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CALIFORNIA’S troubled high-speed rail project will have to compete for funding if Democrats can push the
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COLUMN ONE
A dose of
envy as
others get
their shot
As more people are
vaccinated, those still
waiting often ask,
‘Why them, not me?’
By Deborah Netburn
P
eter Jacobsen, 64,
has made only five
trips to Trader
Joe’s since the
pandemic began.
Each time he moved quickly
to limit his potential expo-
sure to the coronavirus.
“I know what I’m get-
ting,” he said. “I don’t shop
around, just pick it up, bag it
and get out of there.”
But on a trip to the mar-
ket in mid-March, he ran
into an older friend who
wanted to stop and chat.
She had recently re-
ceived her second dose of a
COVID-19 vaccine and this
was her first visit to Trader
Joe’s in a year, she told
Jacobsen — another sign of
life finally getting back to
normal.
As she talked, Jacobsen
grew increasingly anxious.
He was happy for his friend,
but at the same time he
wondered when he would
experience a similar sense of
relief. He also wanted to get
back home. And fast.
“I was still in that pan-
demic mode and she’s re-
laxed,” he said. “Vaccine
envy is real.”
[See Envy, A7]
Kent Nishimura L.A. Times
4 killed, 1 hurt
in Orange attack
The mass shooting at
an office complex is
the third in the United
States in two weeks.
CALIFORNIA, B1
High court looks
at NCAA rules
Justices signal they are
not inclined to block
generous education
benefits for student-
athletes. NATION, A5
Weather
Sunny and very warm.
L.A. Basin: 88/59. B10
BUSINESS INSIDE: President Biden allows a Trump-era ban on H-1B visas to expire. A8
© 2021 D THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021
Choosing to continue
learning from home
High schoolers skeptical of a return to campus
By Melissa Gomez
High school senior Isabell Diaz has a
routine. She rolls out of bed half an hour
before her 9 a.m. class at Los Angeles
High School. On breaks, she steps away
from the screen to eat breakfast or com-
plete chores. She has learned how to navi-
gate online assignments and virtual club
meetings.
So when she learned that her school
would open in late April, she had mixed
emotions.
“My initial thought wasn’t, ‘Oh my
gosh, yay.’ It was, ‘OK, are we sure about
this? How is this going to work?’ ” the 17-
year-old said. Then fear set in — she saw
how COVID-19 crept into her home in
KAHLILA WILLIAMS misses friends and meetings of the Black Student
Union, but she says it’s too late to salvage a normal senior year by returning.
Learning loss: Students already struggling have fared worst. CALIFORNIA, B1
China quickly silences defenders of Uyghurs
Fear and force muzzle
dissent so Beijing can
claim all its citizens
support harsh policies.
By Alice Su
BEIJING — Five tweets
landed Li Lin in shackles.
A software engineer, Li
had traveled to Xinjiang
province in 2018 to visit fam-
ily for the Lunar New Year.
He tweeted about his sur-
prise over the intense securi-
ty in the northwestern re-
gion where a state campaign
of mass incarceration and
“reeducation” of Uyghurs
and other ethnic minorities
was underway.
All Xinjiang residents
had been forced to register
their fingerprints, blood
samples and eye scans with A UYGHUR transporting schoolchildren passes a sign in Hotan, in China’s Xinji-
public security. Most VPN ang region, showing President Xi Jinping joining hands with Uyghur elders.
Biden unveils
plan to reshape
infrastructure
His $2-trillion-plus
plan targets neglected
public works, climate
change and gaps in the
U.S. social safety net.
By Chris Megerian
WASHINGTON — Presi-
dent Biden launched a bold
effort Wednesday to reshape
American life by repairing
roads, installing electric car
charging stations, reno-
vating schools, expanding
broadband connectivity and
Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times much more — a vision, he
said, “not seen through the
eyes of Wall Street and
Washington, but the eyes of
hardworking people.”
The ambitious proposal,
with a price tag exceeding
$2 trillion over eight years,
reflects Biden’s belief that
the country is ready for the
federal government to play a
larger role in providing for its
citizens, tackling climate
change and modernizing its
public works, recalling ex-
pansive Democratic initia-
tives during the New Deal
and the Great Society
eras.
early December and knocked down her
father and two sisters. When she realized
she would take all her classes online while
“It’s not a plan that tin-
kers around the edges,” Bid-
en said at a carpenters train-
ing center in Pittsburgh. “It’s
stuck in one classroom all day, she knew a once-in-a-generation in-
her answer: No. vestment in America, unlike
High school students have trudged anything we’ve seen or done
through a year of isolation as their school since we built the interstate
lives morphed before their eyes. Theirs is highway system, and the
a year of lost milestone experiences — space race, decades ago.”
missed proms, sports games and friend- Biden is also betting that
ship bonds. Studies have pointed to in-
creasing mental health problems. And
he can push the proposal
through a bitterly polarized
yet it is high school students, more than Congress where previous in-
any others, who are opting to finish the frastructure initiatives have
year online. languished despite biparti-
In the Los Angeles Unified School Dis- san agreement that invest-
trict, the second largest in the nation, 84% ments are overdue and that
are staying at home. Moderate to high the United States has failed
numbers are also [See Return, A6] to keep pace with overseas
competitors like China.
Republicans have al-
ready criticized Biden’s pro-
posals to finance the plan
over 15 years with higher
taxes on corporations,
which would undo some of
the tax cuts enacted by Pres-
ident Trump in 2017, while
progressive Democrats are
calling for even more spend-
ing than the president has
outlined.
[See Infrastructure, A9]
Government as
growth engine?
President Biden’s econo-
mic plan calls for taking
a more active role in the
economy, but it faces
challenges. BUSINESS, A8
Putting the U.S.
Dania Maxwell Los Angeles Times
at EV forefront
The infrastructure plan
calls for a $174-billion
investment but lacks an
edict like California’s.
PERSPECTIVES, A2
Andy Wong Associated Press
latimes.
Evan Vucci Associated Press
“IT’S NOT A PLAN
that tinkers around the
edges,” President Biden
said in Pittsburgh.
Growing
vaccine
demand
a big test
for state
As more become
eligible, supply looks
iffy. And appointment
websites often falter.
By Colleen Shalby,
Hayley Smith
and Laura J. Nelson
The expansion of
COVID-19 vaccine eligibility
to everyone age 50 and older
will be the biggest test yet for
California’s vaccine effort,
which has stabilized re-
cently but still faces ques-
tions about whether supply
and appointments can keep
pace with demand.
Millions more Califor-
nians qualify for a shot start-
ing Thursday, and in two
weeks, all residents 16 and
older will be eligible.
For most people, actually
getting a dose will involve
wading into California’s vast
array of appointment web-
sites run by local health de-
partments, private health
providers and clinics, sev-
eral major pharmacy chains
and the state, through a por-
tal called My Turn.
Public health officials are
urging newly eligible people
to be patient while searching
for an appointment because
the supply of vaccine doses
coming from the federal gov-
ernment is still constrained
in some places. Officials in
several major counties have
said they could vaccinate far
more people if they received
more supplies.
Officials in Los Angeles
County estimate it has the
[See Vaccine, A7]
phone apps were unusable.
Crescent moons and labels
for Muslim halal products
had been covered up. Police
stations had been set up at
every corner. Communist
Party officials had been dis-
patched to spy inside minor-
ities’ homes.
“If these policies contin-
ue, ethnic tensions will only
get worse,” Li wrote. “Such
high pressure terror and in-
convenience of life make
people crazy. Any bit of com-
plaint or dissatisfaction gets
you locked into education
classes. Even so, there are
still some people who don’t
think this policy has any
problem at all.”
A few days later, plain-
clothes police showed up at
his family’s home. They de-
tained Li for six months on
charges of “disrupting pub-
lic order” and “inciting eth-
nic discrimination and sepa-
[See China, A4]
A2 THU R S DAY , AP R IL 1, 2021
Biden aims to make U.S. an EV leader
President’s infrastructure plan calls for $174-billion investment but lacks an edict like California’s
By Anna M. Phillips
President Biden wants as
much as $174 billion to turn
the nation from a laggard in
the electric vehicle market
into a leader. He’s challeng-
ing Congress to OK billions
more in spending to per-
suade Americans to part
with their gas-powered cars
and take public transit, and
even to electrify a chunk of
the nation’s yellow school
bus fleets.
And he’s demanding the
country get serious about re-
moving some of the dirtiest
diesel trucks from the road,
a move aimed in part at im-
proving air quality in neigh-
borhoods choked by smog.
Biden’s $2.25-trillion pro-
posal to overhaul the na-
tion’s infrastructure is about
much more than bridges
and highways. It’s a blue-
print for executing his ambi-
tious goals of decarbonizing
the country’s economy by
2050 and restoring Ameri-
ca’s role as a leader on fight-
ing climate change.
“Wrapped in what other-
wise would be a traditional
infrastructure bill is what I
would call a light Green New
Deal,” said Antonio Bento, a
professor of public policy
and economics at USC, re-
ferring to progressive Demo-
crats’ grand plan for wean-
ing the country off fossil fu-
els and creating clean ener-
gy jobs. “I think this is our
best shot ever at reducing
emissions.”
The proposal includes
huge promises, some of
which will be difficult to en-
act because they require the
federal government to spend
billions of dollars in coordi-
nation with states and the
private sector.
Among them are pledges
to spend $165 billion to boost
the country’s aging public
transit systems, address
Amtrak’s repair backlog and
replace thousands of miles
of track.
The proposal would pro-
vide funding to electrify 20%
of school buses and build
500,000 electric vehicle
charging stations across the
United States by 2030.
The Biden plan would
also speed the transition
from fossil fuels to renewable
energy, extending tax cred-
its by 10 years for wind, solar
and energy storage facilities.
It includes a proposal to
spend $16 billion to put for-
mer fossil fuel industry em-
ployees to work plugging
leaks from hundreds of
thousands of orphaned oil
and gas wells and aban-
doned mines. An additional
$10 billion would be spent to
create a Civilian Climate
Corps to employ Americans
in conservation efforts, in-
cluding works to make West-
ern forests less susceptible
S LAT IMES. C OM
PRESIDENT BIDEN is challenging Congress to OK billions to persuade Ameri-
cans to part with their gas-powered cars. Above, new cars at the Long Beach port.
to massive wildfires.
Even the country’s beat-
up mail trucks would get an
upgrade: The plan calls for
High court’s delay worries conservatives
A decision on hearing
an abortion case from
Mississippi has been
pending for months.
By David G. Savage
WASHINGTON — The
future of Roe vs. Wade and
the rights of women to
choose abortion are being
fought out in an unusual dis-
pute within the Supreme
Court.
At issue is whether to
take up a direct challenge to
the landmark abortion deci-
sion, an early test for the
court with three appointees
of President Trump.
Conservatives who have
long targeted Roe believed
they had won a historic vic-
tory a week before Trump
lost his reelection bid. Jus-
tice Amy Coney Barrett took
her seat at the end of Octo-
ber, giving the court six con-
servatives who had been ap-
pointed by Republican pres-
idents who opposed abor-
tion. The death of Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg left
just three liberals who sup-
ported abortion rights.
The justices have before
them an appeal from Missis-
sippi that has become the fo-
PERSPECTIVES
Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times
the government to “utilize
the vast tools of federal pro-
curement to electrify the
federal fleet, including the
THE JACKSON clinic case would be the Supreme
Court’s most significant abortion case in 30 years.
cus of attention. The state
seeks to enforce a ban on
nearly all abortions after 15
weeks of pregnancy, but the
measure was blocked by a
federal judge and the U.S.
appeals court on the
grounds it conflicted with
Roe.
The state’s lawyers are
urging the high court to re-
peal the “bright-line viability
rule” set in 1973 that lets
women choose abortion un-
til about the 22nd week of
pregnancy, the time when a
fetus may be capable of sur-
viving outside the womb. In-
stead, they said, states
should be given more leeway
to ban abortions at earlier
stages of pregnancy.
More than a dozen Re-
publican-led states are
ready to implement mea-
sures to ban many abortions
if the Supreme Court were to
change course.
If the justices — or at
least four of them — vote to
take up Dobbs vs. Jackson
Women’s Health Organi-
zation, it would be by far the
most significant abortion
case in 30 years. A decision
has been pending for
months, and the case is due
to come up again Thursday
during the justices’ private
conference.
Granting review in the
Mississippi case would sig-
Pfizer says vaccine tests well in young teens
associated press
Pfizer said Wednesday
that its COVID-19 vaccine
was safe and strongly pro-
tective in children as young
as 12, a step toward possibly
beginning shots in young
teenagers before they head
back to school in the fall.
Most COVID vaccines be-
ing rolled out are for adults,
who are at higher risk from
the disease. Pfizer’s vaccine
is authorized for ages 16 and
older. But vaccinating chil-
dren of all ages will be critical
to stopping the pandemic —
and to helping schools start
to look more normal after
months of disruption.
In a study of 2,260 volun-
teers ages 12 to 15, prelimi-
nary data showed no COVID
cases among fully vacci-
United States Postal Serv-
ice.”
All of this hinges on con-
gressional approval, which
Rogelio V. Solis Associated Press
nal the new conservative
majority is ready to make a
major change in the law.
However, if the court were to
turn down the appeal, it
would send the opposite
message, that the new court
will stick to its precedents,
defying predictions from the
right and left.
Conservative legal ana-
lyst Ed Whelan called the
Dobbs case “the best oppor-
tunity the Supreme Court
will ever have to overturn
Roe.” The case “provides an
excellent vehicle for overrul-
ing” the right to abortion
and returning the issue to
the state legislatures, he
wrote in November. “Indeed,
it is unlikely that there will
ever be a more opportune
moment.”
But that moment has yet
to arrive. In November and
December, the Mississippi
case was taken off the weekly
conference list and “re-
scheduled” for later consid-
eration. This move spared
the newest justice from vot-
ing on a momentous issue in
her first weeks on the job.
Since January, however,
the court has repeatedly
“relisted” the case for dis-
cussion and a vote at its
weekly conference. On most
Monday mornings, the court
issues a list of appeal peti-
tions that have been acted
nated adolescents, com-
pared with 18 cases among
those given dummy shots,
Pfizer reported.
It’s a small study that
hasn’t yet been published,
but another promising sign
is how well the shots revved
up the kids’ immune sys-
tems: Researchers reported
high levels of virus-fighting
antibodies, somewhat high-
er than in young adults.
Kids had side effects sim-
ilar to those in young adults,
Pfizer said. The main side ef-
fects are pain, fever, chills
and fatigue, particularly af-
ter the second dose. The
study will track participants
for two years to assess long-
term protection and safety.
Philip J. Landrigan, a pe-
diatrician and epidemiolo-
gist at Boston College, found
the results encouraging.
is likely to be difficult, even
though Democrats have a
slim majority. And there’s no
guarantee of strong support
even from within the party.
As details of the proposal
became public Tuesday
morning, Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)
tweeted: “This is not nearly
enough. The important con-
text here is that it’s $2.25T
spread out over 10 years.”
Other progressive law-
makers are likely to join her
call for more spending and
emphasize their own de-
mands, such as setting a
date to phase out gasoline-
powered vehicles. The cur-
rent proposal does not in-
clude anything along the
lines of California’s
requirement that all new
cars sold be zero-emission
vehicles by 2035.
Meanwhile, some cen-
trists within the party are
unhappy at the prospect of
being asked to approve an-
other expensive spending
package so soon after Bid-
en’s sweeping $1.9-trillion
stimulus bill. At least four
House Democrats are insist-
ing that the proposal should
reverse limits that President
Trump placed on the deduc-
tion of state and local taxes
on. Typically, one or more
have been granted review
and hundreds of others “de-
nied” without comment. But
the Mississippi case has
been missing — neither
granted nor denied.
“I don’t know what to
think. Others to whom I’ve
spoken are similarly flum-
moxed,” said Mary Ziegler, a
Florida State University law
professor who has written
widely on abortion and the
continuing battle over Roe
vs. Wade.
“There are two theories
I’m weighing,” she said.
Sometimes with high-
profile disputes, Ziegler
said, the court has “chewed
it over for a long time before
making a decision.”
For example, in spring
2017 when Justice Neil M.
Gorsuch was being con-
firmed to replace the late
Justice Antonin Scalia, the
court repeatedly considered
the case of the Christian
baker from Colorado who re-
fused to make a wedding
cake for a same-sex couple.
After 16 weeks, Masterpiece
Cakeshop vs. Colorado was
granted review in late June.
The other theory, she and
others said, is that one or
more conservative justices
are writing dissents from a
decision to deny Mississip-
pi’s appeal.
If the court grants review,
the justices do not disclose
who voted to take up the ap-
peal and who disagreed. But
if an appeal petition is
turned down, one or more
justices sometimes write a
dissent. And on occasion,
the justices say, these dis-
sents persuade one or more
their colleagues to change
their mind and vote in favor
of hearing the case.
In 1992, Justice Clarence
Thomas voted to overturn
Roe vs. Wade, and he has not
relented. “Our abortion
precedents are grievously
wrong and should be over-
“It’s hard to get kids to
comply with masking and
distancing, so something
that gives them hard protec-
tion and takes them out of
the mix of spreading the
virus is all for the good,” said
Landrigan, who was not in-
volved in the study.
Pfizer and German part-
ner BioNTech plan to ask
the U.S. Food and Drug Ad-
ministration and European
regulators soon to allow
emergency use of the shots
for those as young as 12.
In a statement, Pfizer
Chief Executive Albert
Bourla expressed “the hope
of starting to vaccinate this
age group before the start of
the next school year.”
Pfizer isn’t the only com-
pany seeking to lower the
age limit for its vaccine. Re-
sults are expected this sum-
from federal income taxes.
Republican Party lead-
ers and fossil fuel industry
groups have come out
against the package, object-
ing to its size and plans to
pay for its proposals
through increased taxes on
corporations.
Senate Republican
leader Mitch McConnell
called it nothing more than a
“Trojan horse” for tax hikes.
Neil Bradley, U.S. Chamber
of Commerce chief policy of-
ficer, said in a statement
that “the proposal is danger-
ously misguided when it
comes to how to pay for in-
frastructure.” And the
American Petroleum Insti-
tute, the oil and gas indus-
try’s largest trade group,
criticized the plan for not
including upgrades to pipe-
lines.
Biden’s proposal comes
the same day that the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency made public its
plans to restore “scientific
integrity” at the agency by
removing the members of
two important scientific ad-
visory panels, many of them
industry figures appointed
by the Trump administra-
tion. Current members can
apply for reinstatement.
ruled,” he wrote last year
when the court, by a 5-4 vote,
struck down a Louisiana law
regulating abortion pro-
viders.
Justice Samuel A. Alito
Jr. has also voted reliably
against abortion rights. Dis-
senting in the Louisiana
case, he said doctors and
abortion providers should
not have standing to oppose
state laws in court. He called
it “stunning” that a “regu-
lated party” such as a physi-
cian may “invoke the right of
a third party,” such as their
patients, to challenge the
law on their behalf. The Mis-
sissippi law was also chal-
lenged by a medical clinic,
not by women who were or
could become pregnant.
Chief Justice John G.
Roberts Jr. surprised advo-
cates on both sides by cast-
ing the deciding vote to
strike down the Louisiana
law in June Medical Services
vs. Russo. He said he would
stick with the court’s past
rulings holding that states
may not put an “undue bur-
den” before women seeking
an abortion.
So the future of abortion
rights depends on the three
Trump appointees. Justices
Gorsuch and Brett M. Ka-
vanaugh dissented in the
Louisiana case last year, but
did not directly question the
right to abortion set out in
Roe. Barrett was a protege of
Scalia who spent most of her
career teaching at Notre
Dame Law School. She was
seen by supporters as likely
to join an effort to rein in
abortion rights.
The appeal in the Missis-
sippi case will be on the
court’s conference list on
Thursday morning. In late
January, Whelan said he was
dismayed the court had not
granted review yet, adding
he would be “deeply disap-
pointed” if the new conser-
vative justices “failed to pro-
vide the needed votes.”
mer from a study of Moder-
na’s vaccine in ages 12 to 17.
The FDA has allowed
both companies to begin
studies in ages 11 and young-
er, working their way down
to those just 6 months old.
AstraZeneca last month
began a study of its vaccine
among ages 6 to 17 in Britain.
Johnson & Johnson is plan-
ning its own pediatric stud-
ies. And in China, Sinovac
recently announced it had
submitted preliminary data
to regulators showing its
vaccine to be safe in children
as young as 3.
One key question is the
optimum dosage for chil-
dren. Another is when the
U.S. will have enough doses
— and people to administer
them — to let children
start getting in line for vacci-
nations.
L AT I ME S . CO M
PEOPLE LOOK for recyclables at the Bhalswa landfill, which is bigger than 50 football fields, on the outskirts of New Delhi on March 10.
Trash scavengers plead for vaccine
Millions of informal
workers who help
keep cities clean offer
an essential service
but aren’t prioritized.
By Aniruddha Ghosal
NEW DELHI — The scav-
engers wait patiently for a
dump truck to tip the trash
on the summit of the landfill
outside New Delhi. Armed
with plastic bags, they
plunge their bare hands into
the garbage and start sort-
ing it.
Every day, more than
2,300 tons of garbage are
dumped at the landfill at
Bhalswa that covers an
area bigger than 50 football
fields, with a pile taller than
a 17-story building.
And every day, thou-
sands of these informal
workers climb the precari-
ous slopes to pick through
what can be salvaged.
They are among the esti-
mated 20 million people
around the world — in rich
nations and poor — who are
pivotal in keeping cities
clean, alongside paid sanita-
Israeli president pushes to end deadlock
Reuven Rivlin says
nation’s next premier
must be able to forge
‘unconventional’
alliances to succeed.
associated press
TEL AVIV — President
Reuven Rivlin expressed his
frustration with Israel’s
deadlocked political system
on Wednesday, saying he’ll
choose a candidate for
prime minister he believes
can overcome past grievanc-
es, forge “unconventional”
alliances and is most likely to
form a government.
He spoke a week after Is-
rael’s fourth inconclusive
election and days before he
gives a party leader the
daunting task of trying to
form a majority coalition in
the parliament, or Knesset.
That process will begin
with two days of consulta-
tions with party leaders and
coincide with the resump-
tion of Prime Minister Ben-
jamin Netanyahu’s corrup-
tion trial. The court pro-
ceeding, coupled with the
coronavirus crisis, has ex-
posed deep divisions in Isra-
eli society.
Rivlin said Wednesday
that his decision will be
based on which party leader
can “earn the trust of the
Knesset” and build “a gov-
ernment that will succeed in
mending the rifts between
tion employees. But unlike
those municipal workers,
they usually are not eligible
for the COVID-19 vaccine
and are finding it hard to get
the shots.
The pandemic has ampli-
fied the risks that these in-
formal workers face. Few
have their own protective
gear or even clean water to
wash their hands, said Chi-
tra Mukherjee of Chintan, a
nonprofit environmental re-
search group in New Delhi.
“If they are not vacci-
nated, then the cities will
suffer,” Mukherjee said.
Manuwara Begum, 46,
lives in a cardboard hut be-
hind a five-star hotel in the
heart of New Delhi and feels
the inequity keenly. Chintan
estimates that, each year,
those like her save the local
government over $50 million
and eliminate over 900,000
tons of carbon dioxide by di-
verting waste away from
landfills.
Still, they are they not
considered “essential work-
ers” and thus are ineligible
for vaccinations. Begum has
started an online petition
pleading for vaccines and
asking, “Are we not human?”
Sanitation workers em-
ployed by local governments
PRESIDENT Reuven Rivlin expressed his frustra-
tion a week after Israel’s fourth inconclusive election.
us and rehabilitate Israeli
society.”
That, he said during the
official presentation of elec-
tion results, is what Israelis
want, rather than an un-
precedented fifth consecu-
tive log-jammed election.
Rivlin is obligated by law
to choose the party leader he
thinks has the best chance
at forming a government.
In most cases, that
choice falls to the leader of
the largest party, in this case
Netanyahu’s Likud. But last
week’s election yielded a
fragmented parliament with
13 parties, none of which has
a clear path to forming a
coalition.
Late Wednesday, Netan-
yahu broke a period of rela-
tive postelection quiet by ap-
pealing to two former allies
to “come home” and support
him.
THE WORLD
in South Africa and Zimba-
bwe are likely to be in line for
the COVID-19 vaccine after
health workers, unlike those
who sort through the trash.
At the Dandora landfill in
Kenya’s capital of Nairobi,
some of the scavengers who
are not eligible for a shot
wear medical gear discarded
by hospitals and health clin-
ics, saying it especially pro-
tects them from the weather
during the rainy season.
There is no doubt that
these people provide an es-
sential service, said Louise
Guibrunet, a researcher at
National Autonomous Uni-
versity of Mexico who has
studied the issue.
In Mexico, scavengers
help municipal workers on
garbage trucks and often
collect trash from neighbor-
hoods not served by author-
ities. The work is dangerous,
and injuries are common, so
governments have an incen-
tive not to recognize them or
provide benefits like health-
care, she said.
They often are already
poor, moving to unfamiliar
cities to eke out a living by
sorting garbage, said Robin
Jeffrey, a professor at the In-
stitute of South Asian Stud-
ies at the National Uni-
Ludovic Marin Pool Photo
Gideon Saar and Naftali
Bennett are former Netan-
yahu aides who share the
prime minister’s nationalis-
tic ideology but broke away
to form their own parties af-
ter bitter breakups with the
prime minister.
Saar has vowed never to
sit in a Netanyahu-led gov-
ernment, while Bennett has
not committed either way.
In a nationally tele-
vised statement, Netanyahu
called on the two to put aside
their differences with him. “I
call on you, come home to
your natural place, on the
right,” he said. “Let’s unite
and together form a stable
national government.”
Bennett quickly respond-
ed, saying he was committed
to forming a government fo-
cused on “rescuing Israel
from the chaos.” Saar, mean-
while, rejected the overture,
versity of Singapore. That
many of these workers in In-
dia belong to poor Muslim or
Dalit communities, who
once were known as “un-
touchables” at the bottom of
the country’s caste system,
adds a layer of prejudice.
“The vaccine is just an-
other, and very dramatic,
example of an exclusion
that has prevailed before
COVID-19 came on the hori-
zon,” said Jeffrey, who co-
wrote a book on waste in In-
dia in 2018.
India says it will give
vaccines to everyone 45 or
older starting Thursday.
At private hospitals, each
shot is sold for $3.45, but
they are free at government
hospitals.
Because the pandemic
sent the price of oil crashing,
it became cheaper to make
new plastic than to recycle it.
In many countries, closed
borders brought recycling
markets to a halt, lowering
demand for reused materi-
als that the workers collect.
In New Delhi, a pound of
plastic bottles sells for the
equivalent of 11 U.S. cents,
half of what it brought before
the pandemic. Sahra Bano,
37, who lives near the Bhal-
swa landfill and sells what
repeating his campaign
promise to not serve in a Ne-
tanyahu government.
Earlier, senior Likud offi-
cials pushed back against
Rivlin’s remarks, suggesting
that as the largest party in
the Knesset with 30 seats, it
should get the first chance at
forming a government.
“The president does not
determine the results of the
election! He must not be a
political actor,” Knesset
Speaker Yariv Levin, Energy
Minister Yuval Steinitz and
Public Security Minister
Amir Ohana said in a joint
statement.
Netanyahu’s religious
and nationalist allies are
more ideologically aligned.
But even with their sup-
port, he has secured only 52
seats in parliament — well
short of the required 61-seat
majority.
His opponents won 57
seats, also short of a major-
ity, while two parties have
not committed to either
side.
The prime minister’s op-
ponents, some of them one-
time allies, campaigned on
the idea that he’s no longer
fit to serve. Part of their ar-
gument centers on charges
against Netanyahu of fraud,
breach of trust and bribe-
taking.
He has denied all charges
and accuses the media, law
enforcement and the justice
system of a “witch hunt” to
remove him from office.
But the ethics questions
will share the spotlight with
T HURSDAY , APRIL 1, 2021
Altaf Qadri Associated Press
she can scavenge, said she
used to earn about $5 a day.
Now, getting even half that is
difficult.
Toxic runoff from the
landfill infiltrates the
groundwater, so she must
spend 5 cents a day on bot-
tled water; the rest of what
she earns goes for food. To
earn enough to get one shot
of the vaccine, she said, she
would have to collect and sell
an additional 31 pounds of
plastic bottles.
“We are struggling to feed
our family,” she said. “How
can we buy vaccines?”
To get the free vaccine
from an overburdened pub-
lic hospital, she would have
to wait there for days, and
each day away from work is
one without food on the ta-
ble. Moreover, the stigma as-
sociated with waste workers
in India means they are
often turned away from such
facilities.
“They don’t treat us
well,” Bano said. Any illness
means visiting a drugstore,
not a doctor, for medicine.
If they’re lucky, the per-
son recovers, she said, add-
ing: “If not, what can we do?”
Ghosal writes for the
Associated Press.
Rivlin’s deliberations as Ne-
tanyahu appears in court for
a new phase in his trial.
Despite their larger num-
bers, Netanyahu’s oppo-
nents have little in common
other than their opposition
to him.
The party leaders are
now negotiating terms of
any such alliances. Two
parties — the right-wing
Yamina and an Arab Islam-
ist one known as Raam —
have not committed to ei-
ther side and could poten-
tially play kingmakers.
While Rivlin’s position is
largely ceremonial, he has
taken an active role in previ-
ous elections in trying to get
party leaders to form a gov-
ernment and break the cycle
of repeat balloting. Last
year, he urged the leaders to
“get a grip” and stop their
bickering.
It wasn’t to be. An alli-
ance between Netanyahu
and his main rival, meant
to steer the country through
the coronavirus crisis, was
beset by infighting and col-
lapsed in December. Rivlin
urged the party leaders
to get over their rivalries
and listen to weary Israeli
voters.
“I am hopeful that those
elected by the public will
succeed in hearing the peo-
ple of Israel, be wise enough
to hear its demand for un-
conventional unions, for co-
operation crossing sectors,
for constructive and de-
voted work for the sake of Is-
raeli citizens,” Rivlin said.
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Ailing
France
to close
schools
President Macron
also announces a
monthlong ban on
domestic travel.
associated press
PARIS — French Presi-
dent Emmanuel Macron on
Wednesday announced a
three-week nationwide
school closure and a month-
long domestic travel ban as
the rapid spread of the co-
ronavirus ramped up pres-
sure on hospitals.
In a televised address to
the nation, Macron said new
efforts are needed as “the
epidemic is accelerating.”
It’s a departure from the
government’s policy in re-
cent months, which has fo-
cused on regionalized re-
strictions. School closures in
particular had been seen as
a very last resort.
“We’re going to close
nursery, elementary and
high schools for three
weeks,” Macron said, adding
that a nationwide 7 p.m.-to-
6 a.m. curfew will be kept in
place.
Macron said restrictions
already applying in the Paris
region and elsewhere will be
extended next week to the
whole country, for at least
one month. Under these re-
strictions, people are al-
lowed to go outside for
leisure, but only within a
six-mile radius from their
homes — and without social-
izing. Also, most nonessen-
tial shops are closed.
In addition, Macron
promised to speed up the
vaccination campaign by
giving access to all people 60
and older in mid-April, those
50 and older in mid-May and
the rest of the population a
month later. So far, France
has prioritized people living
in nursing homes and those
70 and older, as well as
healthcare workers and
people with serious health
conditions.
“If we stay united in the
coming weeks … then we will
see light at the end of the
tunnel,” Macron said.
He said the school clo-
sures were aimed at avoid-
ing major disruption by
bringing forward the date of
scheduled Easter holidays.
All children will get online
teaching next week, Macron
said. Then they will go on va-
cation for two weeks.
Macron reaffirmed his
views against a prolonged
closure of schools as “in-
creasing social inequalities.”
According to figures re-
ported by the U.N. education
agency UNESCO, to this
date, France has closed
schools for 10 weeks in total
since the start of the pan-
demic — compared with 27
weeks in the U.K., 28 weeks
in Germany and 47 in the
United States.
A debate is scheduled in
Parliament on Thursday
that will address the virus
situation and the new mea-
sures.
Previous nationwide
lockdowns in March and Oc-
tober of last year were also
announced by Macron in
televised speeches.
The total number of
COVID-19 patients in inten-
sive care in France surged
past 5,000 on Tuesday, the
first time in 11 months that
the figure has been that
high. Macron on Wednesday
said numbers of hospital
ICU beds will be increased
“in the coming days” from
7,000 to 10,000. He said 44% of
patients now in intensive
care are younger than 65.
After an overnight shift
at an ICU in the northern
French city of Amiens, Dr.
Pauline Caillard described
growing numbers of pa-
tients and mounting strain
on medical staff.
“It is moving very fast,”
she said.
The renewed surge of
infections has led to growing
questions about Macron’s
virus strategies. With presi-
dential elections scheduled
for 2022, Macron is having to
weigh both political and
health considerations.
An overnight nationwide
curfew has been in place
since January, and all
restaurants, bars, gyms, cin-
emas and museums have
been closed since October.
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Defenders of Uyghurs silenced in China

[China, from A1] critical posts about the secu- from Han Chinese. There
ratism.” They later charged rity situation on Weibo, Chi- was a common theme: “I am
him with “inciting subver- na’s version of Twitter. terribly sorry [for] what has
sion of state sovereignty.” “I was surprised, as he is happened to your brother. I
In December 2018, he was not Uyghur,” said the Henan really wish I had your cour-
sentenced to four years in man. His Hui friend had age to speak out,” they’d say.
prison. gone through a secret trial “But I know I will end up in
Li’s case demonstrates after being “reeducated” his situation if I do so.”
how the Chinese govern- and was now serving a pris- Asat understood why
ment silences discussion on sentence. “His family they were fearful. She’d
about its harsh policies in members know what hap- come from the same system
Xinjiang, even as it claims pened but they won’t talk and been quiet for years even
that all its citizens support about it. They were badly in- when her brother was taken
them. timidated and are terrified.” away.
Last week, the European Many Han Chinese have “But it’s a very different
Union, U.K., U.S. and Cana- left Xinjiang since the crack- outcome if Uyghur people
da issued sanctions on Chi- down began in 2017, he said. speak out, versus if Han peo-
nese officials for their arbi- In previous years, ethnic ple speak out for the Uyghur
trary detention and abuse of tensions and escalating vi- people,” she said. “If we all
ethnic minorities in Xinji- olence, including stabbings choose fear over speaking
ang. Beijing retaliated with and bombings, had made life out, the current situation
counter-sanctions on West- in the province uncertain. will never end.”
ern officials, lawyers, activ- But he said the new security If more Han Chinese
ists and scholars. measures, political pres- were to speak out, however,
At the same time, state sures and the disappear- they would need internet
media and the Communist ance of minority neighbors and information access that
Party started an online cam- Rayhan Asat and friends were worse. the government is deter-
paign calling for boycotts of RAYHAN ASAT, a Uyghur lawyer based in Washington, with younger brother Mass detentions in Xinji- mined to block.
Western clothing companies Ekpar in 2014. Ekpar has been detained by Chinese authorities since 2016. ang were traumatizing for A few days ago, Asat lost
including H&M, Nike, Bur- “all Chinese people — even contact with her parents.
berry and others that had ple wouldn’t allow foreigners ment” software. support state policies in Han Chinese,” he said. “We She’d checked on them ev-
expressed concern over to reap benefits in China on Mareike Ohlberg, a sen- Xinjiang. Seeking Li’s re- just don’t know when this ery day by exchanging
forced labor in Xinjiang. the one hand and smear ior fellow at the German lease from prison, his trauma will fully manifest.” apolitical messages through
Dozens of Chinese celebri- China on the other.” Marshall Fund, has mother, Li Xinhua, a Han Some Uyghurs abroad are the app WeChat, but they
ties cut ties with the foreign That image of unified analyzed more than 3,000 Chinese retired business- working to build solidarity had stopped responding.
companies. Chinese social outrage is an illusion. Na- procurement documents for woman in the city of Urumqi, with Han Chinese. When the Asat posted a photo of
media were flooded with tionalism is growing strong- “public opinion manage- shared documentation of his voice chat app Clubhouse her and her brother, who
posts about “supporting er under President Xi Jin- ment” systems from Chinese detention and sham trial on- was briefly available in once studied in the U.S.,
Xinjiang cotton.” ping. Many Chinese citizens government agencies, in- line. In February, an official China this year, thousands hoping her parents could
Chinese officials drew on cheer as “wolf warrior” di- cluding traffic police in Lan- told her that Li’s foot shack- of participants joined Man- find a way to see it. A Han
such posts as proof of a wave plomats push back against zhou and Beijing’s High Peo- les had been removed after darin-language rooms friend she hadn’t heard from
of united Chinese public international criticism. ple’s Court. Many of them re- three years. He then warned where Uyghurs, Han, in many years spotted it and
opinion — and a powerful Some even justify mass in- quest software that not only her to stop speaking about Kazakh, Hui, Korean and messaged her. Asat didn’t
consumer market — that carceration and forced labor monitors internet content, her son’s case in public. other Chinese people — as tell the friend that her
saw no human rights viola- as necessary “counter-ter- but also produces com- “I am worried I’ll also be well as Mandarin speakers brother was imprisoned.
tions in Xinjiang and would rorism” and “anti-poverty” ments, upvotes, likes and in danger soon,” she said in a from Hong Kong and Tai- “Xinjiang is often at-
punish governments, com- measures. shares to promote whatever phone call with The Times. wan — discussed the camps tacked these days by other
panies or individuals who But public opinion is im- the government wants. The Urumqi public secu- in Xinjiang. countries,” the Han friend
disagreed. possible to measure in China The Beijing court, for ex- rity bureau declined to com- Rayhan Asat, a lawyer said. “I think you guys who
“These enterprises get to because of pervasive state ample, sought a system that ment. Other government based in Washington whose truly have the right to speak
decide what they should do. surveillance and social con- could post comments from and security departments in younger brother has been should speak up more on be-
The Chinese people also get trol. Many outbursts of on- 70,000 different IP addresses Xinjiang could not be detained since 2016, was one half of the motherland. At
to express their thoughts line outrage are actually and make them appear to reached. of the Uyghurs who spoke in any time, all of us ethnicities
freely,” said Foreign Min- conjured by state-backed come from 10 different prov- “All the Chinese people in the Clubhouse rooms. It was are united with one heart.”
istry spokeswoman Hua content creators and ampli- inces and 40 cities. The court Xinjiang know what is hap- a rare chance to tell her story She hoped Asat could come
Chunying at a news briefing fied by hired commenters or wanted 5,000 posts pub- pening,” said another Han directly to Han Chinese, back to China soon, she add-
last week. “The Chinese peo- “public opinion manage- lished per hour and a sup- Chinese citizen from Henan many of whom wept and ed, so they could catch up.
port staff of 700 people pro- who worked in Kashgar from spoke of their shock and The friend’s reply showed
ducing live “internet com- 2014 to 2015. He had since re- shame over what was hap- the pervasive reach of Chi-
ment work.” turned to central China but pening, she said. nese suppression and prop-
Such systems suggest visited Kashgar in 2018 and “We believe in their hu- aganda: “She knows noth-
How to contact us that Chinese public opinion
is increasingly manufac-
still had friends there, he
told The Times in an inter-
manity,” said Asat, who had
grown up with Han neigh-
ing,” said Asat. “Why should
she? The majority have no
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Suspect held in N.Y. attack

on Asian American woman
associated press
NEW YORK — A parolee
convicted of killing his
mother nearly two decades
ago was arrested on assault
and hate crime charges in an
attack on an Asian Ameri-
can woman in New York City,
police said Wednesday.
The New York Police De-
partment said Brandon El-
liot, 38, is the man seen on
surveillance video kicking
and stomping on the woman
near Times Square on Mon-
day. The woman was at-
tacked in front of an apart-
ment building.
New York Police Department
BRANDON ELLIOT,
convicted of killing his
mother in 2002, is seen in
security video, police say.
understand why we are re-
leasing or pushing people
out of prison — not to give
treaty allies, but President
Rodrigo Duterte is a vocal
critic of U.S. security policies
who has moved to terminate
a key agreement that allows
large-scale military exer-
cises with U.S. forces in the
island nation.
“I might as well say it, so
no one on the other side can
say, ‘We didn’t know you
took racial brutality against
Filipinos at all seriously.’ We
do,” Locsin said.
Kari was walking to
church when police say El-
liot kicked her in the stom- Darron Cummings Associated Press
ach, knocked her to the THE NCAA basketball tournament is a moneymaker for the organization, whose
ground, stomped on her lawyers are asking the Supreme Court to shield it from federal antitrust laws.
face, shouted a curse and

Justices say collegiate

Two lobby workers wit-
nessed the violence but no
one intervened or called 911,
police said. Their union said
Wednesday they told a union
them second chances, but to
put them into homeless fa-
cilities or shelters, or in this
case a hotel — and expect
good outcomes,” Police
anti-Asian slurs and told
her, “You don’t belong here”
before casually walking
away as onlookers watched.
Shea called it a “completely

athletes are exploited

representative that because
the attacker had a knife,
they waited until he left be-
fore they flagged down a po-
lice car.
Elliot, who is Black, faces
charges of assault and at-
tempted assault as hate
crimes. He made an appear-
ance in court via video
Wednesday night and was
remanded into custody, with
the next court date sched-
uled for Monday. An email
was sent to his attorneys
seeking comment.
Manhattan Dist. Atty.
Cyrus Vance Jr. said Elliot
faces up to 25 years in prison
if convicted.
Elliot lived at a hotel that
serves as a homeless shelter
a few blocks from the attack
scene, police said. He was
taken into custody at the ho-
tel around midnight. Tips
from the public led to his ap-
prehension, police said.
He was convicted of stab-
bing his mother to death in
the Bronx in 2002, when he
was 19. He was released from
prison in 2019 and is on life-
time parole. The parole
board had twice denied his
release. His record also in-
cluded an arrest for robbery
in 2000.
“For the life of me, I don’t
Commissioner Dermot
Shea said at a news confer-
ence Wednesday. “We need
real opportunities. We need
real safety nets.”
A law enforcement offi-
cial identified the victim as
65-year-old Vilma Kari. The
official was not authorized
to speak publicly and did so
on condition of anonymity.
Kari’s daughter told the New
York Times that she emi-
grated from the Philippines
several decades ago.
Kari, who was repeatedly
kicked and stomped on, suf-
fered serious injuries includ-
ing a fractured pelvis, the
law enforcement official
said. She was discharged
from the hospital Tuesday, a
hospital spokesperson said.
Kari has been speaking to
police, Shea said.
Philippine Ambassador
Jose Manuel Romualdez
said the victim is a Filipina
American.
The country’s foreign
secretary, Teodoro Locsin
Jr., condemned the attack,
writing on Twitter: “This is
gravely noted and will influ-
ence Philippine foreign pol-
icy.” He didn’t elaborate
how.
The Philippines and
United States are longtime
unprovoked violent attack
on an innocent, defenseless
woman.”
Monday’s attack, among
the latest in a national rise in
anti-Asian hate crimes,
drew condemnation and
concerns about the failure of
bystanders to intervene.
New York City Mayor Bill de
Blasio called the attack “ab-
solutely disgusting and out-
rageous” and said it was “ab-
solutely unacceptable” that
witnesses didn’t help the
woman.
The attack happened
just two weeks after a mass
shooting in Atlanta that left
eight people dead, six of
them women of Asian de-
scent, and just a few days af-
ter a 65-year-old Asian
American woman in the
same midtown Manhattan
neighborhood was threat-
ened and heckled with anti-
Asian slurs.
The surge in violence has
been linked in part to mis-
placed blame for the
COVID-19 pandemic and for-
mer President Trump’s use
of terms like “Chinese virus.”
“This brave woman be-
longs here,” Vance said.
“Asian American New York-
ers belong here. Everyone
belongs here.”
stroy the 116-year tradition of
By David G. Savage college sports and its system
of competition among ama-
WASHINGTON — teur athletes, attorney Seth
Supreme Court justices said Waxman told the court.
Wednesday they believed But several of the justices
student-athletes were being were quick to point out that
exploited by the multi- this system of amateur com-
billion-dollar college sports petition brings in billions of
industry, signaling they are dollars for major universi-
not inclined to block more ties and many millions for
generous scholarships or football and basketball
other education-related coaches. However, the stars
benefits for sports stars. of these lucrative sports are
Lawyers for the NCAA left with no payments, other
were asking the justices to than their scholarships and
shield college sports from living expenses.
the antitrust laws that for- Justice Clarence Thomas
bid monopolies and price said it was “odd” that the sal-
fixing. And they asked the aries of college coaches have
court to overturn rulings by “ballooned,” but that did not
a federal judge in California destroy the aura of amateur
that allow modest extra competition between col-
education benefits for ath- leges and universities.
letes, such as postgraduate Justice Samuel A. Alito
scholarships. Jr. said the case showed “col-
They argued the NCAA leges with powerhouse foot-
feared “perpetual litigation” ball and basketball pro-
over college sports, leading grams are really exploiting
eventually to a ruling that the students that they
would allow schools to pay recruit.” Most athletes work
huge sums to attract the top very hard on their sports,
athletes. Doing so would de- have little time for studies
and often do not graduate.
“They are recruited, used
and cast aside,” he said.
Justice Brett M. Ka-
vanaugh said he, too, was
concerned about the “ex-
ploitation of athletes.” This
looks like a system “where
schools are conspiring with
their competitors to pay
their workers nothing,” he
said, likening the situation
to a classic antitrust viola-
tion in the business world.
A federal judge in Oak-
land and the U.S. 9th Circuit
Court of Appeals in San
Francisco ruled the NCAA
and major universities were
violating antitrust laws.
But rather than ordering
a free market for college
athletes, these judges said
universities could offer
extra “education-related
benefits” to athletes.
Because this ruling
against the NCAA was mod-
est and narrow, it should be
upheld, said Elizabeth Prel-
ogar, acting U.S. solicitor
general representing the
Biden administration.

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A6 T HU R S DAY , A P R IL 1, 2021
Most high schoolers aren’t ready to return
[Return, from A1]
seen across other area
school districts.
In interviews with high
school students throughout
Los Angeles County, many
said they have come to terms
with the fact they would not
return to the same campus
experience they left behind.
And although returning may
assuage some of the isola-
tion and difficulties of dis-
tance learning, they said it’s
not worth the health risks
when weighed against a
vastly diminished schedule.
“We kind of have to ac-
cept what’s going on right
now and try to keep every-
one safe until this is all over,”
Isabell said. “We’ve made it
this far; we can make it an-
other 2 1⁄2 months.”
To date, 20% of California
high school students have an
option to return to school.
Complex high school sched-
uling, with student move-
ment through different
classes — as well as their age,
which increases the risk of
developing COVID-19 — has
made for slower and more
cautious reopenings.
In L.A. County, 25 school
districts are planning to
bring back at least one grade
level between seventh and
12th in April, according to
the L.A. County Office of Ed-
ucation. Three more dis-
tricts plan to reopen in May.
L.A. Unified high school
students, who are on spring
break this week, said that
they understand conditions
are improving, but that the
pandemic is not over. There
are still risks, they said, if
they go back to school.
Some worry about
whether classmates will fol-
low safety protocols, like
mask-wearing and social
distancing. Many of them
have settled, finally, into a
routine with distance learn-
ing. For LAUSD students,
they say the Zoom-in-school
format is not worth adapt-
ing to an entirely new sched-
ule. Others said they can’t
shake off the unpredictabil-
ity of the virus — cases could
spike again.
Kahlila Williams, a sen-
ior, misses her school’s Black
Student Union meetings.
She misses her friends at the
Girls Academic Leadership
Academy, which shares a
campus with L.A. High. But,
she asked, what really is
there left to salvage of her
high school career in the
time that remains?
“For me being a senior, I
personally feel like there’s
not really any point of going
back for two months,” she
said. “Everything is still lim-
Harris will
be back in
California
over Easter
By Noah Bierman
WASHINGTON — Vice
President Kamala Harris
plans to return to her home
state of California this week-
end for the third time since
taking office, combining a
personal Easter visit to Los
Angeles with an official trip
to Northern California to
promote the Biden adminis-
tration’s $2-trillion infra-
structure proposal.
She plans to spend
Thursday through Sunday,
as well as Monday night, in
L.A. An administration offi-
cial said Harris and husband
Doug Emhoff would be visit-
ing with family.
Earlier Monday, Harris
plans to travel to Oakland
for events on improving wa-
ter infrastructure and help-
ing small businesses, an offi-
cial said.
Harris, who spent most
of the last year in Washing-
ton and on the campaign
trail, returned in February to
her Brentwood home for a
weekend visit with no public
events. She also spent a
night there between official
trips to Las Vegas and Den-
ver in mid-March.
She recently sold her con-
dominium in San Francisco.
Harris has traveled in
recent weeks to promote the
Biden administration’s ag-
enda, including to Connecti-
cut last Friday to promote
the COVID-19 relief law.
President Biden tapped
her last week to lead the dip-
lomatic response to the in-
crease in Central American
asylum seekers at the south-
ern border, but she has yet to
announce travel to the
region.
S LAT IMES. C OM
MINA LEE, a junior at John Marshall High School, isn’t returning for in-person classes when her school re-
opens. Her family has settled into a routine of remote learning, and she’s skeptical of using Zoom at school.
ited. We wouldn’t have that
same experience.”
“It’s not like I’m going to
be able to have a prom. We
don’t know if we’re going to
be able to have an in-person
graduation,” she added.
“Yeah, I’ll get to see my
friends from a six-feet dis-
tance and be in the same
classroom as them, but at
the same time, I can find
ways to make it work outside
of school.”
“The rush of opening
next month is just too unpre-
dictable and too risky for
me,” Kahlila said.
Salma Berumen, a junior
at Lincoln High School, has
a difficult time finding her
voice online — it’s hard to
speak up knowing all her
classmates are listening in.
Salma has maintained her
A’s and Bs, but it has meant
extra hours poring over her
textbooks. Still, a return to
campus does not feel worth
it.
“It could be potentially
dangerous,” she said, espe-
cially if a classmate con-
tracts COVID-19 and it takes
days to trace. Both of
Salma’s parents got
COVID-19 in December. It
was scary, she said, although
they recovered. She is con-
cerned about the risk she’d
be taking with her extended
family — and is staying
home.
Mina Lee, a junior at John
Video shows Chauvin rationalizing use of force
By Steve Karnowski
and Amy Forliti
MINNEAPOLIS — After
the ambulance took George
Floyd away, the Minneapolis
officer who had pinned his
knee on the Black man’s
neck defended himself to a
bystander by saying Floyd
was “a sizable guy” and
“probably on something,”
according to police video
played in court Wednesday.
The video was part of a
mountain of recordings —
both official and amateur —
and witness testimony at Of-
ficer Derek Chauvin’s mur-
der trial that served to show
how Floyd’s alleged attempt
to pass a phony $20 bill at a
neighborhood market in
May escalated into tragedy
one video-documented step
at a time.
A security-camera scene
of people joking around in-
side the store soon gave way
to the sight of officers pulling
Floyd from his SUV at gun-
point, struggling to push
him into a squad car as he
writhed and screamed that
he was claustrophobic, and
then putting him on the
pavement.
When Floyd was finally
taken away by paramedics,
Charles McMillian, a 61-year-
old bystander who recog-
nized Chauvin from the
neighborhood, told the offi-
cer he didn’t respect what
Chauvin had done.
“That’s one person’s
opinion,” Chauvin could be
heard responding. “We gotta
control this guy ’cause he’s a
sizable guy … and it looks
like he’s probably on some-
thing.”
Floyd was 6 feet 4 and 223
pounds, according to the au-
topsy, which also found fen-
tanyl and methamphet-
amine in his system. Chau-
vin’s lawyer said the officer is
5 feet 9 and 140 pounds.
Chauvin, 45, charged
with murder and man-
slaughter, is accused of
Isabell Diaz
‘We kind of
have to accept
what’s going on
right now and
try to keep
everyone safe
until this is all
over.’
— I SABELL D IAZ ,
senior at Los Angeles High
Marshall High School, said
she and her family have ad-
justed to their online learn-
ing routine. She knows that
if she went back, her parents
would have to once again re-
arrange their schedules. In-
stead her younger siblings
will probably go back, while
AN IMAGE from police body cam video shows Minneapolis officers trying to
remove George Floyd from his SUV. “Please don’t shoot me, man,” he kept saying.
killing the 46-year-old Floyd
by kneeling on his neck for 9
minutes, 29 seconds, as he
lay face-down in handcuffs.
The most serious charge
against the now-fired white
officer carries up to 40 years
in prison.
Floyd’s death, along with
the harrowing bystander vi-
deo of him gasping for
breath as onlookers yelled at
Chauvin to get off him, trig-
gered sometimes violent
protests around the world
and a reckoning over racism
and police brutality across
the United States.
Jurors were shown police
body camera video of the ap-
proximately 20 minutes be-
tween when police ap-
proached Floyd’s vehicle
and when he was loaded into
the ambulance.
When Officer Thomas
Lane confronted Floyd in his
SUV, drew his gun and de-
manded with a few ex-
pletives that he show his
hands, a panicky-sounding
Floyd said: “I’m sorry, I’m
sorry” and “I got shot be-
fore.” Seemingly crying, he
begged repeatedly, “Please
don’t shoot me, man.”
she remains in distance
learning.
Her mother also had
other fears about sending
her back, in a pandemic en-
vironment of increased vi-
olence against Asian Ameri-
cans. She worries that Mina
and her siblings could feel
uncomfortable at school.
For Mina, the hybrid set-
up won’t make up for time
lost between classmates and
seeing teachers. Some of her
friends have drifted apart,
she said, but the in-person
plan won’t bring them to-
gether.
“I don’t really know if I
would want to go back if it
were still hybrid for my sen-
ior year,” she said.
Other school districts
may also see low in-person
attendance.
The Duarte Unified
School District, which is 74%
Latino, is preparing to bring
back its youngest students
the week of April 5. Supt.
Gordon Amerson said the
district is still discussing re-
opening plans for secondary
schools.
Sarah Dowiri, a junior at
Duarte High School, said
she too is adjusted to a re-
mote schedule, with more
time for activities she enjoys,
including the school femi-
nist club and participating
in the Duarte mayor’s youth
council. And while she
knows other students will
Then, when told to get
into the squad car, Floyd re-
peatedly yelled, “I’m not
that kind a guy!” and “I’m
claustrophobic!” As officers
shoved his upper body and
then his legs into the car, he
writhed and screamed,
“Please! Please! ... I can’t
breathe!”
Officers were clearly ex-
asperated as Floyd braced
himself against the squad
car and arched his body
while the police tried to get
him inside. At one point, he
threw his upper body out of
the car, and officers tried to
push him back in.
Officers eventually
pulled him out and brought
him to the ground. Floyd
thanked officers as they took
him out of the squad car.
Once Floyd was on the
ground — with Chauvin’s
knee on his neck, another of-
ficer’s knee on his back and a
third holding his legs — the
officers talked calmly about
whether he might be on
drugs.
Lane was heard saying
officers found a “weed pipe”
on Floyd and wondered if he
might be on PCP, saying
Dania Maxwell Los Angeles Times
benefit from in-person
learning, she has no desire to
start over with little time left
in the school year.
“I feel like it would be very
abrupt to go back to school
all of a sudden,” she said.
On a recent Monday, one
of her teachers held an infor-
mal poll to see how many
students would return. In
her class of 30, five students
said they would go back. Be-
cause her friends are not re-
turning, the experience
would still feel isolating, she
said.
“I’d rather be alone in my
pajamas,” she said.
Farther east, the Covina-
Valley Unified School Dis-
trict is preparing for an April
12 high school return under a
schedule where students at-
tend in-person classes twice
a week, then online at home.
The school district is 78%
Latino. Across all secondary
schools in the district, about
54% of students will return
for in-person learning, ac-
cording to survey results.
Naia Pizarro, a student at
Northview High School, said
she was surprised to see how
quickly her school was mov-
ing to reopen.
“I just don’t feel prepared
to go back,” the senior said.
Feeling safe, she said, would
include vaccines for herself
and classmates. In one class
of 13 students, she said, three
students plan to go back. Ul-
Pool Photo
Floyd’s eyes were shaking
back and forth fast.
“He wouldn’t get out of
the car. He just — he wasn’t
following instructions,”
Lane was recorded saying.
The officer also asked twice
if the officers should roll
Floyd on his side, and later
he said calmly that he thinks
Floyd is passing out.
As Floyd was pinned
down by Chauvin and other
officers, McMillian, the by-
stander, could be heard on
video saying to Floyd, “You
can’t win” and “Get up and
get in the car.”
Floyd replied: “I can’t.”
The defense has argued
that Chauvin did what he
was trained to do and that
Floyd’s death was not
caused by the officer’s knee,
as prosecutors contend, but
by Floyd’s illegal drug use,
heart disease, high blood
pressure and the adrenaline
flowing through his body.
Events spun out of con-
trol earlier that day soon af-
ter Floyd allegedly handed a
cashier at Cup Foods, 19-
year-old Christopher Mar-
tin, a counterfeit bill for a
pack of cigarettes.
timately, Naia supports her
family decision to keep her
and her two siblings in dis-
tance learning.
“If there’s three of us, it’s
kind of three times the
chance to bring COVID
back,” Naia said. “You’re
kind of risking a lot.”
Still, some students are
embracing their return to
campus.
Campbell Hall High
School junior JJ Hoffman re-
cently visited campus for the
first time in about a year.
The private Episcopal
school with annual high
school tuition of $42,690 has
moved quickly to bring stu-
dents back. About 45% of
students in grades nine
through 12 returned in
March for a trial hybrid
schedule, a school adminis-
trator said.
JJ said he was under-
whelmed by the return: The
library where he used to
hang out with his friends re-
mained closed. And because
his school split the cohorts
by last name, most of his
friends attend on different
days.
Yet JJ plans to finish the
school year in person. He
said he feels safe with the
masking requirements and
plexiglass barriers on out-
door tables. “As long as it
goes pretty smoothly, and
they figure out how to make
it as best as they can,” he
said, “I think I’ll be happy in
hybrid learning the rest of
the year.”
Kayla Coulter is one of 719
students who plan to return
to Long Beach Unified’s Ca-
brillo High School, which
serves 1,979. Seniors, like
Kayla, will start on April 19.
Unlike LAUSD, Long Beach
Unified is permitting stu-
dents to move from class-
room to classroom.
Kayla started her second
semester off with two failing
grades in classes she never
thought she would fail: Eng-
lish and AVID, a college prep
course. She can sleep in
thanks to the later start time
of online classes, but she has
to put in extra hours to bet-
ter grasp the material she
learns in class.
She hasn’t yet heard
whether her friends will re-
turn as well, but was sur-
prised that only about a
third of students have said
yes so far. “I thought every-
body would be back.”
Still, she is excited, even if
it’s just a few days a week on
campus. She is still trying to
figure out what she’ll wear
on her last first day of school.
“I can’t wait to go back,” she
said.
Martin testified Wednes-
day that he watched Floyd’s
arrest outside with “disbelief
— and guilt.”
“If I would’ve just not
tooken the bill, this could’ve
been avoided,” Martin la-
mented, joining the bur-
geoning list of witnesses who
expressed a sense of help-
lessness and lingering guilt
over Floyd’s death.
Martin said he immedi-
ately believed the $20 bill
was fake. But he said he ac-
cepted it, despite believing
the amount would be taken
out of his paycheck by his
employer, because he didn’t
think Floyd knew it was
counterfeit and “I thought
I’d be doing him a favor.”
Martin then second-
guessed his decision and
told a manager, who sent
Martin outside to ask Floyd
to return to the store. But
Floyd and a passenger in his
SUV twice refused to go back
into the store to resolve the
issue, and the manager had
a co-worker call police, Mar-
tin testified.
Martin said that when
Floyd was inside the store
buying cigarettes, he spoke
so slowly “it would appear
that he was high.” But he de-
scribed Floyd as friendly and
talkative.
After police arrived, Mar-
tin went outside as people
were gathering on the curb
and yelling at officers. He
said he saw Officer Tou Thao
push one of his co-workers.
Martin said he also held
back another man who was
trying to defend himself af-
ter being pushed by Thao.
Wednesday morning’s
testimony was briefly inter-
rupted when a juror stood
and raised her hand and ges-
tured toward the door. She
later told the judge that she
had been feeling stress and
having trouble sleeping but
then said she was OK to
proceed.
Karnowski and Forliti write
for the Associated Press.
L AT I ME S . CO M
Dose of vaccine for some, envy for others
[Envy, from A1]
The pandemic has
taught us a lot about our-
selves — how we handle fear
of the unknown, cope with
isolation and respond to the
deep inequities that the
coronavirus laid bare.
And as more people
across the country joyfully
announce they have re-
ceived that long-awaited
shot in the arm, many who
are still eagerly awaiting
their turn are also con-
fronting their own feelings of
envy.
“I like to say that envy is
a universal emotion that
nobody seems to have,” said
Josh Gressel, author of the
book “Embracing Envy:
Finding the Spiritual Treas-
ure in Our Most Shameful
Emotion.” “It’s the one
emotion that everyone is
ashamed to admit.”
And yet some people are
admitting it.
“My vaccine envy is such
that I’m questioning if I’m
really a good person after
all,” David Wagoner of Vir-
ginia tweeted last month. .
Bei Deng, a 24-year-old
with no underlying health
issues who lives in Korea-
town, said she’ll probably
mute friends who post
photos flaunting their vacci-
nations on social media to
keep her anxiety down until
she too gets the shot.
And Kat Sambor, 36, an
event planner in Echo Park,
acknowledged that seeing
friends getting vaccinated
ahead of her was emotion-
ally confusing.
“I’m super happy for
every person who said they
got it — I want everyone to
get it, I want my loved ones
to be safe,” she said. “I know
every person who gets vacci-
nated gets us closer to the
end of the pandemic, but at
the same time there’s that
duality with jealousy.”
Californians who are
struggling with vaccine envy
can take solace in the fact
that it’s a temporary phe-
nomenon. State officials
said last week that residents
50 and older will be eligible
to get a vaccine starting
Thursday. Everyone 16 and
up will be eligible starting
April 15.
At last, Jacobsen’s long
wait of not knowing when he
will be eligible to get the
shot is over. (At 64, he was
just one year shy of qualify-
ing earlier.) But it will still be
weeks before full immunity
kicks in and he’ll feel safe
enough to corner a friend in
a Trader Joe’s to gush about
his own newfound freedom.
For better or worse, envy
has always been part of the
human condition. Every
known language has a word
for envy. It shows up in the
Widening eligibility for shots puts state to the test
[Vaccine, from A1]
capacity to administer
700,000 doses per week, but
supplies have yet to reach
that level.
“It’s impossible for us not
to be alerting people to the
fact that they are going to
perhaps need to wait for a
couple of weeks before
they’re going to be able to get
those appointments,” L.A.
County public health direc-
tor Barbara Ferrer said
Wednesday.
An estimated 1.4 million
L.A. County residents will
become eligible April 1, and
nearly 4 million people ages
16 and older will become eli-
gible April 15, Ferrer said.
Across the state, more
than 30% of residents have
received at least one dose of
the vaccine, totaling more
than 18 million doses.
State and local officials
have continued to prioritize
equity in the vaccine distri-
bution — a key to the state’s
reopening plan — but on-
going constraints in supply
could further hinder those
efforts to reach the hardest-
hit communities.
In Los Angeles, Ferrer
said capacity is not going to
be a limiting factor.
“As soon as there’s an in-
crease in doses, we’re going
to be able to translate that
immediately to more ap-
pointments for people who
are eligible to get vacci-
nated,” she said, noting that
the county this week re-
ceived fewer than 400,000
doses, which limited the
number of appointments it
could provide.
Officials have been rely-
ing on an influx of doses in
April to keep pace with the
growing eligibility, with Fer-
rer on Wednesday projecting
MEDICAL STUDENT Pierre Tran delivers a shot as Dr. Stephanie White, chief medical officer of West-
ernU Health in Pomona, looks on. White said there’s no reason to vilify people who wait for a leftover dose.
Ten Commandments:
“Thou shalt not covet.”
Studies have shown that
even capuchin monkeys
experience envy.
“Envy is the desire for
something that someone
else has, and it’s an unpleas-
ant emotion,” said Christine
Harris, a psychology profes-
sor at UC San Diego who
studies negative emotions.
Most experts agree that
envy serves an evolutionary
purpose — comparing our-
selves with others and striv-
ing to obtain the things they
have can help us expand
and grow.
“If we didn’t feel envy, we
would wither away on the
evolutionary vine,” said
Richard Smith, an envy
expert and retired professor
of psychology who taught at
the University of Kentucky.
Still, most of us feel
ashamed of any envy we
experience.
“I think of it as a two-
headed monster,” Harris
said. “There’s one head that
wants to devour what the
other person has, and the
other head wants to chew on
yourself for having such
loathsome feelings.”
But Harris encourages
those who are berating
themselves for having vac-
cine envy to give themselves
a break. “Experiencing envy
does not make you a bad
person,” she said. “It’s natu-
ral, and we are wired to have
these emotions.”
It is also true that we can
feel happy for someone and
MODERNA SHOTS are lined up on a table Friday at Kedren Community Health
Center in South L.A., the site of an effort to vaccinate underserved populations.
that if L.A. could continue to
acquire 576,000 or more
doses per week by the end of
April, more than 80% of the
county could be vaccinated
by the end of June. Yet John-
son & Johnson said late
Wednesday that a batch of
vaccine failed quality stand-
ards and can’t be used.
Ferrer said L.A. County
had been anticipating that
about 20% of its doses over
the next three months would
be Johnson & Johnson. The
drugmaker didn’t say how
many doses were lost, and it
wasn’t clear how the prob-
lem would affect future de-
liveries.
Officials in Santa Clara
have also warned that while
demand increases, supply
has remained limited.
“We’ve had scarcity of
THAO NGO administers a shot. If looking at this photo spurs feelings of envy, a
psychology professor says, that “does not make you a bad person. It’s natural.”
envious of them at the same
time.
“One of the reasons
people feel really dirty for
experiencing envy is be-
cause they forget we are
complicated and can have
multiple emotions at once,”
Harris said. “This happens
in friendships all the time.
You do want what’s best for
your best friend, but you
also think, ‘Why can’t I have
that too?’ ”
Smith said the degree of
envy we feel toward others is
often regulated by how
deserving we perceive them
to be.
vaccine and that continues,”
Santa Clara County
COVID-19 testing and vac-
cine officer Dr. Marty Fen-
stershieb said earlier this
week.
The tight supplies are
also translating to difficulty
securing appointments,
many Californians said.
My Turn, the state’s on-
line appointment hub, was
prone to glitches at the start
of the vaccine rollout. To
date, 2 million of the state’s
18 million administered
doses have been booked
through the site.
The issues have mostly
improved as vaccine supply
and appointment availabili-
ty have increased. But in ad-
dition to the state site, a
patchwork of websites op-
erated by local health de-
Photographs by
“If you think someone
doesn’t deserve something,
quite naturally you get
angry when they get it,” he
said.
This aspect of envy has
become front and center in
the last few weeks as vaccine
eligibility has expanded.
It was easy to feel unfet-
tered happiness when
healthcare workers — who
had bravely exposed them-
selves to the coronavirus for
months — became eligible
for the vaccine. Similarly,
many felt joy and relief when
older people were able to get
protection.
Dania Maxwell Los Angeles Times
partments, private health
providers and several major
pharmacies have sprung up
to meet growing demand.
Some counties — and resi-
dents — have abandoned
the platform altogether.
Billed as a one-stop shop
for an appointment, My
Turn does not include slots
from many of the state’s big-
gest providers, including
health chains such as Kaiser
Permanente, retail pharma-
cies such as CVS and Wal-
greens, third-party pro-
viders such as Carbon
Health in Los Angeles and
Othena in Orange County,
and smaller clinics that op-
erate on a platform called
CalVax.
“It is a genuine challenge
to find an appointment,”
said Echo Park resident
T HURSDAY , APRIL 1, 2021
Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times
But as younger, seem-
ingly able-bodied people
began posting vaccine self-
ies on the internet, envy
inevitably raised its head.
“One of the things often
said about envy is you are
more likely to envy someone
who is similar to you,” Smith
said. “So, if you see someone
who is similar to you get the
vaccine, your initial reaction
is, ‘Why?’ ”
New York comedian
Matt Buechele encapsu-
lates this feeling in a video
he calls, “Trying to figure
out how all your friends got
the vaccine.”
David A.L. Venable, 29,
whose severe asthma puts
him at high risk for
COVID-19. “That My Turn is
a pain and challenge to navi-
gate to this extent does not
bode well for the expansion.”
Carlos, a 26-year-old legal
worker who asked that his
last name not be used, said
he will be skipping My Turn
and going straight to CVS
when he becomes eligible. “I
find it way easier to naviga-
te,” he said, noting that he al-
ready used the pharmacy’s
site to make an appointment
for his mother.
To address problems
with My Turn, the state al-
lowed residents to sign up
for an appointment at least
one day before the expan-
sion. That change was in or-
der to prevent sign-up snags
that occurred on March 15,
when nearly 5 million more
residents became eligible in
the state and rushed to find
an appointment.
Despite the modification,
appointments have still
been hard to get. Several
residents on a popular vac-
cine appointment group on
Facebook said the site
locked them out of first-dose
appointments because
there were no available
openings for second-dose
appointments further down
the line. Others said not ev-
ery vaccine site comes up in
a given ZIP Code, and rec-
ommended typing in a list of
10 different cities so as not to
miss a location.
After some difficulty, Or-
ange County resident David
Chang, 52, said he was able
to use My Turn to secure an
appointment at the East
Valley Community Health
Clinic, but noted that the
site wasn’t user-friendly.
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“What does Kevin do for
a living? Is he a nurse?” he
asks. “He’s a software engi-
neer? I don’t know…. Did I
miss an eligibility list?”
“Obviously I’m happy for
them,” he continues. “I just
… I gotta learn more about
our friends.”
Wondering how a seem-
ingly healthy friend got the
vaccine is understandable,
Smith said. But when a
friend you believe to be
healthy and able to keep
themselves safe exuberantly
posts on Instagram about
receiving the vaccine, it
may be prudent to reserve
judgment.
“There is so much invisi-
bility around illness,” said
Dr. Stephanie White, chief
medical officer of WesternU
Health in Pomona. “We may
not know about someone’s
recent cancer diagnosis or a
pregnancy they are not
ready to share.”
White, who runs a vacci-
nation clinic, also said
there’s no reason to vilify
those who had the time and
patience to wait outside a
clinic to get a leftover dose.
“It is very hard to per-
fectly distribute vaccines,”
she said. “Actually, it’s im-
possible.”
Doses remain viable for
only six hours after they’ve
been mixed. Therefore, if
any are left over at the end
of the day, White would
rather give them to people
who have waited outside the
clinic than throw them in
the trash.
“As long as these folks
are polite and respectful,
we’re glad they’re there,”
White said.
Envy experts say those
who have received the vac-
cine have a role to play in
mitigating the pain they
may inadvertently cause
when sharing their good
news.
“I think people are so
focused on the joy they are
experiencing when they
know the lottery has come
up for them that they forget
many people are still suffer-
ing,” Harris said.
And for those experi-
encing guilt around receiv-
ing a vaccine early, White
suggests celebrating and
then setting out to help
others. For the first time in a
year you can safely offer to
babysit for a friend, go on
grocery runs for a neighbor
or volunteer at a Boys &
Girls Club.
“If you are an able-bod-
ied person who out of luck,
privilege or connection was
able to snag a vaccine, you
are an asset,” White said.
She’s glad you’re safe.
Now she wants your help.
And feel free to take a selfie
of that too.
“You have to answer all
the eligibility questions each
time before getting to the
scheduling page, only to find
out that no openings are
available,” he said.
As with earlier stages of
the vaccine rollout, Califor-
nians have also been con-
fused about varying eligibili-
ty across the state, and
about whether and when it’s
acceptable to cross county
lines for a dose.
A handful of counties
have already expanded eligi-
bility. In Contra Costa, offi-
cials announced Tuesday
that all residents 16 and old-
er were eligible for the vac-
cine after roughly 44% of the
county has received at least
one dose. The newly eligible
group was directed to a
county-run website to
schedule appointments,
since the county clinics were
not currently set up on My
Turn.
So far, the California De-
partment of Public Health
has reported that about 24%
of the state’s vaccine supply
— or roughly 4.3 million
doses — has gone to those
ages 50 to 64 because they ei-
ther were already included
in various eligible categories
or live in counties that have
already expanded eligibility
beyond the state guidance.
On Wednesday, Ferrer
said that despite known is-
sues, the county was “ex-
cited to expand eligibility” to
more people.
“We do ask both those
currently eligible and those
that will be newly eligible to
be patient as supply in-
creases,” she said.
Times staff writers Luke
Money and Maloy Moore
contributed to this report.
A8 THU R S DAY , A P R IL 1, 2021
IF PRESIDENT Biden wins even a major portion of his plan, many analysts say, the result could be huge, both short term and long term.
Government as growth engine?
Biden’s ambitious spending plan, if it works, could yield big payoffs for economy
with rising demands for ac-
By Don Lee tion on a host of social prob-
lems, have increased public
WASHINGTON — In his support for government in-
rollout Wednesday of mas- tervention.
sive spending plans for infra- “There certainly is the
structure, education, right setup in terms of the
healthcare and other do- economy is struggling, the
mestic problems, President availability to borrow money
Biden is seeking a new, far is so cheap, and national
more active role for the gov- opinion is at a place where
ernment in shaping the na- we need to do this because
tion’s economy. our infrastructure is crum-
If he succeeds, many bling,” said Katherine Eriks-
economists think Biden son, an economic historian
could trigger major in- at UC Davis.
creases in growth, produc- Eriksson sees strong par-
tivity and greater U.S. com- allels to the Great Depres-
petitiveness in global mar- sion and its aftermath, when
kets. an economic crisis and
That in turn could reduce World War II created public
income inequality, lower support for unprecedented
poverty rates, and reverse government initiatives.
decades of stagnation in That era saw the creation
middle-class incomes. of transformative govern-
Biden’s proposals, which ment ventures such as So-
carry a $2-trillion-plus price cial Security, unemploy-
tag and come on top of an al- ment insurance and the in-
ready-approved $1.9-trillion terstate highway system
COVID-19 relief package, will launched by President
face fierce challenges in Con- Eisenhower.
gress. As was the case then, she
But if the president wins said, “we have these huge is-
even a major portion of what sues of inequality that make
he wants, many analysts say a lot of these policies palata-
the result could be huge, ble to average voters.... This
both short term and long year will be the year to do it.”
term. Some economists,
What makes such gains mainly conservatives, worry
possible is a historic conver- that another huge round of
gence of factors that could stimulus will overheat the
break decades of political economy and trigger a new
stalemate and restore the surge of inflation. They also
government’s role as a major fret about the consequences
force in addressing national of an ever-rising national
problems. debt, although there’s less
The pandemic, with its concern today than in the
lockdowns and other restric- past.
tions, has created a huge res- “We don’t really know
ervoir of pent-up demand. how the economy will re-
And rock-bottom interest spond to big fiscal stimulus
rates and extremely low in- or to various shocks,” said
flation make it cheaper for Nicholas Eberstadt, a politi-
the government to increase cal economist at the conser-
debt. vative American Enterprise
At the same time, high Institute.
levels of unemployment and “We don’t know how
underemployment, coupled much slack there is in the
MARKET ROUNDUP
Tech leads stock gains; Treasury yield edges up
associated press
Major stock indexes
Stocks closed mostly
Index Close
higher on Wall Street, clinch-
ing the fourth straight quar- Dow industrials 32,981.55
terly gain for the Standard & S&P 500 3,972.89
Poor’s 500 index. Nasdaq composite 13,246.87
The benchmark index S&P 400 2,609.24
rose 0.4% on Wednesday,
Russell 2000 2,220.52
bringing its gain for the first
three months of the year to EuroStoxx 50 3,323.18
5.8%. Nikkei (Japan) 29,178.80
The advance of the index, Hang Seng (Hong Kong) 28,378.35
which tracks large U.S. com- Associated Press
panies, was eclipsed by the
12.4% jump in a popular in- $2-trillion infrastructure
dex tracking small-company and economic revival plan.
stocks. The Dow Jones industrial
Investors have favored average fell 0.3%, while the
smaller companies for Nasdaq rose 1.5%.
months in anticipation that Technology stocks pow-
the U.S. economy will pick ered much of Wednesday’s
up this year. On Wednesday, rally, reflecting solid gains by
investors were awaiting de- Apple, Microsoft and
tails of President Biden’s Nvidia. Companies that rely
BUSINESS
system,” he said, referring to
unused productive capacity
in the economy such as un-
tapped employable people.
“And that gets to the ques-
tion of inflation and interest
rates.”
What’s more, Republi-
cans generally are likely to
rise up against Biden’s plan
to pay for much of the new
spending with higher taxes
on big corporations and the
very wealthy.
But Biden and Demo-
cratic strategists think they
have the public’s backing for
programs that are projected
to create millions of jobs.
And the narrow majority
Democrats hold in the Sen-
ate means they could jam
the new spending package
through a special budgeting
process, just as they did
early last month in passing
Biden’s $1.9-trillion COVID
relief package, which in-
cludes funding for unem-
ployment assistance, small
businesses, schools and vac-
cine distribution.
The exact cost of Biden’s
new spending proposal isn’t
clear, but the infrastructure
plan outlined in Pittsburgh
on Wednesday includes
roughly $2 trillion to mod-
ernize and build up areas in-
cluding public transit, the
electricity grid, veterans’
hospitals and electric vehi-
cle charging stations,
among other clean energy
investments.
The president is planning
to announce this month an-
other sweeping initiative to
expand child care, family
leave and healthcare.
Economists say the new
spending for infrastructure,
if done well, could provide
huge economic benefits.
Some economists esti-
mate it would add more than
3 million jobs, including
many for those without col-
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on consumer spending also
helped lift the market.
The 10-year Treasury
yield inched up to 1.74%,
close to its highest level
since before the pandemic.
Biden began giving de-
tails Wednesday after the
market closed about where
he wants to steer federal dol-
lege degrees, helping fill a
void left by the pandemic.
The economic payoff fur-
ther down the road could be
even greater in that im-
provements such as greater
connectivity in rural areas
and modernized waterways
and airports would help
drive economic engines.
“If done well, it pays for it-
self — and then some,” said
Beth Ann Bovino, U.S. chief
economist at S&P Global
Ratings Services in New
York.
Climate-specific infra-
structure projects — a
bridge built to withstand ex-
treme weather, for example
— would not only save liveli-
hoods but also ultimately be
a boon to the broader econo-
my, she said. “The produc-
tivity boost could shift the
potential curve of the
growth rate.”
Bovino likened the po-
tential upside of infrastruc-
ture spending to the far-
reaching gains from con-
struction of the nation’s in-
terstate highways in the
1950s, which was launched in
response to a national emer-
gency. Eisenhower argued
that the nation needed a
much stronger road system
because of the Cold War.
Similarly, Biden adminis-
tration officials cast the
spending plan as a competi-
tive must, specifically men-
tioning China.
After years of watching
authoritarian China pump
money into massive public
works projects, they de-
scribed the administration’s
effort as a way to demon-
strate that the U.S. and
other democratic nations
can deliver for their people.
Some analysts argue that
the economy doesn’t need
additional stimulus. Econo-
mic growth this year is ex-
pected to surge to more than
lars to rebuild roads, bridges
and the electricity grid. Such
programs could mean gush-
ers of revenue for such com-
panies as raw-material pro-
ducers and electric-vehicle
makers.
To help pay for it, though,
businesses may be looking
at higher corporate tax
rates. Some investors also
worry that all the spending
and borrowing by the U.S.
government could eventu-
ally lead to higher interest
rates.
“The question for the
market is, what’s next?” said
Rob Haworth, senior invest-
ment strategy director at
U.S. Bank Wealth Manage-
ment. “March in particular
has been a bit of a pause for
the market to recalibrate.”
The S&P 500 is on pace to
rise about 6% for the first
Evan Vucci Associated Press
6%, the highest since the
1980s, as many more people
get vaccinated and resume
traveling, eating out and
other activities — and with
extra cash in their pockets
thanks to $1,400 checks that
went out to most Americans
as part of the earlier relief
package.
However, most economic
experts, including Federal
Reserve Chair Jerome H.
Powell and his predecessor,
now-Treasury Secretary
Janet L. Yellen, expect any
increase in prices to be rela-
tively moderate and short-
lived, and they say that the
economy is a long way from
recovering from the pan-
demic-induced recession.
One reason the nation
isn’t likely to see spiraling
wage inflation today is glob-
al competition; another is
the weakening of unions,
said Dean Baker, senior
economist at the liberal Cen-
ter for Economic and Policy
Research.
Biden’s new infrastruc-
ture plan is expected to
create many jobs in manu-
facturing, construction
and related services, open-
ing more doors for less-edu-
cated workers and poten-
tially helping narrow the
unemployment gap between
white, Black and Latino
people, who have borne a
greater share of the health
and economic pain from
COVID.
As of February, the na-
tion still had 9.5 million fewer
jobs than before the
pandemic hit the U.S.,
and the unemployment rate
was 6.2%, well above the full
employment levels of a year
ago that resulted in bigger
gains for workers at the bot-
tom.
“The key thing is to get
the economy running hot,”
Baker said.
three months of 2021, which
would be its fourth straight
quarter of gains following its
lightning-quick plunge in
early 2020 amid pandemic
panic.
Within the index, the
leader board of performance
is virtually the mirror image
of earlier in the pandemic.
Energy producers, financial
businesses and industrial
companies are now leading
the way, all climbing 10% to
30% this quarter.
Stocks of companies that
had been winners in the
stay-at-home economy or
that had been bid up on ex-
pectations for strong growth
many years into the future,
meanwhile, have lagged be-
hind. Apple is down 7.7% for
the quarter, for example,
while American Airlines
Group is up more than 50%.
LAT IMES. C OM
Biden
lets H-1B
visa ban
expire
His reported decision
on a moratorium
enacted by Trump is a
boon for tech firms.
bloomberg
President Biden planned
to allow a pandemic-related
ban on visas for certain tem-
porary workers, enacted by
former President Trump, to
expire Wednesday, accord-
ing to people familiar with
the matter.
The moratorium, which
affected H-1B visas used by
technology companies to
hire foreign coders and engi-
neers, was imposed last
June. Biden was opting not
to renew it, said the people,
who asked not to be identi-
fied because the decision
hadn’t been announced. The
White House declined to
comment.
Biden’s decision will
please business groups in
Silicon Valley as well as In-
dia’s information techology
services leaders, which had
pressured the administra-
tion to lift the ban ever since
the new president took of-
fice.
Executives had grown
frustrated that the directive
was not immediately re-
voked, arguing it hurt U.S.
companies.
American tech compa-
nies — Facebook Inc.,
Google and others — rely on
foreign talent to shore up do-
mestic workforces. Infosys
Ltd. and Tata Consultancy
Services Ltd. traditionally
dispatch Indian software en-
gineers to work with their
American clients, which in-
clude some of the largest
Wall Street banks and tech-
nology corporations.
It remains unclear
whether Biden will ease visa
restrictions in general, re-
versing curbs imposed by
the Trump administration.
Shares of TCS, Asia’s
leading software services
company, rose more than 1%
on Wednesday, though rivals
Infosys and Wipro Ltd. fell.
Trump’s restrictions on
guest-worker visas, which
also covered nonagricultur-
al seasonal laborers, au pairs
and others, had been under
review by the Biden admin-
istration.
Biden last month with-
drew a related Trump execu-
tive order that, citing the
pandemic, had stopped the
issuance of new green cards
— a move that drastically
cut legal immigration to the
United States. Trump had
argued the policies were
necessary to protect the
American economy as it
emerged from the pan-
demic-induced recession.
“To the contrary, it
harms the United States, in-
cluding by preventing cer-
tain family members of
United States citizens and
lawful permanent residents
from joining their families
here,” Biden said in a presi-
dential proclamation at the
time. “It also harms indus-
tries in the United States
that utilize talent from
around the world.”
The ban on guest-worker
visas was not revoked at the
same time. Temporary work
visas are unpopular with la-
bor unions and other worker
groups that argue that they
put American workers at a
disadvantage to their for-
eign counterparts.
Despite the Trump ad-
ministration’s extension of
the visa ban at the end of
2020, opponents of the re-
strictions had already found
some success in court.
A federal judge in Califor-
nia granted a preliminary in-
junction Oct. 1 in a lawsuit
brought by several large
business groups, including
the National Assn. of Manu-
facturers and the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce.
The groups argued
Trump exceeded his author-
ity by imposing immigration
restrictions in his June 22
proclamation.
The Trump Justice De-
partment appealed that rul-
ing to the U.S. 9th Circuit
Court of Appeals in San
Francisco. In February, the
appellate court requested a
status report from the
parties by April 7.
L AT I ME S . CO M
Infrastructure plan faces GOP opposition
[Infrastructure, from A1]
With trillions of dollars
on the table, interest groups
on Capitol Hill have begun
maneuvering to get their fa-
vorite projects and causes
included in any package, a
potential feeding frenzy as
large as any seen in Wash-
ington.
Sen. Sheldon White-
house (D-R.I.) said Biden’s
proposal “is a fine starting
point for Congress to begin
our work” — a clear signal
that Democrats will insist on
putting their stamps on the
package after the president
got much of what he wanted
in the $1.9-trillion COVID-19
relief plan that he signed
three weeks ago.
A key question is whether
Democrats, who hold the
barest possible majority in
the Senate, can push infra-
structure spending through
using the budget reconcilia-
tion process, a complex leg-
islative procedure that
would allow them to circum-
vent the possibility of a Re-
publican filibuster and pass
a bill with as few as 50 votes,
with Vice President Kamala
Harris serving as a tie-
breaker.
Aides to Senate Majority
Leader Charles E. Schumer
(D-N.Y.) recently argued
that the procedure can be
used more than once in a fis-
cal year, which lawmakers
have not tried before.
Schumer said he was
looking forward to “a big,
bold plan that will drive
America forward for dec-
ades to come.”
But Senate Minority
Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.) was dismissive,
telling an audience in Ken-
tucky on Wednesday: “It’s
called infrastructure, but in-
side the Trojan horse is go-
ing to be borrowed money
and massive tax increases
on the productive parts of
our economy.”
Biden has been preoccu-
pied with the country’s re-
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giant is taking a
second crack at going
public after dropping
its attempt in 2019.
By Stacy Perman
Ari Emanuel, the hard-
charging Hollywood super-
agent, is not one to let a set-
back keep him down.
And so, after a year in
which predicting the im-
pending implosion of En-
deavor Group Holdings be-
came a spectator sport, and
some 18 months after En-
deavor withdrew its highly
anticipated IPO, the owner
of talent agency WME, the
Miss Universe Pageant and
sports league UFC is once
again heading for an initial
public offering of stock.
Endeavor disclosed its
IPO plans in a Securities
and Exchange Commission
filing Wednesday.
The entertainment com-
pany, which was founded in
1995 and also owns produc-
tion company Endeavor
Content and sports agency
IMG, generated $3.47 billion
in revenue in 2020, with a net
loss of $625.3 million, accord-
ing to the filing.
Endeavor, based in Bev-
erly Hills, did not disclose
the amount it expects to
raise, outside of a $100-mil-
lion stand-in figure. The fil-
ing did reveal, however, that
Endeavor plans to acquire
the remaining shares of the
mixed martial arts league
Ultimate Fighting Champi-
onship. It currently has a
50.1% stake in the UFC.
Emanuel’s second shot at
an IPO, which is expected
later this year, would mark
the first public offering by a
Hollywood agency owner —
and an opportunity for re-
demption for the company’s
founder.
The public offering
comes amid a turbulent pe-
riod for agencies, which have
seen their profits eroded by
the rise of streaming and by
fallout from the COVID-19
pandemic, which shut down
productions and live enter-
tainment.
Last March, Endeavor
announced salary cuts and
layoffs across the company,
with Emanuel and his part-
ner, Executive Chairman
Patrick Whitesell, forgoing
their own salaries for the
year. Nonetheless, Emanuel
and Whitesell earned bo-
DRIVERS EXIT the Tobin Memorial Bridge in Massachusetts. President Biden would fund his infrastructure plan with corporate taxes.
‘It’s a once-in-a-generation investment
in America, unlike anything … since we built
the interstate highway system.’
— P RESIDENT B IDEN, unveiling his infrastructure plan in Pittsburgh
covery from the COVID pan-
demic and the distribution
of vaccines, but he’s ex-
pected to increasingly turn
his attention to passage of
his infrastructure plan. He’s
ENDEAVOR generated $3.47 billion in revenue in 2020 and had a net loss of
$625.3 million, according to its filing. Above, CEO Ari Emanuel, right, in 2015.
nuses of more than $6 mil-
lion and $2 million, respec-
tively.
Sports is a growth area
for agencies as they look to
diversify revenue streams
and lessen their dependence
on the traditional business
of talent representation. In
October, for example, ICM
Partners acquired Stellar
Group, a London-based
sports representation
agency with more than 800
athletes on its roster.
The UFC has been highly
profitable for Endeavor,
which acquired the mixed
martial arts league in 2016
along with a group of in-
vestors for $4 billion. MMA
was the first major sport to
return to live events, with
the UFC 249: Ferguson vs.
Gaethje bout held May 9 in
Jacksonville, Fla.
Endeavor declined to
comment.
Citing market volatility,
Endeavor scrapped its first
IPO attempt in September
2019, one day before shares
were to begin trading. It was
expected to raise as much as
$600 million and valued the
firm at $8 billion. The offer-
ing also was supposed to
bankroll Emanuel and
Whitesell’s ambitious plans
to build the media company
of the future and fund future
acquisitions while paying
down its heavy debt load,
then listed at $4.6 billion.
This time Endeavor is
hoping for a better, if more
modest, reception from Wall
Street.
Morgan Stanley is lead-
ing the offering’s bid along
with Goldman Sachs, which
handled the first go-round.
called the first meeting of his
full Cabinet for Thursday, to
discuss an administration-
wide effort to promote the
far-reaching blueprint.
The infrastructure an-
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“With this IPO, Endeavor
can frame itself as a reopen-
ing winner,” Los Angeles in-
vestment banker Lloyd
Greif said. “As vaccinations
get out there and TV and
film production opens up,
the UFC and professional
bullfighting — all the things
that tie into live events di-
rectly will benefit the com-
pany and, based on where it
is now, will make it a growth
story.”
But Greif cautioned that
Endeavor is bracing for a
more modest offering and
valuation.
“Endeavor clearly has
not been a growth story for
the past 12 months. It has to
be battered by the pan-
demic, but now there is light
at the end of the tunnel,” he
added. “I’m sure they have
mixed feelings, they couldn’t
get the valuation they
wanted [the first time]. Be-
cause of COVID there was
nowhere to go but down.
This will be a lower valuation
despite a strong market.”
In May, Endeavor sold off
part of its stake in Epic
Games, publisher of the
popular title “Fortnite,” for
an estimated $80 million.
That month, Endeavor dis-
closed it had raised $260 mil-
lion in a debt offering, mainly
from investment firm Oak-
tree Capital. The loan, ar-
ranged by JPMorgan Chase,
was used to fund operations
during the pandemic.
WME and other top agen-
cies also are grappling with
the terms of new agree-
ments with the Writers
Guild of America. Under a
recently announced deal,
WME and its investor Silver
nouncement comes just
weeks after Biden signed
into law the COVID-19 relief
package, which included
$1,400 payments for most
Americans and funding for
Lake will reduce their own-
ership stake in Endeavor
Content to 20% or less and
will also end packaging — in
which an agency collects fees
for pulling together talent
for a project — by the end of
June 2022.
In 2012, Silver Lake in-
vested $200 million in WME
in exchange for a 31% stake in
the company, upping the an-
te two years later with $500
million more for an addi-
tional 20% stake. In 2016,
SoftBank invested $250 mil-
lion for a 5% slice of WME.
Last May, Mark Shapiro,
president of Endeavor, told
The Times, “There are so
many ... rumors,” dispelling
speculation that the com-
pany was preparing to file for
bankruptcy protection from
creditors. “We’ve made very
responsible and prudent de-
cisions in regards to remod-
eling our cost structure in
the face of the pandemic.”
Despite the canceled
IPO, cost-cutting measures
and industry woes, Endeav-
or continued to make acqui-
sitions. In November 2019 it
acquired the speaking-en-
gagement firm Harry Walker
Agency. In January 2020 it
snapped up On Location Ex-
periences, an events busi-
ness started by the National
Football League, for $600
million.
Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief
executive, was nominated to
Endeavor’s board; he is ex-
pected to become a board
member before the IPO’s
pricing.
Times staff writer Wendy
Lee contributed to this
report.
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Steven Senne Associated Press
expanded federal unem-
ployment assistance, small
before the announcement.
Biden’s proposal would
businesses, schools and vac- be financed by several
cine distribution. changes to the tax code,
“We’re meeting immedi- most notably by raising the
ate emergencies,” he said in
Pittsburgh. “Now it’s time to
corporate tax rate to 28%,
higher than the 21% level
rebuild.” signed by Trump in 2017 but
Biden is also planning to still lower than the 35% in
unveil another sweeping ini- place before that. The addi-
tiative this month to expand tional revenue would offset
caregiving programs for the cost of Biden’s spending
children and elderly or disa- over 15 years, according to
bled adults, as well as family his administration, and
leave and healthcare ben- reduce the federal debt
efits. If the proposals all thereafter.
pass, they will represent a In his remarks, Biden
historic investment in phys- twice reiterated his cam-
ical and human capital, go- paign promise to not raise
ing beyond pandemic recov- taxes on any household
ery to expand benefits and
potentially create millions of
jobs.
The plan outlined
Wednesday would advance
earning less than $400,000
per year.
The infrastructure pro-
posal is split into four main
parts.
efforts to combat climate One part would provide
change by pumping money $620 billion for transporta-
into clean energy research tion-related needs, such as
and initiatives to swap gas repairing roads and expand-
vehicles for electric models. ing public transit, and
It aims to reduce racial and for building a network of
income inequality by target- 500,000 charging stations
ing some spending to neigh- for electric vehicles, among
borhoods that have seen lit- other improvements.
tle government investment And $650 billion would be
over the years. And it envi- geared toward increasing
sions a new era of federal broadband access, replacing
government activism. lead water pipes and im-
“Right now, people think proving connectivity and
you need big government,” safety. Schools, child-care
said Celinda Lake, a Demo- facilities and veterans hospi-
cratic pollster who worked tals would be renovated.
with Biden’s campaign last The proposal would also
year. “They’re really not sen- invest $400 billion into care-
sitive to deficits. They figure giving programs for people
the deficit will be really huge who are elderly or have disa-
if we don’t have a recovery.” bilities, and $580 billion into
After years in which com- research and development.
munist China has pumped A chunk of the research
money into massive public money would be focused on
works projects, Biden and clean energy, and some
his advisors see the propos- would be used to expand the
als as a way “to demonstrate domestic production of
the United States and semiconductors, a key com-
democracies can deliver for ponent in computer chips.
the people that they serve,”
said an administration offi- Times staff writers Jennifer
cial who requested anonym- Haberkorn and Don Lee
ity to discuss Biden’s plans contributed to this report.
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Biden’s infrastructure ambition

stantial political will. A
powerful tool to combat
climate change and build

H
political will is carbon
ere’s an indication of just opment, clean energy, climate resilience, pricing. An economy-wide
how poorly the United States is workforce development and environmental carbon fee would incen-
doing when it comes to build- justice in one package. tivize everyone to lower
ing and maintaining roads, The details of the plan matter, though, their carbon consumption.
dams and other infrastructure. and the president has released only bullet It’s doable because it is
simple. No complex maze
In March, the American Society of Civil En- points so far. Some of those are promising,
of regulations for each
gineers, which periodically grades U.S. in- such as the $100 billion sought to extend af-
economic sector. It’s also
frastructure, said we were finally scoring fordable broadband connections to every
doable because it has the
better than a D for the first time in 20 years. American home and business. A survey re- best chance of bipartisan
Don’t reach for the Moët — the overall grade leased Tuesday by USC and the California J. Scott Applewhite Associated Press support in Congress.
was still C-minus, with a $2.5-trillion gap be- Emerging Technology Fund found that al- THE CAPITOL as Congress debates repeal of two Joe McLaughlin
tween what’s needed over the coming dec- most 30% of low-income California house- Authorizations for Use of Military Force. Los Angeles
ade and what we are projected to spend. holds had either no broadband connection
Against that backdrop, President Bid- or only a smartphone data plan, putting ::
en’s newly unveiled proposal to spend
roughly $2 trillion on infrastructure over
eight years might seem underwhelming, es-
them at a huge disadvantage when it comes
to jobs, education and advancement.
And some are troubling. The plan veers
Endless wars and a The more I read about
pecially considering that he’d like to spend
some of the money on things that aren’t
typically mentioned in the same breath as
toward industrial policy and protectionism
at certain points; there’s a fine line between
using federal dollars to promote U.S. supply
spineless Congress rooftop solar, the more
enthusiastic I am becom-
ing. I like the idea that
Re: “The power to authorize war,” March 29 California can become
highways, bridges and wastewater treat- chains for key products and engaging in un-
ment plants. For example, about one-fifth of fair trade practices that cause other coun- 100% free of fossil fuels by
I agree with your editorial calling for repeal of the 2002 2035. However, one thing
the proposed funding would go to Medi- tries to retaliate against our exports.
Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq and that never seems to be
caid’s long-term home- and community- Nevertheless, Biden’s proposal is a good
cautioning against replacing it. Congress and our fellow addressed in any of the
based care program. starting point for negotiations. And to his
Americans should be questioning our engagement in articles I have seen is the
The ambition, though, isn’t in the size of credit, he came up with a way to recoup the
endless wars. problem of pollution re-
the plan, as big as it is. It’s in the plan’s cost: by rolling back a number of corporate
Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere have led to lated to batteries.
breadth, its sharp break with our fossil-fuel- tax cuts enacted in the 2017 law championed From what I know of the
the greatest refugee crisis since WWII. How have our
powered past, its efforts to repair the dam- by President Trump, and by adopting more Exide scandal, batteries
military interventions helped the average American who
age that transportation policies have countermeasures against foreign corporate are terrible polluters. I
is struggling to pay rent and put food on the table?
caused to communities, and its vision for tax havens. currently own a hybrid
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and others in Congress
the role Washington should play in the U.S. Naturally, Senate Minority Leader Mitch plug-in Prius. I worry about
have called for reducing the military budget and
economy. McConnell (R-Ky.) has already said his what will happen when I
increasing spending for infrastructure, healthcare,
And that expansive view is welcome. party won’t support an infrastructure bill need to replace the drive
education and housing. These are all much better uses of
Here in California, we are intimately, pain- funded by corporate tax increases. This is battery (I have already had
taxpayer funds than endless and futile wars.
fully aware of the toll that climate change is from the same party that complained about to replace the support
Anthony Manousos
already taking, and of the toll that toxic the deficit Democrats were running up with battery that runs the com-
Pasadena puters and such). Where do
emissions from cars, trucks and container the $1.9-trillion American Rescue Plan, the
ships have long taken on the communities bill passed in March to help the country the batteries go? How are
around highways and ports — many of them emerge from the pandemic. Nor are Repub- the materials recycled?
communities of color. We also reject the view licans likely to support the plan’s emphasis How were we able to doctrine in the earliest What happens to all the
that more of this crucial work will get done if on promoting workers’ rights to organize sustain 20 years of war? days of techno-libertarian heavy metals they contain?
Washington steps back and hands more of and on paying the equivalent of union Multiple troop deploy- optimism. I think it is time I am not sure we should
ments and a spineless to update for the digital go “all in” on batteries
the responsibility to the private sector. The wages.
Congress that hid behind presence of streaming and without considering the
facts on the ground show otherwise. So there seems to be little chance for bi-
the AUMF. Throughout social media and bring it environmental damage
This country is long past due for a major partisan backing for this proposal; given
three presidential adminis- back. that they could do. Let’s try
increase in what we’re investing as a society, McConnell’s posture, it’s hard to see how trations, Congress has Jim Hess to avoid the “hindsight is
not just in our crumbling roads and water any additional infrastructure investments failed in one of its most Irvine 20/20” consequence when it
pipes, but in many neglected sectors of our could be made with both parties’ support. sacred duties — to protect comes to batteries.
economy — the infrastructure that under- Biden is right to swing for the fences, even this country and the lives of :: Gary Barton
girds our human as well as our physical re- with yet another ambitious and costly pro- our troops. Santa Ana
sources. posal on social services still to come. It’s After I once complained
Biden is the first president to advance congressional Democrats’ turn now to hash about my son’s sixth de- Many of the Q conspira- ::
that kind of far-reaching view, seeking to out the finer points and build on Biden’s ployment, someone cy scenarios focus on fleet-
boost basic research, technological devel- blueprint. thoughtlessly responded: ing movements or expres-
“Well, he wanted to go, sions of public figures who Your fight for “green
didn’t he?” Yes, and the are followed by cameras for power” editorial misses the
truth is that he and most of every moment of their point. Our war is with
his other buddies would waking hours. carbon emissions. We don’t

The vaccine passports drama agree to redeploy as often

as they were asked to,
If a few Q-followers were
to permit similar nonstop
necessarily need all green
power to do that.

T
regardless of their physical capture of their daily rou- According to Bill Gates’
he biggest threat to the na- the strategy to scare people about the non- and mental state. That is tines, snippets could easily recent book on climate
tion isn’t the prospect of a fourth existent threats of transgender student ath- what they were trained to be extracted to support disaster, fossil fuels can
wave of COVID-19 infections, the letes and government firearms seizures, and do. But the founders never purportedly dark interpre- generate far more energy
resurgence of mass shootings or as silly as the furor over face mask require- meant for one man, the tations of their actions or per square meter of land
even the looming eviction cliff ments in public places during the pandemic. president, to have com- motives. Perhaps they than solar or wind. I am not
plete authority to send might then begin to under- sure that we are ready to
that could push millions of Americans out of Honestly, is there anything that can’t be
these troops to war. They stand that they are viewing give up that much of the
their homes later this year. Nope, the immi- weaponized in the protracted culture war?
wisely gave Congress the reality through a grossly Mojave desert to meet our
nent danger to the American way of life It must be exhausting to be a conservative
power to authorize and unrealistic lens. energy needs. Nuclear is
comes from digital apps that allow people in modern-day America, angry and afraid all fund war to limit the presi- Mark Steinberg more productive than wind
vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend a live the time. dent’s power. Los Angeles and solar.
concert, eat inside a restaurant or enjoy a To be clear, federal officials say they We don’t need the Kevin Minihan
tropical cruise. won’t be issuing vaccination passports, AUMF to protect us. Just :: Los Angeles
At least that’s what one could reasonably which seems like a wise move given the slow get rid of it.
conclude from all the outrage emanating and troubled rollout of Real IDs. What fed- Pat Alviso
from conservative news outlets and politi- eral agencies and the White House are doing Long Beach Until the U.S. govern-
cians in recent days. is coordinating the many certification initia- ment discloses what it Derek Chauvin’s
The outrage of the moment is over so- tives underway and developing standards :: knows from its research
called vaccine passports — digital images to protect privacy, promote security and en- into Unidentified Aerial bankrupt defense
on smartphones certifying that you’ve been sure that businesses using passport apps Phenomena (commonly
tested or inoculated for COVID-19, used to don’t discriminate unfairly. Now is the ideal time for known as UFOs) this com- Re: “Murder trial of Chau-
help you gain access to venues or businesses We’d also like to point out that requiring a bipartisan effort by Con- ing June, as was mandated vin begins,” March 30
such as stadiums or airlines. Israel is al- proof of vaccination status is nothing new in gress to reassert its consti- in the current COVID relief
ready using these passes for vaccinated peo- the U.S. Parents have to provide documents tutional authority to de- package, people will con- The utter bankruptcy of
ple, and Japanese officials said this week about their kids’ vaccination status before clare war. The previous tinue to speculate about Derek Chauvin’s defense is
president’s abuse of au- Reptilians, baby eaters and on full display for a second
that they will start issuing them as well. they can be enrolled in school, and immi-
thority is fresh in the mem- other exotic theories. day. Unable to deny Chau-
Other countries are considering something grants to the U.S. have to show proof they’ve
ory of Democrats and Distrust of government vin’s responsibility for
similar. New York rolled out a vaccination received a long list of vaccines before they
concern about the current secrecy about Pentagon George Floyd’s death, the
certification and testing app last week for are granted a visa. Some jobs require proof president is in the minds of “black money” sites and a only strategy left is to
arts and entertainment. of vaccination too. Republicans. belief that governmental blame the onlookers, to
Though the passes are mostly still in the Certainly, the use of digital vaccination While we rightly mourn and Pentagon leaders have claim they were a danger-
developmental stage in the U.S., the news certification apps raises concerns that need the deaths of the thou- covered up UFOs for years ous presence, that they
that the Biden administration was working to be addressed. If the government isn’t cer- sands of American soldiers have led many honest distracted Chauvin and
with businesses to set standards for vacci- tifying people’s vaccination status, who who have lost their lives in people to seek alternate rattled him.
nation certification has thrown conserva- would do it and why should we trust them? military actions post 9/11, sources of “truth.” But the video clearly
tives into a tizzy, decrying any such require- How would that status be confirmed? What they are a tiny fraction of Until the June disclo- shows a calm, unruffled,
ment as an invasion of privacy, unconstitu- about fraud? Would every business employ the total deaths. Hundreds sures (hopefully 18-year veteran squeezing
tional, un-American, undemocratic, dysto- a different app that would have to be down- of thousands of civilians unredacted), seemingly the life out of the man on
pian and fascist. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis loaded? Would our information be stored in are also estimated to have crazy speculations are the ground. That will be a
vowed to ban businesses in his state from re- some database? What about people without lost their lives. At the same unavoidable. hard truth to deny.
quiring vaccine certifications, and Ohio law- smartphones or those who can’t get vacci- time, millions of people As John Lennon said, Bart Braverman
makers have introduced a bill banning their nated for medical reasons? have been displaced, cre- “Gimme some truth.” Indio
use. Others will likely follow. (You’d almost But the biggest question is this: Does it ating refugee crises around Lee Wohlfert
think this wasn’t the same group happy to even make sense to invest the time and en- the world. This does not Laguna Niguel ::
make our country or the
force drug testing on welfare recipients.) ergy in passes when the U.S. is on track to
world safer.
Those were just the restrained respons- have enough doses to reach “herd immuni-
Elizabeth Wall There is only one word
es. Others equated the use of passes to the
yellow Star of David patches that Jewish
ty” levels of protection this year?
It’s debatable whether widespread use of
Ralston Switching to a that described Officer
Los Angeles Chauvin’s actions on the
people were forced to wear during the Holo- vaccine certification passes would be prac- green economy day Floyd died: “terror-
caust. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tical in the U.S. outside of a few selected in- ism.”
suggested that a vaccine passport would be dustries such as air travel or entertainment, Re: “Green power can do Chauvin’s defense is
“Biden’s Mark of the Beast.” Richard even if they hadn’t already become a politi- Fighting QAnon the job,” March 28 going to try to argue that
Grenell, a former Trump administration of- cal hot potato. But the prospect of busi- Floyd brought about his
ficial who is reportedly considering a run in nesses using them in order to safely reopen with fairness The two lead sentences own death. That won’t
California’s gubernatorial recall election, isn’t a cause for automatic concern, either — in your editorial on green wash. Floyd may be re-
predicted on Twitter that it wouldn’t be long provided they do so fairly and responsibly. Re: “Fallen into the power go to the heart of our sponsible for his own ar-
before you would be required to add your People would be free to choose whether to clutches of ‘Q’,” March 28 climate crisis. Limiting the rest, but nothing he did
HIV status to the pass. And author Naomi use one to, say, attend a concert or eat in a damage from global warm- was threatening or danger-
Wolf went so far as to say on Fox News that certain restaurant. And no doubt there will Cults like QAnon ing means the survival of ous to police officers or the
vaccine certification will signal “literally the be businesses that cater to people who don’t achieve adherents by grad- human civilization. If that general public.
end of human liberty in the West.” want to share their vaccination status. ually gaining control over sounds extreme, think of There is no way for a
All of this foaming at the mouth would be That hardly seems like some grievous as- their information sources, global food shortage result- handcuffed and physically
amusing to watch if it weren’t so calculated sault on democracy. And certainly not the constraining the stories ing from disrupted agricul- restrained person to pre-
they see or hear. They tural production and the sent any kind of threat to
to keep the GOP base riled up. It’s similar to beginning of the end of freedom.
amplify initial doubt or collapse of seafood produc- the officers. If this is what
mistrust to the point that tion due to ocean acidifi- Chauvin was taught to do
followers self-censor their cation. More than a billion as a policeman, then the
news sources. people depend on the entire police department of
Under the 1st Amend- water resources of the Minneapolis is a terrorist
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The flaw in Newsom’s recall strategy
NICHOLAS GOLDBERG
If there’s a recall
election against
Gov. Gavin New-
som, here’s how it
will work.
There will be
two questions on
the ballot. The first
will ask voters
whether they want to recall New-
som. The second will ask who
should succeed him if he is re-
called, listing all the candidates
who have qualified. Even those
who vote no on the recall will be
asked to vote for a replacement
governor, who would take office if
the recall succeeds.
That raises a tough question for
Democratic leaders: Should they
encourage a candidate or candi-
dates to run to succeed Newsom,
given that they don’t believe he
should be recalled in the first
place?
One answer was put forward by
Nancy Pelosi at a news conference
last week: Absolutely not. If the
recall election goes forward,
Democrats shouldn’t even think
about jumping into the race, she
said, but should show their sup-
port for Newsom and the party by
staying out.
That’s what Newsom wants too.
His backers note that he is much
more popular than Gov. Gray
Davis was in 2003 when he faced —
and lost — a recall election. A poll
this week by the Public Policy
Institute of California showed 56%
of likely voters say they would not
vote to recall Newsom.
THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT is issuing a version of a vaccine passport — the “green passport,”
in use since late February — as proof that the holder has been inoculated against COVID-19.
Vaccine passports are not like
yellow stars in Nazi Germany
HARRY LITMAN
A
nyone with a Twitter
presence gets used
to setting off the
occasional firestorm.
If you’re sane, you
just keep your distance. A con-
flagration I ignited Monday,
however, took me by surprise
and left me wanting to delve into
the fury.
The 245 characters I wrote read
as follows: “Vaccine passports are
a good idea. Among other things,
it will single out the still large
contingent of people who refuse
vaccines, who will be foreclosed
from doing a lot of things their
peers can do. That should help
break the resistance down.”
The responses came packed
with outrage and venom. Easily
half analogized the idea of pass-
ports to Jews forced to wear yellow
stars in Hitler’s Germany, or to
South African apartheid. I was
either a fascist, a Nazi or a commu-
nist. A large number included
threats of personal violence.
The mystery cleared up for me
with the report that Florida Gov.
Ron DeSantis and other members
of the mask-avoiding Trump wing
of the Republican Party have fixed
on vaccine passports as “com-
pletely unacceptable.” (When I
finally read all the nasty com-
ments, I noticed that one, in fact,
came from Donald Trump Jr.)
What accounts for such broad
and passionate opposition to the
idea of vaccine passports, which
are already in use in Israel, and in
the works in Europe and Japan as
well as the U.S.?
I think the nub of the matter is
a wrongheadedness about the
appropriate balance between
freedom and authority when a
pandemic is raging.
First, let’s sweep away the most
far-fetched of the objections.
Comparisons to yellow stars
and apartheid, for example, aren’t
useful. There is nothing heinous,
illegitimate or even out of the
ordinary about officialdom classi-
THE TALLY of signatures on recall petitions isn’t complete, but
it looks likely that Gov. Gavin Newsom will face a recall election.
The Democratic voter margin is
greater in the state now than it was
in 2003. Newsom is on track to win,
they say, and the last thing he
needs is competitors from his own
party running for his job, which
would give implicit “permission” to
Democratic voters to vote yes on
the recall.
But that approach — call it the
Pelosi approach— strikes other
Democrats as extraordinarily
risky. What if a majority of Califor-
nians do vote to oust Newsom and
then there are no Democrats on
the ballot to replace him? The
party could find itself without a
candidate in the race for governor,
and a Republican could slip into
office. (Arnold Schwarzenegger
became governor in a recall elec-
tion with less than 50% of the vote).
Let’s call that the Willie Brown
argument. Brown, a former mayor
fying groups differently. When
Congress passes a corn subsidy, it
discriminates between one kind of
farmer and another.
Discrimination becomes evil,
and unconstitutional, when it is
directed at a subset of people
based on race, religion or some
other immutable and court-pro-
tected characteristic. That’s a
non-starter with vaccine pass-
ports. And the rules would apply
equally to all.
More unhelpful objections arise
from the tinfoil hat crowd who see
vaccinations as some form of
government conspiracy. COVID-19
has killed more than 550,000
Americans, and carefully vetted
data and anecdotal evidence show
that the approved vaccines are
safe and effective against it. If
virulent opposition to issuing
vaccine passports stems from
general hostility toward the whole
idea of government and science,
there’s really not much to discuss.
That leaves the balance of the
critics. Perhaps they are earnest
objectors who may accept that the
virus is real and the vaccine salu-
tary, yet still see vaccine passports
as authoritarian, despotic and
wrong.
Most Americans don’t object to
a number of routine government
actions and laws that get much
closer to personal interference
than issuing a vaccine passport.
You can’t be a pilot without a
license; it’s too dangerous. You
can’t drive a car without getting —
and displaying if asked — a driv-
er’s license.
And even the staunchest liber-
tarian — my Twitter critics pre-
sent themselves as some version of
libertarians — would allow that
the proprietors of a restaurant,
concert hall or airline are perfectly
within their rights if they want to
require patrons to be vaccinated
and prove it.
The real issue, the one that
turns the situation from prosaic to
despotic, is that passports repre-
sent the government pushing
people to get inoculated, or to use
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of San Francisco and former
speaker of the California Assem-
bly, told Politico that the Demo-
cratic Party “absolutely” must
offer voters an alternative to the
Republican candidates who will be
on the ballot. “You can’t take the
risk of Democrats losing the gover-
norship,” he said. “You’ve got to
literally protect it.”
So there’s the conundrum. Risk
having no candidate in the race?
Or potentially undermine Newsom
to protect the party?
I’ve got a suggestion for solving
this problem, but it only works if
the Democrats are smart and
disciplined — and that’s a big if.
The party should find another
candidate — but one who under-
stands that his or her role is to be a
second-choice alternative. Once
there’s agreement on who that
person should be, that candidate
Maya Alleruzzo Associated Press
the phrase that may have lit the
match on Twitter, they “break
resistance down.” That’s what
smacks of a deep intrusion into
private lives.
The people who are up in arms
about vaccine passports also seem
to filter the issue through the
culture wars and Trumpian re-
sentment. Their view is that the
passports are all about victimizing
them, that not having one will
brand them with a scarlet letter.
That’s juvenile and solipsistic.
The reasoning behind vaccine
passports is protection. Those
who aren’t vaccinated are a danger
to one another and even to the
vaccinated (the vaccines are
not 100% effective). They are
also a danger to the wider effort
to end the pandemic because
they are more likely to get infected
and to spread the virus, increasing
the odds of ever-more virulent
variants and decreasing the
chance that COVID-19 can be
wiped out. And if they get ill, the
cost isn’t theirs alone. The govern-
ment — that is, all of us — will foot
the bill in any number of ways.
Governments not only may but
should try to influence private
behavior so as protect society at
large and in particular its most
vulnerable members. It also may
try to prevent avoidable expense
that has to be borne by the public
at large.
Let me repeat: Vaccine pass-
ports are a good idea. They don’t
discriminate illegally or immorally.
They allow people who are at little
to no risk of illness or of spreading
infection to get back into circula-
tion and the world to get back to
normal. That passports incen-
tivize the hesitant to get vacci-
nated is a beneficial side effect, not
a malevolent act on the path to
tyranny.
We need to inch our way back to
the shared commonsense idea
that government does no evil when
it acts to promote public health
and help the most vulnerable.
@HarryLitman
T HURSDAY , APRIL 1, 2021
and Newsom should campaign
together, almost as a ticket, pitch-
ing a unified message. And the
message is: “Vote against this
recall, to keep Newsom in office.
And then, just in case something
goes wrong, vote for our alterna-
tive candidate on the second ques-
tion.” (Newsom, by law, may not
run to succeed himself.)
The alternative candidate
could be the current lieutenant
governor or one of the Democrats
currently hemming and hawing
and hinting about running. Or
someone else.
Why would they agree to do
this? In part for the chance of
becoming governor, but also to
increase their name recognition
and visibility and set themselves
up for future statewide runs. Also,
Newsom would be in their debt.
This plan would require disci-
pline from all involved — including
voters, who would have to under-
stand and embrace a complicated
message. It would work better if
other Democrats stayed out of the
race. And it would require Newsom
to acknowledge that his personal
political future is not the only thing
at risk here — the entire party has
an interest.
Newsom’s supporters say it’s
too complicated. The recall is
confusing enough without telling
people they have to vote for two
different Democrats.
“It’s much easier to communi-
cate ‘No’ than it is to communicate
anything more complex than
that,” said Nathan Click, a spokes-
man for the anti-recall campaign.
Maybe so. But to rely on the
Why barring access
to autopsy records
hurts public safety
By Regina Brown Wilson
M
y family has been in
the journalism busi-
ness for a half-cen-
tury. In the 1980s, we
purchased Black
Voice News in Riverside and grew it
into the primary news source for
African Americans in San Bernar-
dino County. Producing the paper
each week was a family affair. My
mom covered stories. My dad used
our car to deliver papers through-
out the Inland Empire. In the news
business, you do a bit of everything,
and there is no time for unneces-
sary obstacles.
Then, as now, the asset we val-
ued most was our access to public
records. With this essential jour-
nalistic right, we could act as
watchdogs on our government,
hold public officials accountable
and keep our readers informed
about public health and safety.
Today’s intense social justice
and political climate has made ac-
cess more important than ever,
particularly in communities of col-
or where trust in our institutions is
running low. When we can’t tell
readers what’s going on, confi-
dence slips even more.
Yet there is a disturbing trend in
California — and elsewhere — to
keep public information from re-
porters. The latest battleground
involves autopsy reports. Assem-
blywoman Jacqui Irwin (D-Thou-
sand Oaks) has introduced a bill —
AB 268 — that would severely re-
strict news media access to public
records created by medical exam-
iners and coroners.
We must not relent
when government
proposes to deny
access to public
information.
The bill, which seeks to ensure
the privacy of the deceased and
their families at the expense of the
public’s right to know, is problem-
atic on several levels.
Coroners’ offices are public
agencies. They produce and store
important public records, perhaps
none more critical recently than
those related to the pandemic. The
first COVID-19 death in the U.S.
was reported in the San Francisco
Chronicle after being discovered in
an autopsy report.
Just imagine the health ramifi-
cations if, as COVID-19 cases
soared, the public hadn’t been
made aware of the disproportion-
ate impact on Black people, Lat-
inos and the elderly. Media access
to autopsy records made it pos-
sible for journalists to keep these
highly vulnerable populations in-
formed on prevention, detection
and treatment.
Coroners’ reports are an effec-
tive tool for monitoring police ac-
countability, an issue of critical im-
portance to the Black community.
We need to know the truth about
causes of death in cases like
A11
assurance that Newsom has this in
the bag seems, well, dangerous.
What if he’s caught again at the
French Laundry? What if a new
COVID surge hits California and
he’s blamed? What if Kimberly
Guilfoyle writes a tell-all? What if
any of a number of unanticipated
events occurs, driving him sud-
denly down in the polls?
In 2003, top state Democrats
tried to put together a pact under
which no statewide elected offi-
cials would run to succeed Davis in
the recall election. But it didn’t
work.
Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante
broke ranks and ran — and lost.
Bustamante urged a no vote on the
recall and a yes on his own candi-
dacy, but he and Davis worked at
cross-purposes throughout the
campaign. Also, Bustamante
lacked the fame and charisma of
his chief opponent, Arnold
Schwarzenegger. It’s still a matter
of dispute whether Bustamante’s
candidacy harmed Davis or, if so,
how much.
The reality is that in 110 years,
only one gubernatorial recall has
made it to the ballot in California
— and it resulted in Davis’ ouster.
That’s not enough precedent to
predict with any accuracy what
the dynamics will be this time
around.
I understand why Newsom
wants a united front. Why wouldn’t
he? But there’s a lot to be said also
for taking the cautious, risk-averse
approach and having a Democrat
on the ballot. Just in case.
@Nick_Goldberg
L.A. County Medical Examiner-Coroner
COUNTY coroner’s officials
work with the National Guard
during January’s virus surge.
George Floyd in Minnesota, Bre-
onna Taylor in Kentucky, Michael
Brown in Missouri, Freddie Gray
in Maryland, and Stephon Clark in
California.
Autopsies are a key source for
determining how these kinds of
deaths occur. If reporters are de-
nied access, the public won’t have
facts to hold police, the justice
system and suspects, where war-
ranted, accountable for their
actions.
Autopsies are also important
records for public safety and pro-
tection. Communities need to
know about homicides and the
deadly effects of DUI, opioids and
toxic material contamination, to
name a few. These are serious
events with serious community
effects, but without access to
autopsies performed in such situa-
tions, we are denied records of the
stories.
One such instance prompted
Assemblywoman Irwin’s bill. At
the insistence of victims’ families,
the Ventura County medical exam-
iner refused to grant media access
to autopsies in the Borderline Bar
& Grill mass shooting case. Those
records — along with other docu-
ments withheld by county officials
such as dispatch calls, 911 tapes
and body camera footage — could
help provide a more exact timeline
of the shooting.
As a result, the community has
been denied its right to know the
details of how the tragedy occurred
and how it might be prevented in
the future. AB 268 would give
families of the victims unreason-
able authority over access to public
records.
We must not relent when gov-
ernment proposes to deny access
to public information, no matter
how harmless or compassionate it
may seem.
Indeed, it is critical, especially
at this moment in our history, to
abide by the California Constitu-
tion and protect news media ac-
cess to all public records, including
autopsies.
That’s why I am joining with the
California News Publishers Assn.
in urging the Assembly’s Public
Safety Committee to vote no on
AB 268.
Regina Brown Wilson is the
executive director of California
Black Media. The Los Angeles
Times, the Associated Press and
the Ventura County Star have
sued Ventura County for access to
records related to the Borderline
mass shooting, including autopsy
reports.
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and Anh Do

Four people, including a

child, were killed Wednesday
evening and a fifth person
was injured in a mass shoot-
ing at an Orange office com-
plex.
It marks the third mass Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
shooting in the United AN ENGLISH learner attends an online session in a small-group classroom at Stephen C. Foster Elementary in Compton last fall.
States in two weeks, coming
after incidents at three At-

‘Alarming picture’ at LAUSD

lanta-area spas that killed
eight people, including six
Asian women, and at a Boul-
der, Colo., supermarket that
killed 10.
Few details were immedi-
ately available about the vic-
tims or a potential motive
for the shooting. Among pandemic’s hardest
Lt. Jennifer Amat, a
spokeswoman for the Or- hit were those already
ange Police Department,
said officers received a call struggling, report finds.
around 5:30 p.m. about shots
fired and responded to a
business at 202 W. Lincoln By Howard Blume
Ave. in Orange. The address
is a beige, two-story office Students at all levels have suffered academi-
complex that contains a cally since the Los Angeles Unified School Dis-
number of small businesses. trict closed its campuses more than a year ago,
[See Shooting, B5] with the greatest harm falling on younger ones
and those who were faring worse before the pan-
demic, a new report has concluded.
“We may not know the full impact of this last
CAPITOL JOURNAL year on our students for another year or more,
but the preliminary data we have paints an

Medical alarming picture,” said the report, titled “Educa-

tional Recovery Now” and released Wednesday
by Great Public Schools Now, a local advocacy
group.

care for While the report avoids assigning blame, it

paints a sobering picture of student learning that
L.A. Unified must prevent from worsening, the

migrants authors said.

The district is headed toward a gradual re-
opening of campuses beginning the week of April
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NEARLY 4 in 10 Republicans in California said in a poll they would not or probably would
not get vaccinated. Above, a protest against the vaccine at Dodger Stadium in January.

popular 12.
The report relied primarily on data released
piecemeal by L.A. Unified over the last year and
includes commentary by Pedro Noguera, dean of Republicans lead vaccine skeptics
GEORGE SKELTON the USC Rossier School of Education, and Mag-
IN SACRAMENTO aly Lavadenz, executive director of the Center for
Equity for English Learners in the School of Edu-
California poll says they are the group least likely to get the shot
It was a cation at Loyola Marymount University.
breakthrough “Most students in the district have experi- The poll of 1,706 adult residents mirrors
event befit- enced learning loss, and school closures have By Laura J. Nelson similar results in other recent U.S. polls and
ting Cesar deepened and accelerated existing inequities,” challenges the assertion that the highest rates of
Chavez Day: the authors wrote. “While attendance and en- Skepticism about the COVID-19 vaccine has vaccine skepticism are among Black and Latino
A major poll gagement has improved since spring 2020, many fallen steadily in California as inoculations in- residents. The data also lay out another
showed that students are still not actively engaging, and large crease. But resistance still remains particularly potential roadblock on California’s already
California gaps across race, income and student need per- high among one group: Republicans. rocky path to herd immunity through vaccina-
voters sup- sist.” In a poll released late Tuesday by the Public tion.
port providing tax-paid The L.A. Unified administration declined to Policy Institute of California, 26% of registered About 29% of Black Californians said they
healthcare for immigrants respond to the report. Republicans said they definitely would not get would probably or definitely refuse the vaccine,
living here illegally. In previous depictions of the district’s pan- vaccinated, and 13% said they probably would down from 55% in January. Among Latinos, 22%
In all the polling by the demic response, L.A. schools Supt. Austin Beut- not. The 39% hesitancy rate is the highest of any are hesitant, a rate that has remained un-
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many years, it had never
before found support
among likely voters for
giving full-blown public
healthcare to undocu-
mented immigrants.
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First lady visits state to honor Cesar Chavez
labor group in the 1960s that had dusted daily at the Na-
ultimately became the Biden touts legacy of tional Monument in Keene,
United Farm Workers southeast of Bakersfield.
Union. Many of those he the UFW leader and “I started crying. I
organized were immigrants recalls her husband’s started screaming! This
here illegally. Wednesday bust that I had touched so
was his birthday and an admiration for him. carefully with my own hands
official state holiday. He was in the White House,” she
would have been 94. By Diana Marcum said. “I knew that was a sign
[See Skelton, B5] to all of us.”
DELANO, Calif. — Alicia In her remarks Wednes-
Zavala, who worked in day marking Cesar Chavez
the fields until she started Day with Gov. Gavin New-
a cleaning company with som and UFW leaders, Bid-
Man charged in her husband, believes that en referenced that very bust
camp’s torching sometimes God sends signs and spoke of her husband’s
to say, “Don’t give up.” admiration for Chavez.
The 2019 Eagle Rock
To Zavala, First Lady Jill “Cesar Chavez under-
blaze grew into a
Biden’s visit to Forty Acres stood that, no matter the ob-
brush fire that led to
in Delano, the historic birth- stacles, when people come
injuries and 100 homes
place of the United Farm together, united in cause,
being evacuated. B3
Workers, on Wednesday was anything is possible.”
Man arrested the second recent sign of re- “Yes, we can — sí, se
newed hope for farmwork- puede!” she yelled in Span-
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The Fontana resident The first was on Inaugu- aware accent.
is accused of using an ration Day, when Zavala saw “Sí, se puede!” answered
electroshock weapon a bust of Cesar Chavez in the the crowd, led by Dolores
to attack an officer. B4 Kent Nishimura Los Angeles Times Oval Office as President Huerta, one of the move-
FIRST LADY Jill Biden speaks at Forty Acres in Delano on Wednesday in a visit Biden sat behind the desk. It ment’s founders who had led
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B2 T HU R S DAY , A P R IL 1, 2021
How to get the vaccine if you’re 50-plus
Here is what
Californians should
know as state expands
eligibility for COVID
shots on Thursday.
By Colleen Shalby
The threshold for
COVID-19 vaccine eligibility
continues to expand this
week. On Thursday, all Cali-
fornians 50 and older will
qualify.
In some parts of the
state, that batch of residents
has already been green-
lighted.
But eligibility doesn’t
guarantee immediate ac-
cess. State and local officials
have been optimistic that
vaccine allocation will in-
crease significantly over the
next several weeks but have
warned that supply will con-
tinue to be constrained as
competition for shots grows
by the millions.
Here’s what you should
know.
Younger students among
hardest hit, new study finds
[Schools, from B1]
the nation’s second-largest
school system has achieved,
including an expansive pro-
gram to provide free meals
to the community, a co-
ronavirus testing program
and the deployment of dis-
trict computers to 465,000
K-12 students, as well as in-
ternet hot spots upon re-
quest. The report noted
these actions, as well as
“Herculean” efforts by many
teachers.
“A lot of the conversation
over the last year has been
focused on the safety of our
campuses and operations.
We haven’t really heard a lot
about what the instruc-
tional plan or vision is this
school year and moving for-
ward as we head into recov-
ery,” said Ana Teresa Da-
han, a senior director for the
advocacy group, who helped
prepare the report.
The report focused on ac-
ademic efforts and mea-
sures during the COVID-19
pandemic, finding that:
8 More than 13,000 middle
and high school students
consistently disengaged in
fall 2020. An additional
56,000 did not actively par-
ticipate on a daily basis.
8 Two in three students
are falling behind in literacy
and math.
8 Black and Latino stu-
dents have been dispropor-
tionately affected.
The report states that
Black and Latino elementa-
ry school students fell the
furthest behind, with only
43% of Black students and
44% of Latino students on
track in early reading skills,
according to literacy assess-
ments from the fall.
Like other school sys-
tems, L.A. Unified has had to
contend with factors beyond
its control, including the
trauma of families from low-
income communities dis-
proportionately harmed by
COVID-19 and economic
hardship. Although many
district-distributed hot
spots provided spotty serv-
ice, poor signal strength in
low-income communities
and the need for all families
members to be online at
once contributed to connec-
tivity problems.
But the report singled
out missed opportunities,
saying, for example, that the
district could have more
thoroughly assessed aca-
demic needs as it prepared
for the fall reopening.
Republicans lead vaccine skeptics
[Republicans, from B1]
months.
The rate of Republicans
who said they would not get
vaccinated has declined
slightly since January, drop-
ping 4 percentage points
from 43%, the pollfound.
Republicans were also
the group least likely to be
concerned about being hos-
pitalized for COVID-19, with
53% of respondents saying
they were not at all con-
cerned, and 24% saying they
were not too concerned.
About 33% of Republi-
cans said they had already
received at least one shot,
compared with 42% of
Democrats and 35% of peo-
ple with no party preference.
The share of Democrats
who say they would prob-
ably not or definitely not get
S LAT IMES. C OM
Who qualifies for
a vaccine?
Roughly half the resi-
dents of the state have quali-
fied. On Thursday, that
number will grow exponen-
tially when residents 50 and
older reach eligibility. And
two weeks later, on April 15,
the state’s vaccine rollout
will become a free-for-all,
when residents 16 and over
will qualify.
Right now, eligibility
under state guidance in-
cludes healthcare workers,
adults 65 and older, individ-
uals with high-risk disabili-
ties and underlying health
conditions, educators and
child-care workers, food
service workers, those who
work in incarceration facili-
ties or homeless shelters,
public transit workers,
emergency service workers,
and vaccine clinic volun-
teers.
Some local health juris-
dictions have already ex-
panded eligibility beyond
the state guidance. The
counties of Contra Costa,
Butte and Stanislaus, for ex-
“The consequence of
moving into the fall semester
without an understanding of
students’ academic and so-
cial-emotional standing af-
ter several months of missed
learning time in the spring is
that the district missed a
major opportunity to estab-
lish a concrete plan to ad-
dress engagement problems
and the learning losses accu-
mulated from the spring,”
the report stated.
School board member
Nick Melvoin, who reviewed
‘The pandemic
has massively
and unevenly
disrupted student
learning and
well-being.’
— Nick Melvoin,
school board member
the report Tuesday, added a
disappointment of his own:
In the fall, in-person assist-
ance to students with spe-
cial needs reached fewer
than 1% of district students.
“This report highlights
the unfortunate if unsur-
prising reality that the pan-
demic has massively and un-
evenly disrupted student
learning and well-being,
which is why the district em-
braced its role as a social
safety-net provider, and why
I’ve been advocating for
months to provide addi-
tional services, including in-
person opportunities where
possible, to support student
learning,” Melvoin said.
The report also stated
that the district’s distance-
learning agreement with the
teachers union provided for
substantially less live online
instructional time than did
similar agreements among
the state’s five largest school
systems, including those of
San Diego, Long Beach and
Fresno.
The amount of learning
time for Los Angeles stu-
dents is the subject of a
lawsuit.
A decline in grades
prompted the authors to
raise a warning flag: “Within
the next four years alone,
40,000 current LAUSD high
school students or more are
at risk and could potentially
not earn their high school di-
vaccinated has also fallen 4
points to 10%.
Riverside and San Ber-
nardino counties had the
highest rates of vaccine
skepticism, surpassing Los
Angeles, the Central Valley,
the Bay Area, and Orange
and San Diego counties, the
Public Policy Institute poll
found. Nearly 3 in 10 Inland
Empire residents said they
would probably not or defi-
nitely not get vaccinated.
The California findings
mirror the results of two re-
cent national polls.
A poll released Tuesday
by the Kaiser Family Foun-
dation found that the high-
est rates of vaccine refusal
were among Republicans
(29%) and white evangelical
Christians (28%). About 1 in
5 rural residents also said
ample, announced they
would lower the age thresh-
old to 16; the city of Long
Beach and counties of San
Luis Obispo and Solano
have lowered it to 50. In some
counties, certain health con-
ditions beyond what the
state has specified merit eli-
gibility; San Francisco, for
example, is vaccinating any-
one who is HIV-positive, and
San Diego is vaccinating
anyone with asthma or Type
1 diabetes.
How can I get an
appointment?
Newly eligible residents
may have to wait a bit longer
before they can lock down an
appointment. The state’s
My Turn scheduling site is
allowing residents in L.A.
County and elsewhere who
are eligible on Thursday to
start signing up for appoint-
ments on Wednesday,
though time slots have been
scarce.
State or local hotlines
could be of assistance. The
state’s COVID-19 hotline —
at (833) 422-4255 — is open
ploma.”
The report noted that the
district established a low bar
for student engagement.
“It is important to note
that only a ‘click’ in the dis-
trict’s online platform,
Schoology, is necessary for
LAUSD to count that stu-
dent as engaged,” the report
said. “This ‘click’ criteria is
not a perfect measure of how
students engage in distance
learning, but even with that
limited threshold for en-
gagement, the gaps in en-
gagement between student
groups still indicate dispari-
ties in opportunities to
learn.”
In the fall, about 20,000
students were missing three
or more days of class each
week. The numbers for early
2021 are slightly worse, the
researchers wrote.
The goal of the report is
“to start a public conversa-
tion on the impacts of a year
without in-person instruc-
tion on our students, par-
ticularly those with the high-
est needs, and to call on
LAUSD to develop a com-
prehensive educational re-
covery plan,” the authors
stated.
The recommendations
include learning from other
school systems; prioritizing
healing, mental health and
connectedness; accounting
for students with different
needs, and forging a deeper
partnership with families in
developing and carrying out
plans.
“I appreciate the urgent
call for a comprehensive,
measurable educational re-
covery plan,” school board
member Tanya Ortiz
Frankin said, “including col-
laborative public conversa-
tions with our families, edu-
cators, and partners about
how to strategically and ho-
listically support all stu-
dents in the aftermath of
this pandemic.
“I know that the best de-
cisions are always made
with those who are most im-
pacted,” she added, empha-
sizing the word “with.”
“How do we approach the
pandemic and recovery as
an opportunity to rethink
how we are serving students
and meeting the goal of equi-
ty?” Noguera wrote in the re-
port.
“We cannot undo the
past, but we can recover in a
way that is truly different
than the inequitable system
we should leave behind.”
they would definitely not get
vaccinated.
A Gallup survey also re-
leased Tuesday found that
Republican respondents
were least likely to be vacci-
nated or plan to be, at 54%.
Among people who did
not plan to accept a vaccine
dose if it were offered, 23%
said they wanted to wait to
confirm the vaccine is safe.
An additional 20% said they
did not think the health ef-
fects of the disease would be
serious, 15% said they did
not trust vaccines generally,
and 10% said they had al-
ready had COVID-19.
The Public Policy Insti-
tute poll was conducted on
cellphones and land lines in
English and Spanish be-
tween March 14 and March
23.
from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday
through Friday and from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and
Sunday. In Los Angeles
County, those with disabili-
ties or without computer ac-
cess are encouraged to call
(833) 540-0473 between 8
a.m. and 8:30 p.m. Monday
through Sunday.
What is the current
supply outlook?
The state’s vaccine allo-
cation has steadily grown to
about 1.8 million doses per
week, and with the addi-
tional distribution of more
Johnson & Johnson vaccine,
that estimate will increase.
Supply is expected to in-
crease significantly up to
May 1 — the date President
Biden said every adult in the
U.S. would be eligible for a
shot. On Monday, Biden said
that a record 33 million
doses would be distributed
across the country this
week.
In L.A. County, officials
said Friday they expect to
receive about 338,100 doses
— the highest weekly allot-
FIRST LADY Jill Biden speaks at an event at Forty Acres in Delano. Biden’s
presence there was meaningful, said UFW President Teresa Romero.
First lady travels to UFW
landmark to honor Chavez
[Biden, from B1]
that very call that trans-
formed California so many
years ago.
When Huerta walked
onto the grounds on
Wednesday, a cry of “Viva
Dolores!” spread across the
field as people spotted her.
The first lady’s visit — her
first to California since her
husband took office — is the
latest signal the Biden ad-
ministration has made a pri-
ority of giving rights and a
path to citizenship to agri-
culture workers.
Biden noted in her
speech that the U.S. House
of Representatives had
passed the bipartisan Farm
Workforce Modernization
Act.
But as much as her
words, it was the first lady’s
presence in a place that
for many is sacred ground,
said UFW President Teresa
Romero, that brought
meaning.
Forty Acres is sur-
rounded by grape fields. It’s
where Chavez fasted for 25
days in 1968. It’s where farm-
workers came for groceries
during the pandemic and
where recently thousands
have received COVID-19 vac-
cinations.
“To stand here, you can
feel that the work they
started 60 years ago didn’t
die, didn’t go away and that
we will get up and keep doing
it again,” Romero said. “For
so many people, this is
home. Here, ‘Sí se puede’ is
something you can feel in the
wind.”
On the route from the
Bakersfield airport to
Delano, Biden’s motorcade
passed the Central Valley’s
almond orchards, grape
fields and faded Trump/
Pence signs.
At the entrance to Forty
Acres a smattering of pro-
testers held signs demand-
ing the recall of Newsom,
who spoke at the event and
praised the Biden adminis-
tration’s partnership with
the state.
“No longer are we day and
night going to battle,” New-
som said of the Trump years,
when California and the fed-
eral government were often
ment to date. Still, that
won’t be enough to immedi-
ately accommodate all
newly eligible people.
“Even with an increased
supply of vaccine, we cer-
tainly can’t handle close to a
million people over that first
week, given all the other
groups that are also cur-
rently being vaccinated,”
L.A. County Chief Science
Officer Dr. Paul Simon said
Friday. “But I would expect,
over the following several
weeks, the demand will di-
minish a bit, and things will
open up, particularly as this
vaccine supply continues to
increase. And so I urge peo-
ple to just be patient.”
The state has adminis-
tered about 18 million doses
to date. About 30.1% of resi-
dents have received at least
one dose, and 14.9% have
been fully vaccinated, ac-
cording to a Times analysis.
Why is eligibility
expanding before
supply can meet
demand?
As coronavirus variants
‘I’m a community college graduate.
The work you do matters.’
— Connie Perez-Andreesen,
national vice president of the United Farm Workers,
to First Lady Jill Biden, who teaches at a community college
at odds.
Biden was introduced by
Connie Perez-Andreesen,
national vice president of
the United Farm Workers,
who at first was too moved to
choke out words.
“I’m a community college
graduate,” she told the
first lady, who teaches at a
community college and had
been grading papers on the
plane. “The work you do
matters.”
During the speeches, out-
side security, a long line
formed as people waited to
get their shots at the after-
noon COVID-19 vaccination
clinic.
After a meeting with Lat-
ina farmworkers, Biden and
Huerta went to the clinic
and handed out stickers
reading, “I got my COVID-19
vaccination at Kern Medi-
cal.”
Earlier Biden had met
with Chavez’s family. Intro-
ductions were made by Julie
Rodriguez, the director of
the White House Office of In-
tergovernmental Affairs and
the granddaughter of Cesar
Chavez.
“Hi, I’m Jill,” said Biden.
At the end of the day,
Paul Chavez, Cesar’s son
and the Cesar Chavez Foun-
dation president, found
himself thinking about an-
other birthday celebration
for his father and of that fa-
mous bust.
Back when Joe Biden was
vice president, Paul Chavez
had been driving through
the Central Valley when his
phone rang with an unfamil-
iar Washington number.
“I picked up and a voice
said, “Hi, this is Joe Biden,
I’m thinking about your
dad on his birthday.’ Nor-
mally those things are set
up, but it was just him. No
one else involved,” Paul
Chavez said.
spread throughout Califor-
nia and as other states face a
new surge, officials and
health experts have stressed
the need to quickly vacci-
nate the masses.
L.A. County Health Serv-
ices Director Dr. Christina
Ghaly said last week that
projected transmission in
the county has increased
slightly. It’s too soon to say
what has led to that change,
and it remains unclear
whether vaccinated individ-
uals can be asymptomatic
carriers of the virus.
Officials and health ex-
perts remain hopeful that
vaccine supply will increase.
But meanwhile, reports con-
tinue to emerge of leftover
doses due to vaccine hesi-
tancy or barriers to access.
Expanded eligibility means
that a greater pool of people
are capable of getting the
shot when it’s available, and
when allocations do in-
crease, supply will be on par
with demand.
Times staff writer Luke
Money contributed to this
report.
Kent Nishimura Los Angeles Times
“Then the day before the
inauguration they asked to
borrow the bust and we had
a mad rush to build a crate
and get it sent and then as
we watched Biden take his
seat in history, lo and behold
the bust he wanted was sit-
ting behind him,” he said.
“It was a sign.”
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L AT I ME S . CO M
A blaze erupted Wednesday at a pallet yard and several warehouses in Compton, threatening homes and
prompting authorities to close several of the city’s busiest intersections. It was contained as of 8 p.m.
L.A. man charged in torching
of a homeless camp in 2019
The blaze spread,
forcing an evacuation
on the Eagle Rock-
Glendale border.
By James Queally
An Eagle Rock man has
been charged with setting
fire to a homeless encamp-
ment in 2019, a blaze that
eventually grew into a brush
fire that left three people in-
jured and threatened homes
in Los Angeles and Glen-
dale, prosecutors said.
Daniel Nogueira, 27, was
charged last week with ar-
son, two counts of assault
with a deadly weapon and
using an explosive device,
prosecutors said. The
charges came more than 18
months after the fire
erupted near the 2 Freeway
along the Glendale-Eagle
Rock border.
If convicted as charged,
Nogueira faces up to 10 years
and four months in prison,
according to Ricardo Santi-
ago, a spokesman for the Los
Angeles County district at-
torney’s office.
The fire was set on Aug.
25, 2019, in the 2900 block of
Colorado Boulevard, the site
of a large homeless encamp-
ment under the freeway, in-
vestigators said. The blaze
quickly spread north toward
the 134 Freeway, burning
White nationalist fliers rattle 2 towns in O.C.
KKK packet, plans for
White Lives Matter
rally alarm residents,
put officials on alert.
By Sara Cardine,
Andrew Turner
and Matt Szabo
Ku Klux Klan propagan-
da discovered outside
homes in Newport Beach
and a flier announcing plans
for a White Lives Matter rally
in Huntington Beach have
put local city officials on
alert regarding potentially
escalating white nationalist
sentiment.
Residents living on one
street in Newport Heights
were surprised Sunday
morning to find their lawns
and driveways littered with
apparent recruitment prop-
aganda urging citizens to
join the fight for the white
race by learning more about
the KKK.
Fliers with images of a
white-robed Klansman and
Confederate flags reading
“Loyal White Knights Want
You to Say No to Cultural
Genocide” and promoting a
Klan radio show were dis-
covered by a group of home-
owners on San Bernardino
Avenue early Sunday.
One neighbor, who asked
F IRE RAGE S I N C O M P T O N
through nearly 45 acres of
vegetation and leading to
the evacuation of about 100
homes in Glendale and L.A.
Two residents of the en-
campment sustained minor
injuries, and one Los Ange-
les firefighter was hurt bat-
tling the blaze, authorities
said.
Los Angeles police ar-
rested Nogueira and Brian
Antonio Araujo-Cabrera on
suspicion of attempted
murder in September 2019,
accusing the men of throw-
ing a “firework” at the en-
campment. The device was
described as a “mortar” in a
criminal complaint made
public this week.
But prosecutors sent the
case back to police for fur-
ther investigation at the
time, and it had hung in
limbo ever since. A law en-
forcement official with di-
rect knowledge of the inves-
tigation told The Times that
although the LAPD’s sup-
plemental investigation
wrapped up last May, L.A.
County’s courts were not
hosting jury trials at that
time.
Concerned about
“speedy trial issues,” prose-
cutors held off on filing
charges, according to the of-
ficial, who spoke on condi-
tion of anonymity in order to
discuss the case candidly.
Los Angeles Fire Depart-
ment investigators said the
men specifically targeted
not to be identified for fear of
backlash, said she notified
the Newport Beach Police
Department after a surveil-
lance camera at her home
showed a pickup truck driv-
ing down her street at 2:24
a.m. Sunday, ostensibly de-
livering the materials.
“There was nothing when
the pickup started to pass
the house, but afterward the
package was there,” she
said.
“There’s a lot of hate, and
the hate is pretty horrible,”
the woman continued, re-
counting how some neigh-
bors professed having no
problem with the content of
the fliers. “Newport Beach
needs help — Orange
County needs help.”
Newport Beach police
spokeswoman Heather
Rangel on Tuesday con-
firmed at least one resident
had reported the incident
and said the department
was investigating the mat-
ter. She was unable to clarify
whether the incident consti-
tuted a hate crime, although
no overt criminal acts seem
to have been committed.
Mayor Brad Avery said
Tuesday that he and other
city officials were disap-
pointed to learn of hate-
based activity in the com-
munity and were looking
into it.
“Unfortunately, this is a
CITY & STATE
the encampment but did not
offer a motive at the time of
the blaze. The official told
The Times that Nogueira
carried out the attack be-
cause he “did not like the
homeless encampments.”
Police also presented a
case against Araujo-Ca-
brera as an accessory to the
fire after the fact, but prose-
cutors declined to file
charges due to insufficient
evidence, Santiago said.
Nogueira’s father,
Michael, has been president
of Eagle Rock’s Chamber of
Commerce since 2014, and
past attempts to contact
him have been unsuccessful.
The shadow of his son’s al-
leged involvement in the fire
caused a controversy during
Kevin de León’s City Council
campaign last year, when
the former state senator
scheduled a fundraiser at
the Nogueiras’ Eagle Rock
residence. Advocates for
homeless people were furi-
ous over the decision, as
Daniel Nogueira still lives at
his parents’ home, and De
León eventually resched-
uled.
Nogueira’s defense attor-
ney, Alan Jackson, did not
immediately respond to a re-
quest for comment.
Nogueira was released after
posting bond in lieu of $1-
million bail in 2019, and has
remained out of custody
since, jail records show. An
arraignment is scheduled
A FLIER promoting the KKK was found on the lawn
of an unoccupied home in Newport Heights this week.
common tactic used by
some hate groups today,”
Avery said in a statement.
“We condemn the group’s
ideology and assure our resi-
dents that the Newport
Beach Police Department is
actively investigating to de-
termine the individual or
group responsible for dis-
tributing these materials.”
As news of the Newport
Beach discovery spread on
social media, word began
circulating about a White
Lives Matter rally being ten-
tatively planned for the
afternoon of April 11 at the
Huntington Beach Pier.
“We will be planning the
WLM rally in Orange County
in solidarity with Americans
all over the nation on 4/11,”
the notice read, encouraging
participants to wear face
masks for anonymity. “Send
Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times
for April 14.
The fire was the first in a
series of arson attacks
against, and within, L.A.
County’s sprawling home-
less community in 2019.
In a six-week span from
late August to early October
of that year, a number of
homeless men and women
saw their tents set ablaze or
had explosives thrown at
their resting places in Eagle
Rock, Glendale, Echo Park
and skid row. Three home-
less people were killed in
fires — two of which police
said were set by other un-
housed people — but in
other cases an encampment
was burned out near
Chatsworth and a firecrack-
er was thrown at the tent of a
man sleeping under an over-
pass in Echo Park.
Mel Tillekeratne, the
founder of Shower of Hope, a
network of trailers that pro-
vides washing stations for
the unhoused throughout
L.A. County, said the an-
nouncement of charges
came as a relief given so
much time had passed since
the fire.
“It was something we
were worried that would fall
through the cracks of the so-
called justice system in
L.A.,” he said. “So, to see a
person who committed a se-
rious offense against the un-
housed, to see them brought
to justice … these are things
we really need.”
Don Leach Daily Pilot
this channel to all patriots in
SoCal who will stand against
anti-White racism and vi-
olence.”
Huntington Beach inter-
im Police Chief Julian Har-
vey said the department
learned Monday of a pos-
sible demonstration being
planned for the pier and was
gathering details on the
event.
Mayor Kim Carr said the
idea of a possible White
Lives Matter rally at the pier
was unacceptable.
“These protests are not
indicative of our communi-
ty,” she said. “We don’t stand
for hate. We’re a welcoming
community. We embrace ev-
eryone, and to have these
continued rallies, this one in
particular, is truly offensive.
I’m all for the 1st Amend-
ment, but I think too many
T HURSDAY , APRIL 1, 2021
Videos show
police ordering
men to disarm
Body cam footage is
from two LAPD
shootings March 16.
One suspect died.
By Kevin Rector
Body camera videos from
two recent Los Angeles po-
lice shootings show officers
pleading with armed sus-
pects to put down their
weapons before both men
decide to use them instead
— with one shooting a SWAT
officer in the neck and the
other slashing at a victim
with a knife.
In both March 16 inci-
dents, the suspects were
subsequently shot by offi-
cers. The suspect in the first
incident, identified as 36-
year-old Jorge Cerda, was
pronounced dead outside
the family home where he’d
holed up with a shotgun.
The suspect in the second
incident, identified as 32-
year-old Marco Diaz, was
transported from the transi-
tional housing where he was
shot to a local hospital,
where he underwent surgery
and is expected to survive.
The videos were the first
to be released from a string
of seven LAPD shootings in
recent weeks that raised
concerns among activists
and police overseers, who
said they would be reviewing
the shootings as a whole as
police investigated each in-
cident individually. The vid-
eos put into clearer view two
incidents in which police
said that officers bravely
confronted threats — and
fired on the suspects as a
last resort.
In the first incident, po-
lice were called to a home in
the 1000 block of West 21st
Street in the Southwest Di-
vision by family members of
Cerda, who said he was
brandishing a shotgun and
had fired it into the air. In the
video, released by LAPD this
week, family members de-
scribe the gun and say they
believe Cerda is high on
drugs.
Officers on the scene
make contact with Cerda by
telephone and ask him to
come outside and talk with
them. They say he is not in
trouble.
“I don’t trust you guys,”
Cerda says.
Negotiations to have
Cerda exit the home go no-
where. A crisis negotiator
comes and speaks to Cerda
on a megaphone. They play a
message from Cerda’s aunt
in Spanish, as well.
Eventually, police de-
cided they had reached an
impasse and moved in on the
home.
Two officers outside the
home, around a corner from
windows where they believe
Cerda is located, discuss not
people hide behind the 1st
Amendment to promote
hate speech.”
Chuck Tanner is a Seat-
tle-based research director
for the Institute for Re-
search and Education on
Human Rights, which exam-
ines racist, anti-Semitic and
far-right social movements
for the purpose of protecting
human rights.
The institute learned last
week about a series of White
Lives Matter rallies being
planned across the nation
for April 11 and said some of
the groups affiliated with
the organization of the dem-
onstrations have deep roots
in extreme white radicalism.
“White Lives Matter runs
the gamut, from people who
know how to clean it up a bit
better down to people who
are touting Nazi symbols,”
Tanner said.
The woman who called
Newport Beach police about
the fliers in her yard said the
city should call on residents
to pledge an oath that hate
speech and activities will not
be tolerated. “If the people at
the top won’t denounce
[hate] and they won’t take
action, it’s going to stay the
way it is and the way it has
been for decades,” she said.
Cardine, Turner and Szabo
write for Times Community
News.
B3
being able to see into the
home as one loads and then
fires a gas canister through
one of the windows, appar-
ently as part of a plan to
smoke Cerda out. Seconds
later, the second officer,
SWAT Officer Rodney
Williams, is on one knee with
his gun drawn at the edge of
the corner when he is seen
getting shot in the neck.
Williams slumps over
toward his partner, who
screams into his radio:
“Rodney’s down!”
The officer drags
Williams away from the cor-
ner on his back. Blood ap-
pears from around the mask
Williams is wearing.
In the second-story win-
dow of a neighbor, another
officer also was recording
when Williams could be
heard getting shot. In the vi-
deo, moments after
Williams’ shooting, the offi-
cer leans out the window
and shoots downward —
where Cerda had appeared
from the home next door
armed with a shotgun.
‘Don’t reach for
that rifle. You go
for that rifle, I’m
gonna shoot you
again, you
understand?’
— LAPD officer,
in confrontation with armed
suspect
“Hey, don’t f—ing move!
Don’t move. Don’t reach for
that rifle,” the officer
screams. Cerda can be seen
lying on a driveway, a shot-
gun partially beneath him.
“You go for that rifle, I’m
gonna shoot you again, you
understand?” the officer
says.
Williams was rushed to a
hospital, where he was
treated and was expected to
survive — thanks in part to
his bullet-resistant vest.
Cerda was pronounced dead
at the scene.
In the second incident,
patrol and Community Safe-
ty Partnership officers were
called to transitional hous-
ing units in the 1600 block of
East 109th Street in the
Southeast Division by a man
who said a manager at the
home was hiding in his bed-
room from another resident
who was threatening him
with a knife outside the bed-
room door.
“The gentleman is kick-
ing my manager’s doorway.
He’s trying to get in with a
knife. He’s trying to cut my
manager,” says a 911 caller,
who speculates that Diaz is
high on drugs.
The officers who re-
sponded cleared the home
as they yelled for Diaz to
come outside. One man who
came out told police that Di-
az had a “big ol’ knife” and
was about to kick in the
manager’s bedroom door.
The officers enter the
home and find Diaz at the
end of a long hallway, where
they can see he is holding
two knives. The lead officer
orders him to put down the
knives and slowly walk
toward her. He does so but
then ignores commands
that he place his hands on
his head. He then stops.
“All we’re trying to do is
figure out what’s going on,”
the lead officer says, before
Diaz begins moving back
toward the knives.
The lead officer then tells
a second officer to shoot Di-
az with a 40mm projectile,
and Diaz falls to the floor of
the hallway — on top of the
knives.
“If you reach for those
knives again, we’re gonna hit
you again. I need you to sur-
render to us,” the lead officer
says.
The officers continue try-
ing to coax Diaz out. Diaz
rises to one knee near the
bedroom door, then pauses.
Then, suddenly, he gets up
and slams his shoulder into
the door, popping it open.
“S—, come on, come on,
come on,” the lead officer
says, running down the hall-
way as the manager begins
screaming.
She and a second officer
then fire at Diaz in the door-
way about 10 times. He falls
to the floor.
Police said the manager’s
head and hands were cut.
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police officer with an
electroshock weapon.
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A Fontana man was ar-
rested by the FBI on
Wednesday on suspicion of
assaulting a police officer
during the Jan. 6 storming of
the U.S. Capitol by support-
ers of then-President
Trump.
Daniel Rodriguez, 38,
was accused of injuring a
District of Columbia Met-
ropolitan police officer with
an electroshock weapon as
the mob of Trump backers
was forcing its way into the
building in an attempt to
block Congress from certify-
ing Joe Biden’s victory in the
2020 presidential election.
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smashing a window of the
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Rodriguez is also ac-
cused of stealing one of the
emergency escape hoods
stored beneath the seats of
members of Congress. Many
lawmakers grabbed their
hoods — designed for pro-
tection in a terrorist attack
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Senate chambers moments
before the mob’s arrival.
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Fanone.
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in the Capitol riot. Like sev-
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Heeere’s Johnny and UCLA
Juzang dreamed of something like this years ago, but a Final Four as tournament’s leading scorer? No way
By Ben Bolch
INDIANAPOLIS — Every
morning before school, and
each night before bed, the
eighth-grader would read the
messages taped to his bed-
room closet.
The words, and the hand-
writing, were familiar, Johnny
Juzang having penned each
letter to himself as an ode to
his basketball ambitions.
Make a Final Four. Win a
national championship.
Win a title at the highest lev-
el.
It’s starting to play out as
scripted, Juzang having com-
menced a celebratory jig,
slipped on a commemorative
T-shirt and placed a freshly
shorn net around his neck late
Tuesday night inside Lucas
Oil Stadium.
Juzang’s UCLA Bruins are
going to the Final Four.
That’s not to say that the
sophomore guard ever fore-
saw anything like this.
Even Juzang, who visual-
ized success to push himself
through hours of drudgery on
the practice court and in the
weight room, couldn’t have
predicted the way he has
carried his team on this deep
NCAA tournament run only
one season after having aver-
aged 2.9 points per game as a
freshman at Kentucky.
Juzang exceeded his Ken-
tucky season point total (82)
exclusively in the NCAA tour-
nament before halftime of the
Bruins’ 51-49 victory over
Michigan in the East Regional
final. He has a tournament-
high 108 points to go with a
tournament-leading 21.6
points per game among the
remaining teams.
All those points came with
Juzang missing parts of two
games with an ankle injury
and the entire overtime
against Alabama in a regional
semifinal after having fouled
out.
“It’s pretty surreal to be in
the Final Four now,” Juzang
told The Times by telephone
Wednesday, having led the
Bruins to their deepest NCAA
tournament run since 2008,
“after I had written that down
so many years ago.”
Being a breakout star on
college basketball’s biggest
stage has its privileges. UCLA
legend Reggie Miller tweeted
video footage of Juzang hug-
ging teammate Cody Riley af-
ter Juzang scored 28 points
during an upset of the top-
seeded Wolverines. Cleveland
Cavaliers forward Kevin Love,
a member of the Bruins’ 2008
Final Four team, tweeted his
admiration.
Kentucky’s John Calipari,
who spurned UCLA’s over-
Unflinching Bruins have had unexpected success
BILL PLASCHKE
Massive
Michigan
kept swing-
ing.
Unflinch-
ing UCLA
refused to fall.
Massive
Michigan
attacked the
rim, launched from deep,
scrambled in the corners,
battled in the middle, ex-
hausted every weapon in final
minutes drenched in furious
desperation.
Unflinching UCLA didn’t
blink, wouldn’t back down,
led with their chests, fought
with their chins, stayed in
their stance, stood their
ground.
These undermanned
Bruins can take a punch.
These overmatched Bruins
can seize a moment. This
unlikely group of Westwood
darlings did both Tuesday
night in sweatily grabbing
and donning the only UCLA
basketball number that has
ever really mattered.
The Bruins are back in the
Final Four.
No, their coach, Mick
Cronin, can’t believe it either.
“Hell no,” he said. “Hell
no.”
With a team bereft of two
of its best players and its best
recruit, with a resume so
shaky they had to play a
special game just to get into
the NCAA tournament,
11th-seeded UCLA nonethe-
less answered the call of
Bruins basketball history by
charging back to basketball’s
biggest stage with a 51-49
JOHNNY JUZANG IS FOULED while catching a pass against Michigan on Tuesday. Juzang has scored more
points in the NCAA tournament than he did during his entire freshman season at Kentucky.
‘I needed him to hurry up, though. I
told somebody, “Go get him or tell
him I’m coming down there myself.” ’
on Johnny Juzang’s injury against Michigan
tures for its coaching vacancy
two years ago before Mick
Cronin took the job, also
passed along his congratu-
lations on social media, telling
Juzang to fulfill another of his
goals and “win it all.”
The 11th-seeded Bruins
(22-9) are two victories away
after having slayed the top
two seeds in their region, set-
ting up another colossal chal-
lenge against top-seeded
Gonzaga (30-0) on Saturday
in a national semifinal.
Juzang’s father, Maxie, fig-
ures to be hoarse before tipoff
after having cheered his son’s
team through five consecutive
victories, making UCLA only
the second team after Virginia
Commonwealth to advance
from the First Four to a Final
Four.
“I’m trying to take some
tea right now,” Maxie Juzang
said Wednesday morning.
victory over top-seeded
Michigan in the East Region
final at Indianapolis’ Lucas
Oil Stadium.
No, their star Johnny
Juzang can’t believe it either.
“Unreal, man,” he said.
“Unreal.”
You know what’s really
unreal? After the teams were
tied at 46 with 5:23 left, the
Wolverines didn’t score an-
other basket. Missed their
last eight shots. Bricked
layups and runners and
jumpers. Blew four chances
to tie or win in the last eight
seconds.
Massive Michigan folded
in the face of unflinching
UCLA, right down to the last
gasp, a three-point fling by
Franz Wagner with Jules
Bernard flying in his face.
Clank. Game. Wagner put
his hands on his head in
agony. Bernard thrust his
fists in the air in triumph.
The Bruins danced on the
floor in grinning, screaming
disbelief.
If you were having an
out-of-body experience while
bouncing in front of your TV,
join the club.
“It’s incredible, man …
surreal … surreal … some-
thing, you know, growing up,
you just dream about,” said
Juzang. “And to do it with
such an amazing group of
guys … makes it just so won-
derful. It’s beautiful.”
The beauty is that, while
this is UCLA’s 19th trip to the
Final Four, it’s the first in 13
years and the most unexpect-
ed in forever.
This team doesn’t have
the future NBA players who
populated Ben Howland’s
SPORTS
—Mick Cronin,
Johnny’s play has pro-
vided all the soothing his fam-
ily needed, especially after
frightening everybody mid-
way through the second half
against the Wolverines.
Juzang rolled his ankle after
grabbing a rebound and hob-
bled off the court and onto a
trainer’s table to have the an-
kle re-wrapped.
Having watched his lead-
ing scorer return only 10 days
after being carried off the
court because of the same an-
kle against Michigan State,
Cronin figured Juzang would
be back unless he was unable
to walk.
“I needed him to hurry up,
though,” Cronin said with a
chuckle, alluding to Juzang
having carried his team’s oth-
erwise sluggish offense. “I told
somebody, ‘Go get him or tell
him I’m coming down there
myself.’ ”
UCLA IS in the Final Four of the NCAA tournament
for the first time since 2008 after defeating Michigan.
teams. They don’t have the
depth of the group led by Jim
Harrick. And there’s none of
the star power of John Wood-
en’s squads.
None of them is a senior.
None of them has any tourna-
ment experience. With the
exception of Juzang, they’re
mostly role players who just
happen to play hard and play
together and play for each
other.
They’re not just good,
they’re lovable good. They’re
a breathing eight-clap.
They’re so darn … Bruin-able.
“Everybody’s so unified. …
We’re just all sharing in each
other and rooting for each
other,” said Juzang, later
adding: “Just a lot of love,
man.”
This beauty now must
face a beast, UCLA advanc-
ing to play top-ranked and
Sure enough, only mo-
ments after the last piece of
tape was ripped off and
Juzang put his shoe back on,
he pounded himself on the
chest twice and re-entered the
game.
Juzang is never one to take
a play — or a day — off, rou-
tinely following his team’s
practices and weightlifting
sessions with a drive into the
San Fernando Valley for addi-
tional work with a player de-
velopment coach.
He hails from a basketball
family, his father having
played in high school and an
uncle having made the team
at Carnegie Mellon Uni-
versity. His uncle-in-law
trumps them all in star watt-
age, Michael Cooper having
won five NBA championships
with the Lakers.
Juzang played pickup
games at the Galen Center
when Cooper coached the
USC women’s basketball
team, but Juzang always
dreamed of starring for the
Trojans’ cross-town rival. He
attended games at Pauley Pa-
vilion during UCLA’s rocking
Lonzo Ball season and envi-
sioned himself similarly wow-
ing fans when coach Steve Al-
ford made Juzang a top re-
Michael Conroy Associated Press
unbeaten Gonzaga on Sat-
urday in the national semifin-
als.
Cover your eyes. The
pregame chatter will not be
pretty. The sports world will
be picking the Bruins to get
waxed in the same manner
that the Bulldogs just man-
handled USC.
But then, the sports world
thought UCLA would lose
the play-in game to Michigan
State. And lose the first-
round game to Brigham
Young. And lose the Sweet 16
game to Alabama.
Without injured Chris
Smith, absent Jalen Hill and
turned-pro Daishen Nix, few
thought this Bruins team
could even make the tourna-
ment. Then, after they blew
leads in losing their final four
games before receiving an
invitation, nobody thought
Michael Conroy Associated Press
cruiting priority.
But Alford’s firing midway
through the 2018-19 season,
combined with Juzang’s deci-
sion to reclassify into an earli-
er graduating class, nudged
Kentucky and Virginia into
the lead. By the time Cronin
was hired and made his re-
cruiting pitch, the Studio City
Harvard-Westlake High
standout was essentially
headed to Lexington.
That decision led to a
rocky college debut, Juzang
barely playing before a few
promising performances late
in the season. Then came the
pandemic that forced Juzang
to reconsider what he wanted
out of his college experience.
Transferring to UCLA
seemed like the most attrac-
tive option given that it was
near his home and the person-
al trainers that he could ac-
cess during a time of heavy un-
certainty. Juzang also liked
the idea of Cronin transform-
ing him into the kind of player
who could tick off those goals
on the bedroom closet.
“I wanted to be part of a
winning program and be held
to winning standards,”
Juzang said, “and I felt he was
the guy to do that.”
The NCAA granted a peti-
they had much of a chance to
actually dance for more than
a minute.
“Nobody would have said,
‘You’re going to the Final
Four,’ let’s be honest,” said
Cronin.
So, really, when they take
the floor against the machine
that is Gonzaga, the Bruins
will have the experts right
where they want them.
“Nobody believed in us,
nobody picked us, that’s the
way we like it,” Cronin told
CBS. “Obviously we know our
next assignment is tough, but
their resilience is unbeliev-
able.”
That resilience resonated
on a bruising Tuesday night
that mirrored much of this
month. As they have done in
winning four of their five
tournament games against
favored opponents, the Bru-
ins pounded the bigger, more
physical and more gifted
Wolverines into a pulp.
Michigan won all the
glitzy stats. Michigan
grabbed 10 more rebounds.
Michigan scored twice as
many points in the paint.
Only five Bruins even scored,
with more than half their
points coming from Juzang’s
28.
Yet UCLA won the game
because, for the umpteenth
time in two years under
Cronin, the team was tougher
when tougher was needed.
“Stats are for losers.
Either you win or you lose,”
said Cronin. “I think that stat
sheet can get crumbled up
tonight.”
Crumbled like Michigan
did against Kenneth Nwuba,
a little-used Bruins reserve
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vs. Stanford
Friday, 3 p.m. PDT
Connecticut
vs. Arizona
Friday, 6:30 p.m. PDT
AT THE ALAMODOME,
SAN ANTONIO
TV: ESPN
tion for immediate eligibility
that his father said was based
on pandemic hardship, allow-
ing Juzang to move into the
starting lineup almost as soon
as he recovered from a stress
reaction in his right foot that
forced him to miss the first
four games.
Cronin gave Juzang the
nudge he was looking for,
helping him evolve into a
scorer, and not just a shooter,
by enhancing his ability to
draw fouls and get to the free-
throw line instead of settling
for jump shots.
It has led to a reminder
that sometimes it’s best to
write your own story, the de-
tails never as important as the
ending.
“I wasn’t thinking about
the scoring at all, it just kind of
happened,” Juzang said of his
tournament bonanza, “but I
definitely did visualize a run.”
who played a career-high 20
minutes, didn’t score a point,
yet grabbed five rebounds
and drew four charging fouls.
He was emblematic of a
deep-digging Bruins defense
that held Michigan stand-
outs Mike Smith and Wagner
to a combined two for 17 while
not allowing an easy layup or
uncontested play.
“Our toughness, it’s been
great all year,” said Cronin.
That was perhaps rarely
more apparent than early in
the second half, when Juzang
was helped off the floor after
seemingly reinjuring a bo-
thersome right ankle. A
couple of minutes later, he
was back in the game and
didn’t leave the court again,
hitting a jumper with 1:05 left
to give UCLA a three-point
lead and sinking a free throw
in the final seconds that
eventually cemented the win.
“So we’ve got some lion-
hearted guys on this team,
we’ve got some warriors,
man,” said Juzang. “It kind of
... checks everybody because
the guy to your right is
putting his heart on the floor
and the guy to your left is
putting his heart on the floor.
I know I’ve got an injury or
whatever, but I’m getting
right back out there because
I’m trying to leave my heart
on the floor.”
He and his teammates will
put themselves out there at
least one more time against
powerhouse Gonzaga on
Saturday, with UCLA’s 12th
national men’s basketball
championship just two wins
away.
Again, underdogs. Again,
unflinching.
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NBA

STANDINGS
Standings have been arranged to reflect how the teams will be
determined for the playoffs. Teams are ranked 1-15 by record. Divi-
sion standing no longer has any bearing on the rankings. The top six
teams in each conference qualify for the playoffs. Teams seven
Drummond stubs his toe in debut
through 10 will participate in a play-in tournament with the top-
seeded team playing the lowest qualifying play-in team. The next-
lowest qualifying team would play the second, etc. Head-to-head
competition is the first of several tiebreakers, followed by conference After a promising start,
record. (Western Conference divisions: S-Southwest; P-Pacific; N-
Northwest; Eastern Conference divisions: A-Atlantic; C-Central; S- center limps to the locker
Southeast).
WESTERN CONFERENCE
room early in second half
Team W L PCT GB L10 Rk. of loss to Bucks.
1. Utah 36 11 .766 8-2 N1
2. Phoenix 33 14 .702 3 8-2 P1 MILWAUKEE 112
3. CLIPPERS 32 17 .653 5 7-3 P2 LAKERS 97
4. LAKERS 30 18 .625 61⁄2 6-4 P3
By Dan Woike
5. Denver 29 18 .617 7 7-3 N2
5. Portland 29 18 .617 7 7-3 N3
7. Dallas 25 21 .543 101⁄2 6-4 S1 Andre Drummond touched the
8. San Antonio 24 21 .533 11 5-5 S2 ball, spun it onto the court and
dribbled out toward his new team
9. Golden State 23 24 .489 2 4-6 P4 — everyone in warmups and the
9. Memphis 22 23 .489 2 5-5 S3
Lakers’ newest player so excited
that he had ditched the sweats and
11. Sacramento 22 26 .458 31⁄2 7-3 P5
was already in his jersey.
12. New Orleans 21 25 .457 31⁄2 6-4 S4
It’s having a 6-foot-10 human
13. Oklahoma City 20 27 .426 5 4-6 N4
wrapped in purple and gold block-
14. Houston 13 34 .277 12 2-8 S5
ing shots at the rim that make you
15. Minnesota 12 36 .250 131⁄2 4-6 N5 think twice. It’s having him park in
EASTERN CONFERENCE the lane like a semi-truck in front of
Team W L PCT GB L10 Rk. a bay window, impossible for the
1. Brooklyn 33 15 .688 8-2 A1 defense to ignore.
2. Philadelphia 32 15 .681 1
⁄2 7-3 A2
Even when he wasn’t on his own
Wednesday, sartorially speaking,
3. Milwaukee 30 17 .638 21⁄2 7-3 C1
Drummond was easy to notice.
4. Charlotte 24 22 .522 8 6-4 S1
The basketball folks call it a “pres-
5. Miami 24 24 .500 9 4-6 S2
ence.”
5. New York 24 24 .500 9 5-5 A3
But like so much for the Lakers
7. Atlanta 23 24 .489 91⁄2 6-4 S3 this season, it was temporary, tak-
8. Boston 23 25 .479 10 3-7 A4 en from them in a blink.
Early in the second half of the Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
9. Indiana 21 25 .457 1 5-5 C2 Lakers’ 112-97 loss to the Bucks, NEW LAKER Andre Drummond goes up strong against Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo
10. Chicago 19 27 .413 3 3-7 C3 Drummond limped back to the during the first half. Drummond scored only four points before suffering an injured toe.
11. Toronto 18 30 .375 5 1-9 A5 locker room, his right Nike off his
12. Washington 17 29 .370 5 3-7 S4 foot and in his hand. Team trainers too good for a team doing its best to back and I’m looking forward to it,” the Lakers, his new team
13. Cleveland 17 30 .362 51⁄2 3-7 C4 and doctors followed. General try to weather the storms it keeps Drummond said earlier this week. outscored the Bucks by seven. He
14. Orlando 16 31 .340 61⁄2 3-7 S5 manager Rob Pelinka did too. finding itself in. If those are the long-term blocked Donte DiVincenzo after
15. Detroit 13 34 .277 91⁄2 3-7 C5 He had been stepped on in the Drummond gave the Lakers hopes, they have to be a factor for jumping to challenge another shot.
first half by the Bucks’ Brook four points, one for each of his four the Lakers in the short term too. And while he struggled with
Lopez. At halftime, he noticed the fouls, to go with two assists and one The Lakers don’t have the offen- plenty of rust in and around the
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
nail from his big toe was gone. He rebound. But the plan with him, at sive talent to hang with the Bucks if rim, his physicality inside was a
Milwaukee 112, at LAKERS 97 Portland 124, at Detroit 101
Miami 92, at Indiana 87 Dallas 113, at Boston 108 tried to play, but he couldn’t. least listening to people since Milwaukee is having a good night. stark contrast to what the Lakers
at Brooklyn 120, Houston 108 Utah 111, at Memphis 107 “I couldn’t even put shoes on,” Drummond signed Sunday, was al- So it’s on the Lakers’ defense to have gotten from their prior start-
at Minnesota 102, New York 101 at Okla. City 113, Toronto 103 he said after the game. ways more big picture. make sure they’re not. ing center Marc Gasol, who spent
at San Antonio 120, Sac. 106 at Phoenix 121, Chicago 116 Wrong steps, rotten luck or the The optimism is based a lot of Offensively, the Lakers re- offensive possessions around the
cost of a shortened offseason, or in projection, projection that relies mained a mess — hitting eight of 12 three-point line providing spacing
TODAY’S GAMES Drummond’s case, more than a on Drummond being available to three-pointers in the first quarter and some occasional quarter-
Favorite Line Underdog Time month absent from the court, al- play, in shape and healthy. It’s why before making only two of their backing. You could see that in a big
at CLIPPERS OFF Denver 7 p.m.
ways leading to the same — the Vogel anointed Drummond as the next 24 attempts. Wednesday was screen set on Holiday to get Dennis
Philadelphia 9 at Cleveland 4 p.m.
at Detroit OFF Washington 4 p.m.
Lakers left a little weaker than team’s starter after his very first the sixth time in their last seven Schroder an open 10-foot jumper.
at Brooklyn OFF Charlotte 4:30 p.m. when they started. practice with the team. games where they scored 101 points But as the third quarter began,
at Miami 2 Golden State 5 p.m. Like Drummond’s size, you “I’m eager to get him a week, or fewer. trouble appeared.
at New Orleans 101⁄2 Orlando 5 p.m. can’t ignore that either. two weeks, three weeks, a month, a A shootaround before the Lak- Drummond wasn’t on the floor
at San Antonio OFF Atlanta 5:30 p.m. Anthony Davis was courtside, couple months into our system. I ers hosted Cleveland last week trig- when the second half started, the
in a fire-truck red jacket and some think the more he learns my defen- gered a pair of strong defensive team being called for a delay of
black shorts. LeBron James was sive principles and angles and performances in wins, the team game as Montrezl Harrell quickly
home, wondering why Spectrum reads and all those types of things, correcting two glaring areas of slip- tried to shed his warmups and take
LEADERS SportsNet wasn’t showing the I think he can be a monster defen- page. Drummond’s place.
Through Tuesday score. And the Lakers were left to sively for us,” Vogel said before the “Execution and effort in all Then after a few minutes of
SCORING fight against the Bucks, a team as game. “I just think that there’s a lot areas. We had three or four straight limping on the sideline and signal-
G FG FT PTS AVG credible of a contender as any to work with there. But it’s just games with a poor defensive rating, ing to someone in the crowd while
Beal, WAS 41 449 296 1284 31.3
Lillard, POR 44 404 319 1310 29.8 other, according to Lakers coach gonna take time to get him up to and they were all losses,” Vogel said pointing down at his right foot,
Curry, GS 40 386 202 1162 29.1 Frank Vogel, on Drummond’s first speed with what’s going on in our of his emphasis in that court time. Drummond went back to the
Doncic, DAL 40 403 217 1141 28.5 night in that jersey. system, and I’m looking forward to “So, we had a spirited shootaround scorer’s table to check in. Less than
Antetokounmpo, MIL 43 442 288 1222 28.4 It went well for a little, the team it.” where we got to work, and just got two minutes later, he signaled to
LaVine, CHI 45 442 200 1238 27.5 hitting shots and getting stops, but Even Drummond has talked into our drill work and built some of the bench before hopping off into
Jokic, DEN 47 497 195 1260 26.8
Williamson, NO 44 444 264 1160 26.4 even with Drummond on the floor, about how envisioned the future. our habits back up and raised the the tunnel, another signal of hope
Harden, BKN 40 329 268 1043 26.1 the Bucks, with Giannis Antetok- “I think our defense is gonna be accountability piece.” lost into the darkness of Staples
Leonard, LAC 40 376 209 1038 26.0 ounmpo and Jrue Holiday, were really crazy when those guys come In Drummond’s first shift with Center.

BUCKS 112, LAKERS 97
MILWAUKEE
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
G.Antetknmpo ....35 8-13 8-10 2-10 4 2 25
Middleton..........35 8-18 0-0 1-6 8 4 17
Lopez................31 2-3 0-0 1-5 3 2 4
DiVincenzo.........31 4-8 2-2 2-5 2 3 13
Holiday..............34 11-16 3-4 0-8 6 1 28
Connaughton .....27 2-5 0-0 0-5 0 1 5
Forbes ..............20 3-7 0-0 0-1 0 0 9
T.Antetknmpo .....12 3-6 1-2 0-1 0 2 8
Diakite ................6 1-2 0-0 1-1 0 2 3
Nwora.................2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Merrill.................1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Toupane ..............1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Totals 42-79 14-18 7-42 23 17 112
Shooting: Field goals, 53.2%; free throws, 77.8%
Three-point goals: 14-26 (Forbes 3-5, Holiday 3-5, DiVin-
cenzo 3-6, Diakite 1-1, G.Antetokounmpo 1-1, T.Antetokounmpo
1-1, Connaughton 1-3, Middleton 1-3, Lopez 0-1). Team Re-
bounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 8 (Lopez 4, G.An-
tetokounmpo 3, Holiday). Turnovers: 21 (G.Antetokounmpo 9,
Holiday 4, DiVincenzo 2, Middleton 2, T.Antetokounmpo 2, Con-
naughton, Diakite). Steals: 13 (Holiday 4, DiVincenzo 3, Forbes
2, T.Antetokounmpo 2, Middleton, Nwora). Technical Fouls:
Bucks, 5:01 third.
LAKERS
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Kuzma ..............34 7-17 1-1 1-7 3 1 16
Morris ...............28 5-8 2-2 2-6 2 3 15
Drummond ........14 2-6 0-2 0-1 2 4 4
Caldwell-Pope ....22 0-4 2-3 1-3 1 2 2
Schroder ...........31 6-18 2-2 1-3 8 3 17
Caruso ..............28 3-7 0-0 0-4 2 2 6
Harrell...............25 6-11 7-7 3-5 1 3 19
Matthews ..........25 3-7 0-0 2-4 1 1 9
Horton-Tucker .....16 1-4 1-2 0-1 1 3 3
Gasol..................5 1-3 0-0 0-3 1 0 2
K.Antetknmpo ......2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Cacok .................2 0-0 0-0 1-2 0 0 0
McKinnie .............2 1-1 2-3 0-1 0 0 4
Totals 35-87 17-22 11-40 22 22 97
Shooting: Field goals, 40.2%; free throws, 77.3%
Three-point goals: 10-36 (Morris 3-5, Matthews 3-7,
Schroder 3-8, Kuzma 1-9, Caldwell-Pope 0-1, Harrell 0-1, Horton-
Tucker 0-1, Caruso 0-2, Gasol 0-2). Team Rebounds: 9. Team
Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 5 (Gasol 2, Caruso, Drummond,
Schroder). Turnovers: 22 (Horton-Tucker 6, Drummond 3, Harrell
3, Schroder 3, Caldwell-Pope 2, Kuzma 2, Morris 2, Cacok).
Steals: 9 (Matthews 3, Caruso 2, Gasol, Harrell, Kuzma,
Schroder). Technical Fouls: None.
Milwaukee 24 33 32 23— 112
LAKERS 30 19 26 22— 97
T—2:27.
Suns 121, Bulls 116
CHICAGO
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Markkanen.........34 5-13 4-5 2-10 2 1 16
Young ...............28 7-14 5-6 6-10 4 1 19
Vucevic .............34 8-18 6-6 3-10 3 1 24
Satoransky.........30 3-11 2-2 2-3 7 6 9
Williams ............31 7-11 0-0 1-3 1 4 16
Valentine ...........29 8-18 0-0 1-6 4 2 19
Theis.................19 2-5 2-2 2-5 2 2 6
Brown Jr. ...........16 2-5 0-0 1-1 0 0 5
Arcidiacono........15 1-4 0-0 0-2 4 3 2
Totals 43-99 19-21 18-50 27 20 116
Shooting: Field goals, 43.4%; free throws, 90.5%
Three-point goals: 11-33 (Valentine 3-9, Williams 2-3, Vuce-
vic 2-4, Markkanen 2-8, Brown Jr. 1-2, Satoransky 1-4, Arcidia-
cono 0-1, Theis 0-2). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: 1.
Blocked Shots: 4 (Theis 2, Vucevic, Williams). Turnovers: 9
(Satoransky 3, Valentine 2, Markkanen, Theis, Williams, Young).
Steals: 6 (Satoransky 2, Vucevic 2, Williams, Young). Technical
Fouls: None.
PHOENIX
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Bridges .............28 3-8 0-1 0-2 1 1 6
Crowder.............27 3-4 1-3 0-3 1 4 10
Ayton ................31 4-8 2-2 0-4 0 1 10
Booker ..............35 17-24 9-10 1-4 4 3 45
Paul..................32 7-13 5-7 0-3 14 3 19
Saric.................20 6-9 1-1 2-5 2 2 16
Johnson ............19 2-4 0-0 0-2 2 0 6
Payne................15 4-7 0-0 0-4 4 3 9
Craig.................15 0-3 0-0 0-3 0 2 0
Carter ...............12 0-1 0-0 1-2 1 2 0
Totals 46-81 18-24 4-32 29 21 121
Shooting: Field goals, 56.8%; free throws, 75.0%
Three-point goals: 11-26 (Crowder 3-4, Saric 3-5, Johnson
2-4, Booker 2-5, Payne 1-3, Craig 0-1, Bridges 0-4). Team Re-
bounds: 8. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 7 (Crowder 4,
Ayton 2, Booker). Turnovers: 9 (Booker 5, Ayton 3, Paul). Steals:
6 (Ayton, Booker, Bridges, Craig, Crowder, Saric). Technical
Fouls: None.
Chicago 37 21 28 30— 116
Phoenix 39 28 27 27— 121
A—3,459. T—2:08.
Heat 92, Pacers 87
MIAMI
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Ariza .................25 1-7 0-2 0-3 1 1 2
Butler ...............37 6-14 6-7 1-5 4 1 18
Adebayo ............34 4-10 8-12 3-8 7 2 16
Dragic...............23 5-10 0-0 0-3 2 2 12
Robinson...........33 7-12 0-0 0-8 4 3 20
Herro ................32 6-13 3-5 0-3 2 0 17
Iguodala............22 1-4 0-0 2-7 2 1 2
Vincent .............16 1-6 1-2 0-0 0 1 3
Achiuwa ..............7 1-2 0-0 2-4 0 2 2
Bjelica ................5 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 1 0
Totals 32-78 18-28 8-42 22 14 92
Shooting: Field goals, 41.0%; free throws, 64.3%
Three-point goals: 10-32 (Robinson 6-11, Dragic 2-5, Herro
2-6, Iguodala 0-1, Butler 0-2, Ariza 0-3, Vincent 0-4). Team
Rebounds: 12. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 4 (Adebayo 2,
Butler, Herro). Turnovers: 11 (Robinson 3, Adebayo 2, Butler 2,
Dragic 2, Ariza, Iguodala). Steals: 5 (Butler 2, Adebayo, Ariza,
Iguodala). Technical Fouls: None.
INDIANA
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
J.Holiday............26 2-11 0-0 0-1 2 1 5
Sabonis ............35 4-8 1-2 5-14 3 4 9
Turner ...............27 6-9 0-0 0-6 0 5 15
Brogdon ............31 2-12 2-2 2-7 2 3 7
LeVert ...............32 5-12 4-6 0-1 6 1 14
McConnell .........25 5-12 1-2 2-7 5 1 11
McDermott.........22 5-6 0-0 0-3 1 2 14
Sumner .............15 1-5 0-0 0-3 1 0 3
A.Holiday...........13 1-4 0-0 0-3 2 1 2
Bitadze .............10 3-6 0-0 2-3 1 5 7
Totals 34-85 8-12 11-48 23 23 87
Shooting: Field goals, 40.0%; free throws, 66.7%
Three-point goals: 11-37 (McDermott 4-5, Turner 3-6,
Bitadze 1-1, Sumner 1-2, Brogdon 1-8, J.Holiday 1-8, Sabonis 0-1,
A.Holiday 0-2, LeVert 0-4). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers:
2. Blocked Shots: 4 (Turner 3, Sabonis). Turnovers: 13 (LeVert 3,
Sabonis 3, Turner 2, A.Holiday, Brogdon, McConnell, McDermott,
Sumner). Steals: 7 (LeVert 4, J.Holiday 2, Sabonis). Technical
Fouls: None.
Miami 23 20 22 27— 92
Indiana 28 17 22 20— 87
T—2:15.
Trail Blazers 124, Pistons 101
PORTLAND
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Covington ..........30 6-8 0-0 0-6 1 2 16
Powell ...............33 5-10 3-3 0-3 2 3 14
Nurkic ...............20 2-4 2-3 1-6 4 3 6
Lillard ...............36 9-19 10-11 1-4 10 2 33
McCollum ..........35 8-16 4-4 0-3 6 1 24
Kanter...............26 4-4 2-2 1-8 1 3 10
Anthony.............21 6-13 3-3 0-3 0 2 16
Jones Jr. ............18 1-5 0-0 3-4 0 1 3
Simons .............13 0-2 0-0 0-4 3 3 0
Elleby .................1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0
Giles III ...............1 1-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 2
Totals 42-82 24-26 6-43 27 20 124
Shooting: Field goals, 51.2%; free throws, 92.3%
Three-point goals: 16-30 (Lillard 5-7, Covington 4-5,
McCollum 4-8, Jones Jr. 1-2, Powell 1-3, Anthony 1-4,
Simons 0-1). Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: None.
Blocked Shots: 7 (Jones Jr. 2, McCollum 2, Powell 2,
Covington). Turnovers: 13 (Nurkic 4, Anthony 3, Lillard 2,
Covington, Kanter, McCollum, Powell). Steals: 11 (Cov-
ington 3, Powell 3, Anthony, Jones Jr., Lillard, McCollum,
Nurkic). Technical Fouls: None..
DETROIT
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Bey ..................25 0-8 0-0 0-4 2 6 0
Grant ................33 11-19 5-9 0-2 4 0 30
Plumlee.............29 8-11 2-2 1-3 2 3 18
J.Jackson ...........18 0-5 0-0 0-4 1 2 0
Lee...................19 1-4 0-0 1-2 6 1 2
Joseph ..............28 5-10 1-1 1-2 9 3 11
Diallo................26 7-8 3-3 0-7 3 2 19
F.Jackson ...........23 3-11 0-0 1-5 1 1 8
Stewart .............18 2-6 0-0 0-4 0 4 6
Cook.................15 3-3 1-2 1-3 1 4 7
Sirvydis...............1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Totals 40-86 12-17 5-36 29 26 101
Shooting: Field goals, 46.5%; free throws, 70.6%
Three-point goals: 9-27 (Grant 3-5, Diallo 2-3, Stew-
art 2-4, F.Jackson 2-6, J.Jackson 0-1, Joseph 0-1, Bey
0-7). Team Rebounds: 10. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked
Shots: 7 (Grant 3, Diallo, Lee, Plumlee, Stewart). Turn-
overs: 16 (Joseph 4, Bey 3, Diallo 2, J.Jackson 2, Lee 2,
F.Jackson, Grant, Stewart). Steals: 7 (Joseph 2, Bey, Di-
allo, Grant, J.Jackson, Stewart). Technical Fouls: None..
Portland 31 20 36 37— 124
Detroit 33 19 27 22— 101
A—750,. T—2:14.
Frank Franklin II Associated Press
ALL BALL
Houston Rockets’ Christian Wood defends a shot
by Brooklyn Nets’ Kyrie Irving during the second
half of an NBA game Wednesday in New York.
Nets 120, Rockets 108
HOUSTON
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
House Jr. ...........30 5-10 4-6 0-5 1 3 18
Tate ..................32 3-7 2-2 2-2 3 4 8
Wood................35 4-12 5-6 1-8 3 3 14
S.Brown.............31 4-8 0-0 0-1 0 2 11
Porter Jr.............31 9-16 0-3 0-2 6 1 20
Olynyk...............24 5-7 4-4 0-3 4 2 14
Bradley .............21 4-11 0-0 0-1 1 3 8
Augustin............17 3-5 2-3 0-5 4 3 11
Martin Jr. ...........15 2-2 0-0 3-4 0 0 4
Totals 39-78 17-24 6-31 22 21 108
Shooting: Field goals, 50.0%; free throws, 70.8%
Three-point goals: 13-40 (House Jr. 4-8, Augustin
3-4, S.Brown 3-7, Porter Jr. 2-6, Wood 1-5, Olynyk 0-2,
Tate 0-3, Bradley 0-5). Team Rebounds: 11. Team Turn-
overs: None. Blocked Shots: 8 (Wood 3, Olynyk 2, Tate
2, House Jr.). Turnovers: 13 (House Jr. 3, Wood 3, Brad-
ley 2, Olynyk 2, Augustin, Porter Jr., S.Brown). Steals: 5
(Wood 2, House Jr., Martin Jr., Tate). Technical Fouls:
None.
BROOKLYN
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
B.Brown ............29 2-6 6-6 1-6 2 2 10
Harris................37 10-17 1-1 1-6 0 4 28
Jordan...............11 1-1 0-0 0-1 0 2 2
Harden..............26 5-10 7-7 1-8 6 2 17
Irving ................39 12-25 4-4 2-6 12 4 31
Griffin ...............21 4-5 1-1 1-6 4 1 11
Green ...............21 3-8 0-0 0-2 0 1 6
T.Johnson...........20 0-5 0-0 1-1 0 2 0
Claxton .............20 6-7 0-0 4-8 1 2 12
Lwawu-Cbrrt.......11 1-6 0-0 1-1 0 1 3
Totals 44-90 19-19 12-45 25 21 120
Shooting: Field goals, 48.9%; free throws, 0.0%
Three-point goals: 13-36 (Harris 7-12, Irving 3-8,
Griffin 2-3, Luwawu-Cabarrot 1-5, Green 0-1, Harden
0-3, T.Johnson 0-4). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turn-
overs: 1. Blocked Shots: 3 (Claxton, Green, Griffin). Turn-
overs: 11 (Harden 3, B.Brown 2, Irving 2, T.Johnson 2,
Griffin, Luwawu-Cabarrot). Steals: 6 (Griffin 2, B.Brown,
Claxton, Green, Irving). Technical Fouls: None..
Houston 42 26 19 21— 108
Brooklyn 29 28 29 34— 120
A—1,773. T—2:10.
Timberwolves 102, Knicks 101
NEW YORK
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Bullock..............38 4-6 0-0 0-4 3 1 10
Randle ..............39 11-20 2-2 0-12 6 3 26
Noel .................23 1-4 0-0 3-3 0 3 2
Barrett ..............40 8-17 4-6 0-3 2 3 23
Payton...............27 6-13 4-5 1-5 3 3 17
Burks................24 5-12 1-2 1-3 1 2 13
Gibson ..............24 3-3 1-2 2-8 1 2 7
Quickley ............13 0-4 0-0 0-3 2 0 0
Toppin.................8 1-2 0-0 0-0 2 1 3
Totals 39-81 12-17 7-41 20 18 101
Shooting: Field goals, 48.1%; free throws, 70.6%
Three-point goals: 11-23 (Barrett 3-4, Bullock 2-4,
Burks 2-5, Randle 2-5, Payton 1-1, Toppin 1-2, Quickley
0-2). Team Rebounds: 10. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked
Shots: 6 (Gibson 3, Noel 2, Barrett). Turnovers: 17 (Bar-
rett 4, Randle 4, Noel 3, Payton 3, Bullock, Burks, Quick-
ley). Steals: 7 (Bullock 2, Payton 2, Barrett, Noel, Quick-
ley). Technical Fouls: Knicks, 8:33 fourth.
MINNESOTA
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Edwards ............35 9-16 4-5 1-2 3 3 24
McDaniels .........36 7-13 0-0 2-5 3 3 18
Towns................39 7-18 2-2 2-17 6 4 18
Beasley .............32 5-9 5-6 0-1 0 1 20
Rubio................27 3-9 2-2 1-4 7 1 9
Nowell...............21 2-7 0-0 0-6 3 1 4
McLaughlin ........20 1-4 0-0 0-0 2 0 2
Reid .................15 2-7 2-2 3-3 1 1 6
Hernangomez .......4 0-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 0
Culver .................3 0-2 1-2 0-1 0 0 1
Layman ...............3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Totals 36-87 16-19 9-40 25 14 102
Shooting: Field goals, 41.4%; free throws, 84.2%
Three-point goals: 14-40 (Beasley 5-8, McDaniels
4-9, Edwards 2-7, Towns 2-7, Rubio 1-5, Culver 0-1,
McLaughlin 0-1, Hernangomez 0-2). Team Rebounds:
10. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 7 (Edwards 3,
Towns 2, Beasley, McLaughlin). Turnovers: 12 (Edwards
3, Towns 3, McDaniels 2, Beasley, McLaughlin, Reid,
Rubio). Steals: 9 (Edwards 3, Nowell 2, Rubio 2,
Beasley, McLaughlin). Technical Fouls: None.
New York 26 25 30 20— 101
Minnesota 19 31 20 32— 102
T—2:07.
Mavericks 113, Celtics 108
DALLAS
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Finney-Smith......39 4-7 0-0 3-9 0 3 11
Kleber...............25 1-5 3-4 0-3 2 3 5
Porzingis............32 6-15 4-6 1-8 2 2 19
Doncic ..............34 11-15 7-11 0-8 5 3 36
Richardson ........39 3-9 0-0 0-6 4 2 8
Brunson ............32 8-10 4-4 0-5 3 1 21
Hardaway Jr........25 3-10 0-0 0-3 2 3 7
Melli...................5 1-3 0-0 0-1 1 1 3
Burke..................2 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 3
Green .................2 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 0
Totals 38-77 18-25 4-43 20 18 113
Shooting: Field goals, 49.4%; free throws, 72.0%
Three-point goals: 19-39 (Doncic 7-11, Finney-Smith
3-5, Porzingis 3-7, Richardson 2-3, Brunson 1-1, Melli
1-1, Burke 1-2, Hardaway Jr. 1-6, Kleber 0-3). Team Re-
bounds: 16. Team Turnovers: 4. Blocked Shots: 4
(Porzingis 3, Richardson). Turnovers: 16 (Doncic 8, Rich-
ardson 3, Porzingis 2, Brunson, Finney-Smith, Kleber).
Steals: 6 (Finney-Smith 2, Porzingis 2, Brunson, Kle-
ber). Technical Fouls: None.
BOSTON
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Brown ...............36 9-17 2-4 1-4 1 2 24
Tatum ...............38 10-24 4-4 2-9 3 2 25
Wagner .............15 1-4 0-0 2-4 2 3 2
Smart ...............35 5-12 5-6 2-5 7 2 17
Walker...............37 7-19 6-6 0-5 6 3 22
Fournier ............30 3-6 0-1 0-3 1 2 6
Kornet...............16 2-5 0-0 1-2 0 1 4
Pritchard ...........15 2-4 2-2 0-2 0 2 8
Williams..............9 0-2 0-0 0-1 0 2 0
Nesmith ..............3 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 0
Totals 39-94 19-23 8-36 20 19 108
Shooting: Field goals, 41.5%; free throws, 82.6%
Three-point goals: 11-47 (Brown 4-11, Pritchard 2-4,
Smart 2-7, Walker 2-9, Tatum 1-8, Nesmith 0-1, Wagner
0-1, Fournier 0-2, Kornet 0-2, Williams 0-2). Team Re-
bounds: 10. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 2
(Kornet, Smart). Turnovers: 9 (Brown 3, Tatum 3, Wagner
2, Walker). Steals: 11 (Brown 4, Tatum 3, Smart 2,
Fournier, Walker). Technical Fouls: None.
Dallas 30 34 26 23— 113
Boston 25 20 28 35— 108
A—2,298. T—2:20.
Thunder 113, Raptors 103
TORONTO
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Anunoby............36 7-18 2-2 3-11 3 3 20
Siakam .............37 2-9 9-10 1-7 4 3 14
Baynes..............21 0-3 0-0 2-2 1 3 0
Trent Jr. .............36 12-22 1-2 0-2 0 2 31
VanVleet............38 5-17 5-6 0-4 7 3 18
Flynn ................19 1-4 0-0 0-0 2 3 2
Boucher ............19 4-10 0-0 1-4 3 2 10
Johnson ............18 4-5 0-0 0-5 1 4 8
Watanabe............7 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
Hood ..................5 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
Totals 35-90 17-20 7-35 21 25 103
Shooting: Field goals, 38.9%; free throws, 85.0%
Three-point goals: 16-46 (Trent Jr. 6-11, Anunoby 4-
11, VanVleet 3-10, Boucher 2-6, Siakam 1-3, Baynes
0-1, Hood 0-1, Watanabe 0-1, Flynn 0-2). Team Re-
bounds: 4. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 7
(VanVleet 4, Boucher 2, Anunoby). Turnovers: 7
(Anunoby 2, Siakam 2, VanVleet 2, Boucher). Steals: 13
(VanVleet 5, Anunoby 3, Flynn 2, Trent Jr. 2, Siakam).
Technical Fouls: Baynes, 7:21 third.
OKLAHOMA CITY
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Roby.................32 7-12 2-2 4-10 3 3 17
Williams ............28 4-6 0-0 2-8 1 5 10
Brown ...............30 6-10 8-9 7-12 0 1 20
Maledon............32 3-16 3-4 1-7 6 2 11
Mykhailiuk .........35 9-14 0-1 1-9 0 0 22
Jackson.............24 5-14 0-0 2-4 3 1 12
Hall ..................20 0-4 5-8 0-5 4 1 5
Miller ................18 4-6 0-0 0-2 1 3 11
Bradley .............17 1-4 3-4 2-7 1 0 5
Totals 39-86 21-28 19-64 19 16 113
Shooting: Field goals, 45.3%; free throws, 75.0%
Three-point goals: 14-33 (Mykhailiuk 4-8, Miller 3-5,
Williams 2-2, Jackson 2-6, Maledon 2-8, Roby 1-2, Hall
0-2). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: 2. Blocked
Shots: 6 (Mykhailiuk 2, Bradley, Brown, Maledon,
Williams). Turnovers: 18 (Maledon 4, Mykhailiuk 4, Roby
4, Hall 2, Williams 2, Bradley, Jackson). Steals: 2 (Jack-
son, Maledon). Technical Fouls: Thunder, 3:41 first.
Toronto 32 35 22 14— 103
Oklahoma City 30 29 28 26— 113
T—2:12.
Jazz 111, Grizzlies 107
UTAH
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Bogdanovic........32 6-17 6-6 1-5 3 1 23
O’Neale.............34 3-5 2-2 1-6 2 4 9
Gobert ..............36 3-6 2-7 2-12 4 4 8
Conley ..............35 11-18 2-2 0-4 7 3 26
Ingles ...............34 3-9 2-2 1-5 2 2 10
Clarkson............26 8-22 4-4 2-7 0 2 24
Niang................15 1-3 0-0 1-2 1 1 3
Oni...................13 1-3 0-0 1-1 1 2 3
Favors ...............11 2-6 1-2 2-4 0 2 5
Totals 38-89 19-25 11-46 20 21 111
Shooting: Field goals, 42.7%; free throws, 76.0%
Three-point goals: 16-49 (Bogdanovic 5-12, Clark-
son 4-15, Ingles 2-6, Conley 2-8, Niang 1-2, O’Neale
1-3, Oni 1-3). Team Rebounds: 12. Team Turnovers: 1.
Blocked Shots: 5 (Gobert 2, Oni 2, Niang). Turnovers: 14
(Conley 4, Ingles 3, Gobert 2, O’Neale 2, Clarkson, Fa-
vors, Niang). Steals: 10 (Conley 4, Bogdanovic 2, Clark-
son, Favors, Gobert, Ingles). Technical Fouls: None.
MEMPHIS
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Anderson...........31 6-11 5-7 0-11 1 0 18
Brooks ..............29 8-17 0-0 0-1 1 5 17
Valanciunas .......32 8-17 0-0 7-14 5 4 16
Bane ................32 3-10 1-1 1-5 5 4 7
Morant ..............35 11-18 12-15 0-2 7 1 36
Melton ..............22 2-6 0-0 1-1 1 0 5
Jones................19 1-4 0-0 2-5 3 1 2
Tillie .................16 2-4 0-0 0-0 0 0 4
Tillman..............15 1-3 0-0 0-6 0 3 2
McDermott ..........4 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 2 0
Totals 42-90 18-23 11-46 23 20 107
Shooting: Field goals, 46.7%; free throws, 78.3%
Three-point goals: 5-18 (Morant 2-4, Brooks 1-3, An-
derson 1-4, Melton 1-4, Bane 0-1, Tillie 0-1, Tillman
0-1). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked
Shots: 4 (Anderson 3, Tillie). Turnovers: 11 (Morant 5,
Melton 3, Anderson 2, Brooks). Steals: 10 (Brooks 3,
Morant 3, Bane, Jones, Melton, Valanciunas). Technical
Fouls: None.
Utah 29 28 18 36— 111
Memphis 28 21 27 31— 107
A—2,314. T—2:20.
Spurs 120, Kings 106
SACRAMENTO
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Barnes ..............34 2-8 1-2 5-14 5 1 6
Hield ................31 5-18 0-0 0-1 1 1 14
Holmes .............31 6-8 2-2 5-15 0 3 14
Fox ...................33 7-18 5-6 0-0 4 3 20
Haliburton .........29 7-15 1-1 1-1 2 2 18
Wright ...............22 5-10 4-4 0-3 3 1 16
Davis ................20 3-8 0-0 0-2 1 3 6
Metu.................13 2-3 0-0 0-3 3 2 4
Harkless ............11 0-1 2-2 0-1 2 3 2
Guy ....................2 1-1 2-2 0-0 0 0 4
James.................2 1-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 2
Silva ...................2 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 1 0
Woodard II...........2 0-0 0-0 0-2 0 0 0
Totals 39-92 17-19 11-43 22 20 106
Shooting: Field goals, 42.4%; free throws, 89.5%
Three-point goals: 11-35 (Hield 4-12, Haliburton 3-7, Wright
2-3, Barnes 1-3, Fox 1-5, Harkless 0-1, Davis 0-4). Team Re-
bounds: 6. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 5 (Holmes 2,
Barnes, Fox, Hield). Turnovers: 12 (Fox 4, Barnes 2, Hield 2, Guy,
Haliburton, Holmes, Metu). Steals: 7 (Wright 2, Barnes, Davis,
Haliburton, Harkless, Hield). Technical Fouls: None..
SAN ANTONIO
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
DeRozan............33 12-20 2-2 2-5 7 1 26
Johnson ............26 5-10 0-0 0-5 1 0 11
Poeltl ................29 5-8 2-6 5-14 1 1 12
Murray ..............32 4-11 3-4 2-6 6 3 12
White................30 5-17 6-9 0-6 3 2 18
Mills .................25 3-7 3-3 1-2 5 1 12
Gay ..................19 5-11 3-3 3-8 0 1 16
Vassell ..............15 1-2 0-0 0-2 0 2 2
Eubanks ............12 2-3 4-5 1-5 0 5 8
Dieng..................5 0-0 1-2 0-0 0 0 1
Jones..................2 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 2
Samanic .............2 0-0 0-0 0-1 1 1 0
Reynolds .............2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Weatherspoon ......1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Totals 43-92 24-34 14-54 24 17 120
Shooting: Field goals, 46.7%; free throws, 70.6%
Three-point goals: 10-26 (Gay 3-5, Mills 3-6, White 2-8,
Johnson 1-3, Murray 1-3, Vassell 0-1). Team Rebounds: 11. Team
Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 2 (DeRozan, Poeltl). Turnovers: 10
(DeRozan 4, Murray 3, Eubanks, Johnson, Vassell). Steals: 9
(Murray 3, Mills 2, Gay, Poeltl, Vassell, White). Technical Fouls:
None..
Sacramento 27 26 29 24— 106
San Antonio 33 36 28 23— 120
A—2,802. T—2:11.
B8 T HU R S DAY , AP R IL 1, 2021 S LAT IMES. C OM

CLIPPERS REPORT

Cousins
seen as a
possible
addition
By Andrew Greif

The Clippers and center

DeMarcus Cousins have
discussed signing the 11-year
veteran to a 10-day contract,
two people with knowledge
of the situation confirmed
Wednesday.
Cousins hasn’t played
since Feb. 17, when his time
with Houston ended after 25
games. He averaged 9.6
points and 7.6 rebounds with
the Rockets.
Cousins is under consid-
eration because the Clippers
have been short on depth at
center since starter Serge
Ibaka injured his back in
mid-March. Ibaka has been
sidelined for the last nine
games. The need for another
playable big man behind
Ivica Zubac was evident in
the team’s 103-96 loss to Or-
lando on Tuesday, when the
Clippers allowed 15 offensive
rebounds. The Clippers
used the 33rd pick in last
year’s draft to select Minne-
sota center Daniel Oturu,
but he has rarely played and
did not appear against the Matt York Associated Press
Magic. ANGELS starting pitcher Dylan Bundy produced a breakthrough 2020 season. The Angels are depending on a repeat performance.
Signing Cousins could
also be an insurance policy
to bolster the team’s depth
should Ibaka remain side-
lined deeper into the season.
While injured guards Pat-
rick Beverley (right knee)
It’s debatable if upgrades will be enough
and Rajon Rondo (adduc-
tor) were able to work out on Angels still lack time pitching role after elbow
and forearm injuries. But on
the court Tuesday, Ibaka the whole, it’s not hard to en-
has yet to return to on-court proven arms vision a group that ranked
workouts, coach Tyronn 29th in rotation ERA last sea-
Lue said. despite bullpen son taking a step forward —
Cousins wouldn’t neces- OPENING DAY even if it’s only a small one.
sarily be an instant infusion retooling. Angels vs.
to the roster. Players must
Chicago White Sox Will the depth be
be taking part in the NBA’s
testing protocols to even be By Jack Harris enough?
Tonight, 7
considered for contracts This seems like the over-
at Angel Stadium
and that process can last the Year after year, for six sea- riding question for the Angels
better part of a week. sons straight, the Angels TV: BSW in 2021. After suffering so
If there is a deal, Cousins have sputtered across the fin- often from underperform-
would join a team featuring ish line, always trailing the ance at the bottom of the ros-
former Kentucky team- pack in their unsuccessful at- erage arms could be enough ter — negating even Mike
mates Rondo and Patrick tempts to return to the play- to represent improvement. Trout’s historic production
Patterson. offs. — the Angels’ stockpiling of
Discussing the team’s Like a flawed sports car, established depth options
Solidifying the
open roster spots last week, their problems have varied. (both on the pitching staff
Clippers President In some cases, it was as Abbie Parr Getty Images starting rotation and among position players
Lawrence Frank expected though they had a faulty igni- CLOSER RAISEL IGLESIAS was part of offseason In 2019, the last full-length such as outfielder Juan La-
to be aggressive in filling tion, doomed by slow starts changes made by the Angels to shore up their bullpen. MLB season, the Angels had gares, utility man Jose Rojas
them, but said it “also has to from which they couldn’t re- eight pitchers make 10 or and others who are beginning
be the right person.” cover. In others, they would Big changes in the Buttrey and the injured more starts. Five finished the season at the alternate
“Because if that person spring a leak in the bullpen, Félix Peña are expected to with a negative number of training site) should give
bullpen
isn’t in the rotation, can that or stall out at the plate. eventually play a role on the wins above replacement. them more stability.
person sit and be OK?” This year, new general The alterations came back end — Peña likely It was the ultimate exam- Maybe it won’t matter. Af-
Frank said. “Because any- manager Perry Minasian slowly at first — an offseason sooner, as he’s set to return ple of the franchise’s most ter all, they still lack proven
one can play and be a good didn’t reengineer the entire trade for closer Raisel from a hamstring injury in consistent problem the last high-end starting pitchers.
teammate. But if you’re not team. In many ways, the An- Iglesias and a one-year con- the middle of April — and half-decade: starting pitch- They’re still relying on aging
playing, we want to make gels enter 2021 built in a famil- tract with left-hander Álex Chris Rodriguez, who made ing, where the team ranked veterans such as outfielders
sure we have really good iar way: a strong top half of Claudio. Right before the the team at age 22, is one of last in total WAR the past six Justin Upton and Dexter
chemistry in the locker the batting order, a pitching start of camp, more new faces the top prospects. But Mi- seasons. Fowler to produce. And
room, and that’s a sanctu- staff lacking a true ace and a arrived in Junior Guerra and nasian and Co. decided that They’ve tried to rectify they’ll likely need others such
ary. We just want to make team badly needing reliable Aaron Slegers. new blood was needed. that problem in a couple of as Bundy, first baseman Jar-
sure that whoever we add depth from the bottom of the But it wasn’t until the final “We wanted to be active,” ways. In the offseason, they ed Walsh and new shortstop
there fits with the whole roster. week of spring training that Minasian said. “We wanted to acquired José Quintana and José Iglesias to replicate ca-
team vibe.” The biggest difference, Minasian fully took a sledge- add to this bullpen.” Alex Cobb, pending free reer-best 2020 campaigns.
the Angels are hoping, is that hammer to the bullpen, op- The reconfigured group is agents projected to have un- In other words, it remains
Trade thoughts the front office has found tioning Ty Buttrey to the mi- projected to be 15th-best spectacular but serviceable an imperfect group, continu-
Lou Williams was caught enough spare parts to finally nors and acquiring five veter- among MLB bullpens by Fan- seasons. Also, Andrew ing to narrow the distance be-
by surprise when a trade make a postseason push — an arms (two of which, Steve graphs. It lack an abundance Heaney and Griffin Canning tween superstar leaders
sent him from the Clippers, that their string of subtle off- Cishek and Tony Watson, will of top-tier options. But for a have focused on better se- Trout and third baseman An-
the franchise where his ca- season moves and late flurry start the season on the MLB team that last year had four quencing their pitches and thony Rendon and everyone
reer was revived, to Atlanta. of acquisitions will keep the roster). relievers (with a minimum of maximizing their arsenals else.
The NBA’s all-time leading club competitive all the way Of the eight relievers on 10 appearances) pitch below (similar to how Dylan Bundy This year, they’re trying to
scorer off the bench said he to this year’s final stretch. the 26-man roster, only one replacement level (as calcu- produced a breakthrough fly across the finish line. And
held a series of long, emo- Ahead of Thursday (Mike Mayers) was on the lated by Fangraphs’ win- 2020 season by leaning more beginning Thursday night,
tional discussions with Clip- night’s opener, here are three team last year, when the An- above-replacement stat- on his off-speed pitches). they’ll start finding out if
pers teammates, family and observations about how they gels blew an MLB-high 14 istic), a deeper collection of Shohei Ohtani is the wild they’ve done enough to get
friends before deciding to might stack up. save opportunities. simply average to above-av- card, trying to return to a full- there.
continue playing and hold
off on any decision about re-
tirement until the end of
NHL STANDINGS
Kings end their three-game skid
this, his 16th, season.
The 6-foot-1 guard was
clear: His decision to contin- West W L OL Pts GF GA Central W L OL Pts GF GA
ue playing with the Hawks is Colorado 23 8 4 50 127 80 Tampa Bay 24 9 2 50 124 85
based on the belief “I still feel Vegas 24 9 1 49 110 79 Florida 23 9 4 50 119 99
like I can play at a high level.” Minnesota 21 11 2 44 99 86 Carolina 23 8 3 49 113 86 Andersson scores in
“Man, it hurts, just to be St. Louis 16 13 6 38 100 113 Nashville 19 17 1 39 95 109
candid,” Williams said on a Arizona 16 15 5 37 95 112 Chicago 17 15 5 39 106 115
his first game back in
videoconference with re- KINGS 14 14 6 34 96 96 Columbus 14 15 8 36 94 118 more than a month as
porters in his first com-
ments since being traded
San Jose
DUCKS
15
11
16
20
4
6
34
28
99
83
120
123
Dallas
Detroit
11
12
12
21
10
4
32
28
91
80
91
119
L.A. wins in Vegas.
just before the NBA’s March North W L OL Pts GF GA East W L OL Pts GF GA
25 trade deadline. “It hurts. I KINGS 4
Toronto 23 10 3 49 119 92 Washington 23 8 4 50 121 104
had some very emotional LAS VEGAS 2
Winnipeg 22 13 2 46 120 102 NY Islanders 22 10 4 48 106 84
conversations with those
Edmonton 22 14 1 45 122 107 Pittsburgh 23 11 2 48 117 94 associated press
guys after the trade. …
Montreal 15 8 9 39 104 87 Boston 18 9 5 41 88 77
“We had some success
Calgary 16 18 3 35 96 112 Philadelphia 17 14 4 38 107 129
and we were gearing up for LAS VEGAS — Lias An-
another deep playoff run, a Vancouver 16 18 3 35 100 120 NY Rangers 16 15 4 36 112 94 dersson scored a goal in his
championship run, that was Ottawa 12 20 4 28 94 135 New Jersey 13 16 5 31 83 106 first game back after miss-
our mentality and I thought Note: Overtime or shootout losses worth one point. Buffalo 7 23 5 19 77 123 ing more than a month and
I would finish the season the Kings defeated the
there.”
RESULTS Vegas Golden Knights 4-2 on
KINGS 4 Lias Andersson scored in his first game back in more than Wednesday night. John Locher Associated Press
TONIGHT AT VEGAS 2 a month and Kings snapped their three-game skid. The Kings snapped their VEGAS Golden Knights left wing William Carrier
VS. DENVER TORONTO 3 Auston Matthews scored his league-leading 24th goal three-game skid and a three- falls onto Kings defenseman Mikey Anderson.
When: 7. AT WINNIPEG 1 and goaltender Jack Campbell stayed unbeaten. game losing streak in Las
On the air: TV: Bally Sports Vegas. Vegas. Marc-Andre Fleury KINGS 4, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 2
SoCal, TNT; Radio: 570, 1330. AT BUFFALO 6 Linus Ullmark stopped 31 shots and the Sabres snapped Vegas had its six-game made 26 saves.
an 18-game skid — the NHL’s longest in 17 years. KINGS .....................................2 2 0 — 4
Update: The Nuggets (29-18) PHILADELPHA 1 home winning streak The Kings looked sharp Vegas ......................................0 1 1 — 2
have won three in a row since AT COLORADO 9 Joonos Donskoi had a hat trick and the Avalanche snapped, and dropped just early by staying disciplined FIRST PERIOD: 1. KINGS, Athanasiou 7 (Walker),
the trade deadline, when ARIZONA 3 maintained their slim lead in the West Division. its third home game in regu- in the first period, avoided 1:58. 2. KINGS, Andersson 2 (Bjornfot), 17:23.
Penalties—Tuch, V (interference), 6:14. Lizotte, KINGS
they acquired athletic wing AT SAN JOSE 4 Rudolfs Balcers and Ryan Donato scored in the second lation this season. giving Vegas an opportunity (high-sticking), 6:14. Hague, V (holding), 12:00. Pa-
Aaron Gordon and veteran MINNESOTA 2 period, and the Sharks completed a two-game sweep. Andreas Athanasiou, by staying out of the penalty cioretty, V (tripping), 17:53.
SECOND PERIOD: 3. Vegas, Karlsson 9 (Theodore,
center JaVale McGee. Den- Jaret Anderson-Dolan and box, and was nimble in push- Marchessault), 9:41. 4. KINGS, Anderson-Dolan 4
ver is currently in fifth place
CALGARY Alex Iafallo also scored for ing the puck through the
Postponed. (Athanasiou), 12:21. 5. KINGS, Iafallo 9 (Kopitar, Ander-
in the Western Conference. AT VANCOUVER the Kings, while Cal Peter- neutral zone efficiently to son), 16:12. Penalties—Athanasiou, KINGS (hooking),
1:53. Doughty, KINGS (hooking), 14:07. Stephenson, V
The Clippers (32-17), who are For complete NHL summaries, go to latimes.com/sports/scores sen improved to 4-1-0 against keep the pressure on Fleury (elbowing), 18:14. Stephenson, V (misconduct), 18:14.
third, had a six-game win- Vegas after stopping 40 and control the tempo early. THIRD PERIOD: 6. Vegas, Theodore 6 (Tuch, Kolesar),
THURSDAY’S GAMES 3:36 (sh). Penalties—Lizotte, KINGS (holding), 7:53.
ning streak snapped by Or- shots. The Kings extended their Hague, V (hooking), 13:19. Pietrangelo, V (tripping),
lando on Monday. Columbus at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m. Detroit at Florida, 4 p.m. Peterson has both of Los lead to two goals when Tobi- 14:39.
Montreal at Ottawa, 4 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Buffalo, 4 p.m. SHOTS ON GOAL: KINGS 8-13-9—30. Vegas 8-17-
Angeles’ wins over Vegas as Bjornfot fired a rebound 16—41. Power-play conversions—KINGS 0 of 5. Vegas 0
Staff writer Broderick Pittsburgh at Boston, 4 p.m. Washington at N.Y. Islanders, 4 p.m. this season. from the point and it trickled of 3.
Carolina at Chicago, 5 p.m. Dallas at Nashville, 5 p.m. GOALIES: KINGS, Petersen 7-7-4 (41 shots-39
Turner contributed to this William Karlsson and through Fleury’s pads, and saves). Vegas, Fleury 17-8-0 (30-26). Att—3,950
report. Minnesota at Vegas, 7:30 p.m. Shea Theodore scored for Andersson punched it in. (17,367). T—2:26.
L AT I ME S . CO M T HURSDAY , APRIL 1, 2021 B9

BASEBALL

Dodgers carry
some hot bats
into the season
After it hit 12 homers
against the Angels,
L.A. opens defense of
title today in Denver.
By Jorge Castillo
DENVER — Spring train-
ing is spring training, mean-
ing the results are irrelevant
whether they’re recorded at
Camelback Ranch or Dod-
ger Stadium, but the Free-
way Series served as a re-
minder: The 2021 Dodgers’
firepower may be un-
matched.
In their return to Califor-
nia, the Dodgers clubbed
four home runs in each of
their three games against
the Angels — the first at An-
gel Stadium before two at
Chavez Ravine. After scor-
ing the most runs and belt-
ing a league-leading 118
home runs in the truncated
60-game 2020 season, they
made the supposed dead-
ened ball Major League
Baseball will use look very
much alive.
All 12 home runs were hit
by players projected to play
regularly once the season
starts Thursday. Max
Muncy homered twice Sun-
day. Mookie Betts homered
twice Tuesday. Chris Taylor,
Will Smith, and Corey
Seager each homered off An-
gels two-way star Shohei
Ohtani on Monday before
Ohtani exited with a blister
issue. Gavin Lux, a left-han-
ded hitter, cracked a home
run to the opposite field off a
left-handed pitcher Sunday
at Angel Stadium. He fin-
ished the exhibition slate
with a .314 batting average,
solidifying his role as the
team’s second baseman af-
ter a disappointing 2020.
The former top prospect and
2019 Baseball America minor
league player of the year will
hit eighth, ahead of the
pitcher, most nights.
“His work has been con-
sistent and the results have
shown that,” Dodgers man-
ager Dave Roberts said,
“and I don’t see it changing
throughout the season.”
Lux’s double-play part-
ner, Corey Seager, finished
the exhibition slate the way
he finished the postseason
last October, on a torrid
pace. The shortstop batted
.346 with eight home runs
and 1.251 on-base-plus-slug-
ging percentage in 52 at-
bats. Betts is the team’s best
all-around player, but Sea-
MAX MUNCY, above, probably will be moved out of
the cleanup spot in favor of Cody Bellinger.
OPENING DAY
Dodgers at
Colorado
Today, 1 p.m.
at Coors Field
TV: SNLA, ESPN
ger, in a contract year, has
proven to be the Dodgers’
best hitter and become a
trendy pick to win National
League MVP.
“I just think the thing
that it kind of goes back to is
health,” Roberts said. “He
feels good. his body is feeling
right and the results are cer-
tainly there.”
The most significant de-
velopment for the Dodgers
in the Freeway Series, how-
ever, was Cody Bellinger’s
continued progression. The
center fielder went 0 for 1
with two walks before hitting
a home run in each of the
next two games. He went
just five for 28 with 11 strike-
outs after making his spring
debut March 16, but Roberts
said he appeared more com-
fortable with each game in
his return from arthroscopic
labrum surgery on his right
shoulder in November.
“I think he’s seeing the
ball well,” Roberts said. “I
like the way he’s getting off
his A swing a lot.”
Bellinger showed the or-
ganization enough improve-
ment in the two weeks to
move him back into the
cleanup spot to start the
season, pushing Muncy to
fifth or sixth in the order.
Last year, Bellinger was
dropped to sixth in the line-
up in mid-September after
significant struggles. He fin-
ished the 60-game regular
season batting .239 with 12
home runs and 113 OPS+, a
substantial dropoff from his
MVP season in 2019. This
year, he unveiled a more
open batting stance, like the
one he used as a rookie in
2017, in hopes of rebounding.
That will be put to the
test starting Thursday in
Denver against the Col-
orado Rockies. Spring re-
sults, irrelevant in the mo-
ment, will be long forgotten
by first pitch. But history
suggests the Dodgers’ of-
fense will thrive in the thin
Rocky Mountain air and ev-
erywhere else.
Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times
COREY SEAGER CONNECTS for a double against the Angels on Tuesday in one of his final at-bats during
spring training. A healthy Seager projects to be one of the top players in the major leagues.
It’s only short step to MVP
Seager’s in his prime, but defending won’t be easy for L.A.
DYLAN HERNÁNDEZ
The percep-
tion that
Corey Seager
rediscovered
his pre-
surgery form
last year isn’t
entirely accu-
rate.
He was actually better
than he was before.
Which makes sense.
Seager was just entering
his physical prime. When
the two-time All-Star cele-
brates his next birthday
later this month, he will turn
27.
Mookie Betts may be the
face of the Dodgers and
Fernando Tatis Jr. the face
of baseball, but Seager will
be the MVP of the National
League this year.
Spring training statistics
should generally be ignored
but could be instructive in
Seager’s case. Seager
whacked eight homers in 22
spring training games, a
sign the power he displayed
in the shortened 60-game
regular season last year was
something permanent.
Manager Dave Roberts
said he could envision Sea-
ger hitting long balls at the
rate he did last season and
breaking the 40-homer
threshold.
“I think with Corey and
the talent, I think any-
thing’s possible, certainly,”
Roberts said. “Because he
does know where the bar-
rel’s at, he can slug to all
parts of the field.”
While Seager has main-
tained an aggressive ap-
proach — he averaged fewer
pitches per plate appear-
ance last year than in any
season of his career — Rob-
erts feels he has become
more adept at working
counts.
“I think any guy that’s
going to hit 40 homers can
run counts and get deep
into counts,” Roberts said.
“He’s done a much better
job of that, in my opinion.”
The paradox is that the
more successful he is, the
less likely he could be to
remain with the Dodgers
beyond this season. Seager
will be a free agent in the
winter. The Dodgers know
they will have to pay Seager
top dollar to keep him; the
question is how much.
Carlos Correa, another
free-agent-to-be who plays
the same position, rejected
a six-year, $120-million
extension from the Houston
Astros. Francisco Lindor,
another prospective free
agent, is reported to have
agreed to a 10-year, $341-
million extension from the
New York Mets.
Other predictions for the
upcoming season:
Wild card peril
The Best Team Ever
could find itself in a wild-
card game.
Really.
The Dodgers are the
favorites to win the NL West,
but they shouldn’t be fa-
vored to the point that a
division championship is
considered a foregone con-
clusion.
Their depth should help
them outlast the San Diego
Padres in a six-month regu-
lar season, especially one
following a 60-game cam-
paign. But the Dodgers have
problems. Clayton Ker-
shaw’s velocity is down
again. Kenley Jansen’s isn’t
up again. A number of start-
ers must adjust to pitching
in relief. Cody Bellinger is
coming off shoulder surgery.
In Tatis and Manny
Machado, the Padres have
two of the most dynamic
players in the league, either
of whom could catch fire
and carry their team to a
division title the way Manny
Ramirez once did the Dod-
gers.
Should the Padres win
the West, the Dodgers’
postseason chances —
regardless of how many
Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
victories they compile —
would hinge on one wild-
card game to advance to the
NLDS.
Angels’ pitching
remains MIA
The story never changes
in Anaheim, where the
Angels are facing the same
problem they did last year …
and the year before that …
and the year before that.
They don’t have pitching.
Arte Moreno’s fantasy of
just outslugging opponents
didn’t materialize as
planned last year. That
won’t change this season,
not even if Shohei Ohtani
and Justin Upton rebound
from down years. Case in
point: The Dodgers hit 12
home runs against them in
the Freeway Series.
The Angels have a proj-
ected top-10 payroll in base-
ball at around $180 million,
but a disproportionate
share was spent on offense,
forcing new general man-
ager Perry Minasian to
resort to a version of dump-
ster diving to which not even
Ned Colletti was subjected
when he ran Frank Mc-
Court’s Dodgers.
In the days leading up to
the season opener, Mi-
nasian reconstructed his
bullpen by picking up pitch-
ers unwanted by other
teams. He paid cash to the
Miami Marlins for James
Hoyt; re-signed Noe Ramir-
ez, whom he traded earlier
this winter; and signed
Steve Cishek and Tony
Watson. Ramirez, Cishek
and Watson were released
near the end of spring train-
ing by the Cincinnati Reds,
Houston Astros and Phila-
delphia Phillies, respec-
tively.
Albert Pujols’ contract
can’t expire soon enough.
Murakami will wow
Remember the name
Munetaka Murakami.
A 21-year-old corner
infielder for the Yakult
Swallows, Murakami could
be Japan’s next premium
export to the major leagues.
Outside of Ichiro Suzuki,
Murakami could one day
become Japan’s most pro-
ductive offensive player in
the major leagues, with one
scout comparing the left-
handed batter to Adrian
Gonzalez.
Drafted by the Tokyo-
based Swallows out of high
school, Murakami spent a
year in the minor leagues,
then smashed 36 home runs
as a 19-year-old rookie. He
followed that by batting .307
with 28 home runs in a pan-
demic-shortened 120-game
season.
Murakami should come
to the majors sometime
after the 2025 season but
before spring training in
2027. Murakami will be
subjected to international
bonus pool money restric-
tions until he is 25, which
gives the Swallows no finan-
cial incentive to make him
available before then. (The
posting fee paid to the Swal-
lows would be based on the
value of Murakami’s deal
with the MLB team that
signs him.) At the same
time, they figure to sell him
before he accrues nine years
of service time and becomes
eligible for international free
agency.
The champs
NL division champions:
Dodgers, Cardinals, Braves.
NL wild cards: Padres,
Mets.
AL division champions:
Astros, White Sox, Yankees.
AL wild cards: Blue Jays,
Twins.
World Series prediction:
Dodgers over the White Sox.
And ... a late start
Enjoy this season. With
the collective bargaining
agreement expiring at the
end of the season, there’s a
good chance the 2022 sea-
son won’t start on time.

NOTES
TODAY’S GAMES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
MATCHUP

COL/Márquez (R)
W-L
Dodgers/Kershaw (L) —
—
ERA
—
—
TIME
1 p.m.
SNLA,
ESPN
Virus leaves Nationals down five for opener
PIT/Kuhl (R) — — 11:15 a.m.
CHI/Hendricks (R) — — Rizzo said in a video news confer- The team’s new policy states for a summary judgment.
associated press
ATL/Fried (L) — — Noon ence. fans can be ejected or denied en-
PHI/Nola (R) — — The positive result came from a trance for disorderly, unruly or dis-
ARI/Bumgarner (L) — — 1 p.m.
Lindor, Mets agree to
A Washington Nationals player test conducted while the Nationals ruptive conduct that includes
SD/Darvish (R) — — tested positive for COVID-19, and were still in Florida for spring train- “headdresses and face paint styled 10-year, $341M deal
STL/Flaherty (R) — — 1 p.m.
four teammates and a staff mem- ing. in a way that references or appro- Francisco Lindor and the New
CIN/Castillo (R) — —
ber were quarantined after contact Word of the test result came af- priates American Indian cultures York Mets agreed to a $341 million,
NY/deGrom (R) — — 4 p.m.
WAS/Scherzer (R) — — ESPN
tracing on the eve of the regular ter the team already had traveled and traditions.” 10-year deal, keeping the All-Star
season’s start, general manager home to the nation’s capital, Rizzo shortstop in Queens for the long
AMERICAN LEAGUE Mike Rizzo said Wednesday. said. Close contact among the five Umpire loses lawsuit haul after acquiring him from
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME Rizzo did not identify any of the occurred on the flight home. Umpire Angel Hernandez lost Cleveland in the offseason, accord-
CHI/Giolito (R) — — 7 p.m. six members of the organization Scherzer said he was not on his lawsuit against Major League ing to a person familiar with the
Angels/Bundy (R) — — BSW
who are involved. that team flight and traveled sepa- Baseball alleging racial discrimi- agreement.
TOR/Ryu (L) — — 10 a.m.
“We’re still in the process of rately with his family. nation. Lindor was eligible for free
NY/Cole (R) — — ESPN
CLE/Bieber (R) — — 10 a.m.
finding out exactly what their stat- The Nationals did not have a Cuba-born, Hernandez sued in agency after this season and said
DET/Boyd (L) — — us is,” Rizzo said. “They’re cer- single player test positive during 2017 in U.S. District Court in Cin- this spring he wouldn’t negotiate
BAL/Means (L) — — 11 a.m. tainly out for tomorrow’s game.” their six weeks of spring training cinnati, a case later moved to New with the Mets on a long-term deal
BOS/Eovaldi (R) — — The 2019 World Series champi- camp in West Palm Beach, Fla. York. after opening day.
TEX/Gibson (R) — — 1 p.m. ons — who finished tied for last in Hired as a big league umpire in
KC/Keller (R) — — the NL East in the pandemic- Indians ban headdresses 1993, he alleged he was discrimi- Etc.
HOU/Greinke (R) — — 7 p.m.
shortened 2020 season — are While moving forward with a nated against because he had not The Seattle Mariners placed
OAK/Bassitt (R) — — ESPN
scheduled to host the New York plan to change their name, the been assigned to the World Series center fielder Kyle Lewis on the 10-
INTERLEAGUE Mets on Thursday night, with Max Cleveland Indians said they will since 2005 and had been passed day injured list because of a bone
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME Scherzer facing Jacob deGrom in not permit fans inside Progressive over for crew chief. bruise in his right knee, sidelining
MIN/Maeda (R) — — 11 a.m. a matchup between pitchers who Field wearing Native American “The court concludes that no the reigning American League
MIL/Woodruff (R) — — own a total of five Cy Young headdresses or face paint. reasonable juror could find that rookie of the year for opening day.
TB/Glasnow (R) — — 1 p.m. Awards. The team announced the fan MLB’s stated explanation is a pre- ... Marlins Park will be renamed
MIA/Alcantara (R) — —
“We will certainly have some dress policy for the 2021 season in text for discriminatory motive,” loanDepot park in a multiyear
SF/Gausman (R) — — 7 p.m.
roster decisions to make, depend- advance of Monday’s home opener U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken naming rights deal announced by
SEA/Gonzales (L) — —
ing on how this all shakes out,” against Detroit. wrote in granting MLB’s motion the Miami Marlins.
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Very warm: An upper-level low moving inland to the south will bring some mid- and high-level clouds amid Some snow to start April in Northeast: As rain ends along the East
sunshine today. With the low moving to the south, enough of an offshore flow will linger to allow very warm Coast, a blast of cold air will result in snow from parts of western New
weather once again, though a cooling sea breeze will develop near the coast. An increasing onshore flow Fri- England to the central Appalachians. Showers and thunderstorms will
day through the weekend will lower temperatures as morning low clouds expand. occur through Florida. Summerlike heat will build over the Southwest.
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Air quality Good Moderate Unhealthful for: Sensitive people All Not Available
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57/42 Chicago
Santa Ojai 86/52 LOS ANGELES CO. 75/41 40/25
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86/54
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1-5 feet. Mission Viejo
78/55 Temecula Wednesday Today Wednesday Today
Surf zone: The risk for strong and Laguna 85/53 City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Sky City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Sky
dangerous rip currents will be high 88/47
Beach San Albany 57 46 .12 41 24 Sn Seattle 61 37 -- 57 42 Pc
at O.C. beaches; moderate at L.A., 77/54 Clemente Albuquerque 61 34 -- 67 43 Su Tampa 86 73 .01 75 47 Sh
Ventura and S.D. county beaches;
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Oceanside Aspen 47 9 -- 56 31 Su Tulsa 63 46 -- 61 40 Su
Atlanta 71 63 1.08 52 33 W Washington, D.C. 66 56 .92 50 32 W
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Santa Barbara 1-3’ 11 sec W 53 Baltimore 68 54 .69 49 30 W
Today’s rise/set
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Orange 2-5’ 10 sec SW 61 Sun 6:40a/7:14p 6:39a/7:13p 6:44a/7:18p Buffalo 55 50 .15 35 23 Sf Amsterdam 73 43 -- 55 39 Pc
Moon none/9:32a none/9:31a none/9:35a Poway
San Diego 2-4’ 10 sec WSW 60 Burlington, Vt. 63 51 .13 38 23 R Athens 53 46 .34 58 44 Pc
86/50 Charleston, S.C. 82 62 .50 62 36 Su Bangkok 99 84 -- 97 82 Pc
Charlotte 68 64 .45 54 31 W Barcelona 61 46 -- 64 52 Pc
Tides San Diego Chicago 43 34 Tr 40 25 Su Berlin 73 39 -- 64 34 Cy
L.A. Outer Harbor, in feet. 80/55 Cincinnati 52 45 .34 40 24 Pc Cabo San Lucas 95 65 -- 82 67 Pc
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Today 1:21p 3.5 Hi 7:01a -0.4 Lo Cleveland 50 44 .03 33 27 Sf Cairo 69 55 -- 69 53 Su
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UV index High/low 88/54 91/50 86/52 24-hour total (as of 4 p.m.) 0.00 0.00 0.00 El Paso 72 47 -- 72 52 Pc Istanbul 50 44 -- 52 41 Pc
Minutes to burn for sensitive people Normal high/low 71/52 71/50 67/47 Season total (since Oct. 1) 5.80 4.65 3.14 Eugene 65 32 -- 67 36 Su Jerusalem 59 46 -- 55 44 Pc
High/low a year ago 78/56 79/52 73/54 Last season (Oct. 1 to date) 11.67 10.06 10.17 Fort Myers 89 71 -- 83 52 Ts Johannesburg 75 55 -- 77 59 Pc
Las Vegas, 30 Phoenix, 25
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Los Angeles, 25 San Francisco, 30 Record low/date 40/1897 47/2000 36/1948 Humidity (high/low) 79/6 82/4 96/4 Honolulu 83 71 .02 83 70 Pc Lima 75 66 .02 75 66 Su
Houston 78 69 Tr 70 42 Su London 68 48 -- 61 39 Pc
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Osaka’s 23-match streak ends

TIME EVENT ON THE AIR
BASEBALL
10 a.m. Toronto at N.Y. Yankees TV: ESPN, ESPND
1 p.m. Dodgers at Colorado TV: SNLA, ESPN,
ESPND postponed by the NHL be-
staff and wire reports
R: 570, 1020 cause of the league’s
PRO CALENDAR COVID-19 protocol. Vancou-
4 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Washington TV: ESPN, ESPND
As Naomi Osaka’s 23- THU FRI SAT SUN MON ver had two players and a
7 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Angels TV: BSW R: 830 match winning streak member of its coaching staff
1 2 3 4 5
7 p.m. Houston at Oakland TV: ESPN, ESPND neared an end Wednesday, enter the protocol list.
BASKETBALL she paused before serving to
at Colorado at Colorado at Colorado at Colorado at Oakland
crane her neck and study the 1 5:30 5 Noon 6:30 Germany’s first World
4:30 p.m. Charlotte at Brooklyn TV: TNT sky, as if seeking interven- Cup-qualifying loss in 20
SNLA, ESPN SNLA SNLA, FS1 SNLA SNLA
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R: 570, 1330 Then she carried on, and ish to the final months of
COLLEGE BASEBALL so did No. 23-seeded Maria CHICAGO CHICAGO CHICAGO CHICAGO coach Joachim Low’s 15-
HOUSTON
Sakkari, who upset Osaka WS WS WS WS year reign in charge of the
4:30 p.m. Kentucky at Mississippi State TV: ESPNU 6:30
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BSSC
5 p.m. Mississippi at Florida TV: SEC of the Miami Open. BSW BSW BSSC ESPN Germany’s 35-match un-
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6 p.m. Washington at UCLA TV: Pac-12, “The more stuff like this beaten run in World Cup
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL 12:30
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Ch. 7, SpecSN
6 p.m. State Farm Slam Dunk and 3-Point TV: ESPN2 The defeat was her first SpecSN Macedonia that left the
LAKERS
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COLLEGE LACROSSE ended any chance of re- group after three games. It
DENVER LAKERS
claiming the No. 1 ranking was only the country’s third
4 p.m. North Carolina at Duke TV: ACC 7 12:30
this week from Ash Barty, loss in qualifying for the
BSSC, TNT Ch.7, SpecSN
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4 p.m. Michigan at Wisconsin TV: Big Ten The men’s favorite de- against Portugal in 1985,
parted nearly 12 hours later when it was West Germany,
6 p.m. Penn State at Nebraska TV: Big Ten SAN JOSE SAN JOSE ARIZONA
when No. 1-seeded Daniil and a 5-1 thrashing by Eng-
7 7 7
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Ch. 13 BSW BSW
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9 a.m. LPGA, ANA Inspiration, first round TV: Golf
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7 6
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little went right for him the because of Spain’s non-rec-
5 p.m. Carolina at Chicago TV: NBCSN DUCKS
rest of the way. ognition of the visiting coun-
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HORSE RACING
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UConn freshman
9 a.m. Trackside Live! TV: TVG knocked out of the title Both could be replaced, UEFA etiquette, with
10 a.m. America’s Day at the Races TV: FS2 chase by coronavirus proto- however, if NHL players Kosovo’s national anthem
PREP BASKETBALL is player of year cols.
UConn coach Geno Au-
don’t compete in the hockey
tournament.
played before the match.
But on television, Spain’s
9 a.m. Milton (Ga.) vs. IMG Academy (Fla.) TV: ESPNU riemma said he isn’t op- The NHL paused its sea- national broadcaster disre-
SOFTBALL Connecticut guard Paige posed to daily tests, but son to allow players to par- garded normal protocol by
Bueckers became the first would be OK if they ended it ticipate in five straight not mentioning Kosovo as a
4 p.m. Oregon at Oregon State TV: Pac-12 freshman to win the Associ- to avoid that scenario; the Olympic hockey tourna- country and using lowercase
SOCCER ated Press women’s basket- NCAA says that is not an op- ments, from 1998 through letters for “kos” in its graphi-
3:30 p.m. Ecuador, Universidad Catolica vs. Macara TV: GOLTV ball player of the year award tion. 2014. It did not halt play for cs. Spain does not recognize
Wednesday. Auriemma said Wednes- the 2018 Games, so USA Kosovo’s 2008 independence
6 p.m. Ecuador, Olmedo vs. Emelec TV: GOLTV Bueckers, who is averag- day that based on a recent Hockey built its team from Serbia.
SURFING ing 20.1 points, 5.9 assists conversation coaches had around pros who were Ahead of the game, the
4:30 p.m. World Surfing League, Newcastle Cup, Day 2 TV: FS2 and 4.8 rebounds, helped with medical experts that he playing in Europe and a few Spanish federation had al-
lead the Huskies to their understands why Baylor’s college players. The NHL, ready upset Kosovo officials
TENNIS 13th consecutive Final Four Kim Mulkey suggested end- NHL Players’ Assn., Inter- by referring to the country as
10 a.m. Miami Open, men’s quarterfinals, women’s TV: Tennis with 28 points in the regional ing daily testing the last few national Olympic Commit- a “territory.” The Kosovo
semifinals final win over Baylor on days of the tournament and tee and International Ice federation warned it
Monday night. thereby eliminating a sce- Hockey Federation have not wouldn’t play the match un-
Maryland’s Brenda nario of a team getting a bye negotiated an agreement for less Spain pledged to re-
Frese was named women’s into the title game. NHL players to represent spect the Balkan country’s
TENNIS RESULTS coach of the year for the sec- their homelands in Beijing, sovereignty.
ond time in her career. Chicago Blackhawks and talks have been slowed
$3.3-MILLION MIAMI OPEN MEN’S DOUBLES (quarterfinals)—Nikola Mektic-Mate
At Miami Beach Pavic (2), Croatia, d. Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistan- general manager Stan Bow- by the one-year postpone- The 2023 Women’s World
Surface: Hard-Outdoor Miomir Kecmanovic, Serbia, 6-2, 6-2; Rajeev Ram, and Joe With the final weekend of man and Minnesota Wild ment of the 2020 Tokyo Sum- Cup will be spread across
MEN’S SINGLES (fourth round)—Stefanos Tsitsipas (2), Salisbury (7), Britain, d. Michael Mmoh and Sebastian Ko-
Greece, d. Lorenzo Sonego (24), Italy, 6-2, 7-6 (2). rda, 7-5, 6-2; Daniel Evans-Neal Skupski, Britain, d. Horia the women’s basketball general manager Bill mer Games. nine cities in Australia and
(Quarterfinals)—Jannik Sinner (21), Italy, d. Alexander Tecau, Romania-Marcelo Arevalo-Gonzalez, El Salvador, tournament in sight, Guerin were named general —Helene Elliott New Zealand. The opening
Bublik (32), Kazakhstan, 7-6 (5), 6-4; Roberto Bautista 6-7 (6), 6-3, 11-9.
Agut (7), Spain, d. Daniil Medvedev (1), Russia, 6-4, 6-2. WOMEN’S DOUBLES (quarterfinals)—Shuko Aoyama-
coaches and the NCAA say it manager and assistant GM, match will take place at
WOMEN’S SINGLES (quarterfinals)—Maria Sakkari (23), Ena Shibahara (5), Japan, d. Caroline Garcia, France-Na- would be ‘’tragic“ if a player respectively, of the U.S. The Vancouver Canucks’ Eden Park in Auckland, with
Greece, d. Naomi Osaka (2), Japan, 6-0, 6-4; Bianca An- dia Podoroska, Argentina, 6-3, 6-2; Bethanie Mattek-
dreescu (8), Canada, d. Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain, 6-4, Sands, and Iga Swiatek, Poland, d. Lyudmyla Kichenok,
was lost because of a positive men’s hockey team for the game against the Calgary Sydney’s Stadium Australia
3-6, 6-3. Ukraine-Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, 6-1, 6-4. COVID test or a team was 2022 Beijing Winter Games. Flames on Wednesday was hosting the final.
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CALENDAR T H U R S D A Y , A P R I L 1 , 2 0 2 1 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L E N D A R

Silence
not an
option
for the
studios
MARY McNAMARA

Dear Holly-
wood,
I realize
you have
many
things to
cope with
at the mo-
ment, but
you really need to take a
stance on Georgia. This
time for real, because if you
thought past attempts to
curtail LGBTQ rights and
abortion access were dan-
gers to democracy, the
recent passage of new vot-
ing restrictions threatens to
destroy it altogether.
When Jim Crow is rear-
ing his ugly head again in a
state where you do lots of
business, you really can’t
rely on a few A-listers’
tweets amid your industry’s
general silence this time
around.
After all that talk of
racial justice and inclusion,
Music Center are you honestly going to let
THE MUSIC CENTER hosted Dance DTLA pre-pandemic on its plaza and could use a civic-minded boost from the Oscars. Delta Air Lines, which on

Oscars are off track

Wednesday released a state-
ment condemning the new
law, make you look bad?
Two years ago, when the
Georgia Legislature passed
the draconian abortion bill,
many people called on the
entertainment industry to
use its clout to protect wom-
en’s reproductive rights
there — just as it had done,

The Music Center is a better choice than clogging Union Station successfully, in 2018 when
the state seemed set to pass
[See Georgia, E3]

CAROLINA A. MIRANDA ra of bus lines, including Greyhound,

When the Academy of Mo-
tion Picture Arts and Scien-
ces announced this year’s
Oscar nominees on March
15, it also let drop that it was
mixing things up on the
venue front: Instead of
staging the entire 93rd
Academy Awards ceremony at the Dolby
Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, nomi-
nees, presenters and their guests will attend
a more intimate — and socially distanced —
supper club-style event at Union Station in
downtown Los Angeles on April 25. The
3,400-seat Dolby Theatre, located inside the
Hollywood & Highland shopping mall,
which has hosted the Oscars since 2002, will
instead be used to broadcast additional
show elements. All that florid interpretive
dance has to go somewhere.
And so does L.A. traffic. Which brings me
to the first question raised by the move:
What will the Academy Awards — known for
establishing a Baghdad-like green zone
around the perimeter of Hollywood & High-
land in the days and weeks prior to the cere-
mony — do to L.A.’s most important public
transit hub? Union Station, after all, is
where Amtrak, Metrolink, the Gold, Red
and Purple Lines meet, along with a pletho-
Carolina A. Miranda Los Angeles Times
Music Center
PROGRAMMING at the Music Center
included L.A. Phil’s centennial gala, top,
and New Year’s Eve L.A. in Grand Park.
Megabus, LAX Flyaway, not to mention the
untold number of local buses that connect
downtown with the rest of the city. Places
like Union Station are how working people —
the ones who can’t Zoom it in during a pan-
demic — get to their jobs.
A press release issued by Metro at the
time of the announcements states that the
agency will be “working hard to minimize
disruptions around Union Station” and that
no “bus or rail closures due to the event” are
expected. But as urbanism writer Alissa
Walker notes in a story in Curbed, “Anyone Kwaku Alston
Contour RA by Getty Images
who has been there during a film shoot,
navigating closed-off entrances and heavily For him, every
patrolled detours, knows, it will end up
negatively impacting people who rely on
second counted
transit.” Chadwick Boseman’s
She suggests holding the ceremony at colleagues recall his
Dodger Stadium. I have a better idea: Stage determination and
it at the Music Center. spirit. The Envelope
Located a mere seven blocks from Union
Station (just in case someone is interested New home for
in taking Amtrak to the Academy Awards), mural’s archive
the site located over three city blocks is
The Lucas Museum in
practically designed to host a socially dis-
L.A. acquires Judith F.
tanced event made up of a variety of compo-
Baca’s “Great Wall”
nents, be it performances, presentations,
drawings, more. E2
speeches or dead-people montage.
As far as fresh air goes, the Music Center Comics ................... E4-5
is stocked. The complex [See Oscars, E6] What’s on TV .......... E6

ART REVIEW

Roth biographer
defends his book
Blake Bailey has
drawn mixed reviews
but stands behind his
work and his subject.
By Jordan Reife
When literary biographer
Blake Bailey met with au-
thor Philip Roth in 2012 he
was asked, “Why should a
gentile from Oklahoma
write the biography of Philip
Roth?” Bailey responded,
“I’m not a bisexual alcoholic
with an ancient Puritan line-
age but I still managed to
write a biography of John
Cheever.”
“Cheever: A Life” was
nominated for a Pulitzer
Prize and won the 2009 Na-
tional Book Critics Circle
Award for Biography. Bai-
ley’s other volumes charted
the lives of 20th century lions
Richard Yates and Charles
Jackson.
Next week, three years af-
ter Roth’s death, comes
“Philip Roth: The Biogra-
phy,” weighing in at a com-
prehensive 900 pages. Bailey
examines the author’s two
bitter marriages and the cir-
cumstances surrounding
the creation of his most
memorable works, from his
1959 National Book Award-
winning story collection,
“Goodbye, Columbus,” his
breakthrough at the age of
26, to his death of heart fail-
ure in 2018.
“I was a huge fan of his
writing. But it was my fourth
literary biography,” says
Bailey. “I didn’t have enor-
mous human expectations
for writers of the first rank.”
The author’s death came
just in time to skirt the #Me-
Too movement, which likely
would have scorched him for
[See Bailey, E2]
What’s ahead at LACMA?
The museum reopens
with six exhibitions.
Their implications
raise some questions.
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT
ART CRITIC
As visitors venture back
to the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, shuttered
for a year because of
COVID-19 and reopening
Thursday, they will find
many changes.
Some, but not all, are a re-
sult of the pandemic.
I visited during members’
previews. That afternoon,
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, direc-
tor of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, told
reporters that she felt a
sense of “impending doom,”
given sudden infection
Los Angeles County Museum of Art spikes. That gave me pause.
PIPES are a sub-theme in the “NOT I” show. George To protect patrons’
Augustus Baker Jr.’s “Portrait of Children” (1853). health, familiar precautions
are in place at LACMA.
Ticket reservations made
online or by phone are neces-
sary to keep attendance at
reduced levels. Masks are
mandatory, health screening
(including a temperature
check) and contact tracing
data are required, and traffic
flow directions are in place
inside galleries. Exhibition
text panels have been re-
placed by QR codes.
I found none of it onerous.
Getting the reservation was
easier than snagging a
COVID-19 vaccination ap-
pointment not so long ago —
although the online-or-
phone requirement for a res-
ervation would be a stum-
bling block for anyone with-
out access to either.
One guard cheerfully
greeted, “Welcome back.”
Another barked, “Where’s
your reservation?” — an odd
papers-please request after
jumping hoops for admis-
sion right outside the door.
[See LACMA, E6]
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Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles / Judith F. Baca / Image SPARC Archives
MAQUETTE for segment of mural, “Judith F. Baca, The Great Wall of Los Ange-
les 1950: Farewell to Rosie the Riveter: Final Coloration, Punto Perspective,” 1983.
‘Great Wall’ plans
have a new home
The Lucas Museum
acquires the archive
documenting Judith F.
Baca’s epic L.A. mural.
By Deborah Vankin
The Lucas Museum of
Narrative Art has acquired
Judith F. Baca’s archive
documenting the creation of
the city’s most epic mural,
“The Great Wall of Los Ange-
les,” the museum announced
Wednesday.
The half-mile-long art-
work, officially titled “The
History of California” (1976-
84), sits along the Tujunga
Wash flood control channel
in the San Fernando Valley.
It depicts overlooked Indige-
nous, immigrant and minor-
ity histories in California
from prehistoric times to the
1950s. Vignettes touch on,
among other things, the
internment of Japanese
Americans and the removal
of Mexican Americans from
Chavez Ravine, as well as the
civil rights movement and
the rise of Hollywood. Baca
and about 400 teenagers
completed the mural over
the summers from 1976 to
1983.
The archive features
more than 350 objects, in-
cluding concept drawings,
site plans, sketches, notes
and correspondence be-
tween the artist and commu-
nity leaders, scholars, histo-
rians and other collabora-
tors.
The Lucas Museum’s
chief curator, Pilar Tomp-
kins Rivas, called Baca’s mu-
ral “a key work in the history
Roth biographer defends his work and subject
[Bailey, from E1]
his casual sexism and prodi-
gious philandering — some-
times with his students
while teaching at prestigious
institutions.
Regardless, Roth was one
of the last century’s most vi-
tal literary voices; he cap-
tured the American identity
as it was, in contrast to the
country’s idealized self-im-
age. Bailey’s biography bal-
ances Roth’s personal flaws
and enormous gifts. It is the
portrait of a lech, a mensch
and a virtuoso.
Roth was concerned
about his public profile and
in the 1990s began work on a
biography with Ross Miller,
but the two parted ways in
2009. For “Roth: The Biogra-
phy,” Bailey had ample ac-
cess to the author, his ac-
quaintances and his private
papers. He spoke to The
Times about harsh reviews
of his book and Roth’s formi-
dable self-interest — and his
loathing for Woody Allen.
How would Roth have fared
in 2021?
He gets a pretty hard rap.
I understand the ways that
Philip has brought this
trouble on himself and
I don’t hesitate to portray
that. You have to bear in
mind what Philip would say
and did say on his own be-
half: “It’s ridiculous! My
lifelong friendships have
been with formidable intel-
lectual women, Hermione
Lee, Judith Thurman, my
agent’s a woman, my favor-
ite editor’s a woman, my
lawyer’s a woman.” That
said, he did not have a mo-
nogamous bone in his body.
And he was quite capable of
sexually objectifying women
and making tasteless jokes
about it, which he wrote
down in his novels.
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of mural making.”
“It does many things at
once,” she said in an inter-
view. “It’s monumental in
scale. It tells the underrecog-
nized histories of the com-
munities of Southern Cali-
fornia throughout time, and
with this important empha-
sis on the 20th century, and
many stories that are not
often thought about in the
development of the history
of this region.”
The Social and Public Art
Resource Center, or SPARC,
the Venice-based organiza-
tion that Baca cofounded,
announced in February that
it had received a three-year,
$5-million grant from the
Andrew W. Mellon Founda-
tion to expand the mural.
The expansion will chronicle
histories from the 1960s
through 2020. The funding
also will be used to create
better access to the mural
from both sides of the Tu-
junga Wash.
The expansion is being
designed now and painting
will begin in early 2023,
SPARC Executive Director
Carlos Rogel said. It will ad-
dress histories from the
points of view of people of
color, women and LGBTQ
and other minority commu-
nities. “Artistically,” Rogel
told The Times in February,
“they’re a way of memorializ-
ing these critically over-
looked events.”
Making public art acces-
sible and inclusive is key to
the thinking at the Lucas
Museum, Tompkins Rivas
said. When it opens in Expos-
ition Park in 2023, the muse-
um will feature other mural-
making documentation and
fresco panels related to
BLAKE BAILEY had ample access to author Philip Roth for his biography.
What do you think of the
critical response to your
book so far? Laura Marsh
had some issues in the New
Republic.
That was harsh. I mean,
wow. I never thought that a
biography of Philip Roth
was going to please every-
body, and I have not been
disappointed. People tend
to love him or hate him. And
if you are in the latter cate-
gory, which I think Laura
decidedly is, then I cannot
be hard enough on Philip
Roth. David Remnick of the
New Yorker says that I’m
“uncowed,” that I let the
repellent in, that I present
an extremely flawed man.
And if you weigh the reviews
so far, most are on the David
Remnick side.
Yours isn’t the first attempt
at a Roth biography. How
did Ross Miller’s project
fall apart?
The more I learned of the
‘Great
Wall’ talk
What: Museum Director
Sandra Jackson-Dumont
and curator Pilar Tompkins
Rivas discuss “The Great
Wall of Los Angeles” with
artist Judith F. Baca
When: 5 p.m. April 14
Where: youtube.com/lucas
museum
works by Charles White,
Maxfield Parrish, Thomas
Hart Benton, Ben Shahn,
John Biggers and Dean
Cornwell, among others.
Baca is the first female mu-
ralist represented in the col-
lection.
The acquisition, Baca
said in an interview, is “a
great gift, for many reasons.”
“It’s now absolutely se-
cure and in good care,” she
said. “All the hundreds of
drawings that went into the
conceptualization of the
work, the process of thinking
about a giant monument of
this scale, will now be visible
to the public and preserved
— and preserved in Los An-
geles. The Lucas Museum is
perfect because of its educa-
tional focus and its location
and emphasis on narrative
forms.”
“I hope [the archive] in-
spires people to look within
their own communities,”
Tompkins Rivas added.
“And feel empowered to tell
those stories, to talk about
the experiences that they’ve
had that can and should be
elevated to public plat-
forms.”
arrangement with Ross
Miller, the more appalled
I became. Essentially what
[Roth] was trying to do with
Ross was write his own
biography by proxy. My
arrangement with Philip is
the same arrangement
I made with the estates of
my three previous subjects,
that I have complete inde-
pendence. He has to provide
to me any pertinent docu-
ments that I request. He has
to make himself available for
interviews, he has to encour-
age his friends, his lovers,
etc., to cooperate with me, in
exchange for which he gets
to vet my manuscript for
factual accuracy only. It was
radically different than the
arrangement he had with
Ross.
At one point he approached
Judith Thurman to write it,
and then Hermione Lee.
Judith never had any
illusions about what a
The show can go on
at outdoor pop-ups
Theater, music venues
in L.A. and Orange
counties get the OK,
with restrictions.
By Jessica Gelt
California theater compa-
nies hoping to take a big
step up out of a deep pan-
demic pit got some welcome
news from the state Depart-
ment of Public Health, which
has issued a long-awaited
list of guidelines clearing the
way for live theater, music
and other performances to
resume this summer out-
doors.
The new guidelines allow
for pop-up outdoor stages —
perhaps set up in a parking
lot — as long as they have as-
signed seating with fixed or
marked locations allowing
for six feet of distance be-
tween audience members.
Advance reservations are
required, and entry and exit
points must be monitored
Music fest books a return
Hard Summer pencils
in a July date, one of
the first big events in
the area to resume.
By August Brown
Music festivals might be
back in Southern California
as soon as July.
Organizers from Live Na-
tion announced Tuesday
that Hard Summer, a staple
fest for EDM and hip-hop,
would return July 31 and
Aug. 1 at the National Or-
ange Show Event Center in
San Bernardino. The fest
would be one of the first
large-scale music events to
resume operation in the L.A.
area.
The lineup includes Fu-
ture, recent Grammy winner
Kaytranada, and breakout
rappers Lil Durk and Iann
Dior over five outdoor
stages.
Tickets are slated to go
on sale Friday at 10 a.m., but
there are still a lot of vari-
ables, to say the least, be-
tween now and the end of
July.
Representatives for the
festival declined to talk in
depth about any COVID-19
safety protocols, but the
Nancy Crampton
steaming pile of [crap] that
proposition was. Only Ross
could be bamboozled that
way. Hermione wanted to do
it, but she kept saying, “Phil-
ip, I have to honor my obliga-
tions.” He wanted her to
drop everything and write
his biography.
And did he live up to your
agreement?
In every conceivable way
Philip was extremely proac-
tive those first two or three
years of our collaboration.
He would send me bulky
envelopes two or three times
a week. We would meet at his
apartment on the Upper
West Side or at his house in
Connecticut. And he would
call me, and sometimes he
would call me in an agitated
state because he was fretful
about something. What you
have to understand is that
Philip is an obsessive per-
sonality at the best of times.
And his biography, his only
closely to prevent crowding.
The guidelines address
outdoor venues that are “a
permanent and fixed facility,
focused around a stage
round, field court, or other
central area designed pri-
marily for viewing entertain-
ment or athletics by an audi-
ence OR a defined and de-
marcated outdoor area.”
The venues must be open air,
and barriers must provide at
least 12 feet between audi-
ences and the stage or per-
formance area.
Before these guidelines
were issued last Friday eve-
ning, arts groups lacked
guidance on outdoor pop-up
performance spaces that did
not have fixed seating. The
existing rules applied only to
established outdoor venues
such as the Hollywood Bowl,
leaving arts organizations
wondering if and how they
could stage shows in loca-
tionssuch as patios, parks
and parking lots.
That included the Foun-
tain Theatre, which had an-
nounced that it had received
HARD SUMMER, seen in 2016, announced Lil Durk,
Iann Dior, Future and Kaytranada on outdoor stages.
fest’s status will depend on
where San Bernardino
County is on the state’s col-
or-coded reopening plan.
Concerts would be allowed
under the state’s orange, or
second-least-restrictive, tier
at an outdoor-only 33% ca-
pacity. The NOS Event Cen-
ter has a total capacity of
65,000.
Currently, San Bernar-
dino County is in the red tier
but, on Tuesday, Los Ange-
les County and Orange
County entered the orange
tier (though L.A. is holding
off until Monday to ease re-
strictions). In the yellow tier
— the least restrictive — out-
door concerts could resume
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authorized biography and
his legacy in general, was
foremost on his mind those
last years. So, I sort of bore
the brunt of that.
How did your image of him
change once you got to
know him?
Philip never really disap-
pointed me. He was won-
derful company. He’s the
funniest guy alive. Even at
his worst, when he was
ranting and raving at his
“bitch of a wife,” he was
charming and funny and
essentially benign. He was
very obsessively devoted to
promoting his own inter-
ests. I can live with that.
That’s a very human quality.
Later, Philip became some-
thing else. But I have to
emphasize that core sweet-
ness and decency never
entirely left him.
Did he lie to you, or only
dress up the facts?
Cheever was a deliberate
compulsive fabulist, i.e., a
permission from the city of
L.A. to build a stage on its
parking lot, and was angling
to present the L.A. premier e
of Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’
“An Octoroon.”
Under the expanded
guidelines, capacity remains
the same: 20% capacity for
counties in the state’s red tier
of COVID-19 restrictions,
33% for counties in the or-
ange tier and 67% for yellow.
In the red and orange tiers,
only in-state spectators are
allowed.
Los Angeles and Orange
counties moved from the red
tier to orange this week.
As groups move forward
with plans for socially dis-
tanced summer perform-
ances, small theaters with lit-
tle funding still worry they
will have trouble securing an
outdoor space. And the re-
turn indoors — whenever
that might happen — likely
will start with significant ca-
pacity limits that make pro-
ducing shows financially im-
possible for many organiza-
tions.
Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times
at 67% capacity, while indoor
shows would still be forbid-
den.
“HARD will be working
closely with local officials to
implement necessary safety
precautions and will follow
state and local health guide-
lines in place at the time of
the event,” organizers said in
a statement announcing the
festival.
In January, SoCal’s
marquee music event, the
Coachella Valley Music &
Arts Festival, canceled its
planned April return. New
dates have not been an-
nounced, though it’s ex-
pected to be on hold until
2022.
liar — and was charming. He
was constantly improving on
actual life. A lot of good writ-
ers do that. Philip meant to
be accurate, it was very im-
portant to him, but always in
his own interests. With Philip
particularly, he had trans-
muted the raw material of his
life again and again in his
fiction and that had affected
his memory. So, he remem-
bered it as it happened in the
fiction and not as it hap-
pened in real life.
Despite their similarities in
tone, Roth had little love for
Woody Allen.
Claire Bloom was in
“Crimes and Misdemean-
ors.” She said, “This is a man
who doesn’t exist as a human
being. There’s something
deeply wrong with this man.”
Philip thought Woody Allen
was a phony pseudo-intel-
lectual who had never fin-
ished a book in his life and
made all these highfalutin
allusions to Strindberg and
whatnot. It was all bull—.
Anyway, I can assure you
they were not kindred spirits.
Woody Allen started by being
a phony and a bad artist, to
Philip, and once Philip be-
came friends with Mia [Far-
row], he knew that [Allen]
was a truly despicable hu-
man being.
What was he like toward the
end?
Philip would tell you
anything. You would sit there
and think, “I can’t believe
he’s telling me this. Does he
know I’m his biographer?
Does he know I’m going to
write this down?” Toward the
end, he knew he wasn’t going
to live much longer and he
would say that life was great
and he’s going out on a high
note. I’m getting verklempt
just thinking about it.
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TELEVISION REVIEWS
Some fresh prints of old sitcoms
Nostalgia drives such
entries as ‘Country
Comfort,’ ‘Kenan’
and ‘The Crew.’
ROBERT LLOYD
TELEVISION CRITIC
The great American sit-
com! With its couches and
kitchens, its upstage stairs
and stage right doors. So
central to our culture and so
often mocked — made the
emblem of television at its
least imaginative and most
imitative, at its tritest and
tiredest. Witlessness pre-
sented as wit.
There is some truth in it;
examples, at any rate, may be
found to confirm one’s worst
opinion of the form. And yet
the big bidding wars of the
streaming age have been over
comedies — “Friends,” “The
Office,” “Seinfeld.” They
leave an impression as great
or greater than the Quality
Dramas upon which the
reputation of Titanium Age
television rests. It isn’t that
life can’t be gritty or hard, but
TV rarely pictures the gritty
hard lives people actually
lead. But we see ourselves in
sitcoms and, as a bonus,
laugh.
In the pandemic year,
they have amazingly kept
coming, even as the pan-
demic itself is not pictured in
them or is briefly acknowl-
edged as a thing that’s over.
Indeed, we have fallen behind
in covering them. So let’s look
at several that have recently
premiered or are about to. All
but one are shot old-school,
multicamera, laugh-tracked,
live-audience style. All but
one are explicitly about fam-
ily, and the other works as a
metaphor for it.
Sitcoms typically begin at
a moment of change. A new
job, a new town, a new job in a
new town. An old job in the
hometown. An oil strike, a
shipwreck. A death, a di-
vorce. A runaway bride joins
her friend and her friend’s
friends in New York; a run-
away bride moves in with her
gay best friend in New York; a
fussy divorced man moves in
with his messy divorced
friend in New York. But these
are just prologues to be for-
gotten as the routine that
makes sitcoms feel like life
takes over. By the second epi-
sode of “Mary Tyler Moore,”
Mary Richards might as well
have been working at WJM
for a year.
A dead wife and mother,
along with a runaway bride
variation, are baked into Net-
flix’s Nashville-set sitcom-
with-songs “Country Com-
fort,” starring Katherine Mc-
Phee. McPhee plays Bailey,
freshly dumped by her
boyfriend-bandmate; break-
ing down in the rain on the
way out of town, she more or
Studios, speak up about Georgia voting law
[Georgia, from E1]
anti-LGBTQ legislation.
I was one of those voices
calling the industry to ac-
count. I believed that studios
and production companies
should boycott the state,
which has become known as
the Hollywood of the South
by offering juicy tax breaks
to lure movie and television
productions that pour loads
of money into its economy.
Supporting a state that
passed laws so dangerous to
women was, I believed, tan-
tamount to supporting
those laws.
I took a lot of heat for that
column, and not just from
the usual anti-abortion, “you
libtard” crowd. Georgians,
including many women, took
me to task for attempting to
add injury to injury. A Holly-
wood boycott, they said,
would eliminate jobs, de-
press the economy and
deprive the very people I was
claiming to care about of
much-needed resources. It
was, and remains, a legiti-
mate argument — the pain of
any attempt to put economic
pressure on an institution is
invariably felt first, and most
keenly, by the workers, who
are often the very people the
boycott is intended to aid.
According to the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, film
and TV production spent
$2.9 billion in Georgia in 2019;
the loss of that kind of money
would definitely get political
attention, but it would also
undoubtedly harm those
residents who earned some
of it and damage a communi-
ty already reeling from the
COVID-19 pandemic.
A FAMILY is at the center of Netflix sitcom “Country Comfort.” Death also
looms, as in so many other sitcoms past and present, as a widower hires a nanny.
less accidentally gets hired as
a nanny for handsome, wid-
owed horse rancher Beau
(Eddie Cibrian). In several
respects, it’s a rewrite of Fran
Drescher’s “The Nanny,” on
which creator Caryn Lucas
was a producer and writer,
and seems to have been de-
signed to satisfy an audience
looking for a show where
there’s more talk of church
than of sex.
The kids are, in descend-
ing order of age: Tuck (Ri-
cardo Hurtado), muscular
and flirty; Brody (Jamie Mar-
tin Mann), tall and awkward;
Dylan (Griffin McIntyre),
who attaches himself to Bai-
ley as a manager, a program
she gets with in spite of the
fact that he’s 12; Cassidy
(Shiloh Verrico, extremely
present), who is not over the
death of her mother, though
her seriousness is undercut
by the periodic need to pump
sentimentality into the room
like an air freshener or hyp-
notic drug; and Chloe (Pyper
Braun), one of those mouthy
tots beloved of television who
is made to say things like,
“Oh, no you didn’t” and “It’s
2021, women can have it all.”
She is 6.
Some or all will get musi-
cal as if their last name were
Partridge or Osmond. (The
show’s take on Nashville and
the music business is whim-
sical at best.) Every episode
brings a crisis and a resolu-
tion, and a little more love.
“You’re the worst nanny
we’ve ever had,” says Beau,
on the way to a Western met-
aphor, “but you’ve got a heart
the size of Texas.” It is highly
predictable and quite watch-
able.
‘KENAN’
A dead wife and mother
also haunts the backstory of
NBC’s amiable family-and-
workplace comedy, which
In any case, Hollywood
wasn’t listening in 2019, at
least not to those calling for a
boycott. A few directors and
producers swore to stop
working in Georgia, while
others said they would stay
and help the fight, but most
studios and production
companies chose not to get
involved in controversy
around the abortion law,
which many believed (cor-
rectly, as it turned out) would
be overturned in a higher
court.
But now, silence is not an
option, whatever the econo-
mic ramifications or poten-
tial legal recourse may be.
In an obvious response to
Georgia’s historic support for
Joe Biden in the 2020 presi-
dential election and the
state’s subsequent and
equally historic election of
two Democratic senators, the
Republican-led Legislature
has passed — and the gover-
nor signed — a 98-page mea-
sure that is blatantly and
specifically designed to make
it more difficult for people of
color to vote and less difficult
for the Legislature to over-
turn election results.
As if the new restrictions
regarding absentee ballots (a
driver’s license or state ID
must be produced to acquire
a ballot) and drop boxes
(they must be located in early
voting centers, which are
open only during normal
business hours) weren’t
enough, it is now against the
law to provide food and water
to voters waiting in line (Kind
Bars and Arrowhead, please
tell me you are making
plans).
brings Kenan Thompson
back to series television 21
years after the end of Nickel-
odeon’s “Kenan & Kel.” (He’s
been a cast member of “Sat-
urday Night Live” nearly all
the meantime.) Here he
plays the host of an Atlanta
morning show, local talk
show host being a time-hon-
ored sitcom job previously
practiced by Bob Newhart
(“Newhart”); Dabney Cole-
man (“Buffalo Bill”); Bob
Saget (“Full House”); and
Dick Van Dyke (“The New
Dick Van Dyke Show”)
among others.
In the show, Kenan lives
with his twin daughters
(Danni and Dannah Lane,
smart but not smart-alecky)
and gambler father-in-law
(Don Johnson, funny), who
bets on plot twists in “This Is
Us.” Chris Redd, also from
“SNL,” plays eccentric
brother Gary — the scattered
sibling is standard issue for
the sitcom kit — who is also
his manager. As we open, Ke-
nan is having trouble proc-
essing the death of his wife,
but he will get to it presently.
Produced, one might al-
most say inevitably, by Lorne
Michaels, the show plays to
Thompson’s natural sweet-
ness and boyishness. (He re-
marks upon his own baby-
face.) Much of the action re-
volves around the family,
who seem authentically re-
lated, but there are also ex-
cursions into manic hijinks
where grown men get every-
thing wrong and wind up
breaking stuff. Anyway, it’s
an easy hang.
‘UNITED STATES OF AL’
Adhir Kalyan plays
Awalmir, called Al, an Afghan
translator who has come to
America to live, for a time at
least, with Riley (Parker
Young), a Marine with whom
he became friends, in the
PROTESTERS gather outside the Georgia Capitol in
Atlanta as lawmakers debated voting bills March 25.
Biden called the new
legislation “an atrocity”;
Michael Waldman, the presi-
dent of the Brennan Center
for Justice, likened it to Jim
Crow laws; the NAACP and
several voter activist organi-
zations including the Black
Voters Matter Fund have
filed lawsuits; and many
have called on large Georgia
based-corporations, includ-
ing Home Depot, Delta and
Coca-Cola, to denounce the
new voting restrictions or
risk national boycotts.
Thus far, only Delta has
responded. After a few days
of waffling and claiming that
company leaders worked
with elected officials to re-
move “the most egregious“
aspects of the bill (I shudder
to think what they were), the
airline finally denounced the
law in full, declaring that it is
“based on a lie” about the
November election and will
“make it harder for many
underrepresented voters,
particularly Black voters, to
Beth Dubber Netf lix
show premiering Thursday
on CBS. Unlike “Aliens in
America,” a fine CW series
from 2007 about a Pakistani
Muslim exchange student, it
is not satirical and, in the four
episodes available, treads so
softly upon the issues it half-
raises that it may as well be
“Punky Brewster” (see be-
low). Set in Ohio, it is non-po-
litical in that We Hate War
but Support the Troops way.
Al is a Magical Stranger;
he will charm-bully his
American friends into seeing
things with his new eyes. He
haggles with a supermarket
cashier, admires the paved
roads, poses with a power
mower to impress a cousin
back home. Many of his ob-
servations are School of
Yakov Smirnoff — “What a
country!” — but now and
then, he’ll turn a war story
into a parable in order, say, to
convince Riley’s daughter
Hazel (Farrah Mackenzie,
appealingly dry) to eat her
spinach. And there is serious
business regarding Riley’s
difficult return to civilian life:
He’s separated from wife
Vanessa, played by Kelli
Goss, a situation Al is annoy-
ingly determined to fix.
(“You’re an optimistic little
dude, ain’t ya?” observes Ril-
ey’s father, played by Dean
Norris.) But these scenes feel
more put on than lived
through. On the other hand,
when it spends quality time
with Riley’s sister Lizzie (the
excellent Elizabeth Alder-
fer), quietly off the rails since
the death of her helicopter pi-
lot fiancé — death again! — it
finds weight and realism the
rest of the show doesn’t quite
achieve.
‘THE CREW’
Also from Netflix and also
not set among the coastal
elites, the show stars Kevin
James, whose television re-
Jeff Amy Associated Press
exercise their constitutional
right to elect their repre-
sentatives.”
Every other company,
including Hollywood stu-
dios, seems willing to risk the
boycott. There has been
markedly less personal
outrage than in 2019, but
several individuals, includ-
ing director James Mangold
and actor Mark Hamill, have
publicly stated that they will
not work in Georgia until the
new law is overturned. And
once again, many politicians,
economists and community
leaders have argued that a
boycott will do more harm
than good.
Stacey Abrams, who
gained national recognition
for her heroic efforts to get
out the vote in 2020, called
the new legislation “voter
suppression” — but in 2019,
she opposed calls for a Holly-
wood boycott around the
abortion law, telling The
Times that she respected
those who called for a boy-
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sume includes long-running
sitcom “The King of Queens”
with Leah Remini and the
not very long-running “Kevin
Can Wait,” into which the
producers imported Leah
Remini to help viewers recall
“The King of Queens.” James
stars here as the crew chief of
a struggling — but not very
hard — NASCAR racing
team.
To make a sitcom out of it,
the boss’s daughter, Cather-
ine (Jillian Mueller), a Stan-
ford graduate and Silicon
Valley vet, is suddenly put in
charge. Monday morning
meetings are called and kale
chips and seaweed strips re-
place the traditional bags of
junk food by the coffee mach-
ine. The new boss is not the
same as the old boss. The dy-
namic between James’ and
Mueller’s characters broadly
recalls “Cheers” after Coach
died and Rebecca took over,
minus the sexual tension.
On a nuts-and-bolts level,
the vehicle is sound; it
doesn’t rattle too loudly or
leak a lot of oil. The cast — in-
cluding Dan Ahdoot as the
chief engineer, Gary Anthony
Williams as the chief me-
chanic, Freddie Stroma as
their dim driver and officer
manager Sarah Stiles occu-
pying the Remini role — is
very good, with enough
depth and breadth that jokes
can come from character.
(There is too much dog-pil-
ing on Ahdhoot’s nervous
character for my taste, and
not just because he’s the
character I most tempera-
mentally resemble.) They’re
fun to watch, but I never felt
especially invested in their
plotlines. But I laughed
some.
‘CALL YOUR MOTHER’
There is a dead husband
in the deep background of
this ABC show created by
Kari Lizer (“The New Adven-
tures of Old Christine”) and
directed almost entirely by
Pamela Fryman, who di-
rected nearly all of “How I
Met Your Mother,” which is to
say it’s a pro job.
Kyra Sedgwick stars as
Jean, an Iowa woman whose
grown children — son Fred-
die (Joey Bragg) and daugh-
ter Jackie (Rachel Sennott,
making a strong impression)
— are living in L.A. Having
not heard from Freddie for
four days, she travels to L.A.
to check on him. (Jean
doesn’t worry about Jackie,
who takes this is as not car-
ing.) The pilot strains a little;
Sedgwick’s character seems
to be built on the back of
jokes, rather than jokes pro-
ceeding naturally from char-
acter, and she seems a little
insane at first. (“I’d still be
breastfeeding if we lived in
France,” she says in regard to
her kids, and describes her-
self as a “hunt them down
and force my love on them
kind of person.”) But once
cott but preferred a different
path.
Given the state of the
entertainment industry at
the moment — stuttering to
restart after months of pan-
demic shutdowns in which
millions lost their jobs — it’s
difficult to imagine produc-
tions pulling out of Georgia,
especially if Abrams and
other state activists call on
them to remain. But the
alternative cannot be “stay
silent and do nothing,” which
has been the general re-
sponse thus far.
As many have pointed
out, the entertainment
industry was very vocal in its
support of last summer’s
Black Lives Matter protests
and has made racial diver-
sity and justice a central
talking point of how the
industry needs to change.
Which is great, as far as it
goes, but it doesn’t go very
far if those calls for justice do
not extend to fighting Geor-
gia’s blatantly racist attempt
to restrict the fundamental
requirement of democracy:
the right to vote.
And not just for the Os-
cars. Like many industries in
this country, Hollywood has
been through a lot in the last
year. The future of the big-
screen experience is still
uncertain, pandemic filming
restrictions are expensive,
and I cannot imagine the
scheduling nightmare virtu-
ally everyone is facing.
But none of that is as
important as the disenfran-
chisement of fellow citizens
by the very government
elected to serve them. If
people cannot vote because
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she is indefinitely ensconced
in the comfy AirBnB-esque
guest house run by quasi-
love interest Danny (Patrick
Brammall, “No Activity”)
and the other characters, in-
cluding Austin Crute as Jack-
ie’s roommate and Emma
Caymares as Freddie’s girl-
friend, have entered their
mutual orbits, things relax
and improve.
‘PUNKY BREWSTER’
This show first worked its
dark magic back in the 1980s
and has come back to life on
Peacock. Like Netflix’s
“Fuller House,” it is not a re-
boot but a long-delayed next
season, executed more or
less in the style of the origi-
nal. It’s very much for chil-
dren and people who were
children back when.
Soleil Moon Frye returns
as Punky (along with Cherie
Johnson as best friend
Cherie), still saying “Holy
macanoli!” and wearing mis-
matched sneakers, but 33
years older, newly divorced
and the mother of three: The
younger two (Noah Cottrell
and Oliver De Los Santos)
are adopted brothers, a kind
of Oscar and Felix if Felix
painted his fingernails and
wore eyeliner. (“I like it,” says
Punky. “It makes your eyes
pop.”) The third (Lauren
Lindsey Donzis), swinging
between deadpan and de-
light in that teenage way, is
her daughter with ex-hus-
band Travis (Freddie Prinze
Jr.), a musician just “off the
road” and proactively hang-
ing around: “We may not be
‘together’ together, but I’ll al-
ways have your back, Punky
Brewster.’”
Developed by Steve and
Jim Armogida (TV’s “School
of Rock”), it’s a Feel the Feels
affair in which eyes oft brim
with tears, understanding
smile meets understanding
smile and a bed is just a place
for the whole family to pile
onto with popcorn and a dog.
Your tolerance may vary for
sentiments like “You don’t
need to make room for Izzy in
the apartment, you need to
make space for her in your
hearts” — mine is low — and
there’s nothing here that
strives to be remotely novel.
But as a new season of
“Punky Brewster,” it is unim-
peachable. And was I moved
by the series’ climactic re-
union? Yes, I was.
These shows suit a variety
of tastes and needs, and any
sitcom that lasts for a while
improves with time — both
the time its makers put in, as
actors and writers learn a lit-
tle more with each passing
episode about the world and
people they’re creating and
inhabiting, and the time the
viewer puts in, riding along,
getting to know them, getting
to know all about them.
As the song almost goes:
You want to go where you
know everybody’s name.
the needs of their community
are not being met, or if their
votes can be cast away by
individuals or bodies un-
happy with the result, this is
no longer a democracy. Pe-
riod.
No one expects Holly-
wood to solve this. But nei-
ther can an industry that has
prided itself on telling stories
of resistance, resilience,
conflict, humanity, honor
and valor simply remain
silent when the rights of its
workers, their audience and
their country are being
threatened. The greatest
power the entertainment
industry has is to raise a
rallying cry, both to the cor-
porations that share a stake
in Georgia — Home Depot,
Coca Cola, Delta and UPS all
certainly do business with
Hollywood — and to the rest
of the world.
If all those companies
working in Georgia came
together to publicly de-
nounce the new law, pledge to
help ensure that every Geor-
gia voter who wants to vote in
the 2022 election will be able
to do so and then follow
through on that pledge with
financial support and other
resources ... well, what’s the
opposite of a boycott?
But if Hollywood chooses
to remain silent, especially
after Delta has spoken out,
well, it is not written in the
Constitution that a return to
normal has to include going
to the movies or watching
television, especially when it
comes to those films and
series filmed in a place where
the Constitution no longer
guides governance.
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HOROSCOPE
By Holiday Mathis
Aries (March 21-April 19):
The day runs a little like a
heist. Much depends on who
knows what at which point
in the timeline. You may
need to create a distraction.
Taurus (April 20-May
20): Do what makes you
comfortable. If you have a
funny feeling about it, as-
sume there’s a good reason.
The same goes for unex-
plainably excellent feelings.
Gemini (May 21-June 21):
Action that serves an indi-
vidual doesn’t necessarily
serve the group. Right now
it’s best to take it to the com-
mittee. Ask for both a short
and long-term perspective.
Cancer (June 22-July 22):
It’s natural to want to earn
the good graces of those in
charge. It’s most effective to
focus on doing the task to
the best of your ability.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):
Feeling another person’s
pain will be unnecessary;
you can relieve it. You’ll be
happy to lift a burden, offer a
remedy or fix a situation.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
The group leader is the one
whose mood prevails. That’s
you. Slowly but surely the at-
mosphere lifts to meet you.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
You’d like to move forward in
a relationship but your idea
of forward may be different
from the ideal. Stay open to
varied visions of the future.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21):
You often get more out of
helping people than from be-
ing helped. You could use the
lift, and you’ll get offers that
would be a shame to pass up.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21): You don’t feel
you’ve done enough. You
chew on the matter and
cause yourself discomfort.
Meanwhile, they’re blown
away with what you gave.
Stop ruminating!
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): Awkwardness doesn’t
have to bring about distance
and alienation. It can be the
4/1/21
best source of bonding there
is. Lean into it and call out
the awkward state of things.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): You don’t always feel free
to bend a situation to your
preferences, but today you’d
be remiss not to. Apply your
excellent taste to making
this improvement.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March
20): You’re on a creative and
productive high. Make the
most of it by bouncing
among three endeavors.
Today’s birthday (April
1): Your eyes are full of stars
when you look at those you
admire. What you don’t real-
ize is how much of their star
power comes from your ado-
ration. You’ll find the inter-
section of what you enjoy
and what people will pay you
well for. Taurus and Gemini
adore you. Your lucky num-
bers: 1, 33, 38, 4, 17.
Mathis writes her column
for Creators Syndicate Inc.
The horoscope should be
read for entertainment.
Dear Amy: My wife’s best
friend recently went through
a period where she was un-
happy in her marriage.
She began sexting with
willing men and then shar-
ing some of the pictures she
had received with my wife.
I know about this be-
cause my wife asked me to
fix the Wi-Fi on her phone.
While I was working on
her phone, her friend texted
one of these photos.
Alarmed and a little
shocked, I opened the text
message string and found
myself in a world of hurt.
My wife was tacitly giving
her friend permission to
send these photos and also
comparing my physique un-
favorably to these men.
When I confronted my
wife about this, her first re-
action was to change the
passcode on her phone.
She has since apologized,
but I’m still having trouble.
I can’t seem to shake the
feeling that she finds me
unattractive, and whenever
her friend is around, I feel
embarrassed and ashamed
knowing that my body was
described unfavorably to her
in such explicit detail.
What should I do?
Embarrassed
Dear Embarrassed: Your
wife has embarrassed, disre-
spected and disappointed
FAMILY CIRCUS By Bil Keane
you, and you are left wonder-
ing what you should do
about it. She’s the one who
needs to behave differently.
When a partner gets
caught behaving badly, their
instinct is often to try to
sweep the problem away. A
typical reaction is to issue a
swift apology, insist you
”move on,” and then avoid
discussing it further.
Do not suffer silently. De-
scribe how her behavior
makes you feel, using “I”
statements: “I’m embar-
rassed. I feel unloved. I really
need to talk about this.”
You deserve an apology.
A real one, where your wife
shows that she understands
the impact of her rudeness.
If you cannot successfully
navigate this with her, make
an appointment with a cou-
ples’ counselor. If she dis-
misses the need, you should
go on your own.
Dear Amy: Two years ago,
I rekindled a relationship
with my cousin, “Brian,” who
is my age (44) and an only
child. We have a great friend-
ship and are now close.
About a year ago, anoth-
er cousin was contacted by
someone who is certainly
Brian’s half-sister. The wom-
an was hoping to be put in
contact with her sibling and/
or biological father. Eventu-
ally, the whole family found
DENNIS THE MENACE By Hank Ketcham
out and everyone is keeping
this a secret from Brian.
My father approached
his brother (my uncle, Bri-
an’s dad), and he admitted
the infidelity to my father
but refuses to tell his son.
It seems that his wife (my
aunt) is aware of the infidel-
ity and this biological child.
It’s been a year and I feel sick
trying to hold this secret.
This isn’t the first indica-
tion of dysfunction in my ex-
tended family, and I’m ready
to remove myself from them
and simply be loyal to my
cousin, who I believe de-
serves to know of his sibling.
What should I do?
Caring Cousin
Dear Cousin: If this wom-
an was able to contact one
cousin, it seems logical that
she‘d also be able to eventu-
ally reach her half-brother.
Tell your uncle, “I’m sure
this is a very tough situation
for you, but I am extremely
uncomfortable continuing
to keep this a secret from
Brian. I do not want to inter-
fere, so please let me know
when you are planning to tell
Brian about this. He is an
adult and I genuinely believe
he has a right to know that
he has a half-sister.”
Send questions to Amy
Dickinson by email to ask
amy@amydickinson.com.

CROSSWORD
Edited By Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
By Joseph A. Gangi © 2021 Tribune Content Agency
ACROSS
1 Anger
5 List member
9 Reheat, in a way
12 “That’s on me”
13 Service station sections
14 Crime site
16 One may symbolize
friendship
17 Gets with difficulty,
with “out”
18 Ctrl+V, commonly
19 *Like some pages in
ARGYLE SWEATER By Scott Hilburn MARMADUKE By Brad & Paul Anderson
used books
21 It arrives just before
Christmas, for many
22 Substituted (for)
23 Send an IM to
24 Public health org.
25 Card game cry
26 Like some exams
30 MLB’s Angels, in
sportscasts
33 *“Mean” Pro Football
Hall of Fame lineman
35 Before, in Brest
36 List-ending abbr.
37 Helpers
38 *Arcade staple
5 Spain and Portugal, 45 Like 55-Down
40 Puts away
mostly 46 Inspiration for the 2004
41 Pre-event periods
42 Chemical suffix 6 Unavailable film “Troy”
7 See 57-Across 47 Parts of some V’s
43 Fire remains
8 Ed.’s stack 48 Lit up
44 Calls in poker
9 Word with lemon or 49 Kind of position used
46 Criminal
orange for meditation
50 Tell when one shouldn’t
10 Pot starter 50 “Ditto”
53 Secondary persona, or
11 Jury member 51 Pack it in BLISS By Harry Bliss SPEED BUMP By Dave Coverly
what’s hidden in the
52 __ Major
answers to starred clues 14 English
15 *Is a fifty-fifty 53 Triangle calculation
54 Distinctive characters
proposition 55 See 45-Down
55 Verdi solo
56 Paintball souvenir? 20 Extends, as a building ANSWER TO
57 With 7-Down, teary 21 Building extension PREVIOUS PUZZLE
58 Tolerate 23 Jigsaw bit
59 Not worth __ 25 “No clue”
60 LAX info 27 Start over
61 Rogues 28 Over
62 Trees used to make 29 No __: surprisingly
bows 30 Possess
31 Tel __
DOWN 32 Fill with freight
1 Fowl 33 Casual pants
2 Facetious target of a 34 React to fightin’ words,
series of guides maybe
3 Talk of the town? 39 Hebrides native
4 *Metaphor suggesting 43 Wedding destinations,
suspense often 4/1/21
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E6 THU R S DAY , AP R IL 1, 2021
LACMA’s statements of intent
[LACMA, from E1]
Most visitors were following
the rules.
Beyond essential pan-
demic alterations, however,
the museum’s other changes
were optional. If you haven’t
been down Wilshire Boule-
vard’s Miracle Mile in the last
year, be prepared for the
complete disappearance of
LACMA’s four buildings dat-
ing from 1965 and 1986. They
fell to the wrecking ball just
as quarantining began,
hauled off to a landfill in
Eagle Rock to make way for
the new building, the David
Geffen Galleries, under con-
struction to house the per-
manent collection.
Six new exhibitions —
four in the Resnick Pavilion
and two in the awkwardly
named Broad Contemporary
Art Museum building — have
been installed. Together they
give two clear indications of
what to expect the new
LACMA will look like, once
the Geffen Galleries open.
One is a sizable theme
show built around art in
LACMA’s encyclopedic col-
lection. Rather than perma-
nent displays organized by
the art’s chronology and ge-
ography, the Geffen Galleries
will show the collection as
changing theme exhibitions
in seven exhibition halls.
The other is an emphasis
— actually, overemphasis —
on contemporary art. Five of
the six shows feature art
made since about 1960.
That raises the question:
Given the city’s Museum of
Contemporary Art, the
UCLA Hammer Museum,
the Broad downtown, the In-
stitute of Contemporary Art,
the California African Ameri-
can Museum, college out-
posts including the Vincent
Price and Benton museums,
Lancaster Museum of Art
and History, Torrance Muse-
um, myriad nonprofit spaces
like LACE, the Armory and
LAXART, plus a large and
lively gallery scene — and
more — do we really need
LACMA to be top-heavy with
contemporary art?
I understand that’s where
the money is. But, according
to the LACMA website, since
2017 more than 80% of the ex-
hibitions have showcased
20th and 21st century art.
LACMA is the only encyclo-
pedic museum the city’s got.
The long pandemic closure is
over, but the health crisis
isn’t the only reason that I’ve
missed the place.
WHERE’S THAT VOICE?
The theme show is “NOT
I: Throwing Voices (1500
BCE–2020 CE),” with around
200 works, major and minor,
selected across global cul-
tures past and present (on
view through July 25). The
theme is ventriloquism.
As an entertainment, the
show is less Shari Lewis’
Lamb Chop than the disem-
bodied chattering-mouth of
Samuel Beckett in the writ-
er’s frantic 1973 stage play
“Not I,” which provides the ti-
tle. Beckett followed an ellip-
tical path in a rapid-fire, 15-
minute monologue to ponder
what makes up a person’s
Oscars should be at the Music Center
[Oscars, from E1]
is home to a gleaming 36,000-
square-foot outdoor space
that was recently refur-
bished to the tune of $41
million by the architectural
firm Rios Clementi Hale
Studios (now known simply
as Rios). The hilltop Jerry
Moss Plaza, located between
the Dorothy Chandler Pavil-
ion and the Mark Taper
Forum, not only offers won-
derful views of City Hall and
downtown, it is fully tricked
out for events, with two
massive LED screens (cur-
rently showing short films
about L.A.) as well as tie-
downs for party tents of all
sizes — all of it built-in and
ready to go.
Also built-in: data and
fiber optic cables that con-
nect the site to the outside
world, including the four
performance spaces that call
the Music Center home.
These include the Walt
Disney Concert Hall, the
Ahmanson Theatre, the
Mark Taper Forum and the
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
The Music Center also man-
ages cultural programming
for Grand Park, which
means its staffers know their
way around an outdoor
event — like the regular
Dance DTLA nights and the
annual (in non-COVID-19
times) New Year’s Eve
parties that draw close to
75,000 attendees with music
and light shows.
Moreover, just last week,
the Music Center announced
“NOT I” exhibition includes Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin’s “Soap Bubbles.”
LACMA
reopens
Where: 5905 Wilshire
Blvd., L.A.
When: Closed
Wednesdays. Timed
reservation required.
Admission: $10-$25; kids
12 and younger are free.
Check website for L.A.
County resident discounts
Info: (323) 857-6010,
lacma.org
conception of the self.
The show ends with a
BBC video clip of a Beckett
performance starring Billie
Whitelaw’s motormouth. It
opens with a 1992-93 Ann
Hamilton video of a mouth
full of marbles. In between, 10
sections consider sub-topics
like artists’ images of pup-
pets, animals as human
surrogates and sound as a
visual subject. Philosophical-
ly minded but hardly frantic,
LACMA’s “NOT I” is a meta-
show — an art exhibition
about making art exhib-
itions. It repeats the truism
that art museums aren’t neu-
tral. Curator José-Luis Blon-
det is the invisible ventrilo-
quist, speaking through the
selection and juxtaposition
of mute objects.
What he has to say is often
eloquent and always in-
formed, although the show
feels incomplete.
Take pipes. A display case
features a lineup of 10 of the
smoking implements drawn
from a variety of world cul-
tures, past and present. They
include ancient Colima in
west Mexico, 17th century In-
dia and Iran, 19th century
Czech Republic and 20th
century Congo and the
United States.
Nearby hangs a stolid,
1853 academic portrait of
four upper-class white chil-
dren, primly decked out in
velvets and lace, by the popu-
lar Victorian New York paint-
er George Augustus Baker Jr.
THE BEAUTIFUL Union Station will host the supper club-style event April 25.
it was the first performing
arts organization in the
country to receive a UL
“healthy building” verifica-
tion, representing a high
standard of air quality at all
four venues.
So, imagine if you will an
Oscars in which Leslie Odom
Jr., a nominee for original
song, performs “Speak Now”
from “One Night in Miami”
on the Taper’s intimate,
half-moon stage. Imagine
projecting clips from the
best picture contenders
against Frank Gehry’s sinu-
ous Disney Hall (like the wild
projections staged by artist
Refik Anadol during the L.A.
The kids wield pipes, too —
pipes for blowing soap bub-
bles, a common symbol for
innocence. The shimmering
bubbles signify life’s fragility.
Tucked around the corner
and embedded in a carve-out
in the gallery wall is a skinny,
8-foot-tall, black-and-white
photographic mural by Gor-
don Matta-Clark. Made in
1971, it uncovers plumbing
and electrical pipes of the
kind hidden behind the dry-
wall inside any modern build-
ing. Matta-Clark’s pipes — in
this context a Pop art pun —
expose hidden structure.
A room away, in a different
section about invisible
air, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon
Chardin’s brilliant “Soap
Bubbles” is a lusciously
painted picture of a young
aristocrat, circa 1739, leaning
on a stone window ledge and
gently blowing into a soapy
reed. An air-filled bubble ex-
pands, threatening to burst.
The stone ledge, borrowed
from a European Renais-
sance tradition in post-
humous portraiture, implies
a meditation on mortality.
All grays, browns and
dusty whites, Chardin’s
earthy and sensuous oil paint
draws your eye to the play of
delicate surface textures and
soft luminosity across the
canvas. The painting gets es-
tablished as a material ana-
logy for the pictured soap
bubble’s fragility.
The splendid Chardin is
the kind of first-tier painting
that firmly established the
symbolic soap bubble that
Baker’s impassive American
painting later relied on, albeit
with far less inventive skill.
The Frenchman painted
rings around the American.
But the subject matter of
wealthy 18th and 19th century
youths bearing pipes does
evoke the industrialization of
tobacco as a primary source
for the era’s great European
and American fortunes. Kids
played with toys while their
elders had actual pipes and
fancy snuff boxes.
The show’s decorated clay
Colima pipe is likely a ritual
Phil’s 100th anniversary gala
in 2018). And imagine —
imagine — all the florid
interpretive dance numbers
you could feature on the
stage of the Dorothy Chan-
dler Pavilion, a setting that
comes pre-loaded with
Oscars history. The theater,
after all, was the site of the
Academy Awards for three
decades starting in 1969.
It’s an only-in-L.A. combi-
nation of architectural and
showbiz history.
This is not to say that
Union Station isn’t pretty
great. I can totally see why
the academy chose it as a
location for the Oscars.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
relic, tobacco cultivation
thought to have begun in an-
cient Mexico. “Old world” co-
lonization of a “new world” —
old and new, that is, to the
colonizers — is implied if not
declared. In this permanent
collection installation, very
different works of art from
very different times and
places are talking among
themselves.
“NOT I” tells a cluster of
mini stories. Even the ab-
sence of stories is considered,
thanks to a clever commis-
sion from Istanbul-born,
Stockholm-based installa-
tion artist Meriç Algün: Close
to 1,000 books on a host of
topics are displayed on 10
shelves — all loaned from the
L.A. Public Library but none
previously borrowed by any
readers.
The limitation of “NOT I”
is that LACMA’s permanent
collection is presented as if a
group of variously interesting
asides whispered by a smart
friend. Theme shows are the
most difficult to pull off be-
cause they beg for persuasive
discovery and definitive con-
clusion. Even with more than
200 objects, “NOT I” doesn’t
offer that.
Is any encyclopedic muse-
um collection large enough to
accomplish it? Probably not.
One virtue of simple chronol-
ogy and geography as organ-
izing principles for an art mu-
seum’s permanent collection
is that they’re just un-
adorned facts without pre-
sumption of completion. I left
“NOT I” wondering how the
David Geffen Galleries might
possibly carry it off when sur-
veying everything LACMA
owns.
WHAT’S OUT OF VIEW
Most of the great objects
in LACMA’s long-shuttered
collection remain in storage.
Japanese, Mesoamerican,
South Asian, European
Baroque, colonial Mexican,
American and more — few
are to be seen. But there’s
plenty of contemporary art.
German artist Vera Lut-
ter’s 44 pinhole-camera views
Jason Armond Los Angeles Times
The station is breath-
taking. And as a frequent
user of Amtrak and the Gold
Line, I never cease to marvel
at John and Donald Parkin-
son’s graceful Mission Re-
vival building, which was
completed in 1939 and has
recently undergone a $4.1
million restoration. With its
beamed ceilings, hand-
painted tiles and bronze
chandeliers, the place has an
air not of harried rail center,
but of a baroque Spanish
cathedral. It is pure ceremo-
ny.
Still, choosing Union
Station feels like a glaring
missed opportunity. Not only
LAT IMES. C OM/ CALENDAR
of galleries and art in the now-
demolished LACMA build-
ings are on view (to Sept. 12)
in a show organized by cura-
tor Jennifer King. Tied to the
minor European and Ameri-
can tradition of paintings
that record (and fabricate)
the look of mostly royal pic-
ture galleries, they offer a
bland critique of art muse-
ums as an ostensibly shady
Enlightenment-era idea.
A big retrospective of mid-
dling but popular painter
Yoshitomo Nara, 61, is twice
as large as it needs to be to ac-
count for his market success
at branding (to July 5, guest-
curated by Mika Yoshitake).
Endless, obsessive variations
over nearly 40 years on a
scowling, wide-eyed little girl
adrift in fields of empty space
are featured in nearly five
dozen canvases, some 700 re-
petitive drawings and a few
sculptures.
Childhood, a common
contemporary Japanese mo-
tif, has been theorized as rep-
resenting the infantilization
of a once-belligerent imperial
society laid low amid the
death and humiliation of
World War II. Nara’s are like
the big-eyed children of
kitsch icon Margaret Keane
— albeit more skillfully
painted and with post-nucle-
ar anxiety replacing greeting-
card sentimentality.
Sixteen recent acquisi-
tions of contemporary art are
also on view (ongoing), their
welcome emphasis on work
by women and people of color
part of a larger, growing effort
among museums to redress
past exclusion. Most notable
are sculptures by Lonnie Hol-
ley and Betye Saar, which add
to LACMA’s collection of
powerful assemblages that
emerged full force in Los An-
geles’ Black arts movement
after the 1965 Watts rebellion.
It’s also good to see Bill
Viola’s 1992 “Slowly Turning
Narrative” (through June 27),
an important video installa-
tion in the collection by the
genre’s pioneer, who is based
in Long Beach. Unseen for
nearly 20 years, its two projec-
tions on a revolving screen,
one side mirrored, absorb
and reflect illusory fragments
of imagery inside a darkened
room.
Abandoned buildings,
nighttime parking lots, fire-
works and more merge with a
man’s looming face chanting
observations on various
states of being. Your reflec-
tion gets tangled up in the
slipping, sliding image
stream as the flow of mediat-
ed modern life becomes an
enchanted Plato’s Cave.
Consider Viola’s video
manifestation of a mind
forming fleeting thoughts as
a coincidental ancestor to
“Give It or Leave It,” a sprawl-
ing, visionary installation in-
corporating film, sculpture,
video and stage sets by L.A.-
based Cauleen Smith (to Oct.
31). The traveling show, which
will be reviewed later, was or-
ganized three years ago by
Philadelphia’s Institute of
Contemporary Art.
It’s terrific, but I wonder
where most of LACMA’s col-
lection masterpieces went.
is the Music Center set up for
an event like the Oscars — in
a place that doesn’t incon-
venience thousands of pas-
sengers daily — its role as a
performing arts venue would
have allowed the academy to
show solidarity with cultural
spaces that have been shut-
tered, not to mention eco-
nomically crushed, by the
pandemic.
Hollywood, this place that
is in L.A. but is generally not
of it, could have visibly ex-
pressed its support for local
theater and music and dance
— areas of the performing
arts that not only frequently
work their way into film, but
also consistently feed it.
(Three of the year’s most
nominated movies, after all,
began life as stage plays:
Kemp Powers’ “One Night in
Miami...,” August Wilson’s
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
and Florian Zeller’s “The
Father.”)
Instead, the academy is
honoring the work of film-
makers and performers in ... a
train station. One to which all
of the celebrities will no
doubt arrive in their limos.
It will be lovely, no doubt.
But in a culture where the
arts remain beleaguered and
a regular target for politi-
cians, it sure would have been
nice to see a telecast that not
only highlighted film, but all
of the ancillary areas of cul-
ture that help sustain it.
For that, however, we may
have to wait until the next
pandemic.
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the Angels, 7 p.m. Fox
Sports Net.
NBA Basketball The Char-
lotte Denver Nuggets visit
the Clippers, 7 p.m. FS
Prime and TNT
TALK SHOWS
CBS This Morning (N)
7 a.m. KCBS
Today Idris Elba; Padma
Lakshmi. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC
Good Morning America
Danielle Brooks; Joe Zee.
(N) 7 a.m. KABC
Kelly and Ryan Priyanka
Chopra Jonas; Ralph Mac-
chio. (N) 9 a.m. KABC
The View Ice-T; Rebecca
Jarvis. 10 a.m. KABC
The Wendy Williams Show
Ray J and Princess Love
(“Couples Retreat”). (N)
11 a.m. KTTV
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Kyle MacLachlan; John
Fogerty performs. (N) 2 p.m.
KNBC
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
tWitch; Beth Behrs; Miles
Brown; Seventeen per-
forms. (N) 3 p.m. KNBC
Amanpour and Company
(N) 11 p.m. KCET; midnight
KVCR; 1 a.m. KLCS
Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m.
KABC
Jack Rowand ABC
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CBS Entertainment Young Shel- United States Mom (TV14) B Positive Clarice (TV14) Sidelined News Å The Late Show:
Tonight TV don (TVPG) of Al (TVPG) Bonnie goes (TV14) Gina because of her harrowing Stephen Col-
host Drew Sheldon, Dr. (Premiere) A to extreme has three ordeal with Marilyn Felker, bert (TVPG)
Barrymore; Linkletter Marine veter- lengths days to teach Clarice goes to Ruth Martin Nicolle
Nicole Byer and Meemaw an is reunited to protect Cannoli the to be reinstated and gets Wallace; Mi-
("Wipeout"). team up on with his someone she dog new roped into having dinner at chaela Coel.
(N) Å a science interpreter loves; Jill tricks; Drew the Martin residence. (N) Å (11:35) Å
experiment. after helping struggles to must deal
(N) Å him come to make sense with Maddie
the U.S. from of a messy growing up.
Afghanistan. new relation- (N) Å
(N) Å ship. (N) Å
NBC All Access Manifest (TV14) (Season Law & Order: SVU (TV14) The Law & Order: Organized Crime
News Å The Tonight
(TVPG) (N) premiere) Ben goes on a squad rallies around Det.
(TV14) (Premiere) Det. Sta- Show: Jimmy
Å mission with Vance to seek Stabler to find the suspect
bler returns to the NYPD to Fallon (TV14)
a clue that may unlock the behind a threat to his family.
take on the city’s most pow- Former First
mystery of Flight 828; an in- (N) Å erful organized crime syn- Lady Michelle
tense calling leads Michaela dicates and rebuild his life Obama; Guy
and Zeke on an adventure of in the wake of a devastating Raz. Å
their own. (N) Å personal loss. (N) Å
Jack Rowand ABC CW 2 & 1/2 Men Penn & Teller: Fool Us Å Penn & Teller: Fool Us Å News Å Sports (10:45) News Å Sports (11:35)
GRACE PARK AND TERRY CHEN star in a new ABC Wheel of For- Station 19 (TV14) Vic and Grey’s Anatomy (TV14) The A Million Little Things (TV14) News Å Jimmy Kimmel
episode of “A Million Little Things” on ABC. tune (TVG) Travis' friendship is put to hospital ventilator shortage Katherine realizes Theo is Live! Octavia
(N) Å the test as they respond to has the doctors concerned; being discriminated against Spencer; Me-
calls to help two best friends Hayes' high-risk sister-in-law when one of his classmates lissa McCa-
SERIES in need; Jack realizes he has with multiple sclerosis ends asks him to wear a mask rthy; Nasim
a greater impact on Marcus up in the hospital with a kid- during remote learning. Pedrad. (N)
Young Sheldon Sheldon, Dr. Linkletter and Meemaw than he thought. (N) Å ney stone. (N) Å (N) Å (11:35) Å
(Iain Armitage, Ed Begley Jr. and Annie Potts) work to- KCAL Family Feud News Å News Å News Å Sports Central black-ish Å black-ish Å
gether on a science experiment. Zoe Perry, Lance Barber, FOX Extra (TVPG) Hell’s Kitchen (TV14) In The Moodys (TV14) Sean Sr. News Å Extra (TVPG) TMZ (TVPG)
Montana Jordan and Raegan Revord also star in this new ep- (N) Å the first challenge with all contemplates retirement as Å Å
isode. 8 p.m. CBS black jackets, the chefs will he and Ann take a road trip
be competing to make a across the country; Sean Jr.
Manifest This paranormal thriller returns for a new sea- unique dish with ingredients continues to brew up get-
son that promises to reveal what happened to the passen- appearing along the way. rich-quick schemes; Bridget
gers of Flight 828. Melissa Roxburgh and Josh Dallas star. (N) Å returns home. (N) Å
8 p.m. NBC MyNet Modern Family Dateline (TVPG) Å Law & Order: CI (TV14) Å Seinfeld Å Seinfeld Å King of Queens King of Queens
KCET Visiting Å Doc Martin (TVPG) Å The Heart Guy (TVPG) Å The Mallorca Files (TVG) Å Amanpour and Company Å
Station 19 The friendship between Vic and Travis (Bar-
UNIVISION La Rosa de La Rosa de Guadalupe (TV14) Te acuerdas de mí (TV14) (N) La hija del embajador (TVPG) Noticias Noticiero Uni-
rett Doss, Jay Hayden) is tested as they respond to distress Guadalupe (N) Å (N) (10:59) visión
calls from two friends. Grey Damon and Ansel Sluyter- KOCE Baseball (TVPG) (Part 1 of 9) (7) Å Baseball (TVPG) (Part 2 of 9) Å Finding Your Roots (TVPG) Å
Obidos also star along with guest stars Jonathan Bennett,
KDOC News (N) Dateline (TVPG) Å Dateline (TV14) Å Family Guy Family Guy Seinfeld Å Seinfeld Å
Zaiver Sinnett and Lachlan Buchanan. 8 p.m. ABC
KLCS No Passport Confucius Was a Foodie (TVG) Rick Steves’ Travels & Tra- Roadtrip Nation: One Step Clos- World News Å News Å
Hell’s Kitchen The ingredients the final five chefs will use Required (7) Å Europe Å ditions er (TVPG) Å
are revealed as they are cooking. That’s followed by a Black Thursday, April 1, Prime-time: Premium Cable Channels
Jacket dinner service. Gordon Ramsay is the host and judge. 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
8 p.m. Fox Cinemax Dinner for Shaft ›› (2019) Samuel L. Jackson, Jessie T. Usher. When Doctor Sleep ››› (2019) Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Fergu-
Schmucks ›› his best friend dies under mysterious circumstances, an son. (R) (9:53) Å
Top Chef A new batch of executive chefs and restaurant (2010) Steve FBI cyber security expert joins forces with his father — the
owners representing a cross-section of kitchens and food Carell. (PG- legendary cop John Shaft — to scour the streets of Harlem,
styles across North America gather in Portland, Ore., as this 13) (6:05) Å N.Y., and uncover the truth. (R) Å
culinary competition series launches its 18th season. Padma Encore Emperor (2020) Dayo Okeniyi, Naturi John Grisham’s The Rainmaker ››› (1997) Matt Damon, Claire Danes. A John Carpen-
Lakshmi returns as host, with Tom Colicchio as head judge. Naughton. Fighting his way north to free Memphis law school graduate aids a battered wife and fights a corporate ter’s Escape
8 p.m. Bravo himself and his family, an outlaw slave joins lawyer for insurance benefits for a dying man. (PG-13) Å From L.A. ››
forces with abolitionist John Brown in 1859. (1996) (R)
United States of Al This new buddy sitcom follows the (PG-13) (7:18) Å (11:19) Å
friendship between Marine combat veteran Riley (Parker EPIX The Rhythm A Simple Plan ››› (1998) Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton. Internal Affairs ››› (1990) Richard Gere, Andy Garcia. A
Young), adjusting to civilian life in Ohio, and Awalmir (nick- Section ›› A Minnesotan, his dimwitted brother and his brother’s red- Los Angeles policeman toys with the mind of a division
(2020) (R) neck friend find and decide to keep $4 million. (R) Å investigator on his case. (R) (10:05) Å
named Al, played by Adhir Kalyan), who was Riley’s inter- (6:10) Å
preter in Afghanistan. Elizabeth Alderfer, Dean Norris, Kelli HBO True Grit ››› Fine China Independence Day ››› (1996) Will Smith, Bill Pullman. A fighter pilot, a Up in the Air ››› (2009)
Goss and Farrah McKenzie also star. 8:30 p.m. CBS (2010) Jeff (2020) computer whiz and others fight back after 15-mile-wide alien ships zap George Clooney. A corporate
Bridges, Matt Ren Holly Earth’s major cities. (PG-13) (8:40) Å downsizing expert realizes
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit The squad rallies to Damon. (PG- Liu, Randy he is developing real feelings
find the suspect behind a threat to the family of Det. Stabler 13) (6:05) Å Guiaya. for another frequent traveler.
(Christopher Meloni) in the opener of a crossover event that (8:10) Å (R) (11:05) Å
introduces a new series in the “Law & Order” franchise. Showtime Gridiron Gang City on a Hill (TVMA) Å Bellator MMA (TVG) Bellator City on a Hill (TVMA) When an assistant True History of
9 p.m. NBC ›› (2006) 253: Caldwell vs. McKee. U.S. attorney overdoses and is left for dead the Kelly Gang
The Rock, Former Bellator champ Dar- outside Saint Eligius Hospital, Decourcy (2019) (R)
The Moodys Family patriarch Sean Sr. (Denis Leary) is Xzibit. (PG- rion Caldwell faces the unde- Ward suspects Jackie Rohr’s involvement. (11:15) Å
13) (5:55) Å feated AJ McKee. Å (10:10) Å
contemplating retirement and wants to turn his heating and
air conditioning business over to his older son (Jay Starz Shakespeare The Luminaries Anna is tried Misbehaviour (2020) Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Step Up: High Bloodshot ››
in Love ››› for murder; new evidence re- A team of women hatches a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss Water (10:52) (2020) Vin
Baruchel) so he can crisscross America in an RV with Ann (1998) Jo- veals a connection between World beauty competition in London. Å Å Diesel, Guy
(Elizabeth Perkins). Chelsea Frei and Francois Arnaud also seph Fiennes. Lauderback and Crosbie Pearce. (PG-
star in the season premiere of the family comedy. 9 p.m. Fox (R) (5:53) Å Wells. Å 13) (11:43) Å
TMC Trespass XXX ›› (2002) Vin Diesel, Asia Argento. A government XXX: State of the Union ›› (2005) Ice Cube, Willem Dafoe.
B Positive It finally dawns on Drew (Thomas Middled- Against Us ›› agent recruits an athlete to stop an anarchist from using In Washington, D.C., the new XXX agent must eliminate a
itch) that Maddie (Izzy G.) is growing up. Annaleigh Ashford (2016) (R) biological and chemical weapons. (PG-13) Å threat to the president from within the U.S. government.
also stars in this new episode of the comedy. 9:30 p.m. CBS (6:20) Å (PG-13) (10:05) Å

Clarice As Ardelia (Devyn Tyler) and the ViCAP team at- Thursday, April 1, Prime-time: Cable News Channels
tempt to identify the serial killer’s accomplice, Clarice (Re- 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
becca Breeds) is frustrated at being sidelined after her or- Bloomberg Studio 1.0 Technology (TVG) Å Paid Program Paid Program Equality Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program
deal and goes to Ruth Martin (Jayne Atkinson) to plead her CNBC Shark Tank Shark Tank (TVPG) Å The News With Shepard Smith The Profit (TVPG) Å Dateline (TVPG) Å
case for reinstatement. She soon gets roped into a dinner CNN CNN Tonight CNN Tonight (N) Å Anderson Cooper (TVPG) Å Cuomo Prime Time Å CNN Tonight Å
with Martin and her daughter (Marnee Carpenter). Grace CSPAN Politics and Public Policy Today (6) Å Politics and Public Policy Today Å
Lynn Kung guest stars. 10 p.m. CBS CSPAN2 Public Affairs Events (3) Public Affairs Events
Law & Order: Organized Crime Det. Stabler (Christo- Fox B Evening Edit Kudlow Å Kennedy Å Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program
pher Meloni), who left the Special Victims Unit under a Fox News Ingraham (7) News Å Tucker Carlson Å Hannity Å Ingraham Å
cloud, returns to the department to lead a new task force MSNBC The Last Word The 11th Hour (N) Å The Rachel Maddow Show The Last Word Å The 11th Hour Å
against organized crime in the premiere of this spinoff. Dylan SN-1 News News News News News News
McDermott, Tamara Taylor, Danielle Moné Truitt and Ains- Thursday, April 1, Prime-time: Cable
ley Seiger also star with occasional appearances by Mariska 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
Hargitay. 10 p.m. NBC
A&E The First 48 The First 48 (TV14) Å The First 48 (TVPG) (N) Å Nightwatch (TV14) (N) Å Nightwatch (TV14) Å
A Million Little Things Katherine (Grace Park) realizes AMC The Internship ›› (2013) Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson. (PG- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective ›› (1994) Jim Carrey, Courteney Movie
Theo (Tristan Byon) is being discriminated against when 13) (7) Å Cox. (PG-13) (9:45) Å
one of his classmates asks him to wear a mask during remote Animal P Lone Star Law Lone Star Law: Uncuffed (TV14) On Holy Day for game war- Lone Star Law (TV14) Lone Star Law (TV14)
learning in this new episode. Christina Moses and Romany (TV14) (7) dens, two illegal deer hunting cases are examined. (N)
Malco also star. 10 p.m. ABC BBC A Star Trek: TNG Spaceballs ›› (1987) Mel Brooks, John Candy. (PG) Å Monty Python and the Holy Grail ››› (1975) Graham Chap-
(7) Å man, John Cleese. (PG) Å
Dinner: Impossible Hawaii’s 25th Infantry Division en- BET The Nutty Professor ››› (1996) Eddie Mur- Nutty Professor II: The Klumps ›› (2000) Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson. Bigger
lists chef Robert Irvine to prepare a five-star dinner using phy, Jada Pinkett. (PG-13) (6:30) Å (PG-13) Å (TVMA) Å
only a mobile army field kitchen and rations for 60 soldiers to Bravo Top Chef Top Chef (TV14) Fifteen of the country’s best Summer House (TV14) (N) Top Chef (TV14) (10:15) Å Summer House
celebrate their 79th anniversary. 10 p.m. Food Network (TV14) (7) Å chefs compete in Portland, Ore. (N) Å (9:15) Å (TV14)
CMT Last Standing Draft Day ›› (2014) Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner. (PG-13) Å Flight ››› (2012) Denzel Washington. Å
SPECIALS Comedy The Office The Office The Office Hall of Flame: Top 100 Roast Hall of Flame: Top 100 Roast The Office The Office
(TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å Moments (TVMA) Å Moments (TVMA) (N) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å
The Death of George Floyd: Derek Chauvin on Trial
Mike Galanos anchors the coverage. 7 a.m. HLN Discovery BattleBots (7) BattleBots (TVPG) Bounty Hunters. (N) Å BattleBots (TVPG) (10:11) Å
Disney Zombies 2 (2020) Meg Don- Big City Greens Raven’s Home Big City Greens Big City Greens Bunk’d (TVG) Bunk’d (TVG) Sydney to the
SPORTS nelly, Milo Manheim. (7) Å (8:35) (TVG) Å (TVY7) (TVY7) Å Å Max Å
Baseball MLB Opening day: The Dodgers visit the Col- E! Kardashians Keeping Up With the Kar- For Real: The Story of Reality Overserved
Keeping Up With the Kar- Nightly Pop
(TV14) (7) Å dashians (TV14) (N) Å TV (TVPG) (N) Å (TVPG) (N)
dashians (TV14) Å (TV14) (N) Å
orado Rockies, 1 p.m. ESPN and SportsNetLA; the Chicago
Food Beat Bobby Beat Bobby Beat Bobby Restaurant: Impossible (TVG)
Dinner: Impossible (TVG) Beat Bobby Beat Bobby
White Sox visit the Angels, 7 p.m. Fox Sports Net. Also, the Flay (TVG) Å Flay (TVG) Flay (TVG) Å Robert Irvine travels to Hawk (Season finale) Hawaii's 25th Flay (TVG) Å Flay (TVG) Å
Toronto Blue Jays visit the New York Yankees, 10 a.m. ESPN; (N) Å Springs, Wyo. (N) Å Infantry Division. (N) Å
the New York Mets visit the Washington Nationals, 4 p.m. Freeform Coming to America (6) Å Mr. & Mrs. Smith ›› (2005) Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie. (PG-13) Å The 700 Club Å
ESPN; the Houston Astros visit the Oakland Athletics, FX Venom (2018) Skyscraper ›› (2018) Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell. Skyscraper ›› (2018) Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell.
7 p.m. ESPN (PG-13) (6) (PG-13) Å (PG-13) Å
NBA Basketball The Charlotte Hornets visit the Brook- FXX The Simpsons Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Cake (TVMA) Cake (10:35) Cake (11:09) Archer (11:44)
lyn Nets, 4:30 p.m. TNT; the Denver Nuggets visit the Clip- Hallmark June in Janu- All Summer Long (2019) Autumn Reeser, Brennan Elliott. Å Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls
pers, 7 p.m. FS Prime and TNT ary (6) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å
HGTV No Demo Reno No Demo Reno A mom wants Flip or Flop Flip or Flop Big House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters
NHL Hockey The Carolina Hurricanes visit the Chicago (7) Å to turn her kitchen into a (TVG) Far House, Big (TVG) (N) Å International (TVG) Å International
Blackhawks, 5 p.m. NBCSP; the Minnesota Wild visit the cake maker's paradise. (N) Out Flip. (N) Budget. Å (TVG) (TVG)
Vegas Golden Knights, 7:30 p.m. NBCSP History Swamp People Swamp People (TVPG) Å Swamp People (TVPG) (N) Å Swamp People (TVPG) Å Swamp People (TVPG) (11:05)
IFC 2 & 1/2 Men 2 & 1/2 Men 2 & 1/2 Men 2 & 1/2 Men 2 & 1/2 Men 2 & 1/2 Men 2 & 1/2 Men 2 & 1/2 Men 2 & 1/2 Men
TALK SHOWS
Lifetime Rizzoli & Isles Rizzoli & Isles (TV14) Å Married at First Sight (TV14) The experts introduce two new Marrying Millions (TV14) Å
CBS This Morning (N) 7 a.m. KCBS (TV14) (7) Å couples. (N) Å
MTV White Chicks Floribama Shore (TV14) (N) Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness
Today COVID-19; Idris Elba; Padma Lakshmi. (N) 7 a.m. (5:30) Å Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å
KNBC Nat Geo Life Below Zero Life Below Zero: Next Genera- Life Below Zero: Next Genera- Life Below Zero Race to the Center of the Earth Running Wild
Good Morning America Danielle Brooks; Joe Zee. (N) (TV14) (7) Å tion (TV14) Å tion (TV14) (N) Å (TV14) (N) (10:15) Å
7 a.m. KABC Nickelodeon Danger Force Danger Force Drama Club Friends Å Friends Å Friends Å Friends Å Friends Å Friends Å
OWN 20/20 (7) 48 Hours: Hard Evidence 48 Hours: Hard Evidence 20/20 (TV14) 20/20 (TV14)
Live With Kelly and Ryan Priyanka Chopra Jonas (“The
Paramount White House Down ›› (2013) Channing Tatum. (7) Å Gone in 60 Seconds › (2000) Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie. (PG-13) Å
White Tiger”); Ralph Macchio (“Cobra Kai”); Uma Naidoo.
(N) 9 a.m. KABC, 2:06 a.m. KABC Sundance Law & Order Law & Order (TV14) Å Law & Order (TV14) Å Law & Order (TV14) Å Law & Order (TV14) Å
Syfy Cult of Chucky (2017) Fiona Dourif. (R) (7) Child’s Play ›› (1988) Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon. Å Child’s Play 2 (1990) (R) Å
The View Ice-T; Rebecca Jarvis. 10 a.m. KABC TBS Big Bang Å Big Bang Å Big Bang Å Wipeout (TVPG) (N) Å Wipeout (TVPG) Å Conan (TV14) Wipeout Å
Tamron Hall Matthew Rushin. (N) 1 p.m. KABC TCM Almost Famous ›››› (2000) Billy Crudup. (R) (7) Å An American in Paris ›››› (1951) Gene Kelly. (9:15) Å Movie
The Drew Barrymore Show Seth Meyers; Danny Seo; TLC 600-Lb. (7) My 600-Lb. Life (TV14) With bonus scenes. (N) My 600-Lb. Life (TV14)
Gayle King. (N) 2 p.m. KCBS TNT NBA Basketball Denver Nuggets at Clippers. (Live) (7) Å NBA on TNT Thursday (N) Å NBA Basketball Hornets at Nets. Å
Toon Teen Titans: Bob’s Burgers Bob’s Burgers American Dad American Dad Rick and Morty Rick and Morty Family Guy Family Guy
The Kelly Clarkson Show Kyle MacLachlan; Dominique Movies (6) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) Å (TV14) (TV14) Animated. Å Animated. Å
Fishback; John Fogerty performs. (N) 2 p.m. KNBC Travel Paranormal Paranormal Caught on Camera Paranormal Caught on Camera True Paranormal: Fact or Faked Paranormal Caught on Camera
(7) Å (TVPG) Å (TV14) Å (TVPG) (N) Å (TVPG) Å
The Ellen DeGeneres Show tWitch; Beth Behrs; Miles
Brown; Seventeen performs. (N) 3 p.m. KNBC TruTV Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Fast Foodies Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14)
TV Land Andy Griffith Raymond Å Raymond Å Raymond Å Raymond Å Raymond Å Raymond Å King of Queens King of Queens
Amanpour and Company (N) 11 p.m. KCET; midnight USA SVU (7) Å Chrisley Å Chrisley Å Chrisley Å Chrisley Å Chrisley Å She's the Boss Chrisley Å Chrisley Å
KVCR; 1 a.m. KLCS
VH1 Tyler Perry’s Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married? ›› (2007) Tyler Perry, Janet Jackson. Revelations of Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get
Jimmy Kimmel Live! Octavia Spencer; Melissa McCar- Meet the infidelity and other secrets force eight married friends to take a hard look at issues of Married Too? ›› (2010) Tyler
Browns (5:30) commitment, betrayal and forgiveness. (PG-13) Å Perry, Sharon Leal. Å
thy; Nasim Pedrad; Fitz and Bryce Vine perform. (N) 11:35
p.m. KABC WGN A Banfield (7) The Donlon Report Å NewsNation Prime Å NewsNation Prime Å Banfield Å
Thursday, April 1, Prime-time: Cable Sports Channels
Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m. KABC
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ESPN2 Basketball SportsCenter (N) Å SportsCenter (N) Å NFL Live Å MLB Baseball Dodgers at Col-
Misbehaviour Philippa Lowthorpe’s 2020 British come- Slam Dunk; orado Rockies.
dy-drama chronicles the real-life clash between the awak- 3-Point. (6)
ening women’s liberation movement and the 1970 Miss World FS1 Victory ›› (1981) Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine. (PG) Å Skip and Shannon: Undisputed Å TMZ Sports
competition in London, hosted by Bob Hope (Greg Kinn- FS Prime NBA Basketball Denver Nuggets at Clippers. (Live) (7) Postgame Clippers Association Kickboxing (Tape)
ear). Arguing that beauty contests objectify women, pro- FSW MLB Baseball Chicago White Sox at Angels. From Anaheim. (Live) (7) Postgame Cuba: Baseball Poker
testers interrupted the live broadcast of the pageant. Keira MLB MLB Tonight (N) Å Quick Pitch (N) Å Quick Pitch Å
Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Keeley NBC Sports NHL Hockey Minnesota Wild at Vegas Golden Knights. (Live) Å NHL Overtime Mecum Auto Auctions Å
Hawes, Phyllis Logan, Lesley Manville, Rhys Ifans and John SNLA MLB Baseball Dodgers at Colorado Rockies. (6:30) SN: Dodgers Postgame This is Our Year: 2020 World Champion Dodgers
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“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” “The White Tiger”
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“The White Tiger”
“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
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The codirectors of
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elements were perfect for
its rural setting. And it
allowed for Spielberg and
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O O L LY H E RO Shaun
the Sheep, one of British
studio Aardman Anima-
tions’ most popular crea-
tions, has charmed the
academy once more with the sequel to
2015’s Oscar-nominated “Shaun the Sheep
Movie.”
Released on Netflix in early 2020, “A
Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon” is
this year’s surprise finalist for the animated
feature award and the only one represent-
ing the laborious stop-motion technique.
The wacky saga sees the clever sheep, who
walks upright, and his goofy flock engaged
in extraterrestrial shenanigans to help a
mischievous alien named Lu-La return to
her planet.
For codirectors Will Becher and Richard
Phelan, who have long histories working on
Shaun’s TV series and the original film, this
A GREASE stain on a pizza
box in “A Shaun the Sheep
Movie” is a nod to “Arrival.”
was a welcome chance to helm their first
major project. “I’ve got an animation back-
ground, and Rich’s got a story background.
Together we worked quite well as a team to
bounce off each other with our respective
skills,” Becher said via Zoom from England.
Throughout production, the duo divided
the movie’s numerous sequences for each to
oversee and later joined forces to edit.
Since the previous story hinged on a
simple premise — Shaun goes to the city to
save the farmer — the artists envisioned a
follow-up that would take the action to
greater heights with a high concept that
could still work with their hilarious live-
stock. Farmsteads, they thought, are inher-
ently isolated settings that lend themselves
to UFO sightings, and so the notion of a
sci-fi hommage rang ideal.
Early in their brainstorming sessions,
which began just after the first movie
wrapped, four-time Oscar winner Nick
Park, the man behind “Wallace and
Gromit,” brilliantly suggested they title the
new escapade “Farmageddon,” an apocalyp-
tic play on words.
“Sci-fi genre worked quite well in a lot of
ways, because we have essentially a silent
film. A lot of it is quite sparse; there’s nor-
mally not much dialogue in it,” noted
Becher. Nonverbal humor is inherent to
Shaun’s universe; the challenge now was in
conveying a more elaborate, intergalactic
plot relying solely on visual components,
including sight gags galore, and the inflec-
tions of each bleat and bark (Bitzer the dog
is a key character).
Steven Spielberg’s filmography and the
monolith from Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A
Space Odyssey” are among the long list of
references that get a nod in Aardman’s
absurdist style here. Long-running home-
grown series “Doctor Who” also gets its due
— a standout joke shows the emblematic
TARDIS as a portable toilet. One of their
proudest tips of the hat is to the eerie signs
in Denis Villeneuve’s acclaimed “Arrival,”
one of which cleverly takes the form of a
pizza stain in “Farmageddon.”
Exponentially more energetic than
Shaun, whimsical alien visitor Lu-La was
conceived in bright candy colors and glitter
in her floppy ears to convey her ebullient
personality. Since Shaun has an unmistak-
ably identifiable shape, the goal was to give
Lu-La just as classic a silhouette. “Her
design is actually based on old classic 1950s
UFOs. Her head is disk-shaped, and then
her body looks like a beam of light or a
rocket thrust lifting her off the ground,”
said Phelan.
Aardman prides itself on the tangible
quality of the studio’s craftsmanship, thus
in “Farmageddon” computer animation was
employed judiciously only to embellish the
more fantastical scenes or to create certain
environmental elements. All CG visual
effects, whether they were flames or water,
have a “chunky look” to match the texture
and aesthetic of the figures and spaces. The
team aims for balance between classic and
modern approaches.
“There’s a great appreciation for the
history of filmmaking in that we try to find
techniques and tricks to do it all in camera:
forced perspective or building miniature
sets. But at the same time we also build
things in CGI when necessary,” said Phelan.
For example, the imposing spaceship ex-
isted as a physical set while on the ground,
but once the narrative required it to take
off, it was replaced with a digital double.
“Farmageddon,” which required four
years and a team of about 200 people to
complete, also features the largest set Aard-
man has ever built: an underground base for
secret agents investigating Lu-La’s visit.
The massive set was the length of an
Olympic swimming pool.
“One of the most joyous things about
working in a company like Aardman is that
after working on storyboards for months or
years, one day we walk into the studio and
see this thing that has been in our heads for
so long created in a real physical space and
with the most amazing details. It’s so im-
mersive that it feels like a live-action-film
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H E R E A R E about a
hundred or so rock-
solid reasons not to
attempt a sequel to
“Borat” 14 years after
the original. High up on the list
comes the fact that comedy
sequels, with few exceptions,
usually disappoint. So why even
risk destroying the legacy of a
beloved character for a sequel
that can’t possibly stand up to the
first movie?
This question will haunt the
next two years of our lives, but it
will also spur us on to make the
best movie that we humanly can.
Or at least the most difficult to
achieve. That’s basically our
superpower. No sitting by a pool
knocking out a few lines of dia-
logue a day for us; we seem to
prefer living undercover in
smelly Hampton Inns, writing at
3 a.m. and fearing for our lives
each time we step on “set” with
our unsuspecting cast. Some
movies are scary; ours are just
scary to make.
What led us to this place?
While promoting our 2017 TV
show “Who Is America?” on
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” Sacha is
asked to come up with an idea to
play out on the day of the 2018
midterm elections, and this is
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where the idea to bring back
Borat started: He’s from a totali-
tarian state, holds backward
views on women, masculinity
and ethnicity, and has zero
understanding of morality; Borat
would adore Trump; maybe our
mustachioed buffoon could
combat him by supporting him?
The day after “Kimmel,” we
discuss this notion for a number
of minutes. Despite Borat’s long
hibernation, the jokes flow out of
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him like brown rain from anoos
of cow. If anybody can win the
war for the soul of America, it’s
the anti-Semite who keeps a
chicken in his briefcase. Let’s
make another movie!
Almost immediately the next
question arises, one that effec-
tively leaves us dead in the water.
The original film had been a
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runaway hit, not just in theaters
but on TV, in newspapers and
magazines, on billboards and the
sides of buses. How does Borat go
back out into the real world and
convince people all over again
that he’s the No. 4 journalist in
Kazakhstan, when the real-
world’s brother-in-law has spent
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the last 14 years doing a hilarious
ON WRITING | SACHA BARON COHEN, DAN SWIMER,
PETER BAYNHAM, ANTHONY HINES
U.S. was ripe to be
pranked again
What? Bring back a beloved and recognizable character after
14 years? Here’s how ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ came to be.
impersonation of him every time
he refers to his own spouse?
The answer to this is never
going to be obvious, but it will
always be ridiculous. Whenever
Borat appears in the movie with
somebody who might recognize
him, the fictional character Borat
will have to disguise himself as a
bunch of other fictional charac-
ters. And to make matters more
difficult — because why not? —
these great disguises will have to
be Borat’s ideas of great disguises.
They can’t be too ridiculous to
arouse suspicion from the public
yet need to keep Borat visible to
the audiences who have paid
to see him.
After some memorable tryout
walks with Borat in disguise
along Santa Monica Boulevard,
we’ve settled on a few possible
“characters,” and the acting chal-
lenge now facing Sacha is show-
ing a difficulty reading of “un-
fathomable.”
So, we now have a reason to
make the movie: Trump. We have
a potential means of making it:
Borat in disguise. But what will
the story be?
While that president’s assaults
on ethnicities and religions dif-
ferent to his own grabbed the
headlines, it’s clear that he’s also
COHEN, DRESSED as
President Trump, was
going with a misogyny
focus to get his laughs
this time around.
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a “male supremacist.”
The leader of the free world
has been accused of 26 counts of
sexual misconduct and fre-
quently referred to women as
“pigs” and “dogs,” not only with
impunity, but championed for it
by his supporters.
Trump’s misogyny has trickled
down via his old, white, male
Cabinet to become endemic
throughout the whole of the
GOP; Obama-era equal pay
legislation was promptly over-
turned, and Roe v. Wade was
proudly in conservative sights.
Under Trump, women in the U.S.
are being treated in ways more
usually associated with Third
World countries. This feels im-
portant to expose, and so, after a
considerable effort on the part of
many brilliant minds, a story
comes together involving Borat
exploring American attitudes to
women via his teenage daughter,
Tutar, played by the incredible
Maria Bakalova.
A script is written. Confused
faces abound at table-reads as an
actor gamely reads the dialogue
that we hope an unsuspecting
“ANTI-SEMITIC CAKE SHOP
OWNER” will ultimately say.
The day will soon come when
we’ll have to get out there and
actually attempt to shoot this
movie — no big deal, all we want
to do is influence an election,
avoid desecrating the original
movie, have Sacha and Maria
perform the unimaginable, in
total secrecy without anybody
getting hurt, arrested or, likely in
Trump’s America, hurt while
being arrested. We know we’ll
keep writing and rewriting and
tinkering and tailoring until
we’re there. It won’t be easy, but
surely we’ve done the hard part;
why shouldn’t Lady Luck smile
on us from here on in?
After all, there hasn’t been a
global pandemic in ages.
Cut to: shooting in the Trump
heartland a few weeks later,
where we find a male farm store
worker perfectly happy to sell
Borat a cage for Tutar, a male
“pregnancy counselor” insistent
that this underage girl keep the
baby he believes has been put
inside her by her father, and
ultimately a New York hotel room
where the president’s personal
lawyer is only a 6-inch zipper
away from having to represent
himself in court.
Of course, a story needs heroes
as well as villains, and ours came
in the shape of Tutar’s fairy
godmother babysitter, Jeanise.
Perhaps her consequentially
becoming a movie star in her own
right is reason enough to have
brought Borat back.
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Nuggets
of history
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H E N Donald Gra-
ham Burt began
working on David
Fincher’s “Mank,” the
filmmaker passed
The production along some location photos from the
late 1990s, when he had first tried to get
designer for ‘Mank’ the movie off the ground. Even for a
film set at the peak of the Golden Age
was disappointed to of Hollywood, the 1930s and 1940s, you
might expect more of Los Angeles’
find so little left of period architecture to have survived.
Hollywood’s early Looking through the photos, Burt
quickly realized that that wasn’t the
years. But he did locate case.
“So many places in L.A. have been
a few golden oldies. razed that were [standing] even at the
turn of the century. And I was seeing
BY GREGORY places like Perino’s [restaurant] and, of
course, the Ambassador Hotel, but it
ELLWOOD seemed like all the Paul Williams archi-
tecture, for some reason, was being
destroyed. And it was so interesting
just to see the locales of Los Angeles
from the late ’90s and realizing, ‘Oh,
wow, we are removed from that. Aren’t
we?’ ”
Nominated for 10 Academy Awards,
including production design, “Mank”
centers on screenwriter Herman J.
Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) during the
period in 1940 he spent writing the
screenplay for the cinematic classic
“Citizen Kane.” It also flashes back to
Mank’s life a decade prior, when he
found himself in the social circle of
media tycoon William Randolph
Hearst (Charles Dance) and his very
public mistress, screen star Marion
Davies (Amanda Seyfried).
During one memorable sequence,
Mankiewicz runs into Davies on the
MGM lot as she says goodbye after
being let go by studio mogul Louis B.
Mayer (Arliss Howard). Burt remem-
bers scouting on the former MGM lot,
now Sony Pictures, and thinking it
would work because there are still a
number of intact buildings from the
period. Instead, to pull it off, they had
to combine shots from both the Sony
and Warner Bros. lots.
“I went back with my art depart-
ment, and I really started to walk it and
flea-comb it. And before you know it, I
had a 12-page list of security cameras,
glass doors that weren’t period, bol-
lards, fire hydrant. It just went on
forever,” Burt says. “There’s some
people that say, ‘Will you ever see it?’
And it’s like, ‘Well, sometimes it’s not
that you see it as much as you know it’s
there.’ And you’re trying to create a
world, and it’s better to get rid of it and
figure some way around it. Quite a bit
of time was spent on just dealing with
those elements through the whole
picture, everywhere we went. And it’s
not necessarily creatively gratifying,
but it’s necessary.”
Despite so many potential locations
no longer being available, Burt and his
team did find some unexpected gems
they could use. The North Verde
Ranch, where Mankiewicz hunkered
down writing the screenplay is still
standing and was surprisingly very
close in appearance to how it looked 80
years ago. Another locale that many
Angelenos may not even know about is
Glendale Station, the primary train
station visitors used to travel to
Hearst’s San Simeon home.
“It was first scripted as being Union
Station, and I think that was sort of out
of convenience, more than anything
else,” Burt says. “But quite honestly,
during the period of our film, Union
Netflix
DONALD Station hadn’t been built yet. So we did
GRAHAM some research and found that Glendale
BURT did train station is sort of tucked away in a
not visit little side street, and it mostly serves
Hearst the commuter people these days. But
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Castle; he the face of it’s still intact. And it’s this
reimagined beautiful sort of Spanish Colonial
it, above, Revival piece of architecture that is still
from there. And we were like, ‘Oh, wow, this
reference is so unexpected. It’s a nice goldmine.’ ”
photos of As for Hearst Castle, the only nota-
events at ble filming that has occurred there in
the San the last decade was a Lady Gaga music
Simeon video. And that used only the exterior
compound of the mansion. Burt says production
during didn’t even ask for access for a number
the story’s of reasons, including that with all the
period. reference photos available, visiting the
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Castle simply wasn’t necessary. Burt’s
own version of the interior was built at
downtown’s L.A. Center Studios,
where it was easier to control the
scenes than on location.
“I joked with people and said, ‘It’s
like going to Knott’s Berry Farm. You
have to get a ticket and stand in line.’
And I don’t want to go through that just
to see something I can’t reproduce
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anyway,” Burt says. “I purposely didn’t
even visit it. I found some beautiful
reference photos in black and white
from the period, of the actual events.
There was something about the aura of
the photos and the spirituality of them
that brought an extra layer of sort of … I
don’t know, there’s a quality to it that
felt like you were in that era, and that’s
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 me how many times he did those scenes.
O WAT C H C H A DW I C K B O S E M A N in “Ma Rainey’s
You’d be like, “I think we got it.”
Black Bottom” is to see an artist fully committing to life. As Levee, an [Laughs] “How many more times?” And
ambitious trumpet player fighting for his place in a system rigged against he’d go, “One more. One more.”
him, Boseman delivers a spellbinding performance, brash and charming, Turman: Especially the one with
that knife! [Laughs]
but also, underneath his bravado, deeply wounded by loss and injustice. ¶ Potts: But that was him. He was
“Levee is ultimately a metaphor for America,” says George C. Wolfe, who always going to dare you. It was part of
directed the film adaptation of the 1982 August Wilson play. “How can you his character and part of his personality.
“I dare you. Make this make sense.” And
go forward into the future if you are haunted and controlled by the horror
he would not stop. Basically daring
of the past?” ¶ Levee would be Boseman’s final role, and his performance himself. “I can do this one more time. I
has won him a host of awards and, positioning him as the favorite to win a can go deeper.” He was challenging
posthumous Oscar. The movie was filmed in the summer of 2019, a year himself as much as he challenged every-
body else.
before Boseman’s death from colon cancer, a battle that the 43-year-old Turman: “One more!” Pointing that
actor kept private. Those who collaborated with him on the film still can’t long finger up in the air. He was a phys-
believe he’s gone, talking about him in the present tense and joyfully re- ical cat too. One time, we had a long,
calling his spirit and determination. ¶ “He wanted to feel like he did strenuous day, but he and [producer]
Denzel [Washington] got to joshing
everything he could possibly do,” says “Ma Rainey” costar Colman Do- around physically, just sparring with
mingo. “And he did.” ¶ Here’s how they remember his final turn. one another. Chadwick has martial arts
David Lee Netflix skills, and Denzel is a student of boxing.
So we’re watching the two of them go at,
Colman Domingo (actor, Cutler): your instrument.” So he had a moment don’t believe in God. It’s all our story. BOSEMAN, of course, pulling punches. But both of
The first time I met Chad, he came in where he was picking up his trumpet, We know the truth of that trauma of center, in them knew what they were doing.
wearing a hoodie. He likes his privacy, and he dropped his mouthpiece. And it racism. the film, Domingo: Who won?
and you knew that. He didn’t want to be made a great racket. And everybody got Potts: It’s in our psyches. We know with Glynn Potts: You know Denzel had to win!
Black Panther all the time. But that’s the real quiet, and then, real low, Glynn that song when we hear it. It’s a deep Turman, left, [Laughs] Chad knew that too. The boss
first thing I noticed, like he was trying says, “If you was any kind of musician, muscle memory. and Michael won.
to be small in some way. But what I saw you’d take better care of your instru- Domingo: It’s the blues. And we Potts, who Domingo: The person who left after
is: “Look at Black Panther walking in ment.” And he knew he was caught. And were like a band. George cast us per- recalls that our wrap had so much spirit, so much
with a hoodie!” he doubled over. He knew. fectly. Michael is one of the funniest, Boseman life. It wore him out like it wore all of us
Glynn Turman (actor, Toledo): George C. Wolfe (director): We loving, joyful human beings. He likes to “challenged out. We were all dragging our butts to
Viola Davis took the initiative after an spent that two weeks of rehearsal build- keep the spirits up. That’s part of his everything the finish line. But we just thought that’s
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early rehearsal. She said, “Let’s all go to
dinner and get drunk.” And we did. We
closed the place. We let our hair down
and got into it.
Domingo: That’s the true ensemble,
to go and share a drink and share a laugh
and take the piss out of each other. That
sense of play is going to show up on
stage, and that was our foundation. I felt
we could go anywhere.
Turman: My fun time was watching
him and his soon-to-be bride [Taylor
Simone Ledward] relate to one another,
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ing trust and also to make sure that
August Wilson’s language entered every-
one’s body so it could fly around the
room. You do that, and you can play and
explore and try exciting and dangerous
and wrong and thrilling ideas.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson (screen-
writer): Chad fully understood the
rhythms, the melody of August’s writ-
ing. He also knew how important it was
for him to imbue Black life with dignity
and integrity. When Levee is misplayed
as a character, you think all the wrong
character as well. Glynn holds so much
history. We look to him to move us
forward. I’ve always been the equity
deputy, the leader of the company. I
don’t know why. And that’s part of
Cutler.
Turman: And Chadwick, it was his
youthful exuberance, his willingness to
test and try everything. He was a daring
performer. [Laughs] Should I tell it?
Potts: Yes, you should.
Turman: [Long pause] That last
scene [where Levee confronts Toledo
you said, all it was. He had so much lightness and
everything life. There was no sadness. If there was
you did, any pain or struggle, we didn’t see it. I
everything think in that moment, he reached for
you life. He reached out to us, he reached
believed.” out to the work to keep him going.
Santiago-Hudson: He was making a
sacrifice to make this bold statement
that August had presented to him: Here,
deliver this. It’s shortsighted to reduce
the performance to the pain he was in.
Chad was deeper than that. ... Every
time I talked to him, it was all about

watching that budding love affair devel-
op. When he introduced me to her, she
stumbled walking across the floor. I said
to Chadwick, “Oh, she’s beautiful, Chad,
but she’s clumsy.” And Chadwick
cracked up. “You’re right, Glynn, she is.”
And she just started hitting both of us.
That’s how we got on. Just joshing.
Michael Potts (actor, Slow Drag):
Oh, the smallest thing is going to get you
razzed by everybody.
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things about him. Played correctly, as
Chadwick plays him, you see the hope
that he has, the dreams, the desire to be
better, to do better, to want more.
Wolfe: One day in rehearsal, we were
talking about the scene where Levee
challenges God. And the emotions truly
took Chadwick. And he went on a jour-
ney. And he ended up feeling as Levee
did inside of the pain. It started out very
casual, and then all of a sudden he was
for stepping on his shoes], I knew they
had two knives. One was a real knife.
And, of course, one was a dummy. I saw
Chadwick switch out that dummy knife
and use the real knife. And I didn’t say
anything. I knew what he was doing. He
was going for the danger of it. I knew I
wasn’t going to be hurt. I saw it, and I
just had to trust him. As an actor, he
needed that danger at that time.
Potts: He was the challenge. That’s
community. Responsibility.
Wolfe: I was working with Nora
Ephron on [her final play] “Lucky Guy,”
and I’d give her notes and we’d argue
and talk. And she was on chemo that
exact same time. I didn’t know that. I
had a kidney transplant, and when I was
on dialysis, I directed three shows.
That’s what you do. You do your work,
and you do it as rigorously and as pas-
sionately as you possibly can, because

Domingo: “If you was any kind of
musician ...” [Laughs]
Potts: That was the line. That was
the first time we got him back, because
he says that as Levee derisively dis-
misses Slow Drag. “If you was any kind
of musician, you’d take better care of
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there. I think it caught him off-guard.
Afterwards, Colman hugged him be-
cause he was sobbing. The pain of the
character is so absolute.
Domingo: When Levee is railing
against God’s will, it hurts. It hurts to
admit that I don’t know what to feel if I
where he was like Levee. He challenged
everything you said, everything you did,
everything you believed.
Domingo: “But what about this?
What about this?” [Laughs]
Potts: Constantly. Or his phrase:
“Give me one more.” It would surprise
your work matters. And in the doing of
the work, you are committing to life.
That’s Chadwick.
Turman: His performance didn’t
have anything to do with the condition
Typography by
Nia Bailey
he was in. He was just that damn good.
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INTERNATIONAL FILM
Bullying: Does
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it translate?
H
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Derek Tsang, a director O N G KO N G filmmaker
Derek Tsang had long wanted
from Hong Kong, is hoping to make a film about school
bullying, which he knew
the peer-abuse theme would be a sensitive topic to
get past China’s censor board. But as he and
of his ‘Better Days’ his producing team began developing what
will emerge in movies would eventually become “Better Days,” a
thriller-tinged love story between a peer-
around the world. abused high school girl trying to prepare
for an important exam and a rebellious
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BY ROBERT ABELE street youth who becomes her protector,
Tsang’s confidence in the story he wanted
to tell kept growing.
“When we were planning this project, a
lot of people were telling us, ‘Do you have
second thoughts?’ But this was a story we
really believed in,” the 41-year-old director
said recently via Zoom from Hong Kong.
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“It felt like something we should talk about,
and one of the things that we’re very fortu-
JACKSON YEE and
Dongyu Zhou (in reflection)
play protector and victim.
Well Go USA
nate about is the government really wanted
to tackle this issue and passed laws to try to
help curb these kinds of things.”
Tsang’s optimistic dedication in mixing
social commentary with genre elements
paid off. “Better Days” became one of Chi-
na’s biggest and most acclaimed box office
hits in 2019, and in the middle of last month,
while he was resting after a long day, his
phone blew up with messages that his
movie was now an international feature
Oscar nominee. “I was a bit tired,” he says,
“but we had a celebration that night.”
Tsang continues to be touched by how
well the film has traveled. “It’s an issue
across cultures,” says Tsang, who has also
been moved by audience testimonials on a
website the production created for the film
for its Chinese release. “It was an open
forum essay format, so people could write
their story, what they went through in high
school, how they were bullied, and encour-
aging their future selves to stay strong. A
lot of these stories brought tears to my
eyes.”
When he was researching “Better Days,”
however, shock was mostly what he experi-
enced at the prevalence of online bullying
videos, details of which made their way
into the mistreatment that quiet, studious
and lonely Chen Nian faces in the film —
taunting that eventually turns violent and
psychologically cruel.
Just as important, however, was convey-
ing how overt harassment is never the
whole story. Adds Tsang, “Something we
really wanted to say in the film is that if
you turn a blind eye to it, you’re also a
victimizer.”
The other tangible factor in Tsang’s film
is the very real pressure surrounding Chi-
na’s national college entrance exams,
known as Gaokao, the prepping and taking
of which captures the country’s interest
every June. For poorer students like the
movie’s protagonist, says Tsang, the tests
feel like make-or-break events that deter-
mine the path of one’s life. “We always
came across kids saying online that even
though there’s a lot that’s unjust in society,”
says Tsang, “Gaokao is one of the few plat-
forms where they have a fair chance
[against] kids from privileged backgrounds.
So we really wanted to give that back-
ground to an audience not from China.”
What Nian endures in the film as a target
of classmate bullies was intense enough
that Tsang’s lead, beloved Chinese actress
Dongyu Zhou (who starred in his previous
feature “Soulmate”), initially struggled
relating to someone whose response to
persecution was so different from hers.
“She’d ask, ‘How can she bear all this with-
out fighting back?’ ” recalls Tsang. “But
because we shot the film in a linear fashion,
we wanted her to experience what Chen
Nian went through. So it was fascinating to
watch her transformation. Once she under-
stood Chen Nian, she really got inside the
character.”
Shooting in sequence also gave an orga-
nic reality to the underdog bond Nian
develops with thoughtful gang kid Xiao Bei,
played by Mandopop boy band star Jackson
Yee. Tsang sensed a lived-in connection the
teenage Yee was using to inform his per-
formance. “He has a lot of empathy for
people, because he was picked on a lot as
not fit to be in his group because he wasn’t
‘the pretty one,’ ” says Tsang. “He really felt
what the story meant. He had that edge, but
inside, you know he’s really sensitive.”
Tsang understands that there’s no cure-
all for bullying and no solution any film
can offer. “It’s just part of our human na-
ture,” he says. His hope, though, is that
“Better Days” shows people how important
it is not to keep internalizing it. “Reach out,
be it a teacher, or parents, but speak up,” he
says. “Don’t just take it upon yourself and
think it’s your problem.”
But he’d also like to see how other film-
makers handle this issue. And having heard
that a Korean producer friend wants re-
make rights, that might just happen. “I
would love to have different filmmakers
from different cultures have their own take
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I
N “ G R EY H O U N D,”
there’s a frenetic pace to
the action that never lets
up. Directed by Aaron
Schneider, the fast-mov-
ing allegory is based on the novel
“The Good Shepherd” by C.S.
Forester, from a script written by
Tom Hanks, who plays Capt.
Krause, commander of a U.S.
destroyer tasked with escorting
supplies and troops to Great
Britain during World War II.
The Battle of the Atlantic is
one of the lesser known wartime
stories and dates prior to Ameri-
ca’s official involvement in the
war. Convoys would travel
through the “Black Pit,” where
German-led U-boats would
relentlessly attack them through
the dead of night. For Krause and
his men, it’s either kill or be
killed.
What it meant for the Oscar-
nominated sound team was ratch-
eting up the intensity without
romanticizing the war.
Production set sail in Baton
Rouge, La., shooting exteriors on
the Kidd, a decommissioned
WWII destroyer. Interiors of key
locations were moved to a sound-
stage and built on a giant gimbal
in order to re-create the turbulent
winter sea. Much of the action
takes place in the pilothouse and
bridge wing, which serves as a
balcony that overlooks the ship.
A second set was built nearby to
represent the Combat Informa-
tion Center, the tactical center
and ship’s radar room.
A challenge behind the film
was authentically re-creating the
The sound was
half the battle
Re-creating artillery noise and the chaotic onboard communication
was crucial to ramping up the anxiety level of ‘Greyhound.’
communication between the
officers throughout different
parts of the ship. The technology
of the era isn’t as advanced as
today’s modern vessels. To relay
instructions from the captain,
crew members called “talkers”
wore headsets plugged into the
ship’s intercom system and
would repeat the orders down the
line, often overlapping each other
to scurry the life-saving informa-
tion along.
Schneider envisioned a viscer-
al experience for the actors,
where scenes would play out as
faithfully to the era as possible.
This meant that production
sound mixer David Wyman had
to diagram a number of different
communication techniques to
record the dialogue and allow the
actors to hear any off-camera
A still from Apple TV+'s war
film “Greyhound” which has
been Oscar-nominated
Michael Minkler, Warren
Shaw, Beau Borders and
David Wyman for sound
mixing.
THE CRAFT
BY DARON JAMES
lines no matter where they were team was to never let the vigor of
performed on set. the lurking danger from the
“We had to create a double U-boats diminish. “Having gone
system: one to cleanly record the through the book and reading the
production dialogue and a second script, one thing that was clear
for the actors to hear each other was this never-ending momen-
or any instructions from Aaron,” tum to the story. We used sound
Wyman says. “The issue in each to never let it slow down,” says
scene was figuring out what rerecording mixer Beau Borders.
channel of audio to open to avoid The dialogue was a key moti-
any feedback or overlaps with the vator to the feverish pace. The
dialogue.” production sound tracks served
To amplify the sets, Wyman as a road map for the postproduc-
sent over 500 feet of cable and an tion team to follow, allowing it to
army of small microphones to the control the energy, timing and,
art department to be painted in more important, the quality of
order to hide them in plain sight. the sound in order to authenti-
He also modified modern micro- cally mimic how it would be
phones to mimic the communica- heard on the destroyer.
tion device of the “talkers” and “We spent a lot of time to get
the PA systems on the destroyer. the commands and responses
Sonically, the mantra for the right,” Borders notes. “We wanted
four-person production sound the audience to hear what the
Apple TV
captain said clearly, but as it
repeats down the line, we wanted
it to overlap. It’s very fast-paced
and gives an anxious feeling to
what will happen next. The fact
that some lines of dialogue are
clear while others are chopped
off as another sentence begins is
a character in the film.”
Supervising sound editors
Michael Minkler and Warren
Shaw toured the Kidd for first-
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hand experience. “The entire
movie takes place on one ship,
but ... there are different sonic
subtitles to each location on the
ship,” Shaw says.
The team also researched a
number of military weapons on
the ship and by watching WWII
footage could re-create the
sounds of the heavy artillery.
With each mix, the postpro-
duction team was able to tune the
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dialogue, personality of the ship
and the blustery conditions
outside. “We had to convey 48
hours of terror that doesn’t stop
day or night, and in bad weather
and in bad seas,” notes Minkler,
who also served as a rerecording
mixer. “We realized with the
dramatic pace, the heroism sticks
out — and the fear. The soldiers
are afraid of what might happen,
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but they must keep going and
perform.”
Borders adds, “Sound can be a
great manipulator in film. If we
use it properly, we can make you
feel lonely, scared or tense. If
we’ve done our job and intro-
duced those things subliminally,
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you’re just going on the ride of
the movie.” 8
 WHEN A TINY CUT
STINGS A LITTLE
A D E L E T E D scene from a movie is a sad
sort of orphan: It went all the way through the mov-
iemaking strainer — conception, writing, shooting,
editing — and still didn’t make the cut. And although
about City Hall or withholding
this secret of being an informant
the whole time. You don’t know if
he’s going to come clean or tell a
lie — and he tells a lie.”
she’s tweaked and antsy,” she
says. “It’s a beautiful scene, but it
interrupted the momentum of
where we were going, and just
didn’t quite work.”
Why it got cut: For one thing,
today, deleted scenes don’t always go unseen thanks to King says, the sequence didn’t ‘SOUND OF METAL’
bonus DVD material or director’s edits, it’s always happen in real life. “Once some-
thing didn’t happen, it’s on the
fascinating to discover how filmmakers make the final chopping block,” he explains.
decision to splice out a scene that worked all the way “There were a million reasons Missing scene: In a continuation
why we couldn’t do it, but we of another scene that did make it
until it flickered on the (test) screen. shot it and were sad to see it go into the film, Lou (Olivia Cooke),
Here, directors from four of the best picture Oscar from a filmmaking perspective — Joe (Paul Raci) and Ruben (Riz
but knowing this would be a Ahmed) are speaking about Ruben
nominees give us a peek into the edit suite to under- major part of the historical joining the deaf community.
stand how they cut, where they cut and — most impor- record, it felt irresponsible to Ruben leaves for a moment, and
include it in the movie. It worked Lou and Joe continue talking, and
tant — why we’ll never even know what we’re missing. on the page and in the edit, but it Joe tells Lou it’s best to pull the
didn’t work philosophically and Band-Aid off all at once with
politically.” Ruben and just leave him to cope.
The directors ‘THE FATHER’ being part of the narrative. They
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explain why these
moments, even if Missing scene: Paul (Rufus
emotional and Sewell) and wife Anne (Olivia
Colman) discuss putting her
gripping, had to father (Anthony Hopkins) into a
care home for the elderly. He
go in the deleted tells her she doesn’t have to feel
guilty about it. “It was a really
scenes pile. good scene between them, and
Olivia has such emotional power
BY RANDEE and was heartbreaking,” says
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have to be part of the process. So
the decision was made to cut that
scene even though I really loved
it, because you can feel everything
through Olivia’s magnificent
face.”
‘JUDAS AND THE BLACK
MESSIAH’
Missing scene: Informant Bill
‘PROMISING YOUNG
WOMAN’
Missing scene: After Cassie
(Carey Mulligan) smashes up her
car, she goes home and is pulled
by her mother (Jennifer Coolidge)
into working on a crafts project.
Her mother says she’s been wor-
ried about Cassie and asks if the
young man in her life makes her
Why it got cut: The full scene
was in the film all the way
through its premiere at the To-
ronto International Film Festival,
but director Darius Marder took
it out after that. “There’s this rule
that the audience can never be
smarter than Ruben,” he says.
“This scene makes us smarter
than Ruben — we know some-
thing he doesn’t. It undermines
our language, and it undermines
the character of Lou. It takes

director Florian Zeller.
DAWN
Why it got cut: “When you’re in
the editing room, you have to
question every scene to make sure
it is necessary — not only to the
story itself, but what you’re trying
to achieve,” Zeller says. “I had
final cut, so this was all about the
film I wanted to make. I realized if
I stayed with her face and had her
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(LaKeith Stanfield) gets kicked out
of the Black Panthers for suggesti-
ng they blow up City Hall, then
has to talk himself back into Pan-
ther leader Fred Hampton’s (Dan-
iel Kaluuya) apartment to create
blueprints of it for the FBI. “It’s
arguably LaKeith’s best perform-
ance in the movie,” says director
Shaka King. “He shows up on the
feel better. Cassie takes her moth-
er’s hand and says that nothing
makes her feel better. The scene
then shifts to a nightclub.
Why it got cut: The film was
shot in just 23 days, and there
wasn’t much left over that could
be cut from writer-director Emer-
ald Fennell’s bare-bones script.
But Fennell says she felt the
power away from her [by having
Joe tell her what she should do].
Taking it out, her character got
stronger; she didn’t need anyone
to tell her what to do. That’s the
power of editing — you can
remove a scene and the film can
become more powerful for it.” 8

say nothing, all the painful deci-
sions she was about to make — the
guilt, the ambivalence — was
understandable without words. It
was better to feel everything with-
out being told. I believe the audi-
ence is intelligent, and they have
to be in the active position of
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doorstep of Fred’s apartment, and
he’s in tears, he’s sobbing uncon-
trollably. It’s scripted in such a
way that you as a viewer don’t
know if he’s crying because he
feels a sense of guilt or not. He
says, ‘I’ve been a bad Panther.’
And you don’t know if he’s talking
words didn’t need saying explic- ACTORS linked to
itly and, later on, Cassie’s father the trimmed scenes,
(Clancy Brown) says something clockwise from bottom:
similar, so it was repetitive. “It Carey Mulligan, Olivia
was an amazing scene, but it felt Colman, LaKeith
more taut to go with the momen- Stanfield, Daniel
tum — she goes from the car Kaluuya and Riz
wreck to dancing in a club, where Ahmed.
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THE GOLD STANDARD

Dear 2020,
don’t feel
ashamed
Naysayers would have you believe
it was a tainted year. But the best
picture nominees hold their own
against those of the previous five.
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BY GLENN WHIPP Searchlight Pictures

»
W H E N T H E L A K E R S A N D D O D G E R S won titles last year,
I didn’t hear many people complaining, saying that their champi-
onships should come with an asterisk. Or maybe they did, but I
was just too busy celebrating to hear their whining. (And, no,
those illegal fireworks were most definitely not coming from my house. Some-
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THE RUNDOWN
(IN REVERSE)
43. “Bohemian Rhapsody” (2018) I know
smart people who love this movie. In fact,
had it not been directed by Bryan Singer,
who has been accused of sexual abuse and
all manner of misconduct, it might have
won best picture instead of “Green Book.”
36. “Green Book” (2018) Mahershala Ali
and Viggo Mortensen carry it. I’d watch it
10 times before subjecting myself to “Crash”
again.
35. “Fences” (2016) Vital August Wilson
adaptation, planting the flag to hopefully
bring all 10 of his plays to the screen.
34. “Promising Young Woman” (2020)

Words I never thought I’d write: Thank ...
where on my street, maybe, but, I repeat, not my house.) God ... for ... “Green Book.”
Which is why I have little patience for people protesting that this year’s 42. “Joker” (2019) Self-conscious Scorsese
Oscars are somehow tainted because theaters were mostly shut down and stu- imitation.
dios shuffled movies out of the season or, I don’t know, they tried watching
41. “Jojo Rabbit” (2019) If it’s an “anti-hate
“Mank” three times but could never get through it. I understand that the Oscars satire,” why do I hate it so much?
are different this year. Watching the movies at home isn’t as satisfying as sitting 40. “Darkest Hour” (2017) Worth a watch
for Gary Oldman. But enough Churchill
in a theater next to someone who keeps whispering confused questions, won- already.
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Audacious, darkly funny and sometimes
uncertain in its messaging.
33. “The Post” (2017) Not the worst Spiel-
berg film to be nominated. But also far from
the best.
32. “Ford v Ferrari” (2019) Decent Dad
Cinema.
31. “Hidden Figures” (2016) Heartfelt and
inspirational in all the right ways.

dering if that’s really Bill Nye the Science Guy playing Upton Sinclair in
39. “Lion” (2016) It brought Nicole Kid- 30. “Vice” (2018) Pungent political satire,
“Mank.” (Yes it is. And, God, how I miss those annoying people sitting next to man back to the Oscars, so I can’t complain. though not quite as shrewd as “Talladega
me in movie theaters.) Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby.”
38. “Hacksaw Ridge” (2016) One thing’s
But just because the experience of watching the movies in our living rooms for certain: Mel Gibson knows madness. 29. “Sound of Metal” (2020) Whenever I
feel overwhelmed, I cue this movie up on
wasn’t as enjoyable doesn’t mean that the movies themselves were somehow 37. “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (2020) Amazon Prime and listen to Paul Raci for
“Mangrove” > “Chicago 7.” But there’s no five minutes.
inferior. At least, I think. But to road-test that theory, I decided to rank the last
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shame in being the second-best courtroom

five years of best picture nominees to see how 2020 measured up. drama of the year. 28. “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,
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Melissa Lukenbaugh A24
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Glen Wilson Warner Bros.
Missouri” (2017) Frances McDormand and
Sam Rockwell, grief and forgiveness, pro-
fane and poignant.
27. “The Shape of Water” (2017) The
sixth-best movie of the nominated films
from 2017 ended up winning best picture. It
was a very good year.
26. “The Father” (2020) and 25. “Mar-
riage Story” (2019) Exemplary tales of
grueling, lacerating heartbreak that I’ll
probably never revisit.
24. “1917” (2019) All hail Roger Deakins!
23. “A Star Is Born” (2018) “Haaaaaa-
ahhhh-ahhh-ohhhh-ahhaaaaaa-ahhhh-ahhh-
ohhhh-ah!!!”
22. “Hell or High Water” (2016) Peak Dad
Cinema.
21. “BlacKkKlansman” (2018) Earns Spike
Lee an overdue Oscar.
20. “Arrival” (2016) Years later, I’m still
wondering how Amy Adams wasn’t nomi-
nated for this.
19. “Judas and the Black Messiah” (2020)
Can Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield
both win the Oscar?
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Niko Tavernise Netf lix
18. “Minari” (2020) Best acting ensemble
of 2020.
17. “Manchester by the Sea” (2016) Does
anyone mine shattering trauma better than
Kenneth Lonergan?
16. “Mank” (2020) I’ve watched it twice ...
straight through both times!
15. “Dunkirk” (2017) Christopher Nolan’s
best.
14. “The Favourite” (2018) Costume
drama for people bored with costume
dramas.
13. “Little Women” (2019) Greta Gerwig
was wronged.
12. “La La Land” (2016) The L.A. story
that won best picture ... for about two
minutes.
11. “Roma” (2018) Sublime Cuarón love
poem.
10. “The Irishman” (2019) Scorsese’s
“September Song.”
9. “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood”
(2019) Tarantino gets wistful about Old
Hollywood and hates on those damn hip-
pies.
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Netflix Focus Features
8. “Black Panther” (2018) Wakanda
forever!
7. “Lady Bird” (2017) Gerwig’s the
only director on here twice. (She’s
LESSONS LEARNED
good.)
[Whew] So what did we learn?
6. “Get Out” (2017) We remain deep
Well, again, 2017 was a great year for
in the Sunken Place. But maybe we’re
movies. 2016? Not so much. And 2020
talking about it more?
ranks right there with 2019 and 2018,
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offering plenty of good films — and a
5. “Call Me by Your Name” (2017)
couple of great ones. If you still
Timothéeeeeeee and Italy.
haven’t seen the eight pictures nomi-
4. “Phantom Thread” (2017) Still
nated this year, please find them and
holding out hope that this really isn’t savor their pleasures.
going to be Daniel Day-Lewis’ last And for all those who wrote two
movie. years ago to tell me how I misjudged
3. “Nomadland” (2020) A spiritual “Jojo Rabbit,” I know ... I know.
But I’m still right.
journey centered on community and com-
passion — pretty much the film we needed
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in this challenging year.
2. “Parasite” (2019) First non-English-
language movie to win best picture, a (too)
rare example of the academy getting it
right.
1. “Moonlight” (2016) The Oscar win for
Barry Jenkins’ melancholy masterpiece
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redefined the parameters of what kind of
film could earn best picture.

A
T 4 : 4 5 A . M . on Dec.
4, 1969, law enforce-
ment raided the apart-
ment of Illinois Black
Panther Party Chair-
man Fred Hampton in Chicago.
Among the police, who fired roughly
100 rounds, two were injured.
Among the Panthers, who fired one
shot in return, seven were charged
with attempted murder. Four Pan-
thers were critically wounded; two
were killed — one was Hampton.
The raid constitutes the climactic
moment in Shaka King’s “Judas and
the Black Messiah,” nominated for
six Oscars, including best picture
and cinematography for veteran
director of photography Sean Bob-
bitt. “It is the single most expensive
shot in the show,” he says of a verti-
cal view that travels the layout of the
apartment, room to room as the
police shoot the occupants in their
sleep.
“Shaka wanted the world to see
Fred Hampton had been shot at
through the walls. There had been
no effort to come in and arrest any-
one.”
The motion-control arm on which
the camera is vertically mounted is
programmed to repeat its path ex-
actly, take after take. Bobbitt and his
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team did four passes in all, including
one with actors being filmed during
the shooting and another with py-
rotechnics only. In postproduction,
all four passes were married into a
single shot of explosive violence.
Set in 1960s Chicago, the historical
drama tells the true story of Hamp-
ton and Bill O’Neal, the FBI inform-
ant who was instrumental in his
undoing.
The actors who play them, Daniel
Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield, were
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Oscar-nominated for their perform-
ances.
“One of the reasons I was drawn
to the film to begin with is that that’s
happening all the time,” Bobbitt says
of the killing of Hampton as he slept
in bed. “The scale and number of
Black men, women and children
who’ve been shot by police, that has
shocked me, and it’s shocked the
world.”
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During preproduction, Bobbitt
pored through photos of the period,
particularly color images captured in
a slightly faded Kodachrome and
Ektachrome, characterized by high
contrast and vivid primary colors. A
predominant hue in the movie’s
palette is the cool green that covers
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the walls of the Panthers’ Chicago
headquarters.
THE CINEMATOGRAPHERS
In the eye
of the storm
Sean Bobbitt made himself ‘invisible’ to capture
the tragic events of ‘Judas and the Black Messiah.’
BY JORDAN RIEFE
“A number of those places actually
had those greens in them,” says
Bobbitt, who scouted locations in
Cleveland, where the film was shot.
“Darker flesh tones against a green,
it actually can be very flattering.”
A significant portion of the film
takes place in the car given to O’Neal
by his FBI contact, Roy Mitchell
( Jesse Plemons).
With limited natural light, car
interiors represent a particular
challenge, especially at night. Luck-
ily, models from the 1960s are roomy,
allowing space for lights if needed.
And Bobbitt happily found that the
latitude and color detail in the Arri
Alexa LF camera could handle the
sparse lighting.
Frequently the camera is mounted
on a service tray outside the car,
looking in. But in one shot, the car
pulls to a stop and, after some dia-
logue, it takes off while the camera
stays behind. The trick was to detach
the camera from the tray without
any noticeable shake while filming.
Bobbitt and his team brainstormed
electromagnetic contacts that could
be deactivated to free the camera on
cue among other esoteric tech-
niques.
In the end, they settled on a
standard quick-release plate, detach-
ing the camera in the usual way. “As
the Panthers get in and the car
shakes naturally, we released the
clip. So you don’t see the transition
to handheld after they pull away.”
When the audience is first intro-
Daniel Kaluuya, Ashton
Sanders, Algee Smith, Dom-
inique Thorne and Lakeith
Stanfield appear in “Judas
and the Black Messiah” by
Shaka King, an official se-
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section at the 2021 Sundance
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duced to O’Neal, he is posing as a
cop and tries to shake down a bar-
room full of gangsters. Coverage
includes a continuous Steadicam
shot that begins on the street and
follows him into the bar where the
dramatic ensemble scene plays out,
rising in tension as the gangsters
realize he’s not a cop.
What appears to be a complicated
mise-en-scène one-take was actually
pretty simple, according to Bobbitt,
whose years working in documenta-
ry filmmaking have helped him hone
his work in such dramas as “12 Years LUCKILY for
a Slave,” directed by his frequent Bobbitt, above,
collaborator Steve McQueen. cars from the
“There are tricks to making your- ’60s are spacious
self invisible in a room,” he says, enough to allow
smiling as the day winds down on for lights. At top,
his houseboat on the Thames, the Daniel Kaluuya,
perfect place to self-isolate. left, and LaKeith
“You take yourself out of the Stanfield, right,
equation so the actors don’t have to in a roomy ride.
think about it. To do that, you have
to show how much you respect
them, and they respect you in re-
turn. It’s always a two-way street.”
Bobbitt, who was born in Corpus
Christi, Texas, grew up in the UK but
attended Santa Clara University.
There he studied literature and
philosophy, which somehow led to
producing and directing television.
“I always thought I’d be a movie
writer-director, but not a cinemato-
grapher. I didn’t even know what a
cinematographer was. But circum-
stances have taken me down another
road, and I literally woke up one day,
and I was like, ‘Oh, I’m actually in
the right job.’ ” 8