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The state’s plan to phase out
sales of new gas guzzlers
by 2035 in favor of electric
cars is bold, visionary,
important—and highly risky.
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pose at Bondi Beach at sunrise on victims of a deadly fire in Urumqi, President Emmanuel Macron share
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skin cancer awareness, timing things people want to—but return of a tradition paused since
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National Skin Cancer Action Week. Similarly, the number 404 reflects discussed America’s Inflation
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RELIGION
A Crisis of Faith
In the wake of the Club Q killings, the Mormon Church
confronts its record on LGBTQ rights
When a 22-year-old man opened fire in a “We have to face it. Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from the
Colorado Springs nightclub during a drag church influences members.”
performance on November 19, leaving five people The church has condemned the shooting and
dead, he put new light on a long-simmering debate called the public reflex to condemn an entire
within the Mormon Church about its stance on religion based on the shooter’s actions problem-
gay, lesbian and transgender people. The alleged atic. But LGBTQ advocates were quick to highlight
shooter Anderson Lee Aldrich was brought up in their own experiences within the church as well as
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mormon leaders’ reluctance to take tangible action
In the days following the shootings, Aldrich’s to address the barriers they’ve built between the
father, a former adult film star and mixed mar- LGBTQ community and their faith. The church
tial arts fighter with a history of substance abuse, declined a Newsweek request for further comment.
appeared in a television news interview admitting While members of the LGBTQ community are
that he condoned his son’s violent behavior as a permitted to remain a part of the Mormon com-
child while alluding to the values of their Mormon munity, the LDS church does not allow same-sex
heritage, saying “You know Mormons don’t do gay. couples to marry or maintain a physical relation-
We don’t do gay.” ship nor are they permitted to receive church
“We don’t get to pick and choose,” Rose- ordinances, among them baptism, con-
mary Card, a Mormon influencer and firmation and joining the priesthood.
author of the 2018 book Model Mormon: by Speaking at Brigham Young Univer-
Fighting for Self-Worth on the Runway and sity in 2021, former BYU president Jef-
NICK
as an Independent Woman (Cedar Fort REYNOLDS
frey Holland, referred to the need for a
Publishing) tweeted after the shooting. “little more musket fire” in defense of the
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church’s view that marriage is “the FALLOUT Clockwise from top left:
union of a man and a woman,” draw- Memorials at the club where five
people where killed; a rainbow flag at
ing widespread criticism from both
Colorado Springs city hall in honor of
Mormons and non-Mormons. the victims; and former Brigham Young
Prior to that, BYU’s strict “honor University president Jeffrey Holland.
code” had inspired protests at the
Mormon-dominated university by
students who considered it a stain on with feel accepting that their child
an otherwise great institution. for who they are is almost contra-
While many in the faith agree it is dictory to the moral and religious
not fair to malign an entire religion lessons they had been taught their
for one man’s actions, they also agree entire lives. “There has to be some
it can’t avoid its own complicity in type of navigation of your faith to
perpetuating a culture that funda- make that happen,” she says. “And
mentally believes the LGTBQ commu- I think that’s where the whole sys-
nity’s existence is incompatible with tem kind of breaks down. If you ask
the teachings of its God. a mother to be like, ‘OK, here’s my
Though recent polling in the LDS- child I’ve known my entire life to be
owned Deseret News earlier this year the exact person that they are,’ and
showed that nearly three-quarters they tell you something about them-
of Utahns support marriage equal- selves that is different than what you
ity, the church itself does not and knew before...they feel like they have
has declined to alter its teachings to to then choose between their child
adapt to shifting attitudes toward the and their entire culture.”
LGBTQ community. Some LGBTQ advocates, however,
Throughout its history, queer Mor- say the church actually has recog-
mons within the church have found nized the need to evolve, drawing
themselves faced with the impossible from its own history of being per-
bargain of compromising their reli- secuted the importance of being
gious community for their sense of accepting and kind. respecting the law and preserving
self, leaving some with a conflicted On November 15, the LDS issued the rights of our LGBTQ brothers
sense of their religion. a statement saying it was “grateful and sisters.” The proposed law would
One of those individuals is for the continuing efforts of those strengthen protections for same-sex
Celeste Carolin, executive director who work to ensure the Respect for marriage in federal law. Though not
of the Mormon LGBTQ advocacy Marriage Act includes appropriate an endorsement of gay marriage, the
group Mama Dragons. Carolin, who religious freedom protections while church’s move was seen as a step for-
was raised within the church and ward for the conservative institution.
attended BYU in the late 2000s, tells Troy Williams, executive director
Newsweek she regularly deals with of Equality Utah, an LGBTQ advocacy
families who feel torn between their organization, says the church was a
Mormon faith and their desire to “People of faith need powerful driver in motivating state
advocate for their children, leaving to be particularly officials to support same-sex mar-
them in a position where they feel aware of the need for riage protections, a significant depar-
they have no choice but to leave their humility, of the need ture from a 2015 policy threatening
faith community.
for grace and not to same-sex partners with excommuni-
just shut down and be

She herself was sent to talk with a cation. The church was also instru-
dean at the university when she was mental in helping Equality Utah pass
outed as gay while attending BYU, defensive. That’s the LGBTQ-inclusive housing and work-
while many of the parents she talks only path forward.” place protections within the state.

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Williams says the church has about in her state following the kill- of the need for humility, of the need
made a good faith effort to bridge ing of Matthew Shepard, a gay Uni- for grace and not to just shut down
the divides between communities versity of Wyoming student whose and be defensive.”
and advocate for progress out of a 1998 killing prompted the passage of “That’s the only path forward,” she
recognition that failing to denounce national hate crimes legislation. adds. “That’s the only way we get
hatred will only lead to more. “We “I just think of how Wyoming was out of this cycle.”
have to be able to acknowledge immediately defensive, that ‘This is The question now is whether the
progress, even when it’s not per- not who we are, that these murder- LDS Church is ready to take that step,
fect,” he says. “We’re going to have ers are not us, that they came from particularly as its core tenets have
to transcend the extreme political nowhere,’ because it was so shameful come under renewed scrutiny.
polarization and have to find a way to be misunderstood that way instead “I think that these little movements
to coexist. We have forgotten plural- of doing the hard work that would give people a lot of hope,” says Mama
ism is a foundation of our nation offer healing,” she says “We needed to Dragon’s Carolin. “But I don’t think
and we have got to figure out how be asking how these men went to our that they’re thinking about the end
we can live together despite our dif- schools, worshipped in our churches, goal, what we’re asking of the LDS
ferences. If we don’t, more violence ate at our dinner tables and not hear church. It’s all in that doctrine.”
will continue to erupt.” a message that said, ‘You can’t kill gay
Sara Burlingame, an LGBTQ advo- people.’ That’s the question.” ▸ Nick Reynolds is a senior
cate in neighboring Wyoming, recalls “And in asking that question, people politics reporter at newsweek.
the lack of a reckoning that came of faith need to be particularly aware Twitter @IAmNickReynolds
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MEDICINE those younger than 65.

Between 2012 and 2017, medical
Legal Weed marijuana legalization took effect

in 14 states: Arkansas, Connecticut,
May Cut Opioid Use

Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Mary-
land, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New
for Cancer Pain

Hampshire, New York, North Dakota,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Opioids, which are potent syn-
thetic painkillers, are frequently used
A new study says prescriptions are down in states to treat all kinds of pain, including
where medical marijuana is available the type afflicting cancer patients.
Opioids are also highly addictive and
their use in medicine has been linked
to an increased self-administration of
The legalizaTion of medical percent relative reduction in the the drugs over several decades.
marijuana may reduce opioid rate of opioid dispensing (i.e., the Over 70,000 people died from
use in cancer patients. rate of receiving at least one opioid drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2019,
As of 2022, medical marijuana for prescription) to adult patients aged and 48,000 of these fatalities were
pain relief is legal in 37 states and 18 to 64 who were newly diagnosed attribute d to non-methadone
Washington, D.C. Living in these with breast, colorectal or lung cancer synthetic opioids, a category that
states is associated with a lower rate and receiving cancer treatment. includes fentanyl.
of opioid dispensing in patients The analysis involved 38,189 Yuhua Bao, lead author of the
receiving cancer treatments, a paper patients newly diagnosed with breast paper and a health economist at
published on December 1 in the jour- cancer, 12,816 with colorectal cancer Weill Cornell Medicine, tells News-
nal JAMA Oncology says. and 7,190 with lung cancer. week, “The magnitude of the reduc-
Results of the study show These three cancer types tion [of opioid dispensing in cancer
that medical marijuana by were chosen for the study patients] varied by the type of cancer
legalization was associated JESS because of the large num- and whether the patient received
with a 5.5 percent to 19.2 THOMSON ber of new cases among prescription opioids prior to their
cancer diagnosis.”
“Our findings suggest that with
increasing medical marijuana legal-
ization, marijuana may be substi-
tuting for opioids for cancer-related
pain to some extent,” she says.
There is some evidence that medi-
cal marijuana can provide pain relief
for cancer patients, as well as man- FROM LE F T: GE T T Y; C A PPI THOM P SON /GE T T Y
agement of nausea and nerve damage.

Cannabis contains compounds
called cannabinoids, which are the
active ingredients in both medicinal
cannabis and recreational marijuana.
However, more studies need to be
MORE STUDY Scientists haven’t

isolated the connection between
cannabis and pain relief.
DECEMbER 16, 2022

USE AS DIRECTED Some cancer sufferers
may be choosing cannabis over powerful
but highly addictive synthetic painkillers.
and categorized as mild to moderate.”

The reason for the reduction
in opioid dispensing in the new
study is not known.
Bao says, “The pharmacy claims
data we used do not shed light on the
reason for the reduced dispensing. A
combination of factors may have con-
tributed to the reduction, including
reduced patient requests for/fills of
opioids and reduced clinician pre-
scribing of opioids. These behaviors
could be driven by actual substitu-
tion of medical marijuana for opioids
or perceived substitutability.”
Legal access to medical marijuana
may have led oncologists and other
practitioners to prescribe fewer opi-
oids, or perhaps they were asked for
less by patients who were self-manag-
ing their pain with marijuana.“With-
out data on clinician practices or
patient use of medical marijuana,
the nature of the observed associa-
tions remains uncertain,” the authors
wrote in the paper.
Additionally, Bao says this study
does not represent the final word on
marijuana versus opioids in terms of
pain relief for cancer patients.
“We know little about the effective-
ness or safety associated with mari-
juana use in place of or in addition
to opioids, especially given that many
done in this area to strengthen the patients may be using marijuana
evidence of a link between marijuana without a clinician’s guidance or
and pain relief. monitoring,” she says.
Medicinal cannabis use also has “There is some She adds, “Our study thus points
side effects, ranging from nausea and evidence that medical out the urgent need for research and
weakness to psychosis. A paper pub- marijuana can provide practice guidelines to support clini-
lished earlier this year in the journal
pain relief for cancer cal decisions about marijuana use for
patients, as well as
Frontiers in Pain Research said that cancer-related pain.”
“the adverse effects from cannabi-
noids for cancer treatment are gen- management of nausea ▸ Jess Thomson is a newsweek sci-
erally well tolerated by the patients and nerve damage.” ence reporter. Twitter @thomsonjessic
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to accidentally
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vile racist and
anti-Semite
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anti-Semite the dark matter
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THE PRIZE
California’s new rules
on electric vehicles
could breathe new life
into global efforts to
avoid the worst effects
of climate change.
o state is more car-crazy than people. The U.S. electric grid needed to power them
California—and they’ve paid a big all is unreliable and still derives much of its energy
price for it, not just in $6-per-gal- from burning fossil fuels. Charging stations are few
lon gas. The heat waves, droughts and far between. Supply-chain and manufacturing
and calamitous wildfires that have issues have led to wait lists. And although EVs are
ravaged the state in recent years popular in California—they constitute 15 percent
are by-products of climate change, of sales versus 3 percent for the U.S.—it’s unclear
to which greenhouse-gas emissions from Califor- how many more enthusiasts the state has left.
nia tailpipes (and elsewhere) have contributed. The timetable is ambitious, even for California.
To Governor Gavin Newsom and other state po- It goes well beyond the state’s past clean-air efforts
litical leaders, the fix is clear: Regulate the tailpipe in scope and exceeds the Biden administration’s
out of existence. In August, in a continuation of its goal to increase manufacturing of EVs to 50 per-
half-century-plus tradition of setting the nation’s cent by 2030. The price tag will be staggering: tens
auto emissions standards, California ruled that by of billions of dollars in state spending on EV subsi-
CLEARING THE AIR
2035 all new cars and trucks sold in the state must dies and improvements to the electric grid and EV-
Shifting to all-electric
be fossil-fuel-free. Instead, electric vehicles, or EVs, vehicles would in
charging infrastructure will be needed, experts say.
will become the law of the land. theory eliminate about Californians are in no mood to write the state a
Shifting the world to zero-emissions all-electric one-fifth of all carbon- blank check. In November, they voted down a new
vehicles would in theory eliminate about one-fifth dioxide emissions. tax measure that would have supported EVs, and
Top to bottom: San
of all carbon-dioxide emissions, the chief green- since then the state has projected a $25 billion defi-
Francisco; Governor
house gas behind climate change. But making the Gavin Newsom; high
cit for next year. The U.S. is also facing prospects of
transition quickly is a tall order and creates new gas prices at the a recession. Given Newsom’s apparent presidential
problems. EVs are currently too expensive for most California pumps. ambitions, it’s questionable whether he’ll be willing

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to push voters to accept tax hikes to cover the pro- rules have the potential to set the U.S., one of the
gram’s costs. (Newsom’s office declined repeated world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gasses, on
requests to make the governor or any other official a path to significant reductions, breathing new
available for an interview.) If gas becomes cheap life into global efforts to avoid the worst effects
again, as some experts predict, the political will of climate change. Big Auto is on board and so
for big EV investments could weaken or evaporate. is New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who an-
“2035 may seem like a long way off, but trying nounced in September that her state will follow
to get to 100 percent of sales by then is going to California’s lead.
be tricky,” says Jessica Caldwell, executive director After the recent COP 27 United Nations climate
of insights at car-guide publisher Edmunds. “We’re conference in Egypt, where nations failed yet again-
talking about depending on products and infra- to reach an agreement to phase out fossil fuels, any-
structure that don’t exist yet, and it all has to be one hoping that the world can get a grip on climate
built in parallel.” has to be rooting for California’s bold measures to
The stakes couldn’t get much bigger. Since Cal- succeed. But it’s going to take much more than
ifornia leads the U.S. in auto regulations, its new cheering to get the initiative across the finish line.
“EVEN IF CALIFORNIA CUSTOMERS CARE DEEPLY

ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, I DON’T KNOW IF THEY’RE GOING
TO PUT UP WITH THE GRID COSTS AND UNRELIABILITY.”
The Case for California’s Plan

Californians have already proven themselves
EV-friendly relative to the rest of the U.S. More than
a million EVs are on California roads, about half of
all the EVs in America. That number would almost
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certainly be higher if it weren’t for long wait lists

for the few sub-$35,000 EV models offered in the
U.S. At present, the best-selling car in the state is a
Tesla Model Y, which starts at $65,990.
Unlike the 1990s, this time around all the big
auto manufacturers have expressed commitments
to providing more EV options, and not only in re-
sponse to prodding by the U.S. and California. De-
mand is already exceeding EV supply and is expect-
ed to grow. Ford is spending $50 billion to beef up
its EV offerings and General Motors has declared
its intentions to go all-EV by 2035. President Joe
Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is pumping mon-
ey into getting more EVs on the road, including a
$7,500 tax credit for some EV purchases.
As more consumers bite, a network effect that
entices others to switch will kick in, says David
Reichmuth, a senior engineer in the Clean Trans-
portation program at the Union of Concerned
Scientists. California may already be at that tip-
ping point. “When people start getting posi-
tive feedback from others they know who own
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EVs, they’ll feel better about buying one,” he ex-
plains. With gas prices near historic highs, and
more public charging stations popping up on “EVS AREN’T GOING TO WORK FOR EVERYONE.
streets and in parking lots, the temptation to go CALIFORNIA IS VAST, AND MOSTLY RURAL
electric is only likely to grow in the near term. AND SPREAD OUT, WHERE PEOPLE
Still, a big fraction of the people in California MAY HAVE TO DRIVE HUNDREDS OF MILES,
who are willing to jump into EVs may have already SOME OF IT IN MOUNTAIN RANGES.
done so. Getting the rest of them on board runs
into some tricky economics. Setting up a home
charging cable can be a complex and costly chore
and may not be possible for those who park in the
street or in a lot. Charging challenges are worse
with trucks, which require more power and out-
number cars in the state. “EVs aren’t going to work
for everyone,” says Edmunds’ Caldwell. “California
is vast and mostly rural and spread out, where peo-
ple may have to drive hundreds of miles, some of it
in mountain ranges. They may not be able to get the
charging they need to make it round-trip.”
At the moment, the cost of EVs is a big sticking
COU NTE RCLOCK WI SE FROM TOP LEF T: DAVID ODI SHO/BLOOMBE RG/GE T T Y; JUSTIN L AMBERT/GE T T Y; COURTE SY OF DAVID R AP SON
point. The average price paid for a new car in the

U.S. is about $47,000, but for EVs it’s $63,000, and
that number has been steadily climbing. The Nis-
san Leaf and Chevy Bolt, both compact cars that
start at under $30,000, are difficult to find and
smaller than what most consumers are looking
for. Rebates and tax credits from Sacramento and
Washington can amount to $10,000 or more, but
they come with income and other qualifications
that eliminate many buyers and they don’t cover
all EV models. Even those consumers who qualify
for rebates must wade through layers of paperwork
and then wait six months or more to get the money.
“The buying process is too complicated and it keeps
changing,” says Caldwell. Meanwhile, dealers have
taken advantage of the short supply of EVs to add
on mark-ups that can easily exceed the rebates.
By California’s reckoning, EV prices will continue
to drop over the next 10 years. EVs also have lower
maintenance costs—they don’t need gas, oil chang-
es, spark plugs and timing belts, for instance. To-
gether, these factors will bring EVs to “parity” with
gas-powered cars, Newsom’s office says via email.
That forecast relies in part on an assumption that
battery costs will continue their decade-long trend
of steeply falling prices, despite current and pro-
jected shortages.
If EV costs stay high, the new rules will price
many people out of the market for new cars,
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making an already bad equity problem even worse.

The rules keep ratcheting up the pressure year by
year on automakers to sell more EVs, fining them
$20,000 for every gas-powered vehicle they sell
beyond the mandated percentage. As the auto in-
dustry copes by yanking gas cars off the lots, less-af-
fluent new-car buyers will find themselves forced to
choose between EVs they can’t afford and beat-up
gas guzzlers that sell for a premium. Incentives to
keep people choosing EVs run the risk of raising
costs for those least able to afford them.
The California Air Resources Board is promis-
ing more assistance to lower-income buyers, but
making sure the money gets to the people who
need it will be challenging, judging by the prob-
lems existing programs have faced. So will fund- don’t have a garage or private driveway, or else
ing the rebates. Proposition 30, which was on the they’ll drive far enough to need a re-up along the
California ballot on November 8, proposed a new way. Some may be able to charge at work, but most
income tax that would have raised a projected $4 will have to rely on public charging stations, where
billion or so largely to fund financial assistance EVs can get at least a top-up charge in an hour or so.
for EV purchases, but it was defeated at the polls. By 2035, California will need about 2 million
Newsom himself opposed it, ostensibly because he public charging stations, according to a UC Davis
HOT WINDS wanted ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft study. Right now there are fewer than 100,000. At
Left: a wildfire to provide more money for their drivers’ EV pur- a typical cost of about $50,000 each, the tab could
in Crescent Mills,
chases rather than counting on the state to chip hit $100 billion. That leaves the state with a chicken
California, in July 2021.
Below: smog in Los
in. (Uber is, in fact, providing $800 million to its and egg problem, says Caldwell. “People aren’t go-
Angeles. Right: David drivers to help them acquire EVs.) Many observers, ing to want to buy an EV if they’re worried they’re
Rapson of UC Davis. though, believe Newsom feared that raising state not going to be able to charge it,” he says. “But it’s
taxes, already the highest in the U.S., might hurt going to be hard to justify spending to put in the
his chances in a potential 2024 run for president. chargers if the EVs aren’t out there yet.”
Without the funds Proposition 30 would have Those charger stations will also need costly
provided—or some other new taxes that haven’t maintenance. The state has already fallen behind
yet been proposed—the prospects for meeting the in maintaining its few existing ones. A study by the
state’s EV goals may rest on the hope that the auto, University of California Berkeley and the non-profit
electric and charging industries will hugely ramp environmental organization Cool the Earth found
up their own investments, produce more cars and that as many as a quarter of charging stations in
bring costs down. The federal government could and around the San Francisco Bay Area—a leader
give California an off-ramp by kicking in far more in EV adoption—are out of service. And because
in assistance than it has already committed to, but lower-income car owners are more likely to lack fa-
this seems unlikely now that Republicans will soon cilities for home charging or live in communities
take control of the House of Representatives without good access to working public chargers, the
charger shortage will hit them hardest. That issue
The Charger Shortage will be difficult to solve without changing building
Another chAllenge to cAliforniA’s eV mAndAte codes so that new apartment buildings and other
is that there aren’t nearly enough places to plug structures can more easily accommodate multiple
the vehicles in. Most owners will be able to install charging facilities, says Reichmuth of the Union of
charging cables at home and get enough juice to Concerned Scientists.
make it through the day. But a large percentage ei- Even if these advances materialize, staggeringly
ther won’t be able to charge at home because they large investments in EVs and infrastructure will have
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to come first. According to a 2021 report from energy JUICING UP

By 2035, California will need
industry trade group Advanced Energy Economy, a
about 2 million public charging
$274 billion investment would be needed to bring stations, which at current
the U.S. EV infrastructure up to speed. Given Cali- prices would cost $100 billion.
fornia’s aggressive timetable and enormous market Right: An electric charging
size, the state would need a big chunk of that invest- station with solar panels.
ment, easily running to the tens of billions of dollars.
Can Automakers Deliver?

EvEn if most California Car buyErs dECidE thEy
want EVs, manufacturers may not be able to make
them fast enough, given supply chain challenges and
the need for massive changes in design, engineering
and manufacturing. The problem is largely one of
scale, says David Rapson, co-director of the University
of California Davis Energy Economics Program and
a senior research economist at the Federal Reserve
Bank of Dallas. The existing capabilities, investments
and infrastructure that have enabled the state to
reach its current EV market share are grossly inade-
quate for the number of EVs the new rules mandate.
“It’s one thing when you’re talking about a 15 per-
cent market share, but another when you’re talking
about 50 percent or more,” he says. The 100 percent
EV mark is still 13 years off, but the new rules call for
sharp increases that start kicking in right away, includ-
ing hitting 35 percent by 2026 and 68 percent by 2030.
Automakers claim they’ll be ready to meet bur-
geoning demand, but there’s good reason to be
skeptical. So far, they’ve turned out small numbers
of mostly high-priced models and even that isn’t
enough to meet demand. To hit California’s goals
“PEOPLE AREN’T GOING TO WANT TO BUY AN
they’ll have to fill lots with affordable EVs. That’s BUT IT’S GOING TO BE HARD
the plan, insists GM spokesperson Elizabeth Winter.
“California’s policy is complementary to ours,” she
says. “We’re hyperfocused on delivering EVs across
a range of categories and price points.” She notes
that the company will be rolling out the Equinox
SUV for a starting price of about $30,000, as well as
an all-electric Sierra truck, which will compete with
Ford’s F-150 Lightning EV. To keep prices down, she
says, GM is building most of its EVs on the same
basic battery platform.
Challenges abound. For one thing, supply chain
problems may extend far beyond the temporary
glitches caused by the pandemic. There is already
a shortage of batteries needed to power EVs. More
than half those batteries have come from China,
an increasingly unreliable source given trade and

EV IF THEY’RE WORRIED THEY’RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO CHARGE IT.
TO JUSTIFY SPENDING TO PUT IN THE CHARGERS IF THE EVS AREN’T OUT THERE YET.”
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political tensions. Biden’s infrastructure plan
pumps more than $3 billion into expanding U.S.
battery manufacturing capacity, but a global short-
age of lithium and other exotic metals required for
EV batteries threatens to leave manufacturers with
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only a tenth as much as they need to meet Biden’s
goals of 50 percent EV sales by 2030 for the U.S.,
never mind California’s more ambitious target of
68 percent EVs by that year. A shortage of semi-
conductor chips—the average EV needs 2,000 of
them—is expected to last at least another two years.
Car companies will also have to retool their work-
force in the midst of a labor shortage around the
country. Engineers who can design EVs may be a
particularly rare commodity.
GM has already locked in agreements for the
battery materials and other needed supplies
for producing a million EVs a year by the end of
2025, Winter says. That might be just enough to
meet California’s goals, if all the cars were shipped
there. Shortages will continue to threaten EV pro-
duction and affordability over the coming decade,
making it difficult to keep existing agreements in
place, Rapson of the University of California Davis
“2035 MAY SEEM LIKE A LONG WAY OFF,

BUT TRYING TO GET TO 100 PERCENT OF SALES
BY THEN IS GOING TO BE TRICKY.”
predicts. “Supplies will increase over time, but and a flood of plugged-in EVs could bring the al-
there will be periods where demand outstrips sup- ready-struggling system to its knees long before
ply and prices spike, leading to more expensive bat- the needed upgrades are made. A Stanford study
teries and slower EV adoption,” he says. earlier this year calculated that at projected rates
of EV growth, electricity demand could skyrocket
Juicing Up by up to 25 percent in the coming years; peak de-
EvEn if affordablE ElEctric vEhiclEs wErE mand could double by 2030. That’s assuming that
ready on California dealer lots, the state’s trou- most EVs are charged at night, which is currently
bled electric grid may not be. In theory, it could the case for about 80 percent of them. That poses
keep 5 million EVs charged up, assuming it’s an additional complication in California, which
working at full capacity—which is frequently loses up to half its grid capacity when the sun goes
not the case, thanks in part to aging, unreliable down, due to its heavy dependence on solar power.
equipment and especially to the heat waves As California builds out a charging infra-
and fires that have been increasingly plaguing structure, there will be opportunities to address
the state. Utilities are addressing the grid prob- many of these challenges through technological
lems, to the tune of $3 billion over the next 10 innovation, EV advocates say. For example, new
years. Improvements will be slow in coming. types of enormous battery banks and other large-
Meanwhile, brownouts have become common scale energy storage technologies may be able to

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collect electrical power from the grid during the Gas-Powered Politics
day, store it away and feed it back at night, while It’s far from a sure thIng that the Investments
most EVs are charging. California needs to make will happen. Newsom, the
EVs can also be equipped with advanced smart- Air Resources Board and the Democratic-dominat-
charging features that communicate with the grid ed legislature have so far mostly been on the same
to draw power for charging only when it’s most page in committing to the big push to EVs. But the
available, and even to push energy back into the failure of Proposition 30 is a reminder that vot-
grid when it’s needed somewhere else. “Most EVs ers aren’t ready to give politicians and regulators
can’t do that today, but over the next 20 years we’ll unlimited funds to realize their EV goals—and
see EV batteries being integrated into the grid in that even climate-change leaders like Newsom are
helpful ways,” says Reichmuth. prone to bow to political expediency. The state’s
Still, EVs call for massive investments in track record in meeting its own environmental
THE TECH FIX
the grid that go well beyond the $5 billion that goals is uneven; a report put together by the state
Top to bottom: A
Southern California Edison has already pledged Rivian R1T electric
last year found that it has fallen behind existing
to spend—a Boston Consulting Group study sug- truck is assembled in emissions-reductions goals.
gests the cost will be in the tens of billions of dol- Illinois; raw materials Meanwhile, there’s one more threat hanging
lars. “Making enough electricity and getting it to for batteries are mined over the future of California’s audacious goals for
in Bolivia; President
the right places is going to be very expensive,” says EVs: cheap gas. While mitigating climate change is
Biden ordered a review
Rapson. “Even if California customers care deeply of supply chains for
the chief motivation behind the EV push, rising gas
about climate change, I don’t know if they’re go- semiconductor chips prices have put a wind at policymakers’ backs. That
ing to put up with the grid costs and unreliability.” and other goods in 2021. wind would shift if gas prices drop, conceivably
making gas guzzlers cheaper to buy and cheaper
to refuel. “Cheap and abundant energy is central
to our lives and economy,” says Rapson. “Any pol-
icy that increases energy costs is going to put the
tradeoffs of that policy into stark relief.”
The lure of cheap gas would be especially potent
in California, where electricity costs are among the
highest in the nation—nearly twice the U.S average.
That’s thanks to fees and taxes tacked on to finance
maintenance and improvements to the grid and to
deal with fires and other weather-related disasters.
Though gas prices have come down from historic
highs last spring, they are still at an oppressive $85
or so a barrel, making even California electricity
feel like a pretty good deal. But that could easily
change with growing EV sales. “If the use of oil de-
creased, the price would likely fall to $30 a barrel
or less,” says Borenstein. “It would be hard for elec-
tricity to compete with that.”
With cheap gas, contends Borenstein, the only
way to keep voters on board with an EVs-for-ev-
eryone policy would be to find a way to bring EV
costs sharply lower than they’re expected to be in
coming years.
“If you want EVs to remain a nice niche business,
just keep beating $4-a-gallon gas,” he says. “If you
want to change the world, you need to beat $1-a-gal-
lon gas.” That’s going to be a steep road to climb.
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actually serious about trying to be good guys,
- Newsweek has partnered with global research
and data ﬁrm Statista for our fourth annual
- list of America’s Most Responsible Compa-
- nies. This year our list includes 500 of the
U.S.’s largest public corporations. They vary
dramatically by size and by industry. We
found the largest number of responsible
companies (55) in the materials and chemi-
cals business; the fewest (12) in hotels, dining
- and leisure. Our overall number one this year
is the computer hardware giant HP, for the
fourth year in a row. We are proud to present
- this year’s ranking and to honor companies
that actually mean it when they say they are
serious about being good corporate citizens.
▸ Nancy Cooper, Global Editor in Chief
2023
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THE RANKING AMERICA’S MOST RESPONSIBLE 1 93.1 HP 23 86.0 Sensata Technologies

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Companies 2023 focuses on a holistic
view of corporate responsibility that
2 91.8 General Mills 24 85.8 Owens Corning
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In total, 500 companies were identified as 3 91.5 Whirlpool Corporation 25 85.8 Corteva
America’s Most Responsible Companies. CONSUMER GOODS MATERIALS & CHEMICALS
The initial analysis focused on the

4 90.0 Merck & Co. 26 85.7 NVIDIA
top 2000 public companies by revenue
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and banks and insurance companies
with total assets exceeding $50 billion. 5 89.6 Clorox 27 85.5 Illumina
CONSUMER GOODS HEALTH CARE & LIFE SCIENCES
The analysis is based on two metrics:
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7 89.1 Applied Materials 29 85.2 Boston Properties
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were considered for the ranking.
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Newsweek and Statista make no claim to the
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Technologies
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U.S. companies that are eligible regarding AUTOMOTIVE & COMPONENTS
criteria described here. A position in the 15 87.7 Aptargroup
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19 86.6 Cisco Systems
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Secret Bars and

Speakeasies Worth
Seeking Out
Going out for the evening to get a drink with friends can be a lot of fun.
Mix in a splash of adventure, intrigue—and even taboo—and it can make
the outing all the more exciting. That is why speakeasies, a concept born
of the 1920s Prohibition era, still thrive today. From a janitor’s closet in
New York City to a pawn shop in San Francisco or a therapist’s office in
Prague to a nonexistent hotel room in Hong Kong, here are some watering
holes that require a little effort to find—for drinks and entertainment
that are most certainly worth the price of admission. —Fan Chen
Room 309
HONG KONG
(See #08 on
following spread)
40 DECEMBER 16, 2022

‘Rookie’ Micheal Ward Is Getting Buzz
“I’d never go and say, ‘Oh, you know, my next film, I’d love to work with Sam Mendes.’” ▸ P.48
Janai Coffee
TOKYO
(See #09 on
following spread)
FROM LE F T: ROOM 3 09 ; JAN AI COFFEE ; TOP RIG HT: K ARWA I TA NG /GE T T Y
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vinyl music, velvet banquettes,
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door that looks like the janitor’s
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sign of this wine bar which
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was indeed a pawn shop
in the 1900s. To enter, AnonymouS Shrink’s Office
one must pick up the gold PRAGUE
phone and chat with the It’s an experience you’re unlikely to
sometimes prickly pawn have elsewhere: behind a secret door, a
master, who allows entry masked bartender presents you with
depending on his mood. a stack of cards and a giant book of
“Something interesting to patient archetypes and traditional cures.
pawn or sell…may help Inspired by Freudian psychiatrist Hermann
03
your cause,” the bar hints. Rorschach, the infamous inkblot card
Featuring Spanish tapas The Harrison Speakeasy test is used to create a unique concept:
3
cuisine, the menu consists BUENOS AIRES cocktail therapy. From the cards—the
of mostly European This bar is doubly hidden: once you locate it menu—you are asked to pick an image
wines, small plates and behind an upscale restaurant, Nicky NY Sushi, xplain
late-night-craving bites. you must acquire the password (ask to “visit evelation is important, as
the cellar”). The bar’s name comes from a LWZLOODƪHFWKRZ\RXUGULQNLVSUHSDUHG
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Room 309
HONG KONG
It’s a place that ought not to exist:
Room 309 of The Pottinger boutique
06 hotel. To check in, ask for a key card at
the Envoy restaurant. The realm that
Bellboy awaits includes pillars of carved lions.
TEL AVIV
Head bartender Antonio Lai wants to
Strings of rusted tungsten lights, avoid preconceptions about a drink
a wooden board of skeleton keys, based on its color, so he makes crystal-
jars of liquor with yellowed stick-on clear cocktails in aromas and flavors,
labels like chemical reagents…This is naming them “Invisible Cocktails.”
Bellboy, a Prohibition-era themed bar
5 with the motto to have fun. Cocktails
arrive in a conch shell, with a roasted
pine cone, in a cloud of smoke or
beneath bubbly foam. But if Bellboy
isn’t secretive enough for you, try
to find Butler, a tiny bar-within-a
bar that hosts just 12 guests.
6 9
8 10
0 6: OSC AR C A RR A SCOSA /GE T T Y; 07: #FINDTHE LOCKE RROOM; 08 : RO OM 309; 09: JANAI COFFEE ; 10: THE SWINGING C AT
The Swinging Cat

SYDNEY
Hiding behind a Subway
sandwich shop is a destination
7
with no signs but much New
Orleans-style jazz. Once
09
inside, the timber floors, plush
Janai Coffee velvet banquettes, warm lamp
TOKYO light, tropical foliage and band
The English translation for this bar’s playing by the baby grand
name: “isn’t coffee.” Another trick: piano form a sleek space that
The only way to gain entry to the allows a spell of debauchery.
reservation-only speakeasy is on its
website. (Tip: Move the mouse to
the logo at the center and trace it
clockwise until a completely different
07 web page appears and unveils the
hidden menu and hours.) Coffee shop
#FindTheLockerRoom
by day and sake bar by night, Janai
BANGKOK
aims at a playful, effortless vibe, 10
Hidden behind a gym locker room, to
and blends most of its signature
enter this bar, you must find the right
drinks with coffee elements, like
locker to open the door. Then, on to a
coffee lemon sour, coffee craft gin
vintage industrial interior: dark gray
tonic or coffee black currant soda.
brick walls, metal pendant light and
leather stools. Five award-winning
mixologists designed the menu’s “Past,
Present and Future” concept. That is,
three variations of similar cocktails—
traditional; a modern twist; and bolder,
more creative takes like smoked Earl
Grey tea leaves and hazelnut liquor.
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Culture
I ’ v e a lway s m a d e a j o k e
about how my voice is unique,
and so incredibly annoying. So, the
most challenging thing in my life
right now is dealing with what I call
my “new voice.” My left vocal cord is
paralyzed, and I may not get more
of my voice back.
I’ve been very self-conscious about
it, because I sound a little bit like
Minnie Mouse now and I have to
explain it to the audience every time
I do stand-up. Some people think I’m
joking, but I really did get diagnosed
with lung cancer in August 2021,
without ever smoking, and the sur-
gery to remove the cancer gave me
pretty extensive nerve damage. But
it’s funny, I’ve been getting so many
people saying that they like this voice
better. If that’s the attitude people
have, I hit the jackpot.
What’s great about cancer is that,
boy, people are nicer. And I work it
like a shameless two-dollar w****.
When I go to dinner, if there’s one
thing I don’t like, I’ll yell, “Can I have
this redone? I have cancer!” Then
people ask what stage, and I have
to say, “Well, technically, I’m can-
cer-free.” Thankfully, the cancer was
all removed with surgery and my six-
month and one-year scans have since
been clear. But I try to have a sense of
MY TURN humor about everything, even that.
‘I Was Planning to How Hollywood Has Changed

What I miss most, and what scares
Quit Twitter Before Elon me about comedy in general, is the

loss of context and nuance. I’m able
Musk Banned Me’

to look at my own work from 30
years ago and acknowledge that I
definitely would not say 25 percent
Comedian Kathy Griffin weighs in on beating cancer, becoming of the show today. But now, we’re in
a social media outcast and that infamous Trump photo such a time, exacerbated by social
ROBBY K LEIN/GE T T Y
media, where we really have this uni-

versal lack of forgiveness.
In many ways, if that famous 2017
by K AT H Y G R I F F I N photo of me holding a decapitated
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“What’s great about
Donald Trump head―actually a was very special and meaningful.
Halloween mask on a wig holder― Those moments really go a long way;
had not been shared on social
cancer is that, boy, it’s another person, another beacon
people are nicer.

media first, who knows what life somewhere on the horizon.
it would have had? But eventually I realized I had bet-
And I work it like a

First of all, real publications ter not leave my house for a couple
wouldn’t have posted it. It was sup- of months, until everything slowed
posed to be in a gallery anyway, not
shameless two- down. I started taking any prescrip-
dollar w****.”
TMZ, so there was no context or tion pill I could get my hands on. I
nuance. People didn’t know who was taking a lot of Valium, which is
the photographer Tyler Shields was very addictive, and Xanax.
and didn’t know where I was coming I then overdosed on June 25, 2020,
from. I get frustrated because I feel and went to the hospital on one of
like people don’t want to know the those psychiatric holds. My joke
origins of something. But that’s what Syria. Way to keep a level head. about it is that now I have more in
my whole creative process is about. The night of the Trump photo, I common with Britney Spears and
I feel like intent doesn’t mean happened to have planned a dinner at Kanye West than I ever wanted to. But
anything anymore. I think about my my house with Melanie Griffith, Rita I got the help I needed. And now I go
dear departed friend Joan Rivers and Wilson and Kris Jenner. I’d quite lit- to AA, even though I’m a pill girl.
her acerbic wit, and I suspect she’d erally had the worst day of my career
probably be canceled today. When I and the three of them showed up How Misogyny Factors In
think of the Fashion Police jokes Joan looking like a million dollars, and I So when I see Dave Chappelle mak-
did in her final episodes, it’s sad for was in my PJs. It turned out that they ing fun of cancel culture and saying,
me to say it, but she could never do were quite wonderful to talk to that “If this is what being canceled is like,
those jokes now, they would be seen night. So much so I wondered: Might I love it.” I think: Dave, you weren’t
as too controversial. it all just stop tonight? canceled, honey. You’re fine. You got
Oh, no. in a little trouble for four seconds for
The Effect of Getting Canceled The hatred from the right was comments on a comedy special that
An erasure is what the reaction to more intense than I could have some people regarded as promoting
that photo felt like at the time and thought, but not that surprising. But bigotry toward transgender people.
what it still feels like to this day. I was the left wing being so taken by this The Netflix boys backed you up, like
fired from my CNN New Year’s Eve campaign against me was hard. It was everybody knew they would.
hosting gig with my friend Ander- just too much for me. It’s frustrating for me because
son Cooper, theaters canceled my I learned that my old friends Chappelle, Joe Rogan, Kanye West
stand-up shows because of bomb weren’t coming back. Anderson Coo- and Elon Musk; none of them have
threats, I was investigated by the per calling my photo “disgusting” still ever been canceled or erased, they
Secret Service and put on the no-fly hurts because I really adored him. need to calm down. Do they need
list for several months, and I couldn’t Andy Cohen saying “I don’t know clarity on what this looks like when
get a gig on TV for years. her” after it all went down was, and it’s real? It’s five and a half years of
It went down so fast, and was so is, painful, because I really enjoyed lost income. It’s two million dollars
seismic. At the first inkling I got that my time at Bravo. in legal fees. Those dudes, they all
people were upset by the photo, I just I think I’m still banned from b**** about it, but they have no clue.
laughed it off. In fact, I actually did in most of the talk shows, but Jimmy The misogyny is staggering to me.
a phone interview right away where I Kimmel and Seth Meyers were great, Imagine if I did a hundredth of
said, “I’m not apologizing.” I’m grate- they were the only two that would what Kanye has done? I know him
ful it didn’t run, because at that time, have me on. Aubrey Plaza brought a little bit and they lived next door
I heard Democrats were thinking over a casserole two days after every- to me for a few years and I like Kim
that I was going to cause American thing blew up. I don’t think I’d even Kardashian. I never really had feel-
servicemembers to be beheaded in changed my f****** pajamas. That ings good or bad about him. But
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Culture MY TURN
what frustrates me is this: Why are So, I contacted the folks at Post, folks followed me for the fun pop
people even debating what he’s said the new social media app, and I’m culture stuff. So I couldn’t help but
and done? We saw banner drops all there now. I’m also trying TikTok, throw in, “Let’s see if we can vote for
over America that said “Kanye was and we’ll see if a new type of Twitter Stacey Abrams, my friends in Geor-
right about the Jews.” Can you think emerges, because I do like having a gia.” But I do feel like we’re living in
of another popular pop culture fig- platform that is more word-oriented. an invasion of the body snatchers
ure who’s ever had this effect? I was shamefully addicted to Twitter, over here. It’s nuts.
You may think my photograph it was hard for me not to keep check- Take the attack on Paul Pelosi—
was disgusting, that’s fine. But I ing it. But I do feel saddened, because who I’ve met and who is the defini-
wasn’t dressed as a jihadist as it was whatever this “Hitler 2.0” situation tion of a distinguished gentleman.
manipulated in Iran. It did not incite that I feel here we’re dealing with, He’s 82 years old. All I can think of
one single person to grab a sword it’s so pervasive. is my own father. So the idea that
and cut off anyone’s head, much One of the reasons I stayed on people from the right and conspir-
less Donald Trump’s. Twitter is that I know a lot of the acy theorists took to social media
And I knew Trump as well as any- and made claims the Pelosis’ secu-
body. He was so ubiquitous in the rity cameras had failed or called it a
’90s. If you went to New York, he “false flag” operation—without even
was practically waiting for you at
“What I miss most, starting on the fake “lover’s quarrel”
and what scares me

JFK Airport. I thought I was on the nonsense—I can’t help but think how
D-List; he would show up to the open- unbearable that must have been for
ing of an envelope. about comedy in the Pelosis. But for so many of us, it
Curing a Twitter Addiction general, is the loss of feels like it’s right out of the Sandy
context and nuance.”

Hook playbook; the way Alex Jones
I was planning to leave Twitter after harassed those parents.
the midterms because it had just got-
ten too “Musk-y.”
Then, on November 6, Elon Musk
suspended me from Twitter for
impersonating him―I changed
my account name to Elon Musk and
tweeted pro-choice comments and
#VoteBlueToProtectWomen. Enough
people clearly thought it was real.
He then tweeted a “joke” about
me, before deciding on November
18 that he would reinstate me with,
wait for it, Jordan Peterson and Bab-
ylon Bee. He even name-checked
Donald Trump in the same tweet.
Musk misspelled my name, on pur-
pose I guess. That doesn’t bother me,
but please, Elon, don’t put my name
in the company of white suprema-
cists like Trump.
BYE, BYE BRAVO Griffin, seen here

on her 2012 Bravo comedy special
Kathy Griffin: Seaman 1st Class, hasn’t
appeared on the network in five years.

I now meet with executives and Megan Mullally, Kristen Johnston
think: Gosh, I wonder if this person’s and Jennifer Lewis.
wife thinks I’m harvesting f****** And the guys were my wonder-
baby parts with Hillary Clinton and ful husband Randy, Nick Offerman
FROM LEF T: E VAN S VE STAL WARD/NBCUNIVER SAL /GE T T Y; AL DR AGO/B LO O MB ERG/GE T T Y
Tom Hanks in a basement? People in and the photographer Mike Ruiz. It

this world think Tom Hanks is har- turned out to be a really great com-
vesting baby parts? And that he and bination; we were all being more silly.
I make adrenochrome and rub it on Jennifer was singing and we ended up
ourselves to stay young? But conspir- making a commercial for her book.
acy theorists are sharing that. So, I’m The next salon will probably be
just trying to figure out what the f*** with Mary in December, and I’ll do
is going on and when does it stop. CAN’T TAKE A JOKE? Twitter CEO Elon Musk it around her. She’s quite introverted
I also look at people like Amber suspended Griffin for impersonating him in a parody but she has a lot to say. I’ll have a
Heard, Monica Lewinsky or Mia account. Now she’s on the social app Post. couple of politicos in there so she’s
Farrow, and I see there was so much comfortable, but I also want her to
misunderstanding around their have some laughs. The salons keep
situations. I don’t love that nobody showbiz people. I started to reach me going, they fill my comedian soul.
really ever apologized to Mia. Peo- out to writers and photographers, so I do feel that I’m finally coming out
ple kind of apologized to Monica. that’s how the unique combinations of the period of erasure that followed
But Amber is a friend of mine and of guests came about. the Trump photo. Jane Fonda said to
I very, very much believe her. What I like them to be no bigger than 10 me, “Kid, you know this is going to
I saw with that situation made me people with unlikely combos, and I be on your tombstone?” I accept that.
feel so discouraged. have rules: Phones down, I don’t care But I think things are way better, and
about your kids, they’ll be fine with I’ll share what the key is: You have to
Hosting Hollywood Salons the nannies, and no dum-dums. If get old and get cancer. Now that I’m
I used to go to Sue Mengers’ dinner you’re not sure whether it’s an elec- 62 and I almost croaked, I’m called
parties; she was a famous Hollywood tion year, if you’re not sure climate “cute,” and “petite,” which I love.
agent, and I idolized her growing change is happening around you, this I’ve had people start to say, for
up. Then, many years later I won my is not the dinner party for you. the first time in my life, “I saw Kathy
first Emmy in 2007 and I got in trou- One time I had a salon that was Griffin walking down the street and
ble for my speech where I said the very reporter heavy, and Stormy she’s adorable.” I’ve been waiting to
award was my God. Daniels was the guest of honor. Three get to be f****** adorable, because
Afterwards, I got a call from Sue reporters all had to take their phones I’ve been too b***** for too long,
Mengers and I got to go to these and go to the bathroom at the same and too irritating.
dinner parties at her house for a time. I told them: No scoops allowed! There seems to be, at least a part
couple of years. I’d walk in and When Monica Lewinsky came over of the pop culture audience saying,
it would be Jack Nicholson, Paul I wanted to be very careful, but I had “You know what? Maybe I’m going
Simon, Natasha Richardson, Liam journalists there, and they were so to start giving this dame a bit of a
Neeson…and Kathy Griffin. Or it respectful to her. It’s obviously been pass, because she’s been around so
would be Lorne Michaels, Tina Fey, so long that people have finally real- long and she’s been through some
Steve Martin and Martin Short…and ized that she’s been a human being s***.” And that’s all I ask. Just give
Kathy Griffin. I was just in f****** this whole time. That was lovely. me a fair shot.
heaven. I still remember how special I had a great one planned for Mary
those nights were. Trump, who is a very hot dinner party ▸ Kathy Griffin is a two-time Emmy
So I started my own salons just ticket. But Mary got sick so she had award and Grammy award winning
before COVID. I wanted it to be a to cancel. I had built it around Mary comedian and actress. You can follow
safe space, and, because so many and was going to make it half Hol- her on Instagram @kathygriffin and
folks deserted me, I started won- lywood and half political. Instead, TikTok @kathygriffin. As told to news-
dering why I was bothering with the women were Rosie O’Donnell, week senior editor Jenny Haward.
NE WSWEEK .COM 47
Culture
PA RT I N G S H OT
Micheal Ward
ImagIne beIng a young actor and gettIng cast In a fIlm dIrected How does it feel to be part
by Sam Mendes. Oh, and your co-stars are going to be Olivia Colman of one of this year’s most
and Colin Firth...all of whom have earned Oscars. Most would be intimidated, highly anticipated movies?
but not Micheal Ward, who plays Stephen in Empire of Light (December 9). Exciting. And also something
“I’d never go and say, ‘Oh, you know, my next film, I’d love to work with Sam that’s close to London culture
Mendes.’” Set in an English coastal town in the 1980s, Ward says the drama is in the ’80s. I haven’t really fed
“more than a love letter to cinema and even to the period, it’s really just a com- into the anticipation, but I hope
plex story.” Even though Ward isn’t old enough to have experienced the ’80s everyone wants to watch the film.
himself, “Sam just set up this environment for you to really do your best work.” It was important to Sam, especially
While Ward might be a self-proclaimed “rookie,” his performance is generating because it’s so personal to him.
a bit of Oscar buzz, but he’d rather focus his attention on the work. “I feel truly
blessed to be able to tell a story with the people we’ve been able to tell the story The film is a love letter to cinema,
with.” Oh, and one more thing: “I want to do comedy.” particularly British cinema.
It’s testimony to the world Sam
wanted to create and how authentic
he could make it. It was beautifully
shot by Roger Deakins, [he] grew
up in a seaside town, so he knew
exactly how he wanted to shoot.
What was it like working

with powerhouses like Olivia
“I feel truly Colman and Colin Firth?
blessed to tell a I was so buzzing to work with them.
story with the Any opportunity I get to learn,
people we’ve especially from people who have won
been able to tell

Oscars—as Sam said, they’re pretty
much national treasures—to get the
the story with.” opportunity to work with them was
more exciting than intimidating.
Are you ever surprised by

the types of people you’ve
been able to work with?
Definitely. I’m still a rookie, but you
don’t want to look like you’re out
of your depth. Even the process of
MIKE MA R SL A ND/GE T T Y
auditioning was very collaborative.

It just made me realize that no
matter how successful you are in
life, you can always always learn
from each other. —H. Alan Scott
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