’s
sumptuous soap opera
about a family of insuffer-
able, self-absorbed mon-
sters (the shy Diana ex-
cepted) just enjoyed its
best season and, in its own
way, is just as rewatchable
as “Ted Lasso.” How else
could we ever possibly
learn the ins and outs of
royal protocol and that
you can’t possibly survive
a weekend retreat at a
Scottish castle wearing
smart suits and high heels?
(Poor Margaret Thatcher.
Wait ... did I just write
that???) Anyway, fire up
the gun salute and ... when
does Season 3 of “Succes-
sion” premiere again?
DRAMA ACTRESS
Uzo Aduba,
“In Treatment”
Olivia Colman,
“The Crown”
Emma Corrin,
“The Crown”
Elisabeth Moss,
“The Handmaid’s Tale”
Mj Rodriguez,
“Pose”
Jurnee Smollett,
“Lovecraft Country”
Should win: Corrin
Will win: Corrin
This is Corrin’s one and
only season playing Diana;
the 6-foot-3-inch Elizabeth
Debicki, another gifted
actress, will portray her in
Season 5. Debicki (and
Stewart and whoever may
be cast as the Princess of
Wales in future projects)
will have a tough act to
follow as Corrin’s delicate,
assured performance went
way beyond the uncanny
way she captured Diana’s
shy head tilt.
Of course, the Diana
we’ll see next on “The
Crown” is almost a com-
pletely different woman,
more assured and ready to
assert herself. Early 2022
Emmy prediction ... De-
bicki for the win? (I know,
I know. Too soon.)
DRAMA ACTOR
Sterling K. Brown,
“This Is Us”
Jonathan Majors,
“Lovecraft Country”
Josh O’Connor,
“The Crown”
Regé-Jean Page,
“Bridgerton”
Billy Porter, “Pose”
Matthew Rhys,
“Perry Mason”
Should win: Porter
Will win: Porter
O’Connor is nearly as
good as Corrin, but c’mon.
We’re not going to give an
Emmy to an actor playing
that guy, are we? I suspect
voters will do what Diana
should have done — run ...
run like the wind ... away
from (the actor playing)
Charles and, in the case of
this race, into the ever-
loving arms of Porter for
his healing work on the
groundbreaking “Pose.”
DRAMA SUPPORTING
ACTRESS
Gillian Anderson,
“The Crown”
Eli Joshua Ade HBO
Helena Bonham Carter, “The Handmaid’s Tale”
“The Crown” received what was prob-
Madeline Brewer, ably the quietest set of 21
“The Handmaid’s Tale” nominations in the history
Ann Dowd, of the Emmys. Only “The
“The Handmaid’s Tale” Crown,” “The Mandalo-
Aunjanue Ellis, rian” and “WandaVision”
“Lovecraft Country” earned more nods; the
Emerald Fennell, latter two shows picking
“The Crown” up most of their haul in
Yvonne Strahovski, below-the-line categories.
“The Handmaid’s Tale” Here, a quartet of “Hand-
Samira Wiley, maid’s Tale” women were
“The Handmaid’s Tale” nominated, including two
— Dowd and Wiley — who
Should win: Anderson have previously won. But
“The Crown” has all the
Will win: Anderson heat this year, with new
additions Fennell and
Anderson joining Bonham
Carter, who, in a bit of an
upset, lost to “Ozark’s”
Julia Garner in 2020.
Fennell nailed Camilla’s
confidence, but this Emmy
belongs to Anderson,
brilliant as the starched
British Prime Minister
Thatcher.
DRAMA SUPPORTING
ACTOR
Giancarlo Esposito,
“The Mandalorian”
O-T Fagbenle,
“The Handmaid’s Tale”
John Lithgow,
“Perry Mason”
Tobias Menzies,
“The Crown”
Max Minghella,
“The Handmaid’s Tale”
Chris Sullivan,
“This Is Us”
Bradley Whitford,
Eric Liebowitz FX Networks “The Handmaid’s Tale”
Michael K. Williams,
“Lovecraft Country”
T H U R S D A Y , A U G U S T 19 , 2 0 21
Should win: Williams
Will win: Williams
There must be a sur-
prise somewhere in these
drama races, an Emmy that
goes to a performance
outside the critical con-
sensus ... right? This could
be the spot. At some point,
five-time nominee Espo-
sito should win an Emmy.
But he probably didn’t
have enough to do in this
LOS ANGELES TIMES
past season of “The Man-
Des Willie Netf lix dalorian” for voters to
take notice. If there’s a
BILLY “Crown” sweep, perhaps
PORTER, Menzies will win, though
top, of “Pose” he wasn’t nominated for
merits a win. the show’s fourth season,
So do Gillian indicating voters might be
Anderson of a bit blasé about his Philip.
“The Crown,” Which brings us to
and Michael Williams, another overdue
THE ENVELOPE
K. Williams of actor from a show that
“Lovecraft earned a whopping 18
Country.” nominations, even though
HBO canceled it after one
season. Like Esposito,
Williams has five nomina-
tions — and not one of
them was for “The Wire.”
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It’s high time to right that
wrong.
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