OBITUARY Visual e ects wizard Trumbull dies at 79

By Richard Sandomir The New

York Times

Douglas Trumbull, an audacious visual effects wizard who, in his early 20s, created the memorable hallucinogenic sequence in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” in which an astronaut hurtled through space, died Monday at a hospital in Albany, New York. He was 79.

His wife, Julia, said the cause was complications of mesothelioma.

Trumbull had been hired by Kubrick as a $400-a-week artist, and his first job was to create graphics for the 16 screens that surround the “eyes” of HAL 9000, the seemingly omniscient computer that controlled the Discovery One spacecraft.

Then, using a process called slit-scan photography, he conceived the trippy five-minute scene in which astronaut Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) soars at hyperspeed in his pod through a phantasmagorical cosmic passageway in the universe.

Trumbull used a motorized camera that tracked to a slit in a rotatable rectangle of sheet metal, behind which he manipulated illuminated art — wedding his ambitious youthful vision to Kubrick’s.

“It wasn’t about the normal cinematic dynamics of close-ups and overthe-shoulder shots and reversals and conflicts and plot,” Trumbull told The New York Times in 2012. Kubrick, he said, “was trying to go into another world of first-person experience.”

Parents, teachers push against ‘Maus’ removal

By Kimberlee Kruesi

The Associated Press

ATHENS, TENN. » Growing up in rural eastern Tennessee, James Cockrum hadn’t given much thought to speaking about his Jewish heritage in front of a packed school board meeting.

But four days after news broke that the McMinn County school board unanimously voted to remove a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust from the district’s curriculum, Cockrum celebrated the birth of his daughter. That lifechanging moment left the 25-year-old wrestling with the realities of the community he grew up in.

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Cockrum was one of a handful of people who spoke at the meeting to try to persuade the McMinn County School Board to reconsider its decision that sparked international attention, renewing concerns about book bans and the growing threat of antisemitism.

After the board quietly removed “Maus” last month, February’s meeting was packed with concerned parents, teachers and students who spilled into an overflow room to see how the board would respond to the criticism.

Instead, the board said a graphic novel was inappropriate for children because of curse words and a depiction of a nude corpse.

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Even though he paid only $1 for his third hour of shopping, Desai said he’ll likely find another place in the area to park for free in the future. Santana Row, an open-air shopping center right across the street, currently doesn’t charge for parking. However, there are restrictions for parking in the neighborhood surrounding the mall.

The paid parking, which started Tuesday, is part of Westfield Corp.’s e ort to limit the number of cars left at the mall by people commuting to work or using the garages as free parking for nearby Mineta San Jose International Airport. The mall has 8,400 spaces, although management hasn’t indicated how many of those routinely get staked by interlopers.

Westfield installed the 28 payment kiosks more than two years ago, but because the pandemic kept almost

Vaccine

FROM PAGE 1 cumulate according to the study protocol and more data are being generated because rates of infection and illness remain high in children of this age, especially due to the recent omicron surge.”

“Given that the study is advancing at a rapid pace,” Pfizer said, the company said it “will wait for the three-dose data” believing “it may provide a higher level of protection in this age group,” which “is also supported by recent observations of three dose booster data in sev-

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everyone away in 2020, it didn’t start charging for parking until now.

After the first two free hours, customers and mall employees have to pay $1 an hour, up to a maximum of $10 a day. Moviegoers at the Showplace Icon Theatre get a break — free parking for the first four hours.

The mall’s employees have to pay unless their stores pick up the tab for them at $40 each month.

“It’s not right at all,” said Antonio Garcia, who works eral other age groups.”

Pfizer and the FDA did not have a clear timeline for when authorization of the shots will be considered. Pfizer said it expects to have three-dose protection data available “in early April.”

Pfizer’s proposed vaccine for children younger than 5 was to be given in two doses three weeks apart as it is for other age groups, but at about one-third of the dose given to children 5-11 and one-tenth of that for adolescents and adults.

In December, Pfizer announced a setback in its trials of the proposed preschooler vaccine, with data suggesting two doses produced an acceptable im - at the Diesel store and noted that although some stores are covering their employees’ share, many aren’t.

He organized a petition drive objecting to the parking charge, saying, “It’s a greedy move by the mall.”

For many mall workers making minimum wage, $40 equates to a week’s worth of groceries that comes out of their paycheck, Garcia said.

Valley Fair employees early this week delivered mune response in children 6 months to 2 years but not in 3- and 4-year-olds. Because of that, the company said it had begun evaluating the e ectiveness of a third shot for kids under 5.

The FDA has authorized and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended booster shots five months after the second shot of Pfizer’s vaccine for everyone 12 years or older. A third Moderna vaccine booster is recommended for those 18 and older five months after the second shot, and those who had Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose vaccine are urged to get a booster after two months.

The Feb. 1 decision to the deal. the petition with more than 1,000 signatures to mall management. They’ve yet to receive a response.

People line up to check their parking tickets at the Monroe Parking Garage at West eld Valley Fair mall in San Jose on Wednesday. Parking is free for the rst two hours and $1 per hour a er that, maxing out at $10.

Mall management refused to answer questions about the impact paid parking will have on employees and instead issued a statement that said: “We are aware of concerns by some employees who work at the center. By creating a more controlled parking environment, the hope is that the already popular center brings even more consider authorizing the vaccine at two doses in kids under age 5 while continuing to evaluate a possible third shot drew criticism from some medical experts who called it an “unprecedented” rush that could undermine public confidence.

Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, however, insisted that the federal review remains rigorous and that “the FDA will not cut any corners.” The FDA’s Marks did not mention any safety issues but otherwise would not detail what prompted the FDA and Pfizer to abandon the plan to consider authorizing two doses for kids under 5 while spending more time analyzing three-dose customers to support retailers allowing them to flourish.”

Valley Fair is the first of Westfield’s Bay Area locations to charge for parking. Oakridge in San Jose doesn’t charge, and the San Francisco Centre doesn’t have a dedicated garage, meaning patrons have to take public transit or find parking elsewhere.

Simon Property Group, which owns shopping centers and outlet malls in Milpitas, Gilroy, Livermore, Stanford and Pleasanton, also doesn’t charge for parking.

The new parking plan makes Valley Fair somewhat of an outlier among Bay Area malls. Broadway Plaza in Walnut Creek charges for parking after the first three hours — $5 for the next hour and $7 for the hour after that, up to a maximum rate of $25. And Bay Street in Emeryville charges $2 for the first three hours, increasing the price incrementally up to a $12 daily maximum. The day after Valley Fair started charging for parking, some patrons said they’re going to simply spend less time at the mall.

Los Gatos resident Van- results.

Weekly COVID-19 case rates tracked by the CDC have been lower in children under 5 than other age groups but have grown with successive waves of more transmissible variants. During last winter’s January peak, the U.S. rate of weekly cases per 100,000 in kids under 5 peaked at 152. But last August with the delta variant, it peaked at 187, and last month, with the contagious omicron variant, it hit 812.

Hospitalizations for all age groups peaked higher last month than during earlier COVID-19 case waves. Death rates in kids under 5 remain low and similar to those seen earlier in the essa Starr thought the parking fee was unfair to the “smaller stores” because there would be “less shoppers browsing.”

She also speculated that the mall’s decision to charge for parking had more to do with the $1.1 billion, 500,000-squarefoot expansion that began shortly before the pandemic.

The expansion brought in more than 80 new stores, including a new anchor — Bloomingdale’s — and a two-level Apple flagship store. A number of new eateries also opened, including a multi-floor food emporium for the Italian marketplace Eataly.

After struggling through 2020 with pandemic-induced shutdowns, the mall last year reported sales had rebounded to 2019 levels.

But Garcia said employees aren’t going to let the parking issue go and are planning to picket in protest if management continues to ignore their concerns. “With how slow it is during COVID times,” he said, “we’re operating at a loss as workers and even more so with this pay cut we have to take.” pandemic.

But Marks said the decline in case numbers since mid-January isn’t the reason for delaying review, noting that “we’re still having a tremendous number of cases here.” He noted that the rise of omicron in December over last summer’s dominant delta variant complicated clinical trials.

“I hope this reassures people that the process has a standard and that we follow the science and anything we authorize has the safety and e cacy that people have come to expect from our regulatory review of medical products,” Marks said. “We’re absolutely committed to moving as rapidly as we can.” ting attacks and promoting anti-police violence on Facebook. Carrillo was part of the so-called Boogaloo movement, which believes in an impending civil war.

Before he pleaded guilty to two federal o enses, the court heard from Angela Underwood Jacobs, Pat Underwood’s sister, who called Carrillo a “domestic terrorist” and an a ront to the oath he swore to protect the United States.

“Cowards like you fear true bravery,” Underwood Jacobs said as Carrillo watched in silence. “(Pat Underwood) will live on through his family and friends. … You no longer deserve your freedom.”

She described her brother as a compassionate, courageous and “innocent man.”

“His life was horrifically taken from him. … And why, Mr. Carrillo?” she asked. “Our lives will never be the same again.”

Carrillo was arrested a

Eileen Gu

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FROM PAGE 1 Games, especially in China where she has spent every summer since she was 2. The San Francisco teen returns to the spotlight at 6 p.m. PST today in pursuit of her second gold medal in the freeski slopestyle event.

“Eileen is very levelheaded,” Feng said, speaking in Mandarin on Thursday in an interview translated by a neighbor, “and she would never let fame get to her.” week after Underwood’s murder, in Ben Lomond, after allegedly ambushing and murdering Santa Cruz sheri ’s Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller in a shooting that injured three other o cers. Police allege he lobbed pipe bombs and opened fire on the o cers using the same gun he used to kill Underwood.

From the hallways of San Francisco University High School to her own front yard, those who have watched Gu come of age believe she is the right woman for the moment, uniquely capable of balancing her whirlwind success and sidestepping the controversies over her decision to compete for China instead of the United States. While China doesn’t permit dual citizenship, the U.S.-born teen hasn’t made it clear whether she’s renounced her U.S. citizenship or been granted an exception.

In another rare move for federal court, prosecutors and the defense already have agreed to the sentence Carrillo should face: 41 years. But first they will have to get Gonzalez Rogers to sign on. A former private attorney and Obama appointee, Gonzalez Rogers isn’t exactly known for leniency against convicted criminals, and she informed both parties she would need serious convincing at a sentencing hearing tentatively set for June 6.

“I am going to need a su cient showing to justify this agreement,” the judge said in court Friday, emphasizing the word “sufficient,” and adding that it is “not clear” she will accept

As she often puts it, “Since I was little, I always have said when I’m in the U.S., I’m American, when I’m in China, I’m Chinese.” Her grandmother says Gu talks from the heart. “She’s not thinking about politics, just for the love of it,” Feng said. “She’s not being manipulative, because she’s very pure, just wants people to be happy, to have fun.”

Gu speaks fluent Mandarin, endearing her further to her fans in China, where she is known as “Gu Ailing.” And she often talks about her summers in Beijing taking math classes by day and encouraging her female classmates to join her playing in a boys basketball program at night.

Gu’s accomplishments are impressive by any measure: Not only was she the youngest person to win the gold medal in Olympic freestyle skiing history when she landed a double cork last week, she was the first female rookie to win three medals at the X Games. She was a top runner on the high school cross-country team and doubled up on her classes in junior year to graduate a year early to

If Gonzalez Rogers decides not to accept the prison term, it will mean that Carrillo will head to trial — where his admissions in court Friday could be used against him.

Standing in a red Santa Rita Jail jumpsuit, with his head barely reaching his attorney’s shoulder, Carrillo read a lengthy statement, admitting to using a homemade AR-15 to fatally shoot Underwood and wound his partner, firing 19 rounds from a white van as it drove by the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in downtown Oakland on May 29, 2020.

The alleged driver, Robert Alvin Justus Jr., is still facing federal murder charges. Referring to him only as “Individual One,” Carrillo said he never threatened Justus, contradicting a statement Justus made to the FBI suggesting he participated in the murder because he was under duress.

Carrillo admitted he “actively discussed and encouraged violence against prepare for the Olympics. She scored a nearly perfect 1580 out of 1600 on the SAT and will enter Stanford as a freshman in the fall. She has signed sponsorship contracts with more than 20 companies in the United States and China, including Red Bull, Beats by Dre, Victoria’s Secret and Cadillac.

“With all that, you think she would have at least a fairly high opinion of herself, and you just never get that,” said Jim Ketcham, athletic director for San Francisco University High, the private high school where she graduated from last year. “She just acts completely humble and completely normal.”

Before Gu traveled to New Zealand during her high school years for a week of ski competitions, she would visit “every one of her teachers personally to apologize about missing class,” he said. Before a trip to Australia for a World Cup, she worked on a schedule with her cross-country coach to avoid missing as few races as possible.

Ketcham largely credits Gu’s mother, Yan Gu, and Feng, her grandmother — law enforcement” online, that he “aligned myself with an anti-government group,” and said things like, “this is a great time to perpetuate the destruction of the government.” In the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, and the ensuing cross-country protests and riots, Carrillo admitted he encouraged other Boogaloo followers to use the unrest to encourage violence against police.

As Carrillo spoke, members of Underwood’s family cried and consoled each other. Two people left the courtroom.

Carrillo agreed to take the deal just a week after federal prosecutors formally decided they would not seek the death penalty in his case. Angela Underwood Jacobs blamed “our current political climate” for that decision but said she was pleased Carrillo would not waste taxpayer money sitting on death row, appealing his case. One of the crimes Carrillo pleaded guilty to — use of a firearm in furtherance the two women Gu herself has called “the two most fiercely independent women that I know.”

The family is reluctant to discuss Gu’s American father, but her successful single mother and grandmother raised her appreciating both American and Chinese cultures in an elegant home overlooking the San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge.

Gu’s mother immigrated to the United States 30 years ago, graduating with degrees in biochemistry and molecular biology at Auburn University before earning an MBA at Stanford and forging a career in finance. Yan Gu spent weekends skiing at Lake Tahoe — a passion she would share with her daughter.

Gu’s grandmother holds a degree in the sciences from a prestigious university in Nanjing, where she played basketball. When she retired as a senior engineer in the Structural Reform Department of China’s Ministry of Transport, she moved to San Francisco to help raise her granddaughter.

Before Eileen was old of a violent o ense that resulted in death — carries a potential life sentence but is a lesser o ense than the first-degree murder count he originally faced. He also pleaded guilty to attempting to kill Underwood’s partner.

James Thomson, Carrillo’s attorney in the federal case, was not available for comment Friday.

Carrillo still has to reckon with state murder charges of killing Gutzwiller. He waived his right to a preliminary hearing last year — a possible sign that a plea deal was in the works — but there was no indication Friday that he would avoid a trial tentatively set for later this year.

“I am glad Carrillo is closer to being held accountable for the senseless killing he committed in Oakland,” Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim Hart said in a statement to the Santa Cruz Sentinel. “Now it is time he is held accountable for killing Damon. Nothing will bring Damon back, but we all want closure on this terrible mur- enough to walk, her grandmother taught her to recite poems from the Tang Dynasty and was a constant cheerleader at her afterschool sports, from junior varsity basketball to varsity track. Together in the kitchen, they make dumplings.

“She has a relationship with them that is as strong and positive as you could possibly imagine,” Ketcham said. “And I just have a feeling that a little part, or a big part, of her decision to compete for China was really just a sign of respect for those two people in her life who were born in China and love their country.”

In 2019, Gu announced on Instagram her “incredibly tough” decision to compete for China: “I am proud of my heritage and equally proud of my American upbringings,” she wrote. “The opportunity to inspire millions of young people where my mom was born, during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games is a oncein-a-lifetime opportunity to help to promote the sport I love.” der and want to make sure Carrillo never harms another person.”

Inspiring young people, especially girls, has been a goal since grade school.

Santa Cruz County District Attorney Je Rosell attended Carrillo’s hearing Friday in San Francisco. He did not comment on the federal case but confirmed that there had been no changes to Carrillo’s case in Santa Cruz County. His o ce has not yet made a determination on whether or not it will seek the death penalty for Carrillo, should his prosecution be successful, Rosell said.

Before his arrest, Carrillo was stationed at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield and was assigned to an anti-terrorist squadron. Four other members of the Boogaloo-linked militia he joined, known as the Grizzly Scouts, are set to be sentenced at the end of the month for destroying evidence — electronic communications with Carrillo — after the Ben Lomond shootout.

Santa Cruz Sentinel sta writer Jessica York contributed to this report.

While attending Katherine Delmar Burke grammar school — an all-girls private school in San Francisco — Gu delivered a speech in seventh grade about women’s empowerment, a tape of which Adidas would use as a voiceover in 2019 for a women’s golf commercial. “I encourage you all to step out of your comfort zone,” Gu’s young, high-pitched voice says, “and to show the boys that girls are just as powerful as they are …”

To the athletic director, Gu is the kind of person who “doesn’t know what she can’t do.”

And if that means that an 18-year-old can influence the future of girls in China, Ketcham said, Gu’s the one to do it.

“I think she sees that if she’s successful representing China in these Olympic Games, there is going to be an incredible increase in opportunities for girls in China to become athletes and experience the joy that she’s felt being an athlete,” Ketcham said, “and I think we’re watching that happen right before our eyes.”

Sta writer Summer Lin contributed to this report.