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TERRA NEWELL with her dog, Cash. She felt as if her stepfather, John Meehan, was somehow watching her; she liked to have friends crash at her Newport Beach apartment so she wouldn’t be alone.

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She always sensed John was dangerous. Her sister told her to keep her pocketknife handy. But her mind was elsewhere that day, and she was on the lookout for the wrong car. BY CHRISTOPHER GOFFARD John Meehan bragged frequently about his supposed ties to organized crime, and claimed to trace his bloodline to the prolific East Coast hit man who had run Murder Inc. itself. It had the ring of empty boasting from a man who lived by lies. What is believable is that he approved of the mob’s way of doing business, particularly when it came to dealing with enemies. Over and over, he spoke approvingly of a cold-blooded ethos: A dead enemy couldn’t suffer, so you went after their loved ones. You went after their families. :: Terra Newell was 25. Everyone described her as “sweet.” Her voice, a soft singsong, forced people to lean in. As a kid, the smallest on the team, she was so uncompetitive in softball games that she didn’t bother swinging at pitches. Terra was a child of the upscale Orange County suburbs but adored country music, and she liked the songs about drinking beer, having a good time and loving God.

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It had started with a high school crush on a boy from Oklahoma, in the same way her current obsession with “The Walking Dead” had started with her ex-boyfriend Jimmy. Like the company of dogs, music made her forget her anxiety. For years, Terra had lived with a vague sense of dread. When she was around 6, she woke up screaming, believing that someone had climbed through her bedroom window to snatch her. Her parents didn’t call police. Her mother thought maybe it was a dream, the function of Terra’s distress over what was happening in the house. Her parents were fighting a lot, and were soon divorced. Terra had frequent nightmares at that age. She’d see dark shapes and become convinced they were ghosts or aliens. Over the years, she said, she wondered whether she was a little bit crazy. In therapy she questioned whether the abduction memory was a real one, but became convinced it had actually happened. When she was a teenager, a guy she’d been dating flipped out and rammed a car into [See Dirty John, A19]

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Puerto Rico’s remote catastrophe By Molly Hennessy-Fiske JAYUYA, Puerto Rico — After Hurricane Maria’s landslides and flooding further isolated this mountain town, a volunteer doctor rushed to treat diabetic Brunilda Sovilaro, found on the floor of her home, covered in insects, unable to walk, disoriented and refusing to leave. “You are sick. You are very hot,” Dr. Jorge Lopez of Orlando, Fla., told the 50year-old woman. “Your sugar needs to be controlled. You have chest pain. It could be a problem with your heart. You need to go to the hospital.” Eventually the doctor, a Puerto Rico native who returned to the island from Florida to volunteer, per[See Puerto Rico, A10]

WASHINGTON — Not long ago, Paul D. Ryan stood before charts and graphs as the House Budget Committee chairman like a new Ross Perot, promoting an austerity plan that slashed taxes and spending, and warning of the dangers of deficits. “The facts are very, very clear: The United States is heading toward a debt crisis,” he said then. “We face a crushing burden of debt which will take down our economy — which will lower our living standards.” Now as House speaker, the Wisconsin Republican is undergoing a role reversal, championing President Trump’s tax plan, which promises massive tax cuts for corporations and to some extent individuals — and which experts say will add some $2 trillion to the nation’s red ink over the next decade. It’s a sizable shift for Ryan, and he’s hardly the only one. The Republican majority, which swept to power just a few years ago in part by warning of thenPresident Obama’s run-up of debt, now plays down concern over deficits. Economic growth must take priority, many Republicans say, and will ultimately take care of worries about red ink. Asked recently whether he had gone to the “dark side,” Ryan offered a reply that sounded like something a Democrat might have said to justify spending more on repairing roads and bridges or putting additional resources into schools. “If this results in giving us a faster economic growth, that will help us reduce our debt,” he said in a CBS interview. “You have got to have tax reform to get faster economic growth,” he added. “Faster economic growth is necessary for us to get our debt under control.” Republicans are racing to assemble Trump’s tax package, which remains more conceptual than actual legislation, at a time when the

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A rise and fall fit for screen By Josh Rottenberg, Mark Olsen and Glenn Whipp Harvey Weinstein, the brash outsider from Queens who upended Hollywood, has always liked to think of himself as an underdog. So there may have been no prouder moment for him than the night of March 21, 1999, when he stood on the stage at the Academy Awards accepting the best picture Oscar for “Shakespeare in Love,” which had won in a stunning upset over Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan.” As his fellow producer Donna Gigliotti thanked him for “having the guts, the courage, the commitment to make this picture,” Weinstein beamed, soaking in the cheers from the crowd. He was at the peak of his power. Running Miramax with his brother Bob, he could turn art-house fare into mainstream hits, mint award nominations at an unprecedented clip and make or break careers. A 2015 survey of nearly 1,400 Oscar acceptance speeches by the web[See Weinstein, A14]

Country artists rethink gun laws By Randall Roberts and August Brown Country music has long idealized the gun-owning lifestyle. From Johnny Cash in “Folsom Prison Blues” to Miranda Lambert’s “Gunpowder and Lead” and Blake Shelton’s “Granddaddy’s Gun,” the genre’s stars have harnessed gun imagery to bolster their outlaw credibility, connect them with kindred fans and conjure a specific image of Americans — self-reliant and violent. But after a mass shooter killed himself and at least 58 people at Las Vegas’ Route 91 Harvest country music festival, voices questioning

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nation’s debt load has topped the eye-popping level of $20 trillion. For Trump, who routinely leveraged borrowing to expand his real estate empire and declared on the campaign trail that he loved debt, a tax plan that expands the government’s deficit may be no problem. But for Republicans in Congress, who won their majority in the House, and later the Senate, in large part by railing against deficit spending during the [See Taxes, A12]

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loose gun laws have emerged from within the country music community, even at the risk of alienating fans. “I’ve been a proponent of the 2nd amendment my entire life. Until the events of last night,” Caleb Keeter, guitarist for the Josh Abbott Band, wrote on social media after the Oct. 1 shooting. “I cannot express how wrong I was.” He had been on Route 91’s main stage just hours before the killing began. Rising country singer Margo Price, in an interview Tuesday, said she is a longtime gun owner — she used to live in a tent in Colorado and kept a shotgun to protect herself. Still, she said [See Country, A8]

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VIENNA — As the world’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency is responsible for ensuring nuclear energy is used for peaceful purposes. That has rarely been easy. Established as an agency of the United Nations in 1957, the IAEA has been at the center of one of the world’s biggest nonproliferation crises — in Iran, where its inspectors are monitoring the 2015 nuclear deal. They are barred from the other, in North Korea, which kicked the agency out in 2009. Director-General Yukiya Amano, a Japanese diplomat, has led the agency since 2009 and was recently elected to a third term. In a recent interview, he defended the IAEA’s inspections program in Iran and said worries over weapons distracted attention from constructive applications of nuclear energy. Here are excerpts from the conversation. Are you disappointed when critics of the Iran deal question the IAEA’s ability to monitor Iran’s nuclear program? We are a technical organization and I am discharging my responsibilities based on rules, based on the IAEA standard safeguards practice. We simply keep on working and monitoring and verifying the nuclearrelated commitments made by Iran under the [nuclear deal] in an impartial, objective and professional manner. So, whatever happens, we keep on working. Are you inspecting Iranian military sites? When we identify the need, we seek access to the locations. We don’t make a difference between civilian and military locations, [but] we don’t discuss details of where we go. Iranian officials insist that military sites are off-limits, when you’re saying that isn’t the case. Are those comments unhelpful? We hear many remarks, not only from Iran, but from other countries too. But our job is to analyze the facts. Facts mean nuclear material and facilities related to nuclear material. The function and objective of the IAEA is not to analyze remarks. The IAEA has produced seven reports on Iran’s compliance with the nuclear deal, but critics say you’re being too soft on Iran and not providing

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distract attention from constructive applications of nuclear energy. enough details. The information collected by inspectors must be kept confidential. These people complain that they don’t have information related to Iran, but they don’t have information about Germany, Japan or Kenya either. It’s like a doctor. People go to a doctor with the understanding that he won’t disclose sensitive information. But you have the discretion to decide what to release. If the Iran inspections are going smoothly, why not disclose more information to respond to your critics? Discretion means when I have a good reason. It doesn’t mean the directorgeneral can do whatever he likes to do. When there is concern of a violation, and when there is a U.N. resolution, yes. But it is not the practice that some countries ask more and I say, “Let’s give more,” or, “Let’s give less.” If President Trump puts more pressure on Iran, will IAEA inspectors lose the access they currently enjoy? It’s very difficult to foresee what will happen. As we are a technical organization ... speculation does not make sense for us. We have cameras, we have [electronic equipment] seals, we have inspectors, so we are factual and impartial and that is our advantage. What is the IAEA doing in North Korea, where the last inspectors were thrown out in 2009? We are observing the North Korean nuclear program through satellite imagery and collecting open source information. I decided to establish a small team in August with the

objective to enhance our capability to monitor the North Korean nuclear program and enhance our readiness to go back to North Korea. I don’t mean that I see an immediate opportunity. It’s obvious the situation is very serious and grave. Their nuclear program is making progress. Therefore, we need to update the training of our inspectors, procure the necessary equipment and make a verification plan ... so that if we are authorized, we can send our inspectors at short notice. Nuclear power produces less carbon than fossil fuels. How can it help combat climate change? The amount of carbon dioxide emissions that the use of nuclear energy can reduce — it’s equivalent to the amount emitted by India or Russia. That is a huge amount. Thirty countries use nuclear power for the time being, and about 30 more are interested. In countries where people feel the effects of climate change, where we need to develop new plant varieties, if we apply gamma rays, we can accelerate plant mutations and identify the right crop varieties that are resistant to disease. Ocean acidification has become a huge problem all over the world, but if you observe radiation coming from isotopes, you can diagnose the health of oceans and that is very helpful to establish the response. But in your home country, Japan, the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster turned public opinion against nuclear energy. What needs to happen to restore public confidence? There was a belief in Japan that a serious nuclear

accident would not happen. Preparedness and response were not enough. The independence of the regulatory body was not enough. It has been reformed. A lot of measures were taken both in Japan and globally. All the countries that use nuclear power undertook stress tests to review if their plants would withstand severe natural hazards. They have taken measures where needed, and a lot of safety standards have been reviewed and strengthened. How does the agency promote nuclear power for uses people don’t often consider, such as medicine? Nuclear technology is very useful to achieve the U.N.’s sustainable development goals, for human health and animal health. Nuclear technology was helpful to diagnose Ebola and Zika, and nuclear medicine and radiotherapy are essential in certain medical areas, such as diagnosing foot-and-mouth disease in cattle. Just recently, we organized a seminar on how nuclear technology can diagnose early symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. It allows us to look inside the human body with precision. Is it a challenge to focus attention on those issues, when the world is worried about weapons programs? We should pay maximum attention so that nuclear materials are not used for weapons purposes. That is our basic purpose. We need to tell the public that nuclear energy can be very useful and can make a huge difference for the lives of ordinary people. shashank.bengali @latimes.com

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REFUGEE CRISIS AT A CROSSROADS A Rohingya Muslim refugee collects wood among graves on Saturday at a refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Ukhia district. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the Bangladeshi government would continue to support thousands of Rohingya who have fled neighboring Myanmar to escape violence. Hasina said the government was pursuing a plan to build temporary shelters for the Rohingya on an island with help from international aid agencies. She made the statement in Dhaka after returning from the U.N. General Assembly session in New York. The U.N. has called the violence in Myanmar “ethnic cleansing.” More than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh since August. A top U.N. official said Saturday that Bangladesh’s plan to build one of the world’s biggest refugee camps was dangerous because overcrowding could heighten the risks of deadly diseases spreading quickly.

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Thousands protest across Russia Supporters of a jailed opposition leader call for his freedom as well as open elections. By Sabra Ayres MOSCOW — Thousands of supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny demonstrated in 80 cities across the country Saturday in response to calls from the anti-corruption crusader to petition for his release from jail and to allow him to register as a candidate against President Vladimir Putin in next year’s election. The protests were the third such anti-corruption, anti-government demonstrations organized this year by the fierce Putin critic. But unlike the previous rallies, Saturday’s protests saw significantly fewer participants and fewer arrests than were recorded in March and June. In 25 cities across the country, there were about 271 detentions reported, according to OVD-Info, an independent watchdog group that monitors police detentions. Previous demonstrations on March 26 and June 12 saw more than 1,800 detentions at each event, including the arrest of Navalny himself on both dates. Saturday’s demonstrators came out in response to Navalny’s video message last week calling for supporters to pressure the Kremlin to allow for free and open elections. Navalny, 41, has been holding election campaigns across the country, despite the fact that Russia’s election committee has declared him ineligible because of a 2013 criminal conviction. He has dismissed the conviction as politically motivated. Navalny was detained on Sept. 29 as he left his Moscow apartment building on his way to catch a train to a campaign rally in Nizhny Novgorod, the city formerly known as Gorky, almost 250 miles east of Moscow. A Moscow judge sentenced Navalny to 20 days in jail on Monday for repeated violations of laws against organizing unsanctioned demonstrations. Several of Navalny’s campaign staff members in Mos-

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IN MOSCOW, protesters and police face off. Chants of “Russia without Putin” and “We are the power here” were heard in the capital.

cow and other cities were detained ahead of Saturday’s rally. His campaign headquarters in Moscow was raided by police on Friday. His campaign manager, Leonid Volkov, was sentenced to 20 days in jail. He was released briefly on Friday before being arrested again. Saturday’s protest was originally scheduled as a Navalny campaign rally in St. Petersburg, although city officials refused to sanction the event. But after Navalny was sentenced to another jail term, he appealed to his followers in a video message posted on his popular YouTube channel to protest across the country. Saturday was also Putin’s 65th birthday, and Navalny said it would be a “birthday present” for the Kremlin leader. Putin has been in power as president or prime minister since 1999. He has not yet confirmed that he will seek reelection, but there is little doubt that he will run. The election is in March.

With approval ratings hovering above 80%, Putin is unlikely to face serious competition if and when he declares another run for office. Navalny has gained popularity in recent months, although mainly with a new, younger generation of followers who are dedicated to his YouTube channel’s straightforward messages about what Navalny describes as government-supported corruption. State television does not cover Navalny-related stories, and his name recognition remains low. “Let Putin go on a welldeserved pension already,” Navalny wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday from his Moscow cell. “He has been in power for 18 years, that’s enough.” The Kremlin tightly controls the political process in Russia by allowing only a handful of opposition candidates to register in elections. In the past, those candidates have included the leader of Russia’s Commu-

nist Party, Gennady Zyuganov, and firebrand nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. In 2013, Navalny challenged a Kremlin-backed mayoral candidate in Moscow and received 30% of the vote. Some say this surprised the Kremlin, which has since employed media blackouts of his activities to try to prevent Navalny’s popularity from spreading. In St. Petersburg, the demonstration turned out to be the day’s largest with more than 2,000 protesters marching down the street of the president’s hometown, chanting, “Happy birthday” and “Putin, go on pension!” In Moscow, many protesters refrained from carrying political signs and placards. In St. Petersburg, waves of demonstrators waved “Navalny 2018” campaign placards. The demonstration started with thousands of people gathered in the historic Field of Mars park in St. Petersburg, just blocks from the Hermitage Museum and

Winter Palace. The crowd then marched along the picturesque Liteyny Prospect, where more people joined. Within an hour of its start, the demonstration was blocked by several columns of riot police and buses. Dozens were detained and taken away, the first and harshest mass arrest of the day. In Moscow, police told Russian news agencies that about 700 demonstrators had participated in a rally that started on Pushkin Square, a central square at the top of the capital city’s main drag, Tverskaya Street. Under the shadow of Alexander Pushkin, Russia’s beloved poet, the crowd of mostly younger demonstrators chanted, “Russia without Putin,” “We are the power here” and “Free Navalny.” After about an hour on the square, the crowd moved down Tverskaya toward Red Square, despite sometimes heavy rain. A column of police blocked the demonstrators’ entry to the square,

and the crowd returned to Pushkin Square. Many protesters carried Russian flags, which Navalny has encouraged followers of his popular YouTube channel to do as a way of showing their support for a strong but free Russia. Other demonstrators carried rubber ducks or yellow balloons shaped like rubber ducks. The ducks have become a symbol of the Navalny-inspired protest movement after his Anticorruption Foundation published a video alleging that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev through corruption schemes has amassed lavish mansions complete with a dedicated duck house. “It’s time for him to go on pension,” said Dasha Schastnaya, 16, who was waving a duck balloon on Pushkin Square. “We need someone new and fresh who doesn’t just want power.” Ayres is a special correspondent.

N. Korean nuclear tests exact environmental toll The country’s rush to evolve into a military power is degrading its natural landscape.

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the way that North Korea’s headlong rush to become a nuclear power is degrading the environment in and around the country’s borders. The first casualty is inside North Korea itself, around the rugged, granite mountains of North Hamgyong province. All six of North Korea’s nuclear tests have taken place there at a site known as Punggyeri. Satellite images taken after the last test show numerous landslides around the site as well as water leaking from the entrance to one of the tunnels, according to 38 North, an academic website on Korea run by Johns Hopkins University. “These disturbances are more numerous and widespread than seen after any of the North’s previous five tests, and include additional

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slippage in pre-existing landslide scars and a possible subsidence crater,” the report said. Another analysis of satellite data found that Mt. Mantap, a 7,000-foot peak above the test site, lost a little elevation from the force of the underground explosion. “It did move the mountain,” said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. He said he believes, however, that there has been no significant leakage of radiation because the test took place in a tunnel more than 3,000 feet below and notes that the visible damage was less extensive than after underground tests in Pakistan. “The North Koreans

seem to be pretty good at this. They’ve buried their test site well,” he said. After the nuclear test, the ground around the test site continued to rumble. Seismologists were particularly stumped by a tremor recorded Sept. 23 that appeared to be a magnitude 3.4 earthquake under Mt. Mantap, an area that does not ordinarily experience earthquakes. A joint report published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and UC Santa Cruz concluded that tunnels in the test site collapsed. “It was the mountain collapsing into the cavity created by the explosion ... hundreds of meters below the surface,” said Thorne Lay, a professor at UC Santa Cruz. What analysts are looking for in the satellite images are fissures and craters — which would indicate a breach in the mountain large enough to allow radiation in dangerous quantities to vent to the outside. “These are minor landslides, nothing like you see in

California with mud pouring down,” said Joseph Bermudez, a leading expert on the North Korean military and one of the authors of the 38 North report. “Still, if I were near any nuclear test site, I would be concerned about the environment, especially an active test site,” Bermudez added. “History has shown there are often leakages ... and North Korea has not had a really great record as far as environmental protection.” North Korea has conducted all six of its nuclear tests around the same site. The Sept. 3 test involved a device estimated at 250 kilotons — 17 times the force of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. “Every country that has developed a nuclear program has harmed its own people,” said Matthew McKinzie, director of the nuclear program at the Natural Resources Defense Council. He compares the situation to East Germany, where

the extent of environmental degradation wasn’t known until after reunification in 1990. The satellite photographs taken after the last test show water draining from the test site that was probably forced out from underground by the explosion and could leach into the groundwater. A stream near the test site runs to the nearest sizable city, Kilju, some 25 miles away. Even closer is the Hwasong labor camp, which is nestled next to Mt. Mantap and houses an estimated 20,000 political prisoners and their families. North Korean defectors in South Korea have said they believe prisoners were used to dig the tunnels of the nuclear test complex. Satellite images also show that North Korea has failed to dispose safely of nuclear waste. In Pyongsan, tailings are routinely dumped from North Korea’s largest uranium mine into an unlined pond, which is likely to contaminate the groundwater, 38 North has reported. Defectors have complained as well about the environmental and safety risks of the nuclear program. “North Korea’s facilities are dilapidated ... and North Korea woefully lacks the ability to manage the facilities,” wrote a defector group, North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity, in a brochure published last year. barbara.demick @latimes.com Twitter: @BarbaraDemick Special correspondent Matt DeButts in Beijing contributed to this report.

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A MAN holds a “Spain loves Catalonia” sign among other demonstrators carrying Spanish flags as they pro-

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Spanish, Catalan leaders pressed to meet at table Thousands of protesters demand negotiations amid secession threat. associated press BARCELONA, Spain — Thousands rallied in Madrid and Barcelona on Saturday in a last-ditch call for Spanish and Catalan leaders to stave off a national crisis amid Catalonia’s threat to secede. The rallies in the Spanish capital and the Catalan city were held with the slogan “Shall We Talk?” in an effort to push lawmakers in both cities to end months of silence and start negotiating. Catalonia’s regional president, Carles Puigdemont, has vowed to follow through on the results of the disputed Sept. 30 referendum on secession won by independence supporters. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy warned that the vote was illegal and has promised that Catalonia is going nowhere. Protesters packed Barcelona’s Sant Jaume Square, where the Catalan government has its presidential palace, shouting “We want to talk!” and holding signs saying “More Negotiation, Less Testosterone!” and “Talk or Resign!” “We have to find a new way forward,” said Miquel Iceta, the leader of Spain’s Socialist party in Catalonia.

“It’s the moment to listen to the people who are asking for the problem to be solved through an agreement, and without precipitated and unilateral decisions.” The gathering around Madrid’s Cibeles fountain boasted a huge banner demanding that leaders start talking. Some people chanted “Less hate, and more understanding!” In a separate rally in Madrid’s Colon Square, thousands clamored for the unity of Spain and against any attempt by the northeastern region to break away. The crowd bristled with Spanish flags. Prounion forces will try to generate momentum on Sunday in a protest in Barcelona. Other protests asking for dialogue were held in cities including Valencia, Bilbao, Pamplona and Santiago de Compostela, news agency Europa Press reported. The calls for dialogue and unity come after a traumatic week, with riot police storming several polling stations in an unsuccessful attempt to impede the referendum. Instead, hundreds of voters were left in need of medical attention. Even though 2.2 million Catalans voted — with 90% backing independence — the referendum polled less than half of the region’s electorate. Puigdemont declared he would seek a declaration of independence in the regional parliament anyway. The bloodied vote was

followed by a strike by workers on Tuesday across Catalonia to protest the police violence. Then came the stern message from Spain’s King Felipe VI that the Catalan government and parliament were breaking the law. Puigdemont and his separatist supporters were struck a blow when Catalonia’s top two banks, CaixaBank and Banco Sabadell, as well as energy giant Gas Natural announced that they were relocating their headquarters from Catalonia to other parts of Spain. Other companies are considering such a move to ensure that the region’s possible secession wouldn’t knock them out of the European Union and its lucrative common market. Spain’s Minister of Public Works Inigo de la Serna said on Saturday that “the com-

panies will keep leaving and it’s exclusively the fault of the members of the regional government.” The warnings by the business sector have coincided with the first calls from within Puigdemont’s government to hold off on a declaration of independence. Santi Vila, Catalonia’s regional chief for business, told Cadena SER Radio late Friday that he’s pushing for “a new opportunity for dialogue” with Spanish authorities. “We have to give it one more chance, maybe the last chance, and perhaps the only way that can happen is to start with a cease-fire,” Vila said. The most recent polls taken before the referendum showed that the region’s 7.5 million residents were roughly split on the issue.

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Vice president vows solidarity with the usually festive city after mass shooting that left 58 dead. By Kurtis Lee and David Montero LAS VEGAS — The day was meant for prayer, reflection, and most of all, slowly continuing to heal. On Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence visited Las Vegas, offering prayers and encouragement for a community reeling days after a gunman went on a killing rampage at an outdoor country music festival along the Strip. Pence, flanked by several local elected officials, including Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, spoke from a lectern inside City Hall, where he emphasized that the country stands united with the Las Vegas community. “No evil — no act of violence — will ever diminish the strength and goodness of the American people,” said Pence, whose visit came days after President Trump arrived here to meet with victims and first responders. “We are united as one nation, as one people, with one voice — united in our grief, united in our support for those who have suffered, and united in our resolve to end such evil in our time.” He added, “When one part of America cries out for help we always come together to answer the call.… Today we are all Vegas strong.” The vice president’s remarks came at the conclusion of a unity prayer walk among local elected officials and residents in memory of the 58 people killed and

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healing after last Sunday’s mass shooting. “We will not be defined by anger,” said Mayor Carolyn Goodman. nearly 500 injured on Oct. 1 at the Route 91Harvest festival. The gunman, Stephen Paddock, 64, fired hundreds of rounds at the crowd from his 32nd-floor Mandalay Bay hotel room. Amid the prayers, tears and strides toward healing, local and federal law enforcement officials pressed ahead Saturday with their investigation. Authorities continued to look for a motive as to why Paddock, known as a professional gambler who frequented casinos here and in

Mesquite, Nev., about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas, carried out one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. Billboards have been placed around the city asking residents to contact authorities if they have any information about the shooting. At the site of the shooting — a parcel of land along Las Vegas Boulevard — federal authorities began to haul away piles of backpacks, purses and lawn chairs that were left behind as thousands of concertgoers fled

the area amid a torrent of gunfire. For many, Saturday was a day to reflect, move ahead and celebrate Las Vegas, a global hub for tourism which last year saw a record 43 million visitors. A short drive from the site of the shooting, 58 white crosses bearing the names of those killed were placed near the renowned “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign. Locals and tourists alike laid flowers and teddy bears in honor of the victims, 36

women and 22 men. Goodman, who has served as mayor since 2011, said her city would not be “defined by hate and violence.” “We will not be defined by anger and we will not be defined by fear,” she added. “We will be defined by our humanity. We will be defined by our unity, our compassion for each other.” Others who joined Pence and Goodman at City Hall included Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) and Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democ-

rat, and Dean Heller, a Republican. Last week, Titus, whose district spans the Strip, announced legislation that would ban possession of “bump stocks,” a device that makes semiautomatic firearms behave like a fully automatic ones. Authorities have said Paddock used the devices during the shooting. In recent days, Democrats and Republicans alike have signaled support for banning bump stocks, and even the National Rifle Assn. has said more regulation is needed for the devices. Titus said Saturday that more action must take place on the part of elected officials to prevent future mass shootings like the one in her district. “Over the past week our eyes have brimmed with tears, but our chests have also swelled with pride,” she said. “Let us pray for those who are in power that they will have the wisdom, power and resolve to come together — end the gun violence that plagues our nation.” kurtis.lee@latimes.com david.montero @latimes.com Montero reported from Las Vegas and Lee from Los Angeles.

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Deadliest terror weapon: Guns While used less often, firearms kill the most in attacks, study finds. By Deborah Netburn Explosives. Arson. Guns. Driving into a crowd of people. These are the most common tools that terrorists use to inflict fear and destruction on an unwitting public. But a new study suggests that these violent methods, while all horrific, are not equally deadly. In a research letter published Friday in JAMA Internal Medicine, investigators report that although guns were used in less than 10% of terrorist attacks worldwide between 2002 and 2016, they were responsible for more than half the resulting deaths. The new work was led by Dr. Robert Tessler of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Seattle. To better understand the deadliness of different types of terrorist attacks, he and his team consulted the Global Terrorism Database maintained by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland. The group defines a terrorist attack as the “use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation.” (Based on this definition, the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas, which killed 58 people and injured nearly 500, would not qualify as a terrorist attack.) The database uses a combination of machine learning and manual review to gather information from more than1million daily media reports published in 80 languages around the world. For each attack, information on the location, type and number of fatalities is provided.

For this study, Tessler and his colleagues looked at data from 2,817 terrorist attacks in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand between 2002 and 2016. Of these, 85.3% were in Western Europe, and 11.7% were in the U.S. Explosives were used in 49% of all attacks, followed by arson (36%), firearms (9.2%) and vehicles that

plowed into crowds of people (5.4%). An additional 3.1% of attacks were labeled “miscellaneous.” (Single attacks can include multiple weapons, resulting in a total over 100%.) The proportion of terrorist attacks involving firearms was highest in the United States compared with other countries. Between 2002 and 2016, 20% of

all terrorist attacks in the U.S. involved firearms. The Netherlands had the next highest rate of terrorist attacks with guns: about 14%. The authors suggest that policymakers take this work into account when considering future legislation to protect people from terrorism. Ben Torres Getty Images

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A country music staple faces doubts [Country, from A1] the shooting may finally lead country artists to speak out. “No one I hang out with thinks that a random person on the street should be able to buy a machine gun,” said Price, whose sister is a performer on the Las Vegas Strip. Country artists, she added, need to use their credibility with rural and right-leaning voters to advocate for stricter gun control. “Politicians offer ‘prayers and thoughts’ but then take money from the NRA. People have had all these opportunities to speak out, and instead say vague things like, ‘This is a song against hate’ but not talk about reforming gun laws. They’ve got to get their heads out of the sand,” Price said. Such divergence from the pack can have consequences, as Texas trio the Dixie Chicks learned when singer Natalie Maines told a crowd during the Bush administration in 2003 that she was “ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.” Within days, much of commercial country radio had stopped playing the platinum group’s hit songs. Maines wasn’t silenced. After a 2015 theater shooting in Louisiana, she posted on Twitter, “The NRA has such a hold on our politicians, we’ll probably be issued guns at movie theaters before they’ll up gun control.” Singer Jason Aldean, who was onstage as bullets flew, struck a balanced tone on Instagram. “Something has changed in this country and in this world lately that is scary to see,” he wrote on Tuesday. “This world is becoming the kind of place I am afraid to raise my children in. At the end of the day we aren’t Democrats or Republicans, Whites or Blacks, Men or Women. We are all humans

and we are all Americans and its time to start acting like it and stand together as ONE!” Compared with other genres, country music holds an honored position within the National Rifle Assn. Rock and pop musicians tend to be liberal and progun control. Gunplay is a staple of hip-hop, but those artists haven’t been embraced by the NRA. Given the demographics of its fans — many of them conservative and from rural regions — country music and guns is a natural fit. Vanessa Shahidi, director of NRA Country, told the Nashville Tennessean in 2015: “If you poll our [NRA] members, they love country music.” NRA Country, which was started in 2010, promotes the work of NRAcard-carrying country music artists including Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson, Florida Georgia Line, Trace Adkins and dozens more. Normally an active presence on Twitter, NRA Country hasn’t posted since the shootings. Nor has it responded to repeated requests for comment. Country duo Big & Rich performed at Route 91 a few hours before headliner Jason Aldean’s set was interrupted by gunfire. The group’s John Rich, who owns a Las Vegas Strip bar called the Redneck Riviera, said he was at the bar during the shooting, according to his account on Fox News. An off-duty police officer approached Rich and asked him if he was armed. Rich told the officer, “I have my conceal and carry permit and yes sir, I am armed.” The officer borrowed the gun, and for about two hours, Rich recalled, “without flinching this guy kept a point on that front door just in case somebody came

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benefiting the advocacy group Sandy Hook Promise. through.” Representatives for Rich did not respond to requests for comment. In a statement on Twitter, the band wrote: “Unreal, tragic and sad beyond belief. We are all in shock from the senseless massacre that took place in Vegas last night at the Route 91 Fest.” (Of the nearly two dozen NRA Country-supported artists contacted by The Times, none was available for comment.) But on NRA Country’s website, artist-advocates have expressed their devotion to the NRA. “I understand the price of freedom,”

wrote country singer Pete Scobell. “I fought for it as a member of our armed forces. The freedoms we are granted as Americans, especially our Second Amendment freedom, is something I do not take for granted.” “I am extremely honored to be named an NRA Country Featured Artist,” wrote Texas singer Aaron Watson, adding that the NRA “fights for my right to enjoy hunting with my family, but more importantly, my second amendment right to bear arms and protect my family if need be.” Artists in country’s more

progressive circles, many of whom are younger and rose not through the Nashville label system but independently, hinted that they are prepared to advocate for one of the most contentious issues in American society. Guitarist Keeter wrote that the band and crew felt powerless and terrified during the shooting, and that crew members who had concealed carry permits couldn’t use them for fear of being mistaken for a shooter. (Through representatives, the Josh Abbott Band declined an interview request after the shooting.) “We need gun control RIGHT. NOW,” he wrote. “My biggest regret is that I stubbornly didn’t realize it until my brothers on the road and myself were threatened by it.” Given the NRA’s power, that’s no small gamble. The organization has kept tabs on its critics in the form of a document that identifies entertainers of all genres who have spoken against the NRA. Among those listed are Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow and Missy Elliott. The Las Vegas shooting wasn’t the first time a country act spoke in favor of gun control. In 2015, singers Tim McGraw and Billy Curring-

ton were booked to perform at a benefit for Sandy Hook Promise, which advocates for tighter gun restrictions. The response from the right was swift. When the far-right Breitbart.com reported on McGraw’s plans, it did so with a scolding that “gun control renders lawabiding citizens defenseless, but it does nothing to stop criminals from carrying out their treachery.” The backlash prompted Currington to cancel his appearance. In a Facebook post at the time, he stressed that he felt strongly “about honoring and supporting the Sandy Hook community.” However, he added, “I am choosing to step aside from this fundraiser and will focus instead on the rest of the tour dates.” The more established star McGraw wasn’t cowed. “I don’t put a political blanket on what I’m doing,” McGraw told ABC News Radio in 2015. “This is about helping people and leading with your heart. I think that that’s what I try to do, and we’re doing things [that] are earmarked for a lot of good in the community.” randall.roberts @latimes.com august.brown @latimes.com

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L AT I ME S . CO M [Puerto Rico, from A10] Some sites were so inaccessible, a helicopter had to land on the roof of a twostory house, said the governor’s chief of staff, William Villafañe, who visited the sites. “We provided them with necessary medicines. We’re saving lives,” he said. Eight medical disaster management assistance teams from the mainland were helping hospitals in San Juan, Arecibo, Caguas, Fajardo, Humacao and Ponce, he said. The 250-bed military hospital ship Comfort arrived in Puerto Rico last week and was still in San Juan on Friday. It can treat up to 1,000 patients and was expected to move to Ceiba, Ponce and Aguadilla. But that wouldn’t help those stranded in Jayuya. Driving back to the Jayuya hospital in an all-terrain vehicle Wednesday, Lopez surveyed the town. He worried how the small hospital would cope with possible outbreaks in coming weeks, especially tropical mosquito-borne illnesses. “It’s not if, but when. With water all over the place you get dengue, chikungunya, Zika,” he said. Lopez and four other doctors from Florida Hospital Orlando with Puerto Rican roots flew to the island to initially assist hospitals to the south in Ponce and to the northwest in Aguadilla. “We saw in two days five people die,” said resident William Kotler, who was volunteering with the team. He said they were still trying to get a generator to the hospital in Aguadilla so staffers could run the air conditioners. “It’s 90 degrees inside. People are becoming dehydrated,” he said. On Wednesday, the doctors took two U.S. Army helicopters to Jayuya, landing at the center of the town track, where stray horses roamed after the storm, to assess the hospital’s needs and deliver medications in scarce supply, such as insulin, ibuprofen and acetaminophen. A crowd of about a hundred families ran out to meet them from an apartment complex that’s home to about a thousand. After the storm, the running water turned white with a chemical taste that they said gave them headaches, stomachaches and nausea. Marta Viafania, 51, a janitor at the local high school, took two bottles of water for her three grandchildren, worried they might become sick from the local water. This was the first time the doctors were able to fly into the mountains since the storm. “Many of these towns are so blocked, you need a helicopter to get to them,” said Dr. Katia Lugo before consulting with staff members at the 15-bed public Mario Canales Torresola Hospital. They had another emergency: a patient with a severe head wound. Hilberto Torres Hernandez, 62, a retired mechanic, had been helping a neighbor repair her car after the storm, just as he had helped the mayor, when it fell and struck him. Doctors couldn’t reach the Puerto Rico Medical Center in the capital to ensure it could receive Torres because the phones in Jayuya have been down since the storm. In some cases, staffers have been transferring trauma patients to larger cities without knowing whether they can accept them. So far, none have been turned away. The volunteer doctors were able to borrow a satellite phone, call the hospital in San Juan and ensure the man could be treated there. “If they had not come, it might have been different. They might not have stabilized him,” said relative Jessica Torres, 41. “The mountains need more medical services.” Other volunteers who arrived in Jayuya last week agreed. “There’s been a good system of healthcare here, but it’s basically collapsed. People have run out of prescriptions; doctors’ offices and hospitals have closed,” said Natasha Tobias, a registered nurse from Portland, Ore., who was volunteering at the hospital through the Kansas City-area nonprofit Heart to Heart. While the Jayuya hospital and others her group assisted in the mountain town of Barranquitas and south of San Juan in Caguas were still open, they were also seeing steady demand for care weeks after the storm. “As the roads open, people are coming down and we’re seeing more trauma” from more remote mountain areas, she said.

S “We’re all pretty worried this will turn into a bigger crisis as time goes on.” Across town, diabetic mother of two Esha Garcia was running out of insulin. Garcia, 33, said the medication was covered by Medicare, but the local pharmacy’s computers were not working since the storm and it wouldn’t refill her prescription. She uses four vials of insulin per month that cost $400 each and a $600 insulin pen each night. She had one vial and one pen left Wednesday. “If I don’t get the medication I need, I’ll have to go to the hospital,” she said.

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services activated its emergency drug assistance program in Puerto Rico that covers the cost of prescriptions, medical supplies, equipment and vaccines after a disaster. It wasn’t clear how soon that could help people such as Garcia in the island’s interior. Jayuya’s hospital, with its staff of five doctors and nine nurses, saw 78 more patients the week after the storm, 310 total, according to emergency room administrator Joanna Morales. So far, they have had only one patient die since the hurricane, a

man struck by a landslide. But their treatment had been limited, she said. They were running low on diesel for their generator. Without an additional generator, they couldn’t operate respirators or portable chest Xrays. And they needed to resupply basic medications and equipment, including oxygen tanks and insulin. “Every day we see patients who come in without oxygen and we have to admit them,” said Dr. Lourdes Rodriguez, who traveled north from Ponce to volunteer at the hospital. The Puerto Rico National Guard had promised

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to come set up a temporary hospital outside with a team of 10 doctors, but had yet to arrive, she said. The volunteer doctors had to leave after about an hour, bound for other mountain towns, including Lares, Morovis and Orocovis. U.S. Army Rangers would return the following day with a generator and other requested supplies, they said. “The focus today was the most isolated areas,” said former U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello, who was traveling with the group wearing a T-shirt that said, in Spanish, “Puerto Rican to my feet.”

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Novello was working on a vaccination campaign set to launch Friday across the island to protect against mosquito-borne diseases. She also hoped to distribute donated treatment kits for the same illnesses. After about an hour, the team returned to the helicopters, unloaded several boxes of much-needed medicine for the hospital, distributed food and water to a waiting crowd of families and prepared to take off. “We don’t waste time,” Novello said. “We can’t.” molly.hennessy-fiske @latimes.com

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a tax on future generations.” Later, asked in an interview about the Republican shift, he said, “The hypocrisy is astounding.” Republicans argue that the tax cuts ultimately will more than pay for themselves through a combination of economic growth, elimination of existing deductions and additional spending cuts. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin has said growth from the tax cut would be as much as $2 trillion, enough to pay for the cuts and start paying down deficits. “The president is not going to sign something that he believes is going to increase the deficit,” Mnuchin said recently on NBC. Neither the projected growth nor offsetting budget cuts is a sure thing, however. Growth estimates are highly uncertain, and Congress repeatedly has shown, even under Republican control, that it has been unable to impose the kind of reductions to Medicare, Medicaid and other safety-net programs called for in Ryan’s budgets. Trump has told lawmakers and others not to call the plan “tax reform,” which had been the preferred lingo in Congress, because it’s too confusing for ordinary Americans. Call it what it is, he told them — a tax cut. But as members of Congress begin the hard work of filling in the details of the plan, deciding what deductions to trim or eliminate from a code that has arguably become more tangled since the last overhaul in 1986, the possibility of a tax bill that could saddle future generations with debt is giving pause to some. “The question is to what degree? I think that’s what we’re all going to struggle with,” said Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.). At the same time, Republicans are under great pressure to deliver on taxes, to have something to show for their hold on Congress and the presidency, especially after the collapse of efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Rep. Thomas Massie (RKy.) hung a debt clock in his office — even before photos of his kids — after he was elected. Now, he worries that his colleagues may put aside concern over deficits. “I didn’t want to forget that is the main issue here that I came to solve,” said the libertarian-leaning congressman. “I may very well be alone. Part it is the zeal for the deal on tax reform, and people are willing to hold their nose.... Because we’ve done nothing else.” lisa.mascaro@latimes.com

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WASHINGTON — With Republicans having failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act, at least for now, President Trump on Saturday confirmed he’d once again opened the door to a deal with Democrats. They remain wary, at best. “I called Chuck Schumer yesterday to see if the Dems want to do a great HealthCare Bill,” Trump tweeted on Saturday morning, speaking of the Senate Democratic leader and fellow New Yorker. “ObamaCare is badly broken, big premiums. Who knows!” The president’s message, just before he headed to his Virginia golf club, reflected frustration with his party’s failures to keep its 7-year-old pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare. Trump has flirted with a healthcare deal with Democrats before, only to return to Republicans’ position that the law has to be scrapped. That’s a nonstarter with Democrats, who say the law needs improvements but is working, even as the administration is taking actions

they say amount to “sabotage.” Schumer underscored that point in his response, making it clear that he and Trump weren’t about to embrace on a healthcare plan. “The president wanted to make another run at repeal and replace and I told the president that’s off the table,” Schumer wrote Saturday, via Twitter. “If he wants to work together to improve the existing health care system, we Democrats are open to his suggestions.” Schumer said “a good place to start” was the bipartisan effort led by two senators, Republican Lamar Alexander from Tennessee and Democrat Patty Murray of Washington, who are the chairman and senior Democrat, respectively, of the Senate Health Committee. Schumer said a deal “would stabilize the system and lower costs.” The Alexander-Murray talks were shelved last month as Senate GOP leaders tried again to end the Affordable Care Act. But they couldn’t attract a majority behind the latest bill, and it was never brought to a vote. GOP leaders say they will keep trying, though many Republicans say the effort is doomed and they want to focus on tax cuts. joseph.tanfani @latimes.com

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HARVEY WEINSTEIN , center, at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999. He earned loyalists and enemies alike on his brash rise in Hollywood.

which detailed decades of sexual harassment accusations and payouts, Weinstein is finding that few in Hollywood want to be on his side. Weinstein’s influence had already begun to dim considerably in recent years. The Weinstein Co. has faced significant financial challenges, and new, deeperpocketed competitors — including Amazon Studios, A24, Netflix and Fox Search-

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Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times

WEINSTEIN poses with Gwyneth Paltrow, left, and Cameron Diaz at a Golden

Globes party in 1999. His once-golden touch in awards season has waned recently.

[Weinstein, from A14] ited with creating the modern Oscar campaign. He honed what studios had been doing for decades, throwing lavish parties to schmooze awards voters and carpet-bombing academy members with VHS screeners to ensure that his movies were not ignored. “What we did was democratize the process,” he told The Times in 2006. Weinstein’s reputation as a master Oscar tactician reached its pinnacle with the 1999 win for “Shakespeare in Love.” As Weinstein slugged it out on the awards trail against the heavily favored “Saving Private Ryan,” Miramax and DreamWorks spent at least $5 million on their campaigns and quite possibly much more, leading to a fair amount of bitterness. “There is no question that the aggressiveness of the extraordinary campaign Miramax has run in support of ‘Shakespeare’ has caused us do more on behalf of ‘Ryan,’ ” DreamWorks executive Jeffrey Katzenberg complained to The Times. In addition to the lavish expenditures, Weinstein came to be known — fairly or not — for igniting whisper campaigns against competitors. He famously mixed politics into his campaigns, having stars such as DayLewis and Bradley Cooper testify before Congress on issues related to their films and arranging a meeting for

Steve Coogan and Philomena Lee with Pope Francis after a Vatican screening of “Philomena.” In 2005, the Weinsteins left Miramax in a bitter split from Disney over spending and soon launched the Weinstein Co. But within a few years, as the market for independent films cratered, the company was foundering. Successes such as “Silver Linings Playbook” and Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” were far outnumbered by flops, including the costly musical “Nine.” Numerous titles sat on the shelf for years, and some — such as “Grace of Monaco,” which premiered at Cannes — never received a U.S. theatrical release. And Weinstein’s touch with Oscar fare hasn’t been as sure in recent years. As the motion picture academy’s membership broadened, the increasingly cashstrapped company has found itself losing ground. Last year, the Weinstein Co. earned six Oscar nominations, including best picture, for the drama “Lion,” but this year’s slate is far less promising, with only the murder mystery “Wind River” as a long-shot hopeful. Weinstein has fought his way out of tough corners before, always projecting an indomitable spirit. But over the years, as the power that once provided a shield to his bad behavior has waned, some say a lifetime of karma

has finally caught up with him. Even as Weinstein copes with the fallout from the New York Times story and pledges to become a better person, reporters are digging with new fervor into his past in the belief that many women who may have feared speaking out in the past may now feel emboldened to do so. Three members of the Weinstein’s Co.’s nine-member board of directors have resigned since the report was published. Four others, including Bob Weinstein, released a statement noting the board has ordered an independent investigation into the allegations. “We strongly endorse Harvey Weinstein’s already-announced decision to take an indefinite leave of absence from the Company,” the statement continued. And on Saturday, Weinstein lost two key members of his legal team: attorney Lisa Bloom and crisis manager Lanny Davis. Now the man who has always seemed to be spoiling for a fight has the biggest one of his life on his hands: a fight not for a gold statuette or box-office bragging rights, but for his own survival.

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Weinstein’s inner circle shrinks Attorney Lisa Bloom is among key advisors to quit film executive’s team amid scandal. By David Ng Harvey Weinstein continued to lose key support over the weekend from people within his close circle of associates and in the larger media industry as the disgraced film executive moved to contain the fallout from his sexual harassment scandal. Two important members of his crisis team quit Saturday, including Los Angeles attorney Lisa Bloom, who had been criticized for representing Weinstein. “I have resigned as an advisor to Harvey Weinstein,” Bloom wrote on Twitter on Saturday. “My understanding is that Mr. Weinstein and his board are moving toward an agreement.” Bloom didn’t elaborate and didn’t respond to a request for comment. Weinstein could not be reached for comment. In addition, crisis manager Lanny Davis stepped down from Weinstein’s team and will no longer be serving him as an advisor, according to sources familiar with the situation. Davis declined to comment through his office. The Washington attorney is a former special counsel to President Clinton and has been a longtime friend to Hillary Clinton. Weinstein was a major supporter for Hillary Clinton’s failed run for the presidency, donating tens of thousands of dollars to her campaign and throwing celebrity fundraisers for the Democratic nominee. On Saturday, President Trump was asked by a reporter what he thought about the Weinstein scandal. The president said he has known Weinstein a long time, adding, “I’m not at all surprised to see it.” Democrats have come under attack for their con-

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L.A. ATTORNEY Lisa Bloom resigned Saturday as an advisor to producer Harvey Weinstein, who faces alle-

gations of sexual harassment. His crisis manager also quit, along with three Weinstein Co. board members. nections to Weinstein, and The Times reported Friday that several senators are giving away money donated to them by Weinstein as they seek to distance themselves from the scandal. The departures come after at least three Weinstein Co. board members resigned their positions following allegations published in the New York Times that the Oscar-winning movie and TV producer had sexually harassed numerous actresses and employees over a span of more than 20 years. The board members who resigned include billionaire Dirk Ziff, a managing partner at Ziff Capital Partners, as well as Marc Lasry and Tim Sarnoff. The remaining board members said Friday they

have hired a law firm to investigate the sexual harassment allegations against the indie film boss, who is taking a leave of absence from the company. On Saturday, MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski threatened to pull out of her book deal with Weinstein’s publishing imprint unless he resigns. “Harvey Weinstein needs to resign from his companies, face his sickness, and go into a long, self-imposed exile,” Brzezinski wrote on Twitter. “Authors, actors and moviemakers should not work for any Weinstein company until he resigns. Not a close call. I have a threebook deal with Weinstein Books, through Hachette. I can’t go forward with those

books unless Harvey resigns.” Brzezinski hosts MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” along with Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist. The latest resignations also come after a new report surfaced late Friday in the Huffington Post alleging that Weinstein had made unwanted sexual advances toward a TV journalist, Lauren Sivan, a decade ago in New York, including cornering Sivan at a restaurant and masturbating in front of her. On Saturday, Sivan tweeted that she was only able to come forward now about the incident “because of women far braver than me.” Sivan’s allegations were not previously reported in

the New York Times article, which cited actresses Ashley Judd and Rose McGowan as among those whom Weinstein is accused of preying upon. The report also said Weinstein had reached at least eight settlements with women who had claims against him. When the scandal broke Thursday, some of the public criticism against Weinstein was also directed at Bloom for her decision to advise the producer. Bloom has been known for her legal work defending women, including those who have brought various accusations against former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and Bill Cosby. Some of the criticism pointed out that in April,

Bloom announced a development deal with Weinstein and the rapper Jay-Z to turn her book “Suspicion Nation,” about the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin, into a miniseries. Bloom said in her announcement Thursday that “Harvey has asked me to do a comprehensive review of his company’s policies and practices regarding women in the workplace.” Bloom has also said that she has advised Weinstein in the last year on matters of gender and power relations in the workplace. On Friday, on “Good Morning America,” she said that “I think he has changed in the year I’ve known him.” Among her most vocal critics has been her own mother, Gloria Allred, the L.A. attorney famous for her media savvy in representing women who have alleged sexual harassment and assault. “Had I been asked by Mr. Weinstein to represent him, I would have declined, because I do not represent individuals accused of sex harassment,” Allred said in a statement last week. Bloom had recently boosted her public profile by representing Kathy Griffin following the comedian’s firing from CNN after she posed for a photograph that showed her holding a fake severed head resembling President Trump. In the days since the Weinstein scandal broke, the 65-year-old producer has sent a series of mixed messages in response to the lurid allegations. Though Weinstein expressed contrition for his past behavior — saying that he realizes “the way I’ve behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologize for it” — his lawyer, Charles Harder, has said Weinstein is planning on suing the New York Times over the report. The New York Times has said that it stands behind its story.

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At nursing home, top floor was deadliest Most residents who died after hurricane were on sweltering upper story. By Erika Pesantes and Megan O’Matz HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — They were mostly very old and sickly. But at least 10 of the 12 residents of the Florida nursing home who died after Hurricane Irma had another factor in common — they lived on the building’s top floor, where the heat was the worst and most windows were left unopened. It wasn’t until the morning of Sept. 13, shortly before dawn, that staff at the Hollywood rehabilitation center contacted the director of nursing at her home and told her people were deteriorating and dying. She immediately told them to move the residents from the second floor downstairs, where it was cooler, according to the nursing home. By then it was too late. “A lot of them died in an ‘oven,’ ” said attorney Gary M. Cohen of Boca Raton, Fla., who is handling five negligence cases against the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills on behalf of survivors and families of the dead. “It’s not the way to go. This is not how it’s supposed to happen in a nursing home in the 21st century.” Hurricane Irma knocked out a transformer that powered the central air conditioning at the 152-bed, twostory facility near Miami on Sept.10, leaving residents for days to cope in suffocating heat. As bodies were pulled out of the nursing home three days later, Hollywood Police Chief Tomas Sanchez told reporters the building was “extremely hot” on the second floor. He would not say then whether all of the victims lived on the second floor, citing a newly launched criminal investigation. Now, the Sun Sentinel has confirmed through friends and family of the dead that all eight who died on Sept. 13 had lived on the top floor. Two of the four people who died in later days also had lived on the second floor. The second floor housed the sickest, long-term care residents, some with dementia and others who were bedridden or receiving hospice care. Downstairs, the nursing home cared for a mix of people, including those who might eventually go home again after recuperating from a stroke, joint replacement or other setback. Before the storm hit, the nursing home told residents and their families they would not be moved and would be safe there. Studies show that evacuating very old people from nursing homes poses its own dangers: increasing the risk of hospitalization and death. But the Hollywood facility, like many others, had no generator to run the air conditioner in a power failure. The state does not require it. During the three days the air conditioning was inoperable, no staff members ordered the building emptied or the residents moved across the street to Memorial Regional Hospital, only steps away, which had air conditioning, power and medical care. When rescuers began to discover the dead in room-to-room checks, it was clear that the people in the most critical condition were on the second floor. “We have a Signal 7 in Room 229,” Hollywood Fire Rescue units said of 92-yearold Miguel Antonio Franco, using their code for a deceased person, according to emergency radio calls provided by the audio streaming website Broadcastify. Another paramedic announced that there “is going to be medical triage on the second floor.” Shortly before 7 a.m. came the radio call of anoth-

er body: “We have an additional Signal 7 in Room 226.” A few seconds later, emergency crews radioed another death, and then an official said: “You’re going to need to keep track of these.” At one point a rescuer an-

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A RESIDENT is transported from a Hollywood, Fla., nursing home on Sept. 13 after Hurricane Irma knocked

out power — and therefore the air conditioning. At least 10 of 12 residents who died were on the second floor.

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nounces: “All patients accounted for on the first floor, green,” signaling that they were all alive on the lower floor. Some of those from the second floor had body temperatures, before or at death, ranging from 107 to 109.9 degrees, according to state regulators. Normal body temperature is considered to be 98.6. Workers at the nursing home had placed some residents in wheelchairs or in beds in cooler hallways, but kept others in their rooms with fans. Larger fans were placed in hallways. The nursing home also borrowed spot chillers — portable air conditioners — that were “distributed evenly on the first and second floors of the building,” according to a lawsuit filed by the nursing home, challenging its closing by the state. The second floor of a twostory building with a failed cooling system would almost always be hotter than the lower floor, especially in Florida, said Todd Washam, director of industry and external relations at the Air Conditioning Contractors of America, a group based in Arlington, Va., that represents 4,000 companies nationwide. How much hotter is hard to say. “There’s just so much to consider — how big are the windows, what’s the insulation like, whether there is tree covering,” Washam said. Sanchez, the Hollywood police chief, was asked at the Sept. 13 news conference how hot it was in the building. “I’m not going to release those figures, but I can tell you it was very hot on the second floor.” Some windows at the nursing home were open, Sanchez said, but investigators were going to look at “how many windows cannot be opened.” The nursing home shares the building with a mental hospital. During the power outage, the hospital’s nursing director wrote an email to a Broward County commissioner Sept. 11 asking for help fixing the air conditioning. He explained that “because we are a psych crisis unit we cannot have open windows.” The hospital does not want its patients to escape or to jump and get hurt. Pesantes and O’Matz write for the Sun Sentinel.

Nate makes landfall as a Category 1 Storm weakens before hitting the mouth of the Mississippi River — but it’s not over. associated press

NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Nate came ashore at the mouth of the Mississippi River on Saturday and pelted the central Gulf Coast with wind and rain as the fast-moving storm steamed toward the Mississippi coast, where it was expected to make another landfall and threatened to inundate homes and businesses in vulnerable low-lying areas. Nate was expected to pass to the east of New Orleans, sparing the city its most ferocious winds and storm surge. And its quick speed decreased the likelihood of prolonged rain that would tax the city’s weakened drainage pump system. Still, the city famous for all-night partying was

placed under a curfew, effective at 7 p.m., and the streets were not nearly as crowded as they typically are on a Saturday night. Cities along the Mississippi coast such as Gulfport and Biloxi were on high alert. Some beachfront hotels and casinos were evacuated. Rain began falling on the region Saturday, and forecasts called for 3 to 6 inches with as much as 10 inches in places. Nate weakened slightly and was a Category 1 storm with maximum winds of 85 mph when it made landfall in a sparsely populated area of Plaquemines Parish. Forecasters had said it was possible that it could strengthen to a Category 2, but that seemed less likely as the night wore on. Storm surges threatened low-lying communities in southeast Louisiana, eastward to the Alabama fishing village of Bayou la Batre. “If it floods again, this will be it. I can’t live on promises,” said Larry Bertron as he and his wife prepared to

leave their home in the Braithwaite community of vulnerable Plaquemines Parish. The hurricane veterans lost a home to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and were leaving the house they rebuilt after Hurricane Isaac in 2012. Governors in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama declared states of emergency. The three states have been mostly spared during this hectic hurricane season. “This is the worst hurricane that has impacted Mississippi since Hurricane Katrina,” Mississippi Emergency Management Agency Director Lee Smithson said Saturday. “Everyone needs to understand that — that this is a significantly dangerous situation.” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards urged residents to make final preparations quickly and stressed that Nate would bring the possibility of storm surge reaching up to 11 feet in some coastal areas. “It’s going to hit and move

through our area at a relatively fast rate, limiting the amount of time it’s going to drop rain,” the Democratic governor said. “But this is a very dangerous storm nonetheless.” Streets in low-lying areas of Louisiana were already flooded. Places outside levee protections were under mandatory evacuation orders, and shelters had opened. Some people worried about New Orleans’ pumping system, which had problems during a heavy thunderstorm Aug. 5. The deluge exposed system weaknesses — including the failure of some pumps and power-generating turbines — and caused homes and businesses to flood. Repairs have been made, but the system remained below maximum pumping capacity. On Alabama’s Dauphin Island, water washed over the road Saturday on the low-lying west end, said Mayor Jeff Collier. Nate was projected to bring storm

surges from 7 to 11 feet near the Alabama-Mississippi state line. Some of the biggest effects might be seen at the top of funnel-shaped Mobile Bay. The window for preparing “is quickly closing,” Alabama Emergency Management Agency Director Brian Hastings said. Florida Gov. Rick Scott warned residents of the Panhandle to prepare for Nate’s impact. “Hurricane Nate is expected to bring life-threatening storm surges, strong winds and tornadoes that could reach across the Panhandle,” the Republican governor said. The evacuations affect roughly 100,000 residents in the western Panhandle. Nate is expected to quickly weaken as it cuts a path through the Southeast on its way to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern U.S., which could see its effects early next week. The storm killed at least 21 people as it strafed Central America.

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Even GOP officials feel left in the lurch by the administration’s lax management. By Noam N. Levey WASHINGTON — As it works to roll back the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is letting crucial state health initiatives languish, frustrating a growing number of state leaders, including several from solidly Republican states. Last month, Oklahoma’s health secretary sent a blistering letter to senior administration officials, taking them to task for failing to approve a plan state officials drew up to protect their consumers from large rate hikes. “The lack of timely waiver approval will prevent thousands of Oklahomans from realizing the benefits of significantly lower insurance premiums,” Terry Cline wrote to Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin and then-Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price. Health officials in other states say the federal health agency for months provided little help as they tried to plan for the expiration of federal funding for the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. Money for the program, which covers nearly 9 million children, has begun to lapse because Congress failed to hit a deadline of Sept. 30 to renew the program, something lawmakers still hope to accomplish this year. As the Sept. 30 deadline neared, the Trump administration was working to support Republican attempts in the Senate to roll back the current healthcare law, often called Obamacare. “It was very hard to get answers to our questions,” said Cathy Caldwell, who oversees the CHIP program in Alabama and, like many state officials, is scrambling to figure out when they must begin cutting children from

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PRESIDENT TRUMP, leaving the White House for fundraisers in North Carolina, has threatened to stop

federal payments to insurers to offset the cost of covering low-income consumers’ out-of-pocket expenses. CHIP coverage. The federal healthcare agency did not respond to a request for an explanation of its actions or a response to the criticism. Meanwhile, across the country — in red states and blue alike — there are growing questions about how the administration is running complex government health programs that serve tens of millions of Americans. “There’s a problem here,” said Virginia Health and Human Resources Secretary William Hazel. “It may be deliberate sabotage at the very top.... But basic capacity seems to be an issue as well,” he said, noting vacancies and competing demands at the federal agency. Hazel, who currently serves a Democratic administration, was appointed by a GOP governor. Minnesota Department of Human Services Commissioner Emily Piper, who oversees that state’s healthcare programs, said that it had been hard to discern whether politics were driving all the problems, but that

the effect was the same. “Basic services that we expect the federal government to provide are suffering,” she said. Many healthcare programs that Americans rely on — such as CHIP, Medicaid and, in some cases, state insurance marketplaces created by the 2010 Affordable Care Act — are run by state governments, but funded and overseen by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That division of power has historically led to disputes between state and federal leaders. The Trump administration has fueled tensions with its enthusiastic advocacy for Republican congressional efforts not only to repeal the current healthcare law but to dramatically cut other federal health programs as well. Senior staffers at the Department of Health and Human Services have been working all year to support the repeal campaign. At the same time, the administration has further aggravated many states with

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In the face of the Trump administration’s retreat, many states have intensified their own efforts to stabilize insurance markets and help consumers. California, which operates its own insurance marketplace, has committed $100 million to a marketing and outreach campaign and developed a new system to shield some consumers from big rate hikes. Peter Lee, who heads Covered California, said the Trump administration has generally not interfered in the state’s marketplace. But other states that have looked to the administration for assistance have been disappointed. Oklahoma, for example, proposed a plan earlier this year to control insurance premiums for its residents, who were facing increases of 30% or more next year. After months of discussions in which state officials said the Trump administration assured them approval would be coming, the administration took no action, letting a crucial deadline

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actions that are driving up insurance premiums and destabilizing markets, according to insurers, state regulators and consumer advocates. For example, President Trump has repeatedly threatened to stop making federal payments to health insurers that offset the cost of covering out-of-pocket medical expenses for low-income consumers. Insurers across the country have cited uncertainty over these payments as a leading cause for big 2018 premium increases. Over the summer, the administration also announced plans to dramatically scale back advertising and outreach efforts designed to get people signed up for insurance coverage in 2018, saying much of that work had proved ineffective in the past. An aggressive enrollment campaign is widely considered key to getting younger, healthier Americans into the insurance market and controlling premiums.

pass and ensuring that health insurers would pass along major rate hikes to consumers next year. “It was very frustrating,” said Julie Cox-Kain, Oklahoma’s deputy health and human services secretary. States looking for guidance over the summer about how to prepare for the expiration of federal funding for CHIP were similarly let down, according to multiple officials. Several said they thought that their warnings about the need for action well before the Sept. 30 deadline were ignored by federal officials. “It’s been a budgeting nightmare,” said Caldwell, the Alabama CHIP official. “And it is very stressful for families.” Most states have enough money in reserve to continue CHIP coverage for weeks if not months, but all need several months of lead time to plan for freezing enrollment or cutting coverage should that become necessary. In the past, administrations have helped states prepare for that possibility with written guidance. But for months, the Trump administration refused to provide states with anything in writing, Caldwell said. More recently, as the CHIP deadline passed and state pleas intensified, federal officials began offering more assistance, several state officials said. Caldwell said she finally got critical information about how much federal funding was still available to Alabama. Minnesota, which has limited reserve funds in its CHIP program, last week received additional federal money to help tide it over until Congress reauthorizes the CHIP money. But Piper, the Minnesota human services chief, said she still wasn’t convinced the Trump administration was pushing Congress to quickly renew the program. “I have never received any assurances,” she said, “that this is a priority for them.”

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DIRTY JOHN CHAPTER SIX: TERRA

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THE SECOND-FLOOR parking lot at the Coronados, where Terra lived. She brushed off the presence of a stranger fidgeting at his car, even when Cash growled.

‘I DON’T LIKE HIM’ [Dirty John, from A1] her leg; she said he was on meth. She got a tattoo on her foot that said “Psalms 23” — the Lord is my shepherd — with a heart she’d seen in a Taylor Swift video.

but she didn’t think much of it. She left work in her Toyota Prius just after 5 p.m. for the three-mile drive home. Cash was in the back seat. It was still full daylight. ::

:: Early on, even before John became her stepfather, Terra sensed he was dangerous. She had sobbed uncontrollably at a Christmas gathering, saying, “There’s just something wrong about him. I don’t like him.” But not everyone felt what she felt; for the longest time, her mother certainly didn’t. She sensed that John was somehow watching her. She liked to have friends crash at her Newport Beach apartment so she would not be alone. Once she had a dream that John was attacking her, and she had to stab him to save herself. She wrote out a note and put it in her drawer. If anything happened to her, it said, she wanted Jimmy to get Cash, the miniature Australian shepherd. She was not a brawler and had no martial arts background except for a long-ago self-defense class in PE. She did, however, study television violence with uncommon intensity. In “The Walking Dead,” she absorbed the first axiom of combat with zombies: They will keep trying to kill you until you destroy the head, by blade or screwdriver, machete or gun. She regarded the show as a fount of survival tricks. When a favorite character extricated himself from a bad spot by biting into an attacker’s jugular, she thought, “My teeth are a weapon.” More than technique, she said, she took a certain mind-set from the show: “Kill or be killed.”

John Meehan had removed the license plate from the gray 2016 Dodge Dart he had rented. Inside the car, he had his passport, a vial of injectable testosterone, and what police called a “kidnap kit.” An Oakley backpack. Camouflage duct tape. Cable ties. A set of kitchen knives. ::

TERRA and Cash on the Balboa Pier. She wrote out a note and put it in her drawer. If anything happened to her, it said, she wanted her ex-boyfriend to get the miniature Australian shepherd.

:: He had been formidably big, 6 feet 2 and 230 pounds of steroidal muscle, a survivor of jail or prison cells in at least three states. He had lost serious weight — he was down to 163 — but Terra was still a foot shorter and 33 pounds lighter. He had the element of surprise. He had a long silver knife, concealed inside a Del Taco bag. It bore no resemblance to a fair fight.

:: Keep your pocketknife handy, her sister Jacquelyn warned her on the morning of Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016. She had spotted John in town last night. Terra acknowledged the warning, but her mind was elsewhere. She and a girlfriend had $100 lawnseat tickets to see Jason Aldean, one of her favorite country acts, who would perform that night at Irvine Meadows. She put on her rain boots and drove to work at the Newport Beach dog kennel. She greeted the Labs and terriers and Dobermans and poodle mixes. She unlocked the cages. She carried the big bag of dried, high-protein pellets to the bowls. She hosed out the cages and the concrete dog runs. She had strong, round shoulders, strengthened by years of working with large, aggressive dogs. The French-sounding guy who was supposed to bring in his Rhodesian ridgebacks never showed,

Terra pulled up to the Coronados, the sprawling block-long complex where she lived. It was not Newport Beach’s choicest ZIP Code. People who lived there said it was common to overhear domestic fights and common to look the other way. Now she drove up the ramp and through the sliding gate to the elevated outdoor parking lot. She always parked in the same stall, SR 423. She saw the Dodge Dart backed into a nearby stall, a man fidgeting in the trunk with a tire iron. She brushed it off, even when Cash growled. She was eager to get to the concert. She had Mace in her car, pepper spray in her purse, a pocketknife in her apartment, and no weapon in her hands when she climbed out of the car.

:: She was crossing behind her car with Cash, and suddenly John Meehan’s arm was enwrapping her waist, his eyes cold. “Do you remember me?” he said. He clapped his hand over her mouth. She bit down. She screamed. Cash lunged for his ankles. Meehan jabbed at Terra with the taco bag. She realized there was a knife inside. She threw up her forearm to protect her chest. Her arm opened. They wrestled. They tumbled to the pavement. :: SKYLAR SEPULVEDA at her church in Costa Mesa. She lived in the same apartment complex as

Terra, and when she heard screaming she went to the window that overlooked the parking lot.

Blond, small-boned Skylar Sepulveda, 14, who didn’t know Terra [See Dirty John, A20]

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DIRTY JOHN CHAPTER SIX: TERRA [Dirty John, from A19] but looked as though she could have been her little sister, had just pedaled home on her beach cruiser from junior-lifeguard training at the Balboa Pier. She was in apartment T302, wearing only a T-shirt-covered swimsuit, when she heard the screaming and went to the window that overlooked the parking lot. She saw Terra struggling on her back, and Meehan above her, the knife raised over his head. Skylar told her mom to call police, grabbed her beach towel and said, “I gotta go.” Barefoot, she rushed out the door, rushed down the apartment stairs, rushed toward the parking-lot stairs. Scores of balconies overlooked the lot, and she saw people standing on them, grown men and women, just watching. She saw others walking their dogs, as if the bloodcurdling screams weren’t splitting the air. “Going on with their daily lives,” she would recall. She saw some people get into their cars. She felt what she called “total disgust with people.” Skylar — a girl with wrists so thin a grown man could have encircled them with one hand — did not pause long enough to worry that the attacker might turn the knife on her when she got to the scene. She just knew she would blame herself if something awful happened that she could have stopped. :: Now John Meehan’s long silver knife was free of the taco bag, and he was striking downward. The rain boots Terra wore that day were her sturdy pair, with thick tread. She was on her back, pedalkicking, trying to save herself, when she clipped his knife hand. The blade flew from his grip. It fell to the pavement. It fell with the handle pointed toward her. It fell inches from her right hand. She was right-handed. She didn’t think. She began flailing, looking for targets. She connected, again and again. His shoulder. His shoulder blade. His triceps. His shoulder blade. His upper back. His shoulder blade. His upper back. Between his shoulder blades. His forearm. His triceps. His shoulder. His chest. His left eye — and through it — into his brain. :: When she reached the top of the steps, Skylar Sepulveda found John Meehan face-down, bleeding and convulsing. Terra was crawling away, shaking, screaming about how he had stalked her and tortured her family. Skylar could see exposed muscle in a gash on Terra’s forearm, like a surgeon’s incision. Skylar wrapped it with a beach towel and tried to calm her down. She asked her questions: “What is your birthday?” It happened they had the same July birthday. Terra was terrified that her attacker would get up and come at her again. Someone else had arrived and was checking on him. “He can’t get up,” Skylar said. “He can’t hurt you.” Terra picked up her cellphone and called her mom. “I’m really, really sorry,” she said. “I think I killed your husband.” John Meehan was not breathing when the police arrived, and had no pulse. They administered CPR, and soon his pulse was back, and he began to take small, short breaths as they rushed him away in an ambulance. In another ambulance, Terra Newell asked if she would be done in time to get to the Jason Aldean concert, and they said no, but they turned on some country music. They let Cash ride with her.

TERRA recovering after the attack. Her sturdy thick-tread rain boots, which she had worn to work that day at the dog kennel, may have helped save her life. “I’m really, really sorry,” she told her mom. “I think I killed your husband.” Police called it self-defense.

THE KITCHEN knife that John used to attack Terra had been wrapped in a taco bag.

:: Shad Vickers thought of how many times John had done evil and escaped the law, and how if anyone might rise from the dead to hurt them again, it was him. Even now, he seemed larger than he was, like a horror-movie villain. Meehan’s sister Donna heard the news and didn’t rule out the possibility of some trick. Her brother knew every kind. His other sister, Karen, was summoned to the Santa Ana hospital where he lay unconscious with 13 stab wounds. She had long ago come to accept that her brother would die unnaturally. Maybe of an overdose, maybe in a confrontation. Not like this. Debra Newell did not want to be responsible for pulling the plug. She let Karen, a nurse, decide. Karen looked at the brain scans and gave the OK. A transplant team tried to harvest his organs, but years of drug use had ravaged them. John Meehan — drug addict, failed law student, disgraced nurse anesthetist, fake doctor, prolific grifter, black-hearted Lothario and terror of uncountable women — was declared dead at age 57 on Aug. 24, 2016, four days after he had attacked Terra Newell. Debra was numb. She and Karen were led to a room in a Santa Ana funeral home where his body lay in a long, plain cardboard box. They watched the lid go on the box

JOHN WAS kept alive for four days after Terra stabbed him

13 times. One of his sisters told her: “You did a good thing.” and the box go in the oven. The door closed, he turned into black smoke, and that was all. There was no memorial service. :: News of Meehan’s death made the local papers, with scant details. “I just wanted to hear he is really dead,” said an ex-girlfriend who called police, then cried in relief. People were trying to reckon the improbability of the outcome. “Impossible,” said Shad. “The last person on Earth I’d ever think would send John to hell would be Terra.” Detectives told the prosecutor, Matt Murphy, that it looked like a clear-cut case of self-defense. In

such scenarios, the killer usually wound up on the run, the victim dead, dumped off a freeway or in the desert. Blind luck, the gift of adrenaline, Meehan’s drug-weakened condition, Terra’s instinctive refusal to comply with his script — all of them had helped to save her. “Ninety-nine times out of 100, the nice person is the one that is dead,” Murphy said. “Every once in a while, good guys win.” :: She was not going to take any chances, and so her last strike had been through the eye. “I guess that was my zombie

kill,” Terra said. “You need to kill their brain. That’s what I did.” Had she killed a man loved by someone, somewhere? This bothered her. Then Donna came by with flowers and told her, “You did a good thing.” Her brother had hardly known his daughters. He was as isolated a man as ever lived. Terra went back to the dog kennel, but barking triggered memories of the attack, and she had to quit. Sometimes she’d see a man roughly John’s age, and she’d struggle to breathe. For a while she smoked pot to get to sleep, but it made her paranoid and irritable. So she gave it up, but then nightmares flooded her sleep. She found a therapist, who helped her build a place in her mind where she could go when things felt overwhelming. She thought of a lake in Montana where she used to go with her dad. She put dragonflies in the picture, and, as her protector, her dog. :: Debra Newell still struggles with guilt that she brought John into her family’s life. She’s close with her kids again. She recently bought her daughters stun guns, pepper spray and rape whistles. They talk every day, sometimes just to say “I love you.” She doesn’t need a boyfriend or a husband, a year later, and said she has no desire to date. She works constantly. She said she feels she’s over John. At the Nevada house where

he’d been living, she found a clutter of drug vials and syringes. She found some 200 women on the laptop he used, some of them described with references to their anatomy. She found that he was flirting on three dating sites on the day they were married. She has concluded that he was some kind of sociopath. But for months she tormented herself, trying to figure out what was real. On her side, the love was genuine and deep, and it was hard to imagine that he had been lying every second, every minute, every day. Not long after the attack, she took out her iPad and called up footage of their Las Vegas wedding. She watched as they exchanged rings and he smiled down at her tenderly. She turned away from the screen. She had a catch in her throat, and a question. “Doesn’t he look happy?” christopher.goffard@latimes.com Twitter: @LATchrisgoffard

ABOUT DIRTY JOHN SUNDAY Chapter One: The Real Thing MONDAY Chapter Two: Newlyweds WEDNESDAY Chapter Three: Filthy THURSDAY Chapter Four: Forgiveness SATURDAY Chapter Five: Escape TODAY Chapter Six: Terra All six chapters of Dirty John are available online at latimes.com/dirtyjohn This series is based on multiple interviews with Debra Newell, Jacquelyn Newell, Terra Newell, Arlane Hart, Shad Vickers, Tonia Sells Bales, Karen Douvillier, Donna Meehan Stewart, investigators, attorneys and other sources. Goffard also reviewed thousands of pages of court documents, police reports, restraining orders and prison records, as well as text messages and emails.

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We need the delta tunnels Southern California’s water supply is unreliable. Stop waffling over the project and start digging.

wentieth century Southern California quenched its thirst with a series of ingenious projects, from the aqueducts that bring snowmelt from the Eastern Sierra to Los Angeles, and the dams along the Colorado River that impound water from the Rockies, to the State Water Project that directs the flow of the distant Feather River through the Sacramento River, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, down the California Aqueduct and over the Tehachapis. These engineering feats brought us water and wealth — and bred waste, although for decades Southern Californians were blissfully unaware of just how foolish it was to keep front yards emerald green in August or to turn five gallons of the world’s most pristine water into sewage with every flush of the toilet. Times change. We are well into the 21st century, recovering from a historic drought and reckoning with changing climate patterns and smaller snowpacks. The great water engineering feats of this era will more likely take the form of new information technology that help us track every drop. Although civil engineering projects will still be needed — to capture and cleanse stormwater, to recycle sewage, to make salty groundwater or even seawater drinkable — most will be local projects that collect and distribute local water. But one great project envisioned in the last century remains uncompleted. The essential question about the California WaterFix — the proposed $17 billion, 40-mile-long twin tunnels to shore up the State Water Project by diverting Southern Californiabound water around the fragile delta — is whether it’s a 20th century notion whose time has come and gone, or the necessary last link in a system that must be finished before we can finally turn our full attention to the next generation of water thinking and engineering. It comes down to this: We need the tunnels. Southern California needs them to secure (not to increase) its water supply. So does much of the Bay Area, despite the false belief by many residents there that they are independent of the delta and imported water. So does the delta itself, which is suffering from the operation of pumps at its southern

end that reverse the flow of a portion of the San Joaquin River and suck migratory fish to their doom. So does the entire state, even those portions that don’t directly use delta water, because they are economically intertwined with agricultural industries and urban areas that do rely on that water. California should not for a moment slow work on the next generation of sustainable, local water projects, but they will take time, and many of them are as yet untested, at least on the scale we will need them to be. The state needs backup. The tunnels provide it. If California's water is its lifeblood, its heart is the delta, where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers meet and carry much of the state’s rainwater and melted snow through a succession of bays and to the Pacific — or else, through diversions, to irrigate Central Valley fields and provide water to urban areas from Silicon Valley to L.A. and many points south. The tunnels are a kind of coronary bypass, sending Sacramento River water to the aqueduct without it first having to go through the delta. The point of the project is not to send Southern California more water, but rather to lessen the reductions that we will inevitably see in coming years. Imports are likely to continue to decline from each of the great, but aging, projects. Los Angeles will take less from the Owens River as the city reckons with the years of environmental damage William Mulholland’s project visited on Mono Lake and the Owens Valley. Southern California cities will get less from the Colorado River, as other states exercise rights they didn’t need when their populations and economies were smaller. Even with the tunnels, the delta will likely provide less. But the tunnels will allow water to be diverted to Central and Southern California during wet winter storm pulses when scientists have determined that the delta ecology has what it needs. The physical infrastructure will be only as environmentally responsible as the laws and regulations that govern it, and many of the details have yet to be determined. One thing urban ratepayers can count on, though, is that their water bills will go up. The issue is whether they will be paying more because they are financing a project that keeps a sustainable amount of water coming to them, or because there is no project and water therefore becomes a scarcer and more precious commodity. There is a lot of work to be done on water reclamation, recapture and reuse, which may eventually sustain us. In the meantime — build the tunnels.

The right to reach the beach

he California coastline belongs to all of us. It cannot be bought. That hasn’t stopped people from trying, however, by blocking access to the beaches near their homes. Up and down the coast, property owners are obstructing designated public paths across their properties to the beach, and they’re spending small fortunes to fight orders from the California Coastal Commission or the courts to do otherwise. One notable beach-blocker is billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. After buying an expansive property south of Half Moon Bay in 2008, Khosla closed off a regularly used access road through it to the popular Martins Beach. Since 2009, he has battled San Mateo County officials, the Coastal Commission and the courts in his effort to keep the road closed. Contending that there was no easement through his land, he argued that forcing him to keep the road open essentially violated his property rights. The Coastal Commission and the Surfrider Foundation, which sued him, countered that the road — the only dry land route to the beach — had been historically accessible to the public and heavily used since the 1920s. They also say that Khosla was well aware of that when he bought the property. But last week, the gates suddenly opened. Had Khosla finally done the right thing and restored access to Martins Beach? Not exactly. His representatives told Coastal Commission officials that they would open the gates from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., provided someone on the property was available to do so. Sorry, but that’s not the “maximum access” the law requires. The beach — when it has been accessible — has been used to surf, fish, swim, picnic, watch the sun rise and watch it set. That means keeping the road open for longer than banking hours. Just as troubling, Khosla appears not to have given up the fight. In August, a state appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling that Khosla could not close the road without a permit from the Coastal Commission. The appellate panel also said that he had to maintain the same level of public access

that existed before he bought the property. Khosla’s attorneys have petitioned the state Supreme Court to review the case; Khosla is also suing the Coastal Commission in federal court. Meanwhile, the commission notified Khosla last month that he was violating several provisions of the Coastal Act, and that penalties were accruing at up to $11,250 a day per violation. The penalty just for blocking access to the beach for the last two and a half years comes to more than $10 million, and is still accumulating. Sadly, Khosla is hardly alone. He follows in the sandy footsteps of other stubborn, deep-pocketed landowners who’ve spent years fighting the Coastal Commission’s efforts to protect the public’s access to beaches. Many of them are resisting to this day; the commission has 2,373 open violation cases, about a third of which are related to access. In another high-profile case, the commission fined a doctor, Warren M. Lent, and his wife, Henny, $4.2 million in December for diverting a public easement to private use at their oceanfront property in Malibu. The couple has been tussling with the commission for nine years, and are now suing the agency. What these property owners don’t seem to understand is that the beachfront property they bought came with strings attached: a requirement to let the public cross their property to reach the beach. That’s just the nature of living at the edge of this treasured — and public — shoreline. No less an authority than the state Constitution guarantees the public access to the coast. Either accept it or live further inland where you can completely wall off the public. In Khosla’s case, he has said that he simply doesn’t want to maintain the access road or the amenities — like a cafe and a restroom — that were available on the beach near the road. That’s understandable, yet he has declined repeated offers from the Coastal Commission to work out an arrangement that limits his responsibility to opening the gate and minimally maintaining the road. Khosla should accept that offer. But if he does keep fighting, so should the Coastal Commission.

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bragged. He was proud to have had the resources to game the system. What kind of patriotism is that? Steyer’s statement that he would be glad to pay more in taxes shows a selflessness that is sorely missing in our leadership. When will our leaders consider the world around them — or even just the United States — and stop being so selfish? Greg Golden Van Nuys Rich Pedroncelli Associated Press

GOV. JERRY BROWN has signed legislation that designates California a so-called sanctuary state.

Brown’s defiance Re “In defiance of Trump, state to be ‘sanctuary,’ ” Oct. 6 Federal law supersedes state law, period. For the Legislature of this state and its governor to determine otherwise and enact the “sanctuary state” bill is based on the exact same principles that South used back in the 1860s. It is an absolute fact that the 2.3 million immigrants in this state illegally are breaking federal law by being here. Brown is not just defying Trump by signing this bill into law, he’s defying the federal government itself. The last time a governor brazenly attempted to get away with these types of actions was when Alabama’s George Wallace tried to prevent two black students from entering one of his state’s universities back in 1963. It didn’t work then, and this bill won’t work now. Charles Reilly Manhattan Beach Thanks to Brown for standing up against the bullies in Washington. California needs to do what its conscience dictates. How can the state blindly take orders from Washington when narrowminded political neophytes are making the rules? There is no coherence or consistency in what they say or do. There is one subtle message though: They want to make life difficult for people who do not fit a particular mold. During her White House press briefing Thursday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, “The president will be laying out his responsible immigration plan over the next week.” That is a joke. Is the president capable of laying out such a plan? What we have seen is a dogged effort to deconstruct all the policies and principles President Obama put in place to benefit women, children, the underprivileged and sick people. Arabinda Nandi Anaheim

Winning white supremacists Re “Donald Trump is a textbook racist,” Opinion, Oct. 5 Racism is a fact, and Jay A. Pearson has provided the definitional attributes that social scientists and psychologists use to affirm a diagnosis of the president. Donald Trump understands the type and has deftly gathered America’s racists to form his loyal base. It is no coincidence that the Republican Party has garnered the white supremacist vote in the last three elections. It happened twice because America had the temerity to elect an African American, and once because the white supremacists actually had their own candidate. This president’s history is prima facie evidence that he is a racist and purposefully promotes division among the American people. The GOP has been hijacked. It is time Republicans across the country repudiate this president in the strongest terms. If it comes down to choosing between patriotism toward my fellow Americans of all origins, races, religions and colors, or standing in front of our flag singing the national anthem, I’m taking a knee. Jim Krause San Pedro :: “Trump is a racist,” Person writes. “What he says and does meets the scholarly definition of the term.” This is followed by a lengthy academic definition of racism, each of which Pearson attempts to link to specific examples of

Trump’s behavior. But his citations are more innuendos than hard examples. Pearson writes, “Trump’s actions, according to a growing number of mental health professionals, reveal deep-seated and possibly unconscious prejudices (insidious racism).” Why didn’t Pearson quote some of those professionals by name? Pearson then writes that the Trump administration’s cutting of funds for certain Department of Homeland Security programs indicated “institutional racism,” and that Trump’s travel ban and plan to build a wall are “internalized racism” — all stretches of logic at best. As for comments on U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, Trump make reference to nationality, not race. Yes, Trump may have been a “bigot” in that instance, but it does not make him a “textbook racist.” Donald Prell Palm Springs

Pay less, get less. Who knew? Re “I’m a billionaire. Raise my taxes,” Opinion, Oct. 5 I never achieved millionaire status, so I have long felt it wasn’t my role to comment on whether wealthy people should solve the national debt and crumbling infrastructure problems by paying higher taxes. But billionaire Tom Steyer summarized what I, a lifelong Republican, have felt about trickle-down economics and tax cuts for the rich. Recently, some of my retired friends and I discussed which decades were the best for most Americans. We settled on 1950-70, the 20 years cited by Steyer as economically advantageous to the middle class. Dwight Eisenhower was president from 1953 to 1961. His national highway program was underway, and the Marshall Plan helped stabilize the world. GIs had returned from the war with money in their pockets. By 1965, the top federal income tax bracket had dropped to 70%; it reached 50% in 1982, much higher than today’s 39.6%, and yet millionaires were not starving then. Now, some of Ike’s highways are crumbling. Did I say that I too am willing to pay more in taxes? John F. McGrew Riverside :: Maybe we need to look at basic morals again. I was raised to share with others and take care of those less fortunate. Before the election, the New York Times received Donald Trump’s 1995 state return and found that Trump claimed losses that would allow him not to pay taxes for years. Trump did not apologize; in fact, he

:: There is a solution for Steyer and billionaires like him: They are free to deposit more of their money in the federal treasury if they feel the feds are the best stewards of their wealth. Let the rest of us have reform that will put more cash in individuals’ wallets, where we can decide the best use for our money. Kathleen Taylor Newport Coast

Passing a ban is the easy part Re “NRA open to limits on gun device,” Oct. 6 Finally, there is some congressional consensus on a bill to help reduce gun violence. The “bump stock,” a device that boosts a semi-automatic rifle’s rate of fire to near machine-gun levels, should have been made illegal long before the massacre in Las Vegas last Sunday. Outlawing the bump stock may pay lifesaving dividends, but not in this decade. With post-Las Vegas massacre outrage threatening the bump stock’s continued availability, gun enthusiasts’ demand for this device has surged, which in turn has more than doubled its asking price, according to multiple reports. Whatever legislation is enacted to ban bump stocks, don’t look for many gun owners to give them up or even admit to owning them. It’s never taken long to manufacture and sell assault weapons and bump stocks, but taking many of them out of circulation probably will not happen in our lifetimes. Greg Gilbert Burney, Calif. :: There is a general trumpeting of relief that the National Rifle Assn. is “open” to “limits” on a gun device. Since when does a gun club dictate laws? Since when does the 2nd Amendment trump the right to life? A majority of Americans supports restrictions on guns. We just need to point out that the emperor clearly has no clothes. Constance Rawlins San Diego

‘A misogynist in any era’ Re “Citing ‘wake-up call,’ Weinstein to go on leave,” Oct. 6 My father was born in 1918, almost 100 years ago. He loved beautiful women, and he could attract them. He was also old-fashioned in a number of ways. But not in a million years would he have tried to exploit or take advantage of women under his supervision at work. More likely, he would have exercised the old-fashioned impulse to protect them. Film executive Harvey Weinstein attempts to excuse his harassment of his female employees, reported by the New York Times on Thursday, as the conduct of “an old dinosaur.” As my father most certainly would have recognized, Weinstein’s conduct is that of a cad and a misogynist in any era. Regina Stagg Los Angeles

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Ban ‘bump stocks’; it’s a no-brainer DOYLE McMANUS

fter every mass shooting, the nation trudges through the same familiar steps. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims. Don’t politicize a tragedy by trying to stop the next one. OK, propose something, but unless it would have prevented the last incident, we’re not interested. Eventually, the debate dies down — until next time. Last weekend’s massacre in Las Vegas might be an exception to that pattern. For once, there actually is a proposal that would make it more difficult for the next Stephen Paddock to kill and injure so many people: a ban on “bump stocks” and other devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire more rapidly than normal. Without bump stocks, Paddock still could have killed dozens of people with his 23 weapons, but the toll might have been lower. Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut have introduced a bill to impose such a ban. Several Republicans have said the question deserves a serious look.

More proof that it’s a good idea: the National Rifle Assn. quickly tried to neuter the Democrats’ bill. The NRA said bump stocks should be scrutinized — not by Congress, legislating in the aftermath of tragedy, but by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. That won the NRA undeserved praise for statesmanship. In fact, it was a gambit to make it less likely that tough restrictions will be put in place. Don’t take my word for that. That’s also the view of the top gun rights champion at the right-wing Breitbart News service, A.W.R. “Rusty” Hawkins. “The NRA is calling on members of Congress to squash talk of more gun control by moving the bump stock discussion back where it began in 2010: with the ATF,” he explained last week. In 2010, ATF ruled that bump stocks are legal because they don’t physically change semiautomatic weapons to turn them into machine guns. In 2013, ATF said it doesn’t think it has the legal authority to do anything about the devices. That’s why the problem still requires legislation, Feinstein argued last week. If anything, the Feinstein bill is

vulnerable to the criticism that it’s unambitious. Outlawing bump stocks won’t stop mass shootings or individual homicides — far from it. And what about all the other causes of death by firearm, including accidents and suicides? But the impulse to tackle too many problems at once is one of the reasons Congress hasn’t succeeded in passing any major restriction on firearms in more than a decade. Even after Sandy Hook, when a gunman killed 20 elementary school children in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, nothing changed. Now, with a Republican majority and a president who has promised to “come through” for the NRA, broad gun control is an impossible goal. Feinstein’s narrow proposal, responding to a single horrifying incident, is a kind of pilot project: an attempt to see if Congress can pass anything over objections from the NRA. And if legislation gets through, there’s a long list of other narrow measures waiting their turn. One is background checks. Anyone who buys a gun from a federally licensed gun dealer must undergo a background check. In much of the country, however, if you buy your weapons on the internet

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or from an amateur dealer, no check is required. That’s a boon to criminals and gun traffickers. Another is the “domestic violence loophole.” Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of domestic violence against a spouse or child from owning a gun. But the ban doesn’t apply to anyone who abuses a parent, a sibling or a short-term partner. It doesn’t apply to convicted stalkers, either. A third: gun trafficking. Remarkably, there’s no clear federal statute that makes gun trafficking a federal crime. Much of the time, transferring a gun to someone who shouldn’t have it is treated as a paperwork violation. That makes it harder for ATF and other law enforcement agencies to prosecute trafficking rings. Finally, a mundane problem that should be easy to fix: ATF is underfunded and understaffed. The agency hasn’t grown in a dec-

ade, even though the number of guns in private hands has exploded. One of the reasons the current background check system doesn’t work as well as it should is that ATF doesn’t have the resources to answer every query within 72 hours — after which the buyer automatically gets his gun. (That’s how Dylann Roof, who killed nine people in Charleston, S.C., in 2015, was able to buy a pistol despite having a criminal record.) And the problem’s about to get worse: President Trump’s budget would cut 14% from gun enforcement over the next decade. That’s nuts. A single law won’t end mass shootings, any more than laws against homicide can prevent all murders. But gun laws can still be improved, and they can be better enforced. Feinstein’s bill is one place to start. Will Congress step up? That will depend on what it hears from constituents, especially gun owners. The 2nd Amendment guarantees their right to bear arms. Are they willing to get along without bump stocks to spare their fellow citizens from harm? doyle.mcmanus@latimes.com

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By Steven J. Ross

n July 26, 1933, a group of Nazis held their first public rally in Los Angeles. As Jewish groups in the city debated how they should respond to Adolf Hitler’s persecution of Jews in Europe, L.A.’s Nazis, many of them German emigres, gathered at a biergarten downtown, wearing brown shirts and red, white and black armbands with swastikas. The Nazis belonged to a growing movement of white supremacists in L.A. that included many American brothers in hate: the Ku Klux Klan, a group of Hitler supporters known as the Silver Shirts, and a dozen like-minded organizations with vaguely patriotic names such as the American Nationalist Party, the Christian American Guard, and the National Protective Order of Gentiles. Some weeks ago, white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., chanted “Jews will not replace us.” Their predecessors were even less subtle: They called for “death to Jews.” Unwilling to wait and see if any of them would act on their threats, Leon Lewis, a Jewish lawyer and World War I veteran who had helped found the Anti-Defamation League, decided to investigate the anti-Semitic hate groups. In August 1933, mere weeks after the rally, Lewis recruited four fellow World War I veterans, plus their wives, to go undercover and join every Nazi and fascist group in the city. Lewis’ recruits did not know there would be another world war. And they certainly did not know a Holocaust would occur in Europe. But once they had infiltrated the groups, they understood that they had to take the Nazi threat seriously. They repeatedly heard fellow Americans talk candidly about wanting to overthrow the government and kill every Jewish man, woman and child. Lewis’ operatives were all Christian, save for one Jew. They regarded their mission as an American one. Their intention was to gather sufficient evidence of illegal activities by the groups, then turn it over to the appropriate government agencies, after which Lewis planned to return to practicing law. What Lewis did not anticipate is that local authorities would prove indifferent to — or supportive of — the Nazis and fascists. Within weeks of going undercover, Lewis’ network of spies discovered a plot to wrest control of armories in San Francisco, L.A. and San Diego — part of a larger plan to take over local governments and carry out a mass execution of Jews. Lewis immediately informed L.A. Police Chief James Edgar “Two-Gun” Davis of the Nazi scheme to seize weapons and, as Lewis warned in a memo later, to “foster a fascist form of government in the United States.” Lewis was shocked when Davis interrupted him to defend Hitler. The police chief, he noted in the memo, told him: “Germans could not compete economically with the Jews in Germany and had been forced to take the action they did.” The greatest danger the city faced, Davis insisted, was not from Nazis but from communists living in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Boyle Heights. As far as Davis was concerned, every communist was a Jew and every Jew a communist. Lewis got a similar response from the Sheriff ’s Department and local FBI agents, many of whom were sympathetic to the Nazis and fascists. He decided he had to continue the operation, and his spies agreed. From the summer of 1933 until 1945, while many Americans closed their eyes to the hate growing around them, Lewis’ spies and informants, who numbered close to two dozen at the height of operations,

Narrow proposals are more likely to pass than comprehensive gun control.

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risked their lives to stop Hitler’s minions and alert citizens to the danger these groups posed. They uncovered a series of Nazi plots. There was a plan to murder 24 Hollywood actors and power figures, including Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Louis B. Mayer, Samuel Goldwyn, Charlie Chaplin and James Cagney. There was a plan to drive through Boyle Heights and machine-gun as many Jewish residents as possible. There were plans for fumigating the homes of Jewish families with cyanide, and for blowing up military installations and seizing munitions from National Guard armories on the day Nazis intended to launch their American putsch. These plans for murder and sabotage failed because Lewis’ operatives penetrated the inner circles of the hate groups and foiled them. Charles Slocombe, Lewis’ ace spy, thwarted two of the most deadly plots to kill Hollywood figures, one of them by turning Nazis and fascists against one another and raising fears that they might be arrested for murder due to leaks inside the German American Bund and Silver Shirts. Slocombe stopped a second mass murder plot by convincing three of the plotters that the mastermind behind the plan, the British fascist Leopold McLaglan, was about to betray them. Knowing their inner circles had been infiltrated, but not by whom, and unwilling to risk prison, the groups postponed their plans. Permanently. Without ever firing a gun, Lewis and his spies managed to defeat a variety of enemies. Only after Congress declared war on Germany did government authorities finally relieve Lewis — “the most dangerous Jew in Los Angeles,” as Nazis called him — of the burden of tracking down these dangerous elements. Nevertheless, he and his operatives continued to monitor the groups throughout the war years. Leon Lewis understood that hate knows no national boundaries. Foreign-born Nazis and Americanborn Silver Shirts and Klansmen gladly joined together in targeting Jews and communists. And few Americans, either inside or outside the government, tried to stop them in those early years. He and his network of spies understood the importance of vigilance. They refused to allow their city and country to be threatened by hate. With their actions they show us that when a democratic government fails to stop extremists bent on violence, citizens must protect one another, no matter their race or religion.

Knowing their inner circles had been infiltrated and unwilling to risk prison, the groups postponed their plans. Permanently.

Steven J. Ross is a professor of history at USC and the author of “Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America.”

olumbus Day will be more than just a holiday this year. It will be a confrontation with history. In August, the Los Angeles City Council voted to erase the event from its calendar, replacing it with Indigenous Peoples Day. In September, the statue of Christopher Columbus in Manhattan’s Central Park had its hands painted blood red by vandals. Earlier this year, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to consider removing all statues of Columbus from city property, classifying them as “monuments to hate.” This isn’t just about Columbus — or Confederate generals or any other villain, perceived or real. By now, it has become clear: Public memorials to great men have outlived their purpose. It’s time for them all to come down. Iconoclasm is not just an American phenomenon. It’s global. In Canada, a statue of John A MacDonald, the “father of Confederation,” struggled to find a home at his bicentenary in 2015, and this year, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario called for removing his name from public schools, given his role in the cultural genocide against indigenous groups. In Accra, in 2016, the University of Ghana removed a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from campus, remembering his statement, made during his residency in South Africa, that Indians were “infinitely superior” to native Africans. Removing Cecil Rhodes from the campus of the University of Capetown in 2015 was less controversial. What distinguishes American iconoclasm is its chaos: statues pulled down by angry mobs or removed by officials in the middle of the night. And the chaos leads to incoherence — unobtrusive Confederates decapitated here and there, while massive tributes such as Stone Mountain remain. When President Trump and his lawyer asked whether monuments to George Washington would be targeted following those to Robert E. Lee, liberals were outraged. Lee was in no way like Washington, they claimed, and the American Revolution was in no way like the Civil War. Except that the Revolutionary War was waged by white supremacists and the Constitution entrenched their power. It was Americans, not their British overlords, who hammered out the three-fifths compromise, and black slaves were not their only victims. Washington earned the name Hanodagonyes or “Town Destroyer” among the Iroquois in New York. Thomas Carlyle in “Heroes and Hero Worship” articulated the spirit that built the statues that fill our parks and our cities: “The history of what man has accomplished in this world is at bottom the History of the Great Men

who have worked here,” he wrote in 1841. “All things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment, of Thoughts that dwelt in the Great Men sent into the world: the soul of the whole world’s history.” Carlyle’s vision has expired. The notion that an individual, any individual, can embody human ideals is null and void. Who deserves a statue or national holiday in 2017? President Obama? A man whom Human Rights Watch said “never really warmed to human rights as a genuine priority and so leaves office with many opportunities wasted”? Saint Hugh’s College in Oxford had to remove a portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi because the Nobel Peace Prize winner, like so many other winners, has turned out to be comfortable with mass death. Perhaps only Malala Yousafzai fits the level of innocence we now require from our political icons; she was a child when she won the Peace Prize. When the people of the future look back, it is best that they have no statues to remember us by. They would tear down every one. We imagine that history has progressed to the point at which we may sit in judgment over the past, but the number of slaves in the global supply chain is growing, not shrinking. Anyone who has eaten shrimp in the last five years has participated in a slave economy. Anyone who has purchased a smartphone has contributed to enslavement. Statues to the Confederacy were consciously created to impose white supremacy as a dominant ideology. But the intention behind statues is often more muddying than clarifying of their function. Statues to Columbus were often raised to celebrate the contributions of Italian American immigrants. The Ku Klux Klan explicitly resisted monuments to Columbus, seeing them as “part of a conspiracy to establish Roman Catholicism,” as one Klan lecturer put it. Statues never represent the people on the monuments: They represent the interests of those who build them. It is in our interest to take the worst thing a historical figure has ever said or done, establish it as their whole being and then make the destruction of their memory a collective benefit. This process will leave no statue standing. As Hamlet said, “Use every man after his desert, and who shall ‘scape whipping?” If Gandhi can’t survive, Columbus certainly won’t. The reality of people in history — the mixture of good and evil, making individual choices within imposed systems, in a specific context — has no interest either for those who raise statues or for those who tear them down. A blank at the heart of Columbus Circle where a person once stood would suit our moment perfectly. Stephen Marche is the author, most recently, of “The Unmade Bed: The Truth About Men and Women in the Twenty-First Century.”

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By Zed Nelson

I traveled around the United States photographing the predominantly white, middle-class Americans who manufacture, sell and purchase guns in vast numbers. ¶ Since then, mass shootings have become a common occurrence. ¶ I decided to track down my original subjects, and found that many of them are as fervent as ever about the “right to bear arms.” wenty years ago,

MIKE PRINDIVILLE of Sylva, N.C., and his daughter KAITLYN in 1996 and 2016.

“I see that original photograph as powerful, protecting … representing my freedom. Some people see me as a right-wing lunatic. But I’m just looking out for myself and my family.… I think it is fantastic that certain school districts are training their teachers so they can carry a weapon in school.... The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Let natural selection take its course.” —Mike Prindiville

“I’ve had parents of my friends wonder why I was OK with Dad pointing a gun in my face. And I told them he wasn’t; his finger wasn’t even on the trigger. It was pointed in my direction, but it wasn’t at me.… He’s not trying to harm me. He’s trying to protect me.… My views on guns aren’t the same as my father’s. I believe if you want a gun to protect your family, then do it.... But I don’t think the government trying to control guns is so bad.” —Kaitlyn Prindiville

RICHARD MACK at a Soldier of Fortune convention in

Las Vegas, in 1996, at top, and in Gilbert, Ariz., in 2016.

MICHAEL RALLINGS in 1997, at top,

and in 2016. He was a sergeant and is now director of the Memphis Police Department.

“Legislation has passed recently [in Tennessee] where people are allowed to carry a gun in their car, and a law that allows school staff to carry a gun on school property. And you are also now legally allowed to carry guns in bars. From a police chief’s perspective, I would definitely say that I would prefer it if we did not have guns in bars. [In] my personal opinion it makes our job a little harder. We don’t think that guns and alcohol mix well.”

“I am very religious and I believe in almighty God, and I believe that freedom is a gift from him. In that original photograph, I wanted to display the gun to show how much I am dedicated to the principles of liberty.... If you want to repeal the 2nd Amendment and push for gun control, the Founding Fathers [created] a lawful process for amending the Constitution. It has been amended 27 times in its 230-year history. You want to try and change it, go for it.”

latimes.com/opinion Different views

Go online for perspectives about the right to bear arms, who’s responsible for America’s culture of violence, guns and selfdefense, and more.

Zed Nelson is a London-based photographer and the author of “Gun Nation.”

SARAH READ at her family’s gun store in Millington, Tenn., in 1997, at top, and in 2016.

“Once we sell the gun it’s no longer our problem, because the person who buys it should know how to be responsible and not go do bad things with it. I guess you never know what people might do, but I don’t lose much sleep over it.”

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Alyssa Pointer Associated Press

TEREASA MARTIN , Kenneka Jenkins’ mother, is comforted by her boyfriend on Sept. 10 in Chicago.

CHICAGO — An Illinois medical examiner’s office has determined that the death of a young woman

whose body was found in a Chicago-area hotel’s walk-in freezer was an accident. Kenneka Jenkins, 19, was found inside the freezer on Sept. 10 after she disappeared from a room at the Crowne Plaza in suburban Rosemont. She had at-

tended a party with as many as 30 other people on the ninth floor and wasn’t found until nearly 24 hours after her disappearance, after repeated pleas to the hotel and police by the family. Jenkins’ death captured the public attention and

Paid Obituary Notice Dr. Arthur Janov, a California psychotherapist often called a visionary for his development of the revolutionary Primal Therapy — a treatment he maintained could cure neurosis and its symptoms, depression and anxiety, compulsive neurotic behaviors, and various addictions (alcoholism, drug use, sexual behaviors) died peacefully on October 1, 2017 at his home in Malibu, Calif. He was 93. A clinical psychologist, Dr. Janov developed Primal Therapy, as he called his psychological treatment, after he witnessed a spontaneous “primal” from one of his patient in the mid 1960’s. He heard what he describes as, “an eerie scream welling up from the depths of a young man lying on the floor”. He had asked his patient to cry out for his own parents. The patient reluctantly started calling for them. “Finally, he released a piercing, deathlike scream that rattled the walls of my office,” Dr. Janov wrote, adding: “All he could say afterward was: ‘I made it! I don’t know what, but I can feel!’ ” Dr. Janov started encouraging other patients to cry out for their mother and father. He witnessed a similar reaction with all his patients, and began to develop his ideas about Primal pain. He decided to abandon his psychotherapy practice to devote his time to develop Primal Therapy. He had realized that all psychological problems stemmed from the patient’s childhood, from birth to present life, due to lack of parental love, resulting in pain and its necessary repression. The first book in which he related this discovery and the treatment of his patients with Primal Therapy was recounted in “The Primal Scream,” published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons in 1970. The book sold over 1 million copies worldwide and was translated in 20 different languages. It made a celebrity of Dr. Janov who became a major presence in conferences all over the world. The 1970’s culture was widely influenced by Dr. Janov’s book and Primal Therapy, especially after he treated famous patients, among them the pianist Roger Williams, actor James Earl Jones and most famously John Lennon, and Yoko Ono, whose record Plastic Ono Band –which is commonly called the Primal album- was recorded during their time in therapy with Dr. Janov. It is the artistic expression of John Lennon’s feelings experienced during his treatment in songs like “Mother” (“Mother, you had me, but I never had you / I wanted you, you didn’t want me”). The 1980’s English band Tears for Fears took its name, and the subject matter of many of its songs, from Dr. Janov’s writings. “Few treatments have been more dramatic, more highly touted or quicker to catch on than primal therapy,” The Los Angeles Times wrote in 1971. Mr. Williams went on to call Dr. Janov “ one of history’s five greatest men (along with Socrates, Galileo, Freud and Darwin).” Primal Therapy was considered by many in the world of psychology, “the most important discovery of the 20th century.” The basis of Primal Therapy is very simple: children have a need for love. Love means the fulfillment of all the children’s needs, starting in utero, providing a natural birth, not letting the baby cry, feeding the baby when he is hungry, cradling the baby, etc. Later as the child grows up, not repressing the child’s feelings and letting him be who he is, making sure that his needs are fulfilled in all areas of his life. When this does not happen, the child is in pain and the only way for him to cope with it is to repress that pain before it even comes to consciousness. It therefore stays unconscious and is stored forever, along with the need for love. It becomes the basis for neurotic behavior, substance abuse, sleep and sexual disorders, depression, and psychosis. Dr. Janov’s Primal therapy restores access through the defense system to childhood pain. This allows the patient to feel that pain so that it no longer needs to be repressed. Which means defenses: neurotic behavior and its act-outs, need for drugs, smoking, alcoholism, symptoms (nightmares, migraines, various diseases, etc), automatically disappear. The patients become themselves and are able to live their “real” life. Such behavior quickly came to be called “having a primal” or “primaling,” and soon a new noun and verb were deposited into the Oxford English Dictionary.

“Primal therapy is not about making people scream. It was never ‘screaming’ therapy.” Dr. Janov wrote on the website of Dr. Janov’s Primal Center, a treatment, research and training facility that he established in 1989 and operated with his second wife, the former France Daunic. Dr. Janov’s Primal Center in Santa Monica, California, treats patients from all over the world including Russia, China, India, Europe, Africa Australia, and many more. They also created the Arthur and France Janov Primal Foundation that helps patients without the necessary funds to undergo Primal Therapy. “Janov’s Primal Therapy is a classic instance of being the right charismatic therapist at the right time — it’s the zeitgeist,” John C. Norcross, distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, said in a recent telephone interview. “There was also a belief that repressive structures of society were holding people back. Hence a therapy that was to loosen the repression would somehow cure mental illness. So it fit perfectly.” The Los Angeles Times in 1970, wrote about the Primal Scream: “[…] Dr. Janov is an impressive writer and thinker. Certainly, it is a work worth reading and considering.” Through the years Dr. Janov kept on writing of Primal therapy’s power. It was a power that could improve not only mental and physical problems but also societal ones. “I believe this new Primal consciousness is the only hope if mankind is to survive,” he wrote in “Primal Man: The New Consciousness” (1975, with Dr. Michael Holden). He added, “Primal consciousness certainly means an end to war.” At its height, the Primal Center had branches in New York and London. In the eighties, Dr. Arthur Janov and Dr. France Janov –a former patient and new wife- opened the European Primal Institute in Paris before relocating back to Los Angeles 6 years later, where he lived till his recent passing. Dr. Arthur Janov was born in Los Angeles, the son of Conrad Hyman Janov (1903-1970), a grocer, and Ann Coretsky (1901-1990), both Russian Jewish immigrants. He was raised in Los Angeles. During WWII he enlisted in the Navy and fought the Japanese on board the USS Tennessee. At the end of the war he entered the University of California, Los Angeles, from which he earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in psychiatric social work from the University of California, Los Angeles and his Ph.D. in psychology from Claremont Graduate School in 1960. “My mother had a history of psychological problems, Dr. Janov told The Chicago Tribune in 1983. He was drawn to the field, he said, “to try to cure my mother, so she’d take care of me and get sane.” Janov originally practiced conventional psychotherapy in his native California. He did an internship at the Hacker Psychiatric Clinic in Beverly Hills, worked for the Veterans’ Administration at Brentwood Neuropsychiatric Hospital and has been in private practice since 1952. He was also on the staff of the Psychiatric Department at Los Angeles Children’s Hospital where he was involved in developing their psychosomatic unit. Dr. Janov kept on being a prolific writer — “The Primal Revolution” (Simon & Schuster, in 1972), “Prisoners of Pain” (Anchor/ Doubleday, 1980) and “Imprints: The Lifelong Effects of the Birth Experience” (Coward-McCann, 1983) — Later on, “Primal Healing” and “The Janov Solution: Lifting Depression Through Primal Therapy,” both published in 2007, and “Life Before Birth: The Hidden Script That Rules Our Lives” (2011). Dr. Janov’s most recent book “Beyond Belief: Cults, Healers, Mystics and Gurus — Why We Believe,” was published in 2016 by Reputation Books. In 2017, he finished his last book “The Psychology of Everyday Life.” To be published. (see full bibliography on primaltherapy.com) Dr. Janov and his first wife, Vivian Glickstein had two children. A daughter, Ellen Janov, child singer and actor turned primal therapist, who died in 1976. Their second child, Richard Janov, still lives in California.

Dr. Arthur Janov made a major contribution to the entire field of psychology by discovering and developing the revolutionary Primal therapy, which is the only therapy addressing all stages of life from birth to adulthood. It is now supported by scientific research all over the world. His books have been translated in more than 12 languages and his articles have been published in major scientific journals all over the world. In 2014, Dr. Arthur Janov also co-wrote with Dr. France Janov Scream! The musical, with music by David Foster.

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imagination, and her funeral drew about 1,000 people, many of whom had never met her. The initial lack of information released by authorities drew activists and sparked online conspiracy theories that she was attacked and killed. The speculation was fueled by a number of videos on social media appearing to show the party and some of Jenkins’ friends. The case prompted protests from demonstrators who converged on the hotel, stirred by the strange circumstances of the death and complaints by Jenkins’ mother about the initial response from hotel staff and police. The Cook County medical examiner’s office announced Friday that Jenkins died of hypothermia. Alcohol intoxication and the use of a drug for treating epilepsy and migraines were “significant contributing factors,” the office said. The autopsy found mucosal erosions, a type of lesion, that indicated Jenkins had suffered from hypothermia, the medical examiner’s office said in a statement. There was an abrasion to her right ankle and a purple contusion on her right leg, but no other sign of external or internal trauma, the office said. Her brain was swollen, but that is not indicative of a specific cause of death, it said. Comprehensive toxicology tests were conducted for hundreds of drugs of abuse, medications and other chemical compounds, and the office said it sought to see whether “date rape drugs” were in her system. None were found, the office said. The testing found alcohol, caffeine and the epilepsy-migraine medication topiramate in Jenkins’ system, the office said. Her family said she had not been prescribed the drug, but the level was within the therapeutic range, the office said. Her blood-alcohol level was 0.112%, higher than the legal limit of 0.08% for drivers. The alcohol and the drug can enhance each other, the office said. The combination of alcohol and topiramate found in Jenkins’ blood can cause “impaired memory and concentration, poor coordination, confusion and impaired judgment,” among other adverse effects, the office said. This, plus cold exposure, could speed the onset of hypothermia and death, the medical examiner’s office said. Surveillance video showed Jenkins entering the kitchen at approximately 3:32 a.m. on Sept. 9, but the recordings do not clearly show her entering the cooler and freezer because there are no cameras that directly show those doors, the office said. Jenkins was discovered in the freezer approximately 21 hours after the video documented her entering the kitchen, the office said. Citing the police investigation, the medical examiner said there’s no evidence Jenkins was forced to consume the alcohol or the drug. There also was no evidence of another person near the kitchen with Jenkins, and there was no evidence of an altercation or interaction with anyone immediately before her death, the office said. The autopsy results were released the same day that the family filed a legal document in Cook County Circuit Court, claiming several padlocks that could have prevented entry to the unused freezer were available nearby but not used. Jenkins’ mother, Tereasa Martin, had sought police assistance a few hours after her daughter disappeared, but a dispatcher told her Jenkins might have gone to a friend’s place or passed out after drinking too much. Crowne Plaza staff eventually searched public areas of the hotel, and were later joined by Rosemont police. At12:24 a.m. Sept.10, according to video released by the village, a hotel worker went around the corner in the kitchen and summoned police that Jenkins’ body had been located. Pratt, Healy and Olumhense write for the Chicago Tribune.

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JORGE HEREDIA , an inmate, left, and Jesse Estrin, a facilitator, comfort each other during an emo-

tional meeting as they mourn the loss of Arnulfo Garcia last month at San Quentin State Prison.

San Quentin inmates mourn former editor

A prison newsroom remembers father figure Arnulfo Garcia, recently released and then killed in a car crash shortly after

A year later, he’s still with Trump

By Esmeralda Bermudez SAN QUENTIN — Down past the prison yard, where blue lilies grow near a fence topped with barbed wire, the men who manage one of the nation’s only inmate-run newspapers were mourning. The front page of their next edition would mark the death of Arnulfo Garcia, who had been their editor in chief — and so much more. Garcia had come to San Quentin State Prison as a heroin addict and burglar. He had transformed himself over more than 16 years into a beloved leader and living, breathing symbol of hope and redemption. At the prison, they called him jefe because he ran the San Quentin News. They called him pachuco because in his youth he used to walk with such swagger. They [See Editor, B6] loved his

For years, hundreds of children in the Fullerton School District have taken part in a seemingly heartwarming program called Flutes Across the World. The initiative aims to connect young students in Southern California with underprivileged counterparts in the Philippines through a simple round of arts and crafts, according to Robert Pletka, the school district’s superintendent. During the classes, students were shown how to make colorful flutes out of PVC pipe, Pletka said. Then they would write personal notes to students half a world away that would be folded inside the instruments. But in the past 10 days, the program — which is said to have collaborated with schools throughout South-

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ARNULFO GARCIA , the former editor in chief of the San Quentin

News, reads the latest edition produced by inmates in December 2013.

One year ago this month, I went to a Denny’s in Redondo Beach to have a cup of coffee with a guy who liked what he saw in a candidate by the name of Donald Trump. I didn’t get it, and I thought I should make an effort to find out

This vendor loves working with peanuts For 43 years, Dodgers baseball has been a very fun shell game for Robert Sanchez. By Hailey Branson-Potts Robert Sanchez’s mom told him to get a job. He was going bowling all the time, and it was costing her some serious dough. So the 16-year-old from Lincoln Heights walked to Dodger Stadium and picked up a gig hawking peanuts. That was 43 years ago. He hasn’t left. “It’s PEANUT TIME, everybody!” the mustachioed vendor’s voice boomed through the stadi-

ern California and large national charity organizations — became ensnared in a grotesque scandal that has left parents and educators horrified. The U.S. Postal Service and the California Department of Justice in late September launched an investigation to determine whether some of the flutes that were delivered to schools earlier this year had been contaminated with semen, leaving parents panicked and school officials struggling to determine how many students may have come in contact with the instruments. In recent days, officials issued warnings to parents in the Los Angeles Unified, Saugus Union, Capistrano Unified, Fountain Valley, Culver City, Newport-Mesa and Fullerton school districts, according to statements released by school officials. In those warnings, school officials said they had been contacted by federal and state investigators who were trying to determine if a “music specialist” had provided contaminated flutes during presentations given [See Flutes, B7]

um’s crowded left-field loge section Friday night, during the Dodgers’ first postseason game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. “Peanut time! Peanut time!” He tossed a few bags, shouting, “Look alive!” and high-fived fans. Then the Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw threw a strike. Sanchez stopped into the middle of the aisle, raised a bag of goobers in each hand and screamed, “Yeeeaaaahhhhhh!” Sanchez follows in the grand tradition of longtime Dodgers vendors, including octogenarian peanut pitcher Ronnie Nelsen and the famed behind-the-backpeanut-tosser Roger Owens, who started selling soda for the Dodgers at the Coliseum in 1958 and appeared [See Sanchez, B5]

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ROBERT SANCHEZ, who has been a vendor at Dodger Stadium since 1974, sells

peanuts and Cracker Jack during the first game of the NL Division Series.

what I was missing. Dana Martin, a hardware salesman from Temecula, told me he didn’t care much for Hillary Clinton. Not that he loved everything about Trump, but he was impressed with his penchant for taking on the political establishment. Martin also supported Trump’s views on immigration and national security. In particular, he thought Trump was the best hope for bringing manufacturing jobs back from overseas, because he was likely to trim regulations, reduce corporate taxes and slap tariffs on foreign imports. I left that meeting a year ago with two thoughts. First, Martin and I didn’t agree on much of anything. Second, I really liked the guy, partly because he couldn’t be stuffed into any particular box. A fiscal conservative, Martin supported gay marriage, a woman’s right to choose and reasonable gun control. The father of three was fond of his Latina daughter-in-law and proud of his wife for her nearly full-time volunteer work at a Temecula charity. He was, in other words, sort of an old-fashioned California Republican. So one year later, and 10 months into Trump’s presidency, what did Martin think of how it was going? He’d have to admit he was taken in by a fraud, right? I reached out and he agreed to talk it over. So on Thursday — the same day [See Lopez, B10]

Today’s episode: Terra

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A voice for vulnerable students for CSUN, this area of the Valley that doesn’t have the most accessible buses. Back then, if you were a night student, you were leaving class at 9:45 p.m., sometimes 10 p.m. And the last bus was at 9:30 p.m., so there was no way for students to get home. They wanted students to come and speak at this open forum, but all the students had to take buses to get to the forum. I told them, “They’re not going to come, especially at 7 p.m. Our buses stop running at 9:30 p.m. This is not happening.” So I allocated money for us to fund Ubers for students who wanted to come to the forum to share their issues.

Cal State student trustee, a ‘Dreamer,’ lobbies at the Capitol for his fellow scholars. ROSANNA XIA

When Jorge Reyes Salinas was 10, his parents cobbled together enough money to leave Peru to start a new life in Los Angeles. They wanted a better future for their only son, who thought he was going to Disneyland. Reyes Salinas didn’t understand what his lack of legal status meant until, as a sophomore in high school, he was encouraged to enroll in advanced classes at a community college. The forms asked for a Social Security number, which he did not have. State support made it possible for him to attend the one university he applied to: Cal State Northridge. Because he couldn’t qualify for any federal financial aid, he went by bus to a machine shop after class each day and worked 30 to 40 hours a week. In 2012, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, allowed young people such as Reyes Salinas — who had come to the U.S. on a tourist visa that expired — to go about their lives, studying and working, without fear of deportation. He immediately got a job on campus, which led him to student government. He went from planning events to being campus student president and a vice president for the statewide California State Student Assn. Now as the student appointee to the Cal State Board of Trustees, the 24year-old meets with students at all 23 campuses and lobbies for them in Sacramento, often flying back just in time to make an afternoon class. He hopes to earn his master’s in communications studies in 2018. In his free time, he volunteers for the Make a Wish Foundation.

Christopher Woolett California State Student Assn.

JORGE REYES SALINAS , a student appointee on Cal State’s Board of Trustees,

chairs a meeting in April. He was also Cal State Northridge’s student president.

He took a moment last week to talk about DACA and other issues weighing on the nation’s largest public university system. How do you feel about the uncertainties regarding DACA? What are you hearing from fellow students? It’s a lot of pressure … when it’s not only, “I’m going to school and trying to graduate,” but also, “I’m fighting for a country that I love so much to accept me.” When I think about it, every opportunity I’ve had has been about trying to prove … to this country that I do belong here, that I do want to contribute to society. I can’t speak for every student, but I know it’s that pressure of proving that I’m worth that investment.... Ever since I really understood my undocumented status, I’ve always been in fear for myself, for my family, for others like me. A lot of students right now are thinking, “OK, DACA’s ending, should I still go to school? Should I still spend this much money to

graduate or ... save that money for when things are really going to get rough? Or should I just go get a fulltime job right now and save as much as I can before DACA ends?” … I really don’t want anyone to do that. I think education is the main way to continue our dreams and give back to the community. We need to keep pushing and remember why we’re here in the first place, why we’re getting our degrees. You helped create Cal State Northridge’s Dream Center. Why is it important to share your own story and bring together those facing similar pressures? It wasn’t until CSUN that I became more open about my status. I don’t think any of my high school friends know. It wasn’t something that I talked about, because you’re told not to mention anything, to avoid those questions, to follow the rules and stop at every stop sign.... But in this center, you’re allowed to say what’s going on. You’re

allowed to say that you’re undocumented or you’re DACA or you have questions about a family member who has some immigration issues. You’re not hiding in the shadows.... People know about our community, but no one knows who we are. Sharing my story, other students were like, “Oh my God, I’m DACA too. How did you get into student government? How did you balance all of this while having all this pressure?” Opening myself up was what allowed other people to open up as well. What are some issues that you’ve worked on that you felt made a difference? During my [student body] presidency, I started interning with Sen. [Bob] Hertzberg [D-Van Nuys].... My main project was working on transportation, working with Mayor [Eric] Garcetti and Sen. Hertzberg for Measure M [a tax increase to fund the most ambitious public transit expansion in L.A. County history] to pass — especially

What other issues are you passionate about? Something that really keeps me up at night is access and affordability.... When I got into CSUN, I went from really happy to really disappointed, because my parents didn’t know how we were going to pay for it.... My story is not unique. There are many people — doesn’t matter their citizenship — they’re also sitting down with their parents and trying to figure out, “How are we going to afford this?” Representing 479,000 students in the CSU, I don’t just think about DACA students, I don’t just think about first-generation students, I think about all the students. I don’t benefit from some things that our students are getting, like federal grants, but I will still do anything to fight for them.... At the end of the day, I want to make sure that there’s access and affordability for everybody.... I hear stories of parents who have three kids and are getting their bachelor’s degrees, paying rent, working — all to give their families a better life. I think I have it rough, and then I hear these stories. It inspires me to keep fighting for them.... When I go lobby, I love sharing these super

important stories that many of our senators and Assembly members don’t hear very often — because these students don’t have the time to advocate in Sacramento. I share their stories first before I think to share my own. What do you hope to do after graduation? I want to get a PhD. I’m not sure where exactly it will take me, but definitely fighting for access and affordability — whether working at a university level or an administration level or running for office or being more involved at the state level, being able to make sure that students have that chance at education to transform themselves, their communities, their class standing, going from working class to middle class and beyond. I’m doing more research now on how high school students get educated for college. I’m reading about high schools that are not well funded, or students not testing the best that they can, or that they don’t have enough books or materials or teachers who are committing enough time. And ... other communities get all this funding and have this easier path to higher education. I think understanding all this is opening up a whole new area of passion for me.... My first high school shut down when I was a sophomore in high school because of funding. And when I got into a magnet school in Simi Valley, it was completely different. The academics were more rigorous, there was more testing, more college prep courses. There were career counselors, which I had never seen at my first high school. It was assumed that everyone’s next step was college.... It has done tremendous things for me, and I want to make sure that everyone gets that opportunity. rosanna.xia@latimes.com Twitter: @RosannaXia

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JOHN MYERS SACRAMENTO — As the U.S. Supreme Court considers its role in forcing states to draw fair political maps, Californians know well how the process can be manipulated. They saw it happen over and over again, for decades. But an argument can be made that California rocketed from worst to first in making redistricting fairer. Few believe that more strongly than former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. “I say it is the time to say, ‘Hasta la vista’ to gerrymandering,” he said at an event outside the Supreme Court in Washington last week as the justices considered the battle over the district lines drawn in Wisconsin. Much of California’s modern political history had been shaped by battles over political boundaries fought over a 60-year span that parallels the state’s transformation into the country’s most populous and diverse. Unprecedented social and cultural change fueled the political gamesmanship, but the real prize was clout in Washington. “It was all driven by those seats in Congress,” said Tony Quinn, a longtime Republican political consultant and redistricting expert. California’s growing population resulted in an astounding 29 new seats in the House of Representatives in just the last half of the 20th century. Quinn cites 1951 as “the first modern gerrymander” in California, as thendominant Republicans intentionally skewed the once-adecade reshaping of legislative and congressional boundaries. When the map making was over, they held a majority of the state’s congressional districts. Those maps slowed, but didn’t block, the growing clout of Democrats. In 1961’s redrawing, newly empowered Democrats exacted revenge and skewed the maps in their favor. By the time Ronald Reagan was governor and California had 20 million people, each redrawing of maps led to open political warfare. Reagan vetoed redistricting plans sent to his desk in 1971, calling one version “a mockery of good government.” The result was a legal stalemate. The task of drawing legislative and congressional boundaries was left to the California Supreme Court. The courts again intervened in 1991, when then-Gov. Pete Wilson rejected maps drawn by Democratic legislators. Voters were pulled into the 1982 fight when Republicans — accusing Democrats of blatantly attempting to fill the new California congressional seats with their own party’s lawmakers — tried to overturn maps through a statewide referendum. The only time the two parties worked together, when they jointly signed off on new legislative and congressional seats in 2001, it was to protect incumbents. The message by then was clear: The redistricting process was a mess. Multiple efforts to strip the Legislature of the job failed before voters approved Proposition 11 in 2008. That created the California Citizens Redistricting Commission to draw state legislative districts, and in 2010 voters handed over congressional district map drawing to the panel. Not that it’s been easy ever since. The citizens panel struggled with how to define “communities” that should be kept in single districts. And the Schwarzenegger-led supporters routinely over-promised how many competitive political races would result from reasonably drawn maps. Even so, California’s commission-drawn maps won praise for being thoughtful and transparent — a far cry from the state’s ugly history of political power brokers divvying up cities, counties and voters behind closed doors. john.myers@latimes.com Twitter: @johnmyers

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Garcetti will co-host fundraiser for Feinstein

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will host a fundraiser for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Tuesday at the Beverly Hills home of philanthropist Erika Glazer. Feinstein, who was first elected to the Senate a quarter-century ago, has not yet announced her 2018 plans, but is widely expected to seek reelection. Other hosts include former Walt Disney Co. chief Michael Eisner and his wife, Jane, and former Paramount Pictures CEO Sherry Lansing and her husband, director William Friedkin. Donors are being asked to contribute $100 to $5,400. — Seema Mehta

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MOTORISTS fill up at a station in Burbank. A GOP political consultant said “the Democrats handed us a gift” by passing increased fuel taxes and new vehicle fees to raise $5.2 billion annually for road and bridge repairs.

California GOP spots opportunity in gas tax

Republicans could make the new levies a major issue in the 2018 election. By Patrick McGreevy and Christine Mai-Duc SACRAMENTO — Just weeks before it takes effect, California’s new gas tax increase is again under attack, with Republicans mounting a growing campaign against the higher levies. Celebrated by Democrats as a victory for Californians weary of traveling distressed roads and highways, the law now faces repeal in two possible ballot initiatives floated by its opponents. Several of California’s Republican congressional members endorsed that effort this week, all but ensuring the tax hikes will be a major issue in the 2018 election. The Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown acted in April to approve increased fuel taxes and new vehicle fees to raise $5.2 billion annually for road repairs and improvements to mass transit. On Nov. 1, the base excise tax on gasoline will increase by 12 cents per gallon, bringing it to 30 cents, and the excise tax on diesel fuel will jump 20 cents, to 36 cents per gallon. Concerned that the gas tax could become a political hot potato in the next election, a coalition of business and civic groups called Fix Our Roads recently sent a letter to California’s 14 Republican members of Congress, telling them the state desperately needs to increase spending on its crumbling infrastructure. It came with a pointed

warning: There would be a “robust and powerful” campaign against any initiative to repeal the increases, and such an effort would become a “self-defeating” distraction for Republican incumbents seeking reelection. “We don’t think your objective is to create new political adversaries,” said the Sept. 14 letter by 20 groups, including the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and the League of California Cities. It was swiftly denounced as a “political threat” by a group of11 Republican members of Congress from California, including House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield). The GOP lawmakers responded with a letter of their own Thursday, saying they support the repeal of the gas tax and vehicle fees. “The passage of SB 1 represents a bailout for our transportation programs that have been habitually raided, mismanaged and not made a priority in Sacramento,” the lawmakers said. “Hard-working California taxpayers should not be on the hook because Democrats in Sacramento have failed to make transportation a priority.” They also objected to approving tax increases without a vote of the people. “When the Fix Our Roads coalition is done making political threats and is interested in discussing real, long-term solutions to our transportation challenges, please know that our doors are always open,” concluded the letter, which was also signed by Reps. Ken Calvert of Corona, Darrell Issa of Vista, Dana Rohrabacher of Costa Mesa, Devin Nunes of

Tulare, Tom McClintock of Elk Grove, Duncan Hunter of Alpine, Doug LaMalfa of Richvale, David Valadao of Hanford, Steve Knight of Palmdale and Mimi Walters of Irvine. Michael Quigley, executive director of coalition member California Alliance for Jobs, said the repeal effort is looking to “maximize political benefit for a handful of Republican congressional members.” Republican political consultant Dave Gilliard, a strategist for Hunter, Issa, LaMalfa and Walters, filed papers to put an initiative on the November 2018 ballot that would repeal the gas tax and vehicle fee increases and amend the state Constitution to require voter approval for future tax boosts. The proposal awaits a title and summary from the state attorney general before supporters can begin collecting the 587,407 signatures needed to qualify it for the ballot. Gilliard said he’s conducted polling on the issue and is confident that the gas tax is “overwhelmingly unpopular.” He’s advised all of his clients to come out against it, he said. “I’ve told all of them that the Democrats handed us a gift by passing this very unpopular bill and we should take advantage of it.” Conservative radio talk show host and former San Diego City Council member Carl DeMaio said the support from California’s Republicans in Congress is a big boost for the effort. “It’s hard to take on the machine in Sacramento,” he said. In addition to pushing for repeal, DeMaio’s group has collected more than 100,000 signatures in an effort to

‘Sextortion’ will soon be classified a criminal act

The number of lives lost when a gunman opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas last week, prompting renewed calls to politicians for action on gun control. ‘Our leadership does a tremendous job, but we do have this real breadth and depth of talent within our caucus, and I do think it’s time to pass the torch to a new generation of leaders.’

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Sexual extortion will be considered a criminal act in California under legislation signed Thursday by Gov. Jerry Brown. SB 500, by Sen. Connie Levya (D-Chino), will add coercion involving sexual acts and sexually explicit images — known as “sextortion” — to state extortion laws. Perpetrators of sextortion obtain private images by hacking into victims’ computers or smartphones to demand sex or more images, Leyva said. About 78% of victims are girls with an average age of 15, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The bill will go into effect Jan. 1. — Mina Corpuz

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force a recall election of state Sen. Josh Newman (D-Fullerton) for his vote in favor of the gas tax. Meanwhile, a second initiative to repeal the gas tax, proposed by gubernatorial candidate and Republican Assemblyman Travis Allen of Huntington Beach, is not likely to get the financial support expected for DeMaio’s ballot measure. The Assemblyman was buoyed by a June poll by the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley that found some 58% of registered voters opposed the gas-tax increases. But a new poll released Wednesday found 53.9% of California residents oppose repealing the new gas tax and vehicle fee hike. The poll of1,000 people via phone interviews and email indicates the gas tax has a good chance of surviving a challenge, said pollster Adam Probolsky, president of Probolsky Research in Newport Beach. Probolsky said the gas-tax poll was not paid for by any client. DeMaio denounced the results as “a complete crock of manure manufactured by Sacramento insiders to try to spook elected officials into not backing a repeal of the gas tax.” Jason Cabel Roe, a Republican consultant who is not working on either of the initiative campaigns, said he believes the gas tax hike will transcend partisan politics. “I don’t even think it’s potent as a Republican turnout issue,” Roe said. “I think it’s potent because everybody hates it, it’s so regressive.”

— Rep. Linda Sanchez,

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C E LE B RAT I NG ‘ SA NC T UA RY S TAT E ’ S TAT U S Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, left, with Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, co-author of Senate Bill 54, or the California Values Act, speaks to a gathering during a news conference last week at Academia Avance Charter school in Highland Park, about the bill’s passage.

(D-Whittier), House Democratic Caucus vice-chairwoman, speaking with the Times’ Sarah D. Wire and the Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers,” airing today at 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. PST. Watch: latimes.com /sanchezinterview

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CITY & STATE Koretz zeros in on delta tunnel project L.A. councilman introduces resolution pressing his colleagues and mayor to oppose a vote by water board. By Dakota Smith A Los Angeles city councilman is calling on the council and Mayor Eric Garcetti to oppose a crucial vote by a Southern California water board on a $17-billion project that would be funded in part by Los Angeles ratepayers. Councilman Paul Koretz introduced a resolution Friday that asks the city and Garcetti to formally object to a vote by the board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California on the project, known as California WaterFix. The 38-member board is scheduled to vote Tuesday on whether to commit $4.3 billion in MWD funds to the project. Echoing the concerns of some environmentalists that oppose the proposal, Koretz said ratepayer money should instead be spent on local water projects. “It puts us on the hook for billions of dollars,” Koretz, a former MWD board member, said of WaterFix. Koretz’s resolution is symbolic, since the city doesn’t formally have a say in the proposal. However, his move could put pressure on the mayor. Garcetti hasn’t taken a position on WaterFix. Five of the MWD board members are appointed by the mayor. WaterFix is a priority of Gov. Jerry Brown, who was in Southern California this week promoting the proposal. Long planned, the project seeks to ease restrictions on water deliveries from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. It involves the construction of new diversion points on the Sacramento River and two massive tunnels under the delta. MWD imports water from the delta and sells it to Los Angeles and other Southern California water agencies serving 19 million people. The MWD staff has recommended that the board vote yes, saying the project is necessary to maintain deliveries of Northern California water. Amid financial concerns, the Westlands Water District, the country's largest agriculture water district, voted last month not to participate in the plan. Garcetti spokesman Alex Comisar declined to comment on Koretz’s motion. Earlier in the week, he said the mayor is still considering the project. “The mayor wants to protect ratepayers, develop local water resources, and ensure that L.A. has enough water for generations,” Comisar said. “With that in mind, he is carefully looking at the project, listening to many opinions, and will decide based on the merits." About two dozen activists protested outside Garcetti’s home Wednesday night, calling on him to oppose the project. Koretz said the city sought assurances from the MWD about WaterFix, such as requiring a public vote if the district’s obligations changed. Those requests were “ignored,” he said. He said he hopes his resolution will be voted on at Tuesday’s City Council meeting, before the MWD is expected to vote on the project that afternoon. To go into effect, Koretz’s resolution must be passed by the council and be approved by Garcetti, a spokesman for City Atty. Mike Feuer said Friday. dakota.smith@latimes.com Twitter: @dakotacdsmith

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TWO MEN and two women in a BMW died when the car struck a tree. The impact was so severe the vehicle’s engine was ejected.

Street racing suspected in crash Four people are killed when car slams into tree in Northridge, authorities say. By Christine Mai-Duc Authorities said street racing may have been involved when a speeding car crashed into a tree in Northridge late Friday, killing all four occupants. The crash occurred about 11 p.m., when the driver of the silver BMW lost control of the car while speeding east on Lassen Street alongside a dark-colored sedan, said Officer Shane Bales of the Los Angeles Police Department. The BMW crossed into oncoming traffic lanes near Balboa Boulevard and hit a light pole before slamming into a tree. Flames engulfed the car and the impact was so severe that it ejected the engine, Bales said. The car broke into several pieces. The victims were identi-

JAVIER VAZQUEZ , 20, left, a friend of the victims, and Rosa Herrera, 19, visit the scene of the crash.

fied as Martin Gomez, 20, of Granada Hills, who was said to be at the wheel; Denney Lomeli, 20, of North Hills; Leena Ammari, 21, of Reseda; and Amanda Alfar of Panorama City, whose family said she was 21. The two men were seated in the front and the women in the back seat, police said. All four were killed instantly. Joanne Falahat, Alfar’s aunt, said her niece had gone out to dinner Friday

night to celebrate another friend’s birthday. Just two weeks ago, dozens of family members had gathered to celebrate Alfar’s own birthday, along with her younger sister’s, at a restaurant in Sherman Oaks, Falahat said. “She was the rock of the family,” said Falahat, who described her niece as bubbly, intelligent and driven. “We’re absolutely devastated.”

Alfar was a student at Cal State Northridge, worked part time at a law firm and had recently started a side business as a makeup artist, Falahat said. She hoped to someday become an attorney to help immigrants like her mother, who was from Jordan. The oldest of three daughters, Alfar was born in Los Angeles but spent her early childhood in Jordan. She was raised by her mother and a network of close-knit aunts and uncles, Falahat said. Falahat, who is battling breast cancer, said Alfar messaged her after a recent surgery, promising to visit her this weekend and bring her lunch. “You were always here for me,” she wrote to her aunt, “so now I’m going to be here for you.” Police were searching for the driver of the other vehicle. It was last seen speeding down Balboa Boulevard and did not stop, officials said. Police suspect the drivers of the two vehicles may have

O.C. auxiliary bishop is named Thanh Thai Nguyen, a former war refugee, will help minister to 1.3 million Catholics. By Anh Do They squeezed into the boat just before it slipped out of Cam Ranh Bay. Thanh Thai Nguyen joined 25 other people in reciting the rosary, night and day, and hoping they would not die before reaching the Philippines from Vietnam. It was 1979, and after years of suffering religious persecution, Nguyen, a seminary student, his family and relatives fled the communist rule of their homeland. They spent 18 days at sea, four without food or drinkable water and buffeted by a tropical storm. When they arrived at their destination, Nguyen promised to dedicate his life to God. As he stood Friday inside the glittering Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, Nguyen recounted his journey, wiping his forehead as cameras whirred and an audience applauded. The Most Rev. Kevin Vann, bishop of Orange, had just introduced the lanky immigrant with the Boston-by-way-of-Vietnam accent as his new auxiliary bishop. Nguyen, 64, is tasked with helping to minister to Orange County’s population of 1.3 million Catholics. In late September, he received a call at his Florida parish from the papal nuncio — an ecclesiastical diplomat — telling Nguyen

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BISHOP-ELECT Thanh Thai Nguyen, right, walks

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that Pope Francis had selected him to go to Orange County. The county is home to the largest population of Vietnamese outside Vietnam. Nguyen said he needed half an hour that included prayer to digest his appointment before calling back. Bishop-elect Nguyen, the second Vietnamese American bishop in the county, will join auxiliary Bishop Timothy Freyer, who grew up in Huntington Beach and who was ordained in January. “We need a leader who understands the soul of the Vietnamese,” said Tac Pham, an electrical engineer and a member of St. Cecilia Catholic Church in Tustin. “We need someone who will remind us of the respect for life” and who can unite the community “to be a model among Vietnamese Catholic communities nationwide.” Among his new responsibilities, Nguyen is expected to provide important pa-

storal care and leadership within the Vietnamese Catholic community in Orange County. “Every one of us brings our different gifts, at different times, wherever it’s needed,” Vann said. “We are blessed as a diocese to welcome such an experienced and passionate leader to journey with us in faith.” He expects Nguyen to begin in December. Nguyen was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, and is the second oldest of 11 children. He spent most of his elementary education in Catholic schools and in 1966, he enrolled at St. Joseph Seminary. But his education would be interrupted by the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 when the communist government took over. As a condition of continuing their studies, he and fellow seminarians were forced into hard labor in the rice fields, until Nguyen eventually escaped to the United States.

In the U.S., Nguyen worked at Catholic Charities in Connecticut before returning to academics at Merrimack College, where he earned a bachelor’s of arts degree. He soon began his novitiate year in Washington, D.C., and took his first vows with the La Salette order in1987. He later headed to Massachusetts, where he graduated from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology and was ordained on May 11, 1991. Nguyen will be leaving the St. Joseph parish in the Diocese of St. Augustine, Fla. There, he leads the faithful in a community where many people speak Spanish, Polish and Portuguese. He said he must begin a “process of letting go” of his flock as he prepares to move to California. “I don’t think it’s important where they come from. I think it’s more important that they connect spiritually with the people where they come to,” said Elysabeth Nguyen, a member of Christ Cathedral who was appointed by Vann to a special committee to raise money for the Our Lady of La Vang Shrine at the church in celebration of those of Vietnamese ancestry. As a handful of Vietnamese American priests, among 50 Asian priests in the 10th-largest diocese in the nation, posed for photos at the meet-and-greet with the new bishop, Nguyen said she hopes the new leader will support the project. “His experience, his vision in leading through God, will be what we look forward to.” anh.do@latimes.com

been racing. “We have very little details, but we’re hoping since people did die that the family members, friends, somebody’s going to come forward,” Bales said. “It’s rare that people race each other that don’t know each other.” The LAPD posted dramatic video on Twitter and Instagram showing a black car zooming through the camera frame, followed by flashing lights and smoke behind it, apparently from the impact and flames shooting up after the crash. “LAPD needs your help to solve this tragic crash that took four young lives,” officials said in another post, asking residents to check their security camera footage. As word spread about the crash, families and friends began to mourn. Javier Vazquez, 20, a friend of the victims, was at the scene of the crash early Saturday. He said he got a call from Gabriel Gomez, the twin brother of the driver, Martin Gomez, telling him about the crash. “I woke up to a horrible nightmare of him telling me the news,” Vazquez said. “I knew all of them…. These people didn’t deserve to go like this.” christine.maiduc @latimes.com Twitter: @cmaiduc The Times’ Marc Olson and Irfan Khan contributed to this report.

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High-fiving and hawking peanuts [Sanchez, from B1] on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson four times. At 59, Sanchez — who’s also known as the Churro Man on Reddit — is a whippersnapper. And he’s a snack salesman for the social media age who’s drummed up quite a following for his always-happy commentary on the Boys in Blue. On Instagram, he’s pnutman88 — the 88 being 1988, the last time the Dodgers won the World Series. There, he claims his middle name is “Fun Fun Fun.” A few hours before Friday’s game, Sanchez, wearing his bright-yellow vendor’s shirt, sat alone in the reserve section, high above right field, reading the notes he’d jotted on a piece of yellow paper: He was pumped up. The hair was standing up on his arms — even though he doesn’t have much. It was for his pre-game Instagram video. He doesn’t usually bring notes, but, hey, this is the playoffs, and this is important. “This is it, the chips are down, let’s play the game,” Sanchez said to the camera, noting that the team should be fine with Kershaw on the mound. “Let’s have a great time, as they butter that infield,” he said, zooming in as he admired the groundskeepers watering the dirt. “My God! And, let’s go, L.A.! Let’s go, Dodgers!” His videos always get more exuberant as the game goes on. Between sales, Sanchez grabs a few fans — the more excited, the better — for a shouted on-camera selfie-style interview that shows the world how much fun is being had at Chavez Ravine. A few innings in, Sanchez talked to a man who said he just became a Dodger fan. “I like that guy already, man!” Sanchez said, pointing at him. “Good job. Everybody’s having a good time here. Go, Dodgerrrrrs!” A young man hopped into the shot. “Yeah, Peanut Man, baby!” he shouted.

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ROBERT SANCHEZ was a 16-year-old from Lincoln Heights when he walked to Dodger Stadium and landed a gig hawking peanuts. Now

he’s a snack salesman for the social media age who’s drummed up quite a following for his always-happy commentary on the Boys in Blue.

“Who’s winning tonight?” Sanchez asked. “Los Doyers!” Sanchez, a retired Los Angeles Unified School District carpenter who lives in Duarte, says he’s got the best job in the world. Depending on how far the Dodgers go in the playoffs, he could hit his 3,000th home game this year. When Sanchez married his second wife, Terry, in 1996, she told him he didn’t have to keep vending if he didn’t want to. She was a schoolteacher, and they now had two incomes. “My knees buckled,” he said, laughing. “It’s not even about the money anymore. I love working here.” Since he started in 1974, Sanchez has seen the Dodgers play in five World Series, winning two.

Last summer, he was working the bleachers in the outfield when he looked up and saw a home run ball flying toward him. It was one of the first hit at Dodger Stadium by Corey Seager, who would go on to be rookie of the year. One of Sanchez’s hands was full of cash, and the other got smacked by the ball. “I had a bruise,” he said. “I thought my finger was broken. But, I tell you what, what a memorable moment. My hand was purple for about eight days, but it was worth it.” If he had his druthers, Sanchez would usually sell peanuts and Cracker Jack, because they’re such a baseball classic. He loves selling churros, too, because who

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doesn’t love a churro? When the crowd chants, “Let’s go, Dodgers!” he chants, “Let’s buy churros!” They usually chant along with him. And buy some churros. “People are fun,” he said. Every game is different. Every crowd is different. He’s grown fond of climbing the stairs because it keeps him in shape, and he’s averaging about 14,000 steps a game, according to his pedometer. But you’ve got to be careful so you don’t slip in any nacho cheese. He’s done that before. Sanchez is always having a good time, but his smile is biggest when he talks about his family. He’s got two grown boys, one with a master’s in kinesiology and the other who’s a philosophy

professor and author. “I threw a lot of peanuts to get them there,” Sanchez said. Now he’s got five grandkids he adores. His 6-yearold granddaughter, Leilah, has become a star in his Instagram videos. This year, when the Dodgers swept a team, Sanchez and Leilah would print out the opponents’ logos, cut them out and put them on the floor. Then they’d sweep up the mess for the camera, with Sanchez’s wife filming. “Hey, Peanut Man!” the ponytailed girl chirped after the Dodgers swept the San Diego Padres in their final matchup last month. “Yes, Leilah?” “We already swept San Diego!” she said. “Yes, we did, and we

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best friend at San Quentin. Richardson succeeded Garcia as editor after the latter was released from prison.

The jefe of San Quentin [Editor, from B1] dry chili peppers, which he carried in his pocket and passed out to them like candy. And they felt such hope for him when he walked out to freedom in July, full of big plans for not just his but their future. He was deep into those plans two months after his release when he got in a car with his sister. She was driving. They were in a crash. Both were killed. Garcia was a threestriker whose sentence was cut for good behavior from 65 years to 16. He used to tell men serving decades for robberies, assaults and murders to focus not on getting out of the infamous penitentiary but on becoming better men — men who moved forward and thought big. “It takes a team to make it to the moon,” he used to say. And they had faith in his goals, no matter how grandiose — to reform the criminal justice system, to end gang violence, to turn a fledgling newspaper into an awardwinning publication. Out in the yard, prisoners divide by color — blacks with blacks, whites with whites — but in the old laundry roomturned-newsroom, Garcia led a mix of men whose sole focus was telling stories and putting out the paper. That work continued on a recent afternoon. Jesse Vasquez, a staff writer serving 30 years to life for attempted murder, placed a thermos with Garcia’s favorite tea out on the pavement near the newsroom’s front door to ferment in the hot sun, the way Garcia taught him. Jonathan Chiu, in for first-degree mur-

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with fellow inmates to mourn the loss of Garcia. der, pieced together the paper’s crossword puzzle. And Richard Richardson, long and lanky like Snoop Dogg, bent over his computer pushing himself to finish his toughest assignment yet: Garcia’s obituary. Richardson, who goes by Bonaru, serving time for home robbery, took over as editor after Garcia left. The two were best friends, he said. “He taught me how to be a man, how to be a father, to be responsible and accountable for my actions.” Garcia, who was 65 when he died, was in and out of jail for nearly 50 years. He spent part of his childhood picking prunes on a farm in Northern California and as he grew up became a heroin addict. When he was busted for home robbery in the 1990s and faced 123 years in prison, he skipped bail and fled to Mexico. His mother pleaded with him. Quit drugs, have a child, settle down. “Drop that monkey off

your back,” Carmen Garcia told him. “Then I can die in peace.” Garcia did what his mother asked in the countryside of Mexico, working on a farm, staying clean. He met someone, and they had a daughter and named her Carmen. But eventually his past caught up with him. He was arrested and sent to San Quentin. In his 6-by-10 cell, he started writing. He told his life story and the stories of other inmates expelled from society because they killed their wives, shot up gang rivals, robbed gas stations, peddled drugs. Garcia wrote thousands of words — now scattered in notebooks, on flash drives and pieces of toilet paper. “He was a listener, someone you could talk to about your secrets and your sadness and the harm that you’ve done to others,” said his brother Nick, who also served time at San Quentin. For years, Garcia had brushed aside his mistakes. “I blamed my father, the police, the probation office, the D.A., the judges,” he wrote in a 2014 column. “I blamed everyone but myself.” Writing, he said, brought a new kind of clarity. “I came full circle to the realization that the person responsible for my situation was me.” When he and Richardson began working in the prison’s print shop, Garcia didn’t even know how to turn on a computer. But they used to listen to the chatter of reporters and editors nearby in the newsroom. “They’d be arguing about what story to run on the front page,” Richardson said. “And we’d get in there and tell them our opinion.” The prison newspaper was just revving up again then. A prison warden had brought it back to life, after more than 20 years. It ran on donations, as it does now, and the help of journalists on the outside. Garcia was hired on as a writer in 2009 and began spending more and more time there. Two years later, he was editor in chief. He saw in the San Quentin News an opportunity not just to give prisoners a voice but to educate them about prison programs they could use to improve themselves. He published stories about inmates doing yoga, putting on Shakespeare plays, getting paroled after rehab programs, showing remorse for their crimes. Garcia’s paper featured soul-searching profiles and editorials critical of budget cuts and prison conditions. He invited in district attorneys and judges, for forums to update them on life at the

prison. Bob Ayers, the warden who brought back the newspaper, said Garcia didn't just want a publication that squashed prison gossip. He wanted to do serious, respected journalism. “While I may have plugged in the lamp, which was the resurrected San Quentin News,” he said. “Arnulfo tweaked it until it became a beacon.” Garcia did so under strict supervision. The newsroom had no internet access. Each story was carefully vetted. By the time he left prison, the San Quentin News was printing 28,000 copies, distributed to 35 prisons run by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. “Wall City,” the quarterly magazine he dreamed up, was nearly a reality. The first volume, full of inmates’ stories, was just about to go to press. The morning of the crash, Nick Garcia, who had also been paroled, spoke to his brother on the phone. Arnulfo was at a gas station in Hollister. He sounded excited. His biggest plan was to build a reentry home with a full treatment center, somewhere in the countryside, a place where newly freed prisoners could acclimate themselves to life outside the walls. He had the support of officials at public safety agencies, social workers and several prosecutors, including those who had once locked him up. His family planned to help him pay for it. He and his sister Yolanda were on their way to check out a possible property. The crash occurred minutes after the brothers hung up. Police say Yolanda Garcia missed a stop sign. Her car was hit first by an SUV, then by a big rig. Brother and sister died at the scene. At San Quentin, a weekly support group helps prisoners manage their day-today anger. Garcia once led the group. Now those who came were grief-stricken. In a high-ceiling room that was nonetheless airless, they sat in a circle and took turns saying goodbye. “Arnulfo, you pulled one on us, man,” said one inmate, his face slick with tears. “This one’s hard to take.” “Many times I wanted to quit,” said another, staring at the floor. “You told me, ‘Come on, let’s go.’ ” “I appreciate you,” said Fateen Jackson, 41, “because you saw value in me.” Lucia de la Fuente, one of the group’s coordinators, told the inmates that Garcia had squeezed every last bit out of his two months of freedom. Barbecues, shopping trips with his daughter. Food — lots of great food. De la Fuente said it made him so happy, he texted her photos of his beans, his scrambled eggs and Mexican sausage. She got her final text from him three days before the crash, she said.He was coming over the Bay Bridge at sundown. The light, he told her, was so beautiful. esmeralda.bermudez @latimes.com Staff writer Chris Megerian contributed to this report.

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The mountain lion P-41, whose movements through the Verdugo Mountains were documented in stunning photographs by citizen scientists, has been found dead. Residents found the male puma Wednesday near Shadow Hills, National Park Service officials said. The cause of death had not been determined. The cat had been dead for several days, and the carcass was decayed, said Kate Kuykendall, spokeswoman for the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife will conduct a necropsy in the next couple of weeks, she said. At about 10 years old, P-41 was considered to be of advanced age for a mountain lion in the wild. But his death could have been hastened by causes including rat poison and the La Tuna fire, which burned more than 7,000 acres in the Verdugos last month. “P-41 had already overcome a number of challenges to survive in a relatively small home range with habitat fragmented by roads and development,” said Jeff Sikich, a biologist for the national recreation area. Sikich captured and collared

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P-41 in 2015. The roughly 130-pound animal was a subject of amateur scientists Johanna Turner and Denis Callet, whose photographs were featured in a 2015 Times article. Turner, a sound effects editor for Universal Studios, makes a hobby of setting up motion-controlled cameras to capture shots of Southern California’s mountain lions in their habitats. She said Thursday that she photographed P-41 thousands of times, including hundreds of hours of video, and provided the images to the National Park Service for research. Her last photo was Aug. 3. Though she never saw P-41 in person, she believes the cougar interacted with her through her camera. “If I put a camera in a new spot, sometimes if he wasn’t in the mood to get a flash bulb, he would come up, stop, look around and leave,” she said. “I would get pictures of his butt.” Turner said she believes that P-41 fathered two litters but that none of his four offspring reached adulthood in the wild. Two were hit and killed on freeways, and two were captured and live in a wildlife refuge in Riverside, she said. doug.smith@latimes.com

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[Flutes, from B1] to young students within their districts. The person did not work for any of the affected school districts, and was described as an outside contractor and music performer in several school district news releases. It remains unclear whether any of the possibly contaminated instruments actually wound up in the possession of students, and no illnesses have been reported, according to school officials in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Public health officials have said it is highly unlikely that a sexually transmitted disease or other illness could be contracted by touching dried semen. News of the possibly contaminated flutes left parents in several school districts shaken and disturbed this week. “It’s disgusting and it’s horrible,” said Tracey Taber, whose children attend classes at Sonora Elementary School in Costa Mesa. “And it’s heartbreaking, across the board.” Stacia Crane, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Postal Service, said Friday that no one has been arrested in the case, but declined to comment further because of the active investigation. She also declined to identify the music performer described in the letters issued by school officials. Local police have asked parents whose children received flutes from the program to place them in a sealed brown paper bag and bring them to the nearest police or sheriff ’s station. Flutes Across the World has collaborated with a number of large national charity organizations — including the American Cancer Society and the Ronald McDonald House — as well as performing-arts centers in Orange County and childadvocacy groups in the Philippines and Haiti, according to a website detailing its origins. The program also offered camp and retreat work-

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the World to place them in a sealed paper bag and bring them to authorities. shops for students, according to the website, and aimed to promote “flute and wind music of indigenous cultures and people around the globe.” A spokeswoman for the American Cancer Society in Los Angeles said Friday that the organization has no record of ever working with Flutes Across the World. An e-mail sent to a spokeswoman for the Ronald McDonald House drew no response. Calls and e-mails to the chief executive of the flute organization were not immediately returned. Flutes Across the World was registered as a domestic nonprofit organization based in Ojai in 2013, public records show. Attempts to contact other people listed in the company’s incorporation documents were unsuccessful. School officials have said they have had trouble determining whether or when the organization provided

lessons in their district. “It was difficult for our district to try to pin down what exactly are we looking for as far as this individual,” said Ryan Burris, chief communications officer for the Capistrano Unified School District. Late Thursday, Capistrano Unified officials said they had confirmed that the flute program had not been held in the district in recent months. In Fullerton, Pletka said nearly 130 students ages 11 to 12 may have been involved with the program at Rolling Hills Elementary School this year, though it is unclear whether they came in contact with the possibly contaminated flutes. In a statement, the Saugus Union school district said the person under investigation had either taught students to build flutes or had delivered other presentations to roughly two dozen classes since 2013.

The other affected schools include Courregus Elementary School in Fountain Valley and Sonora Elementary School in Costa Mesa, school officials said. L.A. Unified officials said one of its schools may have been involved in the flute program, but did not name the facility. Pletka said the person who made the presentations in the Fullerton School District came highly recommended from members of the Orange County arts community and “was associated with some pretty reputable organizations who also do background checks on their people.” james.queally@latimes.com Twitter: @JamesQueallyLAT Times Community News staff writer Bradley Zint and Times staff writer Doug Smith contributed to this report.

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.I. Newhouse Jr., the low-profile billionaire media mogul who ran the parent company of some of the nation’s most prestigious magazines, died Sunday. He was 89. Newhouse’s death was confirmed by his family, who said he died at his New York home. The chairman of Conde Nast since 1975, Si Newhouse, as he was known, bought and remade the New Yorker and Details magazines and revived Vanity Fair. Other magazines in the Conde Nast stable included Vogue, Wired, Glamour, W, GQ and Self. The glossy titles helped set the nation’s tastes, reached millions of aspirational readers and appealed to upscale advertisers. “In all realms, he wanted Conde Nast — and its writers, artists and editors — to be at the center of the cultural conversation,” Bob Sauerberg, the company’s chief executive wrote to staff in announcing Newhouse’s death. As Newhouse himself put it in a rare 1988 interview with the New York Times, “Our magazines represent a certain tone and audience.” Under Newhouse, Conde Nast was famously extravagant, paying editors huge salaries, throwing lavish parties and rarely sticking to budgets — if budgets existed at all. Its expense accounts were legendary, with dresses flown from Paris to New York on the Concorde and elephants brought in to menace models at fashion shoots. “He was passionate about journalism and he supported journalists and editors,” his nephew Steven Newhouse, who is the chairman of Advance Publications Inc., which owns Conde Nast, told the Associated Press. “He set an example of caring about the right things in media, which is great sto-

ries, great design, great magazines, great websites.” Newhouse’s vision extended beyond magazines. Before selling the Random House book publishing empire, he spotted a magazine profile about a rising young real estate mogul and commissioned the first book of a future president: Donald Trump’s “The Art of the Deal.” Some of his editors became celebrities in their own right. “He loves magazines, meaning the whole and all of it, the variety of things published, the business details, the visions and actions and personalities of his editors, the problems, the problemsolving, the ink and paper,” New Yorker editor David Remnick told New York magazine in 2009. Newhouse also brought in buzz-obsessed Britons Anna Wintour and Tina Brown as editors, while abruptly firing staffers who fell from his graces. Grace Mirabella learned she was being axed as editor in chief of Vogue in June 1988 when her husband saw it on TV. That same year, Val Weaver was let go as head of Self magazine when Newhouse knocked on her door and asked, “Would you mind if we made a change in editors in chief?” according to a 1995 biography of Newhouse by Thomas Maier. Newhouse said the company that his father bought in 1959 for $5 million was following in the tradition of its founder, Conde Montrose Nast. The company struggled in recent years with the advertising meltdown. Since 2007 it has closed magazines including Gourmet, Modern Bride, House & Garden and Golf for Women. The ambitious business magazine Portfolio folded in April 2009 just two years after its launch, burning through an estimated $100 million. Forbes said in March 2009 that the downturn had sliced Newhouse’s fortune in half, but his estimated net worth of $4 billion still left

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obert L. McKay, the former architect who designed the first Taco Bell restaurant and helped transform the brand into a fast-food powerhouse, has died of cancer in Santa Ana. He was 86. It was 1964 when McKay, then a Sherman Oaks architect, was hired by Taco Bell founder Glen Bell to create a distinctive new look for the business. Bell had opened his first Taco Bell in Downey in 1962, selling hard-shell tacos and other Mexican-inspired foods. McKay took the concept and designed the California Spanish-style mission motif, arched and tiled with the rooftop bell that became the company’s signature image. Bell decided McKay could do more than just architectural design; he opened the company’s headquarters in Torrance and hired McKay to be president. McKay closed his architectural and contracting business and devoted his full energy to Taco Bell. The company went public in 1969 and McKay eventually became chief executive. In 1978, Taco Bell was sold to PepsiCo and McKay stayed on as president and chief executive until 1981. By then McKay was ready to move on. “I wasn’t ever comfortable sitting around conference tables in fancy resorts listening to presentations from the very people doing the great work of running the company every day,” he said. In 1982, McKay turned his attention to financing and

building new businesses. For the next 30 years, McKay invested in ventures ranging from technology and consumer products to real estate and fine art. He was particularly proud of his involvement in building the National Bank of Southern California in Santa Ana into an important source of capital for local businesses. The bank was sold to US Bancorp in 1999. In 1992, the McKay Family Foundation was formed, dedicated to social justice and community organizing work, particularly the rebuilding effort after the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Separately, McKay and his wife, Meagan, were most proud of their work funding the creation of the Redeemer School in Jackson, Miss., for very-low-income children. McKay, who died last month, is survived by his wife; two sons, Rob and John; and five grandchildren. ron.white@latimes.com Twitter: @RonWLATimes

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him among the world’s richest men. Newhouse and his brother, Donald, owned New York-based Advance Publications Inc., which in addition to Conde Nast has more than 20 daily newspapers in the U.S. and a cable television company. Unlike other media moguls who seemed obsessed with building an empire to make money, influence opinion or bask in the spotlight, Newhouse

seemed to have no grand plan. He rarely spoke to the media and had no discernible political views. Newhouse lived with his wife, Victoria, an architectural historian, in a Manhattan apartment near the United Nations and in a house in Bellport, Long Island. He had two sons and a daughter by his first wife, Jane Franke. news.obits@latimes.com

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Bateman, Hugh albert

April 14, 1932 - October 2, 2017

Ames, Lionel Lionel Ames, 94, passed away peacefully on October 1st in Sherman Oaks, CA. He was born to Asher Shapiro, an Orthodox Rabbi, and his wife Miriam (Greenbaum) on March 6th, 1923 in Chicago, IL. He was the fifth of six children and was raised in Chicago before being drafted into the army after completing two years of engineering college. Ten months into his army career, at the age of 23, he was transferred to Los Alamos, NM. There he worked alongside his brother, Dr. Maurice Shapiro, in a chemistry lab on the implosion part of the atomic bomb. In Los Alamos Lionel also worked as a freelance Cantor, performing Passover Seders and services every Friday. Lionel loved this experience and his scientific talents were recognized by his superiors who asked him to stay on even after his army career as a staff sergeant ended. Instead, Lionel returned to college in Chicago to finish his degree in industrial engineering. The day after he graduated he abandoned this career path altogether and followed his heart into the world of show business. In his late twenties Lionel changed his last name to Ames and moved to New York City. He lived there for five years, landing work as an actor and singer, including being cast in three Broadway plays. One such theatre experience had him working alongside Carol Burnett, and when the production traveled to Los Angeles for a ten-week run, Lionel fell in love with Hollywood and never left. It was here that he established a successful career as a Cantor and singer, producing the album Lionel Ames: In Concert in 1969. He also performed in a variety of films and television shows in the 1950s and ‘60s. He eventually established a booming business as an event planner and entertainer and performed at all types of ceremonies from weddings to Bar Mitzvahs to High Holiday services for over fifty years. A huge believer in holistic medicine and healthy living, which earned him the affectionate nickname “Vita” (for vitamin), Lionel was still going to the gym five times a week until a few months before his death. He never had hearing aids, glasses, or a walker – even at 94 he was a vision of health. He smiled often and could always be counted on for a good joke. Lionel is survived by his adoring wife of fifty years, Barbara, whom he called “the light of his life” until his last day. He frequently sang to her and professed his unending love and devotion to her every chance he got. He is also survived by his sister Naomi, his step-sons Paul and Brad, his niece Raquel, his nephew Joel, his daughterin-law Ina, and four grand-children, Sean, Chris, Maxwell and Hope. Lionel is preceded in death by his parents, his brother Maurice, three sisters, and his step-son Jeff. Lionel and his sister Beth, who lived in Israel, passed away on the very same night. He will be dearly missed by all who knew him. Private family services were held. Donations may be made in his memory to Maximum Hope Foundation (www. MaximumHopeFoundation.org).

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Beloved son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, uncle, and fatherin-law. Born in Los Angeles, attended Harvard School, Stanford and UCLA. He enjoyed a long career at Bateman Eichler Hill Richards. Predeceased by his brother William H. Bateman, his sister-in-law Carol F. Bateman, his brother-in-law Willis Durst Jr., and his son Hugh Durst Bateman. Survived by his wife Elizabeth Durst Bateman, daughter Mary Bateman Yen (Raymond) and their 2 children, along with nieces, nephews and many lifelong friends. After a private burial, a memorial service will be held. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Billings, John McCoy

November 29, 1938 - October 1, 2017

Passed away peacefully on Oct. 1, 2017. A resident of Highland, CA, he retired from LAC Fire Dept. in 1998 and spent his days leading a quiet life of reading, spending time with his grandchildren, and rooting for his SDSU Aztecs. He enriched our lives by loving, mentoring and supporting us through life’s joys and challenges. John is survived by his wife Maria; his children, Jim, Debbie, Natalie, and Adam; his grandchildren Samantha, Zaena, Nathan, Dean, Vivian, Zach, and Ellesse; and his niece Kathy.

Bradley, daryl Wood

January 19, 1955 - September 3, 2017

Our beloved Daryl, our Rock and Hero, passed away peacefully and with a most beautiful countenance in his Ladera Heights home on September 3 after a brief but valiant battle with pneumonia and lung disease. Strong-willed, extremely intelligent and well-read, refusing to bend to artificial convention or pretense, and possessing a deeply stalwart moral compass, he was respected by family, colleagues, friends and acquaintances alike. Daryl was a seeker of truth, a lay cosmologist, tenacious in always asking “Why?” “How” and “What does that mean?” He would explore and challenge conventional attitudes about daily life experiences and events through the lens of the laws of physics and nature. He also possessed a genuine compassion and authentic sense of justice for his fellow human beings, those in need, and the planet on which we human beings thrive. He was a good and honorable man and never took any good fortune for granted. Daryl was graduated from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he met fellow student and loving wife-to-be, Hortense, nee Callahan, and received his BS in Electrical Engineering. He was awarded membership in Alpha Sigma Nu, the National Jesuit Honor Society. He also worked at McGraw Edison and Argonne National Laboratory before attending UCLA where he received his Master’s degree in Quantum Electronics. Daryl continued to hone his engineering expertise with postgraduate studies. During his 30-year career beginning at Hughes Aircraft Company, which later was acquired by General Motor and then Raytheon Company, he received countless excellence and achievement awards, including nomination for the Black Engineer of the Year Award presented by Mobil Corporation, the Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and US Black Engineer Magazine. Daryl Wood Bradley was born to Abner M. Bradley, now deceased, and Edna M. Bradley on January 19, 1955 in Glasgow, Kentucky. He is survived by his wife, Hortense Bradley; sons, Byron and Derrick Bradley; mother, Edna Bradley; brother, Randal Bradley; sister, Mavis G. Bradley; two nieces, Shalaya and Dana Bradley; and a host of cousins and other relatives. Funeral services were held September 12 at Brooks Funeral Home, www.brooksfuneralhomeky. com, in Munfordville, Kentucky; a Mass will be said for Daryl at 11 a.m. October 22, followed by a repast, at St. Jerome Church, 5550 Thornburn St., Westchester. Daryl diligently labored to provide for his family and instill in his sons the deepest respect for the value and power of receiving an excellent education. His loving family misses and loves him more than anyone can know.

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Citro, Cassandra Helis Conrad

December 13, 1942 - September 30, 2017

Cassandra Helis Conrad Citro, age 74, passed away peacefully in Santa Monica, California, on September 30, 2017, surrounded by her loving family and devoted caregivers. Sandra, as she was known to her family and many friends, fought a valiant battle against cancer for two years. Throughout her illness, she always maintained a positive outlook and enthusiasm for life. Despite her failing health, she continuously placed the needs and happiness of her family and friends foremost. Born in New Orleans, La., she resided in Los Angeles, California, for many years. Sandra graduated from the Metairie Park Country Day School in Metairie, Louisiana. Following graduation, she continued her education in Switzerland and Stephens College located in Columbia, Missouri. She graduated from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles with a degree in film editing. After serving apprenticeships, she was admitted to the prestigious Film Editor’s Guild. She was an accomplished film editor, working with film notables, such as Orson Welles. During the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, her father, William G. Helis, Jr., was appointed by the President to serve as the official envoy for the United States to the wedding of the King of Greece. Sandra accompanied her father and served with grace and distinction as his hostess for the numerous diplomatic and official events surrounding the wedding. For many years, she volunteered, as a trained counselor, to serve cancer patients and their families in the Los Angeles area. In the tradition of her family, she was also a passionate horsewoman. She was an accomplished rider. She maintained and trained her horses in Kalispell, Montana, near her vacation home so she could be with her horses daily when in residence. She is survived by her two children, John William Citro of Pacific Palisades, California, and Marika Anne Citro of Van Nuys, California. She was preceded in death by her father, William G. Helis, Jr. and her mother, Venus Dipson Pigman. She was also preceded in death by her husband, John R. Citro, her sister, Betty Vanessa Helis, and her devoted companion, Daniel J. Campbell. A memorial service was held in Los Angeles California. A private Greek Orthodox burial service will be held at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, with interment to follow in the Helis Family tomb. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, contributions be made to the charity of your choice.

Crites, Jr., George Henry September 4, 1939 - October 2, 2017

George Henry Crites, Jr. passed away peacefully at his home in Los Angeles, California on October 2, 2017, surrounded by his loving family. He was 78. Born to parents Bertha Leona Hickethier and George Henry Crites, Sr. in Drain, Oregon, he joined the U.S. Army in 1958 and was honorably discharged in 1965. George began his career with Thrifty Drug Company in Oregon and was transferred to Southern California where he raised his family in Walnut. His son, Kevin, predeceased him on May 29, 1992 at age 28. George was a charismatic Christian minister touching thousands of lives, a trusted counselor, and at age 67 became a seaman with Military Sealift Command until he retired at age 71. Throughout his life George served the Lord, his country, and his fellow man. We love you, George….you will be greatly missed. George is survived by his wife, Teresa; daughter Kimberly Clancy; grandchildren Ryan, Taylor, Cody, and Prosperity; brothers Richard Crites and Robert Crites; sisters Bonita Powell and Linda Williams; 7 brothers and sistersin-law; and 17 nieces and nephews. Services will be held at Forest Lawn, Covina Hills, on Saturday, October 14, at 12 noon.

Mary Elizabeth Dakan, cherished mother to Earl, Michael, Jennifer and Michelle, nurturing grandmother to ten grandchildren and wife of Thomas Dakan, passed away on Sunday, September 24, 2017. Mary died peacefully, with her family by her side, at her home in Pasadena, from Lewy Body Dementia, a disease that she endured for the last decade of her life. Mary created an open home that welcomed family, friends, boarders, spontaneous arrivals, and international travelers. She was a cinephile, a lover of jazz, an elegant dancer, with a fondness for language, art, and stimulating conversation. Mary was born in Washington D.C. to William and Lenore Kass. In her early years her family moved to California where they settled in Beverly Hills and welcomed her much loved brother Michael. She attended Immaculate Heart High School and graduated from Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles. In 1961 she married her husband of 56 years, Thomas Dakan. What will be missed the most is her listening ear and quiet acceptance and the countless moments in her kitchen, that was filled with raucous laughter, conversation and compassion. A mass in her memory will be held at 1:00 pm on October 14th at St. Phillip the Apostle Church, 151 S Hill Ave., Pasadena. A memorial celebration will follow at 3:00 pm at The Waverly School,108 Waverly Drive in Pasadena.

IfekwunIgwe, Aaron e. July 31, 1932 - October 1, 2017

Dr. Aaron Ifekwunigwe died quietly at home in Petersburg, VA. He is survived by his wife, Muriel, children Christopher, Jayne and Ann, grandchildren David, Justin, Cameron, Isaiah, and Muriel, son- and daughterin-law Christian and Janet, and sistersin-law Mary and Doreen. He joins his parents, Aaron and Florence, son David, sisters Grace and Theresa, and brother Richard. Memorial Service will be on Sat., Oct. 14, 2017 at 2pm at Christ and Grace Episcopal Church in Petersburg, VA. Contact the family via https://www.smore.com/5xv31 or rememberingdraaron@gmail.com. In lieu of flowers, please support Doctors Without Borders https://donate. doctorswithoutborders.org.

Klose, Gerald Raymond

January 4, 1930 - September 26, 2017

Eatman, Robert David

July 26, 1952 - September 24, 2017

Robert David Eatman, a longtime Pacific Palisades resident, died on September 24th, surrounded by family and friends, after a valiant fight against cancer. He was 65. A native of Wilmette, IL, he lived life to the fullest, distinguishing himself in two different careers, and enriching the lives of family, friends and those in his professional life. A gifted French horn player, Bob earned music scholarships first to University of Denver, and then to Indiana University. Bob worked internationally for four years as a professional musician, performing with prestigious music festivals in Aspen, Spoleto, and Montreux, and later working in Israel as a member of the Jerusalem Symphony. Returning to the United States, Bob worked his way through Chicago-Kent School of Law, and then joined the Chicago chapters of AFTRA, SAG, and AGMA as Assistant Executive Director, negotiating labor agreements for performers in television, radio, and the performing arts. Moving to Los Angeles, he worked as an executive in animation production, and then as a Business Affairs executive for Fox Broadcasting and Fox Kids Network. Bob founded his own talent agency, Robert Eatman Enterprises, Inc., in 1991. He represented many of the top talent in local and syndicated radio, and was considered by most to be the preeminent talent agent for radio performers, known for his skill, integrity, and professionalism. He remained at the top of his profession, and continued to work until days before his death. Bob cultivated a wide circle of friends and colleagues, and dedicated himself to his family, Jewish culture, and local community. He found his greatest happiness with the love of his life, Robin, and the wonderful family they built with their three sons. Adored husband of Robin and father of Jonah, Justin and Noah. Dear son of the late Ruth and the late Leo Eatman. Cherished brother of Paula Eatman (Bruce Fischer), Ross Eatman (Paula Sharp), and Lisa Eatman (David Tenenbaum). Loving son-in-law of Robert and the late Ruth Mirvis. Devoted brother-in-law of Reid (Dina) Mirvis, Jeff Mirvis, and Pamela Mirvis. Proud uncle of Julie Fischer, Rebecca Fischer (Michael Grenetz), Julio Sharp-Wasserman, Rachel, Michael and Jessica Tenenbaum, Kyle (Karissa), Marvin, George, Emilie, Carley, and Sidney Mirvis. Special cousin to Harvey (Elizabeth) Waller and many others. Funeral services were held on September 28th. Charitable contributions may be made in Bob’s name to Active Minds (www. activeminds.org), Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles (www.jfsla.org) or to a charity of your choice.

Born in Jamestown, North Dakota, Jerry (87) was the youngest of 13 children born to August and Katherine Klose (nee Ries); all of his siblings predeceased him. Following his service in the Korean conflict (19511953), he married Monica B. Hamkens in 1954 and moved to Southern California. He spent most of his career as a general contractor. A devoted husband and father, Jerry is survived by his wife of 63 years, in addition to their nine children, (Michael, Diane, Barbara, Catherine, Daniel, Eileen, Christine, Robert, and Richard), as well as 15 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held on Friday, October 20 at Saint John Vianney Catholic Church (1345 Turnbull Canyon Road, Hacienda Heights) with Viewing and Rosary at 10:30 a.m. and a Funeral Mass at 11:00 a.m. Donations may be made to Catholic Relief Services for hurricane victims, the St. John Vianney building fund, or the charity of your choice.

Magit, Myrna Charlotte

October 27, 1929 - October 4, 2017

Myrna Magit passed away peacefully on October 4th, surrounded by her family. Myrna was known for her elegance, her grace, her welcoming home and her unfailing generosity but it is as an incredible mother that she will be most remembered. She not only loved her children fiercely and with all her heart and soul but made all around her feel taken care of and cared for. Our hearts are broken with her loss but what she taught about the power of love and family will endure for generations. Myrna is survived by her children Benita, Debra (Chris), and Anthony (Gina), her grandchildren Sam, Jake and Bertie (Chase), and her greatgrandchildren Ezra and Hila. Services will be held Sunday, October 8th at 1pm at Hillside Memorial Park, 6001W. Centinela Ave., Culver City. Reception to follow. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Heart Association/Western State Affiliate, P.O. Box 742030, LA, CA 90074-2030.

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Foreman, Thurman a.

Thurman A. Foreman, aka “Mr. T”, went to be with the Lord on 9/28 at the age of 90. Mr. T. spent over 12 years teaching driver’s education for the LAUSD. He was preceded in death by his wife Gloria (Simon) Foreman, and is survived by his first wife, Eva (Bowser) Foreman, and will be deeply missed by his children Gary Thurman Foreman, Gayle Christine Foreman, and his 3 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held on 10/9/17 at Inglewood Park Cemetery in the Chapel of the Chimes at 12 noon.

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Matilda (Til), 92, passed away in peace in Carmel, Ca., surrounded by her 2 daughters. She leaves behind her daughters Judy Maltes Romans and Donna Maltes Adams, sister Cecilia Rodgrigues, 6 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. Donations may be made to Alzheimer’s.

Glenn Rosen, 54, passed on October 1, 2017, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Tommy is survived by his mother Yoneko Takimoto; sisters - Jane Little, Elizabeth (John) Doomey, Dorothy (Lipo) Rosero; along with many nieces and nephews. Funeral Service will be held 11:00 am, Saturday October 14th, 2017 at Crossway Church, 9610 Haddon Ave., Pacoima, CA 91331. Casual attire welcome. www.fukuimortuary.com (213)626-0441

Roberta G. Williams went home to our Lord on Monday, October 2, 2017 in Yakima, WA, surrounded by her friends and family. She was born in Brawley, CA, on August 12, 1949 to Junior and Geraldine Campbell and was one of five sisters and three brothers.

Martin, robert William

August 7, 1940 - September 21, 2017

Passed peacefully in Northridge, CA at the age of 77. He is survived by his loving wife Guadalupe (Lu), children George, Yolanda, Doug and Genevieve. Also fondly remembered by his grandchildren, great grandchildren, brother, sister, nieces and nephews.

Meyers, Ilene

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meyers, ilene braun

January 31, 1940 - October 4, 2017

Ilene Braun Meyers, born January 31st, 1940, passed away in Larkspur, California, on October 4th, 2017 at the age of 77. Ilene played many roles in her life: daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, principal, political activist, and business partner. She died of a sudden massive stroke. In lieu of flowers please donate to the Jewish National Fund at www.JNF.org in memory of Ilene. Services will be held at Mount Sinai Hollywood Hills on Tuesday, October 10th, at 2pm.

September 5, 1963 - October 1, 2017

Porcaro, Miles Edwin crawford Age 31, of Los Angeles, CA, passed away October 4, 2017. Beloved son of the late Jeffrey Porcaro, Susan Porcaro Goings & Rick Goings; loving brother of Christopher (Cindy) Porcaro, Nico Porcaro, Rett Goings, Todd Goings, Amy Goings, Kristina Goings, and Anna (Eric) Goings Furr; grandson of Carrie & Edwin Norris, Sr., and Eileen & Joe Porcaro; nephew of Linda & Ron Lloyd, Edwin Norris, Jr., Steve Porcaro, Joleen & Steve Duddy, Cheryl Porcaro & the late Mike Porcaro; cousin of Carrie Hogaboom, Dillon Hogaboom, Emma Hogaboom, Heather Porcaro, Brittany Duddy, Brianne Porcaro, Chase Duddy, Sam Porcaro, Jeffrey Porcaro, Paige Duddy, Dominic Porcaro, & Michaela Porcaro; proud uncle of Porter & Holden. Also survived by countless friends. Miles was a gifted musician, talented artist, knowledgeable military historian, and a student at Rollins College. He shared with his brothers a love of cinematic craft and was quick-witted with a wicked sense of humor. Miles will be remembered for his infectious laughter, his big smile, and his warm hugs. A private service for family and friends will be held Wednesday, October 11, 2017 beginning at 3pm, at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, Church of the Hills. Miles will be laid to rest with his father. In lieu of flowers, and in honor of Miles’ passion for military veterans and the homeless, please donate to the Gary Sinise Foundation (www. garysinisefoundation.org).

Miller, edwin

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Moskowitz, irwin

May 13, 1927 - September 17, 2017

Irwin was a loving family man with a big heart. He is survived by his beautiful wife Elaine, his two sons Andrew & Matthew, his grandchildren Ben, Sara, Alex, Isabel & Dana, and his joyous great-granddaughter Matilda. We will miss you!

Port, Norman

August 26, 1916 - October 5, 2017

101, passed away October 5, 2017 surrounded in love by his adoring family. Survived by his daughters Pamela Streitfeld and Barbara Schwartz, and son James (Stella) Port; brothers Marvin and Jack (Elaine); six grandchildren and their spouses and eleven greatgrandchildren and one on the way. He will be dearly missed and is loved by everyone who knew him. Services will be held Monday, October 9, 2017 at 12:00 noon at Hillside Memorial Park (800)576-1994. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his name to Temple Mishkon Tephilo, 206 Main St., Venice, CA 90291.

Glenn was born on September 5, 1963, in New York City to Lynn and Alvin Rosen. He had a strong work ethic and determination to pave his own path. He attended the prestigious Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, and graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1981. In 1985, he received his BA from UCLA with a degree in economics. While completing his senior year at UCLA, Glenn was hired as the first head trader at Kayne Anderson in Century City, and he held that position for 12 years. Always an adventurer, Glenn left Kayne to capitalize on the burgeoning financial markets in Eastern Europe. After 3 years in Prague and Budapest with Wood & Company and Commerzbank, he brought his expertise back to Los Angeles in 1998, becoming a partner in renowned hedge funds “Mikles/Miller” and then “Barrington Partners.” Glenn loved animals, music, traveling to exotic and sometimes dangerous locales as well as the great outdoors. He felt a special connection to Africa where he visited often to mentor and support children in need. He is survived by his loving parents, brothers Bruce, Jimmy and Kyle, sisterin-laws Vicky, Tiffany and Layne, and beloved children Hadley, Alex, Paris and Lucy. Funeral services will be held on Friday, October 13, at Hillside Memorial Mortuary in Los Angeles at 10AM. In lieu of flowers, please honor Glenn’s memory with a donation to the “African Wildlife Foundation.”

Shapiro, pearl

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shimabukuro, karen e.

Karen Eiko Shimabukuro, born in Honolulu, HI, and long-time resident of Gardena, CA, passed away at the age of 77 on September 13, 2017. She is predeceased by her husband, Raymond; and is survived by her son, Earl; daughter, Joy (Andrew Berkin); grandson, Evan; sister, Florence Goya; and many nephews, nieces and other relatives. A private funeral service was held on October 3rd at Green Hills Memorial Park. www.fukuimortuary.com (213) 626-0441

slay, Frank Conley

July 8, 1930 - September 30, 2017

Nishikubo, hiroshi

November 15, 1921 - September 23, 2017

He passed away peacefully. He is survived by his wife, Betty, brother, son, daughters, nieces, nephews and grandchildren. His family will miss his steady presence, his humor and his generous, loving heart. He did not wish a memorial service. If you wish to make a donation, they can be made to the Go for Broke National Educational Foundation: www.goforbroke.org.

Palmer, lillian Cogen

October 9, 1919 - June 2, 2017

The extraordinary life of Lillian C. Palmer, 97, ended on Friday, June 2 when she passed away peacefully in Santa Monica, CA. She was deeply loved by her children—daughter Meredith Palmer and son William Palmer, daughter-in-law Anne Palmer, her adored grandchildren Sofie and Gus Palmer, and her favorite, remarkable dog CoCo. Lillian lived a full and long life, active and lucid until the end. Her passion for art and photography led to a position as Professor of Instructional Media and Communications at California State University at Northridge (CSUN) where she taught for more than 30 years. She helped to create one of the first multi-media centers in the U.S. on the Northridge campus. She graduated from UCLA and Mills College, Oakland where she studied psychology and the arts, her passion for people and photography never ceased. In 2006 her beloved husband of 61 years Herbert, who owned the Herbert Palmer Gallery, passed away. A private ceremony was held in memoriam for Lillian and the Gallery at the Getty Research Institute. Donations in Lillian’s memory may be made to: UCLA Division of Geriatrics’Home Care Program Cedars Sinai, A. Giuliano Research & Education Fund

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Reibsamen, Piercy K.

June 30, 1928 - September 11, 2017

Piercy Kay Reibsamen, FAIA, passed from this life peacefully at home on September 11, 2017 of natural causes. He was 89. P.K. was born June 30, 1928, the only child of Piercy F. Reibsamen and Grayce C. Dickinson, in Britt, IA. They moved to Long Beach, CA, in 1945. He studied engineering at Long Beach CC, and graduated from CSU Polytechnic San Luis Obispo, 1952, with a BS, Architectural Engineering. In September 1952 he married Jacquelyn Andre, of San Luis Obispo, and moved to Los Angeles to begin married life, a lifelong career, and a family. In 1959, P.K. was named Assoc. Partner and Dir. of Architecture at Honnold and Rex, Architects. He became managing partner in 1968, and served as president of the succeeding firm of Reibsamen, Nickels and Rex. He directed the successful completion of many landmark projects and received of many awards of excellence of design and execution from the architectural profession and civic organizations. From 1966, P.K. was a corporate member of the American Institute of Architects, active in Education and Professional Development committees. He lectured and critiqued at Schools of Architecture and Environmental Design for CSU Cal Poly and UC Berkeley and served as library design consultant for UCLA and faculty advisor USC. P.K. was presented the 2004 Octavius Morgan Distinguished Service Award for his significant volunteer contributions—as a commissioner for 40 years—to the California Architects Board. His interest in the education and training of new architects led him to work in developing standards and evaluations for the profession. P.K. and his second wife, Jackie, moved to Valencia in 1988. He joined the Sunrise Rotary Club, where he was the editor of the newsletter, served as treasurer, and flipped pancakes for breakfasts for many years. He designed the SCV Veteran’s Historical Plaza. He contributed many hours to the SCV Senior Center. He received commemorations from L.A. county and CA State Assembly for his service on the Board of Directors of the Sam Dixon Foundation. He served as treasurer until he resigned in 2017. P.K. Reibsamen will be missed for his strength and character, and mourned for his humanity by peers, associates, friends and family. He is survived by his wife, Jacqueline; his children, Andrea Reibsamen (spouse Stephen Doyle), Venice, CA; Christopher Reibsamen (spouse Suzy), Moorpark ,CA; Matthew Reibsamen (spouse Michele), Fallon, NV; his stepsons, Stewart Sher (spouse Judy), West Hills; and David Sher (spouse Carol Lynn), Sylmar; seven grandchildren and a great-grandson. A Celebration of Life is scheduled; for information please contact carolkeys@ aol.com. Support, in his honor: Santa Clarita Valley Senior Center: myscvcoa. org; or the Samuel Dixon Family Health Centers: sdfhc.org.

May 3, 1949 - September 12, 2017

Frank Conley Slay died Saturday, September 30, 2017 in San Diego, age 87. He is survived by sister Sarah Slay Chalk, sister-in-law Bettye Slay, and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by parents Frank and Esther Slay and brother, John D. Slay, of Dallas. Frank was born on July 8, 1930, in Dallas, TX, earned a University of Texas Business degree in 1951, and moved to New York City to begin a long, successful popular music career as a well-known writer, arranger, publisher and independent record producer. Hits with Bob Crewe include “Silhouettes” and “Tallahassee Lassie”. In Philadelphia, he and Dick Clark published Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons hits, which appear in “Jersey Boys”. In 1960’s Hollywood, Frank’s Claridge Music Group produced “psychedelic” songs, including “Incense and Peppermints” and “Green-eyed Lady”. A classically trained piainist, Frank also played a rollicking Boogie Woogie. Lately of San Diego, he enjoyed global travel, fine dining, and the local music scene. Frank was determined, smart, talented, fun, generous, and loyal. He will be greatly missed. Memorial Service Sunday, October 15 at 2:00pm at University Christian Church, reception following. Donations to UCC, 3900 Cleveland Ave, San Diego, CA 92103. https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Frank_Slay

Stein, Helaine

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Stein, Helaine (lainie)

October 21, 1950 - October 5, 2017

Lainie Stein, beloved wife of Bruce Stein, adored identical twin of Lizbeth Schwartz, mother to Shelby (Jason) Sumner and the late Michael Stein, Nana to Jasper, and daughter to Lee & Ilene Clow died peacefully on October 5 at home. The funeral will be Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 12:30 pm at Mount Sinai, 6150 Mount Sinai Drive in Simi Valley. Contributions can be made to the American Cancer society http://relay.acsevents.org/site/ TR?px=4134004&pg=personal&fr_ id=79015

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August 12, 1949 - October 2, 2017

Roberta graduated from Central Union High School in El Centro, CA. She then became a Licensed Vocational Nurse, and afterwards graduated as a Registered Nurse from Glendale College in California. She is survived by Chris Williams of Studio City, CA; her daughter, Lorie (Bill) Marcoux of Rohnert Park, CA; her son, Hal Church (Casandra) of Stockton, CA; six grandsons and one great-grandson.

Van Vorst, Clare ann

February 27, 1918 - January 7, 2017

1918-2017. Clare Ann Van Vorst passed away of natural causes on January 7, 2017 at the age of 98. Her sons Steve and David and her grandson Calvin were with her during her final days. Clare was born on February 27, 1918 in Columbus, Ohio. She was the sixth of nine children born to William and Theophila Kappes. Clare attended Rosary High School and went to work for the Farm Bureau Insurance Co. (now Nationwide) following graduation. During World War II Clare enlisted in the United States Marine Corps which had just begun to accept women recruits. She was a member of the sixth class ever of women Marines. She was accepted into Officer Candidate School and served as a second lieutenant at Camp Lejeune and Parris Island. After the war she moved to California to attend UCLA under the GI Bill to study International Relations and Political Science. There she met William Van Vorst who was just beginning his teaching career in the Engineering Department. The two began dating and were married on June 14, 1949. During their long marriage Clare and Bill had the opportunity to travel to and live in a number of different countries, namely the Philippines, Indonesia, Turkey, and New Zealand. Clare developed a love of travel and a particularly keen interest in ancient Greek and Roman culture and antiquities. After her return from overseas Clare worked for many years as a docent at both the Getty Villa in Malibu and the Getty Museum in West Los Angeles. While she enjoyed Both, she was particularly fond of the Villa. She also spent several years as a substitute teacher at Santa Monica City College. Clare was a long time member of Corpus Christi Parish in Pacific Palisades. She will be missed by the many friends she made wherever she lived. She is survived by her sons Steve and David and grandson Calvin. Sadly her daughter Vicki pre deceased her in 2002 and her grandson Francis in 2016. Her husband Bill passed away in 2014 at the age of 94.

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Maltes, Matilda almeida February 3, 1925 - October 1, 2017

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2017

Her love of family was second only to her love for Jesus and her desire to follow Him. Roberta loved to share inspirational letters and emails from Workers (ministers) and friends. She extended spiritual encouragement and love, caring time spent with others, always striving to live a life as an example of the life of Jesus Christ. A memorial service for friends and family will be held on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. at Rainier Memorial Center inYakima,WA. Arrangements are by Rainier Memorial Center of Yakima (509-453-9371).

In Memoriam

Gabe ...

October 8, 1980 - May 8, 2011

Happy Birthday You are in our hearts, always. We miss you so very much... Love, Mom, Dad, Lexi, Dal and Wyatt

Dr. Ytbarek Gebre-Egziabher December 4, 1931 - September 25, 2017 Dr. Ytbarek Gebre-Egziabher, 85, a retired general surgeon, passed, surrounded by his family, on September 25, 2017, at a hospital in Los Angeles, California. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Semainesh, their five children Samuel, Brikti (Kidane and children Segen, Senai and Simon), Demoz, Meaza and Rahwa (Michael and children Yohannes and Mahari) and sisters Abeba and Kibra. Ytbarek Gebre-Egziabher was born in Adwa, Ethiopia and came to the United States in the early 1950s to attend college and medical school at Indiana University in Bloomington. After completing his training and practicing in the United States, Dr. Gebre-Egziabher returned to Ethiopia and practiced for nearly a decade before returning to the United States in the early 1980s in the midst of political upheaval in Ethiopia. He spent the last decades of his career as an ER physician at Kaiser Permanente in West Los Angeles. Professionally and otherwise, Dr. Gebre-Egziabher lived a life devoted to helping the underserved here and abroad. Dr. Gebre-Egziabher is interred at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to some of the charities he cared deeply about: Habitat for Humanity; City of Hope; Southern Poverty Law Center; or St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

Cynthia Loeb Ellis

October 8, 1949 - March 18, 2010

Forever in our thoughts Happy Birthday Mom Mikey

Patrick Kinne

March 21, 1943 - October 7, 2016

You’re still the one and I’ll be loving you always. Forever your wife, Sheryl

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Stanford L. Optner December 26, 1920 - May 16, 2017 Hailing from Chicago, Stan and Ruth, his wife, were lovers for life. Ruth grew up in Winnetka, IL, and after a year at Stanford and 2 years at Northwestern University, she graduated from University of Arizona following her new husband to his wartime job. Stanford grew up on the north shore of Chicago and graduated Harvard University. Married February 20, 1943 the couple left Chicago to settle for the duration of WW II in Tuscon, AZ, where Stanford worked at Convair. At the end of the war, expecting their first child, they moved to West Los Angeles, where they lived for the rest of their lives. Stanford designed and manufactured wrought iron furniture for 7 years and then became a Systems Analyst, owning his own consulting company and teaching Systems Analysis at UCLA. Ruth earned her masters’ degree in English at UCLA and taught at various locations including Cal State Northridge. Stanford enjoyed collecting art, working out at the YMCA and writing. Ruth enjoyed needlepoint, tutoring reading at the LA Public Library & walks. After retiring they traveled all over the world but especially loved their trips to Japan where they traveled with Japanese friends. They lived life exactly as they wished and had the privilege of a long, happy life together. The couple is survived by their three daughters Susan (married to Robert, son Jason), Pat (married to Tyler, son Woody, daughter Julie), and Bonnie (married to Jim, sons Barry and Jeffrey).

Stewart Monte Lovett February 23, 1951 - September 9, 2017 Stewart “Stu” Lovett passed away at 3:55 am on Saturday, September 9th after complications stemming from a leg surgery at a local hospital. Stu was born on February 23, 1951 in Glendale, California, to Earl and Cecilia (Kurtz) Lovett. On January 13, 1974, he married Dena Lee Biddle in Encino, California. Stu was a beloved and devoted husband, father, grandfather, and friend. He is survived by Dena, his son Evan, his grandson Felix, his nephew Andrew, niece Michelle, sister-in-law Lorraine, and his daughter-in-law Irene. He was preceded in death by his parents, as well as his brother Arthur. Stewart, a proud alumnus of California State University, Northridge, was an accountant by trade and known colloquially as ‘The Count.’ Stu personified joie de vivre – his positive spirit and zest for life was evident to all who were lucky enough to be in his presence. Stu enjoyed traveling, spending time with his family, and taking walks with Dena and their dogs. He was an avid collector of coins, stamps, and casino chips and was a dedicated fan of the Dodgers and Raiders. His family is endowing a scholarship at CSUN in his name, the Stewart Monte Lovett Scholarship, that will commence in 2018. The Stu “The Count” Lovett memorial will take place on Saturday, October 14 at noon at the Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist Society “Onion” Church in North Hills (9550 Haskell Ave.). This will be nondenominational and informal; we come to celebrate and swap stories and celebrate his life.

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Fred Siegfried Silton July 22, 1923 - October 3, 2017 Fred Silton immigrated to the United States in 1938 at the age of fifteen with his parents Regina and Herman Silberstein to escape the Nazi Anschluss in Vienna, Austria. He settled in St. Louis with his mother and father through the sponsorship of relatives and graduated high school before returning to Europe to serve as a communications officer in WWII. After the war, he followed his family’s move to Los Angeles and worked in the family outerwear company, Silton Brothers, which grew under his leadership into a large national brand. In the 1980s, he made a timely transition to real estate development and investment and created an extensive portfolio of high quality apartment buildings in the Westwood area. He was actively involved in managing his portfolio until just a few months ago, despite battling Parkinson’s for almost 15 years. His life’s work and journey were supported by his beautiful and devoted wife, Flora (d. 1994) with whom he had four children – Karen Balin (Barry), Debbi Cowan (Roger), Susan Silton and Jim Silton. He is also survived by six adoring grandchildren – Zach (Tracy Walsh) and Aevrey Balin, Jeff (Shannon) and Amanda Cowan, and Rachel and Blake Silton. He was remarried in 1997 to Lee Silton (d. 2016) with whom he shared passions for travel, art, and cultural activities. He was committed to honoring the less fortunate and contributed tirelessly to multiple charities, culminating in a gift to UCLA to endow a chair in Parkinson’s research. Dad’s vision, perseverance, and incredible work ethic brought him happiness as well as success, and his family is forever grateful for his love and guidance through his long life. We will miss him every day. Services will be held at Hillside Memorial Park on Sunday, October 8, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. Donations may be made in his honor to UCLA Neurology, c/o Movement Disorders, 710 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095.

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Today in Southern California

Today in North America

Storm moves north: Heavy rain associated with Nate will spread across the Southeast to the southern Appalachians. Showers will move into the Northeast. Several inches of snow will accumulate in western Montana and northwestern Wyoming.

5-day forecasts

Pressure:

High/low temperatures are average forecasts for entire zone.

Today

L.A. Basin 80/62

Fog, then sun Sunny, breezy Monday Sunny Tuesday Wednesday Sunny Thursday Sunny

Valleys 82/58

Air quality

Sunny, not as warm Sunny 82/57 Sunny 85/55 Sunny 80/53 Sunny 79/52

84/60 84/58 78/57 77/56

Los Angeles Basin: Cooler with dense morning fog and clouds, then sun. Partly cloudy tonight. Valleys/canyons: Sunny and cooler. Clear tonight. Sunny, windy and warm Monday. Orange County: Sunny with onshore winds gusting 25 to

Beaches 75/58

Fog, then sun Sunny Sunny Sunny Sunny

35 mph. Clear tonight. Sunny and warmer Monday. Ventura/Santa Barbara: Morning coastal low clouds and fog, then sunny and warm inland. Clear tonight. San Diego County: Morning dense fog and clouds, then sunny and windy inland. Clear tonight.

Good

Moderate

Mountains 70/26

81/56 80/58 74/56 73/56

Sunny and warm Windy 56/25 Sunny, windy 64/29 Sunny 66/27 Sunny 63/24

Local mountains: Sunny, breezy and cooler. Clear tonight. Sunny, breezy and warmer Monday. High desert: Sunny, breezy and not quite as warm. Clear tonight. Sunny, breezy and cooler Monday. Low desert: Sunny and not as warm. Clear tonight.

Unhealthful for:

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Deserts 98/70

Sunny and hot Windy Sunny Sunny, warm Sunny

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Cooler: A trough swinging to the southeast will shift the wind direction from offshore to onshore. As a result, coastal areas will be cooler with morning clouds and fog. The inland valleys will remain sunny and warm. Offshore flow will redevelop late tonight into Monday, with warmer temperatures returning to the coast. Santa Ana winds on Monday and Tuesday will bring significant warming and drying.

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Los Angeles, 45 Phoenix, 45 San Francisco, 45

Saturday downtown readings Temperature Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura High/low 96/63 95/57 87/70 High/low a year ago 91/60 94/58 92/64 Normal high/low for date 80/60 80/59 75/54 Record high/date 98/1971 100/2008 102/1971 Record low/date 43/1884 53/2011 46/1957 Precipitation 24-hour total (as of 4 p.m.) 0.00 0.00 0.00 Season total (since Oct. 1) 0.00 Trace 0.00 Last season (Oct. 1 to date) 0.00 0.00 0.00 Season norm (Oct. 1 to date) 0.12 0.10 0.11 Humidity (high/low) 39/7 83/13 72/12

California cities Anaheim 96 Avalon/Catalina 81 Bakersfield 89 Barstow 92 Beaumont 92 Big Bear Lake 76 Bishop 85 Burbank 95 Camarillo 87 Chatsworth 97 Chino 100 Dana Point xx Death Valley 99 Del Mar 85 Escondido 95 Eureka 63 Fallbrook 96 Fillmore 99 Fresno 88 Fullerton 95 Hemet 95 Hesperia 92 Huntington Beach 82 Idyllwild 80 Irvine 90 L.A. D’ntown/USC 96 L.A. Int’l. Airport 87

Miami 89/79

Houston 92/70

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Wind speed in knots; wave heights in feet/intervals in seconds; temperatures for sea/air

City

New York 80/69

Los Angeles 80/62

Santa Clarita Hesperia 84/57 Santa Paula LOS ANGELES CO. 86/45 Ojai 79/57 Santa Simi Valley Barbara 79/54 Chatsworth SAN BERNARDINO CO. Burbank Monrovia 82/57 71/50 82/59 Camarillo Ventura 81/59 78/58 76/58 72/57 Yucca Valley Pomona/ UCLA 90/56 Fairplex Oxnard San Bernardino LA Downtown Westlake Ontario 78/59 72/58 86/57 Woodland 86/58 80/62 Village 85/58 Hills S. Santa Barbara Co. Whittier 81/55 Chino 84/57 Height Period Direction Santa Monica Hills Riverside 87/57 RIVERSIDE CO. Fullerton 81/60 1-2’ 15 sec S 75/58 86/52 80/59 Torrance Santa Ana Ventura Co. 75/58 ORANGE CO. Palm Hemet Long Height Period Direction 77/60 Springs 86/53 Irvine Beach Newport 3-6’ 15 sec S 77/61 98/70 76/61 Beach Mission Viejo Los Angeles Co. 73/62 Temecula Height Period Direction 78/59 Laguna 83/51 3-6’ 15 sec SSW Beach San 74/60 Clemente Orange Co. Surf and sea 75/58 SAN DIEGO CO. Height Period Direction POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO Oceanside 4-7’ 15 sec S Inner waters: South winds 10-15 knots. 77/51 Wind waves 2-7 feet with a south swell San Diego Co. of 3-5 feet. Ramona Escondido Height Period Direction 84/51 82/55 Surf zone: The potential for strong rip 3-6’ 15 sec SSW currents is high, except at beaches on Poway the south coast of Santa Barbara 80/60 County, where it is moderate. Tides UV index L.A. Outer Harbor, in feet. Minutes to burn for San Diego Today 11:14a 6.1 Hi 5:00a 1.4 Lo sensitive people Station Time Wind Waves Temp 74/63 Las Vegas, 45 Morro Bay Santa Barbara Ventura Zuma Beach Marina del Rey Hermosa Beach Cabrillo Beach Hunt’n. Beach Newport Beach Dana Point San Clemente Oceanside Solana Beach Mission Beach Avalon

Rain T-storm Snow Ice

88/61 89/65 92/63 91/62

Sunny, breezy and cooler Monday. San Francisco Bay Area: Sunny. Cooler along the coast and warm inland. Clear tonight. Sunny on Monday.

All

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Anchorage 46/36

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SANTA BARBARA CO.

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Saturday Today Monday Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo

Laguna Beach 88 52 -Lancaster 91 41 -Long Beach 91 60 -Mammoth Lakes 78 24 -Mission Viejo 97 60 -Monrovia 97 67 -Monterey 70 49 -Mt. Wilson 82 63 -Needles 98 67 -Newport Beach 77 59 -Northridge 98 61 -Oakland 78 50 -Oceanside 89 45 -Ojai 98 45 -Ontario 97 58 -Oxnard 85 59 -Palm Springs 101 69 -Pasadena 96 65 -Paso Robles 95 42 -Pomona/Fairplex 95 58 -Poway 97 50 -Redding 89 49 -Rialto 96 71 -Riverside 97 57 --

74 87 76 74 78 78 70 75 98 73 84 76 77 79 85 72 98 82 89 86 80 79 85 86

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Sun and moon Today’s rise/set Los Angeles County Sun 6:53a/6:28p Moon 8:59p/9:55a

Last Quarter Oct. 12 New Moon Oct. 19

Orange County Sun 6:51a/6:27p Moon 8:58p/9:53a

First Quarter Oct. 27

Ventura County Sun 6:57a/6:32p Moon 9:03p/9:59a

Full Moon Nov. 3

Saturday Today Monday Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo

Sacramento 86 San Bernardino 99 San Clemente Pier 77 San Diego 88 San Francisco 77 San Gabriel xx San Jose 84 San Luis Obispo 96 Santa Ana 89 Santa Barbara 83 Santa Clarita 96 Santa Monica Pier 85 Santa Paula 97 Santa Rosa 89 Simi Valley 97 Tahoe Valley 73 Temecula 98 Thousand Oaks 93 Torrance 85 UCLA 91 Van Nuys 97 Ventura 87 Whittier Hills 96 Woodland Hills 100 Wrightwood 76 Yorba Linda 97 Yosemite Valley 82

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53 58 58 63 60 60 55 53 60 50 57 58 57 51 57 24 51 55 58 59 58 57 60 57 42 59 40

83 84 80 77 79 87 83 81 83 78 81 81 83 86 83 57 85 83 80 83 86 80 86 85 64 86 71

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U.S. cities High 101 in Palm Springs, Calif. Low 13 at Bodie State Park, Calif.

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Albuquerque Amarillo Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Brownsville Buffalo Burlington, Vt. Casper Charleston, S.C. Charleston, W.Va. Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Colo. Springs Columbia, S.C. Columbus Concord, N.H. Dallas/Ft.Worth Denver Des Moines Detroit Duluth El Paso Eugene Fairbanks Fargo Flagstaff Grand Junction Grand Rapids Green Bay Hartford Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville, Fla. Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Louisville Medford Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, Maine Portland, Ore. Providence Pueblo Raleigh Rapid City Reno Richmond St. Louis Salt Lake City San Antonio San Juan, P.R. Santa Fe Seattle

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‘I really like what Trump has done’ [Lopez, from B1] the Pew Research Center released a study that said political differences between Republicans and Democrats had grown wider than ever — Martin and I slid into a booth at the same Denny’s in Redondo and ordered two cups of coffee. Naturally, I’ve got my own thoughts on Trump’s first nine months. Not to sound dramatic, but I’d say it marks a low point in the history of the universe and I’m building an ark in my backyard. But I felt that way about Trump’s campaign, and yet clearly a lot of voters saw it differently. Martin, for one, and although I couldn’t have disagreed with him more, he was a decent, hard-working husband and dad who certainly didn’t fit into Hillary Clinton’s basket of deplorables. So here we go. Denny’s in Redondo, Act 2: I took a sip of coffee, leaned back and got to the point. What does Martin think about his guy? “I really like what Trump has done and what he’s been trying to do,” he said without equivocation. It struck me, at that moment, that it might have been better if we’d met at a bar. With a couple of stiff ones in me, I wouldn’t have been able to hold back. “I’ll tell you what I like,” Martin went on. “I took a look at the stock market and it’s up another 87 points. It’s up over 4,000

Steve Lopez Los Angeles TImes

“FOR ACHIEVEMENT , I would probably give him a B,” said Trump supporter

Dana Martin, who lives in Temecula. “I think for effort, I’d give him an A.” points since he was elected.” But can you attribute that to Trump? “For one thing, I think it’s consumer confidence. I think people believe in the future,” Martin said, adding that he believes Trump is attempting to do just what he promised on tax deductions and creating a more business-friendly environment that will grow the economy. We’ll see how that goes. In the meantime, what grade would Martin give Trump?

“For achievement, I would probably give him a B,” Martin said, noting that some Republicans — and, of course, the Democrats — have tried to torpedo Trump. “I think for effort, I’d give him an A.” If Martin had been one of my teachers in high school, I could have gotten into Stanford. It was my turn, so I took a look at a few notes I’d prepared. Trump spent the first full day of his presidency on Twitter, disputing estimates on the number of

people at his inauguration. I give him high marks for consistency, because Trump hasn’t deviated from that course. Most recently, he insisted his tax cut proposal would not benefit him despite evidence to the contrary, and the master of distortion answers every criticism with cries of “fake news.” He stocked his administration with the swamp dwellers he railed against. NAFTA is still NAFTA. There are no tariffs. Better and cheaper healthcare for

all was never a possibility. There is no infrastructure plan, no border wall or plan to pay for it, no framework for rebuilding inner cities. Trump said both sides were to blame for bloodshed at a white supremacist rally, Cabinet members have been forced out in scandals, and Trump screamed about President Obama’s travel but now uses Air Force One like it’s a golf cart. Meanwhile, a special prosecutor is investigating Russian meddling in the election, Trump’s former campaign chair is a chief target, it’s been nine months of chaos, corruption and contradiction, and guess what: This is the short list. Martin listened politely and responded calmly. “I think you make some good observations,” Martin said, but he didn’t do any backtracking. John F. Kennedy and lots of other presidents had tough starts, Martin said. Is it possible, I said delicately, that Trump told people what they wanted to hear on the campaign trail, but never had a plan, left everything to impulse, and still lacks the discipline, knowledge and intellectual curiosity to develop workable strategies? Some of that may be true, Martin said, but he thinks Trump is going to get it together. Martin sees this as a businessman, and still believes that whatever Trump’s shortcomings, tax breaks and a more friendly business environment will

deliver the prosperity Trump has promised. Martin said he told three business colleagues he’d be meeting with me again and asked what they thought of Trump’s performance. Martin said the president of a foundry in Oceanside, an executive for a Southern California lumber yard chain and a retired hardware manufacturer in Pennsylvania all gave Trump high marks, and they’re optimistic about growth in jobs and revenues. “I remain hopeful,” said Martin, who watches Fox News every night at dinner with his wife. But he often gets tired of Sean Hannity’s schtick and switches across the universe to Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, so he can get another perspective, and that’s one of the things I like about him. “I think you bring up some relevant observations, some I agree with and some I don’t,” Martin said. “But I do believe we’re headed in the right direction, and I have a lot of associates who agree.” More than ever, we are a divided nation. But Martin and I did reach full agreement on one thing. We’ll meet again next year, but it’ll be somewhere in Temecula. And alcohol will be involved. steve.lopez @latimes.com Twitter: @LATstevelopez

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THE LONG-VACANT , soot-covered Merritt Building at Broadway and 8th Street is undergoing an upscale makeover to restore it to office duty.

OFFICE RENAISSANCE

Historic downtown buildings, once vacant, are again drawing tenants By Roger Vincent Just over a century ago, Hulett C. Merritt built an imposing white edifice on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles meant to reflect his stature as one of California’s richest, most successful businessmen. It was a nine-story office tower designed to evoke the ancient Roman temple of Minerva, clad in exquisite white marble from the same Colorado quarry that supplied stone for the Lincoln Memorial being erected at the time in Washington. Today, the long-vacant Merritt Building is covered in dark soot and graffiti, a lingering eyesore in a neighborhood on the mend. Its new owners, however, have begun a full-scale makeover to restore it to life as an upscale office building — an unusual but increasingly common decision among landlords in downtown’s Historic Core. In a trend that would have been unimaginable only a few years ago, historic office buildings are being returned to the office market instead of

ARCHITECT Douglas Hanson moved his firm from the U.S. Bank Tower to a full floor in Spring Street’s Corporation Building, which dates to 1915. The space had last been used for garment manufacturing.

converted to apartments, condominiums or hotels, which has been common for the last decade and a half. The pattern reflects tenants’ changing tastes in office space and the comeback of downtown. It also reveals a silver lining to what has been widely regarded as one of the worst planning decisions in the city’s history — the wholesale removal of the aging Bunker Hill residential neighborhood in the 1950s and 1960s to make way for what was then called “urban renewal.” Victorian homes that had once been among the city’s finest addresses were wiped away. By the1980s and ’90s, gleaming office skyscrapers including the 73-story U.S. Bank Tower populated Bunker Hill and white-collar businesses’ abandonment of L.A.’s original downtown on Spring Street, Main Street and Broadway was complete. Many of the old offices were left mostly vacant or converted to manufacturing uses, but the buildings remained standing as a new downtown core emerged. “Development went elsewhere and [See Buildings, C8]

Will Amazon spread the wealth? Water project is

deluged by issues

By Andrew Khouri As Amazon established its dominance in online retail, logistics and cloud computing, the company’s headquarters in Seattle grew appropriately massive. Today it represents a $5-billion investment in 33 buildings, 8 million square feet and more than 40,000 employees. Just this month, the digital giant confirmed it would be leasing an additional 722,000 square feet in a 58story tower in the heart of the city’s downtown. Amazon has helped establish Seattle as one of the great tech meccas, behind the San Francisco Bay Area. But the concentration of tech growth on the West Coast has come with a cost, in terms of skyrocketing housing costs and jammed freeways. Now, as Amazon ponders where to locate a second [See Amazon, C7]

MICHAEL HILTZIK

Elaine Thompson Associated Press

THREE GLASS DOMES, shown under construction in April, are part of Ama-

zon’s growth in Seattle. The company is seeking a city for a second headquarters.

No one should have been surprised when the giant Westlands Water District voted Sept. 19 against joining the state’s equally imposing $17-billion water infrastructure project. After all, the Central Valley district — at 600,000 acres the largest agricultural water district in the nation — had been signaling its uneasiness about the California WaterFix for months. The district accepted that the reliability and volume of the water supply for Southern and Central California could be enhanced by the plan to

build two 30-mile, fourstory-high tunnels to carry water under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. But questions were mounting about how much more reliable and how much larger the supply would be, and whether the gain was worth the price. A staff report prepared in advance of the vote cast a shadow. The report warned that “a business case … cannot be made” for a project that could increase Westlands’ cost of irrigation water by nearly $1,000 per acre-foot. The economics of the project deteriorated sharply for the district in July, when federal officials made clear that the government wouldn’t pick up the tab for environmental refuges or districts whose historic water rights were so [See Hiltzik, C6]

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THE WEEK THE WEEK AHEAD... Coming Monday Trade experts say President Trump is open to import restrictions to assist U.S. manufacturers. Case in point: The administration is now considering a trade complaint filed by Whirlpool against Samsung and LG, which claims the South Korean companies have dumped washing machines into the U.S. market.

Twice is nice for SpaceX

Water district poised to vote

Paley Center Brown to deal to fete women with key bills

SpaceX will have a launch double-header this week. The Hawthorne company is set to launch a rocket with 10 commercial satellites for Iridium Communications Inc. from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Monday. Then, on Wednesday, it will launch a previously flown Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center carrying a European-built television broadcast satellite.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is scheduled to vote Tuesday on whether it will contribute $4.3 billion to a proposed re-engineering of the state’s water system. The amount would pay for about 25% of the California WaterFix, a $17-billion plan to construct two huge tunnels that would change water movement through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

The Paley Center for Media will present a salute to women in the television industry on Thursday at the Regent Beverly Wilshire. The event in Beverly Hills will feature a tribute to comedy icon Betty White. Presenters and participants will include Kristin Chenoweth, Nadia Comaneci, Allison Janney, Debra Messing, Rita Moreno, Wanda Sykes and Lynn Whitfield.

Gov. Jerry Brown faces a deadline next Sunday to act on or veto bills approved by the Legislature. One business measure would force drug companies to justify big price hikes in California. On the political side, there’s a bill that would deny access to the California ballot for any presidential candidate who won’t release personal tax returns — a not-so-subtle jab at Donald Trump.

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The future of pioneering independent film executive Harvey Weinstein was up in the air last week after a news report detailed decades of sexual harassment accusations against him. The New York Times said the Oscar winner has reached at least eight legal settlements with women over the allegations, levied by actresses and former employees of his production companies.

The nation’s top consumer financial watchdog issued tough nationwide regulations on payday and other shortterm loans, aiming to prevent lenders from taking advantage of cash-strapped Americans. The long-awaited rules from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would require lenders in most cases to assess if a consumer has the resources to repay the loan.

Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan appeared before the Senate Banking Committee, where he faced a call to be fired for a steady stream of new revelations about irregularities at the bank since its accounts scandal erupted last year. Wells Fargo later said it would refund fees assessed to mortgage borrowers whose delays in completing loan applications were primarily the bank’s fault.

The Trump administration said it would limit an Obama-era rule that employers must provide women with contraceptives as part of their health plans, giving a broad exemption for executives or owners who have religious or moral objections to doing so. The Obama administration treated birth control as preventive care that must be covered by insurance at no cost.

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Neither recessions nor cancer have proved insurmountable for Ed Sachse. By Roger Vincent The gig: Ed Sachse, 56, has toiled in the real estate field since he started a windowwashing business as a teen in Detroit. Today he is president of property services for Kennedy Wilson, overseeing its brokers and 21 million square feet of retail, office, industrial and apartment properties across the U.S. from the firm’s Beverly Hills headquarters. Freezing in Michigan: As a 15-year-old high school student in the 1970s, Sachse (pronounced “saxy”) and a friend with a car paid $400 for a window-washing business that served strip malls. They learned the importance of working quickly when, in the winter, the washing solution would freeze on the windows if they didn’t wipe it off fast enough. They expanded their business by knocking on doors and handing out cards. The experience proved formative for his future as an entrepreneur. “We made a lot more money washing windows than all of our friends with part-time jobs in gas stations and supermarkets,” he said. “And we learned you have to expect the unexpected and roll with the changes when you run your own business. It was a constant adventure.” A head for numbers: At Michigan State University, Sachse learned he had a knack for accounting. Degree in hand, he went to work as an accountant for industry giant Arthur Andersen, serving clients such as Domino’s Pizza Inc. and the Detroit Tigers. He found the profession exciting but draining. “I was burned out after the third tax season,” he said. “I took a vacation to

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ED SACHSE is president of property services at real estate brokerage Kennedy Wilson, which bought his company years ago. He oversees

its brokers and 21 million square feet of retail, office, industrial and apartment properties across the U.S.

Santa Monica to get out of Detroit for a week and met a blond-haired, blue-eyed hottie named Julie, who is my wife today,” he said. He moved to Los Angeles and found accounting work with commercial property landlord Douglas Emmett Inc. He was rapidly promoted to chief financial officer of the landlord’s mortgage banking company, Camden Financial. Beyond accounting: Soon, however, “I had an itch to do something different,” Sachse said. “I wanted to learn the city and do deals.” That led to a job as a broker at Coldwell Banker, the commercial property brokerage now called CBRE Group Inc. His first big challenge was to sell an empty school, so he flipped through the Yellow Pages looking for prospects. “Religious schools have money, so I started calling

all the religious schools,” he said. He got a nibble from Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, who brought his assistants to check out the school one Sunday. Hier seemed interested in a basketball court, so Sachse grabbed a ball while Hier’s crew went to work. “On my first proper building tour, I found myself playing ‘horse’ with the rabbi while his group did the inspections,” he said. Hier’s organization bought the building, and Sachse’s career as a broker took off. On his own: Sachse eased into property management unintentionally when a client who owned a strip mall had trouble leasing empty space in part because the parking lot was unkempt and packed with employees’ vehicles. He cleaned up the lot, got

workers to park elsewhere and helped the landlord collect overdue rent from the mall’s largest tenant. His success at improving the center’s performance prompted him to start his own property management and brokerage company in 1993, even though the country had just suffered through a recession and the real estate industry was in a trough. “I figured that if I can make it in a bad market,” Sasche said, “I can make it in any market.”

for the next six years while trying to keep his business afloat, dashing to the hospital for blood transfusions and enduring two bone marrow transplants. At one point he couldn’t talk but managed to negotiate a 30,000-square-foot office lease. “I would lie on my back in the hospital with my phone three inches from my nose typing emails,” he said. “With the help of my team we ended up closing the deal, and I never spoke a word.”

A hammer falls: Sachse’s business rode up with the improving economy in the ’90s, but his world broke apart in 2001. “Out of the blue, at age 41, I was diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma,” he said. “I had tumors in my spine, liver and spleen, and it was difficult to walk.” He battled the disease

Another, bigger recession: The Great Recession brought Sachse’s business to its knees with cutbacks and layoffs. Determined not to go under, in late 2009 he made a list of 40 contacts he might get new business from and called on each of them in the hope 2010 would be better. One of his visits was to Kennedy Wilson, where he

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Statute of limitations is different for private versus federal debt. By Liz Weston Dear Liz: Several years ago, my daughter called in tears asking if I could help because my granddaughter, who was halfway through her first year of college, would have to drop out if she didn’t immediately finish paying her tuition. I agreed to co-sign a loan, thinking after she got through that semester, they could see how things went. Well, unbeknownst to me, she took out a loan that also covered the next semester. She dropped out of school in her second year. Now several years later, I’m being hounded by the lender because neither my granddaughter or daughter seem to think they should have to do anything about this. I sometimes get up to four calls a day, seven days a week. I have returned calls but gotten nowhere. Meanwhile, my granddaughter recently got a brand-new car and posts pictures of herself enjoying partying with friends. I tried to get her to talk to me about it, thinking if she, along with her mom and myself, could each manage to pay a little each month we could work on getting this taken care of, but I got no response from either of them. My daughter and son-inlaw still go on cruises and do other traveling, drive newer expensive vehicles and will

Answer: If you co-signed the loan, then it was likely made by a private lender that won’t be able to take your Social Security check. Federal student loans are a different story. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that up to 15% of borrowers’ Social Security benefits can be taken to repay those. Federal student loans also have no statute of limitations, which means the government can indeed pursue you to the grave. Private student loans, however, do limit how long lenders have to sue you over the debt. The time limit varies by state and is typically three to 10 years, but the limit may be extended in some areas if you make a payment on the debt or even acknowledge that it’s yours. You should make an appointment to talk to a bankruptcy attorney. Student loans typically can’t be erased in bankruptcy, but an

attorney familiar with the credit laws in your state can advise you about how vulnerable you might be to lawsuits and other collection actions. If Social Security is your only income and you don’t have other assets a creditor can take, you may be “judgment proof.” That means a lender can sue you, but won’t be able to collect anything. If that’s the case, the attorney may be able to communicate the situation to the lender so that it can redirect its energies to collecting from your irresponsible granddaughter.

Keep your various IDs up to date Dear Liz: In helping my 92year-old father update his trust, we ran into a snag. Both his passport and driver’s license had expired. We thought he didn’t need them since he does not travel, drive or hit the bars. But to notarize documents, you need current identification. Getting a state ID card added many weeks to the process. Remind your elderly readers to keep their ID current. Answer: Consider it done. Liz Weston, certified financial planner, is a personal finance columnist for NerdWallet. Questions may be sent to her at 3940 Laurel Canyon, No. 238, Studio City, CA 91604, or by using the “Contact” form at asklizweston.com. Distributed by No More Red Inc.

Outside the office: Ed and Julie Sachse live in Pacific Palisades and have two grown children. Ed is a hockey fan who shares a birthday with Red Wings star Gordie Howe. His “biggest passion,” he said, is playing rock’n’ roll on his guitar. He and his friends have a garage band that performs occasionally, usually at their own parties. “Every time we play together,” he joked, “it costs us money.” roger.vincent@latimes.com Twitter: @rogervincent

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Co-signing student loan can haunt you till death no longer talk to me. I am 73 and struggling to live month-to-month on Social Security, which is my only income. I used to have an 800 credit score that has now gone down into the 600s because of this. Now I am afraid they will start taking this out of my Social Security check. This loan is about 72% of my total annual income! My doctor has upped one of my medications as I have trouble sleeping worrying about this. What am I to do? The only way I can see out of this would be my death, and then I’m afraid it would even follow me to my grave.

said, “Give me your worst property to sell or lease. I want to show you how good we are.” Instead, Kennedy Wilson offered to buy his company. After talking it over with his wife, Sachse agreed to the acquisition. Since then he has overseen brokerage and property management for Kennedy Wilson.

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Home equity loan vs. line of credit - How to choose If your home’s value sits well above your mortgage balance, tapping into that equity for home improvements or consolidating debt can be a smart financial move. Both home equity loans and lines of credit allow you to do that, so which should you choose? Both access the value in your home that belongs to you, but that you otherwise wouldn’t reap until selling the property. Both also offer lower interest rates than credit cards and personal loans since they’re backed by your home’s collateral, with the added bonus of the interest being taxdeductible. The difference lies in how you’ll access the money. A home equity loan is like most other loans you’d request from a bank, where you apply for an amount and, if approved, the bank extends a lump sum at a fixed interest rate. Home equity lines of credit, or HELOCs, work more like a credit card. The bank sets a limit based on your equity

and lets you draw from the HELOC as needed, usually at an adjustable rate. Banks generally offer HELOC access via checks and bank transfers, with some also providing a debit card. How you’ll use the funds will determine the better fit for you. Consolidating higher-interest debt? Then a home equity loan will work well, giving you a lump sum to pay off those balances and convert them to a single, more affordable payment going forward. But if you’re tapping funds for home improvement, paying contractors throughout the project, a HELOC lets you borrow the money in flexible amounts at different times. A HELOC can also be useful as an emergency cushion, sitting untapped unless you need it. With their low interest rates and tax advantages, home equity loans and HELOCs are among the most valuable financial tools available to homeowners with built-up equity.

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Analyst: analyze game data and information to provide leadership with insights about players and player behavior. Mail resume: Riot Games, Job #P441, 12333 W. Olympic Blvd, LA, CA 90064

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DESIGNER Pattern Designer: Send resume to By Boaz Inc. 1116 E. 12th Street, LA CA 90021. Job located in LA.

Concept Artist: Create concept images using strong traditional art skills or print, web and other interactive media. Apply to: Riot Games, 12333 W. Olympic Blvd, LA, CA 90064. Ref. Job#MEP202.

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Concept Artist: create video game character concepts and other concept art. Mail resume: Riot Games, Job #M064, 12333 W. Olympic Blvd, LA, CA 90064

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Product Test Engineer (Mellanox Technologies, Inc., Monterey Park, CA): Support dvlpmt & manufacturing of Silicon Photonics Interconnect products. Reqs.: Master’s deg or foreign equiv in Electrical Engg or Comp Engg plus 2 yrs exp. Exp to incl analyzing yield/testing issues; implmtg/qualifying test time reductions. Mail resumes to Mellanox Technologies, Inc., HR. Dept., 350 Oakmead Pkwy, Ste 100, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.

Employment Sr Software Engineer Java (Culver City, CA) SME for global TV Sales/ Distr apps in Java/C/C++/ JavaScript/Ajax/SQL. Identify/resolve infrastructure tech Hibernate/Spring RESTful/Tomcat. Dvlp software compliance w/ IS, Legal/ Regulatory reqm’ts. Support IT audits, bus continuity & disaster recovery. Research/ dvlp/implement 3rd pty products. 40 hrs/wk. Req: BS in IS, CompSci, Engr or foreign equiv +5 yrs progress post-bach exp. in job offrd or related dvlpmt using Java; or MS in IS, CompSci, Engr or foreign equiv +1 yr post-bach exp. in job offrd or related dvlpmt using Java. Mail resume to: Sony Pictures Entertainment, 10202 W. Washington Blvd, Morita 131D, Culver City, CA 90232, Ref: SRENG05. Principals only. US work auth req’d if hired. EOE.

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Associate Software Engineer. Perform architecture, system development, testing & maintenance for gameplay features, systems & apps. Mail resume: Riot Games, Inc; job#ME273; 12333 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064

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[Hiltzik, from C1] senior to all others that they’d get almost all the water they needed even without the tunnels. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said that, while districts that wished to obtain water through the WaterFix were welcome to opt in, the federal government would contribute nothing to the project’s cost. The opt-in users, therefore, would effectively be subsidizing the refuges and the so-called exchange districts by shouldering an estimated additional $4 billion. Yet Westlands had expressed support for the WaterFix in principle. Many observers expected the board to signal that it was open to negotiation over its financial share, or to a less ambitious and cheaper tunnel project. Instead, the board’s 7-1 vote not to participate delivered what could be a mortal blow to the whole project. The California WaterFix is about to enter a make-orbreak phase. The board of the Metropolitan Water District, which serves 19 million residents of Southern California, is scheduled to vote Tuesday on participating in the project. But that vote is based on the expectation that the MWD would pay only 26% of the total project cost, or about $4.4 billion, a figure that has been thrown into doubt by the federal government’s position and the Westlands vote. Additional Central and Southern California users of delta water will be voting over the coming weeks. Things weren’t helped by the release Thursday of a negative report by state auditor Elaine Howle, who found that the project’s “unexpected complexity” already has led to “significant cost increases and schedule delays.” The state’s options if the tunnels can’t secure adequate funding are few. “There are a couple of possible paths forward, and then there’s just giving up and not building the proj-

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THE CALIFORNIA WaterFix is about to reach a make-or-break point: The Metropolitan Water District

board is to vote Tuesday on whether to join the massive project. Above, anglers along the Sacramento River.

ect,” MWD General Manager Jeffrey Kightlinger told me. One option is to “push aggressively to see exactly what Westlands and others would be willing to fund,” he says. Another option is to try to jawbone the federal government into funding at least some of the tunnels’ cost. Barring that, the state could decide to build a smaller, cheaper project now and phase in additions over the decades to come. None of these options is especially palatable for the project’s supporters. The two-tunnel option, which would carry as much as 5 million acre-feet per year (one acre-foot can supply the annual needs of up to two average California households) captures economies of scale that would be diminished in a slimmeddown version. The project’s claimed virtues, which include protecting the state’s water supply from climate change or earthquake damage while reducing environmental stress and strain on the delta, would be reduced commensurately, supporters say. The consequences, they

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say, would be the continuing shrinkage of the water supply from Northern California, higher local bills and more urban purchases of water from growers and a decline in agricultural output. Critics maintain that these virtues and drawbacks have consistently been overstated, or can be addressed more cheaply for less via smaller local projects. “You can have a lot of bottom-up innovation in water supply by local water districts that you might not get from a top-down system,” says Doug Obegi of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Adds Jeff Michael, an environmental economist at the University of the Pacific, “If they don’t go ahead with this project, there’s $17 billion in capital expenses that could be deployed by water agencies in other ways.” The California WaterFix is in trouble because the fragmentation of water interests in the state renders agreement on major statewide water projects difficult, perhaps impossible. Through much of the

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20th century, regional and economic conflicts over statewide public works could be papered over by the impetus of rapid economic growth. The projects also required the drive of visionary leaders such as Gov. Pat Brown, who in the 1960s oversaw some of the initial construction of the State Water Project, which aimed to secure exports of water through the delta to Central and Southern California. But regional conflicts never lay far below the surface. In 1982, voters rejected the Peripheral Canal, a proposed upgrade to the State Water Project championed by Gov. Jerry Brown, Pat Brown’s son. The outcome reflected a sharp north-south divide, depicted by The Times’ Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist, Paul Conrad, in graphic fashion. The delta tunnels, of which Gov. Brown is a leading supporter, are the latest iteration of that project. Supporters of the delta tunnels try to be philosophical about the blow by Westlands. “It’s under-

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standable,” Kightlinger says. “Just as my board’s been saying they don’t expect to be subsidizing agriculture, Westlands is saying they don’t expect to be subsidizing exchange contractors or the refuges.” It’s hard to see how anything on the scale of the California WaterFix can be built without some crosssubsidy, however. In a 2015 analysis for state officials, agricultural economist David Sunding of UC Berkeley calculated that the project would pass a cost-benefit test for California in the aggregate. But when the calculations were broken down, it was an economic winner for residential, or “urban,” users but a close call or a loser for agriculture. Sunding based his conclusions on the assumption that the federal government would chip in $3.9 billion for the refuges and exchange contractors; if it did not, “the net benefits of the project are even more negative for agricultural contractors.” Depicting the conflict as one pitting residential users vs. farmers, or Northern

California vs. Southern, is too simplistic. Some farmers, such as those growing almond and pistachio trees, need year-round reliability more than truck farmers, who can temporarily fallow acreage in times of shortage. Some urban water districts with large storage reservoirs (including the MWD) will benefit from the delta tunnels more than those without, because they can bank the ample flow in wet years for use during droughts rather than letting it go to waste. Sunding asserted that the benefits of the project weren’t all tied to direct recipients of the water. A more stable delta water supply would increase yields from California farms, for instance, leading to reduced food prices that would benefit consumers everywhere, even those outside the state. He reckoned that the project would create 118,700 construction jobs and 5,800 long-term jobs directly and indirectly, another economic plus. Those broad benefits, he suggested, warranted examining whether financing should be expanded beyond a strict user-pays model. Securing that funding would be a challenge, given today’s tight state budgets and skinflint U.S. Congress. “The only way to make this project work would be with a massive taxpayer subsidy, on the order of $7 billion,” says Michael. Despite the mounting uncertainties, Kightlinger still sees Tuesday’s vote by the MWD board as “still a pretty big historic vote.” The question on the table, he says, is “Can California do big things anymore, or are we so gridlocked in competing interests that we can’t solve problems? Here’s a problem right in front of us that we’ve known about for decades. The status quo is a disaster, and yet we’re on the verge of just saying it’s too hard.”

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Tech hubs and wealth disparities [Amazon, from C1] headquarters site and 50,000 workers — proposals are due by Oct.19 — it is raising questions about whether the industry, and America, would be better off spreading the tech-jobs wealth. Clustering is not new to tech. Think Los Angeles and Hollywood. Or Detroit and automakers, Pittsburgh and steel, Houston and oil. Like those earlier examples, tech centers were kick-started by one or two big successful companies. In Silicon Valley, it was Fairchild Semiconductor and HewlettPackard; in Seattle, Microsoft. The advantages of clustering are well known: Companies get easy access to specialized investment expertise and skilled workers. Workers have many choices of employers. Engineers with an idea can break away to form a start-up knowing the infrastructure is already in place. “The history of the United States is wrapped around this clustering,” said Christopher Thornberg, founding partner with Beacon Economics. “If you are ahead of the game when an important cluster is formed, it gives you an advantage for decades to come.” That dynamic can be seen in the desires Amazon set out for its new headquarters site. The company says it wants a metro area with more than a million people, a highly educated labor pool and a strong university system. Another request? An international airport with daily direct flights to Seattle, New York, the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, D.C. Amazon says it will make its choice known next year. “It’s basically narrowing down the [competition] to a handful of cities,” UC Berkeley economist Enrico Moretti said. “And even those that qualify under that criteria, there are some that have much more of a comparative advantage.” The costs of such concentration, however, are growing. Years of high job growth in the well-paying sector — a software developer earns roughly $100,000 annually, double the national average for workers in all industries — have helped drive up rents by 46% in Seattle since 2012, and 35% in San Francisco. Home prices have risen even faster, to a median of $690,200 in Seattle and $1.2 million in San Francisco, according to Zillow, a Seattlebased real estate tech company located a short distance from Amazon’s headquarters. In the San FranciscoOakland-Hayward metro area, 17% of commuters traveled an hour or more to work in 2015, up nearly four per-

Jordan Stead Amazon

THE CONCENTRATION of tech growth on the West Coast has come with a cost, in terms of skyrocketing

housing costs and jammed freeways. Above is an aerial view of Amazon’s downtown Seattle campus.

Wealthy households The median income in some counties is hitting new heights amid strong growth in the tech sector. Place

2016 median household income

Santa Clara County (San Jose)

$111,069

San Francisco County

$103,801

King County (Seattle)

$86,095

United States

$57,617

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

centage points from 2012, according to a Brookings Institution analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. Many of the tech giants already maintain decentsize operations away from the coasts. Cloud computing firm Salesforce, which will move into the tallest building in San Francisco by early next year, also has expanded in Indianapolis since it acquired a local company there in 2013. The company says it now has 1,600 workers in Indianapolis and will hire an additional 800 by 2021. It’s even launched a campaign to persuade its workers — even top talent — to move there from the Bay Area. “Places like San Francisco, Santa Clara and Palo Alto, they are tapped out,” said Bob Stutz, the company’s chief analytics officer. “Even for us — with the new tower in San Francisco — we really have space problems, because we are growing so fast.”

Mark Muro, director of policy at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, said more companies should view cities in the Midwest and the South as attractive because employees can find an affordable home there and the local community will probably be welcoming. There are also top-notch universities and enough good talent, he said. For Salesforce, Stutz said, cheap housing in Indianapolis has been a major recruiting tool. Other tech firms have also set up operations in the city recently. “Having a great quality of life for people is better than putting everything into Silicon Valley,” he said. “We really believe Indianapolis will eventually become another hub.” But industry-wide, tech companies are increasingly keeping their top engineering talent close and locating lower-paid jobs, such as tech support, in secondary cities,

research from employment website Indeed.com shows. The disparity only feeds the concerns of some observers that parts of the U.S. are being left behind by a digital economy that benefits from the same forces — automation and globalization — that have hammered workers in the manufacturing sector. “Past practices and prejudices about what the flyover zone is have precluded some of that distribution,” Muro said. “Frankly, I am not sure big tech has much familiarity with the middle of the country and vice versa.” Whether that is contributing to a national economic divide is open to debate. Regional inequality has been getting worse for a long time, with the gap between rich and poor metros rising since the late 1970s, maintains Jed Kolko, chief economist with Indeed.com. A recent report from the Economic Innovation Group said the nation’s most distressed cities — judged by poverty, job growth and other factors — tend to be former industrial hubs in the Midwest and Northeast. The most prosperous cities tend to be tech hubs or fast-growing places in the Sun Belt with diverse economies. There is an urban-rural divide as well, according to the group, with smaller counties 11 times more likely to be distressed than larger counties. The situation can worsen as highly educated individuals move away from their hometowns in search of

good jobs. “There is a downward spiral effect,” said Steve Glickman, executive director of the Economic Innovation Group and a senior economic advisor in the Obama administration. The sagging fortunes of blue-collar workers have been credited with worsening the country’s cultural and political divide and leading, along with white resentment, to the election of Donald Trump. “It creates a huge divide in our political system, and I think you saw that in 2016,” Glickman said. Steve Case, the co-founder of AOL, recognized that divide when he launched his “Rise of the Rest” bus tour in 2014. Case and his company, Revolution, invest in startups outside the traditional coastal tech hubs. During bus tours, Case holds competitions, where entrepreneurs pitch their new technologies in hopes of securing a $100,000 personal investment from him. His next trip, starting Tuesday, will include stops in Harrisburg, Pa.; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio. Case will be joined by J.D. Vance, author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” which chronicled the slipping fortunes of Appalachia. “It’s important to remember that America itself was once a start-up and became the greatest economy in the world, thanks to the efforts of entrepreneurs who built not just companies, but entire industries in the heart of the country,” Case said upon launching his first tour.

Not everyone is convinced about the seriousness of the urban-rural divide, though. And some experts note there are other ways to catch up than winning an expensive beauty contest for a corporate headquarters. Thornberg, the economist, said his analysis shows no clear link between faster income growth and large counties. In fact, he said the places that had the fastest growth between 1995 and 2015 were smaller rural areas in states that have experienced a shale oil boom, including Williams County, N.D., located in the Bakken oil field. “There are other ways of making income outside of being an urban, creative economy,” Thornberg said. States could spur growth by barring non-compete clauses and loosening their professional licensing requirements to attract more highly skilled workers, said John Lettieri, senior director for policy and strategy at the Economic Innovation Group and a former foreign policy aide to Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel. Cities can spruce up their downtowns and lure immigrants, whom studies show start businesses at a higher rate than Americans born here, he said. Instead of focusing on attracting one mega-company such as Amazon, Lettieri said, struggling areas should work to spur business creation locally, in part by investing in colleges such as Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. That’s where Matthew Kulig received his undergraduate degree, before settling down 20 minutes away in St. Louis. In 2008, he cofounded Aisle411, which develops smartphone software that allows shoppers to quickly find items at big retailers. Kulig said getting funding can be tougher in less established tech centers, but there are positives to being in St. Louis. He’s been able to hire skilled workers from local universities, and the city is convenient to his retail customers headquartered in the Midwest and South. He’s also been able to pay them less than he would in Silicon Valley, allowing him to raise less money to get the business off the ground. “It’s taken 70 years to build Silicon Valley into what it is today and a lot of towns, St. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland … they are trying to figure out where they fit in the ecosystem,” he said. For his part, Kulig said he now employs 20 and is working with Google on augmented reality. andrew.khouri @latimes.com Twitter: @khouriandrew

How to land a spot in California’s nursing homes It can be difficult for Medi-Cal enrollees to get placed. Here are some tips to help. By Emily Bazar Most everyone agrees that it can be very difficult — next to impossible, really — for Medi-Cal enrollees to snag a spot in a nursing home, especially if they’re transferring from their homes or assisted living facilities rather than going straight from the hospital. Medi-Cal is the state’s version of the federal Medicaid program for low-income residents. But if you think low-income doesn’t mean you, think again. About two-thirds of California’s nursing home residents rely on Medi-Cal to cover all or part of their costs. A popular misconception is that nursing home care is covered by Medicare, the publicly funded health insurance program for older Americans. Medicare does not cover long-term nursing home stays; it will cover you for only a limited time — up to 100 days — under certain conditions. Many middle-class Californians need Medi-Cal to help pay for their long-term care because they run out of money paying the bills on

their own, says Susan Geffen, an elder law attorney and gerontologist in Hermosa Beach. Not everyone agrees on the reasons it’s so difficult for Medi-Cal enrollees to secure nursing home spots. “There’s massive, systemic Medi-Cal discrimination,” says Pat McGinnis, executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform. She believes some nursing homes illegally turn away enrollees because they don’t want to accept Medi-Cal’s lower reimbursement rates. “If they can get more money with private pay or Medicare, they would rather accept one of them,” she says. Deborah Pacyna, director of public affairs for the California Assn. of Health Facilities, which represents most of the state’s standalone nursing homes, says it’s illegal for nursing homes to discriminate based on payment type. She blames access problems on the state’s rapidly aging population. “Projections are that we will run out of nursing home beds by 2020,” Pacyna says. “That is putting even more pressure on the Medi-Cal population.” No matter what you believe, the situation amounts to a crisis for Californians who desperately need a nursing home and are cov-

ered by Medi-Cal, says Geffen, author of a book called “Take That Nursing Home and Shove It!” The state Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), which oversees Medi-Cal, says nearly 90% of California’s 1,400 nursing homes accept its enrollees. The department is the only entity I interviewed that “is not aware of MediCal members who are having difficulty finding a nursing home that will accept them.” Today, I’m offering some advice if you or a loved one needs a nursing home for a long-term stay. It will be easier if you’re already in the hospital, which I realize is cold comfort. Finding a bed if you’re not in the hospital — especially a bed in your community — might mean you’ll have to pay out of your own pocket initially. Or it might require some creative maneuvering, such as working with your doctor to get you admitted to a hospital. Even then, “a hope and a prayer” might be necessary, says Derrell Kelch, executive director of the California Assn. of Area Agencies on Aging.

If you’re coming from the hospital More than 90% of nursing home admissions last year came directly from hospitals, according to data from

the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. If you or a loved one is in the hospital and may not be able to return home afterward, “start working with the hospital discharge planner immediately” and ask for a list of nearby nursing homes, Kelch advises. If you have fee-for-service Medi-Cal, you will require prior authorization, and the request must be made by the hospital or the nursing home, says Department of Health Care Services spokeswoman Carol Sloan. If you’re in a Medi-Cal managed care plan, it will help determine where you go, she says. You may want to visit the facility first before committing your loved one to it, Pacyna suggests. Also check out Nursing Home Compare on the Medicare website (www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare) for quality ratings. Medicare is often the first payer when you move into a nursing home. The traditional form of Medicare will pay 100% for the first 20 days in a nursing home, after which you will owe $164.50 a day for up to 80 additional days. But you can qualify for this coverage only if you enter a Medicare-approved nursing facility within 30 days of an inpatient hospital stay that lasted at least

three days. Beware: “Observation” care in the hospital won’t count as an inpatient stay. Once you are in the nursing home, don’t wait to apply for Medi-Cal if you’re not already enrolled in it, Geffen says. Medi-Cal can help cover your Medicare co-pays, if you’re eligible, and then take over when your Medicare coverage ends, she says. “They can’t just discharge somebody [from a nursing home] because they’re going on Medi-Cal,” McGinnis says. If the nursing home balks and says it can’t keep you after you’ve switched to MediCal, you can seek help from McGinnis’ organization (www.canhr.org or [800] 474-1116) or another advocacy group, including legal services organizations or your local long-term care ombudsman, she says. Be sure to let the facility know that you know it can’t discriminate against MediCal enrollees, McGinnis adds.

If you’re coming from the community Just because a small percentage of patients admitted to nursing homes last year came from their homes or assisted living facilities doesn’t mean people aren’t trying, says Mike Connors, an advocate for McGinnis’

group. “It’s just extraordinarily difficult,” he says. “People end up waiting for months.... They get sick and get hospitalized.” To find a facility that is certified for Medi-Cal, go to the state Department of Public Health’s database at hfcis.cdph.ca.gov. You might need to target larger nursing homes that have higher turnover, McGinnis says. If it’s financially possible, consider starting out as a private-pay client. Instead of getting rid of all your money ahead of time to become eligible for MediCal long-term care coverage, Geffen suggests keeping some in reserve so you can gain entry as a cash customer. Then, once you’re a resident and run out of money, “they’re not allowed to kick you out,” Kelch says. Geffen also knows of people who have gone to the hospital in the hope of getting admitted so they can be discharged directly into a nursing home. “Some people have had to go to extraordinary feats in order to get into a nursing home on Medi-Cal,” she says. Emily Bazar answers consumer questions about California’s changing medical landscape for Kaiser Health News.

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[Buildings, from C1] there wasn’t interest in tearing them down to build new tall buildings,” said Linda Dishman, president of the Los Angeles Conservancy. “The heedless destruction of the Bunker Hill neighborhood may have saved Spring Street.” Now many business owners and their employees find old buildings charming and better reflections of their company identities than the more impersonal mirroredglass high-rises built to impress the elites of 20th century corporate America. “Everybody who comes here identifies us with this space,” said architect Douglas Hanson, whose firm HansonLA moved from the U.S. Bank Tower to the Corporation Building on Spring Street. “It gives people a real window into what we do and it’s consistent with our brand.” The slim, 14-story Corporation Building dates to 1915, when small floor plates and big windows were typical. “These buildings were built to use natural light,” Hanson said, which appeals to architects — up to a point. When he moved his 20person firm to a full floor in the old building about six years ago, it had no overhead lighting and no heating or air conditioning. The office had last been used for garment manufacturing. “It was raw space,” Hanson said, “like working in the garage.” Outside, people on the sidewalk included enough shady-looking characters to give visitors pause. “We had some clients, especially international clients, who were afraid to come,” Hanson said. Homelessness is a persistent issue, but now there is more pedestrian activity on Spring Street than there is on Bunker Hill, including residents walking their dogs and sipping coffee in sidewalk cafes. “We like the diversity of people,” Hanson said, “and working in a neighborhood where people are actually living.” Hanson’s landlord, Izek Shomof, said he had success making residential lofts in historic buildings but noticed the rising popularity of “creative offices” — typically older buildings that sported exposed ceilings, polished concrete floors and other minimal finishes. So Shomof, an Israeliborn real estate investor and developer who has been active in the Historic Core for years, added lights, air conditioning and other improvements to his Corporation Building. Recently, he added a food hall on the ground floor with multiple small restaurants. “I saw there was a huge demand and said why not try it,” Shomof said. Today, his office tower is mostly leased. “It’s working out fine for us.” The economics of historic buildings have tilted in favor of offices over apartments in many cases, said Phillip Sample, a real estate broker at CBRE Group Inc. Monthly rents are about the

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THE CORPORATION Building’s landlord saw rising interest in “creative spaces” and made improvements, including adding a food hall.

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GRAFFITI blankets part of the Merritt Building. A Canadian developer plans to

have it renovated and back for rent on the office market in 2019.

CoStar Group

THE NINE-STORY Merritt Building, with its Col-

orado Yule marble exterior, is shown in 1916. same for both categories but it costs less to prepare offices because they require less plumbing for bathrooms, kitchens and washing machines. Rents for older buildingsturned offices in the Historic Core and Arts District can be as high as $3.75 per square foot a month, CBRE said, roughly the same as top towers on Bunker Hill. That’s in spite of the fact that many older buildings lack built-in parking. “The kids nowadays are walking to work,” Sample said, or arriving via bicycle, ride-sharing services such as Uber or public transportation. “It’s just so much more easy than it used to be” to commute without a car, he noted. Downtown was served by a steady stream of streetcars when industrialist Merritt

completed his namesake building in 1915 at Broadway and 8th Street. His personal offices were on the top floor and the columned temple-like exterior was clad in bright Colorado Yule marble. The Times was unstinting in its praise, calling Merritt’s tower “not only the most luxurious office block in the United States but the tallest building of all white marble in the world.” The Merritt Building has been mostly vacant for decades, but Canadian developer Bonnis Properties paid top dollar — $24 million, or $429 per square foot — last November and plans to have it back on the office rental market in 2019. Principal Kerry Bonnis declined to say how much the renovation will cost, but promised to make the property stand out again.

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elry Mart built in 1917 at 7th and Olive streets and the long-vacant headquarters of the defunct Herald Examiner newspaper built on Broadway at 11th Street in 1914, according to CBRE. The hulking 12-story Western Pacific Building erected north of the Herald Examiner on Broadway in 1925 also is being restored to the office market after years of being used for garment manufacturing. It will be available for rent next year, real estate broker Andrew Tashjian of Cushman & Wakefield said. Bonnis, who is based in Vancouver, Canada, said he believes L.A.’s downtown office rental market can support these and several other “new” office complexes arriving within a few years of each other. “There is no question that when multiple buildings come to market there is a synergy and excitement that becomes contagious,” he said. “This repositioning has been a long time in the making.” roger.vincent @latimes.com Twitter: @rogervincent

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Dodgers lead series 2-0 W: Maeda L: Ray S: Jansen GAME 3: 7 p.m. Monday at Arizona, TBS

IT’S A HIT SEQUEL

Bottom of lineup does the job and Jansen gets five-out save for 2-0 advantage By Andy McCullough

Rich Hill clutched the cardboard sign and walked into the Dodgers dugout. The crowd at Dodger Stadium was sitting on its hands in the bottom of the seventh inning Saturday, minutes after a five-run lead over Arizona had shrunk to two. The second game of the National League division series was no longer a party, a lark, a celebration of the Dodgers’ might. The 54,726 fans assembled at Chavez Ravine wore the scars of the past and the tension of the present. October is a cruel month. The highs feel fleeting. The lows are eternal. Hill sought to counteract the encroaching dread with a handcrafted message: “Make Some Noise.” The crowd caught Hill’s drift. The cheers gathered in volume as the Dodgers mounted a rally. As if on cue, a grounder from Chris Taylor rolled through the legs of Arizona shortstop Ketel Marte. A run scored. The crowd exploded, and the Dodgers had enough to hang on for an 8-5 victory to capture a 2-0 lead in this series. To get there, the Dodgers [See Dodgers, D2]

Puig has the whole place just rocking BILL PLASCHKE His name has become a song, a deepthroated anthem lasting only three seconds yet big enough to engulf a city enraptured by its lyric. “Puiiiiig” ... “Puiiiiig.” The joyful bellowing has rippled through Chavez Ravine since Yasiel Puig joined the Dodgers in 2013, but never like this, never this loud, never this emotional, never this hungry. Two games into a National League division series, with the Dodgers looking strong enough to wind up in a World Series, 50,000 fans at Dodger Stadium are begging Puig to carry them there, and he is pleading for them to climb aboard. You can hear it now, can’t you? You were chanting it even in your living room, weren’t you? “Puiiiiig” ... “Puiiiiig.” [See Plaschke, D13]

It’s all on Yu Darvish’s time to shine begins with Game 3. D2 NL DIVISION SERIES

6 3 Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times

CURTIS GRANDERSON REACTS after scoring on a double by Austin Barnes in the fifth inning, giving L.A. a 6-2 lead.

Tied up: Bryce Harper and Ryan Zimmerman homer to even series. D12

USC, coming off its first defeat of the season, enjoys an easy 38-10 victory over Oregon State. SPORTS INSIDE >>>

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Ray can’t get out of the fifth inning [Dodgers, from D1] required a five-out save from closer Kenley Jansen. The offense maintained its momentum from Game 1. On Friday, they bruised the Diamondbacks for nine runs. A day later, the offense toppled Arizona left-hander Robbie Ray, who entered the game with an ownership deed for his opponents in his back pocket. Ray lasted 41⁄3 innings, yielded four runs and exited on the hook for a defeat. Maligned for so much of September, the back half of the lineup carried the Dodgers. Logan Forsythe scored three runs. Yasiel Puig collected three hits. Curtis Granderson hopped off the bench to extend a four-run blitz with a single in the fifth inning. Austin Barnes scored twice and roped a critical two-run double. On the mound, Hill absorbed a first-inning haymaker, a two-run homer by Arizona slugger Paul Goldschmidt, and did not permit another run across four innings. The bullpen strung together the final 15 outs. For the second night in a row, the seventh inning proved tricky for manager Dave Roberts. He had removed Kenta Maeda in the sixth inning, even as Maeda rolled through the three batters he faced. After Tony Watson surrendered two singles to start the seventh, Roberts went to Brandon Morrow. The first pitch Morrow threw was clobbered for a three-run homer by pinch-hitter Brandon Drury to cut the Dodgers’ lead to two. A bevy of franchise legends assembled before the game. Puig huddled with Don Newcombe during batting practice. Maury Wills threw the first pitch to Roberts. Magic Johnson grabbed a thirdrow seat next to Sandy Koufax near the Dodgers dugout. Johnson and Koufax had barely settled in when Arizona took the lead. Hill walked A.J. Pollock on a full-count curveball and Goldschmidt crushed a fastball deep into the Dodgers’ bullpen in left field. Hill needed 27 pitches to finish the inning, and booted a water cooler when he returned to the dugout. The homer handed Ray a tworun lead. The Dodgers saw him five times during the regular season, and scored more than two runs against him just once. “He’s pitched really well against us,” Corey Seager said before the game. After a pair of walks in the second, Ray lost control of a fastball while facing Puig. The runners moved into scoring position, and Puig’s RBI groundout made it 2-1. Ray walked four of the first 10 batters he faced. The Dodgers did not produce a hit until the fourth inning. Forsythe chipped a single into left field. Barnes dunked another into right. Puig splashed one into center. The hits did not score a run. Ray took care of that. He lost a slider in the dirt for his third wild pitch of the evening, and Forsythe scored.

NL DIVISION SERIES

ARIZONA vs. DODGERS Dodgers lead 2-0 GM

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Friday at Dodgers DODGERS .....................................9 ARIZONA .......................................5 Saturday at Dodgers DODGERS .....................................8 ARIZONA .......................................5 Monday at Arizona, 7 p.m. LA: Darvish (10-12, 3.86) ARIZ: Greinke (17-7, 3.20)

Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times

DODGERS PITCHER Rich Hill watches anxiously as a ground ball by Arizona’s Chris Iannetta is

fielded in the third inning Saturday night. Iannetta was ruled out, ending the inning.

Tuesday at Arizona, 6 p.m. 4 LA: Wood (16-3, 2.72) ARIZ: Corbin (14-13, 4.03)

Thursday at Dodgers, 6 p.m. ARIZONA: TBD LA: TBD

TV: All games on TBS Games 4, 5 if necessary | All times PDT Arizona AB R H BI Avg. Dodgers AB R H BI Avg. Peralta lf 5 0 0 0 .000 Taylor cf 4 0 1 1 .250 Pollock cf 3 1 0 0 .167 Seager ss 4 0 1 0 .375 Gldsmdt 1b 3 1 1 2 .143 Turner 3b 4 0 1 0 .500 Martinez rf 4 0 1 0 .500 Bllingr 1b 5 1 0 0 .100 Descalso 2b 3 0 1 0 .333 Hrndz lf 1 1 0 0 .000 Iannetta c 4 0 0 0 .000 b-Grdrsn lf 2 1 1 0 .167 Lamb 3b 4 1 2 0 .400 Jansen p 1 0 0 0 .000 Marte ss 4 1 1 0 .375 Frsythe 2b 5 3 3 1 .500 Ray p 1 0 0 0 .000 Barnes c 3 2 2 2 .750 Sherfy p 0 0 0 0 --- Puig rf 4 0 3 2 .556 DLRosa p 0 0 0 0 --- Hill p 1 0 0 0 .000 c-Drury 1 1 1 3 .200 a-Farmer 1 0 0 0 .000 Bradley p 0 0 0 0 --- Maeda p 1 0 0 0 .000 d-Blanco 1 0 0 0 .000 Ethier lf 0 0 0 0 --Totals 33 5 7 5 Totals 36 8 12 6 Arizona Dodgers

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a-struck out for Hill in the 4th. b-singled, advanced to 2nd for Hernandez in the 5th. c-homered for De La Rosa in the 7th. d-struck out for Bradley in the 9th. Walks—Arizona 3: Pollock 1, Goldschmidt 1, Descalso 1. Dodgers 5: Taylor 1, Seager 1, Hernandez 1, Barnes 1, Ethier 1. Strikeouts—Arizona 10: Pollock 2, Martinez 2, Descalso 1, Iannetta 2, Marte 1, Ray 1, Blanco 1. Dodgers 12: Seager 3, Bellinger 4, Granderson 1, Jansen 1, Barnes 1, Hill 1, Farmer 1. E—Marte (1). LOB—Arizona 5, Dodgers 10. 2B—Descalso (1), Barnes (1). HR—Goldschmidt (1), off Hill; Drury (1), off Morrow. RBIs—Goldschmidt 2 (2), Drury 3 (3), Taylor (1), Forsythe (1), Barnes 2 (2), Puig 2 (4). SB—Seager (1), Turner (1), Forsythe (1), Barnes (1). CS—Puig (1). S—Ray. Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Ray, L, 0-1.................41⁄3 4 4 4 4 6 88 8.31 Sherfy .........................0 3 3 3 0 0 10 36.00 De La Rosa................12⁄3 3 0 0 0 2 36 0.00 Bradley .......................2 2 1 0 1 4 40 0.00 Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Hill .............................4 3 2 2 3 4 78 4.50 Cingrani ......................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.00 Maeda, W, 1-0 .............1 0 0 0 0 2 9 0.00 Watson .......................2⁄3 2 2 2 0 0 10 18.00 Morrow .......................1 1 1 1 0 1 14 3.86 Fields, H, 1 .................1⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 8 0.00 Jansen, S, 1-1............12⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 18 0.00 Sherfy pitched to 3 batters in the 5th. Watson pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. HBP—Ray (Turner). WP—Ray 3. T—3:48. Tickets sold—54,726 (56,000).

Taylor pulled the Dodgers ahead with an RBI infield single. The hammer fell on Ray and his teammates in the fifth. Ray drilled Justin Turner to start the frame. One batter later, Ray was out of the game, and Roberts called upon Granderson to face reliever Jimmie Scherfy. Granderson roped a single into right field. Forsythe hit a curveball into left for an RBI single. Barnes sliced an 0-2 double into the leftfield corner to bring home both runners, and Puig capped the fourrun flurry with an RBI single. andy.mccullough@latimes.com Twitter: @McCulloughTimes

Darvish gets his chance to deliver in postseason DYLAN HERNANDEZ And so it finally starts, Yu Darvish’s career with Dodgers. Darvish has pitched nine games for his new team, but the truth is that none of them really counted. There was never any pretense otherwise. From the moment the Japanese right-hander was acquired at the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline, he knew he was here to pitch in October. Specifically, he was here to pitch in October in the kind of game he will pitch Monday night at Chase Field opposite Zack Greinke in Game 3 of the National League division series, which the Dodgers lead 2-0. Darvish will be called on to close out the best-of-five series, but his responsibilities extend beyond the upcoming game. As the team’s greatest X-factor, his performance could determine how this postseason plays out for the Dodgers. If he can be their second frontline pitcher alongside Clayton Kershaw, he can move the Dodgers within arm’s reach of their first World Series in 29 years. The Dodgers are already counting on him to make Kershaw better. The addition of Darvish to a rotation that includes Rich Hill and Alex Wood is what made the Dodgers comfortable enough to declare they wouldn’t use Kershaw on three days’ rest again at this stage of the postseason. It’s a considerable burden, enough so that when Darvish was

asked about it at his introductory news conference two months ago, he repliled, “I’m trying not to think about it.” The efforts were in vain. Every start he made and every bullpen session he threw was part of what was essentially a two-month training camp for the postseason. He was sensational in his first start with the Dodgers, blanking the New York Mets over seven innings. He also won his next start, which was against the Diamondbacks, in Arizona. Over his next four starts, however, he was 0-3 with a 7.85 earned-run average. “They brought me over for the playoffs, but I might not pitch in them if I continue like this,” Darvish said to reporters in Japanese. “I was worried about that.” In retrospect, he thinks he started to turn around his season in the last game of that four-start stretch, when he allowed five runs in 41⁄3 innings in a loss to the Colorado Rockies. That’s when he made a subtle but important change to his delivery in response to Kershaw and other Dodgers telling him he might have been overthinking on the mound. “You could tell if you compare it my last start, but I shortened the time between my leg kick and my release,” Darvish explained to reporters. “Compared to other pitchers, I think I usually take much longer thinking and waiting between my leg kick and my release. I think it’s one of my good points. But when I’m not pitching well, I think too much and I’m not able to repeat my delivery. The goal of speeding up my delivery was to give myself less time to think and I think that worked.”

By his next start, he felt more comfortable pitching at a quicker pace and limited the San Francisco Giants to three hits over seven scoreless innings. In addition to simplifying his delivery, he simplified how he attacked hitters. “He’s a guy that can go to all quadrants,” manager Dave Roberts said. “He can pitch off the fastball, the cutter, curveball, the changeup, so I think that he’s simplified a little bit of his pitch mix.” Darvish did that by relying increasingly on his cutter, especially against lefties. He commands the pitch better than his fastball, which allowed him to get ahead in counts more often. His modified delivery also affected how the pitch moved, which made him more comfortable throwing it. “It started bending sideways and dropping more,” he said. The changes in approach were recommended to him by the team’s front office and coaches. Roberts was amazed by his receptiveness. “A lot of it was him being open-minded to what helps his stuff play the best,” Roberts said. Darvish was charged with only one earned run in 191⁄3 innings over his last three regular-season starts, which included the game against the Giants. He struck out 21 and walked only one. “Yu’s incredible,” Corey Seager said. “Elite stuff plays in the playoffs and he has it. That’s kind of what we’re looking for and that’s what we got out of him.” If they can only continue to get that out of him when it counts. dylan.hernandez@latimes.com Twitter: @dylanohernandez

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TAKING MAYBE STEPS Trojans don’t impress, but they regain winning ways NO. 14 USC 38 OREGON STATE 10 By Zach Helfand Oregon State is the junk food of the Pac-12 Conference: empty calories. No. 14 USC’s 38-10 victory over the Beavers on Saturday left some Trojans sated. Others felt indigestion. “We won a game,” linebacker Cameron Smith said outside USC’s locker room. “Why are we concerned? We’re gonna keep doing things that we do, and as long as we’re winning games, that’s all that we can worry about.” A few minutes later, Smith’s fellow linebacker and fellow captain Uchenna Nwosu said, “There’s a lot more meat on the bone.” USC (5-1, 3-1 in the Pac-12 Conference) is off to its best first half in five years. Aside

from sections of Saturday’s game and a win over Stanford, it has not won convincingly. Saturday’s official attendance of 60,314 was its lowest for a game at the Coliseum since Oct. 19, 2002. The result was similarly inconclusive. USC won by enough to credibly claim progress. The Trojans scored on two passes of 30 yards or longer, ran the ball mostly at will and, for the first time in a long time, escaped without any apparent major injuries. They also played sloppily enough to invite skepticism. The outcome itself was in doubt for all of about six minutes. USC marched down the field and scored on its opening drive, then converted a Jack Jones interception into another touchdown. About 54 minutes of football remained, and USC led by14. It [See USC, D10]

A good win, but room to get better USC beat a team it was supposed to beat, building a big enough lead that coach Clay Helton could take quarterback Sam Darnold out in the fourth quarter and let backup Matt Fink enjoy a star turn. Fink made the most of his moment in the warm late-afternoon sun on Saturday, running for a 51-yard touchdown on the first series of his Trojans career to cap the scoring in a 38-10

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No. 3 Sooners see double in upset

No. 7 Wolverines lose in Big House

Iowa State’s Lanning plays offense and defense in 38-31 stunner. D8

Michigan State intercepts three passes and holds on for 14-10 win. D9

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Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times

USC RECEIVER Deontay Burnett beats Oregon State safety Omar Hicks-Onu for a 16-yard touchdown pass

in the second quarter, giving the Trojans a 21-3 lead. Burnett had a quiet day with two catches.

Split decisions on the ice Kings win with strong efforts from Kopitar and Brown. Ducks lose to Flyers in overtime. D4

Ready for anything Arena had the U.S. prepared to the limit for crucial match against Panama, and it paid off. D4

Ferguson stars in UFC 216 He issues a challenge to McGregor after defeating Lee by submission in the third round. D11

Reliving joys of summer Lakers will take what they learned in Las Vegas with them in exhibition against Kings today. D12

Clippers keep options open Rivers’ philosophy on defense changes from year to year, depending on trends in the NBA. D12 Santa Anita ...............D11

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Hayward emerges as elite corner

Gurley may join exclusive company

Game preparation, confidence help him thrive with Chargers.

He could have 1,000 yards rushing and 1,000 yards receiving.

By Dan Woike There are Arizona’s Patrick Peterson, Seattle’s Richard Sherman, Kansas City’s Marcus Peters, and Denver’s Aqib Talib and Chris Harris Jr. Add in Josh Norman in Washington, Malcolm Butler in New England, Janoris Jenkins with the New York Giants and Xavier Rhodes with Minnesota. And the Chargers’ Casey Hayward absolutely belongs in that group of the NFL’s best cornerbacks. Just ask him. Hayward, along with the other players mentioned, was selected as one of the NFL’s top 100 players this past offseason. He was ranked No. 64 — eighth at his position ahead of only Rhodes [See Chargers, D6]

Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times

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Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times

CASEY HAYWARD of the Chargers upends Eagles tight end Trey Burton.

By Gary Klein Roger Craig of the San Francisco 49ers did it first in 1985. Marshall Faulk of the St. Louis Rams accomplished the feat 14 years later. They are the only NFL running backs to rush for 1,000 yards and have 1,000 yards receiving in the same season. Now, Craig, Faulk and others are pleased to see Rams running back Todd Gurley catching more passes. Gurley enters Sunday’s game against the Seattle Seahawks at the Coliseum with 362 yards rushing and 234 yards receiving. The 2015 NFL offensive rookie of the year’s rebound from a subpar 2016 season [See Gurley, D7]

S U NDAY , O C T O B E R 8 , 2 017

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Showing no sign of slowing

PRO CALENDAR SUN. 8

MON. 9

TUE. 10

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ARIZONA* 6** TBS

at Arizona* at Arizona* 7 6** TBS TBS

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RAMS

Kopitar scores twice and Quick continues strong start in L.A.’s convincing road win. KINGS 4, SAN JOSE 1 By Curtis Zupke

at N.Y. Giants 10 a.m. Channel 9

CHARGERS

SAN JOSE — The skeleton didn’t spring out of the jack-in-the-box this time. The Kings extracted voodoo here with some topline punch, coupled with friendly bounces in an about-face from past debacles in this building. Anze Kopitar could do no wrong in scoring two goals. Dustin Brown skated with verve. It came together in a 4-1 win Saturday against the San Jose Sharks. Kopitar and Brown scored their first goals of the season and the Kings moved to 2-0 by sending the Sharks to an 0-2 start that triggered occasional boos from the announced

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NEXT: OCT. 15 VS. MINNESOTA, 4:30 P.M., SPECSN GALAXY Shade denotes home game *National League division series **If necessary LAKERS: Tonight vs. Sacramento (exhibition) at Las Vegas, 6, ESPN, SpecSN CLIPPERS: Today vs. Portland (exhibition), 12:30 p.m.

PRO FOOTBALL 10 a.m. Chargers at New York Giants 10 a.m. Carolina at Detroit 1 p.m. Seattle at Rams 1 p.m. 1:15 p.m. 5:30 p.m. RUNNING 5 a.m. SOCCER 8:45 a.m. 8:45 a.m. 9 a.m. 9 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m.

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ORLANDO, Fla. — It would be easy to attribute the U.S. national team’s dismantling of Panama in Friday’s must-win World Cup qualifier to extraordinary performances by Jozy Altidore, Christian Pulisic and Bobby Wood. You could also credit the grit and determination of a team with its backs to the wall. Or even blame Panama’s woefully poor performance. All of those things contributed to a 4-0 win that has the U.S. on the doorstep of an eighth consecutive World Cup appearance, needing only to avoid a loss Tuesday

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against Trinidad and Tobago to clinch a berth in next summer’s tournament in Russia. But the real foundation for that success was built during countless hours of video research in the StubHub Center offices of coach Bruce Arena and his staff, who devised an audacious game plan that kept Panama on its heels all night. “I don’t think we could have been any more prepared,” Altidore said. “In all my years playing with this team I thought this game, it was the most preparation I’ve ever seen from a coaching staff. I don’t think there was anything they missed.” Added defender Omar Gonzalez: “There were a lot of meetings. Two or three meetings every day just to make sure there was no stone left unturned. We knew what we needed to do.” In the team’s final meeting the night before the match, Arena left the play-

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FIRST PERIOD: 1. KINGS, Brown 1 (Kopitar), 5:08. 2. S.J., Boedker 1 (DeMelo, Dillon), 6:14. 3. KINGS, Kopitar 1 (Muzzin), 19:52. Penalties—MacDermid, KINGS, (roughing), 8:31. Couture, S.J., (tripping), 11:29. Hertl, S.J., (hooking), 16:11. SECOND PERIOD: 4. KINGS, Kopitar 2 (Brown, Forbort), 12:07. 5. KINGS, Shore 1, 14:05. Penalties—Dillon, S.J., (high sticking), 5:57. Shore, KINGS, (hooking), 8:34. THIRD PERIOD: Scoring—None. Penalties—Muzzin, KINGS, (holding), 0:50. Donskoi, S.J., (hooking), 5:17. Clifford, KINGS, (unsportsmanlike conduct), 7:22. Pavelski, S.J., (interference), 8:27. Ward, S.J., (interference), 13:31. SHOTS ON GOAL: KINGS 17-15-7—39. S.J. 6-12-7— 25. Power-play conversions—KINGS 0 of 6. S.J. 0 of 4. GOALIES: KINGS, Quick 2-0-0 (25 shots-24 saves). S.J., Dell 0-0-0 (9-9), Jones 0-2-0 (29-25). Att—17,562 (17,562). T—2:30.

onds left in the first period for a 2-1 lead. The rush began because San Jose defenseman Brent Burns tried to clear the puck and Jake Muzzin intercepted it. The Kings didn’t relinquish that lead. Their offense saw more open ice. Their defensemen jumped into the play as if shackles were taken off. The Kings took 17 shots in the first period, and they could have scored more than two

goals in that period if not for clutch penalty killing by San Jose. Brown sent a shot from the lower right circle past Jones’ shoulder just more than five minutes into the game and later had a shorthanded breakaway. The first matchup this season was angled as two rival franchises with strong veteran bases trying to keep their window for success open. Drew Doughty put his spin on it before the game. “Their [base] is a little older than ours, I’d say, so their window’s closing faster than ours is closing,” Doughty said of San Jose. “But Joe Thornton is [38] and he’s still the best player on their team. It’s pretty special when you can be the best player on your team here for all 20 years here in the league. You know you’re a special player when you can do that.” curtis.zupke@latimes.com Twitter: @curtiszupke

FLYERS 3, DUCKS 2, OT

John Gibson dazzled in team’s opener, but he’s also kicked back a number of rebounds.

Philadelphia ......................1 DUCKS .............................1

If the Ducks are going to withstand the early onslaught of injuries, it’s going to be John Gibson who helps them brave the storm. The unquestioned No. 1 starter in goal for Year 2, Gibson has propelled the Ducks to three points through two games. In the season-opening victory over the Arizona Coyotes, the 24-year-old dazzled with a number of acrobatic split saves, perhaps none greater than a game-defining sequence in the second. Derek Stepan split the defense on a breakaway, but Gibson stonewalled him, and then swatted away the trailing Christian Dvorak’s attempt alone in front. That was Gibson at his best. At his worst, he has kicked back a number of rebounds. He did a better job corralling pucks during Saturday’s 3-2 overtime loss to the Philadelphia Flyers at Honda Center, but this is surely not the start he envisioned. Especially not the way he was beat on the second goal, a doorstep dribbler through his five-hole. The Pittsburgh native again allowed a goal in the game’s

ers with one final message: What they had practiced was going to work. “To be quite honest with you, I’ve never been more relaxed and confident as a coach,” he told them. “Tomorrow’s your day. We’ll get it done. Seven thirty-five we kick off, by 9:30 we’ll have three points.” The plan called for Altidore, Pulisic and Wood to stay mobile and create space. The U.S. also needed to pressure Panama, so Arena threw five speedy attackers forward in wave after wave of counterattacks. It was a risk against a defense that gave up only five goals in its eight previous qualifiers combined. Following Arena’s blueprint, the U.S. scored four in a little more than an hour. “The coaching staff, from the [time] guys landed, were showing video, pulling guys aside. They made sure we understood how important the game was,” said Altidore, who scored two goals and assisted on another. “Kudos to Bruce and his team for preparing everybody.” Arena’s gamble paid off in more than just a win, though. With the four scores, the Americans head into the final World Cup qualifiers with commanding leads in the goal-differential tiebreaker over the only two teams that can still catch them in the standings. The U.S. is seven goals better

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FIRST PERIOD: 1. Phi., Provorov 1 (Weal, Patrick), 8:19. 2. DUCKS, Vermette 1 (Manson, Kase), 12:13. Penalties—Vermette, DUCKS, (roughing), 6:18. Rasmussen, DUCKS, (holding), 10:35. Gostisbehere, PHI, (slashing), 11:08. Gudas, PHI, (roughing), 16:55. Bieksa, DUCKS, (roughing), 16:55. Cogliano, DUCKS, (slashing), 17:56. SECOND PERIOD: 3. Phi., Couturier 1 (Giroux, Voracek), 13:09. Penalties—Beauchemin, DUCKS, (kneeing), 4:36. Simmonds, PHI, (slashing), 9:48. THIRD PERIOD: 4. DUCKS, Fowler 1, 3:40 (sh). Penalty—Vermette, DUCKS, (slashing), 3:14. OVERTIME: 5. Phi., Simmonds 4 (Provorov, Couturier), 0:44. Penalties—None. SHOTS ON GOAL: Phi. 15-6-15-1—37. DUCKS 13-64—23. Power-play conversions—Phi. 0 of 5. DUCKS 0 of 2. GOALIES: Phi., Elliott 2-0-0 (23 shots-21 saves). DUCKS, Gibson 1-0-1 (37-34). Att—16,032 (17,174). T—2:29.

Reed Saxon Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA right winger Jakub Voracek, right,

battles his counterpart on the Ducks, Corey Perry, in the first period of their game at the Honda Center. first five minutes (two got by him in the first nine Thursday). And there wasn’t much Gibson could do to deny the extra-period winner after Wayne Simmonds (four goals through three games) burst in front of the net all alone. Gibson came up with plenty of opportune saves, though, and if that continues, coach Randy Carlyle and Co. will surely be pleased. “He’s played great for us, he’s kept us in both hockey games, he’s been a big reason why we’re in the position we are,” said Ducks defenseman Cam Fowler, who tied the score at 2 with a shorthanded slapper after stealing the puck from Flyers star Claude Giroux. “I think it’s fair to say we’re giving up too many Grade-A chances and

Like a good scout, Arena had U.S. prepared for crucial Cup qualifier KEVIN BAXTER ON SOCCER

0 — 4 0 — 1

By Mike Coppinger

Baltimore at Oakland Green Bay at Dallas Kansas City at Houston

After a strong effort against Panama, team is on verge of berth in Russia next year.

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World Cup qualifier, Slovenia vs. Scotland World Cup qualifier, Poland vs. Montenegro World Cup qualifier, Lithuania vs. England World Cup qualifier, Slovakia vs. Malta World Cup qualifier, Norway vs. Northern Ireland World Cup qualifier, Germany vs. Azerbaijan World Cup qualifier, Czech Republic vs. San Marino 12:30 p.m. NWSL, Chicago at North Carolina TENNIS 10 p.m. ATP, Shanghai Masters, early round

KINGS 4, SHARKS 1 KINGS .....................................2 San Jose..................................1

A mixed bag in goal for the Ducks

TODAY ON THE AIR TIME EVENT AUTO RACING 10 a.m. NASCAR Monster Energy Cup, Bank of America 500 8 p.m. NASCAR K&N Pro West Series, Idaho 208 BASEBALL 11:30 a.m ALDS, Houston at Boston 4:30 p.m. ALDS, Cleveland at New York Yankees COLLEGE SOCCER 11 a.m. Women. Stanford at Colorado 11 a.m. San Diego State at Oregon State 1 p.m. Women, California at Utah 3 p.m. Stanford at California 5 p.m. UCLA at Washington GOLF 2:30 p.m. PGA, Safeway Open GYMNASTICS 10 a.m. World Artistic Championships HOCKEY 4 p.m. Montreal at New York Rangers HORSE RACING Noon Trackside Live, Santa Anita 2 p.m. Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series, Dixiana Bourbon Stakes and Juddmonte Spinster Stakes PRO BASKETBALL, PRESEASON Noon Cleveland at Washington 6 p.m. Sacramento at Lakers

17,562 fans at SAP Center. A year ago, Jonathan Quick suffered a groin injury in the season opener here that spelled doom for the Kings. In his first appearance in San Jose since that night, Quick stopped 24 shots, and he has allowed one goal in two games. At the other end stood former teammate Martin Jones, and he endured his own nightmare when he was pulled after four goals allowed on 29 shots. The fourth was credited to Nick Shore, although it was an own goal by Melker Karlsson because of miscommunication between Jones and his teammates. The luck of the rivals unfolded that way. Kopitar’s second goal was a double deflection that found the net, fewer than two minutes before Shore’s gifted goal in the second period. Kopitar used a more traditional method when he beat Jones with a wrist shot in transition with eight sec-

than Panama and 12 better than Honduras. But that advantage will mean nothing if the U.S. doesn’t get a result against Trinidad and Tobago, which relocated the game from the national stadium in the capital of Port of Spain to a tiny 10,000-seat venue 45 minutes away — a move even the stadium’s namesake, Olympic sprinter Ato Boldon, criticized in a tweet. “This is not a good look,” he wrote. With Honduras tying Costa Rica on Saturday, the U.S. needs only a draw with Trinidad to finish third in the CONCACAF tournament and earn the confederation’s final automatic berth in next summer’s World Cup. That the U.S. would enter its final qualifier with its fate in its hands seemed unlikely in November, when Arena replaced Jurgen Klinsmann after the U.S. dropped its first two qualifiers. The Americans have lost once in 17 games since then. “It’s been a long road to put ourselves in this situation at this point. A lot’s gone into it,” midfielder Michael Bradley said. “And now we’ve got a chance, in 90 minutes in Trinidad, to finish the job and make sure that we’re on the plane to Russia. “The motivation will be huge to go down there and do whatever it takes.” kevin.baxter@latimes.com

… any time you do that against a good team like that, you’re going to be putting a lot of pressure on your goaltender.” The Ducks again made sure Gibson would stay sharp. He faced 30 shots in the opener (four goals for a .867 save percentage) and another 37 in Game 2 of 82. He was forced to show his worth on the penalty kill with consecutive sprawling saves on Giroux. Moments later, Ivan Provorov blasted the puck past Gibson for the

game’s first score. The penalties have been an issue already. The Ducks accrued 18 penalty minutes on Thursday (two of four on the power play), and 10 of those minutes were handed down to Gibson for leaving his net during a second period fracas. The Flyers were on the man-advantage on five occasions, but Gibson stonewalled them each time. With backup Ryan Miller sidelined, Gibson figures to be in net over the next two games as well. And that’s a good thing, because so far, Gibson is at his best when the Ducks need him most. sports@latimes.com

NHL STANDINGS WESTERN CONFERENCE

Pacific KINGS Vegas DUCKS Vancouver Edmonton Calgary Arizona San Jose Central St. Louis Chicago Colorado Minnesota Winnipeg Dallas Nashville

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OL Pts GF GA 0 4 6 1 0 4 4 2 1 3 7 7 0 2 3 2 0 2 5 3 0 2 6 6 1 1 5 7 0 0 4 9 OL Pts GF GA 0 4 9 6 0 4 15 2 0 2 5 6 1 1 6 9 0 0 5 13 0 0 3 6 0 0 3 8

Note: Overtime or shootout losses worth one point.

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Metropolitan Washington Philadelphia Pittsburgh New Jersey Carolina Columbus NY Islanders NY Rangers Atlantic Detroit Toronto Boston Montreal Tampa Bay Florida Ottawa Buffalo

W 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 W 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0

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OL Pts GF GA 0 4 11 5 0 4 8 7 1 3 9 15 0 2 4 1 0 2 5 4 0 2 6 5 0 2 6 8 0 0 7 12 OL Pts GF GA 0 4 6 3 0 4 15 7 0 2 4 3 0 2 4 8 0 2 9 8 0 2 8 9 2 2 5 7 1 1 5 9

RESULTS KINGS 4 AT SAN JOSE 1 PHILADELPHIA 3 AT DUCKS 2 (OT) AT NEW JERSEY 4 COLORADO 1 DETROIT 2 AT OTTAWA 1 (SO) AT PITTSBURGH 4 NASHVILLE 0 AT N.Y. ISLANDERS 6 BUFFALO 3 AT ST. LOUIS 4 DALLAS 2 VEGAS 2 AT ARIZONA 1 (OT) AT CALGARY 6 WINNIPEG 3 AT WASHINGTON 6 MONTREAL 1 AT TORONTO 8 N.Y. RANGERS 5 AT CAROLINA 5 MINNESOTA 4 (SO) AT FLORIDA 5 TAMPA BAY 4 AT CHICAGO 5 COLUMBUS 1 AT VANCOUVER 3 EDMONTON 2

Anze Kopitar scores two goals and Jonathan Quick stops 24 of 25 shots as Kings win road opener. Flyers’ Wayne Simmonds takes control of puck after it ricochets off teammate and scores goal in overtime. Will Butcher sets up three power-play goals for Devils, who start eight players who were not with team last year. Frans Nielsen scores the only goal in shootout and Jimmy Howard makes 37 saves for Red Wings. Goals by Evgeni Malkin, Olli Maatta, Ryan Reaves and Jake Guentzel help Penguins bounce back from ugly loss. John Tavares and Casey Cizikas each score two goals for Islanders while Jaroslav Halak stops 26 shots. Jake Allen makes 38 saves for Blues, who take early 3-0 lead and spoil coach Ken Hitchcock’s return to St. Louis. James Neal’s goal at 3:46 of overtime gives the expansion Golden Knights second win in two games. Defenseman T.J. Brodie has two goals and two assists for Flames, who score final five goals in comeback victory. Alex Ovechkin scores four goals; becomes first player in 100 years with back-to-back hat tricks to open season. Tyler Bozak, Leo Komarov and Nazem Kadri score third-period goals as Maple Leafs win wild home opener. Victor Rask gets goal with l:34 left in regulation and Jaccob Slavin scores in shootout for Hurricanes. Jared McCann scores tiebreaking goal for Panthers after review overturns initial ruling of goalie interference. Brandon Saad, Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews each get a goal and an assist for the Blackhawks. Canucks’ Bo Horvat scores twice and Jacob Markstrom makes 33 saves after allowing goal on game's first shot.

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TODAY’S GAME Montreal at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMES Calgary at DUCKS, 7 p.m. Colorado at Boston, 10 a.m. Chicago at Toronto, 4 p.m. Winnipeg at Edmonton, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at N.Y. Islanders, 10 a.m. New Jersey at Buffalo, noon Washington at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m.

L AT I ME S . CO M / S P O RT S

S U N DAY, O C T OB E R 8 , 2 017

NFL WEEK 5 10 A.M., CH. 9

CHARGERS at N.Y. GIANTS Two of league’s four winless teams battle.

FROM A TO Z Compiled by MATT WILHALME Baltimore: Joe Flacco enters Sunday’s game at Oakland averaging 3.9 yards per pass in his past two starts with a touchdown and four interceptions. Buffalo: The Bills head into Sunday’s game at Cincinnati as the only team that hasn’t trailed by six or more points. They cut receiver Philly Brown Saturday, four days after signing him. Cincinnati: The Bengals have held teams without a first down on 20 of 47 possessions. They’ve had a sack in 33 straight regular-season games. CHARGERS: They have won three straight vs. the Giants, Sunday’s foe, but have lost nine straight regular-season games since November 2016. Cleveland: The Browns, 2-29 since an overtime win at Baltimore in 2015, head into Sunday’s game vs. the Jets seeking their second win under coach Hue Jackson, who’s 1-19. Denver: The Broncos enter their bye week having allowed teams to rush for a league-low 203 yards, giving up 2.4 yards per attempt through four games, also an NFL best. Houston: Deshaun Watson enters Sunday’s game vs. Kansas City as the only rookie in history with at least seven touchdown passes and two rushing scores in his team’s first four games. Indianapolis: A statue of Peyton Manning was unveiled outside Lucas Oil Stadium in advance of Sunday’s game vs. San Francisco. “I will always be a Colt,” Manning said. Jacksonville: Center Brandon Linder (illness) is ruled out for Sunday at Pittsburgh, as is injured receiver Jaelen Strong. Third-string QB Ryan Nassib was released. Kansas City: The Chiefs have not committed a turnover since their first offensive play in Week 1. Kansas City is fourth in the NFL with 33 points off turnovers. Miami: The Dolphins make their home debut Sunday vs. Tennessee since their season opener was postponed because of Hurricane Irma. New England: Tom Brady recorded his 186th regular-season win Thursday, tying Brett Favre and Peyton Manning for the most. N.Y. Jets: Receivers Jermaine Kearse (18) and Jeremy Kerley (13) lead the Jets in receptions despite not being added to the roster until after training camp. Oakland: EJ Manuel will start at quarterback for Derek Carr (back), who was limited at practice and is questionable. Manuel hasn’t won a start since 2014. Pittsburgh: Receiver Martavis Bryant is questionable for Sunday due to an illness. Antonio Brown’s next TD catch will be his 52nd, breaking a tie with Hall of Famer Lynn Swann for thirdmost in franchise history. Tennessee: The Titans signed journeyman Brandon Weeden as a potential backup for Matt Cassel if Marcus Mariota (hamstring) is unable to go Sunday.

10 A.M., CH. 11

CAROLINA at DETROIT Both 3-1 teams trying to keep pace in divisions.

1 P.M., CH. 2

SEATTLE at RAMS Suddenly apt Rams offense faces huge test.

1:15 P.M., CH. 11

GREEN BAY at DALLAS Packers’ injury list growing by the day.

ALSO TODAY TEN at MIA.....10 BUF at CIN .....10 JAC at PIT.......10 ARI at PHI.......10

5:30 P.M., CH. 4

KANSAS CITY at HOUSTON Chiefs last unbeaten team remaining.

Packers-Cowboys shots will be ode to joysticks SAM FARMER ON THE NFL

Green Bay at Dallas is a sure bet, ratings-wise. But for Fox, that showcase NFL game Sunday is a high-wire act. Get ready for some different camera angles, because for the first time in the regular season, the network will use two SkyCams, with one positioned just behind the quarterback, as usual, and a second peering down from about 50 feet. That double coverage will allow for all the traditional shots as the low camera zips along behind the play, and the high one gives a God’s-eye view of the action. It used to be that the Madden game went the extra mile to look like real football. Now, real football looks like Madden. “The upper SkyCam is almost like the dream of having a drone cover a football game,” said Michael Davies, senior vice president of field operations at Fox. “You can see plays unfold in ways you hadn’t before, at least from that perspective.” Fox tested the system in an exhibition game this summer, as did NBC, which will use two SkyCams for the Super Bowl rematch in two weeks when New England plays host to Atlanta on Sunday night. NBC also plans to double up for its Super Bowl game coverage in February. The cameras are suspended on wires that run the length of the field and are required by the NFL to stay behind the offense before the snap. Each camera is operated by a twoperson team. One is the pilot who controls where the SkyCam is positioned and how high it is above the field, and the other is the camera operator who controls the pan, zoom and direction of the lens. “The one thing that a lot of people don’t understand is that these cameras are being controlled by people with joysticks,” said Fred Gaudelli, executive producer of NBC’s “Sunday Night Football.” “It’s no different than a video game. These guys who run them are really skilled. I bet you there’d be a lot of 15-year-olds out there who would be really skilled at it too, because they’re used to doing those kinds of things.” For the game at AT&T Stadium, there’s the added challenge of the giant video board, so the two SkyCams have to run under that and not conflict with each other. There will also be five super slow-motion cameras for that game, as well as pylon cameras in the end zones. Davies said the traditional SkyCam probably gets more use in Fox broadcasts than any other camera. The network is going to be careful about not overusing the new vantage point. “We don’t want to go away from what we do week in and week out,” said

FROM A TO Z Compiled by MATT WILHALME

Atlanta: The Falcons, who have a bye, put defensive end Jack Crawford on injured reserve with a biceps injury. He had five tackles and three quarterback hits. Carolina: The Panthers signed safety Jairus Bryd to replace Kurt Coleman, who is out for Sunday at Detroit with a sprained knee and expected to miss several more weeks. Chicago: Mitchell Trubisky, the 2017 No. 2 overall draft pick, makes his first start Monday vs. Minnesota. Linebacker Willie Young (triceps) is out for the year, per the Chicago Tribune. Dallas: Tight end Jason Witten leads the team with 19 catches. Receiver Brice Butler is going for a career-best third game in a row with a touchdown Sunday vs. Green Bay. Detroit: Ameer Abdullah had a careerhigh 94 yards rushing with a touchdown last week vs. Minnesota, and 109 yards of total offense. Fox Sports

THE SECOND SKYCAM will provide Madden-like coverage today.

Rich Russo, Fox’s lead game director. “We’re not all of a sudden going to say, ‘Hey, we’ve got this new camera. Let’s just use it all the time.’ I think it’s got to be sprinkled in, and it’s got to mean something.” There’s some debate over who should get the credit for the creation of the camera-on-cables concept, with some people pointing to the late Jim Rodnunsky, and others to prolific inventor Garrett Brown, who came up with the concept of the Steadicam. There’s no question that both are industry pioneers. Rodnunsky, who died in 2011, was a filmmaker from Granada Hills who created his version while working to make his skiing simulator more realistic. He took some frightening risks to get the first overhead shots with his Cablecam prototype. He created a version of that camera in 1989 when he strung 1,400 feet of steel cable above

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RAMS

3 1 0 .750 142 105 2-1-0 1-0-0 1-0-0

Seattle

2 2 0 .500 94 77 1-1-0 1-1-0 1-0-0

Arizona

2 2 0 .500 74 91 1-2-0 1-0-0 1-0-0

San Francisco

0 4 0 .000 66 94 0-4-0 0-0-0 0-3-0

North

W L T Pct. PF PA NFC AFC Div.

Detroit

3 1 0 .750 99 70 3-1-0 0-0-0 1-0-0

Green Bay

3 1 0 .750 102 81 2-1-0 1-0-0 1-0-0

Minnesota

2 2 0 .500 79 76 2-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0

Chicago

1 3 0 .250 61 104 0-3-0 1-0-0 0-1-0

South

W L T Pct. PF PA NFC AFC Div.

Atlanta

3 1 0 .750 104 89 3-0-0 0-1-0 0-0-0

Carolina

3 1 0 .750 78 70 1-1-0 2-0-0 0-1-0

New Orleans

2 2 0 .500 93 78 1-1-0 1-1-0 1-0-0

Tampa Bay

2 2 0 .500 85 83 2-1-0 0-1-0 0-0-0

East

W L T Pct. PF PA NFC AFC Div.

Philadelphia

3 1 0 .750 103 92 2-0-0 1-1-0 2-0-0

Dallas

2 2 0 .500 94 97 2-1-0 0-1-0 1-0-0

Washington

2 2 0 .500 91 89 1-1-0 1-1-0 0-1-0

N.Y. Giants

0 4 0 .000 60 95 0-4-0 0-0-0 0-2-0

West

OFF: ATL, DEN, NO, WAS.

Arizona: Sunday at Philadelphia is a homecoming for first-round pick Haason Reddick, who went to Temple and grew up an Eagles fan. He has 18 tackles in 2017.

HOW THEY STAND West

NYJ at CLE......10 MONDAY SF at IND ........10 MIN at CHI . 5:30 BAL at OAK .......1

AMERICAN CONFERENCE W L T Pct. PF PA AFC NFC Div.

Kansas City

4 0 0 1.000 122 77 2-0-0 2-0-0 1-0-0

Denver

3 1 0 .750 98 74 2-1-0 1-0-0 2-0-0

Oakland

2 2 0 .500 91 79 2-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0

CHARGERS

0 4 0 .000 72 93 0-3-0 0-1-0 0-2-0

North

W L T Pct. PF PA AFC NFC Div.

Pittsburgh

3 1 0 .750 90 59 2-0-0 1-1-0 2-0-0

Baltimore

2 2 0 .500 60 80 2-2-0 0-0-0 2-1-0

Cincinnati

1 3 0 .250 64 67 1-2-0 0-1-0 1-1-0

Cleveland

0 4 0 .000 63 107 0-4-0 0-0-0 0-3-0

South

W L T Pct. PF PA AFC NFC Div.

Jacksonville

2 2 0 .500 109 74 2-2-0 0-0-0 1-1-0

Houston

2 2 0 .500 110 88 2-2-0 0-0-0 1-1-0

Tennessee

2 2 0 .500 100 126 1-2-0 1-0-0 1-1-0

Indianapolis

1 3 0 .250 71 136 1-0-0 0-3-0 0-0-0

East

W L T Pct. PF PA AFC NFC Div.

Buffalo

3 1 0 .750 73 54 2-0-0 1-1-0 1-0-0

New England

3 2 0 .600 148 142 1-1-0 2-1-0 0-0-0

N.Y. Jets

2 2 0 .500 75 92 2-2-0 0-0-0 1-1-0

Miami

1 2 0 .333 25 57 1-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0

Sudan Couloir at Blackcomb Mountain in Canada, among North America’s most harrowing ski runs. He constructed an aluminum basket and would zip face-down and feetfirst down the cable — attached to rocks at the top and bottom – reaching speeds of 50 mph and a height of 80 feet, using motorcycle brakes to slow his descent. Of course, he couldn’t get a good look at where he was heading because he was peering through a camera lens. The system has come a long way since then. “I think Jim would be proud,” Davies said of the two-SkyCam arrangement. “I think he’d be amazed with what we’ve done with it. Either that, or he probably thought about it 20 years ago.” sam.farmer@latimes.com Twitter: @LATimesfarmer

ASK SAM FARMER ... Have a question about the NFL? Ask Times NFL writer Sam Farmer, and he will answer as many as he can online and in the Sunday editions of the newspaper throughout the season. Email questions to: sam.farmer@latimes.com What’s the purpose of the black wristband worn by NFL referees? Max Vanderslice Greenwich, Conn. Farmer: Those wristbands are to remind officials of the down, where the ball should be spotted relative to the hash marks and even which team has possession. The wristband has a string on it that can be looped around a finger. Every official has a preferred system of keeping track, but a common one is to loop the string around the index finger for first down, middle finger for second, ring finger for third, and pinkie for fourth. Sometimes, the referee, umpire and back judge will wear bands around both wrists, using the second band to remember specifically where the ball is spotted either inside or outside the hash marks. Depending on the situation, one of those three is responsible for spotting the ball. Believe it or not, when they’re focused on one play at a time, officials can even lose track between downs of which team has the ball, so some officials put a mark on their wristband and have

it facing up or down, depending on which team has possession. “If you don’t have any skin in the game, it’s hard to remember what the down was,” former NFL referee Mike Carey said. “A fan says, ‘My team has the ball,’ or, ‘My team is on defense.’ But an official doesn’t have a team, so they have to remember. “I haven’t had a problem with that, but some people will make that mark on their wristband.”

Green Bay: Aaron Rodgers has 13 touchdown passes and two interceptions in eight games vs. Cowboys. The Packers have won six of the past seven meetings. Minnesota: Latavius Murray will be the top running back after Dalvin Cook tore his ACL last week. Sam Bradford is questionable. New Orleans: Tackle Terron Armstead’s return after the bye week would be timely after tackle Zach Strief was put on injured reserve. N.Y. Giants: Odell Beckham Jr. has seven touchdown catches in his past seven home games entering Sunday vs. the Chargers. Jason PierrePaul has 31⁄2 sacks in his past two home games. Philadelphia: Zach Ertz leads all tight ends with 26 catches (326 yards, one touchdown). Jalen Mills is first among cornerbacks with 27 tackles and one pick.

RAMS: Todd Gurley’s 596 rushing/receiving yards entering Sunday vs. Seattle rank second in the NFL, and are most by a Ram in the first four games since Marshall Faulk’s 615 in 2001.

It’s a curious TV lineup for Sunday, with the Seahawks and Rams, both NFC teams, on CBS, and the Chargers at the New York Giants on KCAL 9. What was the NFL thinking? Alexander Helmke Santa Clarita

San Francisco: Running back Carlos Hyde enters Sunday at Indianapolis sixth in the NFL with 409 yards from scrimmage (321 rushing, 88 receiving).

Farmer: Typically, Seattle at Rams would be a Fox game, but the league wanted to make sure that the marquee matchup of Green Bay at Dallas aired in Los Angeles. So Packers-Cowboys is on Fox, and Seahawks-Rams was “cross-flexed” to CBS. The early matchup of Chargers at the New York Giants, which would normally be a CBS game, was moved to Channel 9. Therefore, if that game runs long, it doesn’t risk bumping into the Rams’ kickoff. For the second Sunday in a row, Los Angeles fans are getting two morning and two afternoon games. The NFL calls it a “double doubleheader,” and it also will happen in Weeks 10 and 11.

Seattle: End Cliff Avril will miss Sunday’s game with a spine and neck injury. Also, Seattle’s top rusher, Chris Carson, is on injured reserve. Tampa Bay: Kicker Nick Folk, who was signed to replace Robert Aguayo, missed three field goals in the Buccaneers’ 19-14 loss to the Patriots on Thursday night. Washington: Corner Josh Norman suffered a rib injury in a loss to the Chiefs last week, and he will be sidelined for four weeks. The Redskins are off this week.

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HOW THEY MATCH UP CHARGERS (0-4) AT N.Y. GIANTS (0-4) When Chargers have the ball Heading into the season, the Chargers seemed to have plenty options on offense. They had a running back who could carry a heavy load and move the chains. They had a pair of tight ends who could torture linebackers stuck in coverage. They had receivers who could get down the field, and they had a quarterback ready to sling the ball around. Through four games, none of this has worked well. So far, the Chargers’ offense has been one of the NFL’s biggest disappointments. One bright spot? Russell Okung, who has been a better-than-advertised pass blocker, has helped the offensive line become fairly consistent when it comes to pass protection. The Chargers might have figured out some things in the second half of their loss to Philadelphia, getting the ball to players such as Keenan Allen and Tyrell Williams, who could gain extra yardage after the catch. Rookie running back Austin Ekeler could be in line for a bigger role with Branden Oliver injured and Melvin Gordon struggling to produce big plays. Another change that could be coming? Tight end Hunter Henry has to be a bigger part of the plan and, this week, Henry could get more snaps than veteran Antonio Gates. It won’t be easy, though, with the Giants defense having impact players at defensive end (Jason Pierre-Paul), cornerback (Eli Apple, Janoris Jenkins) and safety (Landon Collins).

When Giants have the ball Former Charger Eli Manning (remember those 10 minutes?) has wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., one of the NFL’s top receivers, in addition to three other viable pass-catching threats in Sterling Shepard, Brandon Marshall and rookie tight end Evan Engram. But Manning isn’t getting a ton of protection — he’s been sacked eight times in four games — and the running game makes the Chargers’ backfield look like the Four Horsemen. Paul Perkins, the former UCLA Bruin, is the team’s leading rusher with a meager 61 yards, though he has been ruled out because of a rib injury. The team is averaging only 3.2 yards per carry, which could be the perfect antidote for the Chargers’ problems stopping the run. Jatavis Brown’s injured ankle is a concern. The Chargers defense would greatly benefit from an early lead — something they’ve had only once this year — which could allow the pass rush to get going early.

When they kick It was clear the Chargers, while publicly backing rookie Younghoe Koo, didn’t have confidence in the young kicker after he missed two kicks in Week 2. The team passed on a handful of long field-goal tries and, from what the Chargers saw in practice, Koo was too inconsistent. Enter Nick Novak, a proven kicker with a record of making more than 85% of his field-goal tries — something he’s done every year since 2012. The Giants rely on kicker Aldrick Rosas, a rookie, who has made four of five field-goal attempts (though the long is only 41 yards) and all six of his extra points.

Mark J. Terrill Associated Press

DEVANTE PARKER of the Dolphins snags a would-be interception from the Chargers’ Casey Hayward.

Chargers corner faces giant test vs. Beckham

Dan Woike’s prediction During the first half of the Chargers’ loss to Philadelphia last Sunday, I vowed to not pick the Chargers anymore. The potential I — and so many others — had seen was clearly smoke and mirrors and the reality was the Chargers just weren’t that good. All of that still might be true, but I think the Giants are worse. Though the Chargers probably won’t turn their season around, they’ll travel across the country and beat the Giants. CHARGERS 24, GIANTS 21

[Chargers, from D3] and Butler in the group mentioned above. Hayward felt gratitude about his position. “Salute to everybody that voted for me on the top 100,” he tweeted. “Means a lot coming from my peers.” Thirty-two minutes later, Hayward told all his peers who didn’t vote for him how wrong they were. “I was the best corner in the League last year,” he tweeted. “# 1 ints, #6 in PBU, #3 in passes def, #3 in QBR and matched #1 wr most of the year. (Wide-eyed emoji) #NoDebate.” “I think I’m a confident guy,” Hayward said, flashing the smile coaches new and old coaches and teammates recognize. Hayward’s coming off his best game of the season against Philadelphia — he graded out significantly higher than anyone else in the league, according to Pro Football Focus. Shadowing Eagles receiver Alshon Jeffery, Hayward got credited with five pass breakups. And Sunday, he’ll get even a bigger test, matched against one of the NFL’s best, the Giants’ Odell Beckham Jr., and a challenge that’s done little to shake Hayward’s confidence. “Once you’re prepared, you’re kind of confident,” he said. “I’m always prepared for any challenge. And once you are, you can be confident.” Hayward’s preparation is often the first trait mentioned when people talk about him. He even went as far as to tweet former NFL corner Asante Samuel, someone he didn’t know, about picking his brain.

WHERE THEY RANK How Chargers and Giants offenses and defenses compare statistically, with per-game averages: POINTS SCORED

POINTS ALLOWED

CHARGERS

GIANTS

18.0 (24)

23.8 (25)

POINTS ALLOWED

POINTS SCORED

CHARGERS

GIANTS

23.2 (23)

15.0 (30T)

TOTAL OFFENSE

TOTAL DEFENSE

CHARGERS

GIANTS

336.5 (15)

359.2 (25)

PASS OFFENSE

PASS DEFENSE

CHARGERS

GIANTS

269.0 (6)

216.5 (14)

RUSH OFFENSE

RUSH DEFENSE

CHARGERS

GIANTS

67.5 (29)

142.8 (28)

TOTAL DEFENSE

TOTAL OFFENSE

CHARGERS

GIANTS

355.5 (23)

324.2 (19)

PASS DEFENSE

PASS OFFENSE

CHARGERS

GIANTS

192.0 (6)

265.0 (7)

RUSH DEFENSE

RUSH OFFENSE

CHARGERS

GIANTS

163.5 (31)

59.2 (31)

Injury report Final injury reports for Sunday’s games in Week 5 of the NFL schedule were submitted to the league Friday: CHARGERS: OUT — Running back Branden Oliver (hamstring), wide receiver Mike Williams (back). QUESTIONABLE — Tackle Joe Barksdale (foot), linebacker Jatavis Brown (ankle), tight end Sean McGrath (foot), wide receiver Tyrell Williams (neck). N.Y. GIANTS: OUT — Running back Paul Perkins (ribs), center Weston Richburg (concussion). QUESTIONABLE — Guard John Jerry (hamstring), defensive end Avery Moss (shoulder), defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul (shoulder/knee), defensive end Olivier Vernon (ankle).

“You know they might see it. And, he saw it. He respects game,” Hayward said. “I got in touch with him and he told me I could hit him up. I just never got a chance to go. He’s one of my favorite corners. I love his game.” Hayward’s preparation and confidence gives his teammates reason to believe he’ll give any receiver, even Beckham Jr., a tough day. “He’s a Pro Bowler, a guy who can get the job done for us,” Chargers safety Tre Boston said. “It definitely helps going against an elite guy like OBJ to have an elite guy of your own.” Hayward, a former second-round pick of the Green Bay Packers in his second season with the Chargers, isn’t an elite athlete. But for what he lacks in straightline speed and side-to-side quickness, Hayward makes up for in smarts and instincts — traits football people such as Chargers coach Anthony Lynn value ahead of workout numbers. Hayward’s teammate, wide receiver Keenan Allen,

said Hayward’s ability to use his hands in press coverage can knock any receiver off his route. And, man, does Hayward like making plays. New York Giants coach Ben McAdoo coached the Green Bay Packers’ quarterbacks when Hayward broke into the NFL, and he remembers the headaches the playmaking corner caused. “He seemed to love football whether he was in the locker room or out on the field,” McAdoo said. “He enjoyed getting his hands on the football. I coached quarterbacks at the time. I didn’t like when he got his hands on the football in practice, but I did in the games. He was very good inside and out. Had some skillset versatility. … He could do a lot of those things. But he’s just a very smart, cerebral football player. He got football. He could read concepts, and he wasn’t afraid to take a chance on a big-play opportunity. “If he saw something, he went for it.” Hayward intercepted six

passes in his first season in the NFL, three in his third and a league-leading seven last season with the Chargers. But he’s been shut out in the last eight games, dropping what would’ve almost certainly led to a touchdown return in the Chargers’ season opener in Denver. Forcing turnovers hasn’t just been Hayward’s problem. It’s a defense-wide epidemic. The Chargers have forced just three turnovers, with two coming in the season opener. “I think teams are taking sacks,” Boston said. “We have guys up front who are getting to the ball, and QBs aren’t just letting the ball go. We have to do a better job of getting the ball out, getting turnovers, switching momentum. No matter how it gets done, it has to get done.” And Hayward is a logical spot to look for the job to get done, though he’s not as concerned about his interception numbers as you’d think. “Not when you’re playing well, you kind of don’t worry about it,” he said. “The ball will come to you. It came to me a lot this [past] week. I got my hand on a lot of balls. The interceptions don’t matter to me. Of course you want ’em, but if they don’t come and you’re still playing well, then good. “If I didn’t have the interceptions and I wasn’t playing well, then you could come talk to me about it.” And, if Hayward’s playing well, you can talk to him about that too. He truly won’t mind. dan.woike@latimes.com Twitter @DanWoikeSports

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Oct. 1

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DEN 24 LAC 21

MIA 19 LAC 17

KC 24 LAC 10

PHI 26 LAC 24

AT NYG 10 a.m.

AT OAK 1:15 p.m.

VS. DEN 1:15 p.m.

AT NE 10 a.m.

OFF

AT JAC 10 a.m.

VS. BUF 1 p.m.

AT DAL 1 :30 p.m.

VS. CLE 1 p.m.

VS. WAS 1 p.m.

AT KC 5:15 p.m.

AT NYJ 10 a.m.

VS. OAK 1:15 p.m.

Loss 0-1 A: 0-1

Loss 0-2 H: 0-1

Loss 0-3 H: 0-2

Loss 0-4 H: 0-3

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TV: Ch. 2 Radio: 640

TV: Ch. 11 Radio: 640

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HOW THEY MATCH UP RAMS (3-1) VS. SEATTLE (2-2)

When Rams have the ball The Rams are the NFL’s top-scoring team, averaging 35.5 points. It figures to get tougher against the Pete Carroll-coached Seahawks, but Rams coach Sean McVay has shown creativity through the first quarter of the season, giving his offense confidence that it can outsmart and out-execute any opponent. Quarterback Jared Goff has played turnover free for consecutive games. He has completed 67% of his passes, seven for touchdowns, with only one interception. The nervous quarterback the Seahawks faced last season now appears secure, especially with left tackle Andrew Whitworth protecting his blindside. Running back Todd Gurley has rushed for 362 yards and four touchdowns, and has a team-best 20 receptions for 234 yards and three touchdowns. McVay is utilizing Tavon Austin on fly sweeps and as a change-of-pace running back. Receivers Sammy Watkins and Cooper Kupp each have 14 receptions, and tight ends Gerald Everett, Derek Carrier and Tyler Higbee all have made big plays. The Seahawks’ defense is full of stars, such as end Michael Bennett, linebacker Bobby Wagner and cornerback Richard Sherman. End Cliff Avril suffered a neck injury against Indianapolis last week and will not play against the Rams.

When Seahawks have the ball The Rams are coming off a game against Dallas Cowboys dual-threat quarterback Dak Prescott, which should have helped them prepare for the challenge that is Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, a master at extending plays. Wilson is completing 62% of his passes, seven for touchdowns, with two interceptions. He also has rushed for 138 yards and a touchdown in 25 carries for an offense that ranks 10th in the NFL despite a much-maligned offensive line. Wilson relies on receiver Doug Baldwin, who has 23 catches, and tight end Jimmy Graham, who has 15. Paul Richardson and Luke Wilson each have two touchdown catches. The Seahawks signed running back Eddie Lacy during the offseason, but he has only 16 carries for 55 yards. Rookie Chris Carson, the featured back in the first four games, suffered an ankle injury last week against Indianapolis. Thomas Rawls, a healthy inactive last week, will start against a Rams defense that stepped up in the second half against the Cowboys. Coordinator Wade Phillips gave tackle Michael Brockers more room to operate and he came through with a sack and two pass deflections. Safety Lamarcus Joyner is doubtful because of a hamstring injury that sidelined him last week.

Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times

TODD GURLEY beats Ray-Ray Armstrong to score in the Rams’ victory over San Francisco in September.

Gurley is turning into a big double threat

When they kick The Rams’ Greg Zuerlein kicked a team-record seven field goals against the Cowboys and vaulted to the top of the NFL scoring list with 56 points. Zuerlein has made all 14 of his field goal attempts. Last season against the Seahawks, he scored the Rams’ only points with three field goals in a 9-3 victory, and one field goal in a 24-3 defeat. Pharoh Cooper last week returned a kickoff 66 yards. He is averaging 27.3 yards per return. Blair Walsh has made seven of eight field goal attempts for the Seahawks. Tyler Lockett returns kickoffs and punts.

[Gurley, from D3] was not entirely unexpected. But Gurley’s emergence as a receiver under first-year coach Sean McVay has been something of a revelation. “We just try to find ways to get players in good situations and try to put them in spots that kind of help bring out their strengths,” said McVay, who has turned what was the NFL’s worst offense into the top-scoring unit. Gurley caught 21 passes as rookie, 43 last season. The transition to an increased receiving role in McVay’s scheme has apparently not been difficult. “I’ve done it so much in practice,” he said, “that it’s second nature in the game.” Gurley’s rise as a receiving threat has coincided with second-year quarterback Jared Goff ’s development. Goff, the No. 1 pick in the 2016 draft, has completed 78 passes this season, a team-high 20 to Gurley. “It’s relieving when I get through my progression and see him wide open,” Goff said. “It’s like, ‘Ah, here we go, it’s an easy one.’ ” Gurley’s evolution as a receiver has included several noteworthy receptions: — In Week 2 against the Washington Redskins, he caught a swing pass to the left side and hurdled a defensive back en route to the end zone. — In Week 3 against the 49ers, he caught a short pass on third and 10 and turned it into a 27-yard gain that kept alive a drive. — Last week against the Dallas Cowboys, he caught an18-yard pass and turned it into a 53-yard scoring play. “I saw him make a onehanded catch earlier this season,” Craig said. “I said, ‘Damn, this guy is amazing.’ They should have been doing this a long time ago.” In coach Bill Walsh’s West Coast offense in the 1980s, Craig established the stand-

Gary Klein’s prediction The Rams return home after a confidence-building victory over the Cowboys, their second consecutive road win. The Seahawks’ offensive line has struggled, so this could be the day Aaron Donald and company control an entire game. RAMS 30, SEAHAWKS 27

WHERE THEY RANK How Rams and Seahawks offenses and defenses compare statistically, with per-game averages: POINTS SCORED

POINTS ALLOWED

RAMS

SEAHAWKS

POINTS ALLOWED

POINTS SCORED

RAMS

SEAHAWKS

TOTAL OFFENSE

TOTAL DEFENSE

RAMS

SEAHAWKS

PASS OFFENSE

PASS DEFENSE

RAMS

SEAHAWKS

RUSH OFFENSE

RUSH DEFENSE

RAMS

SEAHAWKS

TOTAL DEFENSE

TOTAL OFFENSE

RAMS

SEAHAWKS

PASS DEFENSE

PASS OFFENSE

RAMS

SEAHAWKS

RUSH DEFENSE

RUSH OFFENSE

RAMS

SEAHAWKS

35.5 (1)

19.2 (10T)

26.2 (28)

23.5 (12T)

383.8 (5)

318.8 (14)

270.2 (5)

184.8 (4)

113.5 (15)

134.0 (27)

367.8 (27)

361.8 (10)

216.2 (13)

240.8 (13)

151.5 (30)

121.0 (11)

Injury report Final injury reports for Sunday’s games in Week 5 of the NFL schedule were submitted to the league Friday: SEAHAWKS: OUT — Defensive end Cliff Avril (neck), defensive tackle Quinton Jefferson (hand). DOUBTFUL — Cornerback Jeremy Lane (groin), running back C.J. Prosise (ankle). QUESTIONABLE — Linebacker Michael Wilhoite (hamstring). RAMS: DOUBTFUL — Safety Lamarcus Joyner (hamstring). QUESTIONABLE — Guard Jamon Brown (groin). ard for pass-catching running backs. Craig played fullback in college at Nebraska and caught only 16 passes. But when he heard that Walsh was considering selecting him in the 1983 draft, he went to work. “I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I’ve got to learn how to catch the ball,’ ” Craig said. “I was freaking out.” Craig said he began catching100 passes a day. He reported to rookie camp and said quarterbacks coach Paul Hackett threw him 100 passes in double-day workouts. “I only missed two,” he said. “One went over my head and one was too low.” Craig, playing fullback, caught 48 passes as a rookie, 71the next season. In1985, he led all NFL players with 92 catches for 1,016 yards and six touchdowns. He rushed for 1,050 yards and nine touchdowns. Craig noted that Arizona’s David Johnson, who has been sidelined because of a Week 1 wrist injury, Pittsburgh’s Le’Veon Bell and Gurley are capable of joining the 1,000-1,000 club. “I was the first,” he said. “I want to see it grow.” Faulk, who starred in college at San Diego State, came close to joining Craig in 1998 when he rushed for 1,319 yards and caught 86 passes for 908 yards. The next season, with

Mike Martz as the Rams’ offensive coordinator, Faulk rushed for 1,381 yards and seven touchdowns, and caught 87 passes for 1,048 yards and five touchdowns as the Rams made their run to a Super Bowl title. Faulk, a pro football Hall of Fame member and NFL Network analyst, has monitored Gurley’s career since the Rams selected him with the10th pick in the 2015 draft. During his first two seasons, Gurley was often replaced in passing situations. “I’m not a guy that’s comfortable with all the platooning,” Faulk said. “It’s a necessity to have your best player on the field as much as possible, because you never know when that check-down or that swing route might be the play to make a difference in the game.” Gurley’s pass-catching ability and McVay’s knowledge about how to exploit talent has helped key the Rams’ run to a 3-1record and first place in the NFC West. “Those two things, when brought together, it can be dangerous,” Faulk said. He added that Gurley was beginning to understand that pass plays are “extended handoffs” that put running backs in favorable matchups. “It gets you away from the defensive linemen, and now it’s you and a linebacker or you and a safety or you and a defensive back,” Faulk said.

“You’ve just got to make them miss. “He’s figured that out, and now he’s figuring how it affects the game.” Hall of Famer Marcus Allen probably would have been a member of the 1,0001,000 club if not for Al Davis, the late Oakland Raiders owner who seemed hell-bent on limiting Allen’s touches. “He could have been a 1,000-1,000 guy, easy,” Craig said. Allen came closest in 1984, when he rushed for1,168 yards and caught 64 passes for 758 yards. Allen, the 1981 Heisman Trophy winner at USC, said Gurley’s catch-and-run touchdown play against the Cowboys epitomized the value of running backs as receivers. And coaches such as McVay who deploy them. “When you have the ability to catch the ball and you’re not just a one-dimensional back, you don’t ever have to leave the field,” Allen said. “We know he’s strong, fast, quick and all those things. “It’s amazing how an offense that couldn’t get out of its own way last year is now so dynamically different. So far it’s amazing.” But can Gurley keep the pace? McVay said coaches and trainers would monitor Gurley, who is averaging nearly 27 touches a game. “Whether we tailor that back or not is going to be predicated on how he feels,” McVay said. Gurley welcomes the opportunities. “You don’t definitely want to regret anything and go into this offseason and be like, ‘I wish I would’ve been able to play a couple more snaps,’ ” he said. “That’s why I work so hard. To be in the position that I’m in today.” gary.klein@latimes.com Twitter: @latimesklein

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Oct. 1

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Dec. 3

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LAR 46 IND 9

WAS 27 LAR 20

LAR 41 SF 39

LAR 35 DAL 30

VS. SEA 1 p.m.

AT JAC 1 p.m.

(London) ARI 10 a.m.

OFF

AT NYG 10 a.m.

VS. HOU 1 p.m.

AT MIN 10 a.m.

VS. NO 1 p.m.

AT ARI 1:15 p.m.

VS. PHI 1:15 p.m.

AT SEA 1 p.m.

AT TEN 10 a.m.

VS. SF 1:15 p.m.

Win 1-0 H: 1-0

Loss 1-1 H: 1-1

Win 2-1 A: 1-0

Win 3-1 A: 2-0

TV: Ch. 2 Radio: 710

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TV: Ch. 2 Radio: 710

TV: Ch. 11 Radio: 710

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL SPOTLIGHT

THE AP TOP 25 White = win | Black = loss | Gray = off

Alabama

6-0

8 Def. Texas A&M, 27-19 8 Saturday vs. Arkansas

Clemson

6-0

8 Def. Wake Forest, 28-14 8 Friday at Syracuse

Oklahoma

4-1

8 Lost to Iowa State, 38-31 8 Saturday vs. Texas

Penn State

6-0

8 Def. Northwestern, 31-7 8 Oct. 21 vs. No. 7 Michigan

Georgia

6-0

8 Def. Vanderbilt, 45-14 8 Saturday vs. Missouri

Washington

6-0

8 Def. California, 38-7 8 Saturday at Arizona State

Michigan

4-1

8Lost to Michigan State, 14-10 8 Saturday at Indiana

Tex. Christian

5-0

8 Def. No. 23 West Virginia, 31-24 8 Saturday at Kansas State

Wisconsin

5-0

8 Def. Nebraska, 38-17 8 Saturday vs. Purdue

10 Ohio State

5-1

8 Def. Maryland, 62-14 8 Saturday at Nebraska

11 Washington St. 6-0 8 Def. Oregon, 33-10 8 Friday at California

12 Auburn

5-1

8 Def. Mississippi, 44-23 8 Saturday at Louisiana State

13 Miami

4-0

8 Def. Florida State, 24-20 8 Saturday vs. Georgia Tech

14 USC

5-1

8 Def. Oregon State, 38-10 8 Saturday vs. No. 20 Utah

15 Oklahoma St.

4-1

8 Did not play 8 Saturday vs. Baylor

16 Virginia Tech

5-1

8 Def. Boston College, 23-10 8 Oct. 21 vs. North Carolina

17 Louisville

4-2

8 Lost to No. 24 N.C. St., 39-25, Thurs. 8 Saturday vs. Boston College

18 South Florida

5-0

8 Did not play 8 Saturday vs. Cincinnati

19 San Diego St.

6-0

8 Def. UNLV, 41-10 8 Saturday vs. Boise State

20 Utah

4-1

8 Lost to Stanford, 23-20 8 Saturday at No. 14 USC

21 Florida

3-2

8Lost to Louisiana State, 17-16 8 Saturday vs. Texas A&M

21 Notre Dame

5-1

8 Def. North Carolina, 33-10 8 Oct. 21 vs. No. 14 USC

23 West Virginia

3-2

8 Lost to No. 8 Texas Christina, 31-24 8 Saturday vs. Texas Tech

24 N. Carolina St.

5-1

8 Def. No. 17 Louisville, 39-25, Thurs. 8 Saturday at Pittsburgh

25 Cent. Florida 8 Def. Cincinnati, 51-23 8 Saturday vs. East Carolina

SOUTHLAND USC 38, Oregon St. 10 San Diego St. 41, Nevada Las Vegas 10 Claremont-Mudd 37, Occidental 0 Chapman 45, Whittier 24 Redlands 48, La Verne 14 Cal Lutheran 43, Pomona-Pitzer 41 Azusa Pacific 35, Colorado School of Mines 21 WEST N. Arizona 37, Illinois St. 16 Fresno St. 27, San Jose St. 10 Washington St. 33, Oregon 10 E. Washington at UC Davis Hawaii at Nevada, late Washington 38, California 7 George Fox 43, Whitworth 23 Linfield 55, Willamette 14 Pacific (Ore.) 24, Pacific Lutheran 20 Puget Sound 35, Lewis & Clark 13 EAST Alderson-Broaddus 31, Malone 24 CCSU 42, Penn 21 Castleton 35, Mount Ida 31 Catawba 26, North Greenville 20 Charleston (WV) 15, WV Wesleyan 7 Clarion 33, Seton Hill 28 Columbia 41, Marist 17 Cornell 17, Harvard 14 Cortland St. 38, Buffalo St. 12 Curry 30, Mass.-Dartmouth 27 Dartmouth 28, Yale 27 Dean 28, Alfred St. 14 Delaware 24, Stony Brook 20 Delaware Valley 41, Albright 6 Dickinson 13, McDaniel 10 Duquesne 38, Wagner 0 Gannon 47, Edinboro 25 Geneva 35, Waynesburg 14 Gettysburg 42, Juniata 35 Glenville St. 48, Concord 28 Hartwick 52, Morrisville St. 34 Hobart 30, RPI 0 Husson 35, NY Maritime 17 Indiana (Pa.) 26, California (Pa.) 10 Ithaca 46, Rochester 6

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Lanning’s a two-way star in Iowa State’s stunner

By Chris Foster

Oklahoma fans can begin searching for a reason to rationalize the No. 3 Sooners’ 38-31 loss to Iowa State on Saturday. Maybe it was the uniforms. The Sooners wore red jerseys and red pants for the first time. Maybe it was the absence of coach Bob Stoops. He ended a streak of 242 consecutive Oklahoma games so he could accompany his son, Drake, on a recruiting visit to Ohio. Or maybe it was Ironman. OK, so Iowa State’s Joel Lanning didn’t fly around like Tony Stark. But he did just about everything else. Lanning, a senior, came to Iowa State as a quarterback. He switched to linebacker after last season and has plugged the middle of the Cyclones’ defense. Then starting quarterback Jacob Park left the program for personal reasons Friday. Desperate times called for desperate measures. Lanning played both ways Saturday, sharing time at quarterback with walk-on Kyle Kempt. Lanning had 25 yards passing and 35 yards rushing with 13 coming on Iowa State’s game-winning touchdown drive. Kempt, who threw for 343 yards and three touchdowns, tossed a 25-yard pass to Allen Lazard for the lead. On defense, Lanning had eight tackles, one sack and recovered a fumble that led to a touchdown. He also ruined Oklahoma’s last chance by harassing quarterback Baker Mayfield to force an incomplete pass on fourth down. “At the end of [last] season, we asked him to make a sacrifice for the team,” coach Matt Campbell said after the game on ESPN. “Ninety percent of those kids transfer and go elsewhere to play quarterback. He said, ‘Coach, I just want to be here at Iowa State. I want to finish this thing out the right way.’ ”

What’s in a name?

Two years ago this weekend, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney launched into an angry rant about “Clemsoning,” which the Urban Dictionary defines as “The act of failing miserably on a grand athletic stage, or when the stakes are high. Record-setting failure, usually reserved for college football.” Swinney was asked how his players handle such a label following a 43-24 victory over Georgia Tech. “It’s ridiculous that you’re even asking me the question, that you even say the word,” Swinney barked to start a soliloquy that increased in volume. Since that moment, Clemson has a 29-2 record. The Tigers have appeared in two national championship games and beat Alabama for the title last season. The second-ranked Tigers are 6-0 after beating Wake Forest, 28-14, Saturday. A big reason has been Kelly Bryant, who has replaced Deshaun Watson. Bryant has completed 107 of 159 passes for 1,259 yards and gained another 401 yards rushing. Watson’s numbers through six games last season were 1,572 yards passing and 244 yards rushing. Things were rolling for Bryant on Saturday. He completed 21 of 29 passes for 200 yards, then suffered an ankle injury in the third quarter. Swinney said the injury wasn’t serious. If it is, he can only hope that “Clemsoning” now means “a smooth transition when changing quarterbacks.”

Sills thrills

There was a time when David Sills was in line to become a USC quarterback ... when he was 13. Lane Kiffin, the Trojans’ coach in 2010, offered Sills a scholarship which created a media frenzy. It didn’t work out. Sills ended up at West Virginia, where they wanted him to move to wide receiver. He transferred to El Camino College to play quarterback. On returning to West Virginia, Sills was again asked to move to wide receiver. He gave in. Texas Christian probably wished he hadn’t. The Horned Frogs eked out a 31-24 victory Saturday, but they had to survive Sills. He had seven receptions for 116 yards, including scores of 64 and four yards. Sills has 33 receptions for 512 yards and nine touchdowns this season. Kiffin, meanwhile, is at Florida Atlantic where he is not believed to be recruiting 13-year-olds.

Kean 56, William Paterson 0 King's (Pa.) 63, Misericordia 37 Kutztown 23, Bloomsburg 7 Lafayette 14, Fordham 10 Lehigh 41, Colgate 38 Lincoln (Pa.) 45, Virginia Union 23 Lock Haven 62, Cheyney 0 Lycoming 48, FDU-Florham 21 MIT 51, Maine Maritime 6 Merchant Marine 52, Norwich 17 Middlebury 35, Amherst 33 Monmouth (NJ) 48, Holy Cross 36 Montclair St. 21, College of NJ 17 Muhlenberg 21, Ursinus 14 Navy 48, Air Force 45 Plymouth St. 17, Bridgewater (Mass.) 7 Princeton 50, Georgetown 30 Shepherd 51, West Liberty 14 Slippery Rock 31, Mercyhurst 28 Springfield 38, Coast Guard 7 Susquehanna 28, Moravian 21 Syracuse 27, Pittsburgh 24 Thomas More 53, Grove City 10 Trinity (Conn.) 41, Hamilton 13 Tufts 31, Bowdoin 3 Union (NY) 30, St. Lawrence 6 Villanova 31, Maine 0 Virginia Tech 23, Boston College 10 W. Connecticut 49, Worcester St. 23 W. Michigan 71, Buffalo 68, 7OT Washington & Jefferson 27, Carnegie-Mellon 20 Wesleyan (Conn.) 41, Colby 7 West Chester 37, Shippensburg 27 Westfield St. 35, Mass. Maritime 28 Westminster (Pa.) 66, St. Vincent 12 Widener 30, Wilkes 7 Williams 47, Bates 14 SOUTH Albany St. (Ga.) 30, Lincoln (Mo.) 10 Appalachian St. 45, New Mexico St. 31 Auburn 44, Mississippi 23 Berry 48, Sewanee 10 Bluefield South 34, St. Andrews 27 Brevard 21, Va. Lynchburg 14

Butler 44, Morehead St. 6 Campbell 49, Valparaiso 10 Campbellsville 58, Kentucky Christian 25 Carson-Newman 31, Limestone 20 Centre 38, Austin 3 Clemson 28, Wake Forest 14 Cumberland (Tenn.) 58, Cincinnati Christian 0 E. Tenn. St. 16, Robert Morris 3 Elon 25, William & Mary 17 Fla. Atlantic 58, Old Dominion 28 Fayetteville St. 24, Shaw 21 Furman 41, Chattanooga 17 Gallaudet 73, Anna Maria 23 Gardner-Webb 42, Shorter 14 Georgetown (Ky.) 41, Bethel (Tenn.) 7 Georgia 45, Vanderbilt 14 Georgia St. 27, Coastal Carolina 21 Hampden-Sydney 21, Guilford 18 Hampton 17, Savannah St. 10 Huntingdon 27, Averett 7 Jacksonville 35, Davidson 21 Jacksonville St. 34, Austin Peay 14 Johns Hopkins 45, Franklin & Marshall 7 Kennesaw St. 48, Texas Southern 3 Kentucky 40, Missouri 34 LSU 17, Florida 16 LaGrange 51, NC Wesleyan 44 Langston 27, Lane 21 Marshall 14, Charlotte 3 Mercer 24, The Citadel 14 Methodist 41, Greensboro 16 Miami 24, Florida St. 20 Middle Tennessee 37, FIU 17 Murray St. 13, UT Martin 10 N.C. A&T 44, Delaware St. 3 N.C. Central 13, Howard 7 Newberry 34, Lenoir-Rhyne 7 Nicholls 14, Northwestern St. 10 Norfolk St. 35, Florida A&M 28 North Alabama 30, Florida Tech 7 Notre Dame 33, North Carolina 10 Point (Ga.) 34, Pikeville 31 Presbyterian 26, St. Francis (Pa.) 14 Randolph-Macon 52, Bridgewater (Va.) 24 Reinhardt 53, Cumberlands 7

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JOEL LANNING ran for 35 yards, passed for 25 and played linebacker Saturday

in Iowa State’s 38-31 upset victory at No. 3 Oklahoma.

falo quarterback Drew Anderson passed for 597 yards and seven touchdowns.

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Cmp 35 24 41 30 16 Yards 327 281 249 241 214 Yards 197 195 165 162 161

Yds 597 433 397 380 374 Avg 23.4 6.9 10.0 12.7 7.4 Avg 24.6 17.7 33.0 14.7 32.2

TD 7 3 1 2 5 TD 4 3 2 2 2 TD 3 2 3 1 2

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Touching tributes For the second straight week, an opponent made a gesture toward the patients in the children’s hospital next to Iowa’s Kinnick Stadium. Children and their families watch Iowa home games from the top floor. Fans have turned to the hospital to wave at the end of the first quarter each game this year. Illinois players, coaches and staff joined in the new tradition Saturday. Referees also took part, lining up at midfield to wave to the patients. A week ago Michigan State fans waved through the television during the Spartans’ home game against Iowa. Down south, fans at Florida’s game against LSU sang along with Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down” between the third and fourth quarters to honor the singer who died Monday. Petty was from Gainesville.

Seven OTs in Buffalo-WMU OK, so maybe there is an instance when a tie should suffice in college football. Buffalo and Western Michigan had a nice game going, 31-31 at the end of regulation. Which, as they say, quickly escalated. When it was over, Western Michigan had escaped with a 71-68 win. Yup, a total of 77 points scored in the seven overtime periods. Jarvion Franklin scored the game-winner on a 12-yard run. He rushed for 176 yards. Buf-

Richmond 41, Albany (NY) 38, 2OT S. Virginia 45, Apprentice 23 SE Louisiana 49, Incarnate Word 30 Salisbury 17, Christopher Newport 7 Samford 26, VMI 7 Shenandoah 47, Emory & Henry 24 South Carolina 48, Arkansas 22 Southeastern (Fla.) 55, Warner 14 Southern U. 35, Alabama A&M 14 St. Augustine's 30, Livingstone 29 Stetson 17, Brown 13 Temple 34, East Carolina 10 Tennessee St. 45, E. Kentucky 21 Tulane 62, Tulsa 28 Tusculum 28, Mars Hill 24 Tuskegee 23, Morehouse 17 Ala. Birmingham 23, Louisiana Tech 22 Virginia 28, Duke 21 Virginia St. 56, Elizabeth City St. 0 Virginia-Wise 51, Urbana 41 W. Virginia St. 35, Kentucky St. 23 WPI 31, Catholic 14 Walsh 56, Kentucky Wesleyan 29 Wesley 27, Frostburg St. 24, OT West Alabama 29, Delta St. 26 West Georgia 42, Valdosta St. 13 Wingate 31, UNC-Pembroke 28 Winston-Salem 27, Johnson C. Smith 22 Wofford 35, W. Carolina 28, OT MIDWEST Akron 31, Ball St. 3 Ashland 38, N. Michigan 13 Aurora 16, Concordia (Ill.) 14 Baldwin-Wallace 38, Wilmington (Ohio) 21 Bemidji St. 45, Mary 19 Benedictine (Ill.) 40, Concordia (Wis.) 14 Bethel (Minn.) 49, Carleton 0 Bluffton 56, Anderson (Ind.) 14 Bowling Green 37, Miami (Ohio) 29 Case Reserve 33, Bethany (WV) 3 Cent. Michigan 26, Ohio 23 Cent. Missouri 45, Nebraska-Kearney 7 Chicago 28, Lawrence 8 Dakota St. 59, Waldorf 20 Dayton 20, Drake 10

DePauw 26, Oberlin 10 Dordt 21, Doane 16 E. Illinois 24, Tennessee Tech 23 Elmhurst 17, Carroll (Wis.) 14 Emporia St. 44, Northeastern St. 7 Eureka 48, Westminster (Mo.) 6 Ferris St. 13, Tiffin 3 Findlay 63, Lake Erie 3 Fort Hays St. 21, Pittsburg St. 17 Franklin 56, Earlham 26 Greenville 59, Crown (Minn.) 6 Hastings 45, Briar Cliff 14 Hope 36, Alma 14 Illinois College 42, Cornell (Iowa) 26 Illinois Wesleyan 28, Augustana (Ill.) 10 Indiana 27, Charleston Southern 0 Indianapolis 28, McKendree 10 Iowa 45, Illinois 16 John Carroll 48, Marietta 21 Kansas Wesleyan 42, McPherson 35, OT Lakeland 47, Adrian 40 Mac Murray 22, Northwestern (Minn.) 9 Macalester 56, Beloit 21 Manchester 23, Defiance 21 Marian (Ind.) 61, St. Ambrose 24 Martin Luther 14, Minn.-Morris 7 Michigan St. 14, Michigan 10 Miles 41, Central St. (Ohio) 20 Millikin 35, Wheaton (Ill.) 31 Minn. Duluth 23, Minn. St.-Moorhead 14 Minn. St.-Mankato 42, Augustana (SD) 21 Missouri Baptist 50, Lindenwood (Ill.) 16 Missouri Western 40, Lindenwood (Mo.) 8 Monmouth (Ill.) 49, Grinnell 0 Morningside 76, Dakota Wesleyan 21 Mount Union 63, Heidelberg 7 N. Dakota St. 52, Indiana St. 0 N. Illinois 24, Kent St. 3 NW Missouri St. 17, Cent. Oklahoma 10 North Central (Ill.) 33, North Park 0 North Dakota 48, N. Colorado 38 Northwestern (Iowa) 24, Midland 21 Northwood (Mich.) 29, Michigan Tech 24 Notre Dame Coll. 19, Fairmont St. 14 Ohio Dominican 41, Hillsdale 27

Bulldog-like response

Quarterback Justin Fields, considered the top recruit in the nation, committed to Georgia on Friday. On Saturday, Jake Fromm, Georgia’s freshman quarterback, showed playing immediately won’t be so easy for Fields. He completed seven of 11passes for102 yards and two touchdowns in the fifth-ranked Bulldogs’ 45-14 rout of Vanderbilt. Fromm has completed 57 of 95 passes for 836 yards and 10 touchdowns this season. Fromm may not have to worry about the competition. Fields, a senior at Kennesaw (Ga.) Harrison High, originally committed to Penn State before changing his mind.

And the winner is ...

The Big Ten hands out awards like an Oscars ceremony. There are lots of categories. Nearly one quarter of the conference’s 63 games are played for trophies, from the Little Brown Jug (Michigan vs. Minnesota) to the Old Oaken Bucket (Indiana vs. Purdue) to something called the $5 Bits of Broken Chair (Minnesota vs. Nebraska). Of the conference’s 14 teams, 13 have at least one game in which a souvenir is on the line. Only Rutgers misses out. The first of 15 trophies were handed out Saturday. Michigan State’s 14-10 win over No. 7 Michigan allowed the Spartans to reclaim the Paul Bunyan Trophy, which is not to be confused with Paul Bunyan’s Axe, which goes to the winner of Wisconsin-Minnesota. The Paul Bunyan Trophy was created by former Michigan Governor G. Mennen “Soapy” Williams to welcome Michigan State to the Big Ten in 1953. The Wolverines were unimpressed. They initially refused to accept the trophy after winning the first Big Ten game against the Spartans, leaving it on the field for a half-hour. The statue has grown in stature since. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh promised to give a mini-trophy to each of his players for winning the 2016 game. Of course, not all the trophies are steeped in tradition. The Governor’s Trophy goes to the winner of the Minnesota-Penn State game. The teams had never played before Penn State joined the conference in in 1993. A trophy was created and it’s one of five baubles Minnesota usually plays to earn, though not this season. Because of conference scheduling, the teams don’t play again until 2019. sports@latimes.com

Ohio Northern 51, Capital 21 Ohio St. 62, Maryland 14 Ohio Wesleyan 23, Kenyon 21 Olivet 40, Kalamazoo 6 Ottawa, Kan. 34, Bethel (Kan.) 10 Penn St. 31, Northwestern 7 Presentation 44, Mayville St. 14 Purdue 31, Minnesota 17 Rose-Hulman 35, Mount St. Joseph 10 S. Dakota St. 49, S. Illinois 14 S. Dakota Tech 52, NM Highlands 14 SW Baptist 21, Truman St. 17 Saginaw Valley St. 33, Davenport 0 Siena Heights 48, Taylor 26 Simpson (Iowa) 31, Loras 21 South Dakota 31, Youngstown St. 28 St. Cloud St. 53, Minn.-Crookston 27 St. Francis (Ind.) 35, Concordia (Mich.) 18 St. John's (Minn.) 49, Augsburg 3 St. Mary (Kan.) 33, Bethany (Kan.) 29 St. Norbert 17, Ripon 0 St. Olaf 40, Hamline 33 St. Thomas (Minn.) 21, Concordia (Moor.) 0 Sterling 23, Tabor 21 Texas Tech 65, Kansas 19 Toledo 20, E. Michigan 15 Trine 50, Albion 27 Central Florida 51, Cincinnati 23 Upper Iowa 34, Concordia (St.P.) 29 W. Illinois 38, N. Iowa 29 Wabash 28, Denison 7 Wartburg 44, Central 20 Washburn 49, Missouri Southern 21 Washington & Lee 28, Washington (Mo.) 21 Wayne (Neb.) 20, SW Minnesota St. 6 William Jewell 45, Quincy 28 Winona St. 31, Sioux Falls 13 Wis. Lutheran 41, Rockford 20 Wis.-LaCrosse 45, Wis.-Eau Claire 14 Wis.-Platteville 24, Wis.-River Falls 14 Wisconsin 38, Nebraska 17 SOUTHWEST Alabama 27, Texas A&M 19 Army 49, Rice 12 Cent. Arkansas 27, Houston Baptist 7

E. Texas Baptist 57, Howard Payne 7 Grambling St. 34, Prairie View 21 Harding 31, Ouachita 28 Henderson St. 14, Oklahoma Baptist 13 Hendrix 42, Birmingham-Southern 24 Houston 35, SMU 22 Iowa St. 38, Oklahoma 31 La. Monroe 43, Texas St. 25 Miss. Valley St. 38, Ark.-Pine Bluff 31 Mary Hardin-Baylor 17, Hardin-Simmons 7 McMurry 42, Belhaven 30 McNeese St. 13, Abilene Christian 7 Midwestern St. 47, Texas A&M Commerce 42 NW Oklahoma St. 38, East Central 20 Okla. Panhandle St. 35, Wayland Baptist 24 S. Arkansas 27, S. Nazarene 15 SE Oklahoma 31, SW Oklahoma 24 Sam Houston St. 27, Stephen F. Austin 16 Southern Miss. 31, UTSA 29 Southwestern (Texas) 29, Sul Ross St. 27 TCU 31, West Virginia 24 Texas 40, Kansas St. 34, 2OT Texas A&M-Kingsville 37, W. Texas A&M 9 Texas College 21, Texas Wesleyan 11 Texas Lutheran 47, Louisiana College 30 Trinity (Texas) 40, Rhodes 34, OT W. Kentucky 15, UTEP 14 ROCKIES Arizona 45, Colorado 42 Colorado St. 27, Utah St. 14 Montana 39, Idaho St. 31 Montana St. 30, Portland St. 22 Coll. of Idaho 21, Carroll (Mont.) 6 Colorado Mesa 49, Black Hills St. 37 Fort Lewis 14, Western St. (Col.) 13 La. Lafayette 21, Idaho 16 Montana Western 42, Montana Tech 35 W. New Mexico 38, Tarleton St. 25 Colorado St. Pueblo 63, Adams St. 17 S. Utah 20, Cal Poly 14 E. New Mexico 20, Texas-Permian Basin 17 Stanford 23, Utah 20 Friday’s Late Result Boise St. 24, BYU 7

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at Purdue 31, Minnesota 17: Markell Jones scored on a 12yard run with 1:17 left as Jones and backup quarterback Elijah Sindelar made Jeff Brohm’s first Big Ten win with the Boilermakers a memorable one. The game was delayed for 1 hour 28 minutes by a storm. Purdue had just made a 19yard field goal to take a 16-14 lead. Minnesota retook the lead when play resumed. But Purdue answered with Jones’ TD.

at No. 10 Ohio State 62, Maryland 14: J.T. Barrett passed for three touchdowns and rushed for one, and the stingy Buckeyes defense held Maryland to 66 yards of offense. Terrapins quarterback Max Bortenschlager was shut down by Ohio State and left the game after being shaken up in the third quarter. Barrett finished 20 of 31 for 261 yards.

Oct. 21

Michigan at Penn State Indiana at Michigan State Illinois at Minnesota Iowa at Northwestern Maryland at Wisconsin Purdue at Rutgers

No. 9 Wisconsin 38, at Nebraska 17: Freshman Johnathan Taylor rushed for a season-high 249 yards and two touchdowns to lead a punishing ground game that helped ninthranked Wisconsin wear down Nebraska in the second half. The Badgers (5-0, 2-0) beat the Huskers (3-3, 2-1) for the fifth straight time and took sole possession of first place in the Big Ten West. They also ended Nebraska’s 20-game win streak in home night games since 2008.

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at Iowa 45, Illinois 16: Nate Stanley threw for 247 yards and three touchdowns as Iowa ended a two-game losing streak. Safety Brandon Snyder added an 89-yard interception return for a score in his first game back from a knee injury for the Hawkeyes, who outscored Illinois 28-3 in the second half. Snyder’s pick-six came with 6:40 left in the third quarter and made it 24-16.

at Indiana 27, Charleston Southern 0: In his first college start, Hoosiers freshman quarterback Peyton Ramsey threw for 321 yards and two touchdowns.

Saturday Ohio State at Nebraska Purdue at Wisconsin Northwestern at Maryland Rutgers at Illinois Michigan State at Minnesota Michigan at Indiana

TEAM EAST Georgia Florida Kentucky South Carolina Tennessee Vanderbilt Missouri WEST Alabama Auburn Texas A&M Louisiana State Mississippi State Arkansas Mississippi UP NEXT

No. 4 Penn State 31, at Northwestern 7: Trace McSorley completed 25 of 34 passes for 245 yards and a touchdown and Saquon Barkley ran for two scores in the second half. McSorley completed 15 straight passes to break Kerry Collins’ school record of 14, set at Minnesota in 1994.

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Saturday Arkansas at Alabama Auburn at Louisiana State Missouri at Georgia Texas A&M at Florida South Carolina at Tennessee Vanderbilt at Mississippi Brigham Young at Mississippi State

Oct. 21

Tennessee at Alabama Auburn at Arkansas Louisiana State at Mississippi Kentucky at Mississippi State Idaho at Missouri

No. 1 Alabama 27, at Texas A&M 19: Damien Harris ran for 124 yards and a touchdown, and Jalen Hurts had a touchdown pass and ran for one touchdown to help the Crimson Tide hold off the Aggies, who were 261⁄2-point underdogs. Hurts had 123 yards passing. The Aggies went ahead 3-0 after Daniel LaCamera’s 52-yard field goal, the longest of his career, but the lead didn’t last long as Damien Harris ran 75 yards for a touchdown on the first play of the next series. No. 5 Georgia 45, at Vanderbilt 14: Nick Chubb ran for two touchdowns and 138 yards, and the Bulldogs (6-0) finished with 423 yards. They beat the Commodores for the 20th time in their last 23 meetings and are off to their best start since 2012, when they reached the conference title game. It was Vanderbilt’s fourth consecutive ranked opponent and its third loss in a row. at No. 12 Auburn 44, Mississippi 23: Kerryon Johnson rushed for a career-high 204 yards and three touchdowns to help the Tigers to their third consecutive lopsided victory over a conference opponent. Johnson, who didn't play in the fourth quarter, has 11 touchdown runs in the last three games. Louisiana State 17, at No. 21 Florida 16: Danny Etling threw a short touchdown pass in the second half for the Tigers, who moved the ball well early with jet sweeps and then pounded it between the tackles late, doing just enough to upend the Gators. Florida’s Eddy Pineiro, who had made 45 consecutive PATs, missed for the first time in his career.

Tony Ding Associated Press

MICHIGAN STATE’S Madre London dives over Michigan’s Tyree Kinnel to

complete a 16-yard pass play for a touchdown in the second quarter at Ann Arbor.

Wolverines are unable to overcome mistakes

Spartans get strong defensive effort to win for eighth time in last 10 games of rivalry. MICHIGAN STATE 14 NO. 7 MICHIGAN 10 associated press

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Brian Lewerke ran for a touchdown and threw for a score in the first half and Michigan State held on to beat No. 7 Michigan 14-10 on Saturday night. The Wolverines had the ball with a chance to drive for a go-ahead touchdown but a heave from the Spartans’ 37 as time expired hit the turf near the goal line. “Can’t say enough about our defense,” Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio

said. “We did it the hard way, right down to the last second.” The Spartans (4-1, 2-0 Big Ten) have beaten Michigan eight times in a 10-year stretch for the first time in a series that dates to 1898. “I am just thrilled for our football team and thrilled for our fans,” Dantonio said. Michigan (4-1, 1-1) could not overcome many mistakes, including five turnovers and several costly penalties. John O’Korn, replacing injured starter Wilton Speight, threw three interceptions in the second half. Ty Isaac and Sean McKeon fumbled. “When we got the momentum going, we turned it over,” Wolverines coach Jim Harbaugh said. The Wolverines opened with a 16-play, 64-yard drive that took nearly seven minutes off the clock, but they

Rosier saves the day for ’Canes

at South Carolina 48, Arkansas 22: The Gamecocks’ defense scored three touchdowns and Jake Bentley threw for 199 yards and three touchdowns. The Razorbacks tied the score 10-10 early in the second quarter but had only 48 yards in their next 18 plays. at Kentucky 40, Missouri 34: Austin MacGinnis kicked field goals of 53 and 20 yards to lift the Wildcats after the Tigers had tied the score 34-34 with 13:46 to play. Kentucky had led by 13 points in the second quarter.

BIG 12 TEAM Texas Christian Texas Oklahoma Oklahoma State Texas Tech Iowa State Kansas State West Virginia Kansas Baylor UP NEXT

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Saturday Oklahoma at Texas Baylor at Oklahoma State Texas Christian at Kansas State Texas Tech at West Virginia Kansas at Iowa State

Texas Tech 65, at Kansas 19: Desmond Nisby had four touchdowns rushing, Justin Stockton ran for 161 yards with a score and the Red Raiders’ high-flying offense pummeled the Jayhawks on the ground in a blowout.

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at No. 8 Texas Christian 31, No. 23 West Virginia 24: Kenny Hill avoided a defender in the backfield and lunged forward through two more for a three-yard touchdown run with 2:53 left and the Horned Frogs remained the Big 12’s only undefeated team. Hill also threw a 45-yard touchdown pass and was on the receiving end of a 48-yard score for TCU. at Texas 40, Kansas State 34 (2 OT): Longhorns running back Chris Warren III scored on a two-yard touchdown run in the second overtime when the powerful running back moved a pile of Wildcats tacklers across the goal line, sending Texas to a win. Warren appeared to be stopped short but refused to go down and kept pushing his 250 pounds forward.

Oct. 21 Oklahoma at Kansas State Oklahoma State at Texas West Virginia at Baylor Iowa State at Texas Tech Kansas at Texas Christian

TEAM ATLANTIC Clemson North Carolina State Syracuse Louisville Wake Forest Florida State Boston College COASTAL Miami Georgia Tech Virginia Virginia Tech Duke Pittsburgh North Carolina UP NEXT Friday Clemson at Syracuse

Iowa State 38, at No. 3 Oklahoma 31: Kyle Kempt passed for 343 yards and three touchdowns, including a 25-yarder to Allen Lazard that put the Cyclones ahead with 2:19 left, and Joel Lanning made plays on offense and defense to lead Iowa State to a stunning victory over the Sooners. The loss snapped Oklahoma’s nation-leading 14-game winning streak and the Sooners’ 18-game run against the Cyclones that dated to 1990.

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Saturday Georgia Tech at Miami Florida State at Duke Boston College at Louisville Virginia at North Carolina North Carolina State at Pittsburgh

at No. 2 Clemson 28, Wake Forest 14: Kelly Bryant threw for 200 yards and a touchdown before leaving with an ankle injury and the Tigers beat the Demon Deacons to start 6-0 for a third straight season. There was no immediate word on the severity of Bryant’s injury. Bryant did not re-enter the game as Clemson beat Wake Forest for a ninth straight time. No. 16 Virginia Tech 23, at Boston College 10: Josh Jackson threw for 322 yards and a touchdown, and the Hokies bounced back from a loss to defending national champion Clemson to beat the Eagles. Sean Savoy had nine catches for 139 yards and a score after No. 1 receiver Cam Phillips went out with an apparent leg injury in the first quarter. No. 21 Notre Dame 33, at North Carolina 10: Josh Adams ran for 118 yards, including a 73-yard touchdown, and the Fighting Irish beat the Tar Heels. Deon McIntosh added 124 yards rushing and two scores for Notre Dame, which played without starting quarterback Brandon Wimbush because of a right foot injury. Wimbush was on the sideline as the No. 2 quarterback behind Ian Book. at Virginia 28, Duke 21: Kurt Benkert recovered from a terrible start with three touchdown passes and the Cavaliers beat the Blue Devils. Virginia won its third straight, continuing its best start since the 2007 team started 7-1. at Syracuse 27, Pittsburgh 24: Eric Dungey threw two touchdown passes and ran for another and the Orange defense stymied the Panthers on third down as Syracuse held on for a victory. Syracuse’s win was its first over the Panthers in five years and kept the Orange’s bowl hopes alive. — Compiled from wire reports

had to settle for a field goal and a 3-0 lead. They didn’t lead again against Dantonio, who has figured out how to take control of a rivalry that has historically been tilted in Michigan’s favor. Lewerke scored a goahead touchdown on a 14yard run late in the first quarter. He threw a 16-yard pass to Madre London to put the Spartans up14-3 midway through the second quarter. Michigan scored its first and only touchdown midway through the third quarter on Khalid Hill’s one-yard run to cut it to 14-10. The Spartans were relying on their defense. They didn’t have a first down in the second half until their final drive of the game, a possession that started with 2:13 and ended with a punt from the Michigan 47 that went through the end zone with 34 seconds left.

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FRANKIE LUVU of Washington State brings down

Oregon’s Braxton Burmeister for a sack. PAC-12

No. 11 Cougars win their first road game associated press

Luke Falk threw for 282 yards and three touchdowns and No. 11 Washington State held Oregon scoreless after the first quarter for a 33-10 victory Saturday night. The Cougars (6-0, 3-0 Pac-12) were on their first trip after quirky scheduling gave them their first five games at home. The team is off to its best start since winning seven to start the 2001 season. Erik Powell contributed to the victory with field goals from 25, 52, 47 and 29 yards. Washington State, coming off its victory over USC, has won three games in a row against the Ducks after an eight-game winning streak for Oregon. Falk has thrown for 19 touchdowns with two interceptions this season. Arizona 45, at Colorado 42: Backup quarterback Khalil Tate rushed for 327 yards, the second-most in school history, and accounted for five touchdowns to help the Wildcats hold off the Buffaloes. The Arizona record is held by Ka’Deem Carey, who gained 366 yards in 2012 against Colorado. Tate averaged 23.4 yards per carry. Tate entered the game after Brandon Dawkins took a late hit out of bounds on the opening drive. Tate had touchdown runs of 58, 28, 47 and 75 yards. He threw for 142 yards, including

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UP NEXT Friday Washington State at California Saturday UCLA at Arizona Utah at USC Colorado at Oregon State Oregon at Stanford Washington at Arizona State

a 13-yard touchdown pass to Shun Brown. Stanford 23, at No. 20 Utah 20: National rushing leader Bryce Love had 152 yards and a touchdown on a 68-yard burst with 12 minutes to play to help lift the Cardinal. The Utes cut the deficit to within a field goal when Troy Williams connected with Darren Carrington II for an 18-yard touchdown with 44 seconds to play. at No. 6 Washington 38, California 7

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Malik Rosier threw a 23-yard touchdown pass to Darrell Langham with six seconds remaining and No. 13 Miami beat Florida State 24-20 on Saturday to end a losing streak in the series at seven games. “It was a longtime coming for our players, coaches and especially the fans,” coach Mark Richt said. “It doesn’t matter how you win a game like this, especially in this series.” Rosier, who went into the game leading the Atlantic Coast Conference in passing efficiency, completed only four of his first16 passes. The junior found a rhythm in the second half and finished19 of 44 for 254 yards and three touchdowns. After Florida State (1-3, 1-2 in ACC) took a 20-17 lead with 1 minute 24 seconds remaining on James Blackman’s 20-yard pass to Auden Tate, Rosier drove Miami (4-0, 2-0) 75 yards in nine plays and 1:18. The junior found Langham in single coverage up the right sideline. “The last play was simply a four verticals play. We work on it every week,” Rosier said. “Darrell made a great play.” Blackman, who was eight of 18 for 61 yards and two interceptions in the first three quarters, was nine of 10 for 142 yards over the final 15 minutes. Cam Akers had his first 100-yard rushing game with 129 yards in 14 carries. Florida State is 1-3 for the first time since 1976, which was Bobby Bowden’s first season, and has lost consecutive home games for the first time since 2009. It also is the first time since 1974 that the Seminoles have dropped their first two home games of a season.

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SEPT. 2 W. Michigan

SEPT. 9 Stanford

SEPT. 16 Texas

SEPT. 23 @California

SEPT. 29 @Wash. St.

OCT. 7 Oregon St.

OCT. 14 Utah

OCT. 21 @NDame

OCT. 28 @Ariz. St.

NOV. 4 Arizona

NOV. 11 @Colorado

NOV. 18 UCLA

W, 49-31 (1-0)

W, 42-24 (2-0, 1-0)

W, 27-24 (3-0)

W, 30-20 (4-0, 2-0)

L, 30-27 (4-1, 2-1)

W, 38-10 (5-1, 3-1)

5 p.m. Ch. 7

4:30 p.m. Ch. 4

TBD

UP NEXT >>>USC lost to the Utes a season ago on Utah’s late game-winning drive. Utah won its first four games against North Dakota, BYU, San Jose State and Arizona.

NOTES

Vaughns is enjoying targeting from Darnold By Zach Helfand Sam Darnold sat in the pocket and hopped in place four times. He wasn’t scanning where to throw. He was just waiting. Down the seam, Tyler Vaughns had found the middle of the secondary and was slipping past the safety. Darnold’s patience was worth it. Vaughns got wide open, and he caught one of the easiest connections of the day for a 37-yard touchdown and USC’s first score in its 38-10 victory over Oregon State on Saturday. For the second game in a row, Vaughns, a redshirt freshman, was USC’s leading receiver. He caught five passes for 68 yards. Suddenly, with a healthy Steven Mitchell Jr., USC finds itself with a full complement of competent receivers. “With the way he played at Washington State and knowing that the lights weren’t too bright for him, I think it’s a lot easier for me to throw to a receiver that I know is going to come in the clutch for me,” Darnold said

of Vaughns. Vaughns’ budding breakout has coincided with an increase in consistent playing time. In USC’s first two games, when he cycled in and out often, he had a total of one catch for eight yards. Since then, he has had at least three catches each game, with a high of 89 yards a week ago against Washington State. Vaughns had a productive training camp — “I felt like I was gonna win the job,” he said — but was passed up for the starting job in favor of Jalen Greene. Vaughns said he needed to earn Darnold’s respect in practice first before it translated to games. “So he’ll trust me more,” Vaughns said. “That’s all you gotta do is just build up trust with your quarterback.”

It’s another snap for Olson With 6:19 left in the fourth quarter, the crowd at the Coliseum grew as loud as it had all game. Then it fell almost completely silent. It was quiet enough that play-

ting inspired by it, and the attention it gets. But it is a cool aspect that people just [say], ‘He’s a football player out there.’ ”

Fink piece

Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times

TYLER VAUGHNS makes it look easy with a 37-

yard catch for USC’s first touchdown of the game. ers’ yells on the field could be heard in the press box. “It was eerily quiet in there,” Jake Olson said. “It was so quiet. It was like a golf shot.” The crowd was waiting for Olson, who is blind and also one of USC’s long snappers, to make the second appearance of his career. The snap was good. So was the extra-point attempt. Olson’s first snap, in the

opener against Western Michigan, was national news. Olson was an inspiration, featured on ESPN and “Good Morning America.” This time, after the game, Olson walked out of USC’s locker room and spoke to only a few reporters. Which is how Olson would prefer it. “I’m a football player out there, and I want to be treated as one,” Olson said. “Of course I love people get-

Matt Fink, USC’s backup quarterback, had never played in a college game when he stepped onto the field in the fourth quarter. He handed off twice. Then, he got his chance. He kept the ball on a zone read near midfield and dashed to the right side. “I said, ‘I’m scoring,’ ” Fink said. “I made sure no one was going to touch me. As soon as I saw nothing in between me and the end zone I said, ‘That’s mine. I’m going to get there.’ ” He did. He went 51 yards in his first collegiate rush for a score. He also completed his only pass for 12 yards to freshman receiver Randal Grimes.

Pili burns redshirt

Defensive tackle Brandon Pili was once a redshirt candidate, but he played significant time Saturday. Coach Clay Helton said

the decision was spurred by a back injury to freshman defensive tackle Marlon Tuipulotu, who could miss extensive time. Pili finished with three tackles. “We felt like we needed another interior big man,” Helton said. “And we’ll see where Marlon is. He’s gonna visit with the doctors this weekend, and we’ll have more of a view of where he’s at. He’s played in four games, so if we do need to do anything surgically, he would be able to have his redshirt year back, so that would weigh into the decision.”

Quick hits

Running back Stephen Carr was not in uniform and wore a boot on his foot during the game. … Defensive end Rasheem Green (ankle injury) played. … USC’s 13game home winning streak is its longest since a streak of 35 games from 2001 to 2007 (which included games later vacated due to NCAA sanctions). zach.helfand@latimes.com Twitter @zhelfand

Trojans looking to be a dominant team

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Allen J. Schaben L os Angeles Times

USC’S Ronald Jones II gets past Oregon State’s Jalen Moore for a four-yard touchdown in the first quarter.

Helton sees some improvement [USC, from D3] was no lock that the Beavers, who had averaged less than 18 points a game against FBS opponents, would even score that many. (They would not.) But a tour de force the game was not. USC committed numerous mistakes — three turnovers and sloppy special teams play to go with a general malaise. Oregon State (1-5, 0-3) generally refused to turn those mistakes into points. In the first quarter, USC muffed a punt on the 29-yard line, but Oregon State proceeded to gain one yard, attempt a 46-yard field goal and watch as Jones blocked it. After the next play, Darnold fumbled a pass, the ball slipping out of his hands mid-throw, and Oregon State recovered at the 23yard line. Did the Beavers score on this second chance? They did not. Jordan Choukair missed a 37yard field goal attempt wide right. “It really felt like our defense did an amazing job,” coach Clay Helton said. In the second quarter, USC’s defense was backed up inside its own10-yard line, then forgot to cover Tuli Wily-Matagi. It didn’t matter. Quarterback Darell Garretson’s pass was low, and the tight end dropped it. Oregon State settled for a field goal. There was also a secondquarter red-zone trip

THE USC DEFENSE, including Uchenna Nwosu

(42), swarms Oregon State’s Artavis Pierce.

stopped on fourth down and a third-quarter red-zone trip ended by a fumble, recovered by Christian Rector. The defensive stops protected USC’s early lead, built by a 37-yard touchdown pass from Darnold to Tyler Vaughns and a touchdown run by Ronald Jones II. Jones II rushed only 12 times but ran for 79 yards, including a four-yard touchdown after Jack Jones’ early interception. Jones has now scored a touchdown in the last 12 games he has played, the nation’s second-longest streak behind only Penn State’s Saquon Barkley.

USC added touchdown passes to Deontay Burnett and Josh Falo — in the first reception of his career — and a 51-yard scamper by backup quarterback Matt Fink. Darnold rebounded from the roughest outing of his career to put up a typical stat line: 23 of 35 passing for 316 yards and three touchdowns. He connected on numerous forays downfield and completed passes to 12 players. But he also had another pass intercepted and lost a fumble. He nearly lost another fumble that squirted 21 yards, to the edge of the goal line, before left tackle Toa

Lobendahn scooped it inches away from a safety. “It’s always frustrating when you turn the ball over,” Darnold said. “I’ve gotta stop doing it.” Helton said he saw improvement, but he wrung his hands over USC’s giveaways. “I thought it lost us rhythm,” he said. “But also it puts a terrible hurt on your defense.” Afterward, USC wrestled with how to view the game. The Trojans outgained Oregon State 512 to 319 but was unsatisfied with its scoring. “When you have over 500 yards and your guts are hurting inside that we left more out there, that’s a good feeling to have,” Helton said. Darnold torched the secondary, but the game was close enough that Oregon State cornerback Kyle White declared, “He’s a normal Pac-12 QB.” Darnold, White said, is “OK.” USC, White said, is “nothing special.” USC does not want that to be a postgame refrain. “We’ve gotta start dominating teams,” safety Chris Hawkins said. Darnold blamed himself. “I think we’re just a couple plays away,” he said. “A couple turnovers away.” Or, as Jack Jones put it, “Closer than we were last week. But we’re not there yet.” zach.helfand@latimes.com Twitter: @zhelfand

[Elliott, from D3] after being put in some situations in some field positions when we muffed a punt and a turnover offensively off a fumble,” Helton said. They extended their winning streak at the Coliseum to 13 games and they got by despite their stillbattered offensive line. Yet, no one felt that it was a total victory. And it wasn’t. Not by a long shot. “The score says we played well. The stats say we played well. I mean, I think we’ve got a lot to go,” senior safety Chris Hawkins said. “We can get a lot better. I’m not satisfied, but I think it was a good win for us.” It was a good win against a team whose starting quarterback was missing because of a back injury, a good win against a team that had lost its previous three games and is woeful in just about every major defensive category — and most offensive categories, too. But there’s the catch: It was a good win for USC, but not a signature, convincing, cohesive win. The Trojans have had only one truly great victory so far — their 42-24 decision over Stanford on Sept. 9 in their second game of the season — and they’re halfway through their regular-season schedule. “We could always be better. Everybody knows that,” Hawkins said. “We’ve got to start dominating teams. It seems the college football world takes us lightly. No matter if we win by a little or a lot. So we’ve just got to start dominating teams.” From where they are now to being capable to dominating opponents is a big leap. But Helton, speaking before he had a chance to analyze Saturday’s game in depth, acknowledged that his team is still a work in progress. That process will be measured and tested when the Trojans play host to Utah next Saturday and at Notre Dame the following week. “We’re nowhere near a finished product. Let’s be honest,” Helton said. “There’s going to be things we see on this tape that frustrate you as a coach and there’s going to be some things that we say, ‘Wow, we’re progressing.’ “It is October and that’s our hallmark here, has been to improve in the month of October and take big leaps. We have two major competitors coming up. Utah is leading the South right now and we sit right behind them. So obviously it’s going to be a huge game for us

next week.” Helton cited several positives, including the defense’s stalwart effort after a muffed punt and a fumble. In addition, getting so many inexperienced receivers into the game, he said, “is really going to benefit us.” Darnold also found reasons for optimism, saying the Trojans ran the ball well (they netted 184 yards) and that the receivers were locked into their assignments. But Darnold, who was 23 for 35 for 316 yards and three touchdowns with one interception, admitted his biggest takeaway from Saturday’s game would be to focus on his shortcomings. “I focus on the bad, honestly, just because you want to improve on the things that you didn’t do well and learn from it. That’s how I am. That’s how the coaches are. That’s how I think any player would be honestly,” he said. “The turnovers is not good. It’s never good for an offense when you turn the ball over like that. I’ve got to be better, and I think I will be the rest of the year.” The team, he said, will “look at the good and what we did well in this game and keep the positives. I think that’s always a good thing during the course of the season, is to stay positive no matter what’s going on.” If the best is yet to come for Darnold and the Trojans, it had better come soon. helene.elliott@latimes.com Twitter: @helenenothelen

USC 38, Oregon St. 10

Oregon St. ..............................0 3 0 7—10 USC.....................................14 7 7 10—38 First Quarter USC—Vaughns 37 pass from Darnold (McGrath kick), 11:29 USC—R.Jones 4 run (McGrath kick), 8:49 Second Quarter ORS—FG Choukair 33, 14:17 USC—Burnett 16 pass from Darnold (McGrath kick), 10:01 Third Quarter USC—Falo 30 pass from Darnold (McGrath kick), 8:57 Fourth Quarter ORS—Pierce 6 run (Choukair kick), 14:11 USC—FG McGrath 29, 10:45 USC—Fink 51 run (McGrath kick), 6:19 STATISTICS TEAM ORS USC First downs ...................................16 26 Rushes-yards ..........................36-122 37-184 Passing.......................................197 328 Comp-Att-Int..........................16-29-1 24-36-1 Return Yards................................121 54 Punts-Avg..............................3-42.33 2-22.5 Fumbles-Lost................................2-2 4-2 Penalties-Yards ...........................7-69 4-46 Time of Possession ....................29:26 30:34 Individual Leaders RUSHING: Oregon St., Pierce 12-60, Collins 4-23, Tyner 7-23, T.Johnson 6-17, Tyler 2-12, Garretson 5-(minus 13). USC, R.Jones 12-79, Fink 2-52, Malepeai 832, Ware 6-28, Toland 3-9, V.Jones 1-4, Lobendahn 0-0, (Team) 1-(minus 2), Darnold 4-(minus 18). PASSING: Oregon St., Garretson 16-29-1-197. Southern Cal, Darnold 24-36-1-328. RECEIVING: Oregon St., Collins 5-91, Togiai 4-21, X.Hawkins 2-39, Hodgins 2-27, Pierce 1-9, Hernandez 1-6, Villamin 1-4. USC, Vaughns 5-68, Mitchell 4-46, Petite 2-40, Pittman 2-24, Burnett 2-20, R.Jones 2-17, Ware 1-37, Falo 1-30, Sidney 1-23, Grimes 1-12, V.Jones 1-5, Krommenhoek 1-4, J.Imatorbhebhe 1-2. MISSED FIELD GOALS—Oregon St., Choukair 46, Choukair 37.

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Ferguson, Johnson ‘Vegas strong’ in wins By Lance Pugmire LAS VEGAS — According to someone familiar with Conor McGregor, the Irish UFC champion has wanted someone new to establish himself as an obvious challenger. Tony Ferguson obliged Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena, producing a wellplanned triangle chokehold to submit No. 7-rated lightweight Kevin Lee in the third round of the UFC 216 main event. “Where you at, McNuggets?” Ferguson (24-3) roared after claiming his 10th consecutive win and the interim lightweight belt created by McGregor’s extended layoff from UFC action since November.

Ferguson and Lee (16-3) engaged in an entertaining battle in which the 25-yearold Lee ended the first round atop Ferguson, pounding his head with punches. But Costa Mesa’s Ferguson, 33, relying on supreme conditioning enhanced during a rigorous training camp in Big Bear, overcame a cut under his left eye and landed clean kicks on Lee in the second. In the third, Ferguson overcame a second Lee takedown in the round and started to hurt Lee by striking him with pointed elbows to the head while Ferguson was underneath Lee. Then, Ferguson wrapped his legs around Lee’s head and neck and squeezed, forcing Lee to tap out 4 minutes 2 seconds into the round.

“This went exactly the way I wanted,” Ferguson said. “I wanted him to use all that aggression and leave him with no energy for the submission. I just knew I had to ride out the storm. He was slippery [when applying the finishing squeeze] but I just used textbook [skill].” Lee said he felt the effects of cutting 19 pounds in less than 24 hours before Friday’s weigh-in, and from battling a staph infection without using antibiotics. “A little too much to handle,” he acknowledged. McGregor could want to wait until St. Patrick’s Day night for his return after pocketing an estimated $100 million in his August boxing match against Floyd Mayweather Jr., but the UFC may press to have him re-

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BASKETBALL NBA EXHIBITIONS Saturday’s Result Miami 93, Orlando 90 Today’s Schedule Portland at CLIPPERS, 12:30 p.m. Sacramento vs. LAKERS at Las Vegas, 6 p.m.

turn in its Dec. 30 card. Said Ferguson: “Let’s go.” Wearing “Vegas Strong” shirts, issuing powerful words and gathering defiantly in the face of the recent mass violence here, UFC fighters and fans used the event to show the city’s resilience in light of tragedy. The shining example of returning to business as usual was flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson, who set a UFC record by winning his 11th consecutive title defense, eclipsing the mark he shared with former longreigning middleweight champion Anderson Silva. In the fifth round, Johnson (27-2-1) lifted and threw No. 3-rated challenger Ray Borg (11-3) backward, threw his legs over Borg’s chest and applied a fight-finishing

armbar by squeezing Borg’s left arm. The finish came 3 minutes, 15 seconds into the round. “That’s what we do,” Johnson said of the unique end that increased his winning streak to 13. “I was just playing around, but I’ve been doing that so many times in the gym.” Johnson opened his remarks by thanking first-responders who came to the aid of victims of the worst shooting massacre in U.S. history that left 58 dead and more than 500 injured last Sunday. The evening captured both a somber recognition and a proud stand against the horror that shook the city. In place of the typical highlights package shown at the start of cards, UFC Pres-

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$6.2-MILLION SAFEWAY OPEN At Napa, Calif.—Par 72 Silverado Resort & Spa—7,166 yards 54-Hole Leaders Tyler Duncan ..................65-66-71—202 -14 Chesson Hadley..............72-61-70—203 -13 Bud Cauley....................69-69-66—204 -12 Brendan Steele ..............65-67-72—204 -12 Emiliano Grillo................67-70-68—205 -11 Graham DeLaet ..............69-67-69—205 -11 Phil Mickelson................69-69-68—206 -10 Andrew Putnam ..............71-66-69—206 -10 Bill Haas .......................72-65-69—206 -10 Tony Finau .....................70-65-71—206 -10 Nick Taylor .....................71-68-68—207 -9 Jason Kokrak .................70-69-68—207 -9 Kevin Na .......................71-70-66—207 -9 Bronson Burgoon............70-68-69—207 -9 Martin Laird ...................71-67-69—207 -9 Harold Varner III .............69-68-70—207 -9 Ben Martin ....................74-66-68—208 -8 Matt Jones.....................72-68-68—208 -8 Tom Hoge ......................65-73-70—208 -8 Ted Potter, Jr. .................72-71-65—208 -8 Zach Johnson.................68-72-69—209 -7 Kevin Tway.....................68-72-69—209 -7 Andrew Landry ...............71-69-69—209 -7 Corey Conners................70-69-70—209 -7 Chris Kirk ......................72-69-68—209 -7 Webb Simpson...............69-70-70—209 -7 Peter Malnati .................71-68-70—209 -7 Cameron Tringale ............71-71-67—209 -7 Bryson DeChambeau.......73-69-67—209 -7 PGA EUROPEAN TOUR $5-MILLION ALFRED DUNHILL LINKS CHAMPIONSHIP At St. Andrews, Scotland—Par 72 c-Carnoustie—7,345 yards, k-Kingsbarns Golf Links—7,227 yards; St. Andrews—7,307 yards 54-Hole Leaders Tyrrell Hatton, England 68s-65c-65k—198 -18 Gregory Bourdy, France70k-67s-66c—203 -13 Paul Dunne, Ireland ....67s-68c-70k—205 -11 Luke Donald, England .70s-70c-66k—206 -10 Ross Fisher, England...71s-68c-67k—206 -10 J. Lagergren, Sweden ..69c-67k-71s—207 -9 B. Ritthammer, Ger. ....70k-66s-71c—207 -9 Alexander Levy, France 70c-69k-68s—207 -9 K. Aphibarnrat, Thai. ...70k-66s-71c—207 -9 Nic Colsaerts, Belgium 67k-67s-73c—207 -9 Vic Dubuisson, France.74c-66k-68s—208 -8 Robert Rock, England .71c-68k-69s—208 -8 Mikko Ilonen, Finland..74c-67k-67s—208 -8 Marc Warren, Scotland70c-71k-67s—208 -8 D. Drysdale, Scotland .69c-67k-72s—208 -8 Romain Wattel, France 70c-68k-70s—208 -8 Gregory Havret, France 70c-69k-69s—208 -8 T. Fleetwood, England .70s-63c-76k—209 -7 M. Fitzpatrick, England 73s-68c-68k—209 -7 G. McDowell, N. Ire. ...69s-71c-70k—210 -6 J.B. Holmes, U.S. ........73s-66c-72k—211 -5 B. Grace, S. Africa ......70s-69c-72k—211 -5 R. McIlroy, No. Ireland .73s-71c-68k—212 -4

BASKETBALL Atlanta—Waived guards John Jenkins and Jordan Mathews. FOOTBALL Chargers—Waived safety Dexter McCoil; signed running back Andre Williams from the practice squad. Buffalo—Released wide receiver Philly Brown; signed cornerback Greg Mabin from the practice squad. Dallas—Activated defensive end David Irving from the reserve/exempt list. Indianapolis—Released tight end Evan Baylis from the practice squad; signed tight end Mo Alie-Cox to the practice squad. Jacksonville—Released quarterback Ryan Nassib; signed offensive lineman Chris Reed from the practice squad.

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A.L. Playoffs Favorite Houston Cleveland

Underdog -136 at Boston -115 at New York

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Pro Football Today Favorite Line (O/U) Underdog at N.Y. Giants 3 (441⁄2) CHARGERS at RAMS 11⁄2 (471⁄2) Seattle at Cincinnati 3 (391⁄2) Buffalo at Cleveland PK (40) N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh 7 (42) Jacksonville Tennessee 21⁄2 (421⁄2) at Miami at Indianapolis 1 (441⁄2) San Francisco at Philadelphia 61⁄2 (45) Arizona at Detroit 21⁄2 (421⁄2) Carolina at Oakland 3 (391⁄2) Baltimore at Dallas 3 (521⁄2) Green Bay at Houston PK (45) Kansas City Monday Favorite Line (O/U) Underdog Minnesota 3 (40) at Chicago Updates at Pregame.com —Associated Press

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Saturday’s Results MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER New York 3, Vancouver 0 Sporting Kansas City 1, Minnesota United 1 FC Dallas 1, Colorado 1 NATIONAL WOMEN’S SOCCER LEAGUE PLAYOFFS Semifinals Portland 4, Orlando 1

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$9.41-MILLION CHINA OPEN At Beijing Surface: Hard-Outdoor MEN’S SINGLES (semifinals)—Rafael Nadal (1), Spain, d. Grigor Dimitrov (3), Bulgaria, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1; Nick Kyrgios (8), Australia, d. Alexander Zverev (2), Germany, 6-3, 7-5. WOMEN’S SINGLES (semifinals)—Simona Halep (2), Romania, d. Jelena Ostapenko (9), Latvia, 6-2, 6-4; Caroline Garcia, France, d. Petra Kvitova (12), Czech Republic, 6-3, 7-5. MEN’S DOUBLES (semifinals)—Henri Kontinen, Finland-John Peers (1), Australia, d. Paolo Lorenzi, Italy-Mischa Zverev, Germany, 7-6 (6), 3-6, 10-7. WOMEN’S DOUBLES (semifinals)—Timea Babos, Hungary-Andrea Hlavackova (4), Czech Republic, d. Ekaterina Makarova-Elena Vesnina (2), Russia, 7-5, 6-7 (4), 10-8; Chan Yung-jan, Taiwan-Martina Hingis (1), Switzerland, d. Sania Mirza, India-Peng Shuai (3), China, 2-6, 6-1, 10-5. $1.56-MILLION RAKUTEN JAPAN OPEN At Tokyo Surface: Hard-Outdoor SINGLES (semifinals)—David Goffin (4), Belgium, d. Diego Schwartzman (8), Argentina, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (6); Adrian Mannarino, France, d. Marin Cilic (1), Croatia, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-0. DOUBLES (semifinals)—Ben McLachlan-Yasutaka Uchiyama, Japan, d. Santiago Gonzalez, Mexico-Julio Peralta, Chile, 7-5, 6-4.

SOCCER INTERNATIONAL WORLD CUP QUALIFYING NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN Final Round Saturday’s Result At San Jose, Costa Rica Costa Rica 1, Honduras 1; Costa Rica qualifies EUROPE Group Play At Stockholm Sweden 8, Luxembourg 0 At Borisov, Belarus Netherlands 3, Belarus 1 At Sofia, Bulgaria France 1, Bulgaria 0 At Torshavn, Faeroe Islands Faeroe Islands 0, Latvia 0 At Andorra La Vella, Andorra Portugal 2, Andorra 0 At Basel, Switzerland Switzerland 5, Hungary 2 At Faro, Portugal Estonia 6, Gibraltar 0 At Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina Belgium 4, Bosnia-Herzegovina 3 At Nicosia, Cyprus Greece 2, Cyprus 1 AFRICA Third Round Group Play At Conakry, Guinea Tunisia 4, Guinea 1 At Monastir, Tunisia Congo 2, Libya 1 At Yaounde, Cameroon Cameroon 2, Algeria 0 At Uyo, Nigeria Nigeria 1, Zambia 0 At Casablanca, Morocco Morocco 3, Gabon 0 At Johannesburg South Africa 3, Burkina Faso 1 At Praia, Cape Verde Senegal 2, Cape Verde 0 Uganda 0, Ghana 0

ident Dana White appeared on the arena’s big screens and spoke. “There are no words to describe this week’s tragedy in Las Vegas,” White said. “This city is brave, compassionate and strong.” Former heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum (22-7-1) shrugged off a Saturday opponent change due to Derrick Lewis’ back injury and applied a first-round submission victory (armbar) over Walt Harris (10-6). Huntington Beach-trained Werdum took Harris down quickly and positioned to apply the armbar, then called out heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic for a rematch.

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THE DAY IN SPORTS

Hall of Famer Hawkins dies

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Connie Hawkins, basketball’s dazzling New York playground legend who soared and swooped his way to the Hall of Fame, has died. He was 75. His death was announced Saturday by the Phoenix Suns, the team with which he spent his most productive NBA seasons in a career delayed for years by a point-shaving scandal that led to the league’s blackballing him, even though he was never directly linked to any wrongdoing. “We lost a legend,” said Jerry Colangelo, the Suns general manager when Hawkins played and later the team’s owner, “a player I had a very deep affection for who kind of put us on the map.” Hawkins toured with the Harlem Globetrotters, then played two seasons in the ABA and was the league’s most valuable player in 1968. He didn’t play in the NBA until he was 27, in 1969. The Suns, a year-old franchise at the time, selected Hawkins second overall after losing a coin flip for the rights to Lew Alcindor (who became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). Hawkins was an All-Star for four straight seasons; his best was his first, when he averaged 24.6 points, 10.4 rebounds and 4.8 assists. Dallas Mavericks guard Seth Curry is out indefinitely with a stress reaction of his left tibia. Simona Halep will take over the WTA’s top ranking after reaching the China Open final, and Rafael Nadal will play Nick Kyrgios for the men’s title. Halep beat French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko 6-2, 6-4, and Monday she will supplant Garbine Muguruza and be the first women’s No. 1 from Romania. Top-seeded Nadal beat No. 3 seed Grigor Dimitrov 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 in the semifinals. NASCAR Cup practice was canceled at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and the start of Sunday’s playoff race has been moved up an hour to1p.m. ET. ... Alex Bowman raced to his first Xfinity Series victory while Brendan Gaughan, Michael Annett, Blake Koch and Jeremy Clements were eliminated from the playoffs. ... Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton won pole position for the Japanese Grand Prix. PGA Tour rookie Tyler Duncan parred the 18th hole for a one-under 71 to maintain a one-stroke lead after three rounds of the Safeway Open in Napa. ... Defending champ Tyrrell Hatton opened a five-shot lead heading into the final round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. The New York Red Bulls clinched the final MLS Eastern Conference playoff spot with a 3-0 win over Vancouver. ... Costa Rica clinched a World Cup berth with a 1-1 tie with Honduras. Nigeria is the first team from Africa to qualify for the World Cup, beating Zambia1-0. ... Croatia coach Ante Cacic has been fired and replaced by Zlatko Dalic.

SANTA ANITA RESULTS 8046 FIRST RACE. 6 furlongs. Maiden claiming. Two-year-olds. Claiming price $30,000. Purse $21,000. P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show 9 Ima Take Charge Desrmux 7.40 4.40 3.60 7 Snazzy Dresser Suthrlnd 9.60 4.80 6 Dramatic Ride Roman 6.40 8 Also Ran: Awesome Prophecy, Fabrication, Cash Pilot, Michael Mundo, Fight On Forever, Cause for Pardon, Virghazi, Wheres Hollywood. 8 Time: 22.14, 45.89, 59.00, 1.13.01. Clear & Fast. Trainer: J. Keith Desormeaux. Owner: Big Chief Racing, LLC, Rocker O Ranch, LLC and Desormeaux, J. Keith. 8 Scratched: none. 8 Exotics: $1 Exacta (9-7) paid $75.50, $1 Superfecta (9-76-2) paid $7,890.20, 50-Cent Trifecta (9-7-6) paid $275.35. 8047 SECOND RACE. 1 mile turf. Obviously Mile Stakes. Three-year-olds and up. Purse $75,000. P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show 1 Blackjackcat Desormux 3.00 2.20 2.10 2 Bird Is the Word Prat 6.40 4.40 5 Cistron Baze 3.60 8 Also Ran: He Will, Tequila Joe, Mach One Rules. 8 Time: 23.37, 47.26, 1.10.81, 1.22.39, 1.33.70. Clear & Firm. Trainer: Mark Glatt. Owner: Kirkwood, Al and Saundra S.. 8 Scratched: none. 8 Exotics: $2 Daily Double (9-1) paid $12.00, $1 Exacta (1-2) paid $7.90, $1 Superfecta (1-2-5-3) paid $78.70, 50Cent Trifecta (1-2-5) paid $20.85. 8048 THIRD RACE. 6 furlongs. Maiden special weight. Three-year-olds and up. Purse $50,000. P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show 3 Catalina Cruiser Van Dyke 9.00 4.60 3.60 2 Puig Gonzalez 4.60 3.00

5 Little Juanito Roman 3.20 8 Also Ran: Antioch, Bardstown, Mister Mojo, Williston Dude, New Dancer. 8 Time: 21.72, 44.99, 57.46, 1.10.26. Clear & Fast. Trainer: John W. Sadler. Owner: Hronis Racing LLC. 8 Scratched: none. 8 Exotics: $1 Pick Three (9-1-3) paid $36.10, $2 Daily Double (1-3) paid $14.00, $1 Exacta (3-2) paid $19.80, $1 Superfecta (3-2-5-1) paid $274.70, 50-Cent Trifecta (3-2-5) paid $29.30. 8049 FOURTH RACE. 61⁄2 furlongs. Allowance optional claiming. Three-year-olds and up. Claiming price $40,000. Purse $53,000. P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show 2 Americanize Bejarano 6.00 2.80 2.10 6 City of Light Stevens 2.40 2.10 5 Sir Samson Van Dyke 3.00 8 Also Ran: Coils Gold, Best Two Minutes. 8 Time: 22.19, 44.93, 1.09.35, 1.16.01. Clear & Fast. Trainer: Simon Callaghan. Owner: Kaleem Shah, Inc.. 8 Scratched: Midnight Pleasure. 8 Exotics: $1 Pick Three (1-3-2) paid $32.10, $2 Daily Double (3-2) paid $36.20, $1 Exacta (2-6) paid $6.20, $1 Superfecta (2-6-5-1) paid $30.30, 50-Cent Trifecta (2-6-5) paid $11.05. 8050 FIFTH RACE. about 61⁄2 furlongs turf. Maiden special weight. Fillies. Two-year-olds. Purse $50,000. P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show 4 Favorite Trip Arroyo, Jr. 32.60 13.20 9.40 5 DH-Orageuse Prat 3.60 4.20 7 DH-Sappho Desormux 2.80 3.40 8 Also Ran: Into Glamour, Bunny Yogurt, Silken Spy, Thisoleheartofmine, In the Jeans, Heaven Escape, Baytown Juliet, Biscate, Katherine. 8 Time: 22.04, 44.35, 1.07.44, 1.13.61. Clear & Firm.

Trainer: Peter Eurton. Owner: Ciaglia Racing LLC. 8 Scratched: Journal Entry, Great Ma Neri. 8 Exotics: $1 Pick Three (3-2-4) paid $290.30, 50-Cent Pick Four (1-3-2-4) 4 correct paid $169.85, 50-Cent Pick Five (9-13-2-4) 5 correct paid $1,720.90, $2 Daily Double (2-4) paid $103.80, $1 Exacta (4-5) paid $52.20, $1 Exacta (4-7) paid $37.40, $1 Superfecta (4-7-5-2) paid $1,349.90, $1 Superfecta (4-5-7-2) paid $1,798.50, 50-Cent Trifecta (4-5-7) paid $140.45, 50-Cent Trifecta (4-7-5) paid $109.50. 8051 SIXTH RACE. 6 furlongs. Santa Anita Sprint Championship Stakes. Three-year-olds and up. Purse $300,000. P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show 6 Roy H Desormux 3.80 3.00 2.20 5 Mr. Hinx Van Dyke 17.40 5.80 4 American Anthem Smith 2.80 8 Also Ran: Ransom the Moon, Giant Expectations, Edwards Going Left. 8 Time: 22.07, 45.03, 56.78, 1.08.68. Clear & Fast. Trainer: Peter Miller. Owner: Rockingham Ranch and Bernsen, David A.. 8 Scratched: none. 8 Exotics: $1 Pick Three (2-4-6) paid $190.00, $2 Daily Double (4-6) paid $69.00, $1 Exacta (6-5) paid $34.80, $1 Superfecta (6-5-4-1) paid $417.60, 50-Cent Trifecta (6-5-4) paid $63.65. 8052 SEVENTH RACE. 6 furlongs. Maiden claiming. Two-year-olds. Claiming prices $50,000-$40,000. Purse $28,000. P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show 1 Oh Man Risenhver 8.80 4.60 3.20 7 Royal Trump Maldndo 4.40 2.80 8 Royal Bar Baze 3.00 8 Also Ran: Lipster, Catability, Starship Chewy, Run Jeanne Run, Respect the Shot, Desert Black.

8 Time: 22.04, 45.38, 58.01, 1.11.96. Clear & Fast. Trainer: Richard Baltas. Owner: Calvin Nguyen. 8 Scratched: Butte City. 8 Exotics: $1 Pick Three (4-6-1) paid $236.40, $2 Daily Double (6-1) paid $21.60, $1 Exacta (1-7) paid $16.20, $1 Superfecta (1-7-8-4) paid $205.20, 50-Cent Trifecta (1-7-8) paid $22.65. 8053 EIGHTH RACE. 1 mile turf. Swingtime Stakes. Fillies and mares. Three-year-olds and up. Purse $70,000. P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show 6 Insta Erma Nakatani 8.00 4.40 3.20 1 Madame Stripes Talamo 4.00 3.00 8 Belvoir Bay Desormux 4.00 8 Also Ran: Mrs McDougal, Do the Dance, Lady Valeur (IRE), Jeremy’s Legacy (IRE), Show Stealer. 8 Time: 22.92, 45.92, 1.09.11, 1.20.68, 1.32.76. Clear & Firm. Trainer: Richard Baltas. Owner: Little Red Feather Racing, Medallion Racing, Premier Racing Club and McClanahan. 8 Scratched: none. 8 Exotics: $1 Pick Three (6-1-6) paid $44.60, $2 Daily Double (1-6) paid $32.80, $1 Exacta (6-1) paid $10.60, $1 Superfecta (6-1-8-3) paid $133.00, 50-Cent Trifecta (6-1-8) paid $27.90. 8054 NINTH RACE. 11⁄16 mile. Claiming. Three-year-olds and up. Claiming prices $25,000-$22,500. Purse $29,000. P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show 8 Just Kidding Roman 7.20 4.60 4.00 1 Tribal Jewel Pedroza 5.80 4.40 10 City Steel Talamo 5.20 8 Also Ran: Dadtaughtmewell, Muchos Besos, Blanket of Ice, Pioneerof the West, Shackleford Banks, I’malreadythere, Indygo Bo, El Super. 8 Time: 23.48, 47.74, 1.12.93, 1.39.48, 1.46.29. Clear &

Fast. Trainer: Peter Eurton. Owner: Alesia, Sharon, Bran Jam Stables, Ciaglia Racing, LLC and Dyrdek, Rob. 8 Scratched: Kristo. 8 Exotics: $1 Pick Three (1-6-8) paid $110.40, $2 Daily Double (6-8) paid $30.40, $1 Exacta (8-1) paid $23.50, $1 Superfecta (8-1-10-3) paid $872.90, 50-Cent Trifecta (8-1-10) paid $69.10. 8055 TENTH RACE. 1 mile turf. Starter allowance. Fillies and mares. Three-year-olds and up. Claiming price $50,000. Purse $30,000. P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show 2 Candy Swirls Stevens 14.80 7.00 4.60 3 Looking At Bejarano 4.60 3.20 Thelake 5 Midnight Swinger Prat 3.00 8 Also Ran: Shazara, Tammy’s Window, Lookinforadanger, Ragazza Di Vola, Road Test, Blondy’s Reward, Bridal Arch, Fly Far Away, Pattin for a Dance. 8 Time: 22.91, 46.23, 1.10.15, 1.22.07, 1.34.05. Clear & Firm. Trainer: William Spawr. Owner: Becker, Barry and Judith. 8 Scratched: none. 8 Exotics: $1 Pick Three (6-8-2) paid $204.10, 50-Cent Pick Four (1-6-8/9-2) 1434 tickets with 4 correct paid $434.55, $2 Pick Six (4-6-1-6-8/9-2) 35 tickets with 5 out of 6 paid $602.60, Pick Six Carryover $96,825, $2 Pick Six Jackpot (4-6-1-6-8/9-2) , Pick Six Jackpot Carryover $224,703, $2 Daily Double (8-2) paid $57.00, $1 Exacta (2-3) paid $30.80, $1 Superfecta (2-3-5-4) paid $289.40, $1 Super High Five (2-3-5-4-10) 23 tickets paid $1,062.50, 50-Cent Trifecta (2-3-5) paid $60.35. ATTENDANCE/MUTUEL HANDLE On-track attendance-10,102. Mutuel handle-$1,785,285 Inter-track attendance-N/A. Mutuel handle-$2,568,098 Out-of-state attendance-N/A. Mutuel handle-$6,792,920 Total attendance-10,102. Mutuel handle- $11,146,303

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6073 Gemini Journey,2 R Bejarano,122 4-1 6267 Norwegian Spy,5 F Prat,120 5-1 6236 Sly Humor,4 E Roman,X117 5-1 .... Betdesilvergold,7 T Baze,122 6-1 (7005) Holy Mosey,1 S Risenhoover,122 12-1 6223 Her Big Moment,6 T Conner,120 20-1 8062 SEVENTH RACE. about 61⁄2 furlongs turf. Maiden special weight. 3-year-olds and up. State bred. Purse $50,000. PR Horse (PP) Jockey,Wt Odds 6192 Vegas Vic,9 E Maldonado,122 5-2 6253 Bold Papa,5 C Nakatani,125 3-1 6253 Tatar,2 K Desormeaux,125 4-1 7068 Catfish Hunter,8 F Prat,122 6-1 .... Copper Wind,6 D Van Dyke,122 8-1 6104 Accreditation,4 R Bejarano,125 12-1 7068 Hes Knot Unusual,10 T Baze,122 12-1 6282 Mr. Matlock,3 S Elliott,125 12-1 6192 Tule Fog,1 S Gonzalez,122 15-1 6253 Chidamac,7 T Pereira,122 30-1 Also eligible 7068 Gosofar,11 E Roman,X120 4-1 8063 EIGHTH RACE. 61⁄2 furlongs. Claiming. 3-year-olds and up. Claiming prices $20,000-$18,000. Purse $24,000.

PR Horse (PP) Jockey,Wt Odds 6299 Kafister,6 T Baze,123 4-1 (6302) Native Treasure,4 E Roman,X120 9-2 6302 Iron Rob,5 T Conner,123 5-1 (6297) Jes Jaa,1 S Gonzalez,121 5-1 6299 Nardo,2 F Prat,123 6-1 6184 Papa Turf,3 K Desormeaux,123 6-1 6302 Tasunke Witco,8 T Pereira,123 6-1 7075 Old Man Lake,9 E Maldonado,123 12-1 6239 Hay Dude (GB),7 M Pedroza,123 15-1 (7059) Tiz Love,10 F Martinez,123 30-1 8064 NINTH RACE. 1 mile turf. Claiming. 3-year-olds and up. Claiming price $32,000. Purse $28,000. PR Horse (PP) Jockey,Wt Odds 4228 A Red Tie Day,8 C Nakatani,125 7-2 6305 Crown the Kitten,2 M Pedroza,125 9-2 6287 Buymeabond,5 KDesormeaux,125 5-1 6311 Secreto Primero,4 J Talamo,125 5-1 6287 Lord of Chaos,1 R Bejarano,125 6-1 6287 Pound Piece (IRE),6 B Blanc,125 6-1 6287 Atomic Rule,7 D Van Dyke,125 8-1 6239 Burger and Fries (FR),3 E Roman,X120 12-1 6311 Batti Man (ARG),10 S Elliott,125 15-1 6173 Beantown Boys,9 S Gonzalez,122 20-1 Also eligible 4365 Verraco,11 S Gonzalez,125 20-1

SANTA ANITA ENTRIES 7th day of a 19-day thoroughbred meet. 8056 FIRST RACE (12:30). 1 mile turf. Allowance. Fillies and mares. 3-year-olds and up. State bred. Purse $51,000. PR Horse (PP) Jockey,Wt Odds 6188 My Pi Romancer,4 F Prat,122 2-1 (6285) Speakers,8 D Van Dyke,122 5-2 6188 Moonshine Annie,1 G Stevens,122 4-1 (6147) R Sunday Surprise,6 I Ocampo,122 4-1 6234 Lethal Legacy,7 C Nakatani,123 10-1 6225 La Premiere Etoile,5 V Espinoza,125 12-1 7015 Mizzen Glory,2 T Baze,125 12-1 (7054) Jill Madden,3 M Pedroza,120 20-1 8057 SECOND RACE. 6 furlongs. Maiden claiming. Fillies. 2 year-olds. Claiming price $75,000. Purse $32,000. PR Horse (PP) Jockey,Wt Odds 6037 Krissys Manicure,4 R Bejarano,120 2-1 6264 Snaked,3 T Pereira,120 5-2 7013 Avail,2 S Elliott,120 3-1 .... Mischievious Lass,6 E Roman,X115 6-1 .... Spiritualist,5 F Prat,120 6-1 6247 Curlin’s Journey,7 T Baze,120 12-1 6105 Omerta,1 K Desormeaux,120 12-1

8058 THIRD RACE. 6 furlongs. Allowance optional claiming. Fillies. 2-year-olds. Claiming price $50,000. State bred. Purse $51,000. PR Horse (PP) Jockey,Wt Odds 6269 Family Girl,7 K Desormeaux,120 8-5 (6277) Pulpit Rider,5 S Elliott,120 9-5 (6281) Mama’s Kid,2 J Ochoa,120 6-1 (6187) Silverspun Pickup,6 M Pedroza,120 6-1 (7034) Sharona Sunset,3 Mn Garcia,120 8-1 6269 Empress of Lov,1 T Baze,120 10-1 6095 Estherfourfourteen,4 T Conner,120 12-1 8059 FOURTH RACE. about 61⁄2 furlongs turf. Maiden special weight. Fillies. 2-year-olds. Purse $50,000. PR Horse (PP) Jockey,Wt Odds .... Ever So True,10 K Desormeaux,120 7-2 6232 Great Ma Neri,3 T Pereira,120 9-2 6317 Camino Song (IRE),6 J Talamo,120 6-1 6232 Fracas,7 E Roman,X115 6-1 .... Limari,8 F Prat,120 6-1 6264 Trust Fund Kitty,2 M Pedroza,120 6-1 6187 Sweet Sophie G Stevens,120 8-1 Grace,5 7013 Factorofwon,4 T Baze,120 12-1 6247 Luminoso,1 R Bejarano,120 12-1

Roses and Candy,9 B Blanc,120 12-1 Also eligible Lake Geneva,12 D Van Dyke,120 4-1 Polished,13 M Smith,120 5-1 Ippodamia’s Girl,11 D Van Dyke,120 6-1 Navajo Dreamer C Nakatani,120 6-1 (IRE),14 8060 FIFTH RACE. 61⁄2 furlongs. LA Woman Stakes. Fillies and mares. 3-year-olds and up. Purse $100,000. PR Horse (PP) Jockey,Wt Odds (3319) Unique Bella,5 M Smith,121 1-5 6314 Bad Ju Ju,3 D Van Dyke,122 6-1 (7024) Princess Karen,4 K Desormeaux,119 8-1 6314 Cuddle Alert,2 E Maldonado,122 15-1 6314 Lunar Empress,7 F Prat,122 15-1 6315 Dis Smart Cat,6 G Stevens,122 20-1 6177 Sturdy One,1 N Arroyo, Jr.,122 20-1 8061 -SIXTH RACE. 61⁄2 furlongs. Claiming. Fillies. 3-year-olds. Claiming prices $32,000-$28,000. State bred. Purse $32,000. PR Horse (PP) Jockey,Wt Odds (4340) What a Ten,8 E Maldonado,122 5-2 6314 Bitzka,3 V Espinoza,122 7-2

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Lakers rolled on last Vegas trip By Tania Ganguli They played to a packed arena every time, whether or not Lonzo Ball was playing. The Las Vegas Summer League is always filled with Lakers fans, but they had never been treated to the kind of success from their team that they witnessed this past July. For the first time, the Lakers won the league. They also showed off their new point guard in front of current and future potential Lakers. Several of the Lakers veterans attended the games. LeBron James, a Lakers free agent target for next summer, sat courtside one night when Ball nearly had 36 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds. The Lakers will return to Las Vegas on Sunday, taking with them lessons gained from this summer. Here’s a look at what we learned:

Defense first

Summer league head coach Jud Buechler: “Our plan was from the start, talking to Luke [Lakers coach Luke Walton], the focus was going to be defense and running and trying not to run an offense. First two games things didn’t go exactly how we wanted them to. We played well but we were 0-2. And then just kind of pulled it together.”

Slow start

Ball notched a pair of tripledoubles, but he started slowly, shooting one-of-11 from three-point range in his first game: “[In] college, you get a week you can sit up, sit back and watch film and stuff. But the NBA, it’s a quick turnaround, so, you’ve just got to put it behind you and move forward.”

Is the kid another Kidd?

Ball has been compared to Jason Kidd. Now the head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks, Kidd watched Ball’s first game. He said: “They set up a great first play for him. Just understanding that it’s not always going to go in the basket and the second game he had a triple-double so it just shows he has a great feel. There’s a lot of anticipation, a lot of hype around the game. ... He came back and showed that he can be one of the best rookies in the league.”

Finding chemistry

As Ball found his rhythm, his teammates learned from him. Alex Caruso, the Lakers’ backup point guard in the summer league, earned a two-way contract after his play in July: “We had a really good chemistry. … I don’ think anyone hurt themselves. Everybody improved their situation. ... For me, when I was backing up Lonzo, I just tried to fit into any role that I was playing on a given night. “He’s an incredible player. He’s still 19. When I was 19 I couldn’t do the things he was doing. He pushes

the ball well. He’s just one of the guys. Everybody likes to make a big deal out of the Ball name and the BBB brand. But when he’s on the court he’s just one of the guys. I think guys gravitate toward that, that he can have all that but when it’s time to play he just gets down to business.”

Hoop hype

Jeff Van Gundy spent a decade as an NBA head coach and is now the coach of USA Basketball. He watched Ball and balked at the comparisons to Kidd: “Either way, rush to judgment that a guy is already a living legend, or rush to judgment that he is somehow disappointing [is wrong]. I think you have to give everything time and space to develop. He seems like a fine person and cares about the game and his teammates. I just get scared when I start hearing like Jason Kidd’s name. I’m like, did we watch Jason Kidd? He was great. For 20 years. But he struggled some too, early. Summer league is a very, very small step. For the NFL I would say it’s the equivalent for me of he had a great OTA session.”

Coach talk

Still, it gave the Lakers coaches a glimpse of what he could do. What did Walton learn? “That he is capable of doing it at this level. I know it is summer league and you are not playing against [NBA vets], but he is a winner. He really is. He makes his teammates better, people love playing with him. He makes the gym exciting to be in.”

Magic moment

Magic Johnson didn’t mention any names, but the idea of how free agents perceived the performance excited him. “Of course, free agents are excited. ... He makes the game easy for you. How many layups did [Kyle] Kuzma average a game? Three? Dunks or layups at least three. All he has to do is get out on the wing. It’s there. Again, that’s what you want. You want a guy who can make the game easy for you.”

Title time

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope agreed to a deal with the Lakers in the middle of Summer League: “I watched the championship game. That was pretty exciting. I saw the highlights of the other games. It just looked fun. I wanted to play with them how they were playing. Zo was throwing the ball in the air, they were getting easy layups, threes, they were just playing hard on the defensive end. That really just excited me and I wanted to just be a part of that.”

Etc.

Ball was named summer league most valuable player. tania.ganguli@latimes.com Twitter: @taniaganguli

Clippers seek to keep improving defense By Broderick Turner On the first day of practice in Hawaii, Clippers assistant coach Brendan O’Connor, who has the task of establishing the team’s defensive identity, explained the philosophy. “We want to be a team that doesn’t give up layups and corner threes,” O’Connor said. Achieving a strong defensive presence remains in the developmental stages for the Clippers. They have spent more time trying to find harmony on offense than defense thus far in training camp. But by no means have they forgotten about defense, and that will become a point of emphasis in the coming days, weeks and months. “We’re going to put in some defensive stuff that we haven’t put in,” coach Doc Rivers said. “We have to start catching up there. But offensively, we’ll just try to keep really with the same philosophy of running and getting the floor spaced, and then running really when things aren’t going well.” Each year, Rivers said, their philosophy on defense changes some depending on their personnel and the changing styles of play in the NBA. And then, of course, Rivers has nine new players to indoctrinate into the Clippers’ ways. “We will change our defense a little bit,” Rivers said. “It changes every year some. But it’s just more guys. When you’re putting both in and you have that many new guys, you got to get your offensive stuff just to get them to play right, first. And then you start working on your defense.” The Clippers are strong on the front end and back end of their defense, giving them hope that they have the goods to be a deterrent to

the opposition. Point guard Patrick Beverley made the All-NBA first-team defensive team last season as a Rocket and center DeAndre Jordan was third team. “I think we have some good individual defensive players,” Rivers said. “So I will say that. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a good defensive team. I mean, Patrick Beverley made the all-defensive team last year. But their team wasn’t necessarily a great defensive team. So you can be an individual player defensively — and we have DJ and Patrick in that — but we want to be a great defensive team. So we have to put it together.” The Clippers get another opportunity to strengthen their defense when they face the high-powered Portland Trail Blazers and their potent backcourt of Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum on Sunday at Staples Center. “I think our defensive second effort has been really good too and that makes up for mistakes,” Blake Griffin said. “That makes up for sometimes a lack of communication here or there. “But I’m not sure where we’re at. It’s hard to say, but I expect to be a very good defensive team this year.” Having Jordan, who was tied for seventh last season in blocked shots (1.65) and was third in rebounds (13.8), patrol the middle will go a long way in helping the Clippers on defense. “When you’ve got a dog on the ball like Pat [Beverley] and then you’ve got the wings like [Danilo] Gallinari and Blake is out there too and you got me back there, I think we’re going to be pretty good,” Jordan said Saturday. “But we’ve got a long ways to go.” broderick.turner@latimes.com Twitter: @BA_Turner

Pablo Martinez Monsivais Associated Press

WASHINGTON FANS erupt as Ryan Zimmerman trots around the bases after hitting a three-

run homer off Chicago relief pitcher Mike Montgomery in the eighth inning Saturday.

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By Bill Shaikin WASHINGTON — The ball that resuscitated a franchise soared high into the Washington night. It passed directly over the Nationals’ bullpen, where Brandon Kintzler tapped gloves with Sean Doolittle, then screamed in Doolittle’s face. It was hit with such authority that Victor Robles, the runner on first base, turned to face the outfield, to see just how far it would go, then thrust both arms into the sky before he even thought about running. Its flight was so majestic that Bryce Harper admired his work, shrugged, flipped his bat aside and started slowly toward first base. As he did, Harper’s father turned toward his mother and said, “I love you.” Harper’s father opted not to jump up and down, he said, because he already had endured four knee operations and did not desire another one. But just about everyone else did, in the home dugout and in the stands, for Harper had shaken the Nationals from their slumber. “I believe he is built for that moment,” said his father, Ron. His father stood outside the Nationals’ clubhouse, clutching a plastic cup of water and wearing an olive-colored T-shirt with the name “Lizard Skins,” a company that makes bat grips. Harper came by for a hug, father and son said “I love you,” and then Harper headed back inside the clubhouse, prepared to lift a beleaguered team upon his shoulders once again. The Nationals were five outs from facing an elimination game in Chicago, against the defending World Series champion Cubs. The Nationals had scored one run in 16 innings. They were batting .093 in this National League division series. With one mighty swing, Harper altered the course of this series, and perhaps the course of a team that never has won a postseason series. He hit the two-run home run that tied the game, Ryan Zimmerman followed with the threerun home run that won it, and the Nationals had electrified the crowd and revived their World Series

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hopes with that five-run inning out of nowhere. The Nationals won on Saturday 6-3, and so the best-of-five series is tied at one game apiece. It was eight years ago that Sports Illustrated put a teenage Harper on its cover and labeled him “The Chosen One,” in anticipation of moments like this. “From day one, there’s been an enormous amount of pressure put on him, maybe more than on anyone ever,” Zimmerman said. Harper has been so good for so long that we forget how young he is. He is six months younger than Aaron Judge, the projected American League rookie of the year. He does not turn 25 for another week. Harper said before the game that he had played in bigger games than this. He talked about how he had played for Team USA, against Cuba, in Venezuela. He talked about playing in a youth tournament, at age 10, in front of 15,000 fans. So the Nationals have not won a postseason series since 1924? To Harper, so what?

Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Washington AB R H BI Avg. Almora cf 4 0 0 0 .000 Turner ss 4 0 0 0 .000 Bryant 3b 4 1 2 0 .375 Harper rf 4 1 1 2 .250 Rizzo 1b 4 1 1 2 .375 Rendon 3b 3 2 1 1 .167 Contreras c 2 1 1 1 .200 Murphy 2b 4 1 1 0 .143 Russell ss 4 0 1 0 .286 Zmrmn 1b 4 1 2 3 .250 Zobrist rf-lf 4 0 1 0 .125 Werth lf 4 0 0 0 .000 Baez 2b 2 0 0 0 .000 Wieters c 3 0 0 0 .000 Happ lf 3 0 0 0 .000 Taylor cf 2 0 0 0 .200 Heyward rf 0 0 0 0 .000 Gonzalez p 1 0 0 0 .000 Lester p 1 0 0 0 .000 a-Kendrick 0 0 0 0 .000 b-Jay 1 0 0 0 .500 c-Lind 1 0 1 0 1.00 Totals 29 3 6 3 1-Robles lf 0 1 0 0 --Totals 30 6 6 6 Chicago Washington

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As he batted in the eighth inning, with one on and one out, the Cubs had elite setup man Carl Edwards Jr. on the mound, protecting a 3-1 lead. “You know. We knew,” Nationals manager Dusty Baker said. “Harp was due. He’s known for the big moment.” Not right away. The first pitch was a strike, and not a pretty one. “Curve ball in the dirt,” Harper said, laughing. “Great swing on that pitch.” Three fastballs, all balls. The count was 3 and1, and a walk would have put the tying runs on base. “I thought about taking the whole way,” he said. “And then I saw the loop in the curve ball and said, ‘Why not swing as hard as you can?’ “I got the barrel on it. A pretty good moment.” The tension in the Nationals’ dugout vanished. The attack intensified. Before the Cubs could get another out, Anthony Rendon walked, Daniel Murphy singled and Zimmerman homered. None of that would have been possible had Harper say, hit into a double play. Instead, he homered, the trigger for the rally that saved the Nationals’ season. bill.shaikin@latimes.com

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Encarnacion is hoping to play associated press

Cleveland Indians slugger Edwin Encarnacion is hoping to play again this postseason after suffering ligament damage in his right ankle Friday during Game 2 of an American League division series with the New York Yankees. Manager Terry Francona said Encarnacion probably won’t start Game 3 on Sunday night at Yankee Stadium, but could play. Encarnacion was wearing a boot and using crutches Saturday during a day off in the best-of-five matchup. The Indians lead 2-0.

Girardi takes the blame

Yankees manager Joe Girardi took the blame after deciding not to challenge a hit-by-pitch in Game 2 of the series with Cleveland. “I take responsibility for everything,” Girardi said during a day off. “And I feel horrible about it.” With New York ahead 8-3, Lonnie Chisenhall was awarded first base by plate umpire Dan Iassogna on an inside pitch by reliever Chad Green. Catcher Gary Sanchez asked Girardi to challenge and replays showed the ball hit the knob of Chisenhall’s bat. Sanchez caught the 0-and-2 pitch, which would have been an inning-ending third strike if ruled a foul tip. Francisco Lindor followed with a grand slam to make it 8-7. Cleveland won 9-8 in 13 innings.

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Lovullo enjoys ‘surreal’ moment

Managers look differently at shorter division series. By Pedro Moura

By Andy McCullough, Pedro Moura and Mike Hiserman There was a very Southern California moment for the Arizona Diamondbacks toward the end of Game 1 in the National League division series with the Dodgers. When pinch-hitter Austin Barnes led off the bottom of the eighth inning with a single against lefthander Andrew Chafin, Arizona manager Torey Lovullo — who was born in Santa Monica, raised in the San Fernando Valley where he attended Montclair Prep, and played in college at UCLA — went to the mound and called for a different reliever. It was a 25-year-old right-hander he has known for a long time. Jimmie Sherfy came in from the bullpen and Lovullo couldn’t help having a little flashback. Sherfy, who gave up one run, and Nick Lovullo, one of the manager’s sons, were teammates at Newbury Park High. “Here I am handing a ball off to one of my son’s high school teammates that I watched grow up playing baseball,” Lovullo said Saturday before Game 2. “It was a surreal moment for me. I know we made eye contact, and I’ll never forget what that feeling was like. “Almost like a parent is handing the ball off to their own child, and that’s how I view Jimmie.” Things did not go nearly as well for Sherfy in Game 2. He faced three batter with one out s in the fifth inning and gave up three runs in 10 pitches. After pinch-hitter Curtis Granderson singled on the Sherfy’s second pitch, Logan Forsythe drove in a run with a hit and Barnes doubled home two more.

Grand plan

The Dodgers playoff debut of Granderson in Game1 went much like his first six weeks as a Dodger. He struck out twice and went hitless in four at-bats. Granderson arrived from the New York Mets in midAugust and batted .161with a .654 on-base-plus-slugging percentage as a Dodger, with 33 strikeouts in 112 atbats. The veteran outfielder will remain in the lineup against right-handed pitchers, though he sat for the start of Game 2, with lefthander Robbie Ray starting for Arizona.. “I don’t have any plans on giving up on him just quite yet,” manager Dave Roberts said.

Pain management

Seager said his sore right elbow is doing “OK.” One game into a postseason he hopes will last four more weeks, the shortstop is managing the elbow pain that has hampered him since mid-August. “Just figuring out how to rest it, figuring out how to just maintain,” Seager said. “The trainers and strength coaches have been fantastic with helping put a plan together and staying to the plan and maintaining it, basically.” Seager hit .179 in September, by far his worst performance in a month this season. However, he got three hits in the Oct. 1 regular-season finale, and reached base three times in Game 1 of the division series. “It was just more of trying to keep him strong through October,” Roberts said. “The communication with Corey was very clear. Maybe not agreeable at all times, but it was clear from our perspective. The way he swung the bat over the last week before the season ended — and obviously yesterday — he swung the bat very well. So I think it was a good thing.”

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Chase Utley will start at second base Monday in Arizona, Roberts said.

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YASIEL PUIG of the Dodgers hits a single in the fourth inning to load the bases

and, much as he is doing in the playoff series against Arizona, celebrates wildly.

It’s a big party with Puig [Plaschke, from D1] One night after stealing the show in a Game 1 victory by wagging his tongue, Puig thrilled the house again Saturday by wagging his bat, flexing his arms, screaming for more. In the Dodgers’ 8-5 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks, Puig knocked in a run with a grounder, kept alive a scoring inning with a single, knocked in another run with another single, then added an infield single that eventually led to yet another run. Before and after each of his at-bats, the air was swallowed by the song, and each time he danced to it, throwing his hands in the air, pumping his fists, pointing at his teammates, slapping his thighs. “Puiiiiig” ... “Puiiiiig.’’ He ended one inning when he was caught straying off first base and thrown attempting to steal. The fans sang anyway. Soon thereafter he made a routine catch in right field, and the song flowed again. The tune was repeated so much, at one point, the fans actually tweaked it, inserting his name into a traditional chant meant for the entire team, substituting his name for “Dodgers.” “Let’s Go Puig” … “Let’s Go Puig.” This may be Clayton Kershaw’s and Justin Turner’s team, but so far in this postseason, this is Yasiel Puig’s moment, the oncepolarizing figure locked in on his game and smothered in love. On Saturday, he went three for four, and in this series he is five for nine with four RBIs. Plus, of course, he is one for one when licking his bat, and the only player in recent memory to celebrate a triple by wagging his tongue. It is appropriate that Puig’s effort and excitement have pushed the Dodgers to

the brink of winning the best-of-five series — it seems unlikely Arizona can beat them three times in a row — because his triumph is an organizational triumph. He caused so many problems in his first few years, the front office would not have been blamed for trading him. Sometimes they banked on his potential, other times they just figured they could never get appropriate value. When they could finally take his act no more last season, he was actually sent to the minor leagues for a spell. That helped inspire him to an unexpected rebound 2017 season in which he improved the professionalism of his plate appearances while playing well enough in right field to win a Gold Glove. But, Puig being Puig, he still couldn’t stay out of trouble. Late this season, manager Dave Roberts showed more tough love by benching him for two games, once for a reckless and failed game-ending steal attempt, and then again when he was late for batting practice. Once again, Puig, 26 and his career at a crossroads, has responded in the best manner possible, and now his act could be headed for late October. “Puiiiiig” … “Puiiiiig.” The song started Saturday night in the second inning, with the Dodgers trailing 2-0 after a firstinning homer by Paul Goldschmidt against struggling starter Rich Hill. The bellowing began when Puig stepped to the plate with runners on first and second and one out. He ran the count to 3 and 0 in a sequence that included a wild pitch that moved the runners to second and third. He then grounded to third

baseman Jake Lamb to drive in a run. Puig came to the plate with two runners on base in the fourth, more singing, and this time he drove a two-strike fastball into center field for a single to load the bases. Standing on first, he turned into a wildly gesturing cheerleader. Soon thereafter, the Dodgers scored on a Robbie Ray wild pitch and a Chris Taylor infield single. In the fifth, the song was deafening, and Puig turned it up a notch with a runscoring single. He actually clapped twice at it before sprinting out of the batters box, the knock giving the Dodgers a 7-2 lead. Earlier in this series, when asked about his prodigal star, Roberts said, “Sometimes you shake your head … sometimes you smile.” On Saturday night, immersed in their new autumn anthem, a city was doing both. bill.plaschke@latimes.com

Since Major League Baseball introduced the best-of-five division series 22 years ago, the winner of the first game has won the series 72% of the time. That rate is only slightly higher than in the next rounds’ sevengame series. The abbreviated length for the MLB postseason’s first round does not significantly alter the series’ outcomes, in reality or in theory. It does change the way the games are played and, mostly, managed, as the first two games of the National League division series between the Dodgers and Diamondbacks demonstrated. Statistics tell us that if Team A would ordinarily beat Team B 55% of the time, Team A would be 59% likely to win a five-game series over Team B. Stretch that out to a seven-game series, and Team A would win 61% of the time. For the first three years of the new division series, it included only one travel day. A 1998 change instituted the 22-1format, with two included off days. In terms of in-game strategy, there are two ways the current form of a best-offive series differs from a best-of-seven. Chiefly is within the bullpen, where managers do not have to be as wary of their relievers’ workload. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pointed that out Saturday afternoon. He said that he enjoyed the economical pitching from Tony Watson, Brandon Morrow, and Kenley Jansen in the Dodgers’ Game 1 victory.

They required only 28 pitches to obtain eight outs in the Dodgers’ Game 1 victory. But, Roberts noted, Sunday’s day off meant he could have made it work in Game 2 even if they had not been as efficient. “It’s always good, but not as important as it is in a seven-game series when you have the three in a row with the off days here,” Roberts said. “In this short series, I think that that’s nice, but for them to be efficient and feel that I can go back to them and extend them if need be, that’s a good thing.” Simply, Jansen can pitch in every game this series, if needed. The other factor of a best-of-five series is the threat it creates of a team’s starter going on short rest in Game 4 and then giving way to a fully rested starter for Game 5. In a 2-3-2 best-ofseven series, such a strategy is not possible. The Dodgers have made heavy use of that threat with Clayton Kershaw in the last half-decade. When they have advanced to the National League Championship Series, they have not. They have rarely employed a second starter they felt comfortable using on short rest. Before Saturday’s Game 2 at Dodger Stadium, the Diamondbacks did not want to confront what a best-of-five series could mean for them. “A couple people have been asking me questions,” said their manager, Torey Lovullo, when asked that question. “Is today the most important game of the series? The way I looked at it was yesterday was the most important game of the series. And, today, the one we’re playing right now is the most important game of the series.” pedro.moura@latimes.com Twitter: @pedromoura

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ARTIST-ACTIVIST Ai Weiwei and his team traveled around the world to more than 40 camps to highlight the plight of refugees in his documentary, “Human Flow.”

WHAT HE SAW IN THE ‘FLOW’

Ai Weiwei places himself, and us, deep inside the lives of refugees in his latest documentary, which adds a human touch to a global crisis

BY DEBORAH VANKIN >>> Ai Weiwei may be China’s most famous contemporary artist and a prolific social justice activist. But at his core, Ai insists, he is simply an observer. ¶ He’s a wanderer too. Not to mention a relentless documenter — of the Chinese communist government, of international human rights violations, of the 40some cats that roam his Beijing art studio and of the longtime team members who populate his Berlin art studio, a 150-year-old underground beer cellar. ¶ Tonight it’s the moon that has captured Ai’s attention. ¶ He arrived a few hours ago at LAX and now strolls languidly across his agent’s Beverly Hills office courtyard, repeatedly stopping to take photos of the sky. ¶ “Beautiful half moon,” he says, breathing in the floral-scented night air. ¶ He takes pictures of his agent’s lobby and pictures of a framed picture on the lobby wall. Each time, he extends his arm without breaking his stride, briefly eyeballing the viewfinder from afar, an unemotional, matter-of-fact gesture: capture the moment. ¶ In 2016, an accumulation of moments from the better part of a year resulted in his new documentary, “Human Flow,” a sweeping chronicle of the swelling refugee crisis. Ai and his team crisscrossed [See Ai Weiwei, E6] the globe, visiting more than 40 refugee camps in 23 countries and banking about 900

They’re connected, one way or another Filmmaker Noah Baumbach and actors Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler channel links of all kinds into ‘Meyerowitz Stories.’ By Mark Olsen The dynamics of family, the connections that do and do not bind people together, have long been a preoccupation for filmmaker Noah Baumbach. After exploring them in films such as “The Squid and the Whale,” “Margot at the Wedding,” “While We’re Young” and “Mistress America,” Baumbach pushes further into the unknown territories of someone else’s family in his latest, “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected).” And making the movie brought together an unusual family of its own. The project marks the third collaboration between Baumbach and leading man Ben Stiller, who costars with Adam Sandler. Stiller and Sandler have known each other for many years and had long looked for a project they could do together.

“The Meyerowitz Stories” began after a few conversations among the three men, in which it was decided that the actors should play brothers and that there should be a physical fight between them. Baumbach went off and wrote the script, adding in additional ideas. When it came time to think about who could play their father, only one name seemed right. Both Stiller and Sandler had relationships with Oscar-winning veteran Dustin Hoffman, and Baumbach sent him the script. “I turned it down after I read it. I’ve done that for about 50 years,” said Hoffman, sitting with Baumbach recently. “It puts me in very good company,” said Baumbach. “He turned down Ingmar Bergman.” Hoffman was eventually persuaded to participate, and his spry, quixotic performance is, like the movie itself, both comic and deeply felt. In the film, Harold Meyerowitz (Hoffman) is an aging sculptor who has never been as successful or as celebrated as he thinks he should have been. Sons Danny (Sandler) and Matthew (Stiller) have each [See ‘Meyerowitz,’ E5] responded to life

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Back story on ‘Blade Runner’ Josh Rottenberg’s article [“No Mere Copies,” Oct. 1] has me looking forward to “Blade Runner 2049.” What he overlooked is that there were two screenwriters on the original “Blade Runner” — Hampton Fancher and David Webb Peoples. He mentioned only Fancher. Kent Gibson Los Angeles

The best of TV — or the worst? Only The Times would recommend “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” while not saying a word about the incredible interview with House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) on “60 Minutes.” [“TV This Week,” Oct. 1]. That’s as good as TV gets? Kathleen Collins Santa Monica

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Talking a Blue streak By Kevin Crust The Dodgers had a recordbreaking summer — and an early September to forget — but broadcaster Alanna Rizzo has been there, through thick and thin, to host the team’s pregame show and handle in-game and postgame interviews. The native Coloradan is in her fourth season with SportsNet LA, and the Dodgers have won the National League West each year. With large of swaths of Southern California not getting the network, Rizzo isn’t the household name and face she might otherwise be, but she’s won over those viewers who can watch by combining the crisp command of a studio host with her ability to pry incisive answers from exuberant rookies and weary veterans alike in the clubhouse and on the field, including in postgame interviews in front of thousands of stadium fans. Rizzo attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, earning a bachelor’s in international business and a master’s in journalism, then made stops in Wichita Falls, Texas, and Madison, Wis., before heading back to Denver to cover the Rockies and college sports for five seasons. Rizzo joined the Dodgers after a stint with the MLB Network in New Jersey. If the Dodgers advance past the first round of the National League playoffs, Rizzo is on track to cover close to 200 games and conduct 2,000-plus interviews. That includes a grueling regular-season schedule of 162 games in 183 days, with many of those “off ” days spent traveling. She’s clearly earned the respect of the players — who good-naturedly tease her — because she does her homework. What’s your game-day routine? Often, people think we just show up right before first pitch, and that couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m here 41⁄2 hours before the game starts. My typical routine is to to come to the park, gather all of the interviews for our pregame show as well as do the one-on-one interview, all of the manager’s interviews and then I host an hour show prior. During the game, I do anywhere

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ton [Kershaw]’s dominant performance of 15 strikeouts in his no-hitter against the Rockies was incredible. Every postseason clinching opportunity is special because you never know when they’re going to be able to do it again. A moment from MLB Network that was really special to me was being able to co-host the red carpet show for the All-Star Game in New York. All of the amazing people, not just players, that you meet over the years. Anybody make you nervous? Certain icons of the game, you’re almost afraid to meet them because you hope they’ll live up to the expectations that you have. This organization in general, you have legends walking down the hall. I think sometimes we take that for granted. To be able to see Tommy Lasorda often, still, at 90 years old. I worked with Vin Scully for three years. Vin Scully knew my name. Don Newcombe is at the park every day. These are hall of famers and legends of the game, and I consider them co-workers. The last interview I did with Sandy Koufax — I call him, respectfully, Mr. Koufax — he’s like, “I’m not doing another interview if you don’t call me Sandy.” Just the people who come through these doors. We’re very fortunate. What do you tell young women who want to break into the business? You have to be doubly prepared and work twice as hard as your male counterpart because you already have that stigma that you don’t know what you’re talking about. I think you have to be prepared to move and to sacrifice and not make money and really see if you want to do this. It is not an easy path. It takes a tremendous amount of effort and thick skin. What’s a misconception about you? People probably think I’m pretty intense. I always look mad, and I’m not mad! I just have this natural downturn to my face. I always have a job to do, and I’m always on a mission, so I may come across like I’m super-angry. [Laughs] calendar@latimes.com

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Barbara Magnolfi gather during a screening of Argento’s “Suspiria.” breadth of movies it shows under the banner of genre filmmaking. “We’re a genre fest, but we also brand things as cool,” said Moninger. “Things can be cerebral and still be cool, they can still be just as cool as ‘Predator.’ It’s not just about punching. Being cool is also about a quality, a passion behind things. Just as much as it’s about a fist to a face, it’s about a great thought.” In a rare series of appearances in Los Angeles, the 77-year-old Argento received standing ovations from three sellout crowds. His 1977 film “Suspiria” was shown in a new 4K restoration, with a 35 mm print of a rare Italian cut of the picture also being screened. His 1987 movie “Opera” was shown as well. In an interview under an overcast sky that seemed as if Argento had brought his own gothic gloom along as a backdrop, the filmmaker talked about the inner feelings he expressed for audiences through his pictures. “It was like a session of psychoanalysis,” he said of his moviemaking. “With my films, I move all my feelings inside me, the bad and the good, the violence and the sweeter. I move all those things deep in my unconscious. I describe for the audience all these things.” As for the bold stylization of his films, with their vivid colors, costumes and design, expressive camerawork and blaring, evocative music, Argento said they were meant to transport viewers. “Someone says, ‘This doesn’t exist in life,’ and I say, ‘This is not life, this is film. This is my imagination,’ ” Argento said. “I imagine it, I have a fantasy, a special fantasy that comes from deep within my dark side. These fantasies I do in films come from dreams, come from nightmares, from these things inside.” Screenings this year have been preceded by a satirical bumper proclaiming “The People’s Republic of Beyond Fest” and a more somber one made in remembrance of three people who’ve died in the last year, “Night of the Living Dead” filmmaker George Romero, “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” filmmaker Tobe Hooper and Monty Lewis, a fixture of the Los Angeles film fan community. During an extended Q&A before the first screening of “Suspiria,” along with actors Barbara Magnolfi and Udo Kier, Argento was asked about Romero.

The filmmakers had been longtime friends and collaborators, and Argento called him “my best friend and my brother, brother in films.” In a separate interview, Argento spoke about Romero’s legacy by saying, “ ‘Night of the Living Dead’ is a border. After this, the films were different. Every film was different. He changed the way to do horror films. This is simply new. He changed everything, the story, the rhythm, everything. It was another way to do films.” As for his own legacy and how his movies would be remembered, Argento was unconcerned. “It’s not my problem,” he said. “It’s the problem of the audience.” Beyond Fest has become a place where the legacy of filmmakers such as Argento and Romero will certainly not be forgotten, while at the same time forging new roads for genre fans via works like Coralie Fargeat’s French vengeance tale “Revenge” and Jimmy Henderson’s Cambodian action picture “Jailbreak.” When “Brawl in Cell Block 99” made its West Coast premiere on Beyond Fest’s opening night, Zahler was in attendance, along with stars Vince Vaughn, Don Johnson, Jennifer Carpenter and Kier. Having been to Beyond Fest in 2015 with his film “Bone Tomahawk,” Zahler was excited to return with “Brawl in Cell Block 99,” noting: “I was looking forward to that screening more than any other in terms of what I would get back from the audience.” As for the audience response, he said, “They did not disappoint. I’ve been to a number of screenings thus far, and I would just say that in terms of audience reaction and enthusiasm, it’s the best crowd I’ve seen both movies with.” As for the intense connection between genre films and genre film fans, Zahler said that although a dissertation could conceivably be written on the subject, the simplest answer is that there is a connection of trust between the two that cannot be broken. “For the most part, genre filmmaking lacks the pretense of, say, awardsbait material,” Zahler said. “A lot of these movies are comfortable being what they are.” Times staff writer Jen Yamato contributed to this report. mark.olsen@latimes.com Twitter: @IndieFocus

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“HE SEES EVERYTHING . Even when you think he doesn’t. He’s a great collaborator on the movie as a whole,” Noah Baumbach, left, says of Dustin Hoffman.

The dynamics of one family

[‘Meyerowitz,’ from E1] in his shadow in different ways. Danny is a talented musician but without much success, while Matthew is a successful business manager. Harold’s daughter Jean (Elizabeth Marvel) is largely pushed aside in wake of their unspoken rivalries. The cast also features Emma Thompson as Harold’s current wife, Candice Bergen as one of his ex-wives and Grace Van Patten as Sandler’s daughter, who is just off to college at Bard, where Harold previously taught. In conversation, Hoffman still seems jazzed about acting, both as a craft and an art form, but also as a means to explore the contours of the human condition. “Truthfully, I’m jazzed about being alive,” Hoffman said. “Behavior means it’s the emotional information of the person. And we just do it. It’s a corny thing to say, but to answer the question about acting, you’re changing. Or you should be. I’m … 80 years old. What does that feel like? That’s new information for me. And that has to affect somehow how I work or what I do.” Baumbach is known for being a rather exacting filmmaker, being extremely specific about the words in his scripts and their rhythm, the choreography of the actors and the camera and for shooting many, many takes. In an unlikely way, Hoffman’s eternal questioning and Baumbach’s rigorous exactitude are made for each other. “His engagement in acting is he sees everything. Even when you think he doesn’t,” said Baumbach. “He’s a great collaborator on the movie as a whole. He’ll point things out, and he sees behavior, and you think you’re getting away with something, and he’ll notice. It’s partly why he is the actor he is; both intellectually [and] intuitively, he understands behavior in others and in himself.” The unusual structure of “Meyerowitz Stories” keeps Stiller and Sandler from appearing on-screen together until relatively late in the story. “There were a lot of false starts and different ways I tried to write it,” said Baumbach. “I think when I thought of it as short stories that were connected and had maybe been anthologized later, that helped me.” Baumbach said he wanted to explore the “compartmentalization” that happens in certain families, “particularly in the case here where there are different marriages and [the siblings] have different moms. “And making a movie with Ben and Adam and not having them appear in the same [scenes] for a while, there was something maybe perverse but also interesting about that.” Stiller found that the ongoing collaboration with Baumbach allowed him to push further every time in exploring both the humor and the drama in the story. “He writes in such a specific cadence, his dialogue, it’s kind of natural, but also has a rhythm to it that’s intentional,” Stiller said in a separate interview. “He’s not worried about trying to make it funny

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“THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (New and Selected)” stars, from left, Grace Van Patten, Ben

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A DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY is also the focus of Baumbach’s film “The Squid and the Whale,”

which stars Jeff Daniels as a self-absorbed novelist and Laura Linney as up-and-coming writer.

all the way across the board, he just wants to tell the story and put the characters out there. He’s unapologetic with his characters, showing both the good and the bad.” The picture premiered this year at Cannes, the first time Baumbach has been part of the festival’s prestigious main competition slate, and also recently played at the New York Film Festival. Re-

leased by Netflix, it is in limited theatrical release and available on the streaming platform. While Baumbach has at times been cagey about what is and isn’t drawn from his own life and the lives of his family in his earlier work, with “The Meyerowitz Stories,” he is quite open that Harold Meyerowitz is based on his paternal grandfather, Harold Baumbach, some of whose paintings can

be seen in the film. “I think one of the things the movie was about for me was, ‘What is success?,’ ” said Baumbach. “And that’s the case for all the people in the family, who are all measuring their own success by artistic success. Ben is wealthy but feels like a failure, Adam is not a failure as an artist but isn’t a successful artist, so he feels like a failure, but he’s a wonderful father. And it’s all

because Harold has set the dial. It’s defined by him.” Much like the way in which Harold Meyerowitz has distinct relationships with his sons, so too does Hoffman have distinct relationships with his two main costars. Stiller and Hoffman had worked together on the successful “Fockers” franchise. Hoffman and Sandler first met more than 20 years ago under very different circumstances: After Hoffman’s children saw “Billy Madison,” they asked him to invite Sandler over for dinner. “They said, ‘We’ve never asked you to invite someone over for dinner, but we want to meet Adam Sandler,’ ” said Hoffman. “I said, ‘Who’s that?’ ” Sandler shared his memories of the evening during a recent Q&A session after a screening of the film in Los Angeles: “I got there and I was scared, so I sat in my car for an hour. But Dustin was great to me, and he has always been very friendly.” Having that pre-existing relationship allowed Sandler to focus more fully on creating his own version of Danny. “I think I had 30 different thoughts on my character before we zeroed in on how I should do this guy,” Sandler said. “I talked to Noah and I was a nervous wreck and I didn’t want to ruin something I thought was so incredible, so we all dug in very hard.” Hoffman pointed out something he thought he saw Sandler doing in his performance. “You don’t like to talk to another actor about what they’re doing because they get self-conscious,” Hoffman said during the same Q&A. “Since Adam and I know each other, I said, ‘Adam, I think I know what you’re doing.’ And he said, ‘What?’ And I said, ‘If you’re doing it consciously, it’s a very brave thing. I think you’re playing yourself as if you had been a failure.’ He was hitting close to himself. I think that’s what he’s doing, and I was moved by it day to day.” In response, Sandler said simply, “I keep it private, and I really don’t know.” For Sandler, the role marks another in his occasional forays into melding his comedy work with something much more deeply emotional. Asked if he approaches his work in films like “The Meyerowitz Stories” or “Punch-Drunk Love” or “Funny People” different from the broader comedies on which he staked his fame, he said, “Absolutely.” He added, “I mean, one thing in common is I work as hard as I can possibly work. I believe in everything I do. My process is just a lot of hours. I’m consumed with making sure I don’t feel any regret at the end of a work day. And of course you do, you go home and think, ‘Oh, I should have done this or that,’ but I go in with full intent to do my best. “But with this particular movie and working with Noah, and knowing what it meant to Noah and how deeply it affected me reading it and my fellow actors, I just knew it was a special moment.” mark.olsen@latimes.com Twitter: @IndieFocus

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THE DUST-CHOKED Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya is shown in “Human Flow,” artist-activist Ai Weiwei’s world-spanning exploration of the growing refugee crisis.

The humanizing ‘Human Flow’

[Ai Weiwei, from E1] hours of footage for the film, which premiered in September at the Venice International Film Festival and screened at the Telluride Film Festival. In one scene, travel-weary Turkish refugees spill out of rubber boats washing ashore on a beach in Lesbos, Greece, in the dark of night; in another, thousands from Syria and Iraq slog along a mud footpath headed toward the Greek-Macedonian border, gravel crunching beneath their feet. In southern Italy, African refugees from Nigeria, Sudan and Senegal huddle under gold Mylar blankets that glisten in the moonlight and crinkle in the breeze. This is not an abstract art film, as one might expect from the man who filled a vast exhibition space in London’s Tate Modern with 100 million hand-sculpted and painted porcelain sunflower seeds. Nor is it a straightforward, journalistic documentary. It is a tragic travelogue of sorts. There may be talking heads in “Human Flow,” such as Jordanian Princess Dana Firas and Syrian astronaut Mohammad Fares, and there are snippets of factoids about the more than 65 million people worldwide escaping war, persecution, climate change and famine. But they unfold over lush, ambitious visuals shot with a variety of cameras including drones and even Ai’s iPhone. The film is studded with the kind of iconic imagery present in much of his contemporary art — mounds of battered life vests, thermal blankets, fragile rubber boats. “It’s incredibly beautiful and aesthetically complex and layered and textured,” says Participant Media’s Diane Weyermann, an executive producer on the film. “He didn’t set out to make an art film; he set out to make a film about humanity. It’s a story about the global refugee crisis made by an artist.” “I want people to be emotionally involved,” Ai says over dinner, “to realize these refugees relate to our normal life and we have a responsibility to act.” As he speaks, Ai is a mix of contradictions: gentle, soft-spoken and cherubic-faced with a Zen-like air of calm but also a brazen human rights activist with a quick sense of humor who is not immune to the allures of posting blow-byblow accounts of his day over social media. But instead of avocado toast, his feed might include pictures of Al Gore, Julian Assange or

AI WEIWEI , left, is shown with Iraqi Muhammed Hassan on

Lesbos Island in Greece, from a scene in “Human Flow.”

‘I don’t want just to be there as a filmmaker. I want also to tell them that I know them so well.’ — A I W EIWEI , Chelsea Manning. He oozes sensitivity and machismo at once. “I try to keep intimate relations with what we call our life,” Ai says of his ceaseless documenting, “because very often we don’t understand our life. We think we are living inside our [lives], but we don’t really understand.”

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As a multimedia political provocateur, Ai’s studio has made some 20 films, both shorts and long form, largely championing human rights and freedom of expression. Many have been DIY efforts and most have been distributed on Ai’s YouTube channel. The online activism landed him in hot water with the Chinese government, which in 2011 accused him of vague economic crimes, confiscated his passport and jailed him. They called his internet activities subversion of state power and he was held for 81 days, much of that time in solitary confinement. When his passport was returned in 2015, Ai moved to Berlin, where he now lives. By then he’d been studying the plight of refugees for some time. But he wanted to go deeper. He traveled to a beach on the Greek is-

land of Lesbos, the well-known way station for refugees, and began filming the tiny boats arriving from Turkey with his iPhone. The scene was so active and the images so strong, he set up a small studio there. He didn’t plan to make a feature-length film. It came from his pressing curiosity to better understand the refugees’ journeys. “I was starting from zero,” he says. “Even before I could freely travel … I started to read all the news, books. We did research about the history of the human flow. It was a learning process.” Ai’s passion for the plight of refugees comes from a profoundly personal place. He not only understands government persecution, having been jailed and surveilled in China, but he grew up as a displaced person himself. His father, Ai Qing, was a revered poet who during the Cultural Revolution was persecuted by the government. The family was exiled to a remote Gobi desert village, Xinjiang, where they lived in harsh conditions. As a result, the artist felt strangely familiar, even comfortable, in the refugee camps he visited during filming. “I had all those experiences of

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people being discriminated [against] or punished for the wrong reasons,” he says of his youth. “For me, it’s very natural. I can easily, when I’m facing [the refugees], see in their eyes how they are trying to survive. I understand them very well.” If he had one agenda with “Human Flow,” it was to humanize refugees, showing their universal struggle for basic needs like food, shelter and safety. Toward that end, he presents the benign rhythms of their lives — a little girl playing hopscotch in one camp, Iraqi women smoothing flatbread dough on cooking stones in another. He also threads the film with candid shots of refugees just before their one-on-one interviews begin. They settle into their seats and face the camera, fidgeting, giggling nervously or simply staring off. Ai also appears throughout the film, sometimes with his iPhone, but also quietly interacting with his subjects, offering them food or emotional reassurances or simply letting one man cut his hair. “To get yourself involved, to [make] the situation a little bit lighter, make some jokes, do some funny things like cut hair or barbecue … it brings a human touch,” he says. “It’s everyday life. It’s humanizing them. And humanizing myself. I don’t want just to be there as a filmmaker. I want also to tell them that I know them so well. I know exactly what kind of conditions they are in.”

Moral high ground

“Human Flow” ends at the U.S.Mexico border, a not-so-subtle nod to President Trump’s stance on immigration. “It’s very hard to face this kind of reality [of] what Trump’s doing — to have this traveling ban, and to build this wall, this is really backward, it doesn’t make any sense,” Ai says. Whether he will continue making commercial films remains up in the air. Ai has eight solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world, including the Public Art Fund’s “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” in New York, for which he’ll erect more than 300 works across the city’s five boroughs beginning Oct. 12. The large-scale, site-specific installations, documentary photographs, lamppost banners, “public interventions” and other works will use the image of the security fence, exploring how it divides people. And with filmmaker Wang Fen, he co-curated the Guggenheim Museum’s docu-

mentary film series, “Turn It On: China On Film, 2000–2017,” which opens Friday. The Guggenheim festival is part of the museum’s now-controversial exhibition “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World,” for which Ai served as an adviser. Before its opening last Friday, the Guggenheim removed three works from the show after threats of violence were made against the museum’s staff after criticism of the treatment of dogs and other animals featured in the pieces. Ai, an animal lover who featured a scene in “Human Flow” of a tiger released from a Gaza zoo into the South African wild, has been vocal on the incident — but in support of the Guggenheim. “As an artist or a defender of human rights, I am highly conscious of the respect we should show to other lives and of the need to protect their rights. However, when anyone uses a moral high ground to judge an art exhibition and to demand the withdrawal of contents that may or may not violate those rights, it presents a potential danger of violating the freedom of speech,” he relays in a message after our interview. “A healthy society only exists when any issue can be talked about or exhibited in a way that shows the conditions for and against arguments, so to structure possible discussions.” All the while, the ongoing refugee crisis weighs on him. At the L.A. reception for Ai, after a screening of “Human Flow,” all eyes are on the artist. But he sits off to the side, watching the caterers, a family of Syrian refugees. Maaysa Kanjo and her husband, Abdul, make their way through the crowd toward Ai. In a long party dress and traditional headscarf, Maaysa presents him with a framed ink drawing of a blooming rose. They haven’t seen his movie yet, they say, but are eternally grateful it exists. “To give the people an idea what’s going on there, to show the people,” Maaysa says. “We appreciate it so much. Our story.” Any solution to the refugee crisis, Ai had said earlier, begins with simply bearing witness to it. “All these tragedies are manmade. If we can cause the tragedy, we can solve the tragedy if we are willing to,” he said. “To find the humanity. This is the only thing we can hope.” deborah.vankin@latimes.com

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Openings T U E S DAY The Cadillac Tramps: Life on the Edge Documentary on the ups and downs of the 1990s Orange County rock band. Directed by Jamie Sims Coakley. (1:23) NR.

Agnès Varda Double Feature

This salute to the Belgian-born director, who will receive the Governors Award at next year’s Oscars, begins with The Gleaners & I (2001), Varda’s documentary about rural and urban scavengers, who forage for food in already harvested fields and for leftovers at Paris cafes. In Varda’s 1985 drama Vagabond, the still teenage Sandrine Bonnaire won the best actress César for her haunting portrayal as a drifter who spends a winter wandering the French wine country. Discussion with Varda between films. Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, (323) 461-2020. Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m. $12; $8 for Cinematheque members. www .americancinematheque.com

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with 19th century naturalist and explorer Henry Walter Bates on his 11year expedition in the vast South American rain forest. With Calum Finlay. Written by Wendy MacKeigan and Carl Knutson. Directed by Mike Slee. (Imax, California Science Center, Exposition Park)

Hurricane 3D Teaming with NASA, filmmakers follow the path of a fierce Atlantic storm and its destructive impact on the Caribbean. Directed by Cyril Barbançon, Andy Byatt & Jacqueline Farmer. (Imax, California Science Center, Exposition Park) F R I DAY Alex & Eve

A Greek Orthodox man falls for a Lebanese Muslim woman and they must overcome their family’s objections to the match. With Tony Nikolakopoulos, Rahel Romahn, Zoe Carides. Written by Alex Lykos, based on his play. Directed by Peter Andrikides. (1:32) NR.

Assholes New Yorkers meet in their

psychoanalyst’s waiting room and try to stay sober while falling in love. With Peter Vack, Betsey Brown, Eileen Dietz. Written and directed by Vack. (1:14) NR.

Bad Blood: The Movie A college student is attacked by a “werefrog’ and transforms into a hideous, amphibious monster. With Mary Malloy, Vikas Adam, Troy Halverson. Written and directed by Tim Reis. (1:20) NR. Bending the Arc

Documentary on how three young students — Jim Yong Kim, Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl — paved the way for fighting diseases such as tuberculosis, AIDS, SARS and Ebola on a global scale. Directed by Kief Davidson and Pedro Kos. (1:42) NR.

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A female U.S. Marine sergeant returns home from Afghanistan bearing both physical and mental scars. With Kate Nowlin, Tom Lipinski, Chris Sullivan. Written by by Remy Auberjonois, Nowlin. Directed by Auberjonois. (1:27) NR.

Breathe Polio ravages a young man’s

body but cannot contain his spirit as he and his wife fight for advancements to help others. With Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Hugh Bonneville, Tom Hollander. Written by William Nicholson. Directed by Andy Serkis. (1:57) PG-13.

Deliver Us Documentary on the contemporary practice of exorcisms. Written by Andrea Zvetkov Sanguigni, Federica Di Giacomo. Directed by Di Giacomo. In Italian with English subtitles. (1:34) NR. Dina

Two neurologically diverse adults navigate romance and intimacy in this documentary. Featuring Dina Buno, Scott Levin. Directed by Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini. (1:43) NR.

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London businessman forced to face his violent past when his teenage daughter is taken from him. With Pierce Brosnan. Written by David Marconi; based on a novel by Stephen Leather. Directed by Martin Campbell. (1:54) R.

Goodbye Christopher Robin The family of author A.A. Milne struggles with the success of Winnie-the-Pooh in the years after World War I. With Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie,

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Happy Death Day In a horror twist on "Groundhog Day," a college student experiences her death over and over again until she unmasks her murderer. With Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken, Laura Clifton. Written by Scott Lobdell and Christopher Landon. Directed by Landon. (1:36) PG-13. M.F.A. After being sexually assaulted,

a young art student becomes a vigilante. Written by Leah McKendrick. Directed by Natalia Leite. With Francesca Eastwood, Clifton Collins Jr., Peter Vack. (1:35) NR.

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future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who as a young lawyer is sent to Connecticut by the NAACP to try a high-profile case. With Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Dan Stevens, Sterling K. Brown, James Cromwell. Written by Jake Koskoff and Michael Koskoff. Directed by Reginald Hudlin. (1:58) PG-13.

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Three adult siblings grapple with the impact their domineering father has on them. With Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Elizabeth Marvel, Grace Van Patten. Written and directed by Noah Baumbach. (1:50) NR. Story on Page E1

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Stranded on a mountaintop for eight days, an ex-hockey player confronts his past. With Josh Hartnett, Mira Sorvino. Written by Madison Turner. Directed by Scott Waugh. (1:38) PG-13.

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core issues driving the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Featuring Israeli writer Uri Avneri, Palestinian minister Muhammad al-Madani, Israeli statesman and scholar Dr. Yossi Beilin. Directed by Josef Avesar. (1:33) NR.

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son Fisher, a Native American woman who performed for a U.S. president, European royalty and audiences around the world. With Q’orianka Kilcher, Graham Greene, Gil Birmingham, Mackenzie Astin. Written by Esther Luttrell. Directed by Nathan Frankowski. (1:45) PG.

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An elaborate worldwide network enslaves three girls, one from the U.S., one from Nigeria and one from Africa, in a Texas brothel. With Ashley Judd, Anne Archer, Patrick Duffy, Elisabeth Röhm, Sean Patrick Flanery. Written by Siddharth Kara. Directed by Will Wallace. (1:44) NR.

Una

A young woman abruptly reenters the life of an older man with whom she ran away as a teenager. With Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed, Tara Fitzgerald, Natasha Little, Ruby Stokes, Tobias Menzies. Written by David Harrower, based on his play “Blackbird.” Directed by Benedict Andrews. (1:34) R.

Walking Out An estranged father and son experience a brutal encounter on a Montana hunting trip. With Matt Bomer, Josh Wiggins, Bill Pullman, Alex Neustaedter, Lily Gladstone. Written and directed by Alex Smith, Andrew Smith. (1:35) PG-13.

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Metropolitan

Writer-director Whit Stillman’s charming 1990 feature debut about a chatty group of New York debutantes and their escorts, a group one of the characters dubs the UHBs (the Urban Haute Bourgeoisie), was an unlikely indie hit amid early ‘90s phenomena such as “Twin Peaks,” Nirvana and the riot grrrl movement. But the bright and witty dialogue as delivered by fresh-faced actors was enough to win over even the most jaded of the slacker generation. Discussion with Stillman to follow. Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica, (310) 260-1528. Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m. $12; $8 for Cinematheque members. www.americancinema theque.com

Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA at the Academy Cheech Marin’s still timely

1987 comedy-of-la-migra-errors Born in East L.A. features a legal thirdgeneration Mexican-American mistakenly deported to Mexico. His lack of identification and mangled version of Spanglish handicap him on his quest to make it back to the Promised Land — East L.A. Panel discussion to follow with writer-director-star Marin, and co-stars Paul Rodriguez and Kamala Lopez. Samuel Goldwyn Theater, 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m. $3-$5. pstla la.oscars.org

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stored 1931 Drácula, stars Conde Drácula the spellbound

The reSpanish-language Carlos Villarías as and Lupita Tovar as Eva. The movie was

Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA at the Academy A outdoor screening celebrates the 30th anniversary of writerdirector Luis Valdez’s La Bamba, starring Lou Diamond Phillips as the tragic San Fernando Valley-born Chicano rocker Ritchie Valens. La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, 501 N. Main St., Los Angeles. Oct. 14, 5 p.m. Free; no tickets required. pstlala.oscars.org

L.A. Documentaries at Union Station

The new, free series from Metro Art opens with Roller Dreams (2017), which digs into the colorful, hip-hop inspired roller dancing scene at Venice Beach in the 1980s. Director Kate Hickey funded the project partly through a Kickstarter campaign. A Q&A will follow with Hickey and several of the roller dancers featured in the film. Union Station, Historic Ticketing Hall, 300 N. Alameda St., Los Angeles. Doors, 7:15 p.m.; film, 8 p.m. Seating first come, first served. www.unionstationla.com

THEATER Capsule reviews are by Philip Brandes (P.B.), F. Kathleen Foley (F.K.F.), Margaret Gray (M.G.), Charles McNulty (C.M.), Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.) and David C. Nichols (D.C.N.) Compiled by Matt Cooper.

Openings An Accident Griot Theatre stages Lydia Stryk’s drama about a woman who is visited by the man who struck her with his car; contains nudity; 18 and over only. The Lounge Theatre, 6201 Santa Monica Blvd., L.A. Sun., next Sun., 3 p.m. Thu.-Sat., 8 p.m.;

ends Oct. 29. $17.50, $25. (323) 2056642.

Cagney

West Coast premiere of this bio-musical about the vaudeville star turned tough-guy actor. El Portal Theatre, 5269 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood. Sun., 3 p.m.; Tue., 7:30 p.m.; Wed., 2 and 8 p.m.; Thu., 8 p.m.; Fri., next Sun., 2 and 8 p.m.; ends Oct. 29. $25-$89. (866) 811-4111.

So Long, Boulder City

Jimmy Fowlie’s comedic take on Emma Stone’s character’s one-woman show in the 2016 musical “La La Land.” Celebration Theatre @ The Lex, 6760 Lexington Ave, Hollywood. Sun., Mon.-Tue., next Sun., 8 p.m.; ends Nov. 6. $25. www.celebrationtheatre.com.

Twelve Angry Men Jurors must ren-

der a verdict in the case of a young man accused of murder in Reginald Rose’s classic drama. Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach. Sun., 5:30 p.m.; Tue.-Fri., 7:30 p.m.; Sat., 2 and 7:30 p.m.; next Sun., 1 and 5:30 p.m.; ends Oct. 22. $45-$80. (949) 497-2787

High Winds

Writer Sylvan Oswald performs this tale of a trans man who undertakes a fantastical journey; part of the LAX Festival. Bob Baker Marionette Theater, 1345 W. 1st St., L.A. Mon., 8 p.m. $20. (213) 4469556.

Tilda Swinton Answers a Craigslist Ad The British actress, portrayed by “Buffy’s” Tom Lenk, studies a shy gay man for a film role in Byron Lane’s satirical comedy. Celebration Theatre @ The Lex, 6760 Lexington Ave, Hollywood. Wed., 8 p.m.; ends Oct. 25. $25. www.celebrationtheatre.com.

The Expanded Unicorn Gratitude Mystery Veteran performance artist

Karen Finley surveys the current political, social and media landscapes in this solo show. REDCAT, 631 W. 2nd St., L.A. Thu.-Sat., 8:30 p.m.; next Sun., 7 p.m.; ends Oct. 15. $16-$25. (213) 237-2800.

La Brisa

Teatro Línea de Sombra stages this fact-based drama about a bar in Ciudad Juárez that served as a center for activism in the 1990s; in Spanish with English supertitles; part of the LAX Festival. The Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St., L.A. Thu., Sat., 8:30 p.m.; next Sun., 6 p.m.; ends Oct. 15. $25. (213) 489-0994.

Piaf! The Show

Anne Carrère portrays the legendary French chanteuse in this bio-musical. Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine. Thu., 8 p.m. $38-$100. (949) 854-4646.

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Mexico City-based ensemble Pentimento presents an interactive performance that tries to transform audience members into actors; part of the LAX Festival. Automata, 504 Chung King Ct., L.A. Thu.-Fri., 7 and 9 p.m.; Sat.-next Sun., 2, 4, 7 and 9 p.m.; ends Oct. 15. $20. (213) 4469556.

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ple’s 38-year marriage. Santa Monica Playhouse, 1211 4th St., Santa Monica. Sat., 7:30 p.m.; next Sun., 3:30 p.m.; ends Nov. 19. $27.50, $35; reservations required. (310) 394-9779.

Afterlife: a ghost story

Mrs. Warren’s Profession

A couple mourn the loss of their son in Steve Yockey’s dramatic thriller. The Avery Schreiber Playhouse, 4934 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood. Fri.Sat., 8 p.m.; next Sun., 7 p.m.; ends Nov. 12. $15, $20. (323) 860-6569.

The Daughters of the Kush George W. Corbin’s new drama about a historically black sorority in 1930s Iowa. Stella Adler Theatre, 6773 Hollywood Blvd., 2nd floor, Hollywood. Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; next Sun., 3 p.m.; ends Oct. 29. $20-$30. (213) 908-5032. The Final Girl The School of Night stages this ’80s-themed thriller about a woman seeking revenge against a psychotic killer; contains adult language, sexuality and violence; no one under 17 admitted. The McCadden Place Theatre, 1157 N. McCadden Place, Hollywood. Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; next Sun., 7 pm.; ends Nov. 4. $20. (800) 838-3006. Helen Lawrence

Canadian Stage blends theater and film in this noirish fable about assorted shady characters in post-WWII Vancouver; presented by CAP UCLA. Royce Hall, UCLA, 340 Royce Drive, Westwood. Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; ends Oct. 14. $39-$79. (310) 825-2101.

The Hits Broadway veteran Sam Har-

ris sings show tunes, standards and more. Catalina Bar & Grill, 6725 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. Fri.-Sat., 8:30 p.m. $25-$50; food and drink minimums apply. (866) 468-3399.

Is He Dead?

A 19th-century French painter fakes his own death to raise the value of paintings in Mark Twain’s farce. Glendale Centre Theatre, 324 N. Orange St., Glendale. Fri., 8 p.m.; Sat., 3 and 8 p.m.; next Sun., 3 p.m.; ends Nov. 18. $20-$32. (818) 244-8481.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 5-Star Theatricals

(formerly Cabrillo Music Theatre) opens its season with the Tim RiceAndrew Lloyd Webber musical based on the Biblical tale of Joseph; with Patrick Cassidy as Pharaoh. Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Kavli Theatre, 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. Fri., 8 p.m.; Sat., 2 and 8 p.m.; next Sun., 2 p.m.; ends Oct. 22. $36-$84. (800) 745-3000.

Julie Brown’s Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun — The Musical! Campy

comedy based on Brown’s 1980s-era novelty song. Cavern Club Theater at Casita del Campo, 1920 Hyperion Ave., L.A. Fri., 9 p.m.; next Sun., 2 p.m.; ends Oct. 21. $30. www.cavernclubtheater.com.

Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin

East West Players and Rogue Artists Ensemble join forces for this immersive, site-specific theatrical experience inspired by Japanese ghost stories; contains mature themes, language and violence. Six-story warehouse, address provided to ticket holders, L.A. Fri.-next Sun., with entry every 20 minutes, and up to 6 performances a night starting at 7:30 p.m.; ends Nov. 5. $65-$75; opening night, $125. (213) 596-9468.

A recent university graduate discovers that her mother is actually a prostituteturned-madame in George Bernard Shaw’s classic drama. A Noise Within, 3352 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena. Sat., 8 p.m.; next Sun., 2 p.m.; ends Nov. 18. $25 and up; student rush, $20. (626) 356-3100.

The Ugly Duckling Storybook Thea-

tre offers a family-friendly interactive musical based on the fairytale. Theatre West, 3333 Cahuenga Blvd. West, L.A. Sat., 1 p.m.; ends March 3. $12, $15. (818) 761-2203.

Critics’ Choices The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey If you’re the kind of person

who enjoys human-centered stories, who can’t resist a detective yarn and who enjoys watching an actor impersonate a town full of kooky yet hilariously recognizable characters, James Lecesne’s off-Broadway sleeper about the disappearance of a teen whose fabulousness doesn’t conform to restrictive Jersey Shore gender expectations is what you’ve been waiting for. (C.M.) The Old Globe, San Diego, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego. Sun., next Sun., 2 and 7 p.m.; Tue., 7 p.m.; Wed., 2 and 7 p.m.; Thu.-Fri., 8 p.m.; Sat., 2 and 8 p.m.; next Sun., 2 and 7 p.m.; ends Oct. 29. $30 and up. (619) 234-5623.

Billy Boy

Veteran playwright Nick Salamone once again treats his own Catholic upbringing as a primary theme in this loosely autobiographical, boldly non-linear work about a regretful gay man confronting the tragically lost loves of his past life, all of whom he abandoned at critical junctures. Director Jon Lawrence Rivera, Salamone’s frequent collaborator, delivers a luminous staging, mooring his solidly capable performers, including Rachel Sorsa, Matt Pascua, and Salamone himself, in a bracing naturalism that emphasizes the piece’s inherent mystery. (F.K.F.) Playwrights’ Arena at Atwater Village Theatre, 3269 Casitas Ave., L.A. Sun., next Sun., 7 p.m.; Mon., Fri., 8:30 p.m.; Sat., 8 p.m.; ends Oct. 15. $15-$30. (800) 838-3006.

Daytona Set in 1986 Brooklyn, Oliver Cotton’s flawed but fascinating play about three Holocaust survivors dealing with the explosive legacy of the past receives an optimum staging from director Elina de Santos and her superlative cast. De Santos is a proven, protean director, and this production stands beside her very best work, while George Wyner, Sharron Shayne and Richard Fancy are extraordinary performers at the peak of their craft who invest the play with a harrowing emotionalism that is unforgettable. (F.K.F.) Rogue Machine Theatre (in The Met), 1089 N. Oxford Ave., L.A. Sun., next Sun., 3 p.m.; Mon., Sat., 8:30 p.m.; ends Oct. 30. $40. (855) 5855185. Fixed

stage adaptation updates the 1968 horror flick. Archway Studio/Theatre, 10509 Burbank Blvd., North Hollywood. Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; next Sun., 2 p.m.; ends Oct. 1. $28. (818) 980-7529.

Amid drag balls and crossdressing massage parlors, Boni B. Alvarez tells a tale of two people who might find love if the world would just leave them alone. His new play powerfully addresses identity and authenticity. (D.H.M.) Echo Theater Company, Atwater Village Theatre, 3269 Casitas Ave., L.A. Sun., next Sun., 4 p.m.; Mon., Fri.-Sat., 8:30 p.m.; next Sun., 4 p.m.; ends Oct. 22. $20, $34. (310) 307-3753.

Turn Me Loose “Scandal’s” Joe Mor-

La Razón Blindada

Night of the Living Dead Brand-new

ton portrays late comic and civil rights activist Dick Gregory in Gretchen Law’s bio-drama. Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Lovelace Studio Theater, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills. Fri., 8 p.m.; Sat., 2:30 and 8 p.m.; next Sun., 2:30 p.m.; ends Nov. 12. $60, $75. (310) 746-4000.

Cabaret Classic Kander & Ebb musical about the denizens of a decadent nightclub in pre-WWII Germany. The Studio at Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach. Sat., 8 p.m.; ends Nov. 18. $14-$27. (562) 4941014. Little Shop of Horrors Hit musical comedy based on the 1960 B-movie about a timid flower shop employee and a man-eating plant. Stage Door Repertory Theatre, 1045 N. Armando St., Anaheim Hills. Sat., 8 p.m.; next Sun., 5 p.m.; ends Nov. 4. $22, $28. (714) 630-7378. A Love Affair

Jerry Mayer’s comedy charts the ups and downs of one cou-

Presented in Spanish with English supertitles, this sharply political play sheds light on Argentina’s infamous “Dirty War” as filtered through the deeply personal perspective of writer-director Aristídes Vargas, who experienced the madness first-hand. Vargas’ harrowing, surprisingly funny piece centers around two political prisoners who escape into the world of Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” during their incarceration. (F.K.F.) 24th Street Theatre, 1117 W. 24th St., L.A. Sun., next Sun., 3 p.m.; Sat., 3 and 7:30 p.m.; ends Oct. 15. $10-$24. (213) 745-6516.

Rhinoceros With darkly hilarious ur-

gency, this superbly staged and disconcertingly timely revival illuminates playwright Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist warning about the seductively corrosive lure of herd mentality and the fragility of civilized norms we take for granted. (P.B.) Pacific Resident Theatre, 703 Venice Blvd., Venice. Sun., next Sun., 3 p.m.; Sat., 8 p.m.; ends Oct. 22. $25-$34; discounts available. (310) 822-8392.

MUSIC Pop Picks by August Brown and Mikael Wood.

Janet Jackson

Jackson was well aware of the job at hand on her first album in seven years, and she doesn’t waste any time facing up to it. “Hello,” she coos in the opening track of 2015’s “Unbreakable.” “It’s been a while. Lots to talk about.” No kidding. In 2009 Jackson’s brother Michael died. In 2012 she married a Qatari tycoon, Wissam Al Mana. And more recently she’s seen her signature sound — lush and whispery but never forsaking a good beat — come back into vogue in the work of younger singers like Tinashe and FKA Twigs. “The world keeps calling me,” Jackson sings in “Well Traveled.” With “Unbreakable” she’s finally offering her reply. (M.W.) Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., L.A. 8:30 p.m. Sun. hollywoodbowl.com.

Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode fans just can’t get enough. After selling out three previously announced concerts, the veteran synth-pop band added a fourth night to its run of shows at the Hollywood Bowl. In a statement, Depeche Mode’s handlers said the fournight stand will mark the first time any act has played that many consecutive concerts at the Hollywood Bowl.The band also played a warmup "special, intimate show" in Hollywood, with tickets being given away for free "as a thank-you to fans in L.A. for their support and for helping to make history." The concerts are part of the group’s Global Spirit Tour behind its 14th studio album, "Spirit," which came out in March. (M.W.) Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., L.A. 8:30 p.m. Thu., Sat. Next Mon and Wed. hollywoodbowl.com.

CDMX Festival

Mexico City is still reeling from last month’s earthquake, so an easy way to help is to attend some of tho many shows produced by the L.A. Phil highlighting the city’s sprawling contemporary music culture (a portion of sales will go to relief efforts there). Natalia LaFourcade, Mexrissey, N.A.A.F.I., Cafe Tacvba and many more are slotted for sets across the city. (A.B.) Various dates and venues, see laphil.com for details and ticket info.

Classical

ary; part of the LAX Festival. The Theatre at Ace Hotel, 933 S. Broadway, L.A. Tue., 8:30 p.m. $25-$45. (888) 929-7849.

Temple Beth Torah, 7620 Foothill Road, Ventura. Next Sun., 3 p.m. $50. (805) 884-8410.

The Hubble Cantata

Bach, Liszt, et al. Pepperdine University, Raitt Recital Hall, 24255 Pacific Coast Hwy., Malibu. Next Sun., 2 p.m. $28 and up. (310) 506-4522.

LA Opera copresents the West Coast premiere of this musical fable, enhanced by images from the Hubble Space Telescope, about an astrophysicist searching for his wife among the stars. Ford Theatres, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd East, Hollywood. Wed., 8 p.m. $65 and up. (323) 461-3673.

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble Works by Korn-

gold, Shostakovich and Mendelssohn. Valley Performing Arts Center, 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge. Thu., 8 p.m. $53. (818) 677-3000.

Essential Einaudi Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi performs. Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Thu., 8 p.m. $39 and up. (714) 556-2787. Natalia Lafourcade

The Mexican singer-songwriter performs with Dudamel and the LA Phil; also works by Javier Alvarez and Enrico Chapela and Gabriela Ortíz; part of the CDMX Festival. Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., L.A. Thu., 8 p.m. $41-$99. (323) 850-2000.

Noche de Cinema Dudamel and the

LA Phil are joined by Mariachi Sol de México de José Hernández and La Santa Cecilia’s La Marisoul for songs and music from recent and classic Mexican films; part of the CDMX Festival Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., L.A. Fri., 8 p.m. $25-$85. (323) 850-2000.

St. Matthew’s Music Guild

Season opener includes works by Kodaly and Saint-Saens, plus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 featuring pianist Inna Faliks. St. Matthew’s Church, 1031 Bienveneda Ave., Pacific Palisades. Fri., 8 p.m. $35. (310) 573-7421.

The Consul Long Beach Opera stages

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

works by Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann and Leon Kirchner. Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Bram Goldsmith Theater, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $45-$95. (310) 746-4000.

La Sorgente Victor Vanacore leads an

orchestra and guest vocalists in the world premiere of his collection of arias based on poems by Pope John Paul II. Ford Theatres, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $48 and up. (323) 461-3673.

Mozart 1791: Music From The Magic Flute Gustavo Dudamel and the LA

Phil are joined by guest vocalists for selections from Mozart’s opera; program also includes Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto featuring Martin Fröst. Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., L.A. Sun., 2 p.m. $20-$210. (323) 850-2000.

New West Symphony Season opener

includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 and Mozart’s “Overture to Cosi fan tutte,” plus pieces by Falla, Piazolla and Jofre; with guest dancer Siudy Garrido and guest conductor Grant Cooper. Oxnard Performing Arts Center, 800 Hobson Way, Oxnard. Sun., 3 p.m. $30-$96. (805) 497-5880.

Pacifica Quartet Cellist Johaness Moser joins the ensemble for string quartets by Schubert and Julia Wolfe. Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Samueli Theater, 615 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Mon., 8 p.m. $29 and up. (714) 556-2787. Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance

Austin-based composer Graham Reynolds’ experimental chamber opera salutes the Mexican revolution-

The Pearl Fishers

Soprano Nino Machaidze and tenor Javier Camarena star in LA Opera’s staging of Bizet’s tale about a love triangle in a Far East fishing village. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., L.A. Next Sun., 2 p.m.; ends Oct. 28. $25 and up. (213) 972-8001.

Sundays Live Pianist Petronel Malan

Guest conductor Peter Oundjian leads the ensemble in Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, Stravinsnsky’s Suite from “Pulcinella,” and Lutoslawski’s “Chain 2” featuring violinist Jennifer Koh. Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale. Sat., 8 p.m. Also, Royce Hall, UCLA, 340 Royce Drive, Westwood. Next Sun., 7 p.m. $27 and up; discounts available. (213) 622-7001.

Pacific Symphony

Record producer David Foster and special guests join the orchestra for songs from Foster’s catalog. Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m. $35 and up. (714) 755-5799.

Pasadena Symphony Season opener

includes Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, Prokofiev’s 2nd Violin Concerto featuring violinist Dylana Jenson, and the world premiere of James Lee III’s “Ichabod! The Protest Is Over.” Ambassador Auditorium, 131 S. St. John Ave., Pasadena. Sat., 2 and 8 p.m. $35 and up. (626) 793-7172.

Road Trip

Electric chamber-music group Bang on a Can All-Stars marks its 30th anniversary with works by Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe. Ford Theatres, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd East, Hollywood. Sat., 8 p.m. $35 and up. (323) 461-3673.

Café Tacvba

The Mexican alt-rock group performs with Dudamel and the LA Phil; program also includes pieces by Arturo Márquez; part of the CDMX Festival Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., L.A. Next Sun., 7:30 p.m. $41-$85. (323) 850-2000.

Camerata Pacifica

Works by Mendelssohn, John Cage, Carl Vine, et al.

DANCE

plays pieces by Mozart and Schubert. Bing Theater, LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. Next Sun., 6 p.m. Free. (323) 857-6234.

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Any Place But Here Amie Cota and

No)one. Art House explore the “Great Migration” of African Americans out of the rural South during the 20th century; part of the LAX Festival. The Bootleg Theater, 2220 Beverly Blvd., L.A. Sun., 7 p.m. $20. (213) 446-9556.

MUSEUMS Reviews by Christopher Knight (C.K.) and Leah Ollman. Compiled by Matt Cooper.

Marshmallow Sea

Choreographer Stephanie Zaletel’s szalt dance co. performs this full-length work; part of the LAX Festival. The Bootleg Theater, 2220 Beverly Blvd., L.A. Sun., 3 p.m. $20. (213) 446-9556.

Openings Giovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice Survey of the

Anthem Milka Djordjevich and com-

Venetian painter’s works; also on view: “Sacred Landscapes: Nature in Renaissance Manuscripts.” The Getty Center, N. Sepulveda Blvd. & Getty Center Drive, L.A. Opens Tue.; ends Jan. 14. Closed Mon. Free. (310) 440-7300.

Dan McCleary: Prints from Oaxaca

Jonathan Biss The pianist performs

This group show takes the presumption of “either/or” and turns it into an exultant “and.” The conceptual, after all, implies a basis in idea, and craft is grounded in materiality, but the eight artists here (including Tim Hawkinson and Lynn Aldrich) revel in play both heady and tactile. Sculptures by Jeff Colson stand out for their additional emotional heft. (L.O.) DENK, 749 E. Temple St., L.A. Ends Sat. Open Tue.Sat., and by appointment. (213) 9358331.

sic for strings by Beethoven, Schubert and Louis Spohr. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 5th Floor Salon, 135 N. Grand Ave., L.A. Next Sun., 4 p.m. $45, $85. (310) 498-0257.

Lights, Camera, Pops!

The organist plays works by Chopin, Ravel, et al. Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., L.A. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $20-$59. (323) 850-2000.

Jean-Baptiste Robin

Conceptual Craft

Le Salon de Musiques Chamber mu-

We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 Examines the

Night of Opera Romance Featuring baritone Vladimir Chernov, soprano Jessica Chen and the Arcadia Choral Society and Chanteurs. Arcadia Performing Arts Center, 188 Campus Drive, Arcadia. Sat., 7:30 p.m. $15-$70. (626) 821-1781.

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Ko-Eun Yi The pianist plays works by

Gian Carlo Menotti’s Pulitzer Prizewinning musical thriller about a woman seeking a visa so her family can escape a totalitarian state; soprano Patricia Racette stars. Centinela Valley Center for the Arts, 14901 S. Inglewood Ave., Lawndale. Sat., 7:30 p.m.; ends Oct. 22. $49-$150. (562) 470-7464. Long Beach Symphony Pops is joined by Long Beach Camerata Singers for film music by John Williams, et al. Long Beach Arena, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach. Sat., 8 p.m. $42-$165. (542) 436-3203.

hooks, pulleys) and surrogate skins (parachute silk, leather), CameronWeir at once alludes to the scientific, erotic and esoteric. (L.O.) Hannah Hoffman Gallery, 1010 N. Highland Ave., L.A. Ends Nov. 4. Open Tue.Sat., and by appointment. (323) 4509106.

pany explore work, play and feminine posturing; part of the LAX Festival. Bob Baker Marionette Theater, 1345 W. 1st St., L.A. Wed.-Thu., 8 p.m.; Fri.Sat., 9 p.m. $20. (213) 446-9556.

Dorrance Dance

New York-based company fuses tap with jazz, street and other forms. Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Bram Goldsmith Theater, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills. Thu.Sat., 7:30 p.m. $45-$125. (310) 746-4000.

political, social and cultural concerns of women of color over two decades. California African American Museum, 600 State Drive, Exposition Park, L.A. Opens Fri.; ends Jan. 14. Closed Mon. Free. (213) 744-7432.

Mariinsky Ballet & Orchestra

The company based in St. Petersburg, Russia, performs four classic works by early 20th-century choreographer Michel Fokine: “Chopiniana (Les Sylphides),” “The Swan,” “Schéhérazade” and “Le Spectre de la Rose.” Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Segerstrom Hall, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Thu.-Fri., 7:30 p.m.; Sat., 2 and 7:30 p.m.; next Sun., 1 and 6:30 p.m. $29 and up. (714) 556-2787.

Etchings, drawings, etc., by the L.A.based artist. Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach. Opens next Sun.; end Jan. 14. Closed Wed. $5, $7; 12 and under, free. (949) 494-8971.

California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820-1930 Exhibit explores

the development of the Golden State’s distinct visual iconography. Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach. Opens next Sun.; end Jan. 14. Closed Wed. $5, $7; 12 and under, free. (949) 494-8971.

Electrogynous

Multimedia-enhanced show explores femininity, masculinity and blackness; part of the LAX Festival. The Bootleg Theater, 2220 Beverly Blvd., L.A. Fri.-Sat., 7 p.m.; next Sun., 3 p.m.; ends Oct. 15. $20. (213) 446-9556.

Critics’ Choices Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell

Inferno American Contemporary Ballet revisits Dante’s supernatural tale, set to music by composer Charles Wuorinen. The Bloc, 32nd floor, 700 S. Flower St., L.A. Fri., 7 p.m.; Sat., 8 p.m.; ends Oct. 28. $40$80; opening night, $250. (213) 3043408.

This show, the L.A. artist’s first full survey, could serve as the Pacific Standard Time poster child, so vividly does it fulfill the Getty initiative’s mission to flesh out the plot and diversify the cast of characters in the art history of Latino L.A. As a Latina, lesbian and large-bodied woman, Aguilar personifies representational neglect. In over 130 photographic works, mostly portraits and self-portraits, she stirringly examines identity and belonging, the friction of unworthiness and the peace of self-acceptance. (L.O.) Vincent Price Art Museum, East Los Angeles College, 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Monterey Park. Now open; ends Feb. 10. Closed Sun.-Mon. Free. (323) 265-8841.

Alice in Wonderland

Festival Ballet Theatre presents a family-friendly take on Lewis Carroll’s fantasy tale. Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine. Sat., 7 p.m.; next Sun., 2 p.m. $39-$45. (949) 854-4646.

Fiesta en el Panteón Ballet Folklórico

Costa de Oro performs a Día de los Muertos-themed show. La Mirada Theatre, 14900 La Mirada Blvd., La Mirada. Sat., 2 and 8 p.m. $15-$40. (562) 944-9801.

Granite Rocks Crumble

New works and repertoire by Deborah Brockus and guest choreographers. Diavolo Space, the Brewery Arts Complex, 616 Moulton Ave., L.A. Sat., 8 p.m.; next Sun., 6 p.m. $10-$25. www.BrockusRED.org

GALLERIES Reviews by Leah Ollman (L.O.). Compiled by Matt Cooper.

The Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company San Francisco-based troupe

Continuing

merges ancient forms with modern dance. Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena. Sat., 8 p.m. $10-$40. (626) 3954652.

Elaine Cameron-Weir: wave form walks the earth The New York-based

artist’s recent sculptures exert a grip on the psyche that is formidable, stimulating, and mildly unsettling. Her show contains just six pieces, but each is so dense with disjunctive clues and irreconcilable textures that even such a small group feels impossible to fully absorb. Working with cold, functional industrial materials (chains,

Roberto Amaral’s Fuego Exótico Dancers perform to a live mix of flamenco, rock, R&B, etc. The El Portal Theatre, 5269 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood. Sat., 4 and 8 p.m. $45. (818) 508-4200.

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Roughneck rapper. Sitcom star. Pretty pimp. Congenial gameshow host. If career hopscotch were a sport, Method Man would be its world champion. The performer, who rose to fame as a member of ’90s New York rap collective the Wu-Tang Clan, has played gangsters, stoners and gangster/stoners in feature films, starred in his own wacky Fox sitcom “Method & Red” and been one of the few fortunate actors to land recurring roles in three critically lauded HBO series, including “Oz” and “The Wire.” Over the next few weeks alone, Method Man (given name, Clifford Smith) will wrap up his first season as “the pretty pimp” Rodney on David Simon and George Pelicano’s HBO series “The Deuce,” debut as host of TBS’ new competition “Drop the Mic,” and drop a new album with his old crew, the Wu-Tang Clan. “I’ve always been game for anything that has to do with entertaining. It think all started when I decided I wanted to be Ricky Schroder, you know, from ‘Silver Spoons,’” said Smith, half-joking/ half-not, about his wide-ranging passion for performing. “If you saw what I watch at home, you’d be shocked.” In three words: “Danny Kaye musicals.” It’s hard to picture the 6-foot-3 Smith, who used to deliver unprintable lyrics and come with a parental warning sticker when he performed alongside Ole Dirty Bastard, whistling along to “Hans Christian Andersen.” If there’s anything predictable about the 46-year-old — who showed up to a recent photo shoot in Los Angeles wearing a crisp white, button-down shirt and black designer blazer while carrying a change of clothes in a crumpled-up Trader Joe’s bag, it’s that he’s willing to try anything. As Rodney of “The Deuce,” Smith is unrecognizable. He’s transformed into a 1970s-era “pretty pimp” who likes to keep his shoes as shiny as his silky, shoulder-length hair. Smith’s modernday swagger, perfected over years in the hip-hop business, is all but gone and replaced by a slick demeanor more akin to the seedy streets of Times Square circa 1972, when the series takes place. “It’s definitely not me,” Smith said after a photo shoot in L.A., his large frame barely wedged into an average-sized director’s chair. “I am a totally different person. But I’m familiar with those sorts of guys, from growing up around pimps, or people who thought they were pimps.” Smith’s referring to a rough

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THIS MONTH , Method Man (a.k.a. Clifford Smith) will debut as co-host of “Drop That Mic” with

Hailey Baldwin on TBS, a spinoff of a popular segment on James Corden’s late-night talk show. part of Long Island and the “Killa Hill” area of Staten Island where he grew up. He claims to have dealt dope for a living before finding a career in hip-hop. It’s a grim reality that Smith has ended up replaying again and again in song and on screen in roles such as Melvin “Cheese” Wagstaff of “The Wire.” If “The Deuce” has received any criticism, it’s for reviving a blax-

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on Oct. 24. “Drop the Mic,” co-hosted by Hailey Baldwin, is as much a comedy as a competition. Celebrities such as Rascal Flatts and Gina Rodriguez compete with one another to see who does a better job covering popular rap songs. The show was spun out of a popular segment from “The Late Late Show With James Corden.” (Corden is producing.) “It’s not like James and those guys [behind the show] are reinventing the wheel,” Smith said. “They’re just putting a nice, shiny new rim on it.” Smith, who has platinum records, a Grammy and one of the more successful careers among all his hip-hop peers, said he never pictured himself as a game-show host. “From that description right there, I didn’t see me,” he admitted. “I pictured a lot of others: Snoop was my first thought — he’d be perfect. A few guys who are a little more off the radar but have personalities that are ridiculous would also be perfect for it — Action Bronson, ASAP [Rocky]. Even guys from the [rap] battle world who could hold it down.” After TBS reached out to Smith, though, he discovered has “a knack” for this new sort of rap game. Yet when he’s reminded of the way rap used to be viewed by mainstream America — scary, threatening — he smiles. “Oh, yeah, I kind of liked it that way.” Yet even as he reunites with RZA and company on “Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues,” due out this week, Smith has changed the way he approaches the medium where he got his start. “I stopped using swear words in the verses,” he said. “If you don’t read about it, you might not even notice it listening to the music. It started out as me just challenging myself to see if I could do it. I was writing a song for someone and they asked for no curse words and I was getting frustrated. Then I started thinking, ‘Why am I frustrated?’ I’m a lyricist, I should be able to write anything, any way, any how. As soon as I challenged myself, I got better, so I continue to challenge myself. I still haven’t cursed in my music, no ‘n’ words, nothing.” It’s one part of a larger evolution that finds Smith moving between worlds with an ease and consistency that once seemed unimaginable for a rapper who was too raw for radio and MTV. Smith admits even he sometimes is amazed by the journey. “When I met Mel Gibson I [couldn’t hold back] ‘Yo! I’ve been a fan forever! ‘Mad Max!’ ‘Braveheart,’ Love when you yelled ‘Freedom!’ and then they chopped your head off!’ Another time I was in a hotel room and Jay-Z was there, Ja Rule was there, DMX was there, Redman, all in the same room, kickin’ it. I was like, how many people would love to be in this one freaking room right now?’ ”

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Just in time for Friday the 13th, the hit podcast “Lore” is now a six-part anthology series exploring the origins of classic terror tales. Any time, Amazon

SUNDAY Téa Leoni returns for another season of the D.C.set drama “Madam Secretary.” 10 p.m. CBS Post-WWII Paris is the setting for the new fashionindustry drama “The Collection” airing on “Masterpiece.” 10 p.m. KOCE Where’s Carl?! “The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who’s Walking” is a stop-motionanimated sendup of the hit zombie drama. Midnight, Adult Swim MONDAY Look, up in the sky! Melissa Benoist is back for another season as “Supergirl.” 8 p.m. KTLA Rescuing a comrade left behind after a failed mission is the better part of “Valor” for two U.S. Army helicopter pilots in this new action drama. 9 p.m. KTLA The tale of the American backpackers who somehow ended up in an Iranian prison is retold in the 2017 documentary “3 Hikers.” 9 p.m. Starz The people of the remote Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic find their traditional way of life threatened on several fronts in “The Islands and the Whales” on “POV.” 10 p.m. KOCE TUESDAY “The Flash” and “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” are back in action with new episodes. 8 and 9 p.m. KTLA Christopher Walken … explores his … family history … on a new “Finding Your Roots.” Carly Simon and Fred Armisen are also featured. 8 p.m. KOCE Hometown heroes Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper are among the nominees at the “2017 BET Hip-Hop Awards.” 8 p.m. BET WEDNESDAY The kids aren’t all right in “Riverdale” as this teen drama based on Archie Comics returns for its sophomore season. 8 p.m. KTLA “Nature” gets up close and personal with some crafty critters in “Fox Tales.” 8 p.m. KOCE

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back in the kooky musical comedy “Crazy ExGirlfriend” on the CW. “Melrose Place’s” Grant Show is no John Forsythe in a reboot of the classic prime-time soap “Dynasty.” 9 p.m. KTLA Stonehenge — where the demons dwell, where the banshees live and they do live well — gets the archaeological once-over on a new “Nova.” 9 p.m. KOCE “The Story of Us With Morgan Freeman” is a new series about humankind narrated by the actor in his warm, reassuring baritone. 9 p.m. National Geographic Channel Scott Pruitt, controversial head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is profiled on a new “Frontline.” 10 p.m. KOCE Airing in three separate segments and then all together, “Queers” is an anthology of eight short films about the experiences of gay men in Britain over the past 100 years. . 10 a.m., 3 and 6:30 p.m.; 10 p.m. BBC America “Mr. Robot” boots up a third season. With Rami Malek. 10 p.m. USA THURSDAY Comic Sarah Silverman will try to bring our divided nation together — no, really — in her new weekly variety series “I Love You, America.” Any time, Hulu “Supernatural,” the demon- and monster-hunting drama that will not die, is back for the 13th season. 8 p.m. KTLA George Lopez, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, Eddie Griffin and Charlie Murphy play themselves in the raunchy new sitcom “The Comedy Get Down.” 11:30 p.m. BET

Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson costar in writer-director Noah Baumbach’s new dysfunctional family comedy-drama “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected).” Any time, Netflix The new fact-based crime drama “Mindhunter” revisits the FBI’s earliest efforts at profiling serial killers. With “Fringe’s” Anna Torv. Any time, Netflix Rebecca Bloom is still your “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” and Gina Rodriguez is still “Jane the Virgin” as these two quirky-campy series return. 8 and 9 p.m. KTLA Jazz great Nina Simone, funk pioneer Sly Stone and original indie-rockers the Velvet Underground are among the honorees in a “Grammy Salute to Music Legends” on “Great Performances.” 9 p.m. KOCE

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GAIL SIMMONS with special guest CURTIS STONE Sunday, October 29 6:30 p.m. Aratani Theatre Tickets start at $15 A beloved ﬁgure in the food world, Gail Simmons has been a popular judge on “Top Chef” since its inception. Be there as she talks with Curtis Stone, chef/owner of Maude and Gwen, and The Times’ Patt Morrison about her new book, “Bringing It Home: Favorite Recipes from a Life of Adventurous Eating,” in which Simmons shares her best recipes and food experiences.

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What happens in Vegas always escapes The town built by crime and violence continues to leave a powerful mark on our nation’s narrative. By Tod Goldberg

Lance Gerber Palm Springs Art Museum

“CHROMOSATURATION” by Carlos Cruz-Diez is among the works in “Kinesthesia” at the Palm Springs Art Museum.

A SPATIAL MOVEMENT

Nothing stays in Las Vegas. Nothing ever did. When the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority launched its now-famous slogan — “What Happens Here, Stays Here” — in 2004, the region was climbing out of the shadows of 9/11, when tourism to the city slumped dramatically. The city had attempted to re-brand itself as a safe destination for families in the intervening years, but the fact was, no one came to Las Vegas to spend time with their families. People came to lose themselves, a simulacra of the American dream and the Wild West available to you within steps of disembarking from a flight — the slot machines and video poker stalls closer than the bathrooms at most gates — and only a few hundred yards over the state line as you came racing up Interstate 15. One dollar could be turned into thousands, millions, who knows, it was Las Vegas, anything could happen. You could change the entire course of your life with one bet, provided you believed in yourself and your luck. Which of course is the ultimate hubris when you’re playing a rigged game of chance. The slogan promised a good time, but the wink and the nod was always more insidious, Las Vegas a town built by organized crime, abetted by violence, run by corrupt officials, its very roads and streets like a map to secret criminal behavior. Flamingo Road runs parallel to Sands Avenue, which runs parallel to Desert Inn Road and on and on, all of them running parallel to the criminals who paved them in the first place. Bugsy Siegel. Meyer Lansky. Moe Dalitz. You know their names because Omerta never really was a thing, no secrets are ever kept, no one ever stays quiet, but also because we started writing books and making movies about these guys, turning Las Vegas into the ultimate tourist cosplay experience, long before “cosplay” was a word. Locals started talking about how the place was better when the Mob was in charge, and in Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather” Bugsy Siegel was turned into Moe Greene and we all became Fredo, silk shirts and bad behavior. The corporations may have bought the casinos, made them [See Las Vegas, F10]

Exhibit spotlights kinetic art in breathtaking new dimensions

BY CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT art critic, reporting from palm springs >>> Complex art or clever gimmick? The choice, fair or not, has stuck to the genre of kinetic art for more than half a century. Artists like Alexander Calder and Marcel Duchamp stand at one end of the wide kinetic spectrum. Calder’s carefully balanced mobiles floating on gentle breezes and the whirling, carnival-style prestidigitation of Duchamp’s optical Rotoreliefs bear scant resemblance to each other. Yet both are secure in the Modernist pantheon. At the other end of the kinetic art gamut stands a host of rather more iffy artists, who have made assorted things that bang, clang, blink, spin, shimmy and shake. Amusing gizmos, these works can make you smile. Finally, though, they don’t prompt much in the way of meaningful contemplation. At the Palm Springs Art Museum, an exhibition of more than 50 kinetic works by nine South American artists who emerged during the genre’s heyday in the 1950s and ’60s lands more in the complex category than in the amusing gizmo domain. History is weeding out the gimmicks, putting the old category question to rest. One artist — Venezuelan Carlos Cruz-Diez, 94 — ranks as a major figure. Another — Gyula Kosice (1924-2016), a Hungarian expatriate to Argentina — is a marvelous, largely self-taught eccentric [See Kinetic, F5] whose futuristic fantasy sculptures are an unexpected pleasure.

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This fall, let your mind wander The theater scene has shifted into high gear. Here are four picks plus an interesting bit of music:

‘Turn Me Loose’

“Scandal” actor Joe Morton stars in this drama (critically praised off-Broadway) about the life of comic trailblazer and civil rights activist Dick Gregory. If you missed our Sept. 10 feature on Morton, search latimes.com for “Joe Morton in Turn Me Loose.” Performances run Friday-Nov. 12 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills. (310) 746-4000, www.thewallis.org — Charles McNulty

‘Gem of the Ocean’

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SURVIVORS gather at Dachau in an image made by George Stevens’ film unit after the concentration camp’s liberation in 1945.

Documenting history

By Susan King

Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars fought during World War II, including Jimmy Stewart, Tyrone Power and William Holden. Less known are the noted directors who also enlisted and put themselves in harm’s way to make documentaries and to capture the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. A new exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, “Filming the Camps: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens, From Hollywood to Nuremberg,” revolves around the concentration camp footage captured by these directors. Created and circulated by the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris and curated by filmmaker and historian Christian Delage, “Filming the Camps” presents rare footage of the liberation of Dachau, burials at Falkenau and documentary footage for the Nuremberg trials after the war. “Our museum is unique, because we teach the L.A. narrative as part of when we talk about the Holocaust,” said Executive Director Beth Kean. “We have the front pages of the L.A. Times from 1933-1945 throughout the museum. It’s very appropriate and fitting to have this exhibit here about three directors who made their mark here. People think the war happened halfway across the world when it did in fact impact people living here.” Ford, who had won Oscars for directing 1935’s “The Informer,” 1940’s “The Grapes of Wrath” and 1941’s “How Green Was My Valley,” served in the Navy and was head of the photographic unit for the Office of Strategic Services. Stevens, who had directed such classics as 1935’s “Alice Adams” and 1943’s “The More the Merrier,” headed a film unit under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as a member of the Army Signal Corps and documented D-day, as well the liberation of the Duben labor camp and the Dachau concentration camp, both in Germany. That footage and other concentration camp film was presented at Nuremberg. Fuller, who directed such gritty war films as 1951’s “The Steel Helmet” and 1980’s “The Big Red One,” wasn’t a filmmaker during World War II but an infantryman who shot the harrowing 16mm footage of Falkenau in what was then Czechoslovakia. “Fuller was not a member of the team, so it’s a personal story,” Delage said. The exhibition also shows how photographs and film footage were shot to document history. “There was a specific process that had to take place,” Kean said. “The exhibit shows what procedures these men had to take. They had to prove the authenticity of what they had taken. They had to prove that it actually happened. That’s what Christian wanted to point out. Everything was deliberate. The way they took the photographs, the angles … so they could be used as evidence. People don’t realize it.” Stevens’ feature films after he returned from the war were much more dramatic and serious than his prewar comedies. He won Oscars for 1951’s “A Place in the Sun” and 1956’s “Giant” and earned a nomination for the 1959 World War II film “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Stevens was the most touched by what he saw during the war, Delage said. “He was not a soldier like Fuller, and he was less a tough guy than Ford was.” “Filming the Camps” continues at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust through April 30. calendar@latimes.com

This is the first in August Wilson’s 10-play series exploring 20th century African American life decade by decade. Set in Pittsburgh in 1904, “Gem of the Ocean” brings us face to face with Aunt Ester, a 285-year-old healer of souls, who helps a man migrating from the South unshackle himself from the guilt of his past. Performances are Saturday-Nov. 11 at South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa. (714) 708-5555, www.scr.org — Charles McNulty

‘L’Etat de Siege’

Theatre de la Ville, which brought Eugene Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros” to UCLA’s Royce Hall in 2012, is back with an Albert Camus play whose title translates to “The State of Siege.” This piece, brought to us by the Center for the Art of Performance, shares some common ground with Camus’ novel “The Plague” and is a cautionary tale about fear and fascism. It’s Oct. 26-27 at Royce Hall, Westwood. (310) 825-2101, www.cap.ucla.edu — Charles McNulty

‘Mateluna’

Chilean playwright and director Guillermo Calderon (“Neva”) continues his exploration of artistic truth in this U.S. premiere. Performances are Oct. 26-28 at REDCAT, L.A. (213) 237-2800, www.redcat.org — Charles McNulty

‘Playing With Fires’

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STEVENS visits Dachau in 1957. Footage his Army Signal Corps crew shot dur-

ing the camp’s liberation was used in the Nuremberg trials after World War II.

Author and curator Josh Kun has organized a music series exploring the connection of Latin American composers, musicians and performers. On Oct. 18 the series shifts to a set by Chicano Batman at LACMA inspired by the work of painter Carlos Almaraz. tidewasalways high.com — Carolina Miranda

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groundbreaking comedian Dick Gregory in a play headed to the Wallis.

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JOHN HODGMAN live and in person. Mon., Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m. The Theatre at Ace Hotel Tickets start at $30 In his bestselling books and appearances on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” John Hodgman found comedy in fake news and invented facts. Now everyone’s doing it and that routine doesn’t seem quite so funny to him anymore. Be there as the Los Angeles Times’ Patt Morrison talks with him about his life, career and ﬁrst book of nonﬁction, “Vacationland.”

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It’s a modern collaboration Johnny Mathis & Co. turn the American Songbook concept on its head with a newer-era pop collection. MIKAEL WOOD POP MUSIC CRITIC

The first time Johnny Mathis and Clive Davis worked together closely, things didn’t go quite as planned. The year was 1973, and Davis — then the head of Mathis’ label, Columbia Records — had paired the old-fashioned romantic crooner with producer Thom Bell for “I’m Coming Home,” an album that set Mathis’ distinctive high-pitched voice against the lush R&B sound known as Philadelphia soul. “I thought it was one of the best things I’d done, and Tommy loved it,” Mathis said recently. “But then Clive got fired before we could publicize the album, so it just kind of languished.” The singer laughed gently, recalling Davis’ untimely dismissal from Columbia after an expense-account scandal of which he was later cleared. “Nobody ever really heard it,” Mathis said of the album. Forty-four years later, the two have reunited for a second collaboration they hope gets a more meaningful look. “Johnny Mathis Sings the Great New American Songbook,” which came out last month, follows a series of similarly titled efforts that Davis, now an executive with Sony Music, has overseen for Barry Manilow, Rod Stewart and Aretha Franklin. But this time, Davis tweaked his established formula. Rather than summon the nostalgia of a graying audience — an approach that led to multiplatinum sales in the case of Stewart’s “Great American Songbook” discs — Mathis’ album presents the 82-year-old singer as a still-vital interpreter of modern pop with clever renditions of recent radio staples in place of deeply familiar standards like “Beyond the Sea” and “It Had to Be You.” “It’s the great new American songbook,” said Davis, 85, emphasizing the crucial word in his raspy New York accent. Among the songs Mathis tackles: Adele’s Grammy-winning “Hello,” Bruno Mars’ chart-topping “Just the Way You Are,” Keith Urban’s country hit “Blue Ain’t Your Color” and, perhaps most surprisingly, “Happy,” the uptempo secular-gospel jam by Pharrell Williams.

What would Johnny do?

In their original incarnations, each tune is a big vocal record designed to attract attention. But Mathis’ album takes a different tack: Working in the studio with veteran R&B singer and producer Kenny Edmonds, known as “Babyface,” Mathis remade the songs to suit his delicate aesthetic — which, in an era of post-“American Idol” oversinging, means they actually stand out. “ ‘How would Johnny do it?’ ” Edmonds said he repeatedly asked himself while devising his airy arrangements. “Every song came down to that.” Mathis’ first studio album since a Christmas collection (one of his many) in 2013, “Great New American Songbook” came about as a result of his performance two years ago at Davis’ annual pre-Grammy gala at the Beverly Hilton. The executive, who prides himself on a hot ticket of a show that routinely mixes young stars and respected legacy acts, remembered spotting Taylor Swift at a table near the front of the ballroom as he stood onstage to introduce Mathis. “I told her, ‘Taylor, you’ve had a great few years,’ ” Davis said. “ ‘But this next artist, an album of his greatest hits was on the Billboard Top 200 for 10 consecutive years.’ ” As he recalled the episode, Davis was seated with Mathis and Edmonds in a green room at the Grammy Museum in downtown Los Angeles, where the three were scheduled to give a talk last week about the new album. (Its release on Sept. 29, one day before the end of this year’s Grammy eligibility period, was certainly no coincidence.) The space was filled with members of each man’s entourage, including Davis’ pal Nikki Haskell, a fixture of the New York social scene. Edmonds and Davis were nattily dressed — as they had been a couple of nights before at the premiere of a splashy new documentary about Davis’ long career — while Mathis wore the track pants and sneakers of a guy who’d come straight from his workout. “Hey, partner!” the singer said when Davis arrived, to which the executive replied, “You’re looking as fit as could be.” Back at the 2015 party, Mathis lived up to Davis’ hype, bringing the audience of A-list guests to their feet with effortlessly assured renditions of “Chances Are” and “It’s Not for Me to Say.” “It was an amazing, amazing thing,” Haskell said. “That’s a

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“I HAVE no control over it. All I do is open my mouth, and whatever comes out, that’s the way it is,” Johnny Mathis says of his style.

Jay L. Clendenin Los Angeles Times

MATHIS is flanked by Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, left, and Clive Davis at the Grammy Museum.

tough crowd, but the reaction was incredible.” “It was like a Beatles moment!” Davis added with typical extravagance, which seemed to make Mathis blush. “I don’t know, maybe I sang good,” he said. According to Davis, the singer’s strong showing at the gala led his Sony bosses, Doug Morris and Rob Stringer, to demand that the executive come up with a concept for a Mathis album, and thus the “new songbook” idea was born. Davis began compiling a list of tunes he thought Mathis could do well, but to help execute the vision he recruited Edmonds, not least because of the producer’s success on Barbra Streisand’s 2014 album “Partners,” which sold more than a million copies.

The call to join Mathis in the studio was a welcome one, Edmonds said. “I grew up listening to Johnny — the Christmas records but also the records he did with Deniece Williams,” said the producer, referring to disco-era duets like “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late” and the duo’s take on Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “You’re All I Need to Get By.” The two already knew each other socially; Edmonds remembered meeting Mathis at a Christmas party thrown by pop songwriter Carole Bayer Sager, while Mathis said he saw Edmonds perform recently at a private function at someone’s home. “Real rich man, in the hills…,” Mathis said, trailing off as he tried to place the name.

“Haim Saban,” Edmonds replied. Yet the musicians had never collaborated until Davis brought them together. “To get to work with an icon — I was like, ‘Yes, please,’ ” the producer said.

No ‘karaoke album’

Once they started recording, “the important thing,” Edmonds said, “was that we had to make sure this didn’t become a karaoke album” — a charge that could be leveled at some of Stewart’s and Manilow’s records under Davis’ imprimatur. “This had to be an expression of Johnny.” “Great New American Songbook” satisfies that ambition; it even brings Mathis’ signature

ethereal quality to a pair of lungbusting pop-soul ballads from the 1990s: R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” and “Run to You,” first made famous by Davis’ highest-profile creative partner, the late Whitney Houston, in “The Bodyguard.” In his customary self-effacing manner, Mathis — scheduled to play the Agua Caliente casino in Rancho Mirage on Oct. 28 — said his vocal choices on the album reflect the only way he’s ever known how to sing. “I have no control over it,” he said. “All I do is open my mouth, and whatever comes out, that’s the way it is.” Still, he acknowledged that the “juxtaposition” of his delivery and our expectation of a more dramatic voice in a song like “Hello” can provide an effective thrill. “How does my little thing work with this big thing?” he mused. “I still don’t understand.” One of Mathis’ favorite cuts on the album is “Happy,” which he said feels like a song for kids. Growing up in San Francisco in a family with seven children, the singer more or less raised his three younger siblings while his parents were at work. “And I had to sing songs like that for them,” he said. “It’s not contrived; it’s absolutely real. When I heard it, I said, ‘Yeah!’ “I just hope Pharrell likes it,” he said of the multitasking artist whose oversize headgear made waves on social media after the 2014 Grammys. “I like him a lot. I don’t know what he does, really.” Edmonds and Davis chuckled in seeming recognition of Mathis’ unusual position: a pop star both in and out of time, someone interested in current music but not at all worried about fitting in. “I mean, I know he does everything,” Mathis continued. “But he confuses me with the hat. “You don’t need the hat!” mikael.wood@latimes.com

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Palm Springs Art Museum

GYULA KOSICE’S “Hydrospatial City” installation entrances with suspended architectural constructions in clear acrylic, like hovering topsy-turvy space stations.

Things that shimmer, shake [Kinetic, from F1] In between are figures with established international reputations, such as Julio Le Parc, who “paints” shifting phantasms of reflected light, and Jesús Rafael Soto (1923-2005), whose acutely refined geometric abstractions probe habits of perception. Among notable but lesser-known artists are the Argentine couple Martha Boto (1925-2004) and Gregorio Vardanega (1923-2007), who experimented with optical light boxes, singly and together, to varied effect. “Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art, 1954-1969” assembles two general kinds of work. One is art that physically moves — or, optically, appears to, such as in Vardanega’s ever-changing patterns of blinking light bulbs. The other is art that essentially stands still but to be fully seen — fully experienced — requires that the viewer move. Cruz-Diez’s work is of the latter type. “Chromosaturation” is a breathtaking 1965 installation that the artist adapted to the museum’s available space. (A different version was shown in Los Angeles seven years ago at the Museum of Contemporary Art.) The floor, walls and ceiling in three cube-like adjacent chambers are pure white. These architectural containers form a spatial “canvas” illuminated from above by square fixtures of thin fluorescent tubes in green, red and blue, the primary colors of light. Move through and between the spaces and the saturation of atmospheric color intensifies and fuses. The rods and cones in your eyes, overwhelmed, struggle to adjust. As they do, colors overlap and merge through reflection. Spatial zones of transparent violet, orange and other rainbow hues surprise expectations and complicate internalized perceptions. Cruz-Diez manipulates volumes of colored space rather than colored shapes and forms, which one finds in abstract paintings and sculptures. Working backward, he also adapts the environmental phenomenon to a marvelous group of paintings on sculptural, accordi-

‘Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art, 1954-1969’ Where: Palm Springs Art Museum, 101 Museum Drive When: Through Jan. 15; closed Wednesdays Info: (760) 322-4800, psmuseum.org

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JULIO LE PARC “paints” shifting phantasms of reflected light in “Continuel-lumiere avec formes

en contorsion, 1966/2012.” It’s featured in “Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art, 1954-1969.” on-pleated surfaces. Two- and three-dimensional squares of color vaporize into luminous veils as you move by his painted reliefs, adding the fourth dimension of time. Cruz-Diez’s work, pertinent to so much participatory art being newly made today, feels fresh. Partly that’s because it gives the lie to many current assumptions about the supposed limitations of painting and sculpture. And partly it’s because his installations internationalize the L.A.-based dynamics of Light and Space art in the 1960s by artists such as Robert Irwin and Doug Wheeler. Kosice, who was born Ferdinand Fallik but chose to be named for the city of his birth by the Hungarian-Slovakian border, was a founder of Buenos Aires’ postWorld War II Madi Group. Up from the bitter ashes of Holocaust and Hiroshima emerged a future-oriented spirit of creative play. The acronym Madi championed an art of movement, abstraction, dimension and invention. Seemingly out of left field, Kosice worked on his wild “Hydrospa-

tial City” installation for 26 years, starting in1946. Twenty suspended architectural constructions in clear acrylic are like topsy-turvy space stations hovering in fluid darkness. (Look closely and you’ll find tiny figures on board: Beam them up!) Some forms suggest jellyfish, anemones and other undersea creatures, occupants of another exotic fluid world. Sparkly pinpoints of light in seven illuminated wall-reliefs that ring the large room create a glittering intergalactic environment — or, perhaps, portholes beneath a mysterious sea. The “Hydrospatial City” — hydro because the Earth is, in fact, mostly water — is a homemade version of a kid’s model train set exploded to visionary scale. The plastic ensemble may put you in mind of transparent sculptures by fellow ethnic Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy. Appropriately enough for Palm Springs, it even recalls Lucite furniture designs by Charles Hollis Jones, period purveyor to Frank Sinatra, Arthur Elrod, Tennessee Williams and John Lautner.

“Kinesthesia” was organized by guest curator Dan Cameron. The dates under review —1954 to1969 — constitute a quiet polemic. The history of kinetic art is usually traced to 1955, the year that Hungarian Op artist Victor Vasarely and Paris art dealer Denise René organized the exhibition “Le Mouvement” at her Right Bank gallery off the Champs-Élysées. (Soto, along with Calder and Duchamp, was among the artists included.) The title was a sly pun: “Le Mouvement” announced that kinetic art — an art of movement — was itself a full-blown artistic movement. The Palm Springs survey acknowledges the influence of that landmark show, but it begins a year earlier to underscore that numerous South American artists were already working in kinetic modes. Their avant-garde bona fides get burnished. That virtually all the artists went to France in the 1950s, some deciding to stay permanently, was a double whammy. The artists found a generally supportive mi-

lieu; but, art historically, the postwar School of Paris languished in the engulfing shadow of the ascendant New York School. Choosing to work in Paris, scene of yesterday’s glory ride, didn’t help South American Modernism, which already didn’t get much international notice. The show’s 1969 closing date, however, unhinges the art from Paris. The tumultuous 1968 student revolt was a decisive marker in the cultural life of France. The South American artists carried on, both in Europe and at home. To some extent, “Kinesthesia” is a perhaps futile attempt at rebranding. The word signals just how tainted the established term, kinetic art, now demoted to subtitle status, has long been. But the bodily and muscular sensation that is the actual province of the science of kinesthesia doesn’t really have much to do with this art. Perceptual experience, of which kinesthesia is just one part, is thornier and more multifaceted. This exhibition, a project of the Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative underway at art museums all over Southern California, will surely help reconsiderations of the genre. It’s long on complexity and short on gimmicks. Kosice’s declared artistic philosophy took up a single word — joy — and the sentiment might speak for all nine artists. christopher.knight@latimes.com Twitter: @KnightLAT

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“I GET a materiality when I come into contact with clay,” says Anna Maria Maiolino, shown at MOCA. “Tierra modelada — that’s what it is to me: shaped earth.”

It’s her place on this Earth

Anna Maria Maiolino speaks up to make sure no one is pushed away from a spot on this clay planet. By Carolina A. Miranda The performance begins with raw eggs. Dozens of them, scattered in their fragile shells across the sculpture plaza adjacent to the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles. The audience gathers around. Out of the crowd emerges a petite woman with fine features and white, closely cropped hair. She studiously arranges the onlookers with a series of gestures. Moving them in closer, setting them back, motioning the seated to stand. Artist Anna Maria Maiolino first staged this performance, “Entrevidas,” in 1981 in a cobblestone street in São Paulo, Brazil, where she walked barefoot through a minefield of raw eggs with her eyes closed. It came at a charged period in her country’s history: toward the end of a brutal military dictatorship that had quelled free speech and resulted in disappearances and other human rights abuses. “There is the saying ‘like walking on eggshells,’ ” Maiolino says. “In that moment, we didn’t know if the country would open up or if it would close itself off.” It was a perfect metaphor for that political time: Each step forward, however gingerly taken, held the possibility of great destruction. The MOCA performance of “Entrevidas,” part of the Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA series of exhibitions, is more joyous. But not without moments of tension. A young man appears. Gabriel Sitchin, the artist’s grandson, has been enlisted to perform. Sitchin closes his eyes and sets a foot between two eggs. He draws another foot into the egg maze, and another, using his toes to grope the ground before him in his temporary blindness. The crowd, previously engaged in raucous conversation, grows silent. At one point, Sitchin’s heel comes dangerously close to crushing an egg and Maiolino gasps. A little girl exclaims, “Yes! Yes! Yes!” Sitchin moves his foot and the egg survives. The crowd exhales. The actor eventually comes to rest on one side of the maze. He opens his eyes and the crowd erupts into applause. Grandmother and grandson smile and exchange knowing looks. Maiolino, 75, has been little known in the U.S. But as of late, her profile has grown. She is the subject of a one-woman retrospective at the MOCA on Grand Avenue, her first in the U.S. Her work also makes an appearance in two high-profile group shows: The Hammer Museum’s “Radical Women” focuses on avant-garde Latin American female artists; “Delirious,” a new exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, examines the ways in which 20th century artists responded to overbearing political systems with work that was often surreal and absurd.

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MAIOLINO, in foreground, watches grandson Gabriel Sitchin perform “Entrevidas,” in which he

walks through a field of raw eggs with his eyes closed. It’s part of Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA.

‘Anna Maria Maiolino’ Where: Museum of Contemporary Art, 250 S. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles When: Through Dec. 31 Info: (213) 621-2766, www.moca.org A conceptual artist whose multimedia work often explores issues of repression and yearning, Maiolino is generally identified as Brazilian. But her heritage spans continents. The artist was born in Italy during World War II to an Italian father and an Ecuadorean mother. When she was 12, the family emigrated to Venezuela. Six years later, they relocated to Brazil. In the late 1960s, she became a Brazilian citizen. Seated in MOCA’s Grand Avenue galleries over the summer, where she was installing the retrospective that bears her name, she conducts our interview in Spanish — one that bears musical lilts of Italian and Portuguese. Maiolino’s art, like her origins, is also hybrid. “My work developed in Brazil,” she says. “People consider me as being Brazilian. But it has many layers, like an onion.” The eye-grabber at her MOCA retrospective is a gallery filled with pieces of unfired clay: a wall covered in squashed blobs, giant piles of spaghetti-like viscera in mounds on the floor, a table filled with lumpy protuberances and intestinal forms — as if a massive clay body has come apart and its myriad parts put on display. On the day we meet at the museum, MOCA’s pristine white box has been transformed into a raucous ceramics studio with the fragrance of damp earth. Maiolino, in a stained apron, stands at its center — shaping, molding, coaxing form out of inert blocks. “They feed me,” she says, ges-

turing to the clay around her. “I get a materiality when I come into contact with clay. … Tierra modelada — that’s what it is to me: shaped earth. The viewers, if they are sensitive, they will find in this accumulation of work, their own work, the gestures they repeat daily.” In 2012 as part of Documenta 13, the every-five-years exhibition held in Kassel, Germany, the artist filled every available surface in a former gardener’s home with her unfired clay forms. MOCA curator Helen Molesworth, who organized Maiolino’s L.A. retrospective with researcher Bryan Barcena, recalls being bowled over by the installation. “Clay is one of the most rudimentary mediums, yet it’s also the beginning of civilization,” she says. “Any monkey can make a finger pot, but you can’t have civilization without pottery. She’s always in this place where you can’t privilege one side over another side.” But Maiolino’s work is about much more than clay. Over the course of a career more than five decades long, the artist has employed printing, photography, performance, video and sculpture. In muted and visceral ways, she’s explored her place in the world as woman, as citizen, as a human body filled with hunger pangs, both physical and psychological. “A Espera,” an assemblage from 1967, shows the silhouette of a woman hovering over a line of laundry bearing children’s clothes. Other pieces map, in diagrammatic ways, elements of her life. “Eu” from 1971 — “eu” is Portuguese for “I” — repeats the word at different angles over the course of a grid. “Much of my work has has to do with mental state, with my biological state as a woman,” Maiolino says. “Women have always been prohibited from speaking in the first person. A woman is never the universal. When I put the word ‘eu,’ that was when I decided what I would be. It was a determination.” Other works address the coercive politics of Brazil’s military regime. (Her developmental years

paralleled the dictatorship, which lasted from 1964 to 1985.) In a 1974 photo installation on view at MOCA and the Hammer, she depicts herself wielding a pair of scissors, about to cut off her nose and her tongue. “That was a reaction,” she says. “There was such great repression: Just cut my tongue, poke out my eyes because I can do nothing.” Maiolino’s unusual path can be traced to her teenage years in Venezuela. Like many young women then in Caracas, she was dispatched to secretarial school by her parents. But instead of studying dictation, Maiolino would often sneak into an upstairs hall that offered art classes. “It was this beautiful classroom and a nun taught drawing and she had these vases full of roses,” she recalls. “My parents were so crazy they didn’t notice that I never got a secretarial degree.” As an immigrant in Venezuela, she had always felt hampered by her foreignness and her imperfect Spanish. But with drawing, she could speak freely. “I was reconstituting my identity, my ego,” she says. “I started to recuperate myself.” But just as she was settling into the rhythms of life there, the family relocated — this time to Brazil. In 1960, at age 18, she was once again the outsider, starting in a new language and landscape all over again. Enrolling in university was complicated by her language skills. So Maiolino decided to audit classes instead — at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, the national fine art school in Rio de Janeiro. It was there that she met painter Rubens Gerchman. They soon married and had two children. During these early years as an artist, Maiolino produced drawings, assemblages and woodblock prints that began to establish themes she was interested in: images that mapped her place in society as well as abstracted figures frequently depicted with an open mouth. In the assemblage “Glu Glu Glu,” from 1967, for example, a head

attached to a human digestive system seems ready to devour everything in sight. “The mouth stuff is interesting because she is a migrant,” Molesworth says. “Her mouth has to eat new food and say new words. The profundity of culture being linked to food and language has real truth.” In 1968, Maiolino and Gerchman moved to New York temporarily after Gerchman was awarded a fellowship. It was a way to escape the repressiveness of Brazil — “like a self-exile,” she says. In those years, she was more devoted to practical concerns: her husband and her children. She also worked illegally as a fabric designer. “If they wanted pineapples, I’d make pineapples,” she said. “I never signed my designs because I never wanted to be a fabric designer. It was just a way to make money.” Upon her return to Brazil, she divorced Gerchman. “And I decided that I would be a mother and artist with the same importance,” she says. The ’70s happened to be a period of wild experimentation. Artists were working in performance, video and ephemeral installation, and Maiolino dived right in. She made surreal Super 8 films, such as “In-Out (Antropofagia)” from 1973, in which mouths chew objects, say words and birth an egg. She also staged actions, such as the egg field of “Entrevidas.” (Eggs, a symbol of fragility and fecundity, make regular appearances in her work.) In the ’80s, she married for a second time — to conceptual artist Victor Grippo. But that union ended in divorce in1989. Afterward, Maiolino says she made a decision to dedicate herself fully to her work. “I lived on $200 a month, and I paid basic expenses, but that was it,” she says. “My friends would call me to go out and I’d make things up. Everything — the taxi, the beer, you have to earn it. I wanted to have a chance not to worry. That was when I started using cement because it was very cheap, then clay.” That austerity led to an artistic flowering that continues to this day. Part of what has made her stand out is the range of media she uses but also the pragmatic ways in which she has approached womanhood in her work. “She is not sentimental,” Molesworth says. “She recognizes: Human beings, they fornicate. Half of them could be made pregnant. There are babies, and they need to be fed and cared for. The survival of the species is this modus operandi that exceeds all of us.” Maiolino says she has come to terms with the feeling of being the perennial outsider. “When you are 25 or 28, you want to belong,” she says. “But then you learn that identity mutates. You have a lot of identities, and they change over time. “I arrive at what I have through experience. Art gives you that experience. That is art — it enriches you.” carolina.miranda@latimes.com Twitter: @cmonstah

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Puzzles of writing plays in L.A. Tom Jacobson turns out brain-teasing scripts, as if life as a playwright weren’t already super-complicated. By Daryl H. Miller Churchgoer. Gymgoer. Fundraising executive. Devoted spouse, son and colleague. This is the trickster of Los Angeles theater? My, but Tom Jacobson’s still waters run deep. He is, after all, the playwright who gathers Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle for an encounter with what might be a vampire or, even scarier, the embodiment of hidden desires (“Tainted Blood”); who turns an acting audition into a conduit for the ghosts of a ruinous 1914 samesex vice sting (“The TwentiethCentury Way”); and who, in rhyming couplets, sails King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and a Yankee whaler off on a sociopolitical quest (“Sperm”). History, sexuality, religion and the transformative power of theater are but a few of the topics that he swirls together in plays that often are constructed like puzzles or that kaleidoscopically shift styles. “I like the audience to have to work a little bit,” he says. This subversiveness can be hard to spot in person, though. During an afternoon’s conversation, the only hint of his darker depths is a confession that as a high schooler in Oklahoma City he helped to stage elaborately macabre environments to which he and his friends would lure unsuspecting kids. The one he describes with particular relish was a fake devil worship site at an abandoned farm, complete with charred bones (cow) and a note signed in blood (pimple). Otherwise, this trim and wholesome-looking 56-year-old mostly comes across as friendly and common-sensical — just the sort of person that his Lutheran upbringing would suggest. Jacobson is now onstage with Open Fist’s premiere of “Walking to Buchenwald,” inspired by a trip to Europe that he and his partner, artist-educator Ramone Muñoz, made with Jacobson’s parents in 2002. The tale begins comically with minor skirmishes over itineraries and the parents’ eating and nap schedules. Then world events intrude. A key occurrence, envisioned a decade and a half ago when Jacobson sat down to write the play, eerily parallels recent escalations. Just weeks ago, Skylight Theatre presented a very different Jacobson play: “The Devil’s Wife,” an old Italian folk tale revamped as a playful study of gender politics, love and belief. “I like to try new things,” he says of his restless exploration. The goal: “capitalizing on what theater is, which is a live experience where things can change.” The abutting productions reflect one of Jacobson’s key traits

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PLAYWRIGHT Tom Jacobson at home. By day he raises funds for the Natural History Museum.

‘Walking to Buchenwald’ Where: Open Fist at Atwater Village Theatre, 3269 Casitas Ave., L.A. When: 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, 7 p.m. Sundays; ends Oct. 21 Tickets: $30 Info: (323) 882-6912, openfist.org across three decades in L.A. theater: He is prolific. He’s had 39 plays produced and has written about 30 others. The work has been staged by an array of L.A.’s small companies, including such probingly inquisitive groups as the Road, Theatre @ Boston Court, Playwrights’ Arena, Circle X, Rogue Machine, Ensemble Studio Theatre/L.A. and Celebration. This ubiquity “is a sign of how broadly appreciated his work is,” says Michael Michetti, Boston Court’s co-artistic director and the director of some of Jacobson’s most successful plays. “People really respect that Tom does plays with big ideas. As a director, I love having something that is rich, layered — smarter than I am — that encourages me to use all of my tools to fulfill it.” Although Jacobson “has not so much broken into the larger theaters,” Michetti says, “I hope there will be a point where some of the bigger theaters start looking at his work.” A band/choir/drama/journalism kid in high school, Jacobson studied acting and playwriting at Northwestern University near Chicago, then earned a master of fine arts in playwriting at UCLA.

“I make no money as a playwright,” he says, almost chuckling. “Goodness, that’s a deficit; I lose money. I don’t think there’s a playwright alive who makes a living as a playwright. The ones who are successful make a living as a screenwriter, a TV writer or a teacher or something else.” Jacobson’s something else is the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, where he is senior vice president of advancement, overseeing fundraising — a skill he developed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where he progressed from secretary to grant writer, then fundraiser. He has settled into a chair in the home that he and Muñoz converted from what was once the production studio of the late textile designer Maria Kipp, whose work was favored by such Modernist architects as Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler. The two-story, 7,000-square-foot structure in Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood contains a writing retreat for Jacobson and a studio/gallery for Muñoz. Like the parents in “Walking to Buchenwald,” Jacobson’s late father taught university-level theater and his mother was an elementary school teacher who later ran the store in a science museum. “I am my parents,” he says, delighting in the serendipity. His museum job spills beyond 40 hours a week but allows flexibility. It’s also “very inspirational,” he says. “I’ve written a number of plays that I learned about the subject matter at the museum.” A lifelong fan of history, he is drawn to its “amazing stories” that “tell us about us.” Beyond work, Jacobson finds ideas popping up in art or other cultural excursions, or in what he

reads. “I’m very inspired by stories,” he says, “sometimes the more outrageous the better.” And then there’s travel. When his family made the trip that inspired “Buchenwald,” Jacobson’s parents were in their early 70s. They had never traveled overseas, but their innate sociability — Muñoz affectionately describes them as a “very ‘Prairie Home Companion’ kind of Lutherans” — helped to make the experience more immersive. “His dad and especially his mom were quite uninhibited to approach people and just ask questions, even invite them to our table,” Muñoz recalls. The trip coincided with America’s gear-up to enter Iraq to challenge Saddam Hussein. “We were having very interesting conversations with Europeans about the United States,” Jacobson says. “All of us were feeling very passionate against the war and afraid of what it could lead to.” Shortly after the trip, he began writing. The play references no specific time period or president. “It was intended to be evergreen,” Jacobson says. “It could have taken place then, and it could take place now.” The script didn’t get produced during the George W. Bush years, then seemed to lose its urgency through what Jacobson quippingly calls the “no-drama Obama” presidency. But last fall, as the political landscape changed, Open Fist scheduled a reading of the script, and now, he says, “I’m worried that events will get ahead of the play.” Jacobson hopes he’s delivered a story about “finding out who you are,” he says, “and accepting the worst thing” — which includes “the worst thing about who we are as Americans.” That might sound like cynicism,

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but in the play it comes across as calm rationality — with maybe a touch of hope. Asked what personality traits lend themselves to Jacobson’s writing, Muñoz replies: “He’s a bit of a romantic; he likes to think that there’s a meaning to life and that things all connect and there’s a reason why things happen. “He is definitely an optimist.” In addition to “Buchenwald’s” mischievous refusal to stick to comedy or drama, it contains an invitation to play. The younger couple’s names are purposely genderless, which frees casting possibilities. At Open Fist, a male couple alternate performances with a female one, with some heterosexual pairings scheduled as well. To land as many productions as he does, Jacobson employs good, old-fashioned perseverance. He keeps his work in presenters’ minds by submitting scripts to reading series and sending plays to directors. “You have to make your own way,” he explains. “You have to create and maintain relationships. It’s a lot of work, but it’s a great pleasure. The theater community here is enormous, it is passionate, it is beleaguered. We care a great deal about each other.” In addition to writing, Jacobson has served as literary manager for Celebration and Boston Court and briefly was co-artistic director of EST/L.A. Landing productions in larger theaters and other cities has been difficult, though. Just a couple of Jacobson’s plays have racked up miles: “The Twentieth-Century Way,” which played off-Broadway in 2015 and off-West End in London this year, and his time-hopping theater character mashup “Bunbury.” The elephant in the room is the larger Los Angeles theaters that have yet to stage his work. “Regional theaters have large houses they need to fill,” Jacobson says, which “means that the shows on their stages have to be relatively low-risk.” Smaller theaters “have less at stake, they can take more risks.” “That makes perfect sense to me,” he concedes. Still, it’s a Catch-22 because to be presented in a large theater he needs to have already proved himself in a large theater. He’s made inroads. L.A.’s regional powerhouse, Center Theatre Group, invited him to spend a year in its L.A. Writers’ Workshop, a developmental feedback group, in 2015-16. He used the opportunity to shape an idea derived from L.A. history into a trilogy that he’s now trying to line up for simultaneous productions in small theaters next year. The going can be rough. The payoff? Finally getting a play in front of theatergoers so that — and here the trickster reveals himself again — he can challenge them to “think about themselves, how they might change, how they could be better.” daryl.miller@latimes.com Twitter: @darylhmiller

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Overwhelmed by his subjects Literary biographer James Atlas gives a revealing, chaotic look at the obsessions that marked his process By Jeffrey Meyers

The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale James Atlas

Pantheon: 400 pp., $28.95

Henry James, T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden did not want to endure a biography and tried desperately but vainly to prevail against predatory life-writers. In his essay on the French novelist George Sand, James boldly mounted a military defense: “The pale, forewarned victim, with every track covered, every paper burnt and every letter unanswered, will, in the tower of art … [withstand] the siege of all the years.” Like the biographer in “The Aspern Papers,” whom Henry James calls a “publishing scoundrel,” James Atlas penetrated the citadels of Delmore Schwartz and Saul Bellow, who portrayed Schwartz as the title character in his novel “Humboldt’s Gift.” Schwartz achieved a stunning success with his first story, “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities,” but Atlas had difficulty describing the depressing descent of the writer, during the last half of his life, from literary god to self-destructive drunkard. Schwartz also wrote a mass of inferior work and the tin-eared Atlas is forced to praise his feeble imitations of Eliot. Atlas is a literary biographer who attempts in “The Shadow in the Garden” to provide an account of his work and his obsessions. The biographer is an artist on oath who must weigh all the evidence like a lawyer and always do justice to the subject. Atlas was awed at first by the magnitude of his task, resurrected many obscure but worthy figures, didn’t linger on boring genealogy, felt the voyeuristic thrill of discoveries that seemed to jump off the page, delighted in knowing more about the subject than anyone else in the world, struggled for permission to quote (sometimes rescinded), fended off the political correctness of editors, remembered to thank everyone in the acknowledgments (some authors chastise those who refused to help) and got both nasty and gratifying letters from readers. But with Bellow, as with Schwartz, Atlas was not always equal to the task. Bellow’s life was lacerated by outraged friends, family vendettas and extortionate exwives. Atlas declares that “the multiple marriages and general chaos of his life exacted a high toll.” But he doesn’t recognize that these personal disasters provided incandescent material and inspired Bellow’s imagination. Bellow thrived on chaos and needed to suffer to create: no tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. He was alienated from his three sons by three wives but compensated with three literary replacements: Martin Amis, James Wood and Leon Wieseltier. In 1994, after I’d asked Bellow about writing his biography, he explained that Atlas “came to me and told me he had already signed a contract for the book. On a few occasions I have talked to him about my life and deeds. But I have his number I assure you.” In this book, Atlas admits that he was “ungenerous” toward Bellow and “had outbursts of spite.” He describes how he cunningly allayed the suspicions of the patient and generous Bellow and extracted what he needed. During the 11 years he took to write the biography, he fell prey to a common danger and resented Bellow for devouring his life. His biography was unremittingly negative and his moral judgments portrayed him as superior to his subject. Atlas is least interesting in the present book when he talks about

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IN HIS new book “The Shadow in the Garden,” literary biographer James Atlas admits to being “ungenerous” to Saul Bellow, above.

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himself and tries to disguise his egoism and arrogance with a veneer of mock modesty. He is severe about the social critic Dwight Macdonald, who spent many hours editing Atlas’ life of Schwartz. An envious blowhard, Macdonald exclaimed that “Hemingway couldn’t write” and that the learned man-of-letters Edmund Wilson was interested only in “showing off how much he’d read.” Atlas later notes that Wilson “never showed off his vast erudition.” Finally, Atlas found the “fierce, irascible, antagonistic” Macdonald intolerably oppressive. Atlas’ portraits of Alfred Kazin and Richard Ellmann are accurate. Kazin, whom Schwartz called “a

Of Bellow, Atlas, left, wrote ‘the multiple marriages and general chaos of his life exacted a high toll.’ serious menace to criticism,” was venomous, rebarbative and bitter. Ellmann, whose life of James Joyce is the greatest modern biography, was brilliant and kind. But in a fit of pique Atlas misjudges John Bayley, who refused to tutor him at Oxford. Bayley (I can attest) was an exceptionally stimulating lecturer and teacher. His memoir of his wife Iris Murdoch descending into the darkness of Alzheimer’s, “Elegy for Iris” is not “pitiless,” as Atlas asserts, but self-sacrificial and sympathetic. “The Shadow in the Garden” has no clear structure. Atlas follows chronology but he has no table of contents, chapter titles or preface to guide the reader

through his chaotic work. He jumps around like a demented frog, returning to the same subjects in different chapters and dropping derivative sketches of Greek and Roman historians into the middle of the book. Hundreds of pointless and irritating footnotes force the reader to jump between two parallel texts. The friends he profusely thanks for reading his typescript should have corrected his two-dozen errors (list on request). Atlas describes following the authors’ trajectory from birthplace through foreign travels to the grave (“Death,” Atlas sadly observes, “is the biographer’s worst enemy”), studying unpublished letters and manuscripts in widely scattered archives, searching for school records, finding family and friends to interview, and discovering that famous older people are often quite lonely. During interviews he did not use a tape recorder. He learned to draw people out and remain silent, to take notes while eating and (sometimes) getting drunk, adding to his notes immediately after leaving. He refereed fights, often about money, between the children of different wives. My own responses from valuable sources ranged from “I curse the day you ever

heard my name” when I tried to extract a privately owned manuscript by Somerset Maugham to “I’ve been waiting all my life for you to come” from the daughter of Robert Frost’s lover. But there’s no need, as Atlas suggests, to “get it all in.” Not everything matters, and you don’t have to scrutinize “every electric bill, every grocery list, every torn envelope.” Biographers should remain an unobtrusive presence, concentrate on the reader’s interest rather than their own obsessions, and focus not on the facts of the life but on what these facts mean. Atlas, who can’t quite break free from his subject, ends his book with a description of his own life that inadvertently recalls the sad end of Schwartz. The writer took out his garbage, suffered a heart attack and died in the elevator of a seedy Times Square hotel. Atlas carries his garbage bag out to the hall, pushes the button of the elevator and hurries back to his apartment before something terrible happens to him. Meyers has published 25 biographies of authors, artists and actors. His memoir “Resurrections: Writers, Heroes — and a Spy,” will appear next year.

New nonfiction looks closely at U.S. workings national book review

‘Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism’ Bhu Srinivasan

(Penguin Press, $30)

India-born media entrepreneur Srinivasan brings an exuberant lens to his panoramic story of American capitalism as a series of “Next Big Things.” Srinivasan depicts the Mayflower as a venture capital project in the first chapter, “Venture,” and progresses through four centuries in highly readable, thematic chapters. He

argues that America resembles a “perpetual construction zone” and that its conflicts are inherent in the ongoing blend of capitalism and democracy.

‘Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.’ Danielle Allen

(Liveright, $24.95)

“Cuz” will break your heart. A tragic and true tale, it’s a powerful indictment of the mass incarceration of black boys and men, and a call for justice, reform and humanity. At 16, Allen’s bright, winsome cousin Michael, who lived in South L.A., was convicted of a felony and

sent to adult prison. He served 11 years and was murdered a few years after his release. As “cousin on duty,” Allen, a Harvard professor, was a formidable ally, but against toxic social forces and a flawed criminal justice system, even she was no match.

‘Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime’ Ben Blum

(Doubleday, $28.95)

On the eve of his deployment to Iraq as part of an Army Ranger battalion, Blum’s “squeaky-clean, patriotic, rule-respecting” cousin

Alex joined three other soldiers, donned ski masks and robbed a bank in Tacoma, Wash. Why? Was his cousin brainwashed, under the control of a high-ranking Ranger, or was he so detached from reality after training that he thought that the robbery was a training exercise? Blum elevates this truecrime saga, discussing masculine madness and the war on terror.

‘Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change’ Ellen Pao

(Spiegel & Grau, $28)

She may have lost her gender

discrimination case against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the high-powered venture capital firm that employed her, but Pao shook up Silicon Valley. With an engineering degree from Princeton and business and law degress from Harvard, Pao, who believed in meritocracy, writes about being degraded and harassed at work, and then marginalized for being a whistleblower. In this bracing memoir, Pao, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, details her mistreatment and how she teamed with several other female tech leaders to found Project Include, a nonprofit, to track diversity results and hold companies and executives accountable.

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JESMYN WARD’S “Salvage the Bones” won the 2011 National Book Award for fiction. On Wednesday, her new novel was named a finalist for this year’s prize.

A moral chorus of voices in ‘Sing’ Her story of a working-class family may be political and sad, but Jesmyn Ward deftly avoids cliché By Michelle Dean

Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward

Scribner: 304 pp., $26

Jesmyn Ward’s latest novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” is a multivocal book, switching voices from chapter to chapter. But its moral anchor is a young boy named JoJo, a biracial child in Mississippi who is essentially without parents and who, at age 13, will still begin his monologue by gravely observing, “I like to think I know what death is. I like to think it is something I could look at straight.” JoJo is, in other words, that cliché, an old soul. But as is somewhat unusual for novels about preternaturally observant children, Ward explicitly spells out for us why he is this way. JoJo’s mother, Leonie, had him young, and to a degree not often portrayed in fiction she is ambivalent, even hostile to, motherhood. She lives with her own parents and largely lets them parent her children. Her focal point instead is JoJo’s father, Michael, who is incarcerated upstate for drug-related crimes. He

has been gone three years when the novel opens but is about to be released. Absence has not diminished Leonie’s consuming passion for him. She still feels that Michael sees past her “skin the color of unmilked coffee, eyes black, lips the color of plums, and saw me. Saw the walking wound I was, and came to be my balm.” Most of the book takes place during the car ride in which Leonie, JoJo, JoJo’s younger sister Michaela, and a friend drive north to fetch Michael from prison and go back home again. Everyone is lost in daydreams, as people often are in cars, which helps expand from this potentially claustrophobic setting. But Michaela is sick, constantly vomiting, and JoJo must spend most of the trip acting as surrogate parent. He does not trust Leonie, not in the least, to care either for him or his sister. “She ain’t never healed nothing or grown nothing in her life, and she don’t know,” he says of his mother. Instead JoJo must reckon mostly alone with a world that is indifferent or hostile to him and one too that is seeded with ghosts of people he himself never met when alive. She maintains a tricky balance: Her story is moral-but-not-judg-

mental, political-but-not-polemical, sad-but-not-treacly. To describe the elements of the book is to somehow make them sound like reductive clichés when they are not. For example, one of those ghosts claims to be a boy named Richie, who in life was incarcerated with JoJo’s grandfather, River, at the same prison that Michael ended up in. Richie, we figure out early on, has died in some horrible unspoken way. We also know that the death is tied up with River somehow, even as River recounts to JoJo a protective relationship toward the boy: “I remembered again how young he was, how his big teeth was still breaking through his gums in some places.” There are writerly hands in which such a device, with all its clear invocations of the South’s racial history, might rapidly prove blunt and insufferable. But not in Ward’s, a 2011 winner of the National Book Award. She is as economical a writer, in her own way, as Hemingway, using only the necessary number of words. If anything, there are times the reader wants Ward to elaborate more, not less. There is something about her depiction of the working class, in particular, that seems lived-in, in a way

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that feels desperately needed in the cohort of Big American Books. A plot point here, for example, turns on the cost of the gas it takes to drive to the prison, a question that many novelists would not even bother to ask setting up a similar situation. The climax of this book takes us to an encounter with the police that, after several years of head-

lines about police brutality, feels unnervingly familiar. Again, it would be easy for a lesser writer to make this a self-important set piece, dead as any flogged horse could be. Ward cracks the situation open like a mirror as her characters are pulled out of the car and all of them, even the child JoJo, are cuffed. A gun is pointed at him, one that he can’t ever again forget: “It is a tingle at the back of my skull, an itching at my shoulder.” Of course there isn’t anything to be found in the car, per se, though Leonie is indeed hiding something from the police. But it is the sheer terror of the characters, the untenability of their situation, that really matters, not the facts at hand. And Ward is a master at evoking it. With first “Salvage the Bones” and now “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” she has proved herself to be an excellent writer of brief but socially and intellectually ambitious novels. One wants to ask her to push further, and write even more. Dean is the 2017 recipient of the Nona Balakian citation for book reviewing. Her book, “Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion,” will be published in April.

Any way you slice it, hilariously delicious By Jeff VanderMeer

Sourdough Robin Sloan

MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 272 pp., $26

In this day and age, under our current political conditions, you’d be forgiven for mistaking lightness for triteness, escape for escapism. There’s a sense that our fictions should be of Earth-shattering import in the obvious ways, and this perhaps desensitizes us to other examples of subversion and narrative. It may also make us miss out on some great fiction about odd bread, an imaginary country and the processes behind making robot arms. All of which is to say that Robin Sloan’s delightful new novel, “Sourdough,” the follow-up to his runaway success “Mr. Penumbra’s 24Hour Bookstore,” displays both lightness and a yearning for escape, but only in the best sense. It is that rare thing: a satire that has a love of what it satirizes while also functioning as a modern fairy tale about, of all things, the magic of certain carbohydrates. For this to be a chemical rather than physical reaction, Sloan must display a sure and natural knowledge of high-tech culture and of bread culture (in both senses). His keen insight into both automatons and organic foods stems from his immersion in the San Francisco tech community and collaboration with his partner Kathryn Tomajan on Fat Gold olive oil. Did I say the novel also includes

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ROBIN SLOAN is the ace

baker behind this carb-loaded mix of satire and fairy tale.

a Lois Club for women named Clara? That’s a joke — a much worse joke than any of the many fine jokes you’ll find in “Sourdough.” Of course, the Lois Club is a club for women named Lois, including the narrator, who works for General Dexterity, a tech company that develops robotic arms. There are a profusion of Loises in “Sourdough” because of the club — including Boring Lois, Lois Whose Stomach Hurt, Professor Lois and Woodland Court Lois. Just as there are a profusion of robotic arms at Real Lois’ day job at a start-up, and just as there are countless moments during which Sloan, not only with sympathy but also with sharpness, sends up the rituals of modern work-life. At times, the send-up is stripped down to avoid

making the novel too capitalismfriendly, as when Lois receives the nonironic message from management that “We are on a mission to remake the conditions of human labor, so push harder, all of you.” Despite the proliferation of many interesting Loises in Sloan’s story, though, there is really only one Lois for me: the narrator, Computer Lois, who tells a sure-footed and lovely tale of being gifted with a strange sourdough starter after becoming addicted to the delivery service of a couple of brothers, Beoreg and Chaiman, who turn out to be operating an illicit restaurant out of their apartment. Why is Lois ordering so much delivery? She’s become sick of the “nutritive gel” called Slurry favored by her start-up — a gel, I might add, that is satire in three dimensions. Its presence pokes fun at not only team-building exercises among the Silicon Valley set but also group-think and current fad diets. Slurry isn’t delicious, but it creates several hilariously delicious moments in the story. Similarly, you could say that Lois, although surrounded by (at least some) talented, driven people, has gotten a little tired of robot arms, even a little tired of the idea of automation and automatons itself. Getting to know the affable brothers responsible for the menu at the Clement Street Soup and Sourdough “restaurant” helps, along with the Lois Club, to airlift her out of the hermetically sealed world created by General Dexterity. Or perhaps the one she’s created for herself: “Here’s a thing I believe about people my age: we are the children of Hogwarts, and

more than anything, we just want to be sorted.” Sorting is one thing — staying in your lane is another, and Lois soon enters the world of bread-making when the brothers leave town and hand her the strange sourdough starter, along with explicit instructions that say that not following the instructions will lead to the death of the starter in a couple of days. When Lois gets going on the bread-making, and people begin to love it, the starter becomes almost like her child; there is the same sense of responsibility to feed it and take care of it. This attachment is more real than anything General Dexterity has to offer. Lois also develops a bond with Beoreg and Chaiman, who proclaim her their “number one customer.” Or perhaps number one addict. Beoreg and Chaiman claim to be hawking “the food of the Mazg,” a perhaps imaginary European lineage. Even after they skip town, leaving Lois with the responsibility of the starter, they send her emails and letters from their journeys, and these brief but chatty missives form lovely micro-chapters between those describing Lois’ adventures. In one of the wittier emails, Beoreg confesses that he has sometimes had the thought that “the two of us were like the bacteria and the fungus in the starter….(In that analogy I am the bacteria and Chaiman is the fungus. Never tell him I said that.)” This observation leads to a comedic pay-off I will not spoil, except to say that it involves the bacteria, not the fungus. As for the rest of “Sourdough,” once we’re past the setup, Sloan

continues the high-wire balancing act of including satire with his fairy tale, all with an astounding conciseness and sure-footedness. We breeze through, in the best way, Lois impressing her fellow employees with her bread and then, after a hilarious encounter with the judges who accept or deny vendors to the fabled Ferry Market, becoming embroiled with the down-market, not nearly as prestigious Marrow Fair, which no one has ever heard of. The market wants not just her bread but also her ties to General Dexterity. In becoming embroiled with the Marrow Fair, Lois trades one weird culture for another, with its own set of issues. But wait: I haven’t even dwelt much on the star of the show: the sourdough starter. Because Beoreg and Chaiman may not have been entirely honest with Lois about its true nature. Because Lois does wonder why her bread comes out of the oven with what seem like human faces displayed across the crust. Because she is perhaps tempted during sessions of the Lois Club to confess to uncanny occurrences during the night that involve unusual behavior by the starter. That Sloan rises to the occasions (bread pun intended) in making all of this work so well is perhaps the real miracle, though. The irony of “Sourdough” is that there really are no bad carbs here — just a full, satisfying meal. VanderMeer is the author, most recently, of the novel “Borne.” The film “Annihilation” starring Natalie Portman, based on his book, debuts in February.

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Fiction

Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times

THE STRIP has come a long way from the days of Bugsy Siegel and “The Godfather,” yet an undercurrent of darkness remains.

Where everything is a con

[Las Vegas, from F1] feel more welcoming for a common person to lose their money in, but that doesn’t mean the place got safer. In the wake of Las Vegas turning into a killing field Oct. 1, making it home now to the deadliest mass shooting in modern history — all from the window of a casino hotel — one wonders if Las Vegas will ever feel safe or why we ever thought it was in the first place. A man with a gun in Las Vegas surprises no one. The gangsters moved into the strip club business, pushed out farther from the Strip, into the corner malls in the dodgy parts of town, away from the cameras. It was an open secret, the only thing that stayed in Las Vegas. Until tourists started getting stomped in parking lots by bouncers with criminal records longer than the famous crooks who used to run the town. And then it became a thing called Operation G-String, a corruption scandal that encompassed city officials, organized crime and the women earning 20 bucks a dance. The clubs got cleaned up. People went to prison. But not for long. They got out, got into real estate. Mortgage fraud. That sort of thing. Though of course Las Vegas is more than the Strip. When I lived there from 1998 through 2000, I’d wake up and walk outside, pick up the Review-Journal on my driveway in Summerlin and nod at my neighbor coming home from her shift at the Bellagio, nod at my neighbor hustling his kids into the car to take them to school, normal life things, people also coming to

Las Vegas to be whatever they were going to be regardless. But live there for just a few months and the undercurrent of darkness walks into your life. There’s always a hustle. “Her dining partners filled out keno slips for a dollar,” Charles Bock writes in “Beautiful Children,” his novel of Las Vegas. “Just to have some action going. They kept an eye out for the ticket girl. They called Lorraine and the ticket girl and the waitress darling.” It’s an ethos. You can pretend to be those kinds of people. Eventually, you wake up, and you are who you are. “In the desert dawn,” Vu Tran writes in his novel “Dragonfish,” “there was a lifelessness to the way the valley’s light fell across the Strip and how the shadows pooled beneath the hotels like melted paint … with buildings erected from every culture and time in history, every possible mood, and with no consistency save their garishness and size. In the daylight, everything looked faraway, out of reach. If people came here to lose themselves, did they ever come to find anything?” Isn’t that the eternal question? If what happens in Las Vegas stays there, too often the compulsion is to find trouble. Not that Las Vegas hasn’t been prepared for it. It’s the home to an elite SWAT team, the casinos and airport have the best biometric facial recognition systems in the country, and it is generally one of the best surveilled cities in the world. But what does it matter how close you’re being watched when, throughout Nevada, it’s le-

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gal to bring a gun into a bar, into a casino — including the Mandalay Bay — or when there’s no waiting period to buy a gun when you can easily purchase high-volume magazines? Most of Nevada is still the literal Wild West, the stretch between Las Vegas and Reno filled with desolate beauty and scrub cities in all directions. Make that run in your car sometime and you’ll understand the liberal gun laws; you may even appreciate them. But you may also understand how the cowboy slowly morphed into the gangster, how a desire to have your own plot of land with a view and no one pushing you around can mutate into something harsh and angry when society pushes back. And how when people enter the city limits of a town built to defraud them, they have

the propensity to act unpredictably. “A frequently asked question in Las Vegas,” Geoff Schumacher writes in “Sun, Sin and Suburbia,” his essential examination of the modern history of the city, “is ‘Do you like it here?’ ” Like many of us, Schumacher isn’t quite sure. I left Las Vegas quickly — I lived there for only two years — and in that way, my time there wasn’t all that unusual, as Las Vegas has long been marked by the rush of people coming and going. But the place has infected me ever since. I saw things in that town that you wouldn’t believe, or maybe now you would. Stunning, sudden violence. Desperation. The jagged, other-worldly beauty of Red Rock Canyon. People gambling inside chain pharmacies, hooked to oxygen machines while smoking the cigarettes you saw them buy, along with their Lipitor and Coumadin. Everything looks like a con, everyone looks like the rube, which means so do you. No one comes to Las Vegas to make it small, so it’s absurd to think that what happens in Las Vegas will ever stay there. Violence on a grand scale is both the living horror of America and the embodiment of our freedoms. If, as Hunter S. Thompson suggested in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” the only final sin is stupidity, perhaps the question now is how much longer do we abide it. Goldberg is the author, most recently, of the novel “Gangster Nation.”

Avant-garde reading, with popcorn By Agatha French “People want a playful outlet,” said Michelle Tea, author of cult favorite memoirs “Valencia” and “Rent Girl” and most recently “Modern Tarot.” As a founding member of the long-running Sister Spit poetry and performance tour, she has curated literary happenings since 1994. All that was on display at Tea’s event named “Experiment I” (with no second installment currently planned, the name could be read as ironic, hopeful or both) at the newly opened Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles on Sept. 29. It included unabashed nudity, dance, performance art, wigs, oneliners, a keyboard, skateboards, popcorn, dental floss, video loops, audience participation and even, quite frankly, unfettered joy — rarities at public literary events. The night included Tara Jepson, author of “Like a Dog” and Miriam Klein Stahl, illustrator of “Rad Women Worldwide,” both published by Sister Spit/City Lights; comedian Lizzy Cooperman; writer Wendy Ortiz (“Bruja”) and the Brontez Purnell Dance Company, performing a partiallyunclad piece called “Chronic: A Dance About Marijuana.” “Hold on to your hats and whatever other accessories you happen to be wearing,” Tea told the audience as the performance began. Purnell (author of the novel “Since I Laid My Burden Down” from Feminist Press) and two other dancers began in witchy black wigs like the three weird sisters and, making use of ICA L.A.’s three con-

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COMEDIAN Lizzy Cooperman punctuates her jokes with sinister notes from her keyboard during “Experiment I” at ICA L.A.

nected rooms, beckoned the crowd to follow them around corners and back again. The sound of popcorn kernels raining from the dancers’ hands onto poured concrete was as dramatic as a broken string of pearls, and later, when the dancers bathed themselves in a popped batch, the smell of buttery popcorn drove the message home: in “a dance about marijuana,” this was the munchies portion. (A loop of Ice Cube and Chris Tucker in “Friday” playing behind them was an inspired touch.) Post-popcorn, the dancers unspooled a web of dental floss from their mouths, a giant cat’s cradle that connected them to one another, stretching farther and farther like the string of a kite. The performance was thrilling and in-

tentionally scented here too. Mint floss — evoking green, like marijuana, Purnell later explained, “was a stylistic choice.” If that focused on visuals and scent, comedian Cooperman used a surprising sound — a keyboard with ominous organ notes — to punctuate her jokes. The discordance between her dire score and the audience’s laughter was funny in and of itself. Cooperman clearly knew her audience, delivering jokes in a theatrical old crone voice, playing truth or dare with the crowd and giving the audience — comfortable with gender fluidity — the opportunity to laugh at ourselves. “I just want to explore the boundaries!” she screamed, “ ’Cause I’m so sex positive!” At times, laughter nearly drowned out

her keyboard. No drink minimum necessary, Cooperman killed. Ortiz, whose latest book is a memoir of her dreams, asked the audience to raise their hands when the iconography in her reading coincided with their own. Dreams of cats, seals, sharks and even matricide all had multiple takers; befitting of current events, bombs were perhaps the most commonly shared dream. “I’m a psychotherapist, so I use the word ‘experiment’ a lot,” she said of her efforts to incorporate the evening’s theme in a reading. “If it fails, it’s still good. I love the word ‘experiment.’ ” In the last reading of the evening, Jensen and her team from Pave the Way Skateboards, which makes skateboard decks, read their queer skateboarding manifesto. “Are we not punks? Do we not value energy over Juilliard training?” asked Jensen, who skated across the museum floor in heels and tights. “As queer skateboarders we believe … that part of dismantling toxic hierarchies and undermining patriarchy is creating an even playing field for all skill sets and abilities, and learning to value the energy, or ‘stoke,’ a person brings to their skateboarding.” They held up handmade signs for an Instagram photo-op. As the crowd filed out, Tea swept up leftover popcorn, like confetti after a party, with a push broom. “I like to be surprised and entertained,” she said. “I like to challenge myself and challenge my writer friends to do something different.” agatha.french@latimes.com Twitter: @agathafrenchy

weeks on list

1. Legacy of Spies by John le Carré (Viking: $28) A retired British Secret Service agent is interrogated about his past and former colleague George Smiley.

2. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (Penguin Press: $27) A new family and an adoption upend a quiet Ohio town.

3. A Column of Fire by Ken Follett (Viking: $36) Set in 1558 England, lovers are on opposite sides of a conflict between Catholics and Protestants.

4. Glass Houses by Louise Penny (Minotaur: $28.99) Chief Superintendent Gamache regrets not acting on a hunch when a body is discovered.

5. The Girl Who Takes and Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz (Knopf: $27.95) Lisbeth Salander teams with a journalist to uncover the secrets of her childhood.

6. The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille (Simon & Schuster: $28.99) An Army veteran is hired to find $60 million stashed somewhere in Cuba.

7. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (Viking: $27) In 1922, a Russian count is sentenced to house arrest in a hotel for the rest of his life.

8. The Golden House by Salman Rushdie (Random House: $28.99) A billionaire real estate mogul moves into Greenwich Village with his three sons.

9. Wonder by R.J. Palacio (Knopf: $16.99) The trials and triumphs of a 10-year-old boy starting school for the first time.

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10. The Land of Stories: Worlds Collide by Chris Colfer (Little, Brown: $19.99) Fairy tale characters and the human world collide.

Nonfiction 1. What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster: $18) The presidential candidate’s memoir of losing the 2016 election.

2. Unbelievable by Katy Tur (Dey Street: $26.99) The NBC News correspondent writes about covering Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

3. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil Degrasse Tyson (Norton: $18.95) A quick and easy introduction to the cosmos from the astrophysicist.

4. Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown (Random House: $28) Cultivating the power of belonging in an era of disconnection.

5. Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven (Grand Central: $18) A graduation speech from Adm. William H. McRaven at the University of Texas.

6. Devotion by Patti Smith (Yale University Press: $18) The rocker-writer’s exploration of the nature of creative invention featuring a love story concerning an Estonian skater.

7. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson (HarperOne: $24.99) How trying not to be positive all the time will make us better, happier people.

8. Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken (Twelve: $28) The senator from Minnesota’s memoir of his evolution from comedian to serious politician.

9. Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden (Atlantic Monthly: $30) The story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war.

10. Unstoppable by Maria Sharapova (Sarah Crichton Books: $28) A memoir from the Grand Slam tennis champion chronicling her wins and challenges.

PAPERBACKS Fiction 1.It: A Novel by Stephen King ($19.99) 2.The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood ($15.95) 3.Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur ($14.99) 4.All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr ($17) 5.1984 by George Orwell ($9.99)

Nonfiction 1.On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder ($7.99) 2.How to Fight by Thich Nhat Hanh ($9.95) 3.Being Mortal by Atul Gawande ($16) 4.The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls ($15) 5.Barbarian Days by William Finnegan ($17)

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STORMING THE CASTLES

Our passions run high for the fantastic fortifications, driven by Disney and “Game of Thrones.” Want to see as many as you can? The British Isles have more than1,000. You’ll find ruins to explore and preserved palaces to stay in. You can even study them at Oxford. Let your conquest begin. L4

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Highway 1 bridge to open in Big Sur The long-awaited replacement for Highway1’s Pfeiffer Creek Bridge in Big Sur is expected to open Friday. Travelers now can drive from Carmel to Big Sur and beyond on Highway 1. But California’s iconic coastal route remains blocked by a landslide near the town of Gorda, about 57 miles south of Big Sur. The Pfeiffer Creek Bridge was closed Feb. 15 after its hillside supports buckled and failed as a result of heavy winter rains. Travelers will have to wait awhile for all of Highway 1 to open. Fixing the 5-million-cubic-foot landslide of rock and debris at Mud Creek that covered the road near Gorda is expected to cost $40 million. Caltrans estimates the road will be repaired and open next summer. Twelve miles north of the Mud Creek slide, the road has reopened at another slide point to alternating one-way traffic. — Mary Forgione

Luxe camping near L.A. The Beverly Wilshire, a Four Seasons

Hotel, is gearing up for its 90th anniversary in 2018 by offering a chance to sleep under the urban stars — with a luxurious twist. You can choose to go glamping (luxuryscale camping) on the terrace of the hotel’s Veranda Suite. The studio-style suite, which is on the 10th (top) floor of the hotel at 9500 Wilshire Blvd., has a 2,140-square-foot terrace with expansive views of the Hollywood Hills and Rodeo Drive. Glampers can choose to spend the night in a 10-foot-tall tent equipped with a queensize bed, marble lamps and a crystal chandelier. Oversized lounge furniture surrounds the fireplace on the terrace, which can seat eight for outdoor dining. A glamping tasting menu, with caviar and Wagyu beef, can be prepared by the hotel’s executive chef; for dessert, s’mores are made with 24K gold leaf, Tahitian vanilla bean marshmallow and Valrhona chocolate paired with a Champagne flight. If glampers tire of the great outdoors, they can retreat to the suite, which has a king-size bed, walk-in closet and marble bathroom. Glamping in the Veranda Suite is available through December. Rates start at $3,500 a night; tasting menu from $185 per person . Info: (310) 275-5200, lat.ms/4seasons camping — Rosemary McClure

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Very contented A lift for airport Early-bird flier with Travel tips Thanks for covering My experience differs Mike James’ story on U.S. 395 inspired us to take a road trip [“On the 395? Stop!,” Sept. 24]. The picture of Red Rock Canyon State Park was the draw. Thanks for a great three-day trip. Keep suggestions like this coming our way. We saw the article in the Travel section about the Finger Lakes [“Fall for Finger Lakes,” by Margo Pfeiff, Oct. 1] and said, “Oh, oh, we may need to go to upstate New York!” Kathy and Ron Stecher Upland

Ontario airport in On the Spot [“Ontario Looking Up as its Fares Drop,” by Catharine Hamm, Oct. 1]. We live in Glendora and used it often, but prices went up and some airlines left. It is closer, easier, so much more pleasant than LAX. But we fly many times a year and nearly always out of LAX, which has more flight times and cheaper fares. We’ve tried Orange County, Burbank and Long Beach, but there is nothing like Ontario. We really hope Ontario can begin to compete again. Janet and Don Campbell Glendora

from that of the letter writer who preferred to avoid earlybird flights [Feedback, Oct. 1]. In recent years, I have scheduled departures for 5:30 to 6:30 a.m. for LAX Southwest flights. Curbside check-in takes only 10 to 15 minutes. John Loggins Rancho Palos Verdes

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A wet welcome home

You’ve stopped your mail and your newspaper, found a pet sitter and arranged for a ride to the airport. ¶ But did you check your washing machine hoses? ¶ We’re betting that systems that deliver water in your house are about the last thing on your mind as you decamp for vacation. But after reading the results of a recent Chubb insurance survey and talking to area plumbers, I’m afraid of the water that bursts forth while you’re gone and comes flooding out the front door as you arrive home. “I would say one of the No. 1 takeaways [from the survey] is that people underestimate the likelihood and potential damage that internal water leaks can cause in their homes,” said Annmarie Camp, executive vice president with Chubb Personal Risk Services, a premium insurer. “People tend to be more prepared for a fire loss…. Very few people anticipate their big loss is going to be water.” How big a loss? Friends of Lawrence Verne Sr., president of Verne’s Plumbing of Buena Park, returned home and found their two-story home flooded, a loss of about $40,000. When problems occur, the culprit is someone you know well: you. Prevention is key, but the survey noted that only about a quarter of residents inspect their plumbing. You buy a house, Verne said, and you expect it to be a happily-ever-after relationship without doing anything to maintain it. Incorrect. You must work at it. You can do the work yourself, or you can have a pro do it. Michael Mize, who has spent 31 years as a union plumber and is supervisor for Michael’s Valley Plumbing Service Pros with several Southland locations, encourages homeowners to periodically check water-sup-

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vacation to this soggy situation. Help is out there. ply lines and try shutting those valves (the ones near the toilet, for instance) to make sure they’re not frozen. Be gentle, Mize said. “Don’t force it,” he added, and “if it doesn’t move, have someone come out and replace it. “Hard water is a very big culprit. It’s very hard on the fixtures.” The solution may be a whole-house filtration system, he said. Make sure too that hoses have not cracked. The newer braided stainless steel hoses for faucets and toilets are rubber inside, but the steel braid outside stops them from rupturing, Verne said. And don’t skimp and get cheap hoses, Verne added. Make sure you’re getting stainless steel hoses. One way to keep water problems from happening: shutting off your water while you’re away. (Also turn the water heater to vacation.) And when you return, turn the water back on slowly, Mize said, to avoid putting strain on the fittings. Verne takes another

route; he uses something called a WaterCop system, which uses wired and wireless sensors to detect leaks and then shut off the water supply. The cost depends on the size of your home and the number of sensors. If it sounds as though I am borrowing trouble, I’m not. I’ve had one near brush with disaster: The day before I left for vacation about five years ago, I discovered water pouring from the ceiling when I ran downstairs to retrieve my suitcase. I shut off the water and called the plumber to visit after my return. Lightning can’t strike twice, right? Wrong. Mine is an old house, and like older people, a house’s pieces and parts don’t last forever. Count me among the newly converted who never want to be hosed by a hose — or anything else. Have a travel dilemma or question? Write to travel@latimes.com. We regret we cannot answer every inquiry.

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YOUR WEEKEND WHAT’S UP

Fun all around By April Orcutt From celebrations of early California to the cowboy era to Victorian sci-fi to Japan, the coming weekend is all over the map.

Hollywood

Screamfest, the horror film festival that has been called the Sundance of Horror, screens short films and “new genre” features from around the world as well as classic scary films. This is not for the faint of heart; some of these films are bizarrely weird and creepy. When: Oct. 10-19 Cost, info: $11. No children. No dogs. (310) 3583273, screamfestLA.com

Costa Mesa

Paul Dyer Bernardus Lodge & Spa

BERNARDUS Lodge & Spa in Carmel Valley, Calif., has added villas. Guests in Bernardus’ rooms get complimentary use of a convertible.

ESCAPE TO CARMEL VALLEY VILLAGE, CALIF.

THE RELAXING SIDE OF WINE COUNTRY

BY ROSEMARY MCCLURE >>> I drink on only three occasions: When I’m in wine country, when it’s my birthday and when it’s not my birthday. With that special date looming, I had lots of motivation to sample vino a few months ago during a weekend stay in Carmel Valley. I like this woodsy, laid-back community at the edge of the Santa Lucia Mountains. It’s just a dozen miles inland from Carmel, its famous coastal cousin, but it’s a world apart. No fog, no crowds, less expensive tasting rooms. And many of its excellent lodges and sunny wineries are dog-friendly, so Piper the Princess Pup could join me. The tab for our overnight stay: $325 for a birthday splurge room at cushy Bernardus Lodge & Spa and about $135 for meals.

THE BED My fave in the wine country: staying in accommodations tucked in among vineyards. Bernardus Lodge & Spa fits the bill in Carmel Valley. This rambling, low-rise hotel, surrounded by 28 acres of gardens, orchards, lavender and vineyards, is a picturesque place to de-stress. The lodge recently added villas and suites, but still has only 73 guest rooms and cottages spread out on the grounds. You’ll find a finedining restaurant, a spa and some cool touches in the rooms, such as outdoor rain showers. A big bonus: Guests get complimentary use of a Mercedes-Benz convertible, so we took a spin on Pebble Beach’s spectacular 17-Mile Drive, then dined in Carmel. A terrific way to celebrate a birthday.

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When: Oct. 13-15 Cost, info: Adults $8, children younger than 6 and seniors older than 65 free. Service dogs only. (617) 875-9602, oc-japanfair.com

Lancaster

Dip into the traditional cowboy West. The California Circuit Finals Rodeo includes team roping, bareback riding, barrel racing, saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, bull riding and tie-down roping. When: Oct. 13-15 Cost, info: Adults from $15, children 2 and younger free with adult. No dogs. (661) 575-9800, cafinalsrodeo.com

Santa Barbara

The Harbor & Seafood Festival celebrates sustainably harvested seafood with clam chowder, seafood tacos, paella, uni (sea urchin) and more. Visitors can listen to live music, take a boat ride and tour a U.S. Coast Guard cutter and a tall ship. Entrance to the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum and its Children’s Gallery is free. When: Oct. 14

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Bernardus Lodge & Spa, 415 W. Carmel Valley Road, Carmel Valley, Calif.; (831) 658-3400, www.bernard uslodge .com. Wheelchair-accessible rooms. Jim Edwards

THE MEAL La Balena, which serves rustic Tuscan fare, is a popular trattoria-syle cafe in Carmel with an everchanging, locally sourced menu. We didn’t make reservations but got lucky and didn’t have to wait long for a table. My osso buco, tomato-braised pork shank with polenta ($33), was tender and delicious. Don’t chance it; make a reservation and ask for the

Monterey

Immerse yourself in Japanese traditions and culture at the eighth OC Japan Fair. Sample Japanese food, then take a look at innovations, live performances and a traditional kimono show. For a pop culture and technology experience, watch “Innocent Forest” in which a visual novel combines with virtual reality.

THE MOTO Talbott Motorcycle Museum turned out to be a serendipitous find.

garden room. THE FIND I intended to spend the day wandering from tasting room to tasting room, but I found a colorful diversion at Moto Talbott Motorcycle Museum. The 170-bike collection, owned by former wine and necktie magnate Robb Talbott, includes choppers, race bikes and

flat track bikes as well as vintage motorcycle art. I don’t know anything about motorcycles, but it was fun to take a look. THE LESSON LEARNED Carmel Valley is packed with wineries — 37 at last count — and Carmel Valley Village is tiny, so you can easily make your way from one tasting room to another

on foot. Most are petfriendly, which meant Piper could tag along and enjoy the easygoing community vibe. Flights of wine cost $10 to $20, a relative bargain. Buy a Cellar Pass (cvwine experience.com) for $50, which gets you tastings at eight wineries, for an evenbetter bargain. travel@latimes.com

La Balena, Junipero, between 5th and 6th, Carmel, Calif.; (831) 250-6295, www.la balena carmel.com. Wheelchair accessible in outdoor seating. Moto Talbott Motorcycle Museum, 4 E. Carmel Valley Road, Carmel Valley, Calif.; (831) 659-5410, www.mo totalbott .com. Admission $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and military.

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Oxnard

Steampunk Fest is all about fantasy costumes — and the more incongruous and mixed up the better. Combine Victoriana and sci-fi, or be an Asian cowgirl — and do dress up your leashed dog. This year’s theme is pirates. When: Oct. 14 and 15 Cost, info: Adults from $10, children younger than 12 free. Dogs on leash OK. lat.ms/oxnardsteampunk

Agoura Hills

The Reyes Adobe Days celebrates early California on the site of the historic 1845 Reyes Adobe. Watch a community parade and a magic show or compete in 10K and 10-mile runs. Kids can join a scavenger hunt, visit the petting zoo and ride ponies. When: Oct. 14 and 15 Cost, info: Free except for special events. Familyfriendly. Dogs on leash OK. (818) 597-7361, reyes adobedays.org

Why: Fish don’t get any fresher than the straight-off-the-boat offerings at Point Loma Seafoods in San Diego. What: Point Loma Seafoods, born as a fresh-fish market in 1963, has grown into something more — a market, a sushi deli and an ultra-casual restaurant for lunch and dinner, its offerings changing with the seasons. From summer through mid-autumn, there’s Pacific swordfish. From October through May, California spiny lobster. I like to sit on the upstairs deck under an umbrella and look east across San Diego Harbor. Info: Point Loma Seafoods, 2805 Emerson St., San Diego; (619) 223-1109, www.pointlomaseafoods.com — Christopher Reynolds

Cost, info: Free admission; food and wine additional. Family-friendly. Dogs on leash only.(805) 897-1962, harborfestival .org

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THE UPSTAIRS deck at Point Loma Seafoods, an ideal lunch spot.

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REAL FANTASYLAND

BY ROSEMARY MCCLURE >>> OXFORD, England — Turrets and moats. Kings and queens. Sword fights and treachery. No, I’m not describing that HBO series. I’m giving a shout-out to the real thing. Castles. ¶ In some parts of Europe, castles are nearly as common as Starbucks are in the United States. You don’t have to go far to quench your thirst. ¶ Why do they hold us spellbound? ¶ I blame Walt Disney for stoking our childhood fantasies with Sleeping Beauty Castle and a passel of fairy-tale princesses. But Disney wasn’t the first and won’t be the last. Look at how many references there are in pop culture: movies, books and series such as “Game of Thrones” and “Downton Abbey.” No wonder we’re hooked. I’m such a fan that I took a weeklong summer course at Oxford University called Castles of Great Britain and went on field trips through the English countryside and to tiny Wales, one of the castle capitals of the world with more than 600. The trip was a corker, as the Brits say. You don’t have to take a class to explore the castles. There are more than 1,000 in England, Scotland and Wales. And there are castle trails to help you explore. In Scotland, there’s an official trail (lat.ms/scotlandcastletrail) in Aberdeenshire. Although the region is just slightly bigger than the state of Delaware, it counts 300 castles within its leafy green borders, including Balmoral, the Scottish Highland residence of the British royal family. In England, you can walk the Three Castles Path (www.three castlespath.uk), a 60-mile route inspired by the 13th century journeys of King John between Windsor Castle and Winchester. This scenic, easy-going path takes walkers through rolling hills and past small villages and historic ruins. You don’t want to miss Wales (lat.ms/walescastles), where wonderfully preserved castles bring to mind the nation’s action-packed 2,000-year history.

If you go THE BEST WAY TO LONDON

From LAX, Virgin Atlantic, British, Air New Zealand, United, American and Norwegian offer nonstop service to London, and United, Delta and American offer connecting service (change of planes). Restricted round-trip airfares from $490, including taxes and fees. TELEPHONES

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Hotel Malmaison, Oxford Castle, 3 New Road, Oxford, England; 1865 689944, lat.ms/maimai son. The 95 rooms at Malmaison Oxford were once prison cells. The hotel, next to Oxford Castle, is a good place to pretend you’re on someone’s most wanted list. Centrally located. Doubles from $193 a night. Three Tuns Inn, 32 Bridge St. Chepstow, Wales; 1291 645797. B&B and pub, built in the early 1600s, adjacent to Chepstow Castle. It has character, hearty breakfasts and a wonderful view. It’s a five-minute walk from the train station. Doubles from $70 a night. LTR Castles; 1835 824642, ltrcastles.com. Rent a room in a castle such as Inverlochy in the Scottish Highlands (doubles from $589 a night) or rent an entire castle or manor house such as Forter Castle in Angus, Scotland, for $4,050 per night or the baronial castle Aldourie on the banks of Loch Ness, Scotland, for $13,496 a night.

Lessons in stone

I had just arrived at one of these formidable Welsh castles, Chepstow (lat.ms/chepstow), about 120 miles west of London, when the romance of the place struck me. Chepstow, built in 1067, is one of the oldest surviving stone castles in Britain. It stands high on a cliff overlooking the Wye River and has all the trappings: a drawbridge, secret passageways and towering turrets. My imagination shifted into overdrive as I pictured jousting knights, dancing lords and ladies and pitched battles for control of Wales. But even as these fantasies marched through my head, I realized that my enthusiasm for Chepstow and other sites pales in comparison to that of professional castle hunters. “I get very excited about this building. In fact, you have to hold me down,” Trevor Rowley, my Oxford professor, said as our class of 14 students milled around him. Rowley, an archaeologist, is an emeritus fellow of Kellogg College, one of the Oxford University colleges, and author of several books on landscape history. Chepstow was a Norman castle, he told us, built in an effort to control the Welsh, adding that construction began less than a year after William the Conqueror was crowned king of England in 1066. He pointed out one of the defense systems — a series of self-contained enclosures within the castle’s walls. “They could be sealed off from each other as the inhabitants retreated,” he said. Our next stop was at the nearby Tintern Abbey (lat.ms/tinternab bey), another incredible Welsh ruin. Founded by the lord of Chepstow in 1131, it is one of Wales’ great monastic ruins. It looks much as it did in the Middle Ages, except for the missing roof

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and windows and a floor of grass. Oxford classmate Alice Bisno of Culver City summed it up as she looked at the soaring walls: “You can see the bones, the ribs of this amazing church. It’s incredible.”

Cinematic setting

A totally different historic structure awaited us in Oxfordshire, about 90 miles from London. Dreamy Broughton Castle (www .broughtoncastle.com) looks like something out of a movie — several movies in fact, including the 2011film “Jane Eyre” and the 1998 movie “Shakespeare in Love,” which starred Joseph Fiennes as a young Shakespeare. Here’s where the story gets quirky: British actors Joseph and Ralph Fiennes are related to the current owners of this elegant estate, the 21st Lord and Lady Saye & Sele, whose family name is Fiennes. Ownership has been in the family since 1447, giving new meaning to the phrase “longtime residents.”

Broughton Castle, built in the 1300s and renovated in the 1500s, is the home every princess-wannabe wishes her prince would own. It scores points for its beauty from a distance and up close. Livestock graze in its lush pastures, flowers bloom in its carefully tended gardens and full-length portraits of ancestors fill the Great Hall. Wide Tudor windows throughout the house fill the rooms with sunshine. From the third story, a rooftop viewing platform overlooks the Ladies Garden full of hedges in the shape of fleur-de-lis. There’s a broad moat beyond and green pastures in the distance. Although the castle was built to keep people out, it’s now wide open to visitors. In fact, visitors’ fees play an important role in its upkeep, a docent said as I toured this Fantasyland. Speaking of which, no disrespect Walt, but your castle just wouldn’t cut it here. travel@latimes.com

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KEEPERS OF THE CASTLES houses the Crown Jewels, and Scotland’s imposing Edinburgh Castle (www.edinburghcastle.gov .uk). Windsor Castle (lat.ms/wind sorcastle), where British kings and queens have lived for more than 1,000 years, is about 22 miles from London and is open for tours. Other castles are off the beaten path but pay great dividends to those who want to explore the countryside. Each offers a fascinating window into the past. There’s little agreement as to the top castles because experts

have their favorites. But here are some suggestions: Arundel Castle: This West Sussex castle, founded at the end of the 11th century, overlooks the River Arun and has been the family home of the dukes of Norfolk and their ancestors for nearly 1,000 years. About 64 miles south of London. www.arundelcastle.org Dover Castle: This giant fortification, one of the largest castles in England, was a secret command post in World War II and starred in the 1990 film adaptation of “Hamlet,” starring Mel Gibson. Eighty-

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LEEDS CASTLE , in Kent southeast of London, once housed six medieval queens and Henry VIII. Don’t miss the maze and gardens.

More than 1,000 castles dot the British Isles, making it easy to put together an itinerary if you want to go castle-hopping. Some of the fortresses are in ruins, others are occupied, some are hotels or can be rented for weddings or other events. Many of the structures originally served as military bastions and as private homes. Some are large, well-known complexes that are easily visited, such as the Tower of London (www.hrp.org .uk/tower-of-london), a top attraction in the British capital that

Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, England; 844 482 7777, www.hrp.org.uk. Three restaurants serve the palace, which was the elegant home of Henry VIII and his many wives. Try the Fountain Court Cafe in summer or the Privy Kitchen or the Tiltyard Cafe, both open year- round. About a 45-minute drive from London. Entrees from $16. Saye & Sele Arms, Main road, Broughton, England; 1295, 263348, www.sayeandsele arms.co.uk. Popular and convenient pub when visiting Broughton Castle or the Cotswolds. Try owner Danny’s “Proper Pies,” from $22. Chepstow Castle Inn, 12 Bridge St., Chepstow, Wales; 1291 630956, www.chepstowcastle inn.com. Bargain meals and large portions at this pub and B&B adjacent to the castle. A large menu with fish and chips dishes, meat and veggie pies and traditional British dishes. Entrees less than $13.50.

two miles southeast of London. lat.ms/dovercastle Leeds Castle: Check out the maze and gardens at this castle, which once housed six medieval queens and Henry VIII. Forty-two miles southeast of London. www.leeds-castle.com Warwick Castle: Originally built by William the Conqueror in 1068, Warwick is near Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon. about 100 miles northwest of London. www.warwick -castle.com — Rosemary McClure

SUMMER STUDY AT OXFORD Want to say you attended Oxford? Try the Oxford Experience, a weeklong study program at the oldest university in the Englishspeaking world. The one-week Christ Church residential program, which has no requirements, exams or papers, offers more than 60 courses on history, politics, writing and other topics. Among the titles: Country Houses, Music of the Beatles and Castles of Great Britain. Excursions, tours, pub walks, whiskey tastings and croquet are available. The continuing education program draws students from their 20s to 90s, many from the U.S., Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Dates: July 1-Aug. 11 Price: From $1,806, including tuition, accommodations in student housing with shared bath, evening entertainment, a welcome reception and all meals — many in Tudor Hall, made famous by the “Harry Potter” films. Rooms with private bath are $2,048. International airfare and some excursions are not included. Info: lat.ms/oxfordexperience. Early application is recommended because classes fill quickly. — Rosemary McClure

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THE PUYE CLIFFS in north-central New Mexico were carved by the Tewa and occupied from about 980 to 1600. The rock is compacted volcanic ash.

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The Tewa of New Mexico fashioned cliff dwellings at Puye. Centuries later, you can still feel the life there. By Frank O. Sotomayor PUYE CLIFFS, N.M. — We silenced our phones as we stood among remnants of an ancient Native American village, trying to imagine the daily activity 1,000 years ago on this remote mesa. As gusts of wind whistled, we closed our eyes and pictured men hunting with bows and arrows, women shaping clay pottery and children racing to and fro. Barbara, my wife, and I were drawn to the site to learn more about the history and culture of New Mexico’s Native Americans, whose settlements are known as pueblos. The Puye Cliff Dwellings offer an open-air learning lab with stunning views and a chance to gain an appreciation for a simpler way of life. Early fall, when foliage puts on its annual show, and summer are excellent times to visit. We arrived at the 1930s-era Puye visitor center, once part of a chain of restaurants run by Fred Harvey, who helped popularize tourism in the West starting in the late 1800s. The site and tours of the Puye Cliff Dwellings, about 30 miles north of Santa Fe, are now managed by members of the Santa Clara Pueblo, direct descendants of the Tewa-language people who inhabited the area from about 980 to about 1600. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966. The south face of the Puye Cliffs, marked by cliff dwellings of different dimensions, extends a mile across the Pajarito Plateau of northern New Mexico. The dwellings were carved with wooden tools by early inhabitants from the mesa’s tuff — the compacted ash that was spewed by the Valles Caldera volcano, geologists say, more than 1 million years ago. We paid a tour fee and hopped aboard a van, which took us to the top of the mesa and the ruins of more than 100 rooms. The Tewa used the rooms for food storage and as living spaces in the spring and summer after relocating from their winter homes in the cliffs. Our 360-degree view from the mesa (elevation 7,100-feet plus) extended from the Taos Mountains in

REMNANTS of the Native American village at Puye Cliffs, about 30 miles north of Santa Fe, N.M.

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The Puye Cliff Dwellings, Highway 30 and Puye Road, Santa Clara Pueblo, N.M.; (505) 917-6650, lat.ms/puyecliffs. Open 8 a.m.-4 p.m. through the end of March. (Call after winter snowfall for hours of operation.) Beginning in April: 8 a.m.-6 p.m. One-hour guided tours of the mesa or the cliff dwellings begin at 9 a.m. and cost $20 a person, $18 for seniors and children. Two-hour tours of the cliff face, Puye village and mesa start at 8 a.m., 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., $35; $33 for seniors and children. “Earth & Sky” events will take place Oct. 14 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., featuring pueblo dances, bread-making demonstrations using hornos (outdoor ovens), local art vendors and tours. Special events are free with regular admission. the north to the Sandia Mountains, near Albuquerque, in the south. As we walked among the ancient structures, guide Elija Naranjo-Smith described the daily life of his ancestors. They were selfsufficient, he said, growing corn, beans and squash, gathering piñon nuts and hunting deer, elk and rabbits. Puye, he said, means “the place where rabbits gather.”

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Many mesa dwellings were excavated by Edgar Lee Hewett in the early 1900s. In one corner of the mesa he led reconstruction of a two-story community house, resembling the mesa’s original twoor three-level structures.

Hewett, a renowned anthropologist, was banned from the location after he removed skeletal remains from burial sites. No excavations have occurred since then in honor of the site’s sacred status, Naranjo-Smith said. Arrowheads and pottery shards along the cliff trails and mesa offer silent testimony about the Tewa village population that, at its peak, numbered about 2,500, said Alex Suazo, Puye’s operations manager. I tiptoed down a ladder to a rebuilt kiva. In the solitude, I imagined Tewa elders gathered in a circle for prayer. (The kiva is the only spot where photography is not permitted.) The Tewa were originally from the Mesa Verde/Four Corners region. They lived in the Puye Cliffs and similar nearby dwellings — largely in peace — for about 600 years, Naranjo-Smith said. The mesa gave the village an exceptional position from which to watch for possible invaders. As an additional defensive measure, the dwellings, constructed with blocks of pumice-like tuff, had tiny door openings. Some sources indicate that the Puye village’s first contact with Europeans occurred in 1541 during the Spanish expedition led by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado. That might have occurred, but there is no written record of the encounter, said Richard Flint, expedition historian and author.

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Journals kept by the Spanish expedition show that a party of men traveled north to Taos along the nearby Rio Grande Valley. Tour guide Naranjo-Smith told us a severe drought about 1600 forced the Puye’s inhabitants to move about 10 miles east to that same valley. There the Tewa later came into contact with Spanish authorities and missionaries, who named their village the Santa Clara Pueblo. (There are five other nearby Tewa-language pueblos.) As the priests worked to convert the people of the pueblos to Catholicism, they banned their sacred dances and traditions and imposed harsh punishments. Many, including religious leaders, were killed or died of illnesses brought by the Spaniards. The Tewa of Santa Clara joined other pueblos in reprisal. They attacked the Spanish settlers and priests in an uprising known as the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Ironically, the pueblo tribes, who spoke different languages, could coordinate their attack because they had learned a common language — Spanish. Although they suffered heavy casualties, the pueblo attackers killed about 400 settlers and clergy and succeeded in driving the Spaniards from what is now New Mexico. The pueblos resumed their ancient practices. A dozen years later, the Spanish returned and reconquered the region but muted some of their cruel practices, enhancing the bridging of the Spanish and Indian cultures. Today, among New Mexico’s 19 pueblos, the Santa Clara Pueblo is a vibrant community with a hotel, casino and golf course in nearby Española. Its potters are nationally known for their exquisite polychrome redware and black-on-polished-black pottery. As the sun bore down on us at the mesa, we returned in the van to the informative exhibit center. But dozens of visitors each day climb down long ladders to inspect the cliff dwellings and numerous petroglyphs. We took one last look at Puye, touted by its Tewa operators as “a magical place between Earth and sky.” The golden cliffs glistened in the late afternoon sun as, in the distance, tourists moved among the 1,000-year-old dwellings. We headed back to Santa Fe with a newly acquired knowledge and stories to share.

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Tell them the Count sent you By Mary Forgione Looking for places to get your Halloween spooky on? Here’s how to think beyond local fright factories. In Romania’s Transylvania region, you can visit Bran Castle, known worldwide as Count Dracula’s home. Dracula is fictional, of course, but this fortress, which dates to the 14th century, resembles the description of the castle in Bram Stoker’s novel. Cost, info: About $9 for adults and $1.70 to $5 for kids and students. Open daily. bran-castle.com In Paris, there’s an underworld just 65 feet below street level. The Paris Catacombs Underground Tour by City Wonders guides you through quarry tunnels to see skeletal remains of about 6 million souls, the city’s answer to crowded cemeteries in the 18th century. The walking tour lasts two hours. Cost, info: $106 per person. Info: lat.ms/pariscatacombs You wouldn’t expect the Royal Lancaster London hotel overlooking Hyde Park to serve a Halloween Afternoon Tea. But traditional British tea takes on a noir vibe here that pays tribute to the thriller films of the 1960s and ’70s. You can watch an Alfred Hitchcock film flickering on the wall and nibble on a Cursed Blackbird Macaroon and Night of the Living Tart, two of the sweeter picks. Cost, info: The afternoon tea costs about $47 and is served from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Oct. 17-31. royallancaster.com Going all out for Halloween is a relatively new thing in Japan, but now, one of the biggest celebrations is in the Tokyo suburb of Kawasaki, where the Halloween parade features dressed-up characters dancing their way down the street to DJ-spun tunes. Cost, info: Free to watch from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Oct. 29. lat.ms/kawasaki Witches and wizards take over the zoo in the Croatian capital of Zagreb to tell their stories and legends. This year the good Maksimir Witch leads children 5 and older through the Abrakadabra Zoo to see animals such as crocodiles, monkeys, bats and lizards while on a quest to defeat Laverna, the Roman goddess of thieves and cheats. Cost, info: Tickets cost about $8 for 5 to 14 year olds and about $10 for older kids and adults. Shows at 6:15 and 8:15 p.m. and last almost three hours through Oct. 31. lat.ms/ abrakadabrazoo

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DEPARTURE POINTS

Oui, I speak French Learning a new language can be frustrating, but inspiration comes from a great teacher and France’s lovely Lyon. By Bill Blanning Ever since high school, French has been my big white whale. Years later, still feeling like the stereotypical American language dunce during trips to France, I decided to make peace with my nemesis. Perhaps we could be pals, but the friendship had been slow in coming. A few years ago I enrolled in a local language school, but the once-aweek, 90-minute classes weren’t enough, so I decided to go the full-immersion route. After a Google search that turned up good reviews for Lyon-Bleu International in France’s third-largest city, I contacted LBI and asked for a week-long class and home stay. I was pleasantly surprised by the cost: about $1,100 for five full days of morning classes and afternoon private instruction, plus room and board with a host family. The school handled all the arrangements. I arrived in Lyon in east-central France a few days before classes started and immediately fell in love with this beautiful, manageable city. Its center lies between the Rhône river on the east and the Saône river on the west. Steep hills flank two sides of the city, and the basilica of Notre-Dame to the west overlooks the Saône.

To the north, the Croix-Rousse quarter, once the center of Lyon’s silk-making industry, is now a comfortable, lively neighborhood with a mix of artists, young families, millennial professionals and working class. Bruno, my affable fiftysomething host, picked me up and we drove up the hill to the Croix-Rousse apartment I would share with his family and where I would live the life of a student in my tiny, hot room that overlooked a dark alley. On Monday morning, I headed off for the 20-minute walk to LyonBleu, carrying my day pack filled with notebooks and feeling much as I did the first day of fifth grade at a new school. After an evaluation of my skill level, the school placed me in an intermediate class with seven or eight other students who hailed from Germany, Switzerland, Korea, Brazil, Japan and Taiwan. Elsa, our teacher, was in her mid-30s, energetic and very organized. Our French-only classes moved at a brisk pace. In high school, I never would have put the words “fun” and “French” together, but Elsa’s teaching skill, encouragement and good humor made it so. In one session, she created an Agatha Christie-type scenario describing a middle-of-the-night murder. We were instructed to team up with a classmate and develop a convincing alibi. One “suspect” from each pair would then be interrogated by the “police” (classmates) while the other suspect in the pair waited outside the classroom.

After the first round of interrogation, the partner was brought in for questioning. Ideally, the stories, which were to have specifics on whereabouts and activities, would match. For our “final” at the end of the week, every class in the school was required to write a 10-minute skit to be performed for the student body. My class came up with a farcical “American Idol”-type talent show. No scripts were allowed; we had to memorize our lines. I worked on mine as I hiked home after classes. As an old guy mumbling in French, I drew a few concerned stares. When the week ended, I was exhilarated. I had remembered all my skit lines, survived the immersion and felt a part of this beautiful city. Most of all, I had fallen in love a second time — with the language. An excellent school and teacher, a charming French host and the satisfaction of being able to order a draft beer like a local made all the difference. Now, I thought as I savored my Kronenbourg 1664 brew and picked up bits of nearby conversation, I had truly become a citizen of the world. Departure Points, a new monthly column, explores the ways in which traveling changes us, whether it’s a lesson learned or a truth uncovered. You may submit a first-person essay of 700 words or fewer to travel@ latimes.com with “Departure Points” in the subject line. Please include your first and last names and your contact information for editorial consideration.

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Golfing, dining on a ranch in Solvang Alisal Guest Ranch & Resort wants golfers to come play this month and is offering savings for midweek.

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Highlights tour Explore the little-known Middle Eastern country of Oman on an eight-day excursion offered by G Adventures. The tour begins in Muscat, the capital, with a visit to the Grand Mosque and the souk at Muttrah. Participants will have the opportunity to watch endangered green turtles hatch at the Ras al-Jinz turtle sanctuary, swim in mountain wadis, and wander through ancient forts and castles. Other highlights include spending one night at the Wahiba Sands desert camp. Dates: 2018 departures on Sept. 23, Oct. 14, Nov. 11, Dec. 9 Price: From $2,299 per person, double occupancy. Includes accommodations, seven breakfasts, one lunch and one dinner, and transportation in air-conditioned minivan. Airfare not included. Info: G Adventures, (888) 800-4100, lat.ms/oman highlights — Anne Harnagel

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Cruise into 1700s Revolutionary War buffs can learn more on a new American Lines’ cruise that sails round-trip from Baltimore, stopping at historic ports and towns along Chesapeake Bay. The 11-day itinerary includes visits to Jamestown, Williamsburg, Mt. Vernon and Yorktown, Va.; Washington, D.C.; and Annapolis, Md. Cruise is aboard the new 175-passenger American Constitution. Dates: 2018 departures on April 18 and 28, May 8, Oct. 29, Nov. 8.

The deal: This golfing package in Solvang, Calif., usually starts at $575 a night. Now it starts at $495 a person for doubles, $395 per person for a single, and includes a night’s stay, breakfast, dinner and rounds of golf on the resort’s River and Ranch courses. You get a bucket of balls and a golf cart. (Tax and service charges are excluded.) Sundays through Thursdays in October, based on availability.

Price: From $5,695 per person, double occupancy, depending on departure date; early booking discounts available. Includes Wi-Fi and daily shore excursions. Airfare not included. Alisal Guest Ranch and Resort

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Price: From $3,498 per person, double occupancy; $680 single supplement. Includes accommodations, most meals, guides, park entrance and permit fees, and transportation in air-conditioned van. Airfare not included.

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It’s an Olympic event COS, H&M’s upscale sister brand, brings its artistic, elegant fashion to a storied building in downtown L.A. By Ingrid Schmidt Swedish retailer H&M Group’s more upscale, minimalist brand COS (originally an abbreviation for Collection of Style) tends to fly under the sartorial radar despite having 215 stores worldwide, including a store in Beverly Hills as well as ones at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles and at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa. This year the 10-year-old Londonbased brand continued to expand its foothold in Southern California. COS quietly opened its fourth L.A. area boutique (and 14th U.S. location) in the historic Olympic Theatre building at 313 W. 8th St. in downtown Los Angeles in late August. The store opening, part of a retail revival in downtown, follows COS’ successful shop-in-shop in November 2015 in the now-defunct concept store Austere on South Hill Street. The building, in which COS has its 5,511-square-foot store, dates to 1927 when it was Bard’s 8th Street Theatre. In 1932 the theater was renamed the Olympic Theatre to commemorate the Summer Olympic Games in L.A. that year. COS had the notable Olympic sign and building facade restored, a nod to the brand’s commitment to architecture and design. That design-inspired focus can be found in COS’ fashion collections along with reasonable

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Gentlewoman tote bag, $115. prices, which max out around $450 for, say, a cashmere-blend coat. COS doesn’t generally publicize the Hollywood stars who wear its men’s and women’s pieces. So it might be a surprise to learn that celebrity stylist Jeanne Yang has dressed Tom Holland, Kumail Nanjiani and Alexander Skarsgard in COS’ clean-lined styles. “I have always been a fan of casualcocktail or work-to-weekend clothing — separates that can straddle the line for many different occasions,” Yang said. “COS has been a great go-to place for me to find the right pieces that are hip and always hit the right note.” Karla Welch, another Hollywood stylist, is a fan of the brand. She has worked COS into the wardrobes of model-entrepreneur Karlie Kloss and actresses America Ferrera, Kathryn

Hahn and Lisa Kudrow. “I just love the modern yet unique quality of the clothes,” Welch said. “It feels sort of Japanese but not completely identifiable.” In collaboration with British magazine the Gentlewoman, the new downtown L.A. store offers free maps of 15 L.A.-area architectural landmarks. “We offer a timeless aesthetic that lasts beyond the moment,” COS creative director Karin Gustafsson said by phone from London. “Everything we create should have that feeling of quality, of something you’d like to keep for a long time. ... We are very much about reinventing the classics, giving them new proportions.” For fall, for example, COS’ design team reworked the crease, a classic element on a tailored pant, and put it into a new context by using it on a skirt or dress. “We looked at industrial colors, a lot of grays in concrete and metal,” Gustafsson said. “One of the inspirations was [San Francisco-born,] New York-based artist Tauba Auerbach’s canvas fold paintings. We’ve explored a way of folding fabric, creating soft looks to balance the tailoring and contrast masculine with feminine.” On Oct. 20 COS will introduce the 11-piece women’s capsule line, Creating With Shapes ($99-$390), at its downtown store and online. The collection, which features an intricate draping and pleating technique with no darts or seams, was developed with Usha Doshi, a longtime COS design partner and former teacher at London’s Royal College of Art. image@latimes.com

Hairstylist Alessandro Casalino asked himself a single question when it came time to consider the design for the interior of Alma Salon, his new full-service hair and beauty salon in Beverly Hills: “What would Coco Chanel do?” So he rendered a 1,600-square-foot salon in a 90-year-old building — he had waited 15 years for the space to become available — in Chanelesque shades of lacquer black, muted beige and snow white. He found plush couches from the Alma 1940s and tossed luxe THE SALON Alma opened cushions and featherin Beverly Hills in May. bedecked throws over them. He also created a tranquil garden area for his clients and lined the walls with art. Casalino, a native Venetian who previously worked at Cristophe Salon in Beverly Hills, said he wanted to “bring back the glamour” in his 5month-old space. “No more hair salons that look like they should be in a mall,” he said. “I wanted to provide a boutique feel where clients can feel pampered.” Hair services start at $80 for a blow dry and about $130 for color, while a haircut with Casalino is $400. The salon also offers makeup services and lessons as well as brow shaping. Alma Salon, 415 N. Camden Drive, Beverly Hills, (310) 734-7973, www.almabeverlyhills.com

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Los Angeles-based Olivers, which started as a maker of premium athletic apparel, has branched out for fall into outerwear. The new Gate jacket is a lightweight bombermeets-track jacket created with Los Angeles weather in mind. It’s water-repellent for those L.A. moments of light drizzle, and it’s warm enough for cool evenings. The jacket, which has zero embellishments, includes several touches for the modern man, including a hidden chest pocket for a cellphone. The Gate jacket, which is available in dark navy and cobalt, is $168. Olivers, oliversapparel.com

A casual turn toward athletics Known for its graceful casual staples, Lou & Grey is embracing its athletic side with an all-new collection. The label’s Lou & Grey Form collection, which launched in September, is for the customer for whom there is little distinction between workout gear and regular clothes. It’s for the woman who catches up with friends during a hike instead of cocktails or who suggests going to a spin class as a first date. Pieces include a shadow-stripe tee with sheer alternating panels, a fitted long-sleeved lace top, and a metallic rose-gold jacket that Lou & Grey looks as if it were made from particularly pliant LOU & GREY features a aluminum foil. Then metallic rose gold jacket. there’s the nylon/fleece vest featuring a built-in headphone jack for those phone chats while you power walk through your neighborhood. Prices for the line range from $44.50 to $128. Lou & Grey, www.louandgrey.com

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Plum Sykes on L.A., her way The British murder-mystery author combines book tour with fashion, food By Amy Preiser Early on in Plum Sykes’ latest novel, “Party Girls Die in Pearls: An Oxford Girl Mystery” (Harper: 352 pp., $26.99), readers meet American girl in London Nancy Feinbaum, with her “puffed-up mound of dyed blonde hair” and “green bat-winged sweater, bubblegum pink pedal pushers, a trilby hat and white sneakers.” As you might have guessed from those sartorial details, Sykes’ book is set in the mid-1980s. But here and now, Sykes, a Londoner in Los Angeles, has a significantly more timeless look with her brunet hair in a face-framing long bob, just skimming the shoulders of her crease-proof, white, buttondown top. “Burberry lent this to me for the tour,” she said during lunch at Ladurée in Beverly Hills. “But I’ve worn it so much, I really don’t think they’ll want it back.” Sykes was visiting the City of Angels to promote her “posh, comic murder-mystery,” as she put it, with a slightly unconventional and quite fashion-forward twist on the book tour. Rather than popping into bookstores, the Vogue contributing editor and bestselling author traveled cross-country for book parties at Burberry stores, with other fashion tie-in events taking place at Zac Posen in New York and Chanel in London. If it appears odd to toast crime amid tulle, consider that, like Sykes’ earlier books, “Bergdorf Blondes” and “The Debutante Divorcée,” the clothes in “Party Girls” become characters of their own. Beyond bat-winged sweaters, the book showcases such 1980s iconic pieces as a Norma Kamali sleeping bag coat and plastic Fiorucci jeans. And because the story takes place at Oxford University, where blacktie parties are an essential part of the curriculum, there’s a good helping of gold lamé and taffeta.

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LADURÉE , the French macaron maker, has two L.A.

locations. The design on its boxes gave Sykes an idea.

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WILDFOX store at Sunset Plaza.

Dreamy pink and full of fashion.

8 of the author’s must-visits when she’s in Los Angeles started at Ladurée, which I also love visiting in Paris. When my previous books became paperbacks and needed new cover art, I just e-mailed the publisher a picture of a Ladurée box to use as inspiration.”

THE LONDON WEST HOLLYWOOD AT BEVERLY HILLS

1020 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, www.thelondonwest hollywood.com “I’m staying here, and I love their breakfast,” she said. “They do great fried eggs — very important for an English person.” BOOK SOUP

8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, www.booksoup.com

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LONDONER Plum Sykes at Burberry in Beverly Hills for her new novel’s launch party.

Unsurprisingly, on this whirlwind trip to L.A., Sykes said she squeezed in as much shopping as possible with an emphasis on Los Angeles’ laid-back fashion scene. However, there wasn’t enough time to get to all of her favorite haunts. The Getty (Sykes said she’s enamored by the grounds) and hiking Runyon Canyon were out. “This trip, my only walk has been the three blocks from my hotel to Sunset Plaza,” she said. “But at least I have that.”

“My first stop is Book Soup, that amazing bookstore on Sunset. Obviously, I went there to make sure they had my book, which they did. They’ve also got such an incredible range of print magazines, including Vogue Bambini, which you cannot get anywhere, but, of course, you can get it at Book Soup.”

Happy Isles

HAPPY ISLES on

Sunset Boulevard specializes in vintage wedding wear. basically jeans and some kind of overpriced T-shirt. … You can buy Wildfox in England, but it's very, very expensive there. So when I saw the store with all its pink and little bicycles, I went and spent a fortune. Got lots of stuff for my kids. They’re going to go mental over that really soft fabric they do.”

WILDFOX

LADURÉE

8710 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, www.wildfox.com

189 The Grove Drive, Los Angeles, www.laduree.com/us/

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MADEWELL

189 The Grove Drive, Los Angeles, www.madewell.com “For my uniform, Madewell is amazing for jeans. They’re about half the price of a J Brand — or something similar. To me, the brand is a combination of Los Angeles with a little bit of Paris. I also love the fun, stripey T-shirts.” NORDSTROM

189 The Grove Drive, Los Angeles, shop.nordstrom.com “My friend Gela Taylor’s line, Pam & Gela, is available here, and I’ve been wearing their amazing satin bomber jacket with embroidered herons and crystal beading. It’s divine. And? [It’s] $176.”

HAPPY ISLES

6671 Sunset Blvd., Suite 1595, Los Angeles, www.thehappy isls.com “Meredith Melling [co-founder of fashion labels La Marque and La Ligne] told me about this cool vintage wedding dress shop, and I’m going to see it out of interest — not buying anything for me. I’m just looking for the best new shops I can write about for Vogue.” BONDI HARVEST

1814 Berkeley St., Santa Monica, bondiharvest.com “It’s a really cool coffee shop. It’s Australian but feels very California. It’s in kind of a shed, right by the Goop offices. They had all these kinds of drinks, like lavender cappuccinos. Also, avocado toast, which I think is the most amazing thing. You can get it in just a few places in London, but most people still think it’s a bit weird.” —Amy Preiser

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Make that dress-up Fridays Sorry, casual Friday. After years of jeans and Tshirts, the dress-for-success ethos is finding favor again this fall in the office. And several L.A.-based stylists couldn’t be more excited. “We’ve had a lack of fashion [in the workplace] for years,” said stylist Heathyr Wolfe, adding that the low-maintenance attire of Mark Zuckerberg and other chief executives has made it almost a standard to wear just about anything. “People want to be taken seriously in something besides just a boring suit, polo shirt or shapeless outfit,” she said. Laurie Graham King, a stylist and wardrobe consultant, said she knew the tide was turning when she started getting calls from clients saying they had been chastised for being “too sloppy” at work. “Companies expect you to represent their brand in a positive manner,” she said. “And how you dress is a big part of putting your best foot forward at work.” Brands are offering fresh, modern career-dressing collections predicated on a tailored, structured piece and building creatively around that. A jacket with a bell sleeve or embroidery detail paired with a slender pant is more interesting than a suit. Debra Perlman, president of Tahari ASL, suggests pencil skirts, bouclé jackets, shift dresses with statement sleeves and fit-and-flare dresses. Accessories should include a bag that is spacious but not slouchy, and a shoe that offers a little stature while the wearer is on her feet all day. — Kavita Daswani

VIA SAVIENE

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WUNDER2

Perfect Selfie HD Photo Finishing Powder keeps the face looking fresh all day. $22, www .wunder2.com, amazon.com.

The Colette cuff is 14-karat gold and hematite plating with Swarovski crystals. $275, via saviene .com.

Wunder2

NAKED CASHMERE

The Camelia is a snug yet sophisticated cropped cardigan. $150, naked cashmere.com.

LUBA BY HANNAH PAYNE

The Shimmer dress is a youthful take on tweed; this beige wool dress is shot with golden threadwork. $298, shop luba.com.

The Walking Co.

ABEO

The suede Virtue shoe, $159.95. The Walking Co. stores, thewalkingcompany.com.

Luba by Hannah Payne

TAHARI ASL

COACH

Blazer adds embroidery detail. Paired with olive blouse. Jacket, $149, and blouse, $56, tahariasl.com.

The Selena Grace carryall from Coach x Selena Gomez collection. $395, coach.com.

Naked Cashmere

COLE HAAN

Animal prints are a fall favorite. Block heel loafer in ocelot-print hair calf. $440, www.colehaan.com.

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Keeping skin care all in the family

The Heideggers sold Kiehl’s, then created the luxury unisex skin-care line Retrouvé pipeline are a body oil and lip balm slated for 2018. Also in the works, Morse Sitting down to talk skin Heidegger said, is a method care, Jami Morse Heidegger, to extract vitamin C from whose family once owned lemons, oranges and grapebeauty brand Kiehl’s, first fruit harvested on the apologizes for the man-cave ranch and plans to cultidécor — rustic leather sofas vate pomegranate, white and husband and business tea and herbs for the prodpartner Klaus Heidegger’s ucts, which are made at a John Wayne posters — at the laboratory in New Jersey. couple’s 25-acre Malibu The couple ships crates of ranch, where grape vines, their ranch-grown avocaflowers and fruit trees thrive dos to the East Coast. alongside show horses. The East Coast is where Although the family’s her family got its beauty main residence is in start. “My grandfather [IrChatsworth, the ranch, ving Morse] went to pharwhich offers views of the Pamacy school at Columbia cific, doubles as an office. University and apprenticed (The ranch is on the market with John Kiehl in the late for $55 million.) 1800s,” Morse Heidegger Indoors, Morse Heidegsaid. Her grandfather evenger, 56, wore her Thierry tually acquired Kiehl’s in Lasry sunglasses, a neces1921. Her father, Aaron sary accessory to protect Morse, went to work at her eyes from acute light Kiehl’s in 1954 and told her sensitivity and part of her grandfather, “We should face from the sun. turn these ointments and Morse Heidegger, who poultices into skin care.” Retrouvé has spent her life working in “So that’s how the prodRETROUVÉ’S collecthe beauty industry, and her ucts got started in about tion includes replenishhusband sold Kiehl’s to 1958,” she said. “As far back ing facial moisturizer. L’Oréal for a reported $100 as I can remember, I mixed Other products are in million to $150 million in custom perfumes that we the works for next year. 2000. They then moved on to would name and sell, intheir latest beauty venture, cluding Innervisions for the unisex skin-care line Stevie Wonder, when I was Retrouvé, which was developed with former about 9 years old.” Kiehl’s chemist Stephen Musumeci and In 1988 the Heideggers purchased Kiehl’s launched in France in 2014 before its statefrom Aaron Morse for $600,000. A former side debut in 2015. Austrian ski champ and entrepreneur, Klaus Formulations for Retrouvé contain conHeidegger oversaw the factories and centrated ingredients, including oil from av- brought the company up to digital speed, ocados grown on the Malibu property using while Morse Heidegger built a booming businatural permaculture methods. Plant-based ness with innovations such as product samsqualane (an emollient similar to human se- pling and dedicated charitable products. bum), high-quality oils and vitamin E are Twelve years later, the couple sold also used in the skin-care products. Kiehl’s. By then, they were raising their three “I have to admit when we first sold Kiehl’s, children in Los Angeles, but retirement I was a little less money-conscious,” Morse wasn’t in the cards, as Morse Heidegger Heidegger said. “I just wanted the best prod- turned a side project into a new company. ucts for my skin, and I didn’t care what it While attending horse shows to support cost. I started making products for myself in her daughter Hannah, Morse Heidegger was about 2001 because I started to experience asked about her glowing complexion. So she dry skin and hormonal aging.” began to hand out samples of a moisturizer, Sold in 10 countries, the Retrouvé line insisting that it would never be sold. But in consists of a cleanser, serum, two moisturiz- 2011, she said her husband finally convinced ers, eye balm and exfoliating pads, ranging her by saying, “All you have to do is make the from $65 to $445 and available at products. I’ll do everything else.” retrouve.com, Ron Robinson and select spas in L.A. Among the other products in the image@latimes.com

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Still more lights in Paris BY ADAM TSCHORN >>> PARIS — By the time a week of ready-to-wear shows wrapped on Tuesday, you didn’t need to be much of a fashion sleuth to

recognize the big non-color trend for spring and summer 2018. It was right there in black and white — literally. ¶ That oldest of old-school pairings was the palette of preference for a surprisingly wide assortment of luxury labels, including Thom Browne and Altuzarra, two American brands whose women’s collections made their Paris Fashion Week debut. It was served up in everything from polka dots to the airport-luggagetag-inspired collars and skirts at Maison Margiela. ¶ Although the combination makes for the starkest of contrasts, there also seemed to be a sense of lightness running through many of the collections here. Some designers created lighter-than-air confections from acres of tulle (Thom Browne again), others played peekaboo with the female form via lace dresses (Miu Miu and Alexander McQueen) or sent it down the runway in totally transparent plastic pants (Balmain) or luxury see-through rain boots, hats and slickers (Chanel). Here’s a closer look at the black, the white and all kinds of light that’s likely to shape the look and feel of women’s wardrobes in spring 2018.

Reading black and white Remember the big yellow school bus of color that came roaring out of New York Fashion Week last month? It was nowhere to be found on the catwalks of Paris. Oh, there were pops of color here or there, but it was the yin and yang of black and white that really stood out, from the checkerboard-patterned dresses at Dior and outsized zebra-print jacket lapels at Saint Laurent on Day 1 of Paris Fashion Week. At Balmain, which was almost exclusively black and white, the more memorable iterations consisted of newsprint-style printing on dresses and trousers. At Givenchy, where Clare Waight Keller made her debut as artistic director, it was clover prints and leopard spots from the label’s ’80s-era archives. A different creature — the python — made for a slinky blackand-white print at Elie Saab’s Amazon-inspired collection. For his Paris Fashion Week debut, U.S.based designer Joseph Altuzarra presented a collection inspired by the film “Princess Mononoke,” which included a range of blackand-white pieces such as a bandanna-print dress, striped skirts and jackets. The traditionally low-profile black-and-white houndstooth check pattern seemed to be enjoying its moment in the Parisian sun, getting sliced and diced and rejiggered in different sizes at Alexander McQueen and blown up to fuzzy extremes for a wrap jacket carried by a model in Thom Browne’s dreamscape of a show.

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A FESTIVAL OF FRINGE, A FLOCK OF FEATHERS

Fanciful fringe and luxurious plummage add bounce to the runway shows of Céline, left, and Maison Margiela. Fringe on an Elie Saab creation, far right, takes on the look of leafy vines.

Into the swing of things Feathers and fringe were used for the same purpose through many of the spring and summer 2018 collections: telegraphing and accentuating movement. Anthony Vaccarello’s collection for Saint Laurent did the ostrich-feather thing right with delicate high heels accentuated with feathers that quivered at the ankle like airborne sprays of ink and knee-length “yeti boots” that managed to be damn sexy. One that didn’t was the costumey gendarme-goes-to-the-circus Nina Ricca collection, in which the towering feathered headdresses made the models look like, as my seatmate put it, “a refugee from a Folies Bergère matinee.” Fringe swung, swayed and swirled sensuously through so many collections we honestly couldn’t begin to list them all, but two of the standouts were Céline, where fringetastic bags, shoes and dresses bounced and shimmied down the runway, and Elie Saab, where the aforementioned rainforest-inspired collection included a jungle-flora-inspired dress on which the dangling fringe took the form of green, leafy vines.

Ruffle the status quo

Apparently the days of deep-V décolletage and miniskirts cut within mere inches of the navel are on their way out. If the designers showing at Paris Fashion Week have their way, dressing femininely will be all about more fabric, not less — and fabric that has been gathered into pleats, ruffles or frills and undulating around dress hems, shirt cuffs, bustlines and shoulder yokes. At Saint Laurent, ruffles puffballed into mini-dresses; at Balmain, they hemmed the edge of a black lace hobble skirt; and at Alexander McQueen and Thom Browne, sprays of multicolored tulle resembled fireworks captured mid-explosion.

A clear trend

Tulle wasn’t the only tool in the transparency toolbox, though. Some labels sent skirts and trousers fashioned out of clear plastic across the catwalk, most notably Chanel, which filled its spring 2018 runway collection with an assortment of clear PVC rain gear, including over-the-knee cap-toe boots, see-through purses, totes and rain hats in a silhouette that would have been a hundred times more stylish in a more traditional fabrication. Elsewhere lightness — both in terms of weight and opacity — was achieved by the liberal use of lace. Although most didn’t stray far from white or black, a couple of brands embraced eye-catching colors. These included Valentino, where pops of bright yellow lace accented dress sleeves and ran down the sides of gowns, and Miu Miu, where lace dresses and skirts in pale pink, butter yellow and coral

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TRANSPARENCY RULES

There was plenty of peekaboo material on display, including Balmain’s plastic pants, left, and a top-to-bottom ensemble from Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel featuring clear PVC rain gear. red were among the brightest colors of the week. Another notable spin of the color wheel came from Thom Browne — notable because the New Yorkbased designer is almost fetishistic about his use of grays. For his first women’s ready-to-wear show in Paris, Browne augmented his usual palette with a circus tent full of bright color for a dreamscape of a collection that not only ticked every box on the season’s trend list but also went one better by padding, enlarging and elongating the season’s silhouettes as radically as he’d hemmed and tailored them into submission in the past. And Browne sent a tulle-hide unicorn down the runway in slow motion for good measure, creating one of the most memorable runway moments of the season. “I wanted to do something light,” the designer said backstage after the Oct. 3 show, a wry smile crossing his face. And you know what? As odd as it sounds, he had. For a few minutes, the tulle-fueled collection of dreamy colorful clothes, the meshbubble-headed fairies and the bizarre sight of a slowly galloping fashion unicorn transported us to a mythical place far from the carnage and chaos of the last few weeks. Browne had done his part to make the City of Light the City of Lightness. adam.tschorn@latimes.com

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DRESSED TO FRILL AND READY TO PLAY

More is more when it comes to fabric, from undulating frills on an Alexander McQueen confection, from left, to flowy ruffles à la Giambattista Valli and a Valentino gown with minimal décolletage.

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BLACK AND WHITE AND SPREAD ALL OVER

Despite pops of color here and there, what really stood out on the Paris catwalks was the old-school pairing of black and white. Balmain, clockwise from left, takes the combo for a mini spin; Altuzarra channels anime; Givenchy plays with patterns; and two looks from Saint Laurent, including sexy “yeti” boots, offer sleek interpretations.

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Schott NYC

SCHOTT NYC’S collaborations include the Cafe

Racer jacket in calf hair and leather, left, from the fall Perfecto Brand line, $1,120. Above, a Schott NYC jacket that singer Alicia Keys recently commissioned artist Sandra Chevrier to paint for her.

Schott NYC

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LADY GAGA, shown at the 2016 Vic-

toria’s Secret Fashion Show, is a fan of Schott NYC’s leather jackets.

Celebrity cool, classic brand BY INGRID SCHMIDT >>> Although it sells men’s and women’s clothes and accessories, fashion label Schott NYC

is best known for its classic leather biker jackets. You know the ones, outfitted with star-studded epaulettes and belted waists. ¶ Schott is a tried-and-true East Coast brand but has a strong connection to Hollywood and the entertainment industry. Its jackets have been worn by James Dean, Marlon Brando, Lou Reed, Bruce Springsteen, Debbie Harry and, more recently, Adam Levine, Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Kanye West. This spring, Schott executives relocated the brand’s Los Angeles-area flagship store from the Americana at Brand in Glendale to South La Brea Avenue in L.A. near men’s multi-brand boutique Union. And in June, the label, which has a flagship store in New York, opened its third Schott NYC store in Chicago. While visiting Los Angeles, Jason Schott, the label’s chief operating officer and fourthgeneration member of the Schott NYC founding family, talked about the brand’s made-

in-America heritage and forward-thinking designs.

Made in the USA

So what goes into making a Schott jacket worn by bikers and celebrities? “We’re in the [New Jersey] factory every day, and our name goes onto all the jackets we’re producing,” said Schott, who works alongside his mother, Roz Schott, president of the label, and his uncle Steve Colin, the company’s chief executive officer. “Every single piece of

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leather is cut by hand, and it takes about a day and a half to sew one jacket together. I couldn’t imagine outsourcing that process and having no control over the quality. It’s our mission to give people a reason to buy [clothes] made in America. Some of our equipment is 100 years old, and it has a certain signature you just can’t replicate at a factory in China.” Schott said a majority of hides come from U.S. sources such as Chicago’s Horween Leather Co., founded in 1905. “We work with the tanneries to develop finishes, like hairy suede, that is drummed and beaten up for a textured, broken-in look,” Schott said. “People think that you can’t get leather wet, but I spent one Thanksgiving washing a line of jackets in my bathtub, and I personally hand-sanded another collection, one by one.” Schott said his family’s brand skips “gratuitous logos” and allows the jackets to speak for themselves. “It’s the little details that identify us,” Schott continued. “We have a signature snap on the back of the collar and functional details like bi-swing back panels that extend out for extra range of motion and vented underarm [gussets], because these are real riding jackets. “The leather is heavy and rugged, so we use heavy-duty, asymmetric zippers designed not to ripple when you lean over a motorcycle.”

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Schott said the brand has a long history of high-profile fashion and art collaborations. In the late 1980s, artist Keith Haring handpainted his own Schott jackets, and decades later, L.A. fashion designer Jeremy Scott approached the brand about printing one of Haring’s graphic designs on a version of the classic biker jacket in 2009. The collaborations between Schott NYC and artists and Hollywood have continued this decade. Since 2011, Schott NYC has partnered with New York skate-centric fashion label Supreme on an array of co-branded bombers, moto jackets and pea coats. A leopardprint faux fur-lined leather work jacket ($668, in black and burgundy) recently hit stores. Also, for the brand’s 100th anniversary in 2013, Schott NYC commissioned one-of-akind designs hand-painted by artists including Shepard Fairey and Curtis Kulig. Recently, singer Alicia Keys commissioned artist Sandra Chevrier to paint the back of her Schott NYC leather jacket. And last month, Scott teamed with Schott to cre-

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JASON SCHOTT, chief operating

officer and fourth-generation member of the Schott NYC founding family, at the brand’s New Jersey factory. He says every piece of leather is cut by hand. ate crystal- and jewel-embellished men’s and women’s moto jackets for his eponymous spring 2018 fashion collection. The designer, who’s known for his over-the-top style, wore a custom gold chain-mail Schott NYC moto jacket to the MTV Video Music Awards in August. Last month marked the launch of a sixpiece Schott NYC x Maje capsule line available in Maje stores and maje.com. The line, which ranges from $155 to $1,095, includes a T-shirt, a reversible nylon bomber jacket, trench coat, shearling-trim jacket, wool sweater and a dress. Also continuing their collaboration, Schott NYC teamed with Demna Gvasalia’s buzzy fashion collective Vetements. Just out is an oversize black leather jacket with a dramatically long, grommet-laden belt ($4,650 at www.net-a-porter.com). And Rag & Bone’s fall collection contains new riffs on the Schott NYC leather Perfecto jacket in styles for men and women ($1,495 at Rag & Bone stores and www.rag-bone.com). Although these designer collaborations aren’t available in Schott NYC stores, Schott said the label issues about 15 seasonal, fashion-forward Perfecto Brand designs in limited-edition runs of 80 to 100 pieces. This fall, Schott has shifted course by focusing on lightweight leather and suede styles in pared-down fits inspired by requests from California clients who want to have that celebrity cool factor yearround. image@latimes.com

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Clare V. & Co. turn up the charm A collaboration with the New York label Demylee makes a French and feminine statement. By Sari Anne Tuschman Accessories designer Clare Vivier is known for her colorful line of handbags — in all shapes, colors and textures — often found perched on the arms of fashion editors and “It” girls. But she also enjoys having other fashion moments. Vivier, whose Clare V. label is based in Los Angeles, has dipped her toe into the ready-to-wear world with a small selection of graphic tees and sweatshirts. Previously, she expanded her line with collaborations with the Steven Alan label and other brands. This summer, Vivier’s clothing offerings became more vast thanks to a new collaboration with New York designer Demy Lee, who oversees the Demylee label of women’s and men’s clothes and home goods. “I’ve always been a fan of Demy’s, both as a designer and for her personal aesthetic, and I knew we could marry so many of the wonderful elements of C.V. with her knits to create something feminine, Parisian and charming,” Vivier said. The capsule collection epitomizes the French-girl charm Vivier has become known for. The line includes two sweater styles, one with a ruffled shoulder and the other with a boat neck, a scarf, clutches and perhaps the most iconic Parisian accessory of all, a beret. “We wanted to create a few special knits for fall and drew on some of our favorite design elements from the best sweaters we’ve ever owned,” the accessories designer said. “The ruffle details, the winged sleeves and the pompom on the beret all lend unexpected accents to these pieces everyone is going to want to wear.” Korean-born Demy Lee launched her line in 2007 with a range of premium cashmere and

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PARIS in a striped beret,

top, $129. A wallet clutch, above, is navy on one side, cream on the other, $136. has since expanded into knits and wovens. Her simple, classic aesthetic blended with Vivier’s ultra-feminine sensibility. “I wanted to create something with Demy that felt like it was a fit from start to finish,” Vivier said. “I think the styles we’ve produced are a seamless extension of both of our brands.” Clothing from the collaboration, which costs from $99 to $325, is available in Los Angeles at Clare V.’s stores in Silver Lake, West Hollywood and Santa Monica as well as at Bird in Culver City and on www.clarev.com and demylee.com. Clutches in the collection, which sell for $136 and $234, are exclusively available at demylee.com and the Demylee store in Japan. “We are a small company and have to focus on our accessories,” Vivier said. “That’s why we love doing collaborations like this one. More than anything, I love working with like-minded, female business owners and entrepreneurs. This [collaboration] gave me the chance to work alongside Demy to create something beautiful.” image@latimes.com

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“PROJECT RUNWAY” host Heidi Klum unveils her latest Heidi Klum Intimates collection.

Heidi Klum on life with the ‘in’ crowd BY INGRID SCHMIDT >>> By now, most TV viewers have heard supermodel-entrepre-

neur-“Project Runway” host Heidi Klum’s signature phrase, “One day you’re in, and the next day you’re out,” on the Lifetime series, which is in its 16th season. ¶ Klum, 44, is living proof that it is possible to remain perennially “in.” During a summer brunch at the Hotel Bel-Air, Klum, who recently wrapped her fifth season as a judge on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” unveiled her latest Intimates collection, which is sold at www.heidiklumintimates.com and Bloomingdale’s.

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CLARE VIVIER , above, was looking to “create a few special

knits for fall,” including a sweater with ruffle shoulders, top.

The first delivery of bras, panties, slips and bodysuits ($25 to $170, including maternity and extended sizing into G cups) dropped in August, and additional styles will be added monthly. The German native has served as the face and creative director for her namesake lingerie line since January 2015. Last month, Klum’s new Esmara by Heidi Klum apparel, footwear and handbag collection ($6.99 to $49.99) debuted at global discount grocery store chain Lidl; the German-based company recently launched in the United States. And then there is Klum’s role as mother to four children ages 7 to 13 with ex-husband Seal. (At the Hotel Bel-Air, Klum talked about her 13-year-old daughter Leni’s high school applications, dedication to dance and alpha personality. “If she were here, she’d be the boss of the table,” Klum said.) As she chatted about her fashion endeavors, Klum, who isn’t afraid of showing some skin, pulled down her Rag & Bone blouse to reveal a peek at her eponymous white lace bra. Tell us about the evolution of Heidi Klum Intimates. Bendon [the New Zealand umbrella company that also produces Heidi Klum Swim and Heidi Klum Man underwear] came to me and told me that their relationship with Elle [Macpherson] was ending, which had been an existing brand for 25 years. It was obviously working quite well, so I wanted to give the women who loved the line their favorite shapes. But I introduced new ones because I felt like there was nothing for a woman who loves a natural shape. ... And for me, the lace is key to standing out in this flooded market. I look through so many different laces and try to find what’s modern and unusual because I feel like the eye is drawn

to that and the color. And obviously it has to have a great fit. We are going heavily into sleepwear in July 2018.

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A piece from Heidi Klum's Intimates collection.

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DREAMTIME underwire bra and thong from Heidi Klum’s Intimates collection.

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tour bra and panties are also in the Intimates collection.

What’s your fashion line with Lidl like? Esmara launched at New York Fashion Week, and we dropped in 34 countries in over 10,000 stores around the world in September. I’m very proud that I was chosen to be their very first designer because they really wanted to break into the fashion market. They have everything else: eggs, beef, pots and pans, rugs, beauty products. What was important to me, when the project is so mass, was how the clothes are being made in terms of chemicals, being good to this planet and that children are not making the clothes. ... The next drop will be before Christmas. What are your beauty secrets? I’m so simple that way. I love Mario Badescu’s blue Buttermilk Moisturizer, and I get old-fashioned facials at European Secret Skin Care in Valley Village. About your work on “Project Runway,” what are you most proud of? I love that the integrity of the show has never changed. It is not about the gossip. Our producers don’t push fake things or weird things. It is all real. It is really about the designing. This year, we have models of all sizes. And some didn’t love that because they weren’t used to it. They didn’t expect it, and maybe it was harder for them. But if you want to be a designer, you have to dress all women. I’m very proud of Christian Siriano, our “Project Runway” Season 4 winner, one of the pioneers to have models of all different sizes. image@latimes.com

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