$2.75 DESIGNATED AREAS HIGHER
com
L.A. adds more
public toilets as
homelessness
problem grows
Action represents a
shift in city policy, but
some say it falls short.
By Gale Holland
Los Angeles officials have
debated for decades how
best to provide for one of the
most basic needs of home-
less people.
For those camped in the
50-block skid row district,
the streets have been an
open-air restroom — with
TRAVEL
BAN IS
ALLOWED
TO TAKE
EFFECT
Supreme Court gives
green light to Trump
plan pending appeals.
By David G. Savage
WASHINGTON — The
Supreme Court gave Presi-
dent Trump a significant
victory Monday, ruling he
may put his full travel ban
into effect while legal ap-
peals are being weighed in
lower courts.
The decision, with only
two dissents, strongly sug-
gests the justices believe the
current version of Trump’s
broad travel ban does not
exceed his powers under the
immigration laws and does
not reflect unconstitutional
religious discrimination
against Muslims.
The justices issued an
unsigned order Monday
granting the administra-
tion’s request for a stay that
would block lower court de-
cisions that prevented full
enforcement of the ban. Jus-
tices Ruth Bader Ginsburg
and Sonia Sotomayor said
they would deny the request
but did not spell out their
reasons.
The court did not issue
an opinion with the order,
but usually the justices do
not intervene in pending
cases unless they believe the
lower courts have gone
wrong.
The decision vindicates a
rather bold procedural move
by the Justice Department
and Trump’s solicitor gen-
eral, Noel Francisco.
[See Travel ban, A4]
Jae C. Hong Associated Press
LiAngelo Ball
is leaving UCLA
The freshman basket-
ball player is with-
drawing because his
outspoken father is
upset about LiAngelo’s
suspension from the
team for shoplifting
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only nine toilets available
overnight in recent months
to as many as 1,800 people
camped on sidewalks.
Over the years, the city
would install bathrooms
and then haul them away af-
ter they were comman-
deered for drug use and
prostitution. Some in down-
town also worried the rest-
rooms would give a perma-
nence to the homeless
camps, and argued that in
the lawless atmosphere of
skid row, people would not
use them.
But with homelessness
at crisis proportions, the
first new public toilets on
skid row in more than a dec-
ade opened Monday.
The action represents a
new consensus among many
downtown interests about
how to provide the essential
service on skid row. The rest-
rooms also are expected to
help in the fight against a
statewide hepatitis A out-
break spread by poor hy-
giene in homeless camps
that has killed more than a
dozen people in San Diego.
The Los Angeles rest-
rooms will be decidedly dif-
ferent from those in the past,
both aesthetically and cul-
turally.
A key will be having full-
time attendants, whom ac-
tivists are calling “ambas-
sadors,” to monitor the rest-
rooms and make people feel
welcome. Homeless advo-
cates also hope to have a
snack stand and a bench for
resting and chatting with
friends, as well as provide
feminine hygiene products,
which are in short supply on
skid row.
The new approach comes
as the border between skid
row and the rest of down-
town is shifting. High-end
development is rising at skid
row’s doorstep, and the tent
cities that once were largely
limited to skid row are
spreading to other parts of
the city.
“In other places, the
bathrooms might be seen as
something that’s going to at-
tract certain behaviors or
people,” said Downtown Los
Angeles Neighborhood
[See Restrooms, A10]
State’s droughts may Woman names
assemblyman as
get a whole lot worse
Scientists link polar ice loss to diminished rain
By Evan Halper
WASHINGTON — Cali-
fornia could be hit with sig-
nificantly more dangerous
and more frequent droughts
in the near future as changes
in weather patterns trig-
gered by global warming
block rainfall from reaching
the state, according to new
research led by scientists at
Lawrence Livermore Na-
tional Laboratory.
Using complex new mod-
eling, the scientists have
found that rapidly melting
Arctic sea ice now threatens
to diminish precipitation
over California by as much
as 15% within 20 to 30 years.
Such a change would have
profound economic effects
in a state where the most re-
cent drought drained sev-
eral billion dollars out of the
economy, severely stressed
infrastructure and high-
lighted how even the state
most proactively con-
fronting global warming is
not prepared for its fallout.
The latest study adds a
worrying dimension to the
challenge California is al-
ready facing in adapting to
climate change, and shifts
focus to melting polar ice
that only recently has been
discovered to have such a di-
[See Drought, A7]
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2017
Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times
A VIEW of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. In a visit to Salt Lake City, President Trump
said, “I’ve come to Utah to reverse federal overreach and restore the rights to this land to your citizens.”
Trump slashes the size
of monuments in Utah
harasser in 2016
By Melanie Mason
SACRAMENTO —
Weeks after lobbyist Pamela
Lopez told of a state law-
maker following her into a
bathroom in 2016 and mas-
turbating in front of her, she
filed a formal complaint
Monday publicly naming
Assemblyman Matt Dabab-
neh.
In an interview, Dabab-
neh told The Times that he
“one hundred percent” de-
nied the allegation.
“I am utterly shocked and
blown away,” the San Fer-
nando Valley Democrat
said. “This is a career-end-
ing charge based on no
facts.”
Lopez shared her initial
account in October, joining
more than 140 women as
they denounced in an open
letter a “pervasive” culture
of sexual harassment and
misconduct in the state
Capitol.
Then in November, the
lobbyist told The Times that
the lawmaker in question
“was Matt Dababneh.”
Based on that information,
The Times had been report-
ing a story and had reached
out to Dababneh before
Lopez’s news conference
Monday.
The accusation comes as
a public reckoning over sex-
latimes.
By Keith Schneider
SALT LAKE CITY —
President Trump formally
reconfigured two big na-
tional monuments in south-
ern Utah on Monday,
shrinking them by more
than 2 million acres — a pub-
lic lands declaration unlike
any ever made by a U.S. chief
executive.
“You know how best to
take care of your land,” the
president said to a large au-
dience at the Utah state
Capitol. “You know best how
to conserve this land for gen-
erations.”
Calling the designation of
Bears Ears and Grand Stair-
case-Escalante national
monuments an abuse of fed-
eral authority and the work
of “distant bureaucrats,” the
president added: “I’ve come
to Utah to reverse federal
overreach and restore the
rights to this land to your
citizens.”
The proclamations
Trump signed reduce the
1.9-million-acre Grand
Staircase-Escalante monu-
ment to 1,006,341 acres, while
Bears Ears, which was 1.35
million acres, will shrink to
[See Monuments, A4]
Kirk McKoy Los Angeles Times
ASSEMBLYMAN Matt
Dababneh, a Democrat,
denied the allegations
and said he’d cooperate
with an investigation.
ual harassment has up-
ended the worlds of politics,
entertainment, media and
tech.
In Sacramento, Assem-
blyman Raul Bocanegra
(D-Pacoima) resigned last
week after allegations from
multiple women that he
[See Harassment, A6]
Capitol’s culture
of harassment
Sacramento has a “zero
tolerance” policy, but no
one knows what that
means, Robin Abcarian
writes. CALIFORNIA, B1
A2 TU E S DAY , D E C EM BE R 5, 2017
BACK STORY
Closing the gaps between
House and Senate tax bills
A look at the versions’ biggest differences as reconciliation work starts
By Jim Puzzanghera
and Lisa Mascaro
House and Senate Re-
publicans are set to go to
work this week to reconcile
significant differences be-
tween their two tax bills.
Here are the biggest
sticking points they need to
resolve while making sure
the legislation does not
reduce revenues by more
than $1.5 trillion over the
next decade or, under Sen-
ate rules, add to the budget
deficit after that. If it ex-
ceeds that amount, Repub-
licans could no longer pass
their tax package with a
simple majority vote in the
Senate.
Individual tax rates
The House bill collapses
the current seven brackets
into four and keeps the top
tax rate of 39.6%, although it
raises the income level at
which that applies. The
changes would take effect in
2018 and would reduce fed-
eral revenues by an esti-
mated $1.09 trillion over the
next decade, according to
the congressional Joint
Committee on Taxation.
The Senate bill has seven
brackets, but reduces the
top rate to 38.5% for income
over $500,000 for single filers
and $1 million for couples
filing jointly. The Senate bill
also reduces income levels
on other brackets compared
with the current levels.
To offset those costs over
the next 10 years, the Senate
bill calls for the changes and
all its others to the individu-
al tax code to expire after
2025. Still, the Senate bill’s
individual bracket changes
would reduce federal reve-
nues by more than the
House’s version — $1.17
trillion over the next decade,
the Joint Committee on
Taxation said.
Lawmakers will have to
decide how to reconcile the
two sets of brackets and
whether the changes should
be permanent or temporary.
Individual mandate
While the House bill
makes no changes to the
Affordable Care Act, the
Senate bill would repeal the
individual mandate that
requires Americans to pur-
chase health insurance or
face a tax penalty.
The move would save the
federal government about
$318 billion over the next
decade because the govern-
ment would no longer pay
federal subsidies to help
low- and middle-income
Americans buy insurance
policies, the congressional
tax analysis committee said.
Repealing the individual
mandate also would lead to
1,000 WORDS: ST. AIGNAN SUR CHER, France
France’s first baby panda has a name four months after his birth: Chinese dignitaries and French first
lady Brigitte Macron, left of center, chose Yuan Meng, which means “the realization of a wish” or “accom-
plishment of a dream.” A naming ceremony held Monday at the Beauval zoo south of Paris was an impor-
tant diplomatic moment, but the young male panda had other priorities. Yuan Meng growled and jumped
when zoo director Rodolphe Delord reached over his glass-walled enclosure to offer a pet. Yuan Meng’s
parents are on loan to Beauval from China, and the cub will be sent to a Chinese panda reserve when he is
weaned. The pandas “are the illustration of an always productive dialogue between our two people, who for
centuries have looked at each other, listened to each other and understood each other,” the first lady said.
HOUSE Democrats Steny H. Hoyer, left, Joseph Crowley, House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi and James E. Clyburn hold a news conference about GOP tax reform.
13 million additional unin-
sured Americans by 2027
and premium hikes of 10%,
according to an analysis by
the Congressional Budget
Office.
Mortgage deduction
The House bill would
reduce the mortgage inter-
est deduction for future
home purchases.
Homeowners would be
limited to deducting inter-
est on up to $500,000 in
mortgage debt, down from
the current $1-million limit.
Deductions for second
homes would no longer be
allowed. Existing mortgages
would not be affected.
The Senate bill does not
change any of those provi-
sions, which benefit states
with high housing costs,
such as California, more
than elsewhere.
Estate tax
The House and Senate
bills would double the ex-
emption next year for assets
subject to the estate tax, a
levy of as much as 40% that
hits heirs of mostly wealthy
individuals.
The current exemption
levels are $5.49 million for an
individual and about $11
million for a couple.
Both bills also would
double — to $28,000 per
person and $56,000 per
couple — the annual exclu-
sion from the federal tax on
gifts to children or other
people.
But the House plan
would repeal the estate and
gift taxes entirely in 2024.
That would reduce federal
revenues by about $151
billion over a decade.
The Senate plan would
keep the estate and gift
taxes in place with the
PANDA MOMENT
higher exemption levels.
That would reduce federal
revenues by $83 billion, the
congressional tax analysis
committee said.
The AMT
The House bill elimi-
nates the alternative min-
imum taxes for individuals
and corporations. The taxes
are designed to make sure
people and corporations
don’t avoid taxes com-
pletely.
Repealing the AMT for
individuals, many of whom
are very wealthy, would
reduce federal revenues by
about $700 billion over the
next decade. Eliminating
the corporate AMT would
reduce federal revenues by
about $40 billion over the
same period, according to
the Joint Committee on
Taxation.
The Senate bill originally
also repealed both taxes,
although the individual
AMT would have returned
in 2026 as part of the expira-
tion of the changes to that
part of the tax code.
A last-minute need for
more revenue led Senate
Republicans to change
the bill to keep the indi-
vidual and corporate AMTs.
The exemption amounts
and phaseout thresholds
for individuals would in-
crease.
The Senate’s individual
AMT changes would reduce
federal revenues by about
$636 billion over the next
decade.
Corporate rate
The House and Senate
bills permanently slash the
corporate tax rate to 20%
from 35%. The House cut
would take effect next year,
but the Senate bill delays it
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until 2019.
That one-year difference
is significant, worth about
$127 billion, according to the
committee analysis.
The corporate tax reduc-
tion is the single costliest
provision in both bills in
terms of lost federal reve-
nue. The House corporate
tax cut reduces revenues by
$1.46 trillion over the next
decade. The Senate’s ver-
sion reduces revenues by
$1.33 trillion over the same
period.
‘Pass-throughs’
The House and Senate
bills also reduce taxes on
so-called pass-through
businesses — sole propri-
etorships, partnerships,
limited liability companies
and S corporations — whose
owners pay through the
individual tax code.
The changes are compli-
cated and the bills take
different approaches to
those taxes, which are paid
by many mom-and-pop
operations but also large
partnerships such as law
firms, hedge funds and
some of President Trump’s
own businesses.
The House bill would cap
the top tax rate for pass-
throughs at 25%, down from
39.6%.
The Senate plan would
continue taxing pass-
through businesses at the
individual rate that would
apply to the owner, with a
top proposed rate of 38.5%.
But the Senate bill would
allow most pass-throughs to
deduct about 23% of their
business income from their
taxes.
jim.puzzanghera
@latimes.com
lisa.mascaro@latimes.com
L AT I ME S . CO M
HOUTHI REBELS gather outside the Sana residence of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who ruled
Yemen for more than 30 years and then tried to topple his successor after being swept from office in 2012.
Ex-Yemen leader killed
Ali Abdullah Saleh
dies as fighting rages
between his backers,
their former allies.
By Zayd Ahmed
and Alexandra Zavis
SANA, Yemen — Ali
Abdullah Saleh, the de-
posed strongman who led
Yemen for more than three
decades and colluded with
Iran-aligned rebels to topple
his successor, was killed
Monday as fighting raged
between his followers and
their former allies, accord-
ing to officials on both sides.
Saleh’s death removes
one of the most enduring
and cunning political figures
in Yemen, injecting new un-
certainty into a devastating
civil war just days after he
turned against the rebels,
known as Houthis, and
made overtures to the Saudi
Arabia-led coalition that
sided with the country’s
internationally recognized
government.
Even after he was swept
from office five years ago in
an “Arab Spring” uprising,
Saleh remained a force in
Yemen, retaining the loyalty
of the Republican Guard
and other elements of the se-
curity forces.
The Houthis announced
Saleh’s death after reports of
an explosion at his family’s
compound, but there were
conflicting accounts about
the circumstances. Houthi
officials said their forces am-
bushed Saleh’s convoy as he
tried to flee the capital,
Sana, but members of his
political party, the General
People’s Congress, said a
sniper shot him.
Honduran president in lead as count wraps up
No winner is declared.
Reports circulate that
police are refusing to
enforce the curfew.
By Patrick J.
McDonnell
TEGUCIGALPA, Hon-
duras — Honduran Presi-
dent Juan Orlando Hernan-
dez, seeking a second term
in office, continued to hold a
slim lead Monday as officials
largely completed the count
in disputed national ballot-
ing.
But eight days after the
voting, authorities had yet to
proclaim a winner as the op-
position continued to allege
widespread fraud.
Uncertainty stemming
from the Nov. 26 vote has
generated a political crisis
and prompted the govern-
ment to call a dusk-to-dawn
curfew in response to wide-
spread street protests and
looting.
Reports were circulating
Monday that some police
had refused to enforce the
curfew and put down
THE WORLD
Grisly video circulating
on social media purported
to show gunmen loading
Saleh’s body, wrapped in a
floral blanket, onto the back
of a pickup truck and
shouting, “God is great!”
Saleh appeared to have
sustained a wound to the
head, and his shirt was
stained with blood. The
authenticity of the short clip
could not be independently
verified.
The Houthis’ leader,
Abdel-Malek Houthi, hailed
Saleh’s death as “the fall of
the conspiracy of cunning
and betrayal,” saying Saudi
Arabia and its allies were
dealt a “resounding, historic
defeat.”
In a televised address
from the Saudi capital,
Riyadh, Yemen’s exiled pres-
ident, Abdu Rabu Mansour
Hadi, sought to rally Saleh’s
forces, saying his govern-
ment would support any up-
rising in Sana.
Saleh, who once com-
pared leading Yemen to
“dancing on the heads of
snakes,” was regarded as a
supreme tactician, making
and breaking alliances with
ruthless skill to ensure his
political survival.
As president, he was an
important ally to the United
States in the fight against Al
Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen
and clashed repeatedly with
the Houthis. But after he
was toppled, he struck a deal
with the rebels.
Rogue elements of the
military still loyal to Saleh
provided critical support to
the Houthis when they
charged out of their north-
ern strongholds and took
over the capital in 2014.
The Houthis’ sudden ad-
vance alarmed Saudi Ara-
bia, which views the rebels
HONDURANS cheer the arrival of riot police at the unit’s Tegucigalpa head-
quarters, where officers are refusing to go out on the street to confront protesters.
antigovernment protests in
certain parts of the country
and declared work stop-
pages — and that the stop-
pages were spreading. Top
law enforcement officials, in-
cluding Julian Pacheco, the
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Khaled Fazaa AFP/Getty Images
SALEH, seen in 2006,
had condemned the Hou-
this on Saturday and said
he was ready for talks.
as proxies of its archrival,
Iran. With backing from the
United States, it formed a
military alliance with the
United Arab Emirates and
other Persian Gulf nations
to restore Hadi to power.
When clashes erupted in
the capital last week be-
tween the Houthis and
Saleh’s forces, many here as-
sumed the coalition had a
hand in the unraveling of the
rebel alliance.
In a televised address
Saturday, Saleh blamed the
Houthis for a crippling
blockade imposed by Saudi
Arabia and its allies and said
he was ready for talks with
the coalition.
The coalition welcomed
his appeal to “open a new
page,” raising hopes among
some diplomats and ana-
lysts that it might be pos-
sible to break the deadlock
that has stymied efforts to
negotiate a political solution
to a multi-sided war that has
killed more than 10,000 peo-
ple, displaced over 3 million
and pushed the Arab world’s
government’s minister of se-
curity, went on television to
say the situation was under
control.
The chief presidential
challenger, Salvador Nas-
ralla — who has assailed
poorest nation to the brink
of famine.
With Saleh’s death, peace
in Yemen appears even fur-
ther out of reach.
“The road map for peace
is now obsolete,” said Adam
Baron, a Yemen analyst at
the European Council on
Foreign Relations. “It’s clear
there will be more conflict …
and greater suffering for
Yemenis is much more
likely.”
As coalition warplanes
streaked over Sana late
Monday, residents braced
for what many feared would
be a push by the coalition
into the capital.
“Now we don’t know what
will happen,” said Mona
Saleh (a common last name
here), a 30-year-old school-
teacher who recalled a time
when the former president
brought a measure of stabil-
ity to Yemen after previous
civil wars. “We have been
hearing airstrikes all day,
and citizens were already
suffering — no salaries, not
enough food, and prices
have increased in an unprec-
edented way.”
The only choices left, she
added, were “to die by
airstrikes, armed clashes or
starve.”
At least 125 people have
been killed and 230 injured
since the infighting began in
the capital on Wednesday,
the International Commit-
tee of the Red Cross said.
alexandra.zavis
@latimes.com
Special correspondent
Ahmed reported from Sana
and Times staff writer Zavis
from Beirut. Special
correspondents Nabih
Bulos in Beirut and Ramin
Mostaghim in Tehran
contributed to this report.
Johan Ordonez AFP/Getty Images
what he called government-
backed violence against the
opposition — said in a Face-
book post that he backed
“the police who refuse to re-
press our people” and called
on the military to follow suit.
T UESDAY , DEC EMB ER 5, 2017
Irish border
issue holds up
a ‘Brexit’ deal
British prime minister
faces opposition to a
plan to let Northern
Ireland stay in the EU.
By Christina Boyle
LONDON — The Irish
border question took center
stage in Britain’s negotia-
tions to leave the European
Union on Monday, causing a
major setback for Prime
Minister Theresa May, who
had hoped to conclude an
initial agreement but in-
stead was forced to acknowl-
edge talks had faltered.
Eighteen months after
the country voted to leave
the EU — a referendum re-
sult now colloquially re-
ferred to as Brexit — both
May and her European
counterparts had initially
appeared upbeat about the
prospect of concluding the
first round of talks as they
arrived in Brussels.
But after a day of talks in
Brussels, she stood on a po-
dium beside European Com-
mission President Jean-
Claude Juncker and de-
clared that attempts at an
agreement had failed, for
now.
“On a couple of issues
some differences do remain
which require further nego-
tiation and consultation,”
she acknowledged, trying to
downplay the intense poli-
ticking that had unfolded
throughout the day.
At stake were three key
issues: How much Britain
should pay the EU to sever
ties, a so-called divorce bill;
the status of EU citizens liv-
ing in Europe as well as
British citizens living in the
EU; and what the border will
look like between Northern
Ireland, which must leave
the EU along with the rest of
the United Kingdom, and
mainland Ireland, which is
part of the European Union.
This final issue proved to
be the trickiest on Monday.
Reports suggest that
May and Juncker were will-
ing to accept a deal that
would in essence have seen
Northern Ireland remain
within the EU’s single mar-
ket and customs union, even
though the rest of the United
Kingdom is likely to lose
such privileges.
Such a deal would pre-
vent a hard border from re-
emerging between the two
parts of Ireland and ensure
that smooth trade relations
could be maintained.
But statements from the
Democratic Unionist Party,
or DUP, the group that
May’s government now de-
pends on to maintain a ma-
jority in Parliament, were
quick to thwart that.
“We will not accept any
form of regulatory diver-
With 99.98% of the na-
tional vote counted, the elec-
toral tribunal’s website
Monday showed the presi-
dent with 42.98%, compared
with 41.38% for Nasralla, a
television personality who
ran on an anti-corruption
pledge. The remaining vote
went to other parties.
Both candidates have al-
ready declared victory.
The main opposition co-
alition, the Alliance Against
the Dictatorship, is de-
manding a broad recount,
alleging numerous irreg-
ularities in balloting that
has seen mysterious techni-
cal crashes, delayed results
and widely varying tallies of
who is winning. The elector-
al court has not ruled out the
possibility of conducting a
broad recount.
Hernandez’s candidacy
is controversial because a
Honduran Supreme Court
ruling allowed him to seek a
second term in apparent vio-
lation of the constitution.
patrick.mcdonnell
@latimes.com
Cecilia Sanchez of The
Times’ Mexico City bureau
contributed to this report.
A3
Virginia Mayo Associated Press
BRITISH leader The-
resa May said “some
differences ... require
further negotiation.”
gence which separates
Northern Ireland economi-
cally or politically from the
rest of the U.K.,” DUP leader
Arlene Foster said in a news
conference Monday after-
noon.
“The Republic of Ireland
for their part claim to be
guarantors of the Belfast
Agreement, but they are
clearly seeking to unilater-
ally change that Belfast
Agreement without our in-
put or consent, and of course
we will not stand for that.”
The Belfast, or Good Fri-
day, Agreement is the deal
that finally brought peace to
Northern Ireland after 30
years of sectarian conflict.
A short while later, May
reportedly broke off her
talks with Juncker to speak
by phone with Foster, and
later returned to the room to
say the deal was off.
Even as the DUP threw a
wrench into the talks, the
governments in Scotland
and Wales, as well as London
Mayor Sadiq Khan, were
also quick to state that if
Northern Ireland got prefer-
ential treatment, they ex-
pected a similar deal.
“Huge ramifications for
London if Theresa May has
conceded that it’s possible
for part of the UK to remain
within the single market &
customs union after Brexit,”
Khan wrote on Twitter.
“Londoners overwhelmingly
voted to remain in the EU
and a similar deal here could
protect tens of thousands of
jobs.”
Irish Prime Minister Leo
Varadkar said he was “sur-
prised and disappointed” by
the day’s developments,
which came after weeks of
negotiations between Brit-
ain and the EU.
Varadkar said his govern-
ment is seeking at all costs to
prevent a hard border with
Northern Ireland, which
some analysts fear could re-
ignite the sectarian tensions
that engulfed the region for
many decades.
But the difficulties in cut-
ting a deal on this issue are a
sign of the scale of the quag-
mire Brexit is proving to be
for May, who came to power
after the referendum in
which 48% of Britons voted
to remain part of the EU
while 52% voted to leave. Her
predecessor David Cameron
resigned as prime minister
after staking his political ca-
reer on backing the remain
side, and May promised to
unite the deeply divided
country.
But in some ways those
divisions have only intensi-
fied.
The markets responded
Monday with the pound fall-
ing as soon as it became
clear there was no deal.
Speaking alongside May
at the afternoon’s news con-
ference, Juncker struck a
conciliatory tone and
praised May’s skills as a ne-
gotiator.
He said there had been
“significant progress,” and a
deal on the first round of ne-
gotiations was getting
closer, a crucial milestone as
it will enable Britain to move
on to talking about trade.
“This is not a failure, this
is the start of the very last
round,” he said. “I’m very
confident we will reach an
agreement in the course of
this week.”
May is now expected to
have to return later this
week to try to seal a deal.
Boyle is a special
correspondent.
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Trump shrinks vast monuments

[Monuments, from A1] it delegated to the president
228,784 acres. Five new sub- the authority to establish
units are being established national monuments, not to
within the new boundaries. repeal or rescind them. The
The Grand Staircase-Es- president is trying to take
calante monument was es- more authority than Con-
tablished by President Clin- gress has granted him.”
ton in 1996 and Bears Ears by One of the motivations
President Obama in 2016. for changing the boundaries
Trump’s decision drew is improving access to coal,
immediate threats of legal oil, natural gas and uranium.
challenges. Protests also oc- An analysis by Bloch’s
curred here on Saturday and group of the potential
Monday. The president’s na- for resource development
tional monuments decision found that revoking the orig-
forms another front line in inal boundaries and estab-
the administration’s dis- lishing smaller monuments
puted campaign to reverse opens Grand Staircase-Es-
Obama-era public lands and calante’s coal reserves to de-
environmental policy and to velopment. Uranium and oil
energize his base of political and gas reserves become
support in the rural West. much easier beyond the
It also subjected one boundaries of the much
of the country’s wildest smaller Bears Ears monu-
regions, a three-county ment.
stretch of deep canyons, The president acted at
mesa and red rock — home the urging of Utah’s Republi-
to few roads and roughly can congressional dele-
28,000 people — to uncom- gation, which resisted the
mon national scrutiny. decisions by Presidents
Trump’s actions pro- Clinton and Obama to es-
duced ample applause tablish the two monuments.
among supporters as he Utah’s lawmakers insist that
made his announcement. the two Democrats over-
He emphasized that the Laura Seitz Deseret News reached in establishing
boundary changes were in- PROTESTERS yell at police after being stopped from marching up a street in Salt Lake City during President Bears Ears and Grand Stair-
tended to return control of Trump’s announcement that he is reducing the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments. case-Escalante by not ad-
public lands to those who equately considering the
know and use them most land.” views of state residents.
closely. Trump’s declaration sets The Obama administra-
“Some people think that the stage for a court battle tion disputed that charac-
the natural resources of over presidential authority terization, arguing that it
Utah should be controlled to rescind the boundaries of held many public meetings
by a small handful of very a national monument. Legal and invited public comment.
distant bureaucrats located scholars assert that neither Opinion surveys have
in Washington,” he told the the Antiquities Act nor the found that Utah residents
audience. “And guess what, 1976 Federal Land Policy and are about evenly divided on
they’re wrong.” Management Act allow such whether to shrink or main-
With his redesignation, striking changes to national tain the existing boundaries
he said, “Public lands will monuments by a president. of the two monuments.
once again be for public use.” That authority, they assert, “This is unprecedented
The president’s actions rests solely with Congress. — and it’s illegal,” Rhea Suh,
were a dramatic departure The Inter Tribal Coali- president of the Natural Re-
from conventional inter- tion, a Native American sources Defense Council,
pretations of the 1906 Antiq- group, said it would file a said in a statement. “Presi-
uities Act, on which the lawsuit immediately to pro- dents use the Antiquities
monument designations are tect Bears Ears. Patagonia, Act to create national monu-
based. the outdoor clothing manu- ments and protect our spe-
The act, advocated by facturer, is joining Friends of cial lands and waters for fu-
President Theodore Roose- Cedar Mesa, Utah Dine ture generations. This presi-
velt, was designed to provide Bikeyah and Archaeology dent thinks he can use it to
safeguards to exceptional Jim Lo Scalzo EPA/Shutterstock Southwest in a Bears Ears destroy them. He does not
historic, cultural and natu- THE MOON above Bears Ears National Monument. Trump’s declaration sets the suit to be filed this week. Ten have that authority. What’s
ral landscapes across the stage for a court battle over presidential authority to alter a national monument. national and regional envi- next, President Trump —
country, most of them lo- ronmental groups said they the Grand Canyon? See you
cated in the West’s public do- Department accounting. ments were established. This administration has the were filing a lawsuit in fed- in court.”
main. Though President Wilson re- “This is about giving ru- strength and the will to be eral court in Washington to In April, Trump signed
The Antiquities Act pro- moved over 313,000 acres ral America a voice,” Zinke there for us. This is a great protect Grand Staircase-Es- an executive order that di-
vides broad authority to from the Mt. Olympus Na- said. “There are not many day for Utah.” calante. rected the Interior Depart-
presidents to act alone in es- tional Monument in 1915, presidents that do what he is “When Bears Ears was “The president lacks the ment to review 27 monu-
tablishing national monu- none has come close to re- about to do.” He added: designated, it was disheart- authority under the Antiqui- ments established since
ments. Presidents have de- ducing boundaries by as “The president is doing this ening for my community,” ties Act to repeal national 1996. The department got
clared more than 150 na- much as the roughly 2 mil- for the right reasons to make said Rebecca Benally, a monuments like he tried to- nearly 3 million comments.
tional monuments, many of lion acres that Trump re- sure that Utah has a voice.” Navajo and commissioner of day,” said Steve Bloch, the Most expressed support for
which became national moved from federal protec- “The little guys’ voices San Juan County, where the legal director of the South- keeping national monument
parks. Four of Utah’s five na- tion at Bears Ears and were heard,” said state Rep. monument is. She added: “It ern Utah Wilderness Alli- boundaries and manage-
tional parks started as na- Grand Staircase-Escalante. Gregory H. Hughes, the was insulting that bureau- ance, an environmental ment practices intact.
tional monuments. “I’m a real estate devel- speaker of the Utah House of crats thousands of miles group in Salt Lake City. “We
Trump said the act was oper,” Trump said. “When Representatives. “Voices in away didn’t believe we were argue that when Congress keith.schneider
never designed to create they start talking about mil- the community were heard. capable of protecting our passed the Antiquities Act, @latimes.com
monuments of the size of the lions of acres, I say, ‘Say it
two in Utah. “These abuses again?’ Because that’s a lot.”
of the Antiquities Act give The president, who was

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bureaucrats at the expense
of the people who live here
and work here and make this
place their home,” he said.
Though previous presi-
dents have adjusted na-
tional monuments more
than 80 times, all but 18 of
those changes were made to
expand monument bounda-
ries, according to an Interior
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Trump lawyer sparks legal debate
Under the law, he
says, it’s not possible
for the president
to obstruct justice.
By Chris Megerian
and Joseph Tanfani
WASHINGTON — As
the special counsel investi-
gation inches deeper into
the White House, President
Trump has repeatedly in-
sisted that he has done
nothing wrong, denying any
collusion with Russia and
decrying the allegations as a
“hoax.”
On Monday, one of his
lawyers offered a backup ar-
gument as Trump faces new
questions about whether he
improperly tried to shield
his former national security
advisor, Michael Flynn, from
an FBI investigation and
then fired FBI Director
James B. Comey to block the
inquiry. Interfering with the
case could be construed as
obstructing justice, a poten-
tial federal crime.
It’s impossible, the law-
yer said, for the president to
obstruct justice under the
law. The reason? He’s too
powerful.
Trump “cannot obstruct
justice because he is the
chief law enforcement officer
under [Article II of the Con-
stitution] and has every
right to express his view of
any case,” John Dowd, a law-
yer for the president, told
Axios, a news website.
Article II details the pres-
ident’s authority over the
executive branch, which in-
cludes the Justice Depart-
ment.
Trump’s potential legal
jeopardy is separate from
any political liability: ob-
struction-of-justice charges
were among the articles of
impeachment filed against
both President Nixon, who
resigned in disgrace, and
President Clinton, who
served out his term.
But Dowd’s claim
sparked a sharp debate
among legal scholars and
others as to how far a presi-
dent can stretch his consti-
tutional powers without
breaking the law and the ex-
tent of a president’s legal im-
THE NATION
PRESIDENT TRUMP faces new questions about whether he tried to protect his former national security
advisor from an FBI inquiry. Interfering with the case could be seen as obstructing justice, a federal crime.
munity in office. While the
Constitution lays out condi-
tions under which a presi-
dent can be impeached and
removed by Congress, it
does not say whether the
president can be prose-
cuted. Neither does federal
law. Courts have never ruled
on the issue.
“It’s an unanswered
question,” said Susan Low
Bloch, a Georgetown Uni-
versity law professor who
doubts a sitting president
can be indicted on criminal
charges. “We’ve never done
it.”
Jonathan Turley, a during the presidential tran-
George Washington Uni-
versity law professor, said
the question “has been a
parlor game for constitu-
tional scholars for decades.”
Turley believes a presi-
dent could be indicted, not-
ing that federal judges aren’t
immune from criminal
charges. “Why assume a lim-
itation with regards to presi-
dents when it clearly doesn’t
exist for other impeachable
officials?” he asked.
Dowd’s comment came
after special counsel Robert
S. Mueller III, who is investi-
gating whether anyone in
Trump’s orbit helped Rus-
sian operatives interfere
with last year’s presidential
campaign, rocked the White
House by making a plea deal
with Flynn, a retired three-
star Army general who was
one of Trump’s closest ad-
visors during the campaign.
On Friday, Flynn pleaded
guilty to lying to the FBI in
January about his contacts
with Sergey Kislyak, then
the Russian ambassador,
sition. On Saturday, Trump
tweeted that he had fired
Flynn as national security
advisor in February in part
because he knew Flynn had
lied to federal agents.
Trump’s claim for the
first time that he knew Flynn
may have committed a fel-
ony was so extraordinary
that Dowd later said he had
written it, not the president.
Either way, it cast a new
spotlight on Senate testi-
mony from Comey, the for-
mer FBI director who
Trump fired in May.
The day after Flynn was
forced out of the White
House, Comey later testi-
fied, Trump asked him to go
easy on his former national
security advisor.
“I hope you can see your
way clear to letting this go,”
Comey recalled the presi-
dent saying.
Trump denied on Sun-
day telling Comey to stop in-
vestigating Flynn. Raj Shah,
a White House spokesman,
referred questions to Dowd,
who declined to comment.
Trump has previously said
that he’s not personally
under investigation.
Jim Lo Scalzo EPA/Shutterstock
Mueller has not said one
way or another, but all indi-
cations are his investigation
is far from over. So far he has
charged four people and two
of them — Flynn and anoth-
er campaign aide, George
Papadopoulos — have
pleaded guilty and agreed to
assist the FBI.
Jed Shugerman, a law
professor at Fordham Uni-
versity, said Dowd’s com-
ment showed he was con-
cerned about Trump’s legal
vulnerability. “Dowd and
others have to argue that a
president can’t obstruct jus-
tice because the facts are in-
creasingly stacked against
them,” he said.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a
California Democrat and
ranking member on the Sen-
ate Judiciary Committee,
told NBC’s “Meet the Press”
on Sunday that she sees “a
case of obstruction of jus-
tice” in Trump’s decision to
fire Comey.
“It is my belief that that is
directly because [Comey]
did not agree to ‘lift the
cloud’ of the Russia investi-
gation,” she said. “That’s ob-
struction of justice.”
Harvard Law School pro-
fessor emeritus Alan Der-
showitz told Fox News on
Monday that Feinstein “sim-
ply doesn’t know what she’s
talking about” because
Trump was within his rights
to fire Comey.
“There’s never been a
case in history where a presi-
dent has been charged with
obstruction of justice for
merely exercising his consti-
tutional authority,” Der-
showitz said. “That would
cause a constitutional crisis
in the United States.”
Nixon’s downfall was ac-
celerated by a White House
recording that revealed he
was involved in a plan to
thwart an FBI investigation
into the illegal bugging of
Democratic campaign of-
fices. Obstruction was the
first of three articles of im-
peachment approved by the
House Judiciary Commit-
tee. He resigned in 1974 be-
fore the impeachment proc-
ess advanced to the full
House.
Clinton was impeached
by a GOP-controlled House
in 1998 after his affair with
Monica Lewinsky, a White
House intern, was revealed.
One of the allegations was
obstruction of justice. The
effort to remove Clinton
stalled in the Democratic-
controlled Senate.
chris.megerian
@latimes.com
joseph.tanfani
@latimes.com

Justices may legalize sports

betting in states that want it
By David G. Savage

WASHINGTON — The
Supreme Court appeared
poised Monday to legalize
sports betting by freeing
states from a federal anti-
gaming law.
The justices gave a
friendly hearing to New Jer-
sey’s claim that states are
free to control their own
laws, including in the area of
gambling, unless Congress
has adopted a federal regu-
latory policy to prohibit it.
And Congress failed to do
that when it passed a 1992
law, the state maintained.
The federal law did not actu-
ally ban sports wagering,
but instead said states may
not “authorize by law” such
gaming.
That type of command
from Washington violates
the Constitution’s 10th
Amendment, which re-
serves to the states the
power to make and enforce
their own laws in areas
where the federal govern-
ment has not exerted au-
thority, said former Solicitor
Gen. Ted Olson, represent-
ing New Jersey.
“This is a direct com-
mand to the states,” Olson
said of the Professional and
Amateur Sports Protection
Act of 1992. Congress said
“we want to put the burden
and the expense and the ac-
countability on the states.
The federal government is
doing nothing,” he said.
In their comments and
questions, most of the jus-
tices sounded the same
states’ rights theme.
Justice Anthony M. Ken-
nedy said the federal law
seemed to him like “com-
mandeering.”
“This is telling the states
what to do,” said Justice
Brendan Smialowski AFP/Getty Images
NEW JERSEY Gov. Chris Christie, speaking to re-
porters outside the Supreme Court, signed a measure
authorizing sports betting at racetracks and casinos.
Stephen G. Breyer. cluded an exception for Ne-
In 2011, New Jersey’s vot- vada, which allowed it to
ers by a 2-1 margin approved continue licensing betting
sports betting, but federal on sports.
courts have repeatedly Undeterred, New Jersey’s
blocked the state from al- lawmakers devised what
lowing such gaming at its many saw as a sleight-of-
racetracks and casinos. hand move. They repealed
New Jersey had been bat- the state’s laws that made it
tling in court for years with a crime to wager on sports at
the National Collegiate Ath- racetracks or casinos.
letic Assn. and the four ma- Once again, the NCAA
jor professional sports and the pro sports leagues
leagues: the NFL, NBA, sued and won in federal
NHL and Major League court. The judges said the
Baseball. Their lawyers sued state had implicitly author-
in 2012 shortly after Gov. ized sports gaming by re-
Chris Christie signed into pealing its prohibition.
law the measure to autho- If the state prevails in
rize sports betting at race- Christie vs. NCAA, the rul-
tracks and casinos. ing would probably free
Federal judges agreed other states to follow New
with the NCAA that the Jersey’s lead. Gaming ex-
state law could not stand be- perts said at least a dozen
cause it violated the federal states would probably au-
law. And the Supreme Court thorize wagering on sports,
refused to intervene then. including California, Con-
No one doubts Congress necticut, Florida, Illinois,
has the constitutional power Pennsylvania and New York.
to enforce a federal ban on Americans bet as much
gambling, or a particular as $150 billion a year on
type of gaming. But support- sports events, according to
ers of New Jersey said Con- the American Gaming Assn.
gress stopped short of doing
that. The 1992 federal law in- david.savage@latimes.com
A6 T U E S DAY , D EC EM BE R 5, 2017
Assemblyman faces investigation
[Harassment, from A1]
made unwanted sexual
advances throughout his ca-
reer in state government.
State Sen. Tony Mendoza
(D-Los Angeles) lost his
leadership positions and
faces a legislative investiga-
tion after multiple allega-
tions of misconduct toward
female staffers.
Dababneh — who is un-
married and, at 36, is one of
Sacramento’s youngest leg-
islators — has had a fairly
rapid rise in state politics.
The UCLA graduate be-
gan working for U.S. Rep.
Brad Sherman (D-Porter
Ranch) in 2005, and in 2009
became the congressman’s
chief of staff in his district of-
fice.
In 2013, Dababneh nar-
rowly won a special election
for his Assembly seat in a re-
liably Democratic district
that includes Encino,
Tarzana and Woodland
Hills. Since then, he has
handily won reelection
twice, boosted by a flush
campaign account and an
influential perch as chair-
man of the Assembly’s
Banking and Finance Com-
mittee.
Late Monday, Assembly
Speaker Anthony Rendon
(D-Paramount) announced
Dababneh would be “tempo-
rarily stepping down” from
his post pending an outside
investigation of Lopez’s alle-
gation.
Lopez, 35, first told her
story of the encounter to the
New York Times in October,
but she declined to name the
legislator. At a Nov. 28
Assembly hearing on har-
assment prevention, she
said, “I am fearful of being re-
taliated against.”
She has told the Los An-
geles Times in a series of in-
terviews she worried that
naming the legislator would
turn him into a scapegoat,
distracting from the larger
issues of a Capitol culture
she believes does not suffi-
ciently protect women. She
also told The Times she
wasn’t naming him because
he holds a powerful position.
Lopez said in the inter-
views that when she initially
told her story to news or-
ganizations, she purposely
misstated the location, say-
ing it happened in a bar in
Sacramento. The reason,
she said, was that she feared
disclosing the true location
— a co-ed bachelor party at a
Las Vegas hotel — because it
would have made it easier to
identify Dababneh.
She said she decided to
name him after Assembly
Rules Committee Chairman
Ken Cooley urged women
who have been sexually har-
assed within the California
Capitol community to seek
redress through the Legisla-
ture.
“He promised a process
that will be neutral and un-
biased and not rigged to pro-
tect powerful men and pow-
erful lawmakers in our com-
munity,” she said at the news
conference. “In doing this I
am choosing to have hope
that that process will work,
and I am putting this in the
hands of the lawmakers who
have told me that they will
act to protect me.”
‘Panic’ in Las Vegas
Lopez said the incident
occurred Jan. 16, 2016.
Around 50 elected officials
and campaign operatives
from the Sacramento and
Los Angeles areas had gath-
ered to celebrate their
friends’ upcoming wedding.
The Saturday night party
was in a room at the
SkyLofts, a boutique hotel in
Big weight problems forecast for kids
More than half of
today’s children in
America will be obese
by the time they’re
35, a study predicts.
By Karen Kaplan
Obesity is set to become
the new normal in America.
By the time today’s chil-
dren reach the age of 35, 57%
of them will be obese, a new
study predicts. That means
that if present trends con-
tinue, an American child’s
chances of having a normal
weight as an adult — or of be-
ing merely overweight — are
less than even.
The children who are des-
tined to become obese are
not necessarily obese right
‘I spun around and ... I saw that I was facing Matt Dababneh and he had
unzipped his pants and exposed himself and had begun to masturbate.’
the MGM Grand Resort in
Las Vegas. An invitation re-
viewed by The Times play-
fully called the event a
“Grassroots Leadership
Training Program.”
Several people who were
there confirmed Lopez and
Dababneh attended the
party. There are differing ac-
counts of what transpired.
Lopez said she was there
from early evening until late
at night. Dababneh arrived
around 8 p.m. and stayed for
about 90 minutes, according
to two people who attended
with him.
Lopez said she found her-
self briefly chatting with
Dababneh, whom she had
met before through mutual
friends. Dababneh at that
point had served in the Leg-
islature for two years. Their
interaction was no more
than three or four sentences,
Lopez said.
An hour or two later,
Lopez said she felt a large
body following her into a sin-
gle-use bathroom. She said
it was Dababneh, who is
more than 6 feet tall and
sturdily built.
“The weight of that body
was pushing me into the
restroom. I heard the door
slam behind me,” Lopez
said. “I spun around and by
the time I had gotten myself
spun around, I saw that I
was facing Matt Dababneh
and he had unzipped his
pants and exposed himself
and had begun to mastur-
bate.”
Lopez said she backed
away from him, her mind
racing with the realization of
what was happening. “The
panic was just immense,”
she said.
Lopez said Dababneh de-
manded that she touch his
genitals.
“I remember thinking, at
the very least, make it very
clear you don’t want to be
here,” she said. “Don’t say
anything to allow him to mis-
interpret your refusal as you
being shy or coquettish.”
She said she stated firmly
she would not touch him,
and repeated it multiple
times. She said he then
asked her to touch him else-
where, even just rest her arm
on him. Lopez said she inter-
preted the request as a type
of attempted negotiation.
now — in fact, most of them
are not. The Harvard Uni-
versity researchers who
came up with these projec-
tions say that only half of the
kids will be obese when they
are 20 years old, while the
other half will become obese
during their 20s or 30s.
The study results, pub-
lished in the New England
Journal of Medicine, suggest
that health experts have
missed the big picture when
it comes to childhood obesi-
ty.
“Our findings highlight
the importance of promot-
ing a healthy weight
throughout childhood and
adulthood,” the researchers
wrote. “A narrow focus solely
on preventing childhood
obesity will not avert poten-
tial future health damage
that may be induced by the
ongoing obesity epidemic.”
lobbyist, in her account of an encounter with the assemblyman in 2016
Again, she refused. She said
Dababneh then ejaculated
into the toilet. The en-
counter lasted less than five
minutes, Lopez said.
Lopez said that Dabab-
neh immediately expressed
regret and disbelief. She said
he told her, “ ‘I can’t believe I
just did that.’ ”
Lopez said she pointed
him toward the door. As he
exited, Lopez said, Dabab-
neh told her not to say
anything. She said she
turned the request back on
him, raising her voice: “Don’t
you tell anyone this hap-
pened.”
She said she didn’t tell
anyone at the party about
the encounter, afraid some-
one would find Dababneh
and make a scene.
Lopez said that over the
course of the evening, she
had several alcoholic bever-
ages, but said she recalled
the incident in the bathroom
with clarity.
Dababneh said he did not
go to the bathroom in the
loft. He said he spent the en-
tire night with his friend Ken
Maxey and a second friend
who attended the party.
Maxey said he saw Lopez
speak with Dababneh, but
did not recall the assembly-
man using the bathroom at
the party. Maxey spoke with
The Times at the legislator’s
request in an interview facili-
tated by Dababneh’s attor-
ney. Maxey said he was with
Dababneh for the “majority”
of the night. The second
friend, who declined to be
named for fear it could affect
her job, said she was either
with or within eyesight of
Dababneh most of the eve-
ning.
“I don’t see how it’s pos-
sible,” Maxey said of Lopez’s
accusation. He said the loft
where the party was held
had an open layout that
would make it difficult for
such an incident to go unno-
ticed.
The host, who declined to
be named, told The Times
that Lopez texted him the
next day suggesting she had
a good time.
Lopez said she told her
boyfriend, who is now her
husband, about the incident
the next day. He could not be
reached for comment.
Afrack Vargas, Lopez’s
The team, led by Zachary
Ward, a decision scientist at
the Harvard T.H. Chan
School of Public Health, set
out to answer a very specific
question.
“We wanted to predict for
children now at a certain
weight and certain age,
what’s the probability that
they will have obesity at the
age of 35?” explained Ward,
who is working on his PhD.
They picked age 35 be-
cause that’s when the health
problems associated with
obesity — including diabe-
tes, high blood pressure,
heart disease and some
types of cancer, to name a
few — typically begin.
The team’s question may
sound straightforward, but
getting the answer wasn’t.
Ward and his colleagues
needed growth charts that
tracked changes in people’s
Photographs by
‘I am utterly shocked and blown
away. This is a career-ending
charge based on no facts.’
Democratic assemblyman, denying Lopez’s allegations
business partner at the lob-
bying firm K Street Consult-
ing, said Lopez told him
within days of her return
from the Las Vegas trip that
Dababneh had pushed her
into the bathroom and mas-
turbated.
The Times also spoke
with Deanna Johnston, a
friend who said Lopez told
her about the encounter
with Dababneh several
weeks after it happened.
When Lopez went public
in October — 21 months after
the party — with her accusa-
tion, top lawmakers swiftly
weighed in to condemn the
behavior. Both houses made
inquiries to Lopez about the
incident.
“The behavior she de-
scribed is horrifying. It is
also a crime,” Rendon said in
a statement at the time.
Lopez said she contacted
the Las Vegas police several
weeks ago — after her allies
urged her to reach out to law
enforcement — to see what
her options would be if she
decided to press criminal
charges. She said the detec-
tive she spoke to, whose
name she did not recall,
could not say if police would
open an investigation, given
height and weight over dec-
ades, starting in early child-
hood. These charts did not
exist. And even if they did,
they’d be out of date because
the factors that influenced
today’s adults when they
were children wouldn’t nec-
essarily apply to today’s
kids.
The researchers got
around these problems by
stitching together data from
five big studies that took
height and weight measure-
ments of more than 40,000
Americans multiple times
over many years.
For instance, they might
start with a boy who was
tracked between the ages of
2 and 10. Then they’d look for
another boy with the same
racial and ethnic back-
ground whose height and
weight were similar at age 10
and track him through age
Rich Pedroncelli Associated Press
— PAMELA L OPEZ ,
— M ATT D ABABNEH ,
that according to her ac-
count there were no wit-
nesses and no physical evi-
dence.
“I didn’t feel confident
they would take it seriously.
But I wanted to be able to
say I had gone to the police,”
she said.
Cooley (D-Rancho Cor-
dova) said Monday that the
Assembly will refer Lopez’s
allegation to an outside in-
vestigator. Dababneh said
he would cooperate with
that inquiry.
“I look forward to any in-
vestigation that will give me
my reputation back,” he
said.
Conduct questioned
Jessica Yas Barker
worked as Dababneh’s sub-
ordinate in Sherman’s con-
gressional district office in
Sherman Oaks from June
2009 to December 2010. She
joined Lopez at the news
conference Monday.
In November interviews
with The Times, Barker re-
called that Dababneh regu-
larly spoke about his sexual
exploits and made degrad-
ing comments about wom-
en. She said his behavior was
the main factor in her deci-
18. At that point, they’d find
a man from the same demo-
graphic group with similar
height and weight at age 18
and follow him until age 25.
And so on.
By repeating this process
over and over, the team
could simulate a complete
growth trajectory for a sin-
gle person who was subject
to recent environmental in-
fluences.
Ultimately, the research-
ers wound up with a “virtual
population” of 1 million kids
and teens who were repre-
sentative of the nation’s ac-
tual kids and teens. They
used a variety of statistical
methods to make sure that
their simulations were accu-
rate. Only then were they
able to find answers to their
initial question.
They found that at any
age, obese kids are more
LAT IMES. C OM
sion to leave her job as a field
representative for the
congressman after 18
months.
She said over the course
of her tenure there that
Dababneh frequently made
inappropriate comments at
work, including talking
about his sexual habits and
the attire of female staffers.
At work events, “he would
look around the room and
talk about who he had sex
with and who he hadn’t,”
Barker said. “He was con-
stantly talking about his
sexual prowess.”
Barker, now 34, said
Dababneh chided her for
wearing pants to work, and
said she dressed “like a les-
bian,” asserting that women
should wear dresses. She
said he asked female em-
ployees, “How’s that glass
ceiling treating you?”
Barker said she did not
formally report Dababneh’s
actions because she was un-
sure where to file such a
complaint. She said she had
no reason to believe Sher-
man was aware of Dabab-
neh’s conduct.
Sherman said that prior
to hearing Barker’s allega-
tion, he had “never seen or
been told of ” any inappro-
priate behavior or dispar-
agement of women from
Dababneh.
“We are redoubling our
efforts to make sure that
my offices are safe and com-
fortable places for women
and men to work,” Sherman
said in a statement to The
Times.
Two friends confirmed to
The Times that Barker regu-
larly told them about
Dababneh’s behavior and
that she said it made her feel
uncomfortable.
Erin Prangley, Dabab-
neh’s former supervisor in
Sherman’s office, said she
never received complaints
about his behavior. She said
she recommended him to
succeed her as district chief
of staff.
Prangley, who spoke to
The Times at Dababneh’s
request in an interview facili-
tated by his attorney, was
not in the district office
regularly during the time
Barker worked there.
A second colleague, who
worked in the district office
when Barker was there and
who spoke on the condition
of anonymity, said he did not
recall Dababneh speaking in
the office about sex, his dat-
ing life, women’s attire or
generally disparaging com-
ments about women. This
person also was connected
to The Times through
Dababneh.
Dababneh denied talking
about his sexual exploits in
the workplace or making
disparaging comments
about women or their attire.
He said Barker’s accusation
was “politically motivated.”
“No one else in that office
— that currently works
there, that was there then or
any of the previous staff that
worked with me at that time
— would corroborate it,” he
said. “That’s just not how I
behaved.”
Barker said her personal
opinion of Dababneh was
not shaped by political dif-
ferences.
“I disliked Matt’s behav-
ior in the office and his lack
of professionalism and his
sexism and chauvinism long
before he was an elected offi-
cial,” she said.
melanie.mason
@latimes.com
Times staff writer Jazmine
Ulloa contributed to this
report.
likely than their non-obese
peers to be obese at age 35.
They also found that older
obese kids are more likely
than younger obese kids to
still be obese on their 35th
birthday.
For instance, a 2-year-old
who is obese has a 75%
chance of being obese at age
35, the researchers calcu-
lated. But an obese 19-year-
old has an 88% chance of be-
ing obese at age 35.
Likewise, a person who is
not obese at age 2 has a 58%
chance of being obese by 35.
But a 19-year-old who is not
obese faces only a 44%
chance of being obese by 35,
the study authors found.
Compared with a non-
obese counterpart, an obese
2-year-old is 30% more likely
to be obese at age 35.
karen.kaplan@latimes.com
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Melting sea ice’s effect on drought

[Drought, from A1]
rect, potentially dramatic
impact on the West Coast.
Though climate scientists
generally agree that the in-
creased temperatures al-
ready resulting from climate
change have seriously exac-
erbated drought in Califor-
nia, there has been debate
over whether global warm-
ing would affect the amount
of precipitation that comes
to California.
The study, published
Tuesday in the journal Na-
ture Communications, pro-
vides compelling evidence
that it would. The model the
scientists used homed in on
the link between the disap-
pearance of sea ice in the
Arctic and the buildup of
high ridges of atmospheric
pressure over the Pacific
Ocean. Those ridges push
winter storms away from the
state, causing drought.
The scientists found that
as the sea ice goes away,
there is an increase in the
formation of ridges.
“Our design was aimed at
looking at what will happen
in 20 to 30 years, when the
Arctic becomes ice-free in
the summer,” said Ivana
Cvijanovic, the lead climate
scientist on the study. “It is
coming soon. We want to
understand what the im- Al Seib Los Angeles Times
pact would be.... The similar- JON PEDOTTI on a Cambria lake bed in 2014. California just emerged from what one study called the most severe drought in 1,200 years.
ities between what will hap-
pen and [how weather pat- warming, which ignores the the ice melt in the Arctic and Gov. Jerry Brown has commitments made in the study does not focus on the
terns caused] the most re- mainstream scientific con- the buildup of atmospheric been taking a lead globally in Paris agreement are kept, role melting Arctic ice may
cent drought are really sensus that human activity ridges affecting California. confronting climate change, climate scientists say the have played in the massive
striking.” is driving it. The administra- Michael Mann, director of warning that the Trump ad- Arctic ice situation would drought from which Califor-
Rainfall in California tion has been working the Earth System Science ministration’s approach is still be dire. nia recently emerged — the
would drop, on average, 10% aggressively to unravel Center at Pennsylvania reckless and defies science. “This is happening very most severe in 1,200 years,
to 15% in the coming decades Obama-era action on cli- State University, said in an He traveled last month to a quickly,” said Noah Diffen- according to one scientific
under Cvijanovic’s model, mate change, withdrawing email that it paints a so- United Nations climate con- baugh, a climate scientist at study. But the atmospheric
but the decline would pre- from the Paris agreement bering picture for the Gold- ference in Bonn, Germany, Stanford University. “The patterns leading to that
sent itself sporadically, exac- that seeks to limit its im- en State. to meet with world leaders change is dramatic, and it is drought had all the charac-
erbating the potential for pact, dismantling restric- “As we learn more about and send the signal that taking place faster than had teristics of those that can be
drought. Some years the de- tions on power plant emis- the subtleties in the dynam- much of the nation is moving been projected by climate triggered by Arctic sea ice
cline in rainfall because of di- sions, and signaling that it ics of climate change, we are to act on climate change, models.” melt, Cvijanovic said, rais-
minished Arctic ice would be will relax vehicle mileage learning that certain climate even if President Trump is Diffenbaugh said the ing the prospect that Cali-
much steeper than 15%. rules that are a crucial com- change impacts, like Califor- not. study is a breakthrough for fornia might have dodged
Other years would be wetter ponent to addressing global nia drought, may be far Brown is helping lead a climate researchers who the latest drought — or at
than they otherwise would warming. worse than we had previ- coalition of state and local have been struggling to pin- least not have been hit as
be. The warnings about the ously thought,” Mann wrote. governments that is vowing point the impacts of melting hard — if not for the large
The study is yet another impact of melting sea ice on “It also means that, when it to reduce emissions enough Arctic ice. amount of ice that has al-
by federally funded re- California are being em- comes to water resource is- to meet the entire country’s “Being able to isolate the ready vanished.
searchers that finds the fail- braced by some prominent sues in California, the im- obligation under the Paris effect of melting sea ice on “There is lots of research
ure to more rapidly diminish climate scientists. They say pacts of climate change may agreement, which President the atmosphere and the to be done,” she said. “Hope-
greenhouse gas emissions that while the study is just exceed our adaptive capac- Obama signed last year. ocean’s response — and how fully we do it in time to allow
could have a serious effect on one of multiple models being ity. That leaves only miti- But the Trump adminis- it impacts precipitation in people to plan for whatever
California and other parts of used to project global warm- gation — doing something tration’s retreat threatens to California — that is a big may be coming.”
the country. The findings ing’s effects, it is bolstered by about climate change — as a substantially slow the rate step forward,” he said.
contrast starkly with Trump other studies that have sig- viable strategy moving for- at which U.S. climate emis- Because the model proj- evan.halper@latimes.com
administration policy on naled a connection between ward.” sions decline. And even if all ects only future impacts, the Twitter: @evanhalper
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OPINION
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Sabotaging the ‘ultimate deal’

Francisco. His defense was
that he found a recently
stolen handgun, which
fired the bullet that struck

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and killed Steinle in 2015.
resident Trump gushed after his more complicated issue is the status of By acquitting him of
election about bringing Israelis mostly Arab East Jerusalem, which Israel murder and voluntary
and Palestinians together in the captured from Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Isra- manslaughter (criminal
negligence), the jury found
“ultimate deal.” Yet now he seems eli War and which Palestinians hope will be
that he had no legal re-
poised to announce a change in the future capital of a Palestinian state. Is-
sponsibility for the “acci-
U.S. policy that is likely to make such an rael officially considers all of Jerusalem its
dental” discharge of the
agreement even more elusive: formally rec- “eternal capital.” A Trump statement ac-
gun held in his hand.
ognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. knowledging “Jerusalem” as Israel’s capital Although the trial jury
Such an announcement, which Trump is might be interpreted as endorsement of Is- was never told that Garcia
expected to make Wednesday, is both un- rael’s claim to the entire city. Chip Somodevilla Getty Images Zarate had been deported
necessary as a sign of this country’s support Trump’s predecessors feared that ac- MITCH McCONNELL gives a thumbs-up before as an illegal immigrant five
for Israel — which is rock-solid — and need- knowledging Jerusalem as Israel’s capital Senate passage of the tax reform bill on Friday. times and had seven prior
lessly provocative. Its principal effect will be would undermine peace talks. Those con- felony convictions, I’m sure
to cement Trump’s alliance with Israel’s cerns are still valid. On Saturday, Mahmoud
hard-line right-wing Prime Minister Ben-
jamin Netanyahu. The two leaders already
Habbash, an advisor to Palestinian Author-
ity President Mahmoud Abbas, said that
Why we pay taxes the citizens of San Fran-
cisco are now aware of
these facts because of
have bonded over their loathing for the Iran U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s post-trial media publicity.
Re “The GOP’s hollow tax win,” editorial, Dec. 3
nuclear agreement and their militant oppo- capital would amount to a “complete de- My question to them is
sition to Iran’s regional ambitions. struction of the peace process.” On Sunday, this: Is Garcia Zarate still
Your editorial on the tax bill is a scorecard on who
The Trump-Netanyahu alliance — and Jordan’s foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, welcome in their sanctuary
wins and who loses, who gains a percentage point or two city?
the decision to change decades of policy on warned that it might “trigger anger across of savings on future taxes and how those savings will be
Jerusalem — augur ill for the administra- the Arab and Muslim world, fuel tension Bill Gravlin
recovered. Rancho Palos Verdes
tion’s attempt to revive the peace process, and jeopardize peace efforts.” Taxes, if you ask any American, are supposed to pay
which Trump has entrusted to a team that Trump can argue, of course, that the for the goods and services that government provides — ::
inexplicably includes Jared Kushner, the peace process is already in a state of col- roads, schools, health, defense and more. But the funds
president’s unqualified and untested son- lapse. That’s sadly true, and the blame must generated or saved in this tax bill are primarily designed The mob mentality and
in-law, in a prominent role. Over the week- be shared by both sides. Despite paying lip to protect, punish or promote a targeted political group, rush to judgment espoused
end Kushner told a conference in Washing- service to a two-state solution in which Isra- not to raise revenue. by those seeking “justice”
ton that solving the Israeli-Palestinian con- el would exist alongside a viable, independ- Real tax reform would look at the costs of government in this case were moder-
flict was necessary to “create more stability ent Palestinian state, Netanyahu has presi- and then figure out how we can best meet those costs as ated by a dispassionate
in the region.” If Trump believed that, he ded over the expansion of Jewish settlement fairly as possible with a tax regime that stops favoring group of citizens who hon-
wouldn’t engage in needless provocations. activity on the West Bank that makes that one sector over another. A third political party built on ored their duty and obliga-
Why is it provocative to recognize what objective far harder to achieve. such a goal might do well with an electorate that proved tion to society.
may seem obvious to some readers — that The Palestinians, meanwhile, have been in 2016 that it is sick of the status quo. What disappoints me
Jerusalem is the ancient capital of the Jew- paralyzed by divisions between Abbas’ Godfrey Harris most about this case is how
ish nation and the seat of the modern Israeli Fatah movement, which controls the West little we have read about
Los Angeles
government? Alas, it’s not that simple. Bank, and Hamas, which holds sway in losing yet another innocent
Ever since President Truman recognized Gaza and which has refused to accept Isra- life to gun violence. We are
Israel in 1948, successive U.S. presidents el’s existence. Earlier this year the two fac- now so awash with guns
have been careful not to concede Israeli sov- tions announced a reconciliation, and The pictures of a jubi- felony and that he did that apparently we do not
ereignty over Jerusalem. Like other nations, Hamas issued a statement that seemed to lant Senate Majority nothing about it. find it notable, much less of
Leader Mitch McConnell Ordinarily, the attor- great concern, that a stolen
the U.S. locates its embassy in Tel Aviv, de- imply a grudging recognition of Israel. But
(R-Ky.) realizing he had ney-client privilege would loaded handgun can ap-
spite repeated attempts by Congress to Netanyahu’s office dismissed the state-
the votes to pass his tax bill protect inquiries into com- pear in a widely traveled
move the embassy to Jerusalem. ment, claiming that “Hamas is attempting
are worth a thousand munications between a public area.
Trump promised during his campaign to to fool the world, but it will not succeed.”
Do we not recognize
words. Never has a public client (Trump) and his
physically relocate the embassy, as the Isra- The fact that the peace process is mori- servant exuded such joy at lawyer (Dowd). But now that the proximate cause
eli right has long wanted it to, but he is now bund isn’t an argument for making it harder his altruistic, noble actions Dowd says he sent the of Steinle’s tragic death
expected to postpone the move again. That to revive, however. Aaron David Miller, who to help the American peo- tweet on his own, without had nothing to do with the
makes his expected recognition of advised both Republican and Democratic ple. It’s enough to melt communicating with immigration status of the
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital a kind of conso- secretaries of State on Arab-Israeli negotia- your heart. Trump. person who picked up the
lation prize for Netanyahu, as well as any tions, said that recognizing Jerusalem as Not. McConnell’s face That constitutes a gun, but rather our societal
Trump voters who care about the issue. Yet the capital of Israel at this time would be reflects giddy triumph and waiver of the attorney- irresponsibility that led to
it sends the same inflammatory message: “the single dumbest move this administra- relief at finally managing to client privilege under set- that handgun being on the
that Jerusalem belongs to Israel. tion has made in the Middle East.” please his donors. At long tled law. It would allow street?
Of course, the U.S. never would accept a The only justification for such a provoca- last, after a year of tap special counsel Robert Sadly, we find it easier
peace agreement in which Israel didn’t tive step is political: to allow Trump to say dancing and jumping Mueller to question both to engage in scapegoating,
maintain control of West Jerusalem, which that he (sort of) fulfilled a campaign prom- through hoops, he finally Dowd and Trump on their because it serves to ad-
is primarily populated by Israeli Jews. A ise. That’s not good enough. secured enough votes to communications about the vance a larger political
keep the checks flowing in tweet. narrative, rather than
2018. When he and his fellow David M. Dorsen confront the ugly conse-
Republicans are more Washington quences of our addiction to
likely thrown out in 2018, The writer was the violence and guns.

The destruction of Bears Ears they will at least have

paved the way to become
lobbyists for those behold-
assistant chief counsel to
the Senate Watergate
Committee.
Matt Lucas
Lake Forest

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ing donors. ::
ore than two decades ago, flexibility to act quickly to preserve federal The only things missing ::
President Clinton tried to lands that hold “historic landmarks, historic from the photos of the rich Saying that the verdict
end a long-running political and prehistoric structures, and other ob- white men who sealed this What will it take for was fair completely misses
battle over the future of 1.9 jects of historic or scientific interest.” Both destructive tax deal for the Congress to come to the the entire point of the trial
million acres of federal land Republican and Democratic presidents middle class are black conclusion that Trump is a — namely, someone was
in southern Utah by creating the Grand have used the law to preserve land that, in T-shirts bearing the words, crook? He now includes responsible for Steinle’s
Staircase-Escalante National Monument. many cases, Congress later decided to des- “Donor Lives Matter.” Flynn’s lying to the FBI as a death, and that person was
Last year, President Obama took a similar ignate national parks, including all or parts Wendy Blais reason he fired him, yet he Garcia Zarate. He was
North Hills fired James Comey when illegally carrying a loaded
step and created the nearly 1.4-million-acre of the Grand Canyon, Bryce and Zion —
the then-FBI director gun that he had no idea
Bears Ears National Monument in south- three gems of the Southwest. In undoing the
:: refused the president’s how to handle, and now
eastern Utah. Both designations protected Grand Staircase designation, Trump im-
alleged request to let Flynn Steinle is dead.
vast swaths of public land from mining and perils a regional outdoor recreation econo- The recently passed go. I don’t care about his
other industrial uses, and offered extra safe- my that has led to an increase in both jobs Senate tax reform bill Can any right-thinking undocumented status or
guards for natural habitats and pre-Colum- and per-capita income, for the chimera of favors the welfare of big American deny that this is how many times he had
bian Native American sites. riches from mines that ultimately might ne- corporations over young an attempt to obstruct been deported; neither of
But on Monday, President Trump evis- ver get dug in this vast and remote territory. companies, the welfare of justice? And can anyone these has anything to do
cerated both federal designations, proving And Trump isn’t done yet. The undoing legacy fossil fuel corpora- believe Trump when he with his causing the death
once again that, to this president, the fed- of the Utah designations is part of a 27-mon- tions over entrepreneurial says it is a shame that of someone. But at least he
eral government’s promises to its own peo- ument review conducted by the Depart- clean energy companies, Flynn lied because he had should have been con-
ple mean nothing. The president’s decision ment of the Interior at Trump’s direction; the welfare of those lucky nothing to hide? victed of involuntary man-
— which amounts to the largest elimination more trims are likely at some of those other Americans with trust As a retired 36-year slaughter.
of protected area in American history — sites. Secretary Ryan Zinke also reportedly funds over the majority criminal defense attorney, I Upon completion of his
senselessly imperils stunningly beautiful has recommended changes in the manage- whose assets are earned, can say with confidence prison term, he could then
natural areas and geological masterworks, ment of some of the monuments, such as ex- and the welfare of healthy that nobody lies unless he be deported. He might try
as well as tens of thousands of Native Ameri- panding grazing rights and road construc- families over those less so. has something to hide. to come back to the United
can sacred sites and key wildlife habitats. tion, which critics say will undercut the very In an economy where Some very bad people States, but that is another
Trump didn’t bother to travel all the way things the designations were supposed to consumer spending ac- throughout history have problem entirely.
counts more than two- amassed power by con- Tom Reinberger
to the red rock canyons of Utah to make his protect. Trump also has asked for recom-
thirds of the gross domes- vincing people that their Glendora
announcement, proudly declaring in the mendations on possible legislative changes
tic product, how do the illegal acts are legal and
state Capitol building in Salt Lake City that to the Antiquities Act that would make it
senators square their their detractors are liars.
he would cut by half the protected area cur-
rently within the Grand Staircase-Es-
harder for future presidents to use it.
Fortunately, Trump’s assault on federal
contention that their tax
reform is needed to create
Alan Abajian
Alta Loma
‘Pit-bull lawyer’
calante monument and remove more than 1
million acres from Bears Ears, leaving only
lands has energized environmental activ-
ists, and several organizations have already
jobs when this so-called
reform imposes higher ::
is a compliment
230,000 acres in two separate new monu- promised to sue. Among the issues is taxes on consumers by Re “Will pit-bull tactics
ments, Shash Jaa (Navajo for Bears Ears) whether Trump can legally shrink the 2027? In an economy where Reading your reports survive in a changing Hol-
and Indian Creek. Trump said he wanted to monuments by declaration. The Antiquities 64% of net new private- about the content of the lywood?” Dec. 3
undo previous administrations’ “overreach” Act gives the president the power to create sector jobs are created by Flynn’s conversations with
in establishing monuments much larger monuments and it gives Congress the small businesses (most of the Russian ambassador As a lover of pit-bull
than necessary to protect specific sites. Yet power to make changes, but it is silent on which are relatively to the United States, I can’t type dogs, I eagerly clicked
he offered no evidence to support his claims whether a president can undo a prede- young), how does favoring help but think this looks on this article online once I
of overreach. cessor’s declaration. Several presidents older, larger corporations like much ado about noth- saw the headline. What
In fact, this is nothing more than a give- have made largely minor changes to previ- yield higher employment? ing. pit-bull tactics could the
away to mining and other extractive indus- ous declarations, but none have been chal- The primary purpose of Yes, lying to FBI agents article be referring to? Full
tries, and a favor to conservative anti-public lenged in court, so this is uncharted ground. the Senate’s tax reform bill whether the conversation body hugs and cuddles?
lands Republicans in Utah who want land Environmental groups also argue that is clearly not the creation of took place was wrong. But Excessive face licking?
more jobs or providing what was wrong about the Rather, it seems you
owned by the federal government to be changing a monument’s “management
long-term relief to the subject of the conversa- equate “pit bull” with “hit
turned over to states for management and plan” requires the government to show that
middle class. tions? I don’t see any harm man” and “hard edged.”
development. As we’ve argued before, states the existing plans are somehow faulty.
William McCarthy to our country in Flynn This headline is inaccurate
should not take over public lands held in If Trump could articulate a sensible rea- Malibu having had discussions and frankly not helpful to
trust by the government for all of us. son for his actions, he would deserve a lis- with the Russian ambas- those of us who love pit-
The Utah monuments were created ten. But he hasn’t, and such a transparent sador. bull type dogs. It perpetu-
under the authority of the 1906 Antiquities
Act, a law intended to give a president the
effort to reward political allies and mining
interests should be fought vigorously. Trump’s tweets The dislike of the pre-
sent administration should
ates stereotypes that are
not based on fact and
help Mueller not interfere with a fair
investigation.
further contributes to the
estimated 500,000 pit-bull
Re “Salvos from Trump Vladimir Bogorad type dogs euthanized each
over Flynn,” Dec. 4 Chatsworth year in the U.S.
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The disastrous tax plan isn’t law yet Deficits
Corporations and the rich
are winners in the GOP
bills, but the fight goes on.
By Dianne Feinstein
T
ax reform shouldn’t
add one penny to our
deficit or to the tax bills
of middle-class Ameri-
cans. I thought that be-
lief was shared by everyone in the
Senate. It appears I was wrong.
Behind closed doors, Republi-
cans drafted a bill that raises taxes
on millions in the middle class and
adds at least $1 trillion to our defi-
cit. The bill also renews the GOP
attack on the Affordable Care Act,
a move that will drive up health in-
surance premiums in the individu-
al market by 10% each year and will
likely result in 13 million more
Americans without coverage.
Refusing to hold a single hear-
ing with outside groups, Republi-
cans rushed their bill through the
Senate in the hope Americans
wouldn’t realize what it really is — a
huge windfall for big corporations
and the rich.
Every day, I hear from Califor-
nians worried about what this bill
means for their family’s budget.
Raleigh is a middle-class retiree
in Davis. He wrote that his taxes
will go up nearly $4,000 a year and
he can’t afford such a drastic tax in-
crease on his fixed budget.
FORMER U.S. national security advisor Michael Flynn leaves federal court in Washington after his plea hearing on Friday.
If he did nothing wrong,
why did Michael Flynn lie?
By Harry Litman
P
resident Trump
tweeted Saturday that
he “had to fire General
Flynn because he lied to
the Vice President and
the FBI,” adding, “It is a shame be-
cause his actions during the tran-
sition were lawful. There was
nothing to hide!”
Both halves of the tweet are
jaw-dropping.
In the first half, Trump admits
to knowing that Flynn, his one-
time national security advisor,
had already lied to the FBI at the
time he pushed FBI Director
James B. Comey to drop the inves-
tigation into Flynn. (The overture
to Comey came the day after
Trump fired Flynn.) Pushing your
Justice Department to stifle an in-
vestigation of a known felon
sounds a lot like obstruction of
justice.
The second half of the tweet —
the assertion that it was perfectly
fine for Flynn to make contact
with Russian government actors
before Trump was actually presi-
dent — is equally disturbing.
Trump defenders have ad-
vanced a two-part argument to
justify pre-inauguration conver-
sations with Russia. Their first, a
legal claim, concerns the Logan
Act, which makes it a crime for un-
authorized citizens to negotiate
with foreign governments that
have a dispute with the United
States. Trump defenders note, ac-
curately, that its broad sweep has
left it in a legal no-man’s-land. The
Logan Act has almost never been
used. The special counsel in
Mary lives in Berkeley. She said
her health insurance premiums
will rise because of the attack on
the Affordable Care Act. The
higher costs could force her to
choose between buying health in-
surance or paying for her daugh-
ter’s college tuition.
And Carol, who lives in Sacra-
mento, tells me her family’s taxes
would go up almost $12,000 a year,
making it harder for them to save
for retirement.
Unfortunately, they’re not
alone. Half of American house-
holds will see a tax increase. Mean-
while, billionaires and millionaires
will pay less. That’s appalling.
Californians will be hurt the
most by the partial elimination of
the state and local tax deduction,
known as the SALT deduction.
Since the national income tax
was created in 1913, Americans
have been able to prevent double
taxation by deducting state and lo-
cal taxes they have already paid.
Approximately 6 million California
households claimed this deduction
in 2015.
This provision hurts all Califor-
nians, even those who don’t claim
the deduction. Funding for critical
services like schools, police and fire
departments could be in jeopardy
as communities try to ease the in-
creased tax burden on families.
State and local governments
won’t be the only ones feeling the
squeeze. The massive trillion-dol-
lar increase in the U.S. national
deficit could later trigger cuts to
charge of the Russia probe,
Robert Mueller, would find it diffi-
cult to dust it off for this situation.
Trump defenders’ second re-
frain is that it is routine for incom-
ing administrations to reach out
to other countries — as a way to
lay the groundwork for their as-
cent to power.
If that’s the case, then why did
Flynn lie? The apologists have not
advanced any sensible response
to that question.
I think Flynn lied because he
understood, correctly, that he and
his colleagues had done some-
thing very wrong and inimical to
U.S. interests.
Flynn wasn’t a misguided pri-
vate citizen (think Dennis Rod-
man in North Korea) flying off to
consult with a foreign power. Such
bumbling freelance diplomacy
can be vexatious to the govern-
ment, but no one could confuse it
with a legitimate U.S. foreign pol-
icy initiative.
And Flynn wasn’t just reaching
out to, say, introduce himself or re-
ceive basic information. He was
intentionally undermining the
Obama administration.
Mueller’s team has outlined
that in late December 2016:
8 Flynn asked the Russian am-
bassador, Sergey Kislyak, not to
escalate tensions in response to
sanctions that the United States
had imposed against Russia.
Kislyak agreed.
8 At the behest of a senior offi-
cial who is almost certainly
Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kush-
ner, Flynn contacted officials from
foreign governments, including
Russia, to see where each stood on
OP-ED
Carolyn Kaster Associated Press
SEN. FEINSTEIN: “Repub-
licans are selling” a fairy tale.
vital programs.
Republicans are selling Ameri-
cans a fairy tale — the false claim
that these tax cuts for the rich will
pay for themselves. That view isn’t
shared by credible economists. Ac-
cording to Congress’ Joint Com-
mittee on Taxation, over the next
decade, estimated growth under
the plan would make up for no
more than a fraction of deficit in-
creases.
So I fear Republicans hid their
true intentions.
In a few years, they’ll no doubt
use the growing deficits they cre-
ated as an excuse to gut Medicare,
Medicaid and Social Security.
Americans who rely on these pro-
grams will be victims of the Repub-
licans’ partisan tax plan.
But one group is a clear winner
a U.N. resolution against Israel for
its settlement policy, which the
U.S. had decided to let pass.
8 Flynn asked Kislyak to delay
the U.N. vote or to defeat the reso-
lution.
What this means, unavoidably,
is that the Trump transition team
was carrying on a rogue foreign
policy effort, on issues of the high-
est sensitivity to U.S. interests,
with neither State Department
oversight nor expertise. Flynn and
others sought concessions, made
assurances and negotiated deals
behind the back of the Obama ad-
ministration — on matters they
could not have fully understood.
The questions arising from this
closet operation are many and
alarming.
What sorts of risks to U.S. in-
terests and even international sta-
bility were run by the Trump tran-
sition team’s decision to arrogate
to itself, and secretly, the conduct
of important foreign affairs?
What kind of diplomatic or
even military calamity might they
have bumbled into?
What sorts of nuanced consid-
erations involving not just Israel
but also Syria, Iran, China, and
others were in play in the Obama
administration’s decision to let
the settlement resolution pass?
What if Israel had quietly ac-
ceded to the U.S. abstention in re-
turn for aid or other covert assist-
ance?
How did it look later to the
international community that the
Trump team was able to work its
will on the sanctions that the
Obama administration had so
painstakingly put in place?
T UESDAY , DEC EMB ER 5, 2017
in the bill. The tax rate for big cor-
porations was cut almost in half,
dropping from 35% to 20%. And
they get to keep deductions taken
away from ordinary people, theo-
retically allowing companies to
drive their tax rate down further.
Think about that. A family of
four can’t deduct many of the state
and local taxes they pay, but a large
corporation still could under the
Republican bill.
The Senate bill also makes the
corporate tax cuts permanent.
Meanwhile, the lower tax rates for
some in the middle class will disap-
pear, over time shifting the tax bur-
den more and more onto American
families.
It’s clear who the Republicans
considered a priority while writing
this bill. Republicans gave a huge
tax cut to corporations and the
rich, and it will be paid for by mid-
dle-class families.
The fight, however, is not over.
Senate and House Republicans
must now reconcile the differences
in their two tax bills (the House
version is as disastrous for most
Americans as the Senate bill).
I urge all Californians to join me
in doing everything we can to de-
feat this legislation. Write, call or
email your representatives. Tell
them to reject the Republican tax
plan and work on bipartisan tax re-
form that puts the middle class
first.
Democrat Dianne Feinstein is
the senior senator from California.
Ting Shen New China News Agency
Nuanced and multidimension-
al moves are the norm in foreign
policy, and Team Trump was
playing blind.
But if their conduct wasn’t rou-
tine, some might argue, it wasn’t
exactly novel. It’s widely assumed,
for example, that the incoming
Reagan administration interfered
in hostage-crisis negotiations
with Iran.
That analogy, however, cuts in
the other direction. Reagan offi-
cials staunchly denied the
charges, with a vehemence that
revealed their understanding of
how outrageous such conduct
would have been. Both houses of
Congress held separate investiga-
tions into the matter, moreover,
and concluded that the charges
could not be substantiated.
We only have one president at a
time, and for good reason. What
the Trump team’s rogue foreign
policy amounted to was an attack
on the president as commander-
in-chief and an exposure of U.S.
citizens to gratuitous and incalcu-
lable risks. That’s arguably far
more serious than a lie to the FBI
or a personal or financial misdeed.
Only Congress can determine
whether such behavior, assuming
it was fully sanctioned by Trump,
amounts to an impeachable high
crime or misdemeanor. But the ar-
guments in that direction are
strong.
Harry Litman, a former U.S.
attorney and deputy assistant
attorney general, teaches at
UCLA Law School and practices
law at Constantine Cannon.
@harrlitman
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matter,
when it’s
the other
guys
JONAH GOLDBERG
I
f you’re a normal person
who pays attention to poli-
tics, you’d be forgiven for
thinking that Washington
can’t decide whether deficits
are bad or not. Well, I have one easy
trick that will help you make sense
of it all.
In Washington, when you hear
people complain that this or that
piece of legislation will “explode”
the deficit, what they are really
telling you is that they don’t like the
legislation.
It’s really that simple. Good leg-
islation, like good food, movies,
novels and pretty much everything
else except for dogs (they’re all
good) is in the eye of the beholder.
A politician or partisan who thinks
a proposal is worth doing will think
it’s worth doing even if it increases
the deficit. If he thinks a proposal is
bad, he might argue that it’s bad on
the merits. But you can be sure
that if it also increases the deficit,
he will cite this fact as a major rea-
son why it is bad.
That is the role deficits — and
the national debt — play in our pol-
itics. Anti-debt talk serves as dye-
marker for some more fundamen-
tal objection.
Almost everyone thinks deficits
are bad in the abstract, but that
their badness should only be a
problem for the other side. In 2008,
for example, then-presidential
candidate Barack Obama said
that the $5 trillion in debt rung up
under George W. Bush was “unpa-
triotic.” But his actual complaint
wasn’t about the debt but what
that money was spent on — the
Iraq war and tax cuts.
Under Obama, the national
debt soared from $11 trillion to just
under $20 trillion, but that deficit
spending was justifiable, accord-
ing to Democrats, because it went
to combating the financial crisis
and paying for various other do-
mestic programs.
The source of the apparent in-
consistency isn’t simply partisan
hypocrisy (though that’s a factor
as well), but a good-faith ideolog-
ical disagreement.
As a matter of economic policy,
conservatives believe that the peo-
ple themselves are better at spend-
ing their money than the govern-
ment. Cutting taxes and regula-
tions drives economic growth. Li-
berals, meanwhile, believe that the
government is the prime, or at least
an indispensable, driver of econo-
mic growth.
This is why liberals tend to talk
about spending on everything
from infrastructure to education
as an “investment.” The Obama
stimulus was sold as an investment
that would pay huge dividends,
thanks in part to Keynesian “mul-
tipliers” — the idea that every dol-
lar of government spending results
in more than a dollar in economic
growth. Obamacare, we were told,
would reduce the deficit by cutting
healthcare spending and improv-
ing economic growth.
Conservatives make similar ar-
guments about tax cuts. Over the
weekend, Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell told Fox News
that the tax cuts would yield more
than enough economic growth to
make up for the deficit the bill cre-
ates on paper.
On the philosophical side,
there’s an even starker conflict of
visions.
Liberals tend to start from the
assumption that the government
is entitled to as much revenue as it
needs, and so tax cuts amount to
giving people money.
Earlier this year, Sen. Bernie
Sanders proposed a budget that
would add at least $21 trillion to the
debt over a decade. But when the
Senate passed the GOP tax bill, he
tweeted, “Historians will look back
on Dec. 1, 2017 and conclude this
was one of the great robberies in
US history because Republicans
are looting the Treasury.” For
Sanders, letting people keep more
of their money is theft — because
it’s really the government’s money.
Conservatives start from the
assumption, on the other hand,
that money belongs to the people
and businesses who earn it. Letting
people and businesses keep more
of their money isn’t a handout or
giveaway, never mind a robbery:
It’s fairness.
The ultimate problem is that ev-
eryone says they care about the
deficit, but few people care about it
enough. Democrats think spend-
ing is more important than the
deficit and Republicans think cut-
ting taxes is more important. And
that’s why the national debt is
more than $20 trillion, and
growing.
jgoldberg@latimescolumnists.com
A10 TU E S DAY , D E C E M BER 5, 2017
New public restrooms on skid row
[Restrooms, from A1]
Council director Nate
Cormier, a South Park resi-
dent. “We have so many peo-
ple under those conditions,
we’re all looking any way we
can to turn the tide and deal
with the crisis.”
The latest $450,000 facil-
ity is modest — eight toilets
and six showers, operating
four days a week, in a trailer
on a city-owned parking lot
sandwiched between two
homeless housing and serv-
ice agencies. In addition to
attendants, the toilets will
be monitored by a mainte-
nance crew and security,
which organizers hope will
forestall the problems that
for so long soured skid row
bathroom politics.
A January expansion will
increase the number of
showers and toilets and add
laundry facilities, officials
said.
At the formal opening
Monday morning, Mayor
Eric Garcetti underlined the
community’s role in the proj-
ect.
“It is for decades that this
community has cried out for
the need for public rest-
rooms,” Garcetti said at the
event, which featured a
bongo and guitar trio and a
dozen other city and county
officials. “We know here that
this is one step, but it is a
critical step.”
The celebratory atmos-
phere was broken when a
skid row activist who worked
on the project tore up the
city certificate of apprecia-
tion Garcetti had handed
him.
“It’s 10 years late and
three times short,” General
Dogon, a member of the Los
Angeles Community Action
Network, an anti-poverty
group, said as television
cameras rolled. “This ain’t
nothing to what we laid out
and what we need.”
The mayor responded,
“It’s never too late,” and
promised more sanitation
services, but he did not spec-
ify how many. Activists have
demanded 164 toilets,
spaced out within walking
distance of every sidewalk
camp.
Garcetti also said the
project underscores the
WSCE
LOS ANGELES Mayor Eric Garcetti, center, visits the Skid Row Community
ReFresh Spot with Bruce Boardman, left, and Zelenne Cardenas.
THE $450,000 facility has eight toilets and six show-
ers, operating four days a week, in a trailer on a city-
owned parking lot between two homeless agencies.
city’s rejection of its long-
time “containment” policy,
which centralized homeless
services on skid row, and es-
tablishes a new era of part-
nership with activists.
“At one time, downtown
L.A. was in the midst of radi-
cal revitalization and the
wisdom of the day at that
time was to … concentrate
our problems as if somehow
that would make it go away,”
Photographs by Al
Garcetti said. “That has
failed us.”
Skid row bathrooms were
often on the front line of the
city’s war on modern home-
lessness. In 1992, city hous-
ing officials placed dozens of
portable toilets throughout
skid row, only to see Mayor
Tom Bradley cut off the
funding.
Alice Callaghan, an activ-
ist for the poor, then ar-
Seib Los Angeles Times
ranged for six outdoor la-
trines festooned with orna-
ments and garlands for
Christmas. The mayor had
them hauled away.
Two years later, Brad-
ley’s successor, Richard Ri-
ordan, had two dozen port-
able toilets placed on skid
row. Half were yanked in
1998, then returned after a
protest. But when concerns
about prostitution and drug
use arose in 2006, the city,
with Mayor Antonio Villarai-
gosa in charge, had them
carted off.
Trump endorses Moore
after nudge from Bannon
With polls tightening
in Alabama’s Senate
race, president says,
‘Go get ’em, Roy!’
By Brian Bennett
and Noah Bierman
WASHINGTON — Presi-
dent Trump on Monday fully
endorsed Roy Moore, acting
to back the Alabama Senate
candidate after conversa-
tions with his former strate-
gist, Stephen K. Bannon,
who has advocated Moore’s
candidacy.
Trump’s tweets marked
his first all-out endorsement
of Moore, who has been ac-
cused of making unwanted
sexual advances on teenage
girls. They came after Re-
publican leaders began to
back away in recent days
from previous threats to ex-
pel Moore if he were to win
the Dec. 12 election.
Trump called Moore on
Monday morning.
“Go get ’em, Roy!” Trump
told Moore, according to a
description of the phone call
that Moore posted on Twit-
ter. “Just got off the phone
with President Trump who
offered his full support and
said he needs a fighter to
help him in the U.S. Senate,”
Moore wrote.
Trump’s strong support
came after a couple of polls
showed Moore starting to re-
establish a lead over Democ-
rat Doug Jones, providing an
argument to Moore’s back-
ers that Trump’s support
could make the difference in
the race.
A Washington Post poll
released Saturday, however,
showed the race near a dead
heat.
Overall, polling by sev-
eral organizations has
The city opened a hand-
ful of self-cleaning toilet ki-
osks, but they were often on
the blink. After county offi-
cials in 2012 and 2013 warned
of a public health threat, the
city paid for more nighttime
access to mission bath-
rooms and, more recently,
put temporary restrooms in
skid row parks.
But the county’s recom-
mendation to add substan-
tial numbers of toilets was
largely ignored. A communi-
ty audit this year found
bathroom access on skid
row fell short of U.N. stand-
ards for Syrian refugee
camps. In April, a group
called the Skid Row Com-
munity Coalition came to-
gether to renew the push for
new restrooms, and the
mayor’s office joined in.
“This is our vision and
our dream,” activist Charles
Porter said Saturday. “We
had people come from the
tents, and they came to the
meetings on time. We be-
came our own solution.”
Even the project’s name
— Skid Row Community Re-
Fresh Spot — was important
in making community mem-
bers feel comfortable, Porter
said.
“Who says, ‘Let’s go down
to the hygiene center?’ ”
Porter asked.
The city insisted on secu-
rity, but the organizers said
they made sure guards
would be unarmed and from
a company with a record of
cultural sensitivity to skid
row’s largely African Ameri-
can population.
“They don’t want to feel
like the law is running it,”
said Evans Clark, who will
shown the race to be close
despite Alabama’s heavy
Republican tilt.
In addition to the usual
margin of error in polls, the
outcome is even harder to
predict because of the diffi-
culty in knowing who will
turn out to vote in a special
election held a couple of
weeks before Christmas that
has been roiled by the accu-
sations against Moore.
Some advisors to the
president were concerned
that if Trump didn’t come
out more forcefully in favor
of Moore, the former Ala-
bama state judge could lose,
according to people familiar
with the conversations who
spoke on the condition of
anonymity to comment on
internal discussions.
The question of whether
to back Moore continues to
split Republicans. A few
hours after Trump’s tweets,
Mitt Romney, the Republi-
cans’ 2012 presidential can-
didate, repeated his opposi-
tion to the Alabamian.
Moore’s election would
be a “stain on the GOP and
the nation,” he wrote on
Twitter. “No vote, no major-
ity is worth losing our honor,
our integrity.”
Romney has been pon-
dering a possible Senate
race in Utah if the state’s
senior senator, Republican
Orrin G. Hatch, retires.
Trump, visiting Utah on
Monday, publicly asked
Hatch not to retire.
Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
and House Speaker Paul D.
Ryan (R-Wis.) have previ-
ously called on Moore to step
aside, saying they believe
the allegations. Some Re-
publican senators said last
month that if Moore were to
win the election, they would
move to expel him.
But in a sign that the
GOP is warming to the can-
didate, the Republican Na-
tional Committee revealed
Monday night that it would
resume financial support of
Moore. McConnell said Sun-
day on ABC News that the
decision, at least for now,
should be left to Alabama
voters. Also, in an interview
on CBS, McConnell would
not commit to supporting
an ethics investigation into
the allegations should
Moore win.
“We will swear in whoever
is elected and see where we
are at that particular point,”
he said.
Bannon, by contrast, has
supported Moore consis-
tently and has argued the
candidate is popular with
Trump’s most ardent sup-
porters. He recently talked
with Trump about putting
the president’s full weight
LAT IMES. C OM
manage the facility. Clark
also said it was important
the bathrooms eventually
open overnight.
“The missions open and
close, and in the middle of
the night you can see some-
body using the bathroom on
every little corner,” Clark
said.
Coalition member Tom
Grode said he hoped to en-
list volunteers to help run
the toilets.
“The real problem with
skid row is it’s been denied
its rights as a community,”
said Chris Mack, a longtime
skid row outreach worker
and a coalition member.
“This space is being done
with an aesthetic, and with a
person’s dignity in mind.”
The facility will have to
move when the Weingart
Center begins building
housing on the site as part of
the city’s ambitious con-
struction program, Clark
said.
Though supporters see
the bathrooms as a possible
turning point for the com-
munity, the benefits are lim-
ited. Cormier said the only
concern he’s heard about
the project was that it was a
“drop in the bucket” com-
pared with the human serv-
ices needs of downtown’s
homeless population.
“This spot here is tempo-
rary and certainly is not the
answer to the problem of
homelessness,” said Deacon
Alexander, a longtime skid
row resident and a restroom
organizer. “It resolves one
point and one point only: a
place to go to the bathroom.”
gholland@latimes.com
behind Moore, according to
a person close to the White
House who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to
describe internal discus-
sions.
In November, Trump
pointed to Moore’s denials of
the allegations from decades
ago and spoke against vot-
ing for Jones, but did not ex-
plicitly endorse Moore.
Trump is not campaign-
ing for Moore directly, but is
scheduled to hold a rally on
Friday in the Florida Pan-
handle, which shares a me-
dia market with Mobile, Ala.
The special election is to fill
the seat of Jeff Sessions, who
is now U.S. attorney general.
Moore has denied the al-
legations and recently de-
nied knowing any of the
women who had described
Moore’s actions to reporters.
One woman who told the
Washington Post that she
dated Moore when she was
17 showed the Post a hand-
written note Moore had giv-
en to her at the time that she
recently found in a scrap-
book, according to an article
published Monday.
Some Republican strate-
gists fear that if Moore is
elected, GOP candidates
across the country will be
saddled with his reputation.
Indeed, Democrats in Penn-
sylvania are already bring-
ing up Moore’s name in an ef-
fort to fend off a push by Re-
publican Rep. Lou Barletta
to defeat incumbent Demo-
cratic Sen. Bob Casey.
“The people of Pennsyl-
vania deserve to know if
Congressman Barletta be-
lieves Moore’s accusers and
if he wants to serve in the
Senate alongside a man ac-
cused of child molestation,”
Pennsylvania Democratic
Party spokesman Max
Steele said in a statement.
“Silence is not an option.”
On the ground in Ala-
bama, where voters rarely
see Democratic challengers
pull close to Republicans,
Moore called the atmos-
phere “intense,” writing in a
fundraising appeal to sup-
porters that “left-wing foot
soldiers — aka ‘community
organizers’ — are descend-
ing on Alabama to volunteer
for Doug Jones and create
chaos and trouble on the
ground at my events.”
Jones’ campaign claims
to have launched “the most
robust get-out-the-vote pro-
gram Alabama has seen in a
generation” with volunteers
knocking on more than
100,000 doors and making
some 800,000 phone calls in
the last month and a half.
brian.bennett@latimes.com
noah.bierman
@latimes.com
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CALIFORNIA T U E S D A Y , D E C E M B E R 5 , 2 0 1 7 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L I F O R N I A

Pot
rules
nearly
final
City Council is slated
to vote on regulations
after much tweaking.
By Emily Alpert Reyes

Los Angeles lawmakers

took another step Monday
toward imposing regula-
tions that would limit where
and how marijuana busi-
nesses can operate as Cali-
fornia legalizes the sale of
recreational pot.
The elaborate regula-
tions, which have been re-
peatedly tweaked at a series
of city hearings, lay out the
ground rules for what is ex-
pected to be one of the
hottest marijuana markets
in the country.
Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times “You don’t have a lot of
SURVIVORS of sexual assault and harassment and their supporters participate in the #MeToo march in Los Angeles last month. opportunities to make his-
tory — and that’s what we’re
doing here,” City Council
President Herb Wesson said

Entertainers, sure, but

as a committee of lawmakers
backed the proposed rules.
The City Council is slated
to vote on the regulations
Wednesday.
Under the proposed
rules, pot shops would be re-

what about politicians?

stricted to specific commer-
cial and industrial zones,
and be barred from opening
within 700 feet of schools,
public parks and areas
zoned as open space, public
libraries, daycare centers,
alcohol and drug treatment
facilities, and permanent

Sacramento gets an earful about its culture of harassment supportive housing, as well
as from other marijuana re-
tailers.
[See Marijuana, B2]

ROBIN ABCARIAN vened by Democratic Assemblywoman Laura
Friedman, who chairs the Rules Subcommittee
For the last two months, on Sexual Harassment, Discrimination and
Americans have watched in Retaliation Prevention, the nearly six-hour
disbelief as sexual harassers hearing established that the California Legisla-
have been called to account. ture has a very detailed sexual harassment
The #MeToo campaign on policy that does almost nothing to protect
social media and a flood of women.
investigative stories have There is no tracking system for complaints
given women the courage to and investigations. There is no coordination
speak up, which has forced employers to step with the state Senate. The policy calls for “zero
up. tolerance” against harassment, but no one has
The alleged modus operandi of movie mogul any idea what that means.
Harvey Weinstein, political analyst Mark Also, there are conflicting views about what
Halperin and talk show hosts Charlie Rose and constitutes harassment, along with a wide-
Matt Lauer crossed vivid lines. They became spread belief, as Friedman put it, that “mem-
liabilities to shareholders, advertisers, custom- bers are to be protected at all costs.”
with me’ — one person asking another to go out
on a date does not violate policy.”
A number of women in the audience gasped.
“Earlier it was said that asking someone out
on a date is not harassment. I would beg to
differ,” said lobbyist Samantha Corbin, who
coordinated a letter, signed by 140 female lobby-
ists, elected officials and staffers, demanding
an end to Sacramento’s culture of harassment.
“If the chairman of a committee asked me out,
it is harassment.”
Is it?
“A single act of asking somebody out, under
the law, is probably not actionable,” said Leslie
Levy, an Oakland employment discrimination
attorney. To be considered illegal, she said,
courts have ruled harassment must be “severe Riverside Police Department

ers and ratings. They had to be fired. “Many complaints come in that may not or pervasive.” But the power imbalance puts a JOSEPH Boston moved
But what about public officials, who have no necessarily violate policy,” explained Rules staffer in an untenable position. to Riverside last month.
bosses except for their constituents? How Committee Chief Administrative Officer Debo- Even relationships that appear consensual

should their transgressions be handled? And
what, exactly, are the rules?
This was the question at the heart of a mar-
athon state Assembly hearing last week. Con-
Teen
rah Gravert. “An individual can come in and
say, ‘This person asked me out on a date.’ As
long as it’s not out of the ordinary — or every
day, or every other day, ‘I want you to go out
can be exploitative, wrong and damaging to the
less powerful person. (Look no further than
President Clinton’s misbegotten affair with
[See Abcarian, B6]

Bob Child Associated Press
JOHN ANDERSON
became a spokesman
for political reform.
Congressman
ran quixotic
campaign
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whose independent
1980 presidential bid
helped propel Ronald
Reagan to the White
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held in
Uber concealed hack, L.A. says sexual
City attorney says
ride-hailing firm broke
assaults
law by not promptly
reporting data breach.
By Laura J. Nelson
For more than a year,
Uber Technologies Inc. con-
cealed a massive hack that
exposed the personal data of
millions of drivers and rid-
ers, violating a California law
that requires companies to
promptly report such
breaches, according to a law-
suit filed Monday by Los An-
geles City Atty. Mike Feuer.
In October 2016, hackers
stole the names, cellphone
numbers and email ad-
dresses of more than 57 mil-
lion riders across the world,
as well as driver’s license
numbers for 600,000 Uber
drivers in the United States.
Uber disclosed the hack last
month.
Feuer filed the lawsuit in
Los Angeles County Superi-
or Court on behalf of Califor-
nia residents. The case will
[See Hack, B2]
Mother turns in son,
18. Police say he
admitted to molesting
up to 50 children.
By Doug Smith
Before dawn, a woman
with her 18-year-old son in
her car flagged down a
sergeant at Riverside’s Mag-
nolia Avenue police station
with a startling request.
She said she wanted to
turn in her son, who had ear-
lier called her to say he had
molested two boys, 8 and 4,
in a motel room.
After interviewing her
son, Joseph Hayden Boston,
Riverside police jailed him
at the Robert Presley Deten-
tion Center on Saturday
with bail set at $1 million.
Riverside police said in a
statement that Boston con-
fessed to sexually assaulting
up to 50 children in other cit-
Mel Melcon Los Angeles Times
ies, starting when he was 10
LOS ANGELES City Atty. Mike Feuer announces the filing of a lawsuit against
years old.
Uber Technologies Inc. over its concealment of a massive data breach in 2016.
[See Confession, B5]
B2 T U E S DAY , D EC EM BE R 5, 2017
AN UBER DRIVER on an L.A. street. In October 2016, hackers stole information on more than 57 million
riders across the world, as well as driver’s license numbers for 600,000 Uber drivers in the United States.
Uber faces lawsuit over
disclosure of data breach
[Hack, from B1]
focus on Uber’s failure to dis-
close the data breach to
Uber’s California drivers, he
said.
California law requires
companies to report hacks
“in the most expedient time
possible” and “without un-
reasonable delay” when
some forms of personal data,
including driver’s license
numbers, are compromised.
The law is designed to help
consumers fight identity
theft.
Instead, Uber paid the
hackers $100,000 to destroy
the data, pressured them to
sign nondisclosure agree-
ments, and portrayed the
ransom as a payment to test
the vulnerabilities of the
company’s data security sys-
tems, according to the law-
suit.
“We’re taking action be-
cause we believe very
strongly in the importance
of protecting consumers,”
Feuer said Monday at a news
conference at City Hall.
The consumer protec-
tion law is commonly in-
voked in the lawsuits that
follow data breaches. In Sep-
tember, San Francisco’s city
attorney cited the law in a
suit filed against Equifax, al-
leging the company failed to
promptly disclose a hack
that affected more than 15
million California residents.
Feuer said he doesn’t yet
know how many drivers in
California were affected in
the Uber hack.
The lawsuit seeks $2,500
S LAT IMES. C OM
UBER’S headquarters in San Francisco. The company paid the hackers $100,000
to destroy the data, according to the lawsuit filed by L.A. City Atty. Mike Feuer.
for each violation of the law.
Any payments would be
shared between the city and
the county of Los Angeles,
and would be spent on con-
sumer protection efforts,
Feuer said.
In a statement, an Uber
spokesperson said the com-
pany is happy to address
regulators’ questions, and is
“committed to changing the
way we do business, putting
integrity at the core of every
decision we make, and work-
ing hard to regain the trust
of consumers.”
Uber Chief Executive
Dara Khosrowshahi, who
was hired in August to re-
place controversial founder
Travis Kalanick, said in a
blog post last month that he
learned of the hack months
after it occurred.
Uber’s chief of security
and another employee were
fired for not revealing the
hack, and the company has
provided free credit moni-
toring and identity theft pro-
tection to affected drivers,
Khosrowshahi said.
“None of this should have
happened, and I will not
make excuses for it,” Khos-
rowshahi said. “While I can’t
erase the past, I can commit
on behalf of every Uber em-
ployee that we will learn
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[Marijuana, from B1]
Other marijuana busi-
nesses — including growers
and manufacturers — would
be limited to industrial
zones and prohibited within
600 feet of schools. And mar-
ijuana manufacturers that
use volatile solvents would
be barred from within 200
feet of residential areas.
L.A. will also cap the
maximum number of mari-
juana shops, manufacturers
and other kind of cannabis
business allowed in each
community area based on
population ratios. Because
the complicated rules have
been repeatedly adjusted,
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from our mistakes.”
The hack did not expose
Uber riders’ trip histories,
credit card numbers, bank
account numbers, Social Se-
curity numbers or dates of
birth, he said.
In January 2016, Uber
paid a $20,000 fine to the New
York attorney general for
failing to promptly report a
separate data breach in 2014.
That previous disclosure,
Monday’s lawsuit said,
makes the company’s “gross
conduct ... even more alarm-
ing.”
laura.nelson@latimes.com
Twitter: @laura_nelson
THE L.A. City Council is scheduled to vote Wednes-
day on proposed rules for recreational pot businesses.
planning officials have yet to
provide estimates of the to-
tal number of marijuana
businesses that could even-
tually open.
The proposed rules also
set out how marijuana busi-
nesses will be inspected, im-
pose requirements for secu-
rity and video surveillance,
and prohibit marijuana or
alcohol consumption on site,
among many other restric-
tions.
Existing marijuana
shops that have been op-
erating under an earlier set
of city restrictions, Pro-
position D, will be first in line
for city licensing. Pot grow-
ers and manufacturers that
Woman finds
her lost pup
in video of
police chase
Oceanside owner
tracks down her dog,
wounded by gunfire,
via TV news footage.
By Lyndsay Winkley
After days of searching,
an Oceanside woman had
given up hope that she’d find
Catalina, her 9-month-old
puppy who went missing
soon after Thanksgiving.
But then Salina Hurtado
saw her dog on the news.
She said she watched,
disbelieving, as a TV news
anchor described a pursuit
in Valley Center. A dog was
shot when deputies fired at a
man accused of trying to run
them over in a stolen van.
Video of the incident
showed a white pit bull with
a distinctive brown spot be-
ing carried away by a deputy.
The young dog was excitedly
licking the woman’s face.
“I couldn’t believe it,”
Hurtado said. “I remember
thinking, ‘My poor baby got
into a high-speed chase? Is
this for real?’ But I knew it
was her.”
Hurtado, 35, said Cata-
lina went missing Nov. 25
from the apartment com-
plex where she and her hus-
band live.
“We went to feed her and
she was just gone,” Hurtado
said. They searched the area
and asked neighbors to be
on the lookout, but they
started to believe someone
had taken her.
A week after the dog went
missing, a neighbor tracked
down Hurtado’s husband.
CATALINA , left, who had been lost since Thanksgiv-
ing, is recovering from a gunshot wound at a shelter.
Peter Kim Dreamstime
have been supplying those
shops and meet other re-
quirements can, in turn, get
“temporary approval” while
they are applying for city li-
censes.
Los Angeles is also press-
ing forward with a program
that would provide extra as-
sistance to would-be mari-
juana entrepreneurs whose
communities were hit hard-
est by the war on drugs.
Under the “social equity”
program, the city would help
poor people who were previ-
ously convicted of some
marijuana crimes or have
lived in areas that were heav-
ily affected by cannabis ar-
rests.
He said he thought he saw
Catalina on the news.
The couple quickly did a
Google search, and “the
story was everywhere,” Hur-
tado said.
After watching a clip on
CBS News 8’s website, she
called the television station.
Someone told her the puppy
had been taken to the
County of San Diego Animal
Services shelter in Carlsbad.
Hurtado said she went to
the shelter with veterinary
records and pictures of Cat-
alina in hand to help prove
her ownership. She was told,
however, that they would
need to wait before picking
up the pup.
That’s because Kevin
Meza, the suspect who was
arrested after the high-
speed chase, claimed the
dog was his.
Dan DeSousa, director of
the county’s animal services
department, said Catalina
wasn’t licensed or mi-
crochipped, so the county is
legally required to give Meza
two weeks to contest Hurta-
do’s claim.
“We will be holding the
dog through the legally re-
quired 14 days at which time
we will allow the family to
claim the dog,” DeSousa
said.
While the Oceanside fam-
ily waits, they’re asking the
community for help.
Catalina accrued hun-
dreds of dollars in medical
bills while she was being
treated for her gunshot
wound.
lyndsay.winkley
@sduniontribune.com
Winkley writes for the San
Diego Union-Tribune.
Salina Hurtado
Eligible business appli-
cants would get priority
processing and other assist-
ance as they pursue city li-
censes. For every license the
city hands out to a regular
marijuana retailer, it plans
to give out two licenses to
“social equity” participants;
for every license it hands out
to other kinds of marijuana
businesses, it will hand out
one to a “social equity” appli-
cant, according to the pro-
posed rules.
But the city would
prohibit people who com-
mitted violent crimes and
other serious offenses from
getting marijuana licenses
for a decade after their con-
victions, and bar other
classes of convicts, including
people who distributed mar-
ijuana to minors, for five
years after their conviction
dates.
The city could also deny
marijuana licenses to felons
whose crimes involved il-
legal drugs other than mari-
juana, but lawmakers de-
cided Monday to let city
staffers and a newly formed
commission decide whether
such applicants should be
barred on a case-by-case ba-
sis. Activists who advocate
for the formerly incarcer-
ated had argued that it
would be unfair to block
them.
emily.alpert@latimes.com
Twitter: @AlpertReyes
L AT I ME S . CO M
AN ELECTRONIC sign on the 5 Freeway in Sylmar warns of high winds through the Antelope Valley. Record gusts are forecast.
Blowing right in, with gusto
‘The strongest and
longest’ Santa Ana
winds of the season
are forecast for region.
By Sonali Kohli
Deflate your giant San-
tas and unplug those twin-
kly lights: The Santa Ana
winds are coming to town.
Authorities anticipate
high fire risk with a red flag
warning in effect through
Thursday — Los Angeles
and Ventura counties could
see wind gusts of 50 to 70
mph Monday night into
Tuesday, the National
Weather Service predicts.
Facing recall threat, Lawmakers
senator rejects raise unite to seek
wildfire aid
By Patrick McGreevy
SACRAMENTO — State
Sen. Josh Newman, who is
facing a recall election, is
among a small group of leg-
islators who are turning
down pay raises that take ef-
fect Monday.
Gov. Jerry Brown, state
legislators and other elected
state officials will see their
salaries increase 3% on Mon-
day as a result of a vote by a
citizen commission this
year.
Citing his vote for a gas-
tax increase, Republicans
have turned in enough sig-
natures to qualify a recall
election against Newman
(D-Fullerton) for next year,
although a date has not been
finalized.
When the raises were ap-
proved, Newman said: “Hav-
ing been recently elected,
and out of consideration of
the challenges currently
confronting so many hard-
working Californians, I have
decided to forego any in-
crease in my own compensa-
tion in the coming year.”
Other lawmakers face
strong challenges in the
June primary.
In addition to Newman,
raises were turned down by
Assembly members Cathar-
ine Baker (R-Dublin), Ken
Cooley (D-Rancho Cor-
dova) and Sabrina Cervan-
tes (D-Riverside).
Most other legislators
will see their annual salary
CITY & STATE
“This will likely be the
strongest and longest dura-
tion Santa Ana wind event
we have seen so far this sea-
son,” the National Weather
Service red flag warning
reads. “If fire ignition occurs,
there will be the potential for
very rapid fire spread, long-
range spotting, and extreme
fire behavior.”
As if proving the point,
a brush fire near Santa
Paula in Ventura County ex-
ploded to roughly 10,000
acres late Monday, destroy-
ing at least two structures
and prompting evacuations
of about 500 homes. One per-
son was killed in a vehicle ac-
cident on a road closed due
to the fire. The blaze began
about 6:25 p.m. near Thom-
STATE SEN. Josh Newman (D-Fullerton) is among
several officials who turned down a salary increase.
bump up to $107,242, al-
though four legislative lead-
ers will receive more.
Brown’s annual salary
will rise to $195,806, and
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s
pay will jump to $146,854.
Despite a reorganization
that took away much of their
power and most of their em-
ployees, elected members of
the state Board of Equaliza-
tion will see their salaries in-
crease to $146,854.
Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra
and Supt. of Public Instruc-
as Aquinas College, which
also was evacuated. Officials
said the fire would affect
neighborhoods in the city of
Ventura overnight, and
there were reports of wide-
spread power outages.
Earlier Monday, a brush
fire in Riverside County
briefly threatened a few doz-
en homes before it was
brought under control by a
strong response from sev-
eral agencies.
Sustained winds around
30 mph will probably begin
around 10 p.m. Monday, said
National Weather Service
meteorologist John Dumas.
Temperatures this week
could reach from the high
70s to the low 80s — that’s
lower than normal for Santa
Rich Pedroncelli Associated Press
tion Tom Torlakson each
will see their salaries rise to
$170,080, the second-highest
pay for elected state offi-
cials.
The pay raises were
approved in June by the
California Citizens Com-
pensation Commission, a
panel appointed by the
governor and created by
voters in 1990.
patrick.mcgreevy
@latimes.com
Twitter: @mcgreevy99
Ana conditions, but higher
than usual for this time of
year in L.A., Dumas said.
The lower temperatures
may help prevent fires. But if
winds knock down a power
line and ignite flames, Du-
mas said, the fire “could
spread rapidly because of
the wind condition.”
Southern California has
also seen less rain than usual
so far this season, Dumas
said, which creates fire con-
ditions. Downtown L.A.
should have seen about
2 inches of rain between Oc-
tober and now. There has
been a tenth of an inch, he
said.
Beyond the perennial fire
safety measures that au-
thorities recommend —
Entire congressional
delegation signs letter
asking for $4.4 billion
more in disaster relief.
By Sarah D. Wire
WASHINGTON — Mem-
bers of California’s congres-
sional delegation are asking
their colleagues for $4.4 bil-
lion more for fire-related di-
saster relief.
In a letter led by Rep.
Mike Thompson (D-St.
Helena), the delegation
asked the House Appropria-
tions Committee to include
the funding in legislation to
provide supplemental disas-
ter relief to areas of the coun-
try hit by recent natural di-
sasters.
In mid-November, the
White House requested
$44 billion for supplemental
disaster aid. The request did
not include funding to
rebuild after this year’s Cali-
fornia fires, which killed
44 people and destroyed
nearly 9,000 structures.
The move sparked an
outcry from Thompson and
fellow lawmakers, who had
asked for $7.4 billion in aid.
Thompson’s Napa Valley
district was hit particularly
hard.
S T UESDAY , DEC EMB ER 5, 2017
Myung J. Chun Los Angeles Times
don’t pull over in dry grass,
be careful with anything
that could cause sparks out-
side — the holiday season
could pose an added risk,
Dumas said.
“What concerns me most
would be all of the people
who have been doing their
holiday decorations. Gener-
ally you’re not anticipating a
big windstorm when you’re
putting things out,” Dumas
said.
Beware of stringing
lights outside the house and
through trees this week, Du-
mas said. Tonight might be a
good night to keep those un-
plugged, to lower the
chances of them igniting.
sonali.kohli@latimes.com
“These were the worst
fires in California’s history
and, as a result, they left un-
precedented damage in
their wake,” Thompson said
in a statement.
“California has outlined
the funding we need for relief
efforts, and it is crucial that
the federal government
steps up to help,” the state-
ment continued. “This fund-
ing is a vital first step in our
long-term recovery, and I’ll
continue to fight to ensure
we have all the resources we
need to fully recover and re-
build.”
Such letters are common
in Congress, but it is unusual
for the state’s entire 53-
member delegation to sign
on.
“We are united as a dele-
gation to help our neighbors
recover and rebuild from
these tragic fires,” House
Majority Leader Kevin
McCarthy (R-Bakersfield)
said in a statement.
“California will receive
the resources we need in the
supplemental package the
House will pass — including
legislation ensuring wild-
fire-specific tax relief for af-
fected Californians, just as
Congress approved for vic-
tims of the recent hurri-
canes,” he said.
sarah.wire@latimes.com
B3
Rent
aid
cuts
costs
L.A. County saves
on medical care by
housing the very ill
homeless, study finds.
By Gale Holland
Los Angeles County’s
marquee program to pro-
vide housing for very sick
homeless people saved tax-
payers thousands of dollars
by reducing hospitalizations
and emergency room visits,
a three-year Rand Corp.
study released Monday
found.
Considered a national
model, Housing for Health
uses county and federal
money to subsidize rents
and intensive case manage-
ment for acutely ill homeless
people.
Rand, a Santa Monica-
based research group, found
that the medical savings
more than offset the cost of
housing. For every $1 in-
vested in the program,
county government was
spared $1.20 in healthcare
and social service costs, the
study said.
Participants improved
their mental health, and 96%
remained in housing for
more than a year, the study
found.
‘Are we there yet?
No, but the
county is getting
more people
housing than ever
before.’
— Marc Trotz,
director of the Housing for
Health program
“Oftentimes, these pro-
grams strive to ‘break even’
in terms of costs and only ex-
hibit cost savings among the
most vulnerable, while the
Los Angeles program shows
considerable savings across
a diverse population,” said
Sarah Hunter, a senior be-
havioral scientist and lead
author of the study.
The $70-million-a-year
program began on skid row
in 2012, and has fanned out
across the county, with 20-30
outreach and street medi-
cine teams up and running,
and 50 planned, Marc Trotz,
the director, said.
Over the last five years,
the effort has moved 3,400
homeless people into apart-
ments and housing projects.
Clients are also placed in re-
cuperative care centers and
temporary “bridge” housing
on their way to permanent
housing.
Under a “Housing First”
approach, the program does
not make participants go
through drug or mental
health treatment to get help.
The goal this coming year is
to get 2,500 people off the
streets.
“It’s ramping up to where
it would need to be to make a
visible and meaningful dent
on the streets,” Trotz said.
“Are we there yet? No, but
the county is getting more
people housing than ever be-
fore.”
The study examined
county costs for public hos-
pitalizations, jail stays,
emergency room visits and
welfare for 809 formerly
homeless participants be-
fore and after they found
housing. There were no in-
carceration savings because
residents stayed in jail long-
er, the study found.
The study also found that
housing did not resolve all of
the residents’ mental health
and medical issues, suggest-
ing that the county might
need to provide long-term
services and rent subsidies
to keep people off the
streets.
gholland@latimes.com
Twitter: @geholland
B4 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2017 LOS ANGELES TIMES
L AT I ME S . CO M
J O H N B . ANDERS ON, 1922 – 2017
His run was a windfall to Reagan’s
By Massie Ritsch
J
ohn B. Anderson, a for-
mer Illinois congress-
man whose eloquent
and quixotic 1980 presi-
dential campaign as an inde-
pendent helped propel Ron-
ald Reagan to the White
House, has died at his home
in Washington. He was 95.
His death Sunday was
confirmed by his daughter,
Diane Anderson.
A 10-term congressman,
Anderson waged an inde-
pendent campaign in 1980
against President Carter
and his Republican chal-
lenger Reagan. Anderson re-
ceived 7% of the vote —
enough, observers believed,
to tilt the election.
In his later years, Ander-
son became a lecturer and
spokesman for political re-
form, drawing attention ev-
ery four years as he was
called on to discuss other
third-party presidential
candidates.
Born Feb. 15, 1922, in
Rockford, Ill., John Bayard
Anderson was the son of
Swedish immigrants who
ran a grocery store.
He earned a bachelor’s
degree in political science
from the University of Illi-
nois in 1942 and a law degree
in 1946. In World War II, he
was awarded four battle
stars in the Army field ar-
tillery in Europe.
Anderson practiced law
in Rockford until 1952, when
he joined the United States
foreign service. While get-
ting his picture taken for his
passport, Anderson met
Keke Machakos, the State
Department photographer.
The first picture did not turn
out, so she called him in for a
second. They began dating
and married the next year.
Anderson’s political ca-
reer began with a successful
1956 campaign for state’s at-
torney — the local prose-
cutor — in Winnebago
County, Ill. In 1960, as a Re-
publican, he was elected to
an open congressional seat
representing Illinois’ 16th
District, a GOP heartland in
northwest Illinois.
Anderson arrived in
Washington at the start of
the Kennedy administra-
tion, pledging to oppose
such liberal Democratic no-
tions as Medicare and fed-
eral aid for education. GOP
Mother turns
in son after
confession
[Confession, from B1]
Before moving to Riv-
erside in early November,
Boston had lived in Lake-
wood and Buena Park.
In Riverside he was stay-
ing at the Simply Home Inn
and Suites in the 9800 block
of Magnolia Avenue.
According to the police
statement, he befriended
the two boys who were stay-
ing at the motel with their
parents. The boys were al-
lowed to go into Boston’s
room Friday night. Hours
later, police said, Boston
called his mother, whose
name was not disclosed, to
tell her that he had molested
the boys. She then drove to
the motel and took him to
the police station.
Riverside County Child
Protective Services re-
sponded and took custody of
both children.
Lt. Joe Badali of the Los
Angeles County sheriff ’s
Lakewood station said the
Sheriff ’s Special Victims Bu-
reau was coordinating with
Riverside detectives to de-
termine if there is a “nexus
with any victims out here.”
There are no reported
cases with ties to the Boston
case, Badali said.
A spokesman for the
Buena Park Police Depart-
ment said the agency is
aware of the investigation
and will coordinate with Riv-
T UESDAY , DEC EMB ER 5, 2017 B5
OBITUARIES
leaders trotted out their per- his candidacy as an inde- and Carter, the fears of the
suasive colleague for party pendent. For Anderson’s Democratic camp came
“truth squads” to rebut the campaign to remain viable, true: Anderson’s National
programs of the Kennedy however, he had to get on the Unity Party finished with
administration. ballot in all 50 states, and just under 7% of the popular
By the late ’60s, Ander- Democrats were challeng- vote — 5.7 million votes —
son was less recognizable as ing his inclusion in court be- compared with Reagan’s 51%
a conservative Republican. cause they worried he would and Carter’s 41%.
He remained mostly in line steal votes from Carter. After leaving politics, he
with his party on economic Carter’s campaign dis- practiced law and held vari-
matters but broke with the missed Anderson as appeal- ous visiting professorships.
GOP by voting for a bill that ing only to the “wine and He also wrote books and edi-
outlawed racial discrimi- cheese set” of educated torials about the American
nation in housing, support- Northeastern liberals. economy, the need for tele-
ing the Equal Rights By the time Reagan and vised presidential debates
Amendment, criticizing Carter debated five weeks and political reform.
wasteful defense spending later, Anderson had Anderson is survived by
and backing restrictions on dropped in the polls and was his wife; son John Jr.; daugh-
guns and nuclear weapons. not invited, a slight he called ters Eleanora, Diane, Karen
He spoke out against the “absolutely crushing.” and Susan; and 11 grandchil-
Vietnam War and was Ira Schwarz Associated Press Although Anderson in- dren.
among the first Republicans LONG-SHOT CONTENDER sisted throughout his cam-
to call for President Nixon’s John Anderson’s 1980 campaign won 7% of the paign that he would draw Ritsch is a former Times
resignation during the vote, helping lift Ronald Reagan to the presidency. support evenly from Reagan staff writer.
Watergate scandal.
Colleagues described
him as brilliant, principled
and hard working, but also
arrogant, overly serious and
sanctimonious.
In 1979, at age 57, Ander-
son began campaigning for
president as a moderate Re-
publican. He called for re-
storing the “vital center that
can bind our nation and so-
ciety together.”
From the beginning, the
little-known congressman
conceded that his was a
long-shot campaign. Ander-
son’s hope in the primary
race for the GOP nomina-
tion was that his conserva-
tive opponents would divide
the party’s right, making his
share of the left-center look
large.
The GOP presidential
field at that point included
Reagan, Texas Gov. John B.
Connally, future Reagan
running mate George H.W.
Bush, Kansas Sen. Bob Dole
and Tennessee Sen. Howard
Baker.
Anderson became a fa-
vorite among liberal voters
who were disenchanted with
Carter yet also dissatisfied
with other Democrats. Ac-
tor Paul Newman offered to
make commercials for An-
derson, and TV producer
Norman Lear took out news-
paper ads touting his candi-
dacy. Anderson became a
darling of columnists, who
praised his intelligence, elo-
quence and integrity.
After losing primaries in
six states — but winning
nearly 60 delegates — An-
derson withdrew from the
Republican field to continue
erside but does not have any
active cases involving Bos-
ton.
Riverside County district
attorney’s spokesman John
Hall said the office had not
made a decision Monday
whether to file charges. Bos-
ton probably will be ar-
raigned Wednesday if
charges are filed.
Riverside Det. Paul Mi-
randa asked anyone with in-
formation about other po-
tential victims to call him at
(951) 353-7945 or email at
pmiranda@riverside.ca.gov.
Maximum penalties for
sexual assaults, which de-
pend on the age of the perpe-
trator and the victim, have
been stiffened in recent
years, said Paul Wallin, sen-
ior partner of Wallin &
Klarich.
Because Boston was an
adult when the alleged
crimes were committed and
because the two boys were
younger than 10, the maxi-
mum penalty would be 15
years to life in prison for each
offense, Wallin said.
According to the firm’s
website, which cites federal
research, juveniles account
for more than a third of
those known to law enforce-
ment to have committed sex
offenses against other mi-
nors.
doug.smith@latimes.com
B6 T U E S DAY , D E C E M BER 5, 2017
A move to make politicians accountable
[Abcarian, from B1]
Monica Lewinsky.)
So maybe a politician
won’t go to jail if he asks a
staffer out. But it’s wrong,
and there should be a policy
against it.
::
My favorite moment of
last week’s hearing was the
unintentional blooper ut-
tered by Democratic As-
semblyman Ken Cooley,
chairman of the Rules Com-
mittee.
“Does anyone here be-
lieve the current policy is
working?” Republican
Assemblyman Vince Fong
asked Cooley.
“I think it’s working,”
Cooley replied, “but it’s not
achieving its intended pur-
pose.”
No kidding.
“I went from being the
fabulous legislative director
to not being able to put a bill
across the desk,” said Nancy
Kathleen Finnegan, who
received a $100,000 settle-
ment of taxpayer dollars
after accusing Palmdale
Democratic Assemblyman
Steve Fox of exposing him-
self to her, which he has
denied. “I was so terribly
maligned.”
In district offices espe-
cially, interns and junior
staffers feel isolated and
afraid.
“I recently spoke out
about a difficult experience
I had with a former Assem-
bly member who is now a
senator,” said Capitol
S LAT IMES. C OM
ASSEMBLYWOMAN Laura Friedman (D-Glendale), left, confers with Assemblywoman Marie Waldron
(R-Escondido) during a marathon hearing addressing the problem of sexual harassment in Sacramento.
staffer Jennifer Kwart.
She told the Sacramento
Bee that in 2008, when she
was a 19-year-old intern in
the Los Angeles office of
then-Assemblyman Tony
Mendoza, he took her to his
hotel room during a Demo-
cratic Party convention in
San Jose and supplied her
with drinks. (Mendoza, who
has been accused of repeat-
edly inviting a young woman
seeking career advice to his
home, has been stripped of
his leadership positions by
the Senate Rules Commit-
tee, pending the outcome of
an investigation.)
“Interns are the most
vulnerable and susceptible
to this behavior,” Kwart
said. “They have little power
and almost no information.
But I would not have known
who to tell. I would not have
put two and two together
that the Rules Committee is
the human resources arm of
this body. I did not have an
ally. I just felt very alone.”
Kwart is now district
director for San Francisco
Rich Pedroncelli Associated Press
Democratic Assemblyman
David Chiu, who has publi-
cly expressed doubts about
Mendoza’s fitness for office.
::
One of the most gratify-
ing aspects of this long-
overdue reckoning is that
women are finally being
believed. Patterns of abuse
can no longer be denied.
Even if they don’t report
abuse to authorities, they
do tell. They tell their
friends, co-workers, spouses
and lovers, who corroborate
their stories. They warn
other women in “whisper
networks.”
On Monday, lobbyist
Pamela Lopez filed a com-
plaint against San Fer-
nando Valley Assemblyman
Matt Dababneh, alleging
that he masturbated in
front of her in a Las Vegas
bathroom in 2016. Moments
later, Jonathan Bash, who
was president of UCLA’s
student Democrats,
tweeted, “Since 2010, UCLA
@BruinDemocrats have
advised against interning
with #MattDababneh.
Whisper network was neces-
sary to protect members.”
Friedman’s subcommit-
tee meets again in January.
She has vowed to create a
way for victims to testify
anonymously. And she has
promised to create a hot line
for complaints and counsel-
ing, and to inform every staff
member in district offices,
where victims can feel so
isolated and powerless, of
their rights.
“I am deeply committed
that this is not just about
talk,” Friedman said.
The whispers, it seems,
are finally becoming shouts.
robin.abcarian
@latimes.com
Twitter:
@AbcarianLAT
 C

BuSINESS T U E S D A Y , D E C E M B E R 5 , 2 0 1 7 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / B U S I N E S S

Reason C O M PA N Y T OW N
CHIEF
to be ACTS TO
cynical ASSERT
on CVS
merger ROLE AT
DAVID LAZARUS
CFPB
CVS Health
says that its Aside from legal fight
$69-billion
takeover of for control, things are
insurance going smoothly, Mick
giant Aetna
will be good Mulvaney says.
for consum-
ers. That, of By Jim Puzzanghera
course, is
unlikely. WASHINGTON — Mick
For the deal to benefit Mulvaney is moving quickly
consumers, it would have to to put his stamp on the Con-
result in lower drug prices or sumer Financial Protection
lower insurance costs. If Bureau, an agency he has
past mergers are anything strongly criticized, even as
to go by, this won’t happen. he continues to spar with the
“You don’t need a crystal deputy director over who is
ball to predict the future its lawful acting chief.
here,” said David Balto, a Mulvaney, the White
healthcare advocate and House budget director
former policy director for whom President Trump ap-
the Federal Trade Commis- pointed to the post Nov. 24,
sion. said he had already started
“Mergers like these have installing some of his aides
a dismal history,” he told Sarah Morris Getty Images into bureau positions and
me. “They lead to less con- CATHY SCHULMAN, a movie producer and president of Women in Film L.A., is shown at the Take was reviewing ongoing legal
sumer choice and more Back the Workplace March on Nov. 12. “This explosion of news has come as a shock to all of us,” she says. actions against financial
exclusionary conduct. Con- firms. He also expressed

A new resource
sumers suffer by paying support for House
more and getting less choice legislation introduced last
for the vital drugs they week to repeal the bureau’s
need.” recent regulations cracking
We’ve seen drugstores down on payday and other
merge with drugstores, and short-term loans.
insurance companies with The moves come despite
insurance companies, but an expectation that Deputy

for abuse victims

this is the first time a drug-
store is taking over a health
insurer.
Adding another wrinkle,
CVS also runs CVS Care-
mark, a prescription benefit
manager that serves as a
negotiator on behalf of
insurers and employers in
securing the lowest possible
drug prices from manufac-
turers and retailers.
If it sounds like all these
healthcare enterprises are
pulling in different direc-
tions, you’re right.
Aetna wants to save a
buck for its policyholders by
driving drug prices down.
CVS Caremark wants to
help them do that by obtain-
ing rebates from manufac-
turers, but it wants a por-
tion of those rebates for
itself.
Pharmacy operator CVS,
meanwhile, wants to sell as
many drugs as possible at
the highest possible price.
Stir all that together and
you get a goulash of conflict-
ing goals and incentives,
none of which seem des-
tined to benefit patients.
“I would never under-
estimate cynicism over a
deal such as this,” said Joel
W. Hay, a USC pharmaceu-
tical economist. “CVS and
Aetna have to prove this will
[See Lazarus, C4]
Director Leandra English
will continue her legal battle
and file for a temporary in-
junction that would seek to
oust Mulvaney from his of-
fice and reinstate her as act-
ing chief.
“Aside from her presence
here, which is a little strange,
Women in Film offers help line to report cases, find support I won’t lie to you, I think
things are going extraordi-
narily smoothly and extraor-
dinarily well,” Mulvaney said
By Meg James Monday of English, who he
said continues to report for
Since sordid allegations about movie producer work.
Harvey Weinstein surfaced, the cascade of harass- Mulvaney, who as budget
ment complaints — crude comments, hostile work en- director has held regular
vironments, requests for sexual favors and physical as- news briefings, told report-
saults — has shaken even veterans of the entertain- ers that he expected to be in
ment industry. the job for five to seven
The staggering number of scandals has raised months because a perma-
questions about why studios, unions, talent agencies nent director still must be
and other groups in Hollywood haven’t done more to nominated and then con-
prevent abuse. Now one prominent Los Angeles advo- firmed by the Senate.
cacy group, Women in Film, is taking steps to address Among his priorities in
what many believe has been a systemic problem in the that time, he said, was act-
media and entertainment industries. ing on an inspector general’s
“Like many people in Hollywood, I would have report this year that raised
thought that this kind of thing was highly unusual and concerns about the bureau’s
extremely rare,” said Cathy Schulman, an Oscar-win- data security efforts that
ning movie producer (“Crash”) and board president of “scares me to death.”
Women in Film L.A. “I’m not naive and have certainly He said he was halting
seen my fair share of bad behavior … but this explosion the collection of all data con-
of news has come as a shock to all of us.” taining personally identifi-
Galvanized by revelations of bad behavior by pow- able information about con-
erful men in the business — and inspired by the #Me- sumers as part of the bu-
Too movement, in which victims have shared their reau’s oversight of banks
own stories — Women in Film is putting together a net- Chris Pizzello Invision and other firms until the se-
work of resources for women — and men — who are fac- ACTRESS Heather Graham participates in a sexual curity issue is “buttoned
ing harassment and have no [See Help line, C4] harassment discussion in West Hollywood last week. [See Mulvaney, C4]

Broadcom’s bid to buy

Qualcomm turns hostile
Firm nominates 11
candidates to replace
those on San Diego
chip maker’s board.
By Mike Freeman
Broadcom officially
launched a hostile takeover
bid for Qualcomm on Mon-
day, nominating 11 alterna-
tive candidates to Qual-
comm’s board of directors.
The move sets the stage
for a showdown over the fu-
ture of San Diego’s largest
tech company. Shareholders
Kent Nishimura Los Angeles Times will vote to support either
Qualcomm’s or Broadcom’s
A S H OW O F P OWE R board candidates, with the
results expected to be an-
Sarah Gao poses for a photo during AutoMobility LA, an event that led up nounced at Qualcomm’s an-
to the public start of the LA Auto Show. The show, which features more nual meeting March 6.
than 1,000 vehicles, runs through Dec. 10 at the L.A. Convention Center. C5 Broadcom did not raise
the $70-per-share offer price
Monday, which valued Qual-
comm at $103 billion. Qual-
comm’s board previously re-
jected that amount as too
low.
Broadcom could still
boost its offer before the
March 6 annual meeting,
making it more attractive to
Qualcomm’s shareholders.
Qualcomm said Monday
that the Broadcom offer un-
dervalues Qualcomm’s
growth prospects in inter-
net-connected consumer
and industrial devices
(known as “the internet of
things”), 5G cellular net-
works and automotive and
data center/networking
markets.
Tom Horton, Qual-
comm’s presiding director,
said no company is better
positioned than Qualcomm
to bring mobile technologies
to these industries.
“Qualcomm’s stockhold-
ers expect a board that will
support this innovation
while evaluating objectively
the full range of opportuni-
ties available to maximize
value for all Qualcomm
stockholders,” said Horton,
a senior advisor at Warburg
Pincus and former chairman
of American Airlines Group,
in a statement.
Broadcom Chief Execu-
tive Hock Tan said Qual-
comm’s shareholders want
the two companies to talk,
but so far Qualcomm has ig-
nored Tan’s attempts to be-
gin a dialogue.
“The nominations give
Qualcomm stockholders an
opportunity to express their
disappointment with Qual-
comm’s directors and their
refusal to engage in discus-
sions with us,” Tan said in a
statement. “In light of the
significant value our propos-
[See Qualcomm, C2]
C2 TU E S DAY , D E C E M BER 5, 2017
MARKET ROUNDUP
Tech falls; banks
and telecoms rise
associated press
Stock indexes didn’t do
much at first glance Mon-
day, but the modest move for
the Standard & Poor’s 500
masked some dramatic
changes roiling underneath
the surface.
Telecom stocks, banks
and other areas of the mar-
ket that stand to benefit the
most from Washington’s
drive to cut corporate tax
rates jumped. At the same
time, technology stocks
slumped, giving up a chunk
of the gains that have made
them the best-performing
part of the market this year.
The cross-currents
swept through the market
on the first day of trading af-
ter the Senate narrowly ap-
proved its proposal to re-
vamp the tax system. In-
dexes initially jumped on ex-
pectations that lower tax
rates would help corporate
profits pile up even higher.
Lower tax rates would
help boost profits for com-
panies, which already have
been reporting resurgent
earnings growth this year
because of the improving
global economy. If profits do
accelerate, that would help
allay worries that the stock
market — which is still close
to record highs — has
climbed too far, too quickly.
Telecom companies pay
some of the highest effective
tax rates among the big
companies in the S&P 500,
so they stand to reap some of
the biggest rewards of lower
tax rates. Telecom stocks in
the index jumped 1.6%, tied
for the biggest gain of the 11
sectors in the index.
Financial stocks, which
analysts also expect to be
winners from the tax over-
haul, likewise climbed 1.6%.
Tech firms, meanwhile,
already tend to be paying the
lowest effective tax rates of
the 11 sectors in the S&P 500,
analysts said. Tech stocks in
the index dropped 1.9% on
Monday. It’s a very different
position for the sector, which
has risen nearly twice as
much as the overall S&P 500
this year.
WSCE
BUSINESS BEAT
Union push at L.A. Times
“It’s not that the tax bill is
negative for tech compa-
nies,” said Ernie Cecilia,
chief investment officer at
Bryn Mawr Trust. “It’s just
less positive for it than for
other areas.”
Adding to the uncer-
tainty is the work that re-
mains for the tax overhaul to
become law. The Senate and
House of Representatives
still need to iron out differ-
ences in their proposals.
Congress still has a
packed schedule, the tax
overhaul notwithstanding.
Washington faces a Friday
deadline to avert a govern-
ment shutdown. Friday is
also the day the government
will release its monthly jobs
report, one of the last major
economic reports before the
Federal Reserve’s meeting
next week on interest rates.
Many economists expect the
Fed to approve the third rate
increase of the year.
And hanging over every-
thing in Washington is the
investigation into Russia’s
involvement with last year’s
presidential election.
In Europe, stock markets
rallied as talks continued for
Britain’s exit from the Euro-
pean Union. France’s CAC
40 jumped 1.4%, and Germa-
ny’s DAX surged 1.5%. The
FTSE 100 in London rose
0.5%.
Asian markets were
mixed. South Korea’s Kospi
rose 1.1%, the Hang Seng in
Hong Kong gained 0.2%, and
Japan’s Nikkei 225 index fell
0.5%.
In the bond market, the
yield on the 10-year Treasury
note held steady at 2.37%.
The dollar rose to 112.60
yen from 112.05 yen. The euro
fell to $1.1855 from $1.1893.
Benchmark U.S. crude
fell 89 cents to $57.47 a barrel.
Brent crude, the interna-
tional standard, sank $1.28
to $62.45 a barrel. Natural
gas fell 8 cents to $2.99 per
1,000 cubic feet. Heating oil
fell 5 cents to $1.89 a gallon.
Wholesale gasoline fell 5
cents to $1.69 a gallon.
Gold fell $4.60 to $1,277.70
an ounce. Silver fell 2 cents
to $16.37. Copper was close to
flat at $3.09 a pound.
Newsroom staff
members ask National
Labor Relations Board
to hold a vote.
By Times Staff Writer
A committee represent-
ing newsroom employees of
the Los Angeles Times took
an initial step Monday to
form a union by asking the
National Labor Relations
Board to hold an election.
Earlier this year, a group
of more than 40 Times jour-
nalists launched efforts to
have the NewsGuild-Com-
munications Workers of
America represent the
newsroom in collective bar-
gaining.
The election filing, made
by the guild on behalf of the
Times employees, comes af-
ter years of steep declines in
print advertising, staff cut-
backs and management
turnover.
The committee said it ex-
pects the election, which
would be overseen by the
NLRB, to be conducted next
month.
“The Los Angeles Times
is a great paper, and it will
only be better with a demo-
cratic newsroom,” said
Bernie Lunzer, president of
Airline measure cut from tax bill
Provision would have
imposed a corporate
levy on several
foreign carriers.
By Hugo Martin
Several foreign airlines
that are in heated competi-
tion with U.S.-based carriers
will not be forced to pay
higher taxes under the Sen-
ate tax bill that was ap-
proved over the weekend.
A provision entered into
the tax bill by a Georgia sen-
ator to impose a corporate
tax on several foreign air-
lines was removed at the re-
quest of the Office of the Par-
liamentarian because the
amendment was deter-
mined to be extraneous to
the overall bill.
The tax bill that was ap-
proved by the House of Rep-
Hostile
bid for
chip
maker
[Qualcomm, from C1]
al provides for Qualcomm
stockholders, we believe
Qualcomm stockholders
would be better served by
new, independent, highly
qualified nominees who are
committed to maximizing
value and acting in the best
interest of Qualcomm stock-
holders.”
Directors nominated by
Tan have a wide range of ex-
perience in the financial and
technology industries, in-
cluding previously holding
positions at Nokia and EMC
Corp.
The hostile takeover bid
ramps up pressure on Qual-
comm to complete its
bogged-down, $38-billion ac-
quisition of chip maker NXP
Semiconductors, which
aims to further diversify
Qualcomm’s business be-
yond smartphones. The
NXP deal, announced more
than a year ago, is still await-
ing regulatory approval in
Europe and China. In addi-
tion, some NXP sharehold-
ers want Qualcomm to in-
crease its $110-per-share of-
fer, which is below NXP’s
current trading price.
To date, fewer than 5% of
NXP shareholders have
pledged their shares in sup-
port of Qualcomm’s offer.
JOURNALISTS launched an effort to have the NewsGuild-CWA represent the
L.A. Times newsroom in collective bargaining. Above, The Times’ Globe Lobby.
the NewsGuild-CWA in
Washington, D.C. “This is a
chance to have a seat at the
table.”
Ross Levinsohn, the pub-
lisher of The Times, declined
to comment.
The NewsGuild, formed
in 1933, represents 25,000
journalists, including re-
porters, columnists, copy
resentatives does not in-
clude a similar tax increase
for foreign carriers.
Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-
Ga.), whose state is home to
Delta Air Lines, proposed
the provision to require
three carriers based in the
Middle East — Etihad, Emir-
ates and Qatar airlines — to
pay corporate taxes for the
revenue they generate in the
U.S.
Several U.S. airlines, in-
cluding Atlanta-based
Delta, have accused the
three carriers of competing
unfairly in the U.S. because
they are subsidized by their
oil-rich government owners.
They have urged lawmakers
to take action against the
Persian Gulf-based carriers,
which have rejected the ac-
cusations by their competi-
tors.
Under international
agreements, most foreign
carriers pay no taxes on
QUALCOMM says Broadcom’s offer of $70 a share undervalues the company. A
shareholder vote on Qualcomm’s directors and a rival slate is expected in March.
The company needs 80% to
complete the deal.
Broadcom says its buy-
out bid for Qualcomm
stands whether the NXP ac-
quisition is completed or
not. But Tan could condition
an increase to his $70-per-
share offer based on what
happens with NXP — in-
cluding whether Qualcomm
is forced to increase the
price to close the deal.
Bernstein analyst Stacy
Rasgon wrote in a research
note Monday that Tan now
has three months to build
support among Qualcomm
shareholders for his slate of
directors “in the face of what
appears, at least at the mo-
ment, to be a strategic vacu-
um from Qualcomm.”
“So far Qualcomm has
yet to produce any sort of
concrete response plan to
Broadcom’s overtures be-
yond ‘trust us,’ which we be-
LAT IMES. C OM/ B USINESS
editors, graphic designers,
photojournalists and oth-
ers.
The Times is one of the
few major U.S. newspapers
whose journalists are not
part of a union.
According to the NLRB
website, L.A. Times press
operators held a separate
vote last week on whether to
gross income they earn
when they fly into the U.S. In
exchange, U.S. carriers get
the same treatment when
they fly into most foreign air-
ports. Airlines that fly
abroad still pay landing fees
and other charges for the
right to land in foreign air-
ports.
The provision introduced
by Isakson would break that
agreement by imposing a
corporate tax rate on foreign
carriers whose home coun-
try doesn’t have a tax treaty
with the U.S. and isn’t served
by an American carrier at
least twice a week.
Isakson’s provision did
not name the carriers that
would be forced to pay the
new taxes but his staff said
the proposed amendment
was aimed at the three gulf
carriers that compete with
Delta. An industry expert
said the provision would af-
fect airlines from 11 countries
lieve is going to become in-
creasingly untenable as
things progress,” Rasgon
wrote. “If they want to keep
the company they better get
cracking on a case as to why
shareholders should trust in
them instead of Hock, as we
are not convinced Qual-
comm shareholders neces-
sarily believe that the
Broadcom offer underval-
ues Qualcomm quite as
much as Qualcomm man-
agement might believe.”
Qualcomm argues that
Broadcom is asking share-
holders to replace its board
now despite uncertainty
about whether a deal could
win regulatory approval.
The combined company
would be the leading suppli-
er of many high-value semi-
conductors used in smart-
phones.
“These nominees are in-
herently conflicted given
Mel Melcon Los Angeles Times
decertify their union. Pre-
liminary results showed that
85 of the newspaper’s 90
press operators voted in an
election that ended Nov. 30.
Of those, 50 workers voted to
stay with the Graphic Com-
munications Conference/
International Brotherhood
of Teamsters union and 35
voted against.
and territories, in addition
to the three gulf carriers.
A spokeswoman for Isak-
son, Amanda Maddox, said
the senators hope the provi-
sion “raised the profile of
this issue with the adminis-
tration and, going forward,
increases pressure to get all
parties to the table.”
Representatives for the
three gulf carriers could not
be reached for comment but
the U.S. Travel Assn., the
trade group for the country’s
travel industry, said the Sen-
ate was wise to remove the
provision.
“A half-baked measure
that could’ve impacted both
tax reform and travel was
recklessly tossed on the Sen-
ate’s lap, and wisely dis-
posed of,” said Jonathan
Grella, a vice president for
the group.
hugo.martin@latimes.com
Twitter: @hugomartin
John G. Mabangl EPA/Shutterstock
Broadcom’s desire to ac-
quire Qualcomm in a man-
ner that dramatically under-
values Qualcomm to Broad-
com’s benefit,” the company
said in a statement.
Tan said initial meetings
with antitrust regulators
give him confidence that
“any regulatory require-
ments necessary to com-
plete a combination will be
met in a timely manner.” He
expects the deal to close
within 12 months of reaching
an agreement.
Qualcomm has 11 board
members — nine of whom
are independent and four of
whom have been added in
the last three years.
Broadcom shares fell
nearly 3% on Monday to
$263.61. Qualcomm shares
slipped 1.4% to $64.56.
mike.freeman
@sduniontribune.com
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COMPANY TOWN
Theater chain begins subscriptions Fox,
As ticket sales decline,
The program also includes
the ability to reserve seats
former
anchor
and buy tickets in advance
Cinemark debuts its with no online fees.
own monthly service Eric Wold, an analyst
who covers the major thea-
to vie with start-up. ter chains for B. Riley & Co.,
By Ryan Faughnder

Cinemark Holdings Inc.,

the nation’s third-largest
theater chain, has launched
a subscription program that
gives customers discounts
on tickets and concessions,
in the latest effort to boost
attendance.
The Plano, Texas-based
company said customers
who pay a monthly fee of
$8.99 will receive a credit for
one movie ticket a month.
Subscribers can also buy ad-
ditional tickets for $8.99
each and get a 20% discount
on food and drinks.
Cinemark’s offer, dubbed
Movie Club, marks the latest
move by theater chains to
draw customers at a time
when cinemas are contend-
ing with increased competi-
tion from other forms of en-
tertainment, especially
streaming services in the
home such as Netflix.
It’s also the cinema in-
dustry’s first direct answer
to MoviePass, a New York
start-up that offers unlim-
ited movies in theaters for
$9.95 a month.
Theater chains have long
resisted discounting tickets,
fearing that doing so would
erode profits. But long-term
pressures on the industry
have prompted some exhib-
itors to rethink their opposi-
tion.
Cinemas have experi-
enced a steady decline in do-
CINEMARK’S new subscription service aims to fill seats amid competition from
Netflix and other streaming services. Above, a Cinemark theater in Playa Vista.
mestic moviegoing in the
last decade. The number of
tickets sold in the U.S. and
Canada hit 1.32 billion last
year, compared with 1.4 bil-
lion a decade ago, according
to the Motion Picture Assn.
of America. Box-office reve-
nues this year are down 4%
so far, according to Com-
Score, thanks to movies that
flopped.
The Cinemark deal also
comes just months after
MoviePass sparked a back-
lash from cinema giant AMC
Entertainment when it re-
duced its monthly rate to
$9.95 this summer. It previ-
ously charged up to $50 a
month.
That represents a sub-
stantial discount for movie-
goers. The average domestic
ticket price (including mat-
inee showings) reached a
near-record level of $8.93 in
the quarter that ended in
September, according to the
National Assn. of Theatre
Owners, a trade group for
the exhibition industry. In
places like Los Angeles and
New York, the cost of movie-
going is much higher.
Mark Zoradi, chief execu-
tive of Cinemark, said the
subscription is not targeting
people who already go to the
movies multiple times a
month. Instead, the chain is
hoping the deal will encour-
age people who go to three to
four movies a year to in-
crease their annual movie-
going to about six trips.
The company, which has
been working on the pro-
gram since at least March,
hopes that additional at-
tendance will boost theater
revenue through added
Marcus Yam Los Angeles Times
sales of popcorn, soda and
other concessions. Cine-
mark operates 533 theaters;
locations in the Los Angeles
area include Baldwin Hills
Crenshaw Plaza 15 and Cine-
mark Playa Vista.
“Our goal was really sim-
ple. It was to increase at-
tendance and remove all of
the pain points around it,”
Zoradi said. “It helps us, our
studio partners and the
overall business.”
Cinemark’s deal may not
have the same all-you-can-
eat appeal as the MoviePass
bargain. Still, the offer has
benefits and flexibility that
could drive customers to
sign up, Zoradi said.
For example, if custom-
ers don’t use the ticket cred-
it in a given month, it rolls
over into the following
months and does not expire.
said Cinemark’s low Movie
Club price could help it com-
pete with MoviePass.
“Clearly, they’re trying to
push people away from Mov-
iePass and onto their own
service,” Wold said. “I don’t
think they would’ve started
at this level if MoviePass
hadn’t cut its price.”
MoviePass CEO Mitch
Lowe said Cinemark’s new
offering will not hurt his
company’s business.
“It is a recognition that
moviegoers want different
ways to transact with movie
theaters,” he said. “I think
they’re seeing that this is
really energizing people into
going back to the theaters.”
Other exhibitors could
follow suit, Wold said. Thea-
ter chains including AMC
and Regal Entertainment
Group have been trying to
draw more customers by
adding recliner seating,
gourmet food and alcohol.
But AMC in August criti-
cized MoviePass for creating
what it described as an un-
sustainable model that
would hurt the industry.
MoviePass last month
said it had grown to 600,000
subscribers, compared with
20,000 in 2016. This month,
the company lowered its of-
fer to $6.95 a month for peo-
ple who sign up for a full
year.
ryan.faughnder
@latimes.com
Twitter: @rfaughnder
sued
Woman who settled
with Bill O’Reilly
alleges defamation,
breach of contract.
By Stephen Battaglio
Former Fox News pro-
ducer Rachel Witlieb Bern-
stein is suing Bill O’Reilly
and Fox News for defama-
tion and breach of contract,
alleging they violated a set-
tlement she reached with
the fired cable anchor.
In a lawsuit filed Monday
in U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New
York, Bernstein said O’R-
eilly and Fox News broke
their nondisclosure agree-
ment in remarks to the New
York Times.
The April 1 story
recounted how the anchor
and network had paid
$13 million in settlements
over the years to her and
other women who had com-
plained that O’Reilly had
abused or sexually harassed
them during their employ-
ment.
Bernstein complained in
2002 that she was mis-
treated by O’Reilly when she
worked for the network, and
ultimately reached a settle-
ment agreement with the
network.
Her story was among
those included in the

Discovery
ups stake Backlash for LA Weekly New York Times report, al-
though her suit said she was
not the source of the infor-
mation.
Her financial settlement
with Fox News required both

in OWN Alternative paper’s The new LA

sides not to disparage the
other and only say the mat-
ter had been resolved. Un-

to 75% conservative buyers

By Meg James
Discovery Communica-
tions is paying $70 million to
take a majority interest in
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Net-
work.
Until now, OWN had been
a 50-50 joint venture be-
tween the television star and
the cable programming gi-
ant. The deal, announced
Monday, increases Discov-
ery’s ownership stake in the
basic cable channel by an
additional 24.5% to nearly
75%.
The transaction marks
the first time that Winfrey
has taken money out of the
venture. The channel
launched in 2011.
Winfrey, however, will
continue to serve as chief
executive of the network. As
part of the deal, she will work
exclusively for OWN in the
basic cable space through
2025.
Winfrey built her com-
pany Harpo Inc. into a jug-
gernaut through her syndi-
cated daytime talk show
that ran more than two dec-
ades until May 2011.
“Creating OWN and see-
ing it flourish, supported by
Discovery and a rapidly
growing group of the finest
storytellers in film and tele-
vision, is one of my proudest
achievements,” Winfrey said
in a statement. “I’m thrilled
with the network’s success
and excited about this next
chapter in our partnership.”
Despite early ratings
struggles and staff turnover,
OWN has become the top-
rated network for African
American women and is
available in 80 million homes
in the U.S.
Discovery, based in Silver
Spring, Md., also owns the
Discovery Channel, Animal
Planet and TLC. With a ma-
jority stake in OWN, Discov-
ery can consolidate the
channel’s revenue and earn-
ings on its balance sheet.
“This transaction allows
Discovery and Oprah to un-
lock more value from our
partnership” and “lets us
continue our strong work to-
gether to nourish OWN view-
ers,” Discovery Chief Execu-
tive David Zaslav said in a
statement.
meg.james@latimes.com
face fierce criticism
and calls for boycott.
By Lauren Raab
Since LA Weekly laid off
most of its journalists last
week and its new owners re-
vealed their identities Fri-
day, backlash has been swift
and fierce.
There has been an outcry
over the new owners’ politi-
cal backgrounds and their
plan to use articles by un-
paid contributors. Former
writers for the alternative
weekly are spearheading a
call for a boycott. A few ad-
vertisers have taken a step
back.
On Monday, LA Weekly’s
sales director, Chris Hub-
bert, sent an email to
staffers and new managers
with a list of topics to ad-
dress at an afternoon meet-
ing. Among the topics: “Ad-
vertisers pulling,” “Why ev-
eryone saw this coming ex-
cept you” and “Social Media
- Who’s [posting] and why,
because this weekend was
horrible and amateur.”
Investors in Semanal Me-
dia, which bought LA
Weekly last week from Voice
Media Group, said Monday
that the backlash was unfair
and many of the allegations
against them untrue.
Much of the outcry online
has centered on the iden-
tities of Semanal’s financial
backers. Semanal’s owners
consist largely of men with
Orange County ties. Most
have donated to conserva-
tive causes, and two of them
— boutique hotel developer
Paul Makarechian and real
estate redeveloper Mike
Mugel — have given large
sums to numerous Republi-
can political campaigns.
The ownership group in-
cludes Brian Calle, LA
Weekly’s new operations
manager. Calle previously
was an opinion editor for the
Orange County Register
and 10 other daily news-
papers in the Southern Cali-
fornia News Group. While
running the Register’s his-
torically libertarian editorial
page, he described himself
as a “free-market enthusi-
ast.” A decade ago, he spent
about a year working for the
conservative Claremont In-
stitute.
On Friday night, punk-
rock veteran Henry Rollins,
NOLAN HALL of Japanese Motors performs at an
LA Weekly music festival in 2008. The paper’s new
owners say the backlash against them is unfair.
a columnist for LA Weekly
since 2010, announced he
was leaving the publication.
Jeff Weiss and April
Wolfe, who until last week
were a music columnist and
film critic for LA Weekly,
turned to Twitter to exhort
readers, advertisers and
event sponsors to boycott
the paper. Director Ava Du-
Vernay and actor Mark Ruf-
falo expressed support for
the effort.
On Saturday, LA Weekly
issued a tweet calling for
contributors — “passionate
Angelinos to share stories
about their life and culture
in L.A.” — and asking for
submissions to be emailed
in. Twitter users excoriated
LA Weekly for seeking un-
Michael Tullberg Getty Images
paid work and for the unusu-
al spelling of “Angelenos.”
Within hours, LA Weekly de-
leted its tweet, and it has not
tweeted since.
Calle called the wording
of sales director Hubbert’s
Monday email “kind of a
joke.”
The new owners have
“some level of frustration
about the amount of back-
lash,” he said. He believes he
and his Semanal colleagues
are an unfair target for jour-
nalists’ unhappiness about
last week’s layoffs and the
overall industry’s struggles,
and about billionaire Joe
Ricketts’ decision last
month to shut down local
news website LAist and its
sister sites in the Gothamist
Weekly will
‘advocate for
things no one else
is willing to
advocate for …
that people view
as inappropriate.’
— Brian Calle,
one of the paper’s new owners
network.
He said that no advertis-
ers had canceled their ac-
counts with LA Weekly, but
that at least three have de-
cided to hold off on running
ads until they see that the
paper is keeping its prog-
ressive bent.
Calle called much of what
has been written about him
online in recent days “abso-
lute falsehood.” He said that
after a short time with the
Claremont Institute, he real-
ized he didn’t share its prin-
ciples and values. “On econ-
omic issues I’m just right of
center,” he said. “On social
issues I’m progressive. On
immigration issues I’m very,
very progressive.”
The new incarnation of
LA Weekly, he said, will “ad-
vocate for things no one else
is willing to advocate for …
that people view as inappro-
priate.”
When asked what specif-
ically it would advocate for,
he demurred, saying that
choice would be up to the ed-
itorial staff.
All of LA Weekly’s top edi-
tors and all but one of its
staff writers were laid off last
week as the sale to Semanal
went through. The new lead-
ership plans to rely largely
on pieces written by paid
freelancers and unpaid con-
tributors.
Many people have con-
tacted the new management
in recent days wanting to
write, said Los Angeles at-
torney David Welch, a Sem-
anal investor who is the com-
pany’s chief executive.
LA Weekly has hired no
new editors yet.
Welch said the paper is on
track to meet deadlines for
this week’s print publica-
tion. The issues, which are
free to the public, typically
hit newsstands on Thurs-
days.
lauren.raab@latimes.com
like the other settlements
made by O’Reilly and Fox
News, Bernstein’s complaint
did not involve sexual har-
assment.
Bernstein alleges that
O’Reilly had defended the
payouts in the New York
Times and other publica-
tions by portraying her as a
“liar and politically motivat-
ed extortionist.”
In the New York Times
story, O’Reilly said he paid
Bernstein and other women
who complained because
he’s “vulnerable to lawsuits
from individuals who want
me to pay them to avoid neg-
ative publicity.” In another
widely published statement,
he said, “the worst part of
my job is being a target for
those who would harm me
and my employer, the Fox
News Channel.”
O’Reilly was fired April 19
from Fox News after a 20-
year run at the cable net-
work. He was the network’s
top-rated personality for
most of that time.
The suit also said that
Fox News parent company
21st Century Fox falsely said
in the story that there had
never been any harassment
complaints made against
O’Reilly on a company hot-
line.
Bernstein said there was
no hotline in existence at the
time of her employment.
Bernstein alleges in her
suit that she complained re-
peatedly about O’Reilly’s
mistreatment of her to the
company’s human re-
sources department and top
Fox News executives, but
nothing was done. O’Reilly
screamed at Bernstein in
front of other employees, ac-
cording to the New York
Times.
“This cynical falsehood
about a nonexistent hotline
was made to bolster O’R-
eilly’s claim that the women
who received settlements
must have fabricated their
claims or they would have
complained,” said Bern-
stein’s attorney, Nancy Erika
Smith, whose Montclair,
N.J., law firm Smith Mullin
represented Gretchen Carl-
son in her suit against for-
mer Fox Chief Executive
Roger Ailes.
Fox News did not re-
spond to a request for com-
ment on the lawsuit.
stephen.battaglio
@latimes.com
Twitter: @SteveBattaglio
C4 TU E S DAY , D E C E M BER 5, 2017
Is CVS deal bad for patients? Fight
over
[Lazarus, from C1]
benefit anyone but share-
holders.”
If the merged companies
wanted to put patients
ahead of profits, however, he
said this could be “a golden
opportunity for a fully inte-
grated strategy” that uses
expanded resources to
improve healthcare offer-
ings.
“PBMs and drugstores
don’t care about patient
outcomes — they just want
to sell drugs,” Hay said. “An
insurance company is inter-
ested in the outcome. Theo-
retically, this deal could
be a way to put it all to-
gether.”
That’s the way CVS and
Aetna are spinning it.
The two companies are
envisioning a world in which
their pooled capabilities
mean a complete rein-
vention of the U.S. health-
care system, with patients
enjoying unparalleled ac-
cess to effective and afford-
able treatment.
“This is a natural evolu-
tion for both companies as
they seek to put the con-
sumer at the center of
healthcare delivery,” CVS
and Aetna said in a
statement.
Taking the PR jargon up
a level, they declared that
the merger represents “a
better opportunity to utilize
local care solutions in a
more integrated fashion
with the goal of improving
patient outcomes.”
I have no idea what that
means either. But I do note
that CVS now describes
itself not as a drugstore
chain but as “a company
at the forefront of changing
the healthcare landscape.”
And Aetna is no longer
CVS , with its Aetna deal, now describes itself not as a drugstore chain but “a com-
pany at the forefront of changing the healthcare landscape.” Above, at the NYSE.
an insurer. It’s now “one of
the nation’s leading diversi-
fied healthcare benefits
companies.”
So this is serious stuff.
To be sure, there could
be positive developments.
CVS suggested that its
network of in-store Min-
uteClinics could expand in
number or functionality.
This potentially would allow
people to interact with
nurse practitioners rather
than pricier doctors, thus
offering more reasonable
care for routine medical
issues.
Yet I can’t help but think
of how banks pitched the
advent of ATMs as a boon
for customers, allowing
them easier and cheaper
access to financial net-
works. Once customers got
used to the idea, fees started
rising.
The most likely driver for
this merger is that CVS
wants Aetna’s 45 million
policyholders, a figure that
includes medical, dental
and pharmacy coverage.
Balto, the former FTC
official, said he expects CVS
to either require that Aetna
policyholders purchase
meds exclusively from CVS,
A help line for victims
[Help line, from C1]
other place to turn for help.
With seed money from
the William Morris Endeav-
or talent agency, Women in
Film set up a help line for
people to report cases of
abuse and hired an execu-
tive to manage it. That
phone line, (323) 545-0333,
went live Friday morning.
Meanwhile, entertain-
ment attorney Bonnie Es-
kanazi, a member of the or-
ganization, has been assem-
bling a roster of nearly two
dozen attorneys to repre-
sent victims for free. In addi-
tion to providing pro bono le-
gal services, the group plans
to develop a system to confi-
dentially track complaints
and identify trends when nu-
merous allegations are
made against one individual
or a particular workplace.
For example, more than 70
women have come forward
to accuse Weinstein of vari-
ous levels of sexual abuse
and inappropriate conduct.
Weinstein has denied re-
ports of nonconsensual sex.
“Sometimes it takes a
shock to the system before
there are changes,” said
Lauren Edelman, a law and
sociology professor at the
UC Berkeley School of Law
who studies workplace cul-
ture. “Weinstein was the
shock that got this thing go-
ing, and it has taken the
form of a social movement.”
Women in Film, founded
44 years ago, was spurred to
action when the raft of har-
assment scandals exposed
gaping holes in safety nets
that should have protected
workers. Talent agencies
and guilds fell short of pro-
viding adequate safeguards
for their clients and mem-
bers, as did human re-
sources departments at pro-
duction companies, TV net-
works and news outlets.
SAG-AFTRA, which rep-
resents actors and other
performers, has its own
anonymous hotline for its
members.
But in many cases, wom-
en didn’t report abuses out
of fear that they — not the
perpetrator — would be
punished.
“The safety nets are not
true safety nets,” said Debra
Katz, a Washington attorney
who handles sexual harass-
ment cases. “The HR de-
partments are not truly
there for employees — they
are there to serve the inter-
ests of management and
cover up for their revenue
generators — their star per-
formers.”
The recognition that hu-
man resources departments
failed to protect victims
prompted Women in Film to
design its own support net-
work tailored to Hollywood’s
culture, which includes a
Richard Drew Associated Press
or to offer a modest dis-
count to Aetna members,
making it unlikely they’d
take their business else-
where.
That, in turn, would
boost overall sales volume,
especially among patients
with chronic conditions,
such as diabetes, who re-
quire regular doses of medi-
cine.
Tellingly, CVS and Aetna
cited diabetes management
in making their case for the
deal. They said the ex-
panded company would
mean “patients with diabe-
tes will receive care in be-
NBC fired star anchor Matt Lauer last week over
complaints about inappropriate sexual behavior.
heavy reliance on contrac-
tors.
“Oftentimes, human re-
sources isn’t available. And,
at times, it’s not useful,”
Schulman said.
Her group did not want
its resource center to be affil-
iated with typical power
players. It wanted to create a
“safe zone.”
“We’re a nonprofit that’s
not aligned with any par-
ticular studio, or agency, or
production company, or a
network, or news channel,”
Schulman said. “We felt that
we could quickly become the
place for women to reach
out.”
Part of the reckoning has
been to figure out how Holly-
wood’s distinct culture has
fostered some of the abuse.
For example, soundstages
and movie and TV sets are
not typical workplaces. Peo-
ple tend to act casually, put
in long hours and often work
thousands of miles from
home.
And then there is Holly-
wood’s fascination with —
and forgiveness of — larger-
than-life personalities. That
might have contributed to a
tolerance of the alleged be-
havior by Weinstein, broad-
cast journalist Charlie Rose,
film director Brett Ratner,
comedian Louis C.K., NBC
News anchor Matt Lauer
and John Lasseter, chief cre-
ative officer of Pixar Anima-
tion and Walt Disney Stu-
dios.
“In our community, there
is this idea that if you are tal-
ented, then you’re allowed
eccentricities,” Schulman
said. “That may have origi-
nally meant, ‘Well, they only
drink blueberry shakes or
eat tree bark — but we need
to [support] that because
this person is on our set and
they’re famous.’ ”
Bad behavior by big-
named talent was routinely
overlooked and led to lax en-
forcement of employment
LAT IMES. C OM/ B USINESS
tween doctor visits through
face-to-face counseling at a
store-based health hub and
remote monitoring of key
indicators such as blood
glucose levels.”
“When needed, patients
can receive text messages
to let them know when
their glucose levels deviate
from normal ranges,” plus
other interactions, they
said.
CVS Health Chief Execu-
tive Larry Merlo said these
services reflect the “conven-
ience and coordination”
that the merged company
can bring to healthcare.
He may be right. Then
again, the fine print of the
companies’ statement
acknowledges that these
pie-in-the-sky projections
hinge on “the ability to
achieve the synergies and
value creation contem-
plated.”
In other words, who
knows?
The only safe bet at this
point is that the CVS-Aetna
deal, if it wins regulatory
approval, almost certainly
will prompt Walgreens and
Wal-Mart to seek similar
tie-ups with insurers.
And then we’re looking
at an increasingly consoli-
dated healthcare market-
place, with diversified con-
glomerates trying to lock in
patients.
Kind of like the cable
industry.
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rules and labor laws, Schul-
man said.
Last week, more than 50
people gathered at a public
library in West Hollywood
for a Women in Hollywood
discussion on sexual harass-
ment.
The panel included wom-
en with sexual harassment
stories, including actress
Heather Graham, who de-
scribed her decision to go
public about how Weinstein
indirectly propositioned her
more than a decade ago.
“I was really inspired by
other women speaking out,”
Graham said. “The shame
should be with the predator
— not the victim.”
Cynthia Bamforth, a
Pasadena attorney, de-
scribed how California em-
ployment law covers people
who work not only for big
companies but also for small
ones. Independent contrac-
tors, job applicants, volun-
teers and interns also are
covered, Bamforth said. She
added that there were differ-
ent forms of harassment, in-
cluding hostile work envi-
ronments and “quid pro
quo” situations in which
someone dangles job ad-
vancement in exchange for
sex.
Women in Film had
planned an initiative to
make lawyers available to
assist victims earlier this
year, but the idea took on
new urgency after the sexual
harassment scandal ex-
ploded, Eskanazi said in an
interview.
“This is meant to be part
of the long-term solution,”
Eskanazi said. “When the
huge outcry over sexual har-
assment dies down — and it
will — there still will be some
institutional effort to help
women in need — a place
where people can come for
help.”
meg.james@latimes.com
Twitter: @MegJamesLAT
CFPB
lingers
[Mulvaney, from C1]
down.”
“We’re not going to start
collecting data under my
watch until we are abso-
lutely confident that stuff
isn’t going to get hacked,”
Mulvaney said, adding he
believed that the bureau’s
previous leadership team
had been taking the problem
seriously.
It was a rare positive
comment directed toward
Richard Cordray, an ap-
pointee of President Obama
who was the bureau’s first
director and clashed often
with Mulvaney and other
Republicans.
The disputes continued
after Cordray stepped down
Nov. 24. He promoted Eng-
lish, his chief of staff, to dep-
uty director and said she
would serve as acting direc-
tor under a provision of the
2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street
Reform and Consumer Pro-
tection Act that created the
bureau.
Trump then appointed
Mulvaney under a different
law, the Federal Vacancies
Reform Act of 1998. English
sued, saying she was lawfully
entitled to the position. A
federal judge ruled in Mul-
vaney’s favor last week.
English’s attorney indi-
cated she would seek a pre-
liminary injunction. The in-
junction request had not
been filed as of Monday
afternoon, but a conference
is scheduled Tuesday in U.S.
District Court for the Dis-
trict of Columbia for En-
glish’s attorney, Deepak
Gupta, and Justice Depart-
ment lawyers to work out a
‘It’s always a
challenge when
you’re in a
workplace with
somebody who is
suing … to sort of
chat around the
water cooler.’
— Mick Mulvaney,
acting chief of CFPB, on Deputy
Director Leandra English
schedule for legal argu-
ments.
English has been at the
bureau’s headquarters
“from time to time” and also
has been working from an-
other bureau office a few
blocks away, Mulvaney said.
He has not met with her yet
and doesn’t expect to do so.
“It’s always a challenge
when you’re in a workplace
with somebody who is suing
… to sort of chat around the
water cooler, so I have at-
tempted to correspond with
her via email, which I believe
to be the appropriate man-
ner,” Mulvaney said.
He said he’s sent English
about half a dozen emails on
two topics but has not re-
ceived any replies.
One topic involved ask-
ing her to “please cease hold-
ing yourself out as acting di-
rector,” Mulvaney said. As
recently as Thursday, Eng-
lish was sending emails
through the bureau “saying
she was acting director and
actually giving people in-
structions which were occa-
sionally counter to mine,” he
said.
Those emails were con-
fusing to employees and put
them in a difficult situation,
Mulvaney said. He also said
he emailed her asking her to
perform some deputy direc-
tor duties.
Mulvaney said he was
“absolutely not” considering
firing English.
“We need everybody do-
ing their jobs,” he said.
Gupta did not respond
Monday to an email request
for comment.
Mulvaney, who remains
director of the White House
Office of Management and
Budget, said he was at the
bureau all day Saturday
even though his office was
extremely hot. The thermo-
stat was locked at 80 degrees
and nobody had the security
code to change it. Mulvaney
said it occurred to him that
might have been a prank tied
to his controversial appoint-
ment. “If it was, I appreciate
that kind of deviousness,” he
said.
jim.puzzanghera
@latimes.com
L AT I ME S . CO M/ B U S IN ES S
THE ARCIMOTO is test-driven at the auto show. Electric power is sent to the two front wheels by twin mo-
tors. The base model will cost about $11,500 and have a top speed of 80 mph and a range of about 70 miles.
E-mobility on three wheels
Eye-grabbing offering
from Arcimoto is
among three such
vehicles for attendees.
By Charles Fleming
Several three-wheeled
electric vehicles were being
wheeled around the halls of
the LA Auto Show in the two
days before its Friday public
opening.
On one side of the main
entrance was the Ampere
electric “sports car,” a $9,999
battery-operated three-
wheeler, to be built in Riv-
erside, that offered two side-
by-side seats and a 100-mile
driving range — up to 150
miles with an upgraded bat-
tery.
On the opposite side was
the three-wheeled Sondors,
a $10,000 battery-operated
three-seater offering a 5.8-
second zero-to-60-mph ac-
celeration and a range, de-
pending on battery upgrade,
of 75, 150 or 200 miles.
But out front, it was the
Arcimoto electric that was
LA AUTO SHOW
getting all the attention.
Through much of the
Wednesday and Thursday
media days, there was a
steady stream of curious car
people waiting in line for a
test drive.
Years in the making, the
Arcimoto sits two people,
front to back, like a motor-
cycle, and uses a motorcycle-
style handlebar for steering.
It has a roof, but open sides,
with two front wheels and
one in the rear.
Electric power is sent to
the two front wheels by twin
motors, driven by a battery
pack at the bottom of the ve-
hicle’s cab.
When fitted with the ba-
sic battery pack, the Arci-
moto will cost about $11,500
and have a top speed of 80
mph and a range of about 70
miles. (An upgrade will raise
that to 130 miles, at a yet-un-
determined price.) Each will
require about six hours on a
common household electri-
cal plug to recharge.
Arcimoto representative
Jesse Fittipaldi — who says
there is a distant family rela-
tion to famed race car driver
Emerson Fittipaldi — said
the electric vehicle has done
substantial testing and will
be for sale, nationwide, late
in 2018.
They will be regulated as
motorcycles, but in most lo-
calities will not require a
motorcycle license or a
motorcycle helmet, Fitti-
paldi said.
Because they are motor-
cycles, they will be allowed
into carpool lanes whether
carrying one person or two.
“This is a disruptive
product,” Fittipaldi said.
“This is a low-cost trans-
portation platform, and it’s
necessary, because not ev-
eryone can afford a Tesla.”
During a brief test ride, I
found the Arcimoto
sprightly but not aggres-
sively speedy, even with the
pedal to the metal.
The “reverse trike” chas-
sis, which puts two wheels in
the front rather than two in
the rear, felt pleasantly sta-
ble. Easy to drive, intuitive to
steer, the Arcimoto maneu-
vered well, started and
slowed manageably, and
drew a lot of attention.
One sidewalk observer
called out, “What the hell?”
Kent Nishimura Los Angeles Times
Fittipaldi said Arcimoto
users have to get used to a lot
of that. He added that, in the
couple of years that the com-
pany has been testing and
test-marketing the vehicle,
Arcimoto executives have
had to change their pitch.
“We were always market-
ing the ‘green thing,’ as good
for the environment,” Fitti-
paldi said. “But we noticed
that everyone who took a
test ride got out of the Arci-
moto with these huge smiles.
So we asked ourselves, ‘Are
we selling this the wrong
way?’ ”
More than 2,000 units
have been pre-ordered, Fitti-
paldi said, from all 50 U.S.
states and from such places
as Singapore, Dubai, the
Netherlands and Norway.
The ones being tested at
the LA Auto Show aren’t for
sale, and the first proto-
types, Fittipaldi said, have
already been sold. They
went for $42,000 each, the
first one driven home by
Arcimoto founder Mark
Frohnmayer.
charles.fleming
@latimes.com
T UESDAY , DEC EMB ER 5, 2017
Porsche’s CEO
looks to electric,
self-driving future
As innovation speeds
up, he sees more
challenges in next five
years than in last 50.
By Charles Fleming
We asked executives in
town for the LA Auto Show a
few questions about cars,
driving and the future of mo-
bility. Here are some an-
swers from Porsche Chief
Executive Klaus Zellmer.
What is your daily driver,
and how long is your aver-
age commute?
Right now I’m driving a
Panamera Turbo. My com-
mute to our office near the
Atlanta airport varies de-
pending on traffic, but with
an open highway I can make
it in 20 minutes. Stop-and-go
can take twice as long, but
the car makes it hard to com-
plain.
What is your favorite week-
end or summer holiday
drive?
The North Georgia
mountains have some in-
credible roads for something
like a 718 Cayman. I have a
route I like that takes about
four hours with a perfect mix
of tight turns, fast corners
and scenery. Driving the
PCH is something I love to
do when I’m here in a 911
Cabriolet. My very first time
in the country, I was 19 years
old and I took a flight from
Germany to Los Angeles
with my best friend. We
bought an Oldsmobile Delta
88 and drove it 2,800 miles
across the country, so when I
get the chance to drive here
it’s almost like reliving that
memory.
What historic car or truck
do you wish you owned?
Growing up, I always had
a soft spot for rear-engine
Volkswagens like the Bus
and the Beetle. A while ago, I
decided to bring that dream
to life, and I found a Samba
in Brazil and had it restored.
In fact I just finished import-
ing it to the U.S. earlier this
year in time for my birthday.
What is the top speed you’ve
ever traveled in a car, and
where did that take place?
As you know, it’s not so
C5
unusual for drivers in Ger-
many to reach high speeds in
parts of the autobahn where
there is no speed limit. In a
911 Turbo S, it’s not out of the
question for me to exceed
300 kilometers per hour,
which is almost 190 miles per
hour. I might have gone fast-
er once or twice.
While speed is great, I will
always stress that safety
comes first.
What is the biggest chal-
lenge currently facing the
automotive industry?
This has always been an
industry based on innova-
tion, but our pace is chang-
ing. Electrification, autono-
mous driving, digitalization
— there will be more chal-
lenges to the auto industry
in the next five years than
there have been in the last 50.
It’s an environment that cre-
ates immense opportuni-
ties.
What is the most exciting
change currently at work in
the automotive industry?
Changes in transporta-
tion technology today are
amazing. Electric cars are
taking hold like never before;
charging times are decreas-
ing while the necessary in-
frastructure is coming on-
line. At the same time, we are
finding new ways to increase
the performance of our
internal combustion and
plug-in hybrid powertrains.
Earlier this year we an-
nounced the new 911 GT2
RS, which makes 700 horse-
power. It’s a good time to be
working for Porsche.
If the future offered flaw-
less autonomous driving,
would you keep a car for
weekend driving?
I don’t think I would have
a choice. My wife would be
upset with me if I got rid of
my Samba after all the effort
we put into finding it! The
truth is that I will always
have a car I can drive. The
Porsche of the future will al-
ways have a steering wheel
and offer autonomous as-
sistance systems, but the
point is that you will be able
to drive it. Why? The feeling
of interacting with your car
is at the heart of Porsche.
charles.fleming
@latimes.com
Twitter: @misterfleming
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SPORTS
T U E S D A Y , D E C E M B E R 5 , 2 0 1 7 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / S P O R T S

Ball’s short
UCLA stint
ends abruptly
Freshman basketball
player is leaving
because father is upset
about suspension.
By Eric Sondheimer
and Ben Bolch

In a high-profile divorce
between UCLA and one of its
most prominent basketball
families, the father of fresh-
man shooting guard Li-
Angelo Ball said Monday
that he intended to with-
draw his son from school.
LaVar Ball told The
Times that the withdrawal
was the result of his dissatis-
faction with UCLA’s han-
dling of LiAngelo’s indefinite
suspension for his acknowl-
edged role in a shoplifting in-
cident last month in China.
“He might as well be in
jail,” LaVar Ball said in a
telephone interview. “I’m
not going to let UCLA take
the fire out of my boy by not
Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times letting him play for two
LAKERS FORWARD Brandon Ingram, maneuvering past Marc Gasol of the Memphis Grizzlies in a game months.
last month, scored a career-high 32 points last week in a loss to the Golden State Warriors. “We’re going to do some
other options. I’m not going
to let him sit back and not
Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times
LiANGELO BALL is one
of three UCLA freshmen
who admitted to shop-
lifting in China.
A person with knowledge
of UCLA’s academic policies
said LiAngelo would have to
withdraw himself from
school since he is no longer a
minor.
LiAngelo Ball and fellow
Bruins freshmen Cody Riley
and Jalen Hill were sus-
pended after they admitted
to shoplifting from three
stores inside an upscale mall
in Hangzhou, China, during
UCLA’s season-opening trip
[See Ball, D2]

FORWARD MARCH
practice.”

Departure is
Ingram progressing nicely in second season with Lakers
good for Bruins
4
be an All-Star in the next two or three
By Tania Ganguli years.”
That kind of expectation came
After the Lakers lost Sunday to the
20-point games since the start of
with Ingram into the NBA. BILL PLASCHKE ted shoplifting during
Houston Rockets, 20-year-old Bran- The former Duke forward was the UCLA’s season-opening trip
November. Ingram has three other
don Ingram caught himself as he second pick in the draft last year, and After spend- to China.
20-point games in his career, one
spoke about the team’s young players many wanted immediate results. The ing several LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill
of which came Oct. 20.
as if he wasn’t one. Lakers insisted on patience. Ingram weeks un- and Cody Riley have been
“All we can do is give advice to the wasn’t even their starting small for- comfortably suspended indefinitely

young guys,” Ingram said. “Of course
I’m a young guy too, but give it to the
rookies.”
That was another part of Ingram’s
evolution. He’s learning to lead, he’s
gaining confidence and he’s figuring
out how he can truly be a scoring
threat. Last week, for the first time in
6.1
Rebounds per game in November,
an improvement on his 3.9
rebounds per game in October and
his average of 4.0 last season.
ward until February. marinating in amid a clamor — including
During the offseason, the Lakers international from this space — that they
steadfastly maintained their belief in embarrass- should be suspended for the
Ingram, refusing to include him in po- ment, the season. Hey Dan Guerrero,
tential trade packages. The front of- UCLA are you going to pull the
fice was new to Ingram, but the coach- basketball plug or not?
ing staff wasn’t. It was on the strength team has finally received However, LaVar thinks
of their faith in him that the organiza- some good news. LiAngelo should have been

his career, Ingram scored at least 20
points in consecutive games. After a
career-high 32 points against the
Golden State Warriors, he scored 20
against the Denver Nuggets.
He’s at his best when the stage is
biggest, and others have noticed.
“If he keeps developing the way he’s
developing,” Lakers veteran Corey
Brewer said, “he’s definitely going to
48%
Ingram’s shooting percentage in
November, second-best among the
Lakers’ starters. His 40.2%
shooting last season was
second-worst among Lakers who
played in at least 30 games.
tion remained bullish on him.
Now, it’s not only inside the build-
ing that Ingram is being noticed. War-
riors star Kevin Durant said he was
impressed with the development of
the young Laker. During that game,
Portland Trail Blazers guard C.J. Mc-
Collum said on Twitter: “Ingram
gonna be a probleeem.”
[See Ingram, D4]
The Bruins are getting
out of the Ball business.
In an interview with The
Times on Monday, LaVar
Ball confirmed that he is
pulling middle son LiAngelo
from school because he is
unhappy with how LiAngelo
has been treated after he
and two teammates admit-
playing the week after the
incident, and so he’s or-
dered his son back to their
Chino Hills home.
“He might as well be in
jail,” LaVar told the Times’
Eric Sondheimer. “I’m not
going to let UCLA take the
fire out of my boy by not
[See Plaschke, D2]

N F L W E E K 14
R A M S VS. P H I L A D E L P H I A
AT THE COLISEUM | SUNDAY, 1:15 P.M., CH. 11 Seeking a miracle off ice
The guru behind Paralyzed by hockey, Jablonski has will to defy odds and walk again

Goff and Wentz HELENE ELLIOTT

A former USC coach
prepared both young
quarterbacks for NFL.
Here’s what he saw.
SAM FARMER
ON THE NFL
Anyone could appreciate
a highlight package featur-
ing the greatest throws of
the Rams’ Jared Goff and
Philadelphia’s Carson
Wentz this season. The
second-year quarterbacks
have 6,189 yards and 49
touchdown passes between
them.
But Ted Tollner likes
Slow start didn’t
deter Chargers
Coach Anthony Lynn
says Chargers, now in
the playoff hunt, never
lost hope despite their
horrendous start. D3
Relying on his
mind to pre-
vail over
something else. The throws limbs that
they aren’t making. had become
“The natural instinct of paralyzed
most young guys is they’re after he was
going to force the ball to driven face-
make a play, until they get first into the
burned and have some boards during a Minnesota
interceptions and make high school hockey game
some dumb throws,” said nearly six years ago, Jack
Tollner, who worked with Jablonski stared at his feet
both Goff and Wentz to tune one recent night and willed
them up for the scouting them to move.
combine and draft. He had come to believe in
“These guys get it. Nei- a connection between mind
ther of them look like sec- and body since his C5 and
ond-year quarterbacks. C6 vertebrae were broken
Even though they’re playing and his spinal cord was
up-tempo a lot of the time, severed by that unexpected
they don’t seem to get rat- hit, which he considers a
tled. They have patience.” hockey play but made with
Goff and Wentz, the top an elbow and stick that were
[See Farmer, D3] too high. His doctors told
him he’d probably never
bend his right arm. Deter-
mined to prove them wrong,
he bent it a week later.
Injured Clippers Since the accident in his
practicing again sophomore year, on Dec. 30,
2011, physical therapy has
Injured Clippers
allowed him to activate
starters Danilo
some muscles in his core
Gallinari and Milos Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times and lower back and regain
Teodosic have returned
JACK JABLONSKI , paralyzed in a high school hockey game in 2011, is finish- some control of his biceps.
to the practice floor. D5
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TUE.
5
WED.
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THU.
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FRI.
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Ball withdrawing from UCLA
[Ball, from D1] player, even before his off-
to play Georgia Tech in court issues.”
NEXT: DEC. 10 VS. PHILADELPHIA, 1:15 P.M., CHANNEL 11 Shanghai. The trio has also LiAngelo’s younger
been barred from all team brother, LaMelo, faces an
RAMS activities as part of the puni- uncertain basketball future
shment. even though his father in-
Coach Steve Alford re- sisted he remained commit-
NEXT: DEC. 10 VS. WASHINGTON, 1, CHANNEL 2 cently indicated that he ex- ted to UCLA. LaVar recently
pected a decision on the withdrew LaMelo from
CHARGERS length of the players’ sus- Chino Hills and embarked
pensions to come in a matter on a home-schooling pro-
at Phila. at Charlotte of weeks. gram because of a disagree-
5 4 “We learned today of Li- ment with the school’s
SpecSN SpecSN Angelo Ball’s intention to basketball coach.
LAKERS withdraw from UCLA,” Al- LaMelo is a high school
ford said in a statement. “We junior. His amateur status is
respect the decision he and Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times in doubt because of his pro-
MINNESOTA WASH.
7:30 12:30 his family have made, and we FROM LEFT , LaMelo, LiAngelo and LaVar Ball motional appearances on
Prime, ESPN Prime wish him all the best in the attend the Lakers’ introduction of Lonzo Ball in June. behalf of Big Baller Brand,
CLIPPERS future.” the family’s clothing and
LiAngelo’s only public re- charged. points in 16 minutes off the shoe label.
MINNESOTA OTTAWA CAROLINA marks as a member of the LaVar said he had not bench. LaVar had said last Yahoo! Sports reported
7 7:30 7:30 Bruins came during an spoken with anyone at month that LiAngelo would that LaMelo and LiAngelo
NBCSN FSW FSW apology he issued last UCLA about withdrawing attend UCLA for only one were exploring options to
KINGS month. He, Hill and Riley ex- his son. season before declaring for play internationally, which
pressed their remorse in a “I’m taking him and I’m the NBA draft, following the would put an end to any pos-
at Vegas OTTAWA MINN. Pauley Pavilion media room gone,” LaVar said. path of his older brother. sibility of them playing in
7 10 VS. PHILADELPHIA,
7 NEXT: DEC. 7 1:15 P.M., crammed with reporters Asked whether LiAngelo Lonzo Ball starred for the college.
Prime FSW Prime and photographers, reading agreed with the decision, Bruins last season, leading Alford indicated before
CHANNEL 11 from prepared statements. LaVar said, “My boy is loyal one of the nation’s most effi- the season that he was not
DUCKS
“We’re young men,” Li- to me. I tried to let UCLA cient offenses before being concerned with any med-
Shade denotes home game Angelo said at the time. deal with the process and he selected the Pac-12 Confer- dling by LaVar, noting how
“However, it’s not an excuse should have been playing ence’s freshman of the year. respectful Lonzo had been
for making a really stupid the next week.” The Lakers made him the during his time on campus.
TODAY ON THE AIR decision. I don’t feel sorry for LiAngelo, 6 feet 5 and 215 No. 2 overall selection in the “Everything I’ve seen
myself and I’ve learned my pounds, had lost 20 pounds NBA draft. through three months now
TIME EVENT ON THE AIR lesson from this big mistake since his senior season at An NBA scout said it was with ’Gelo has been just the
COLLEGE BASKETBALL and I’m 110% sure that I’m Chino Hills High, when he unlikely that LiAngelo same,” Alford said at the
4 p.m. Villanova vs. Gonzaga TV: ESPN not making a bad decision averaged 33.8 points per would be drafted. time. “Just a terrific individ-
4 p.m. Texas at Virginia Commonwealth TV: ESPN2 like this one again.” game. “LiAngelo Ball is a good ual and he’s learning his role
4 p.m. Boston at Miami TV: FS West The three freshmen in- A high-volume shooter, shooter but does not bring now and he’s competing and
4 p.m. Vermont at Marquette TV: FS1 volved in the shoplifting inci- LiAngelo was expected to much more to the table,” the he’s trying to figure out
4 p.m. Virginia at West Virginia TV: ESPNU dent were allowed to return come off the bench for the scout said on condition of where he’s going to fit and
4 p.m. Michigan State at Rutgers TV: Big Ten to the United States after Bruins this season. anonymity because he was doing everything right.”
President Trump inter- His only formal appear- not authorized to publicly
4 p.m. Winthrop at Georgia TV: SEC
vened on their behalf with ance in a UCLA uniform discuss college players. eric.sondheimer@latimes.com
5 p.m. North Dakota at Creighton TV: FS2 his Chinese counterpart, Xi came during an exhibition “I believe it is widely ac- Twitter: @latsondheimer
6 p.m. Syracuse vs. Connecticut TV: ESPN Jinping. The players posted against Cal State Los Ange- cepted among NBA person- ben.bolch@latimes.com
6 p.m. Texas A&M vs. Arizona TV: ESPN2 bail but were never formally les in which he scored 11 nel that he is not an NBA Twitter: @latbbolch
6 p.m. Utah at Butler TV: FS1
6 p.m. St. Francis (Pa.) at Duke TV: ESPNU
TV: Big Ten

Bruins have one less distraction

6 p.m. Minnesota at Nebraska
6 p.m. Southern Methodist at Texas Christian TV: FS West
6 p.m. Miami (Ohio) at Missouri TV: SEC
8:30 p.m. St. John’s vs. Grand Canyon TV: ESPNU
GOLF
[Plaschke, from D1] referring to as “The LaVar Coach Steve Alford doesn’t and he should have been
1:30 a.m. Ladies European Tour, Dubai Masters TV: Golf
letting him play for two Ball Rule,” in which media have to fret about LaVar’s playing the next week.”
(Wed.)
months. We’re going to do members are not allowed to racially draped second- His boy is lucky he was
HOCKEY
some other options.” hang out after games in a guessing of his roster, which allowed to leave China,
4:30 p.m. New York Rangers at Pittsburgh TV: NBCSN All of which has UCLA Staples Center section LaVar did last year when he period. He would be lucky if
5 p.m. Women, U.S. vs. Canada TV: NHL officials undoubtedly offer- reserved for families and said of the Bruins, “Realisti- UCLA only suspended him
7 p.m. Ducks at Vegas TV: Prime R: 830 ing a whispered hallelujah. friends of players. cally you can’t win no cham- for a season.
7 p.m. Minnesota at Kings TV: NBCSN R: 790 It’s sad that any student Either unable or unwill- pionship with three white He could have used this
PRO BASKETBALL would leave a great academ- ing to quiet LaVar them- guys because the foot speed winter as his redshirt sea-
8 a.m. G League, Rio Grande Valley at Raptors 905 TV: NBA ic institution simply be- selves — can’t Magic John- is too slow.” son. He could have shown
4:30 p.m. Phoenix at Toronto TV: NBA cause one of his parents son just ask him to shut up? And UCLA no longer has up at next fall’s first practice
7 p.m. Washington at Portland TV: NBA doesn’t want him to endure — the Lakers are trying to to answer to nutty quotes older and wiser.
SOCCER an appropriate punishment restrict LaVar’s access. As if like the ones LaVar offered Instead, LaVar has cast
11:30 a.m. Champions League, Chelsea vs. Atletico Madrid TV: FS West for a wrongdoing that that’s going to work. Monday when discussing him adrift in a sea of LaVar’s
brought humiliation to his If LiAngelo remained a his son’s withdrawal from ego, where LiAngelo will join
11:30 a.m. Champions League, Barcelona vs. Sporting CP TV: FS1, ESPND
entire school. Bruin, UCLA would be faced school. youngest son LaMelo, a high
11:30 a.m. Champions League, Manchester United vs. PFC TV: FS2
Even sadder is that, with the same problem. Even though the three school junior and star
CSKA Moscow
because of his father’s dis- LiAngelo seems quiet and freshmen admitted to shop- recruit who was pulled out
11:30 a.m. Champions League, Bayern Munich vs. Paris TV: FOXD tracting bluster, UCLA is humble like his older lifting from three different of Chino Hills High this year
Saint-Germain
better off without the kid. brother Lonzo, but this is stores in an upscale mall in to concentrate on basket-
Just as he had with son not about him, it’s about all Hangzhou during the Bru- ball and sell more shoes.
Lonzo’s Lakers, LaVar had the noise around him. With- ins’ trip to China, and even For those keeping score,
already become a toxic out LaVar in the back- though they might have LaVar’s celebrated Big
COLLEGE BASKETBALL distraction for LiAngelo’s ground, the Bruins will revel faced a jail sentence if they Baller Brand is now at-
Bruins. The difference is in renewed focus and quiet. were not able to leave China, tempting to move merchan-

Seminoles top Gators that while the Lakers are

wire services
Terance Mann scored 25
points, CJ Walker added 17
and Florida State beat No. 5
Florida 83-66 on Monday
night to remain undefeated.
The visiting Seminoles
(7-0) also extended their
winning streak against the
Gators (5-2) to four, their
longest in the 68-game his-
tory of the series.
at No. 23 Baylor 84, Sam
Houston State 56: Jo Lual-
Acuil had 15 points and 11 re-
bounds, leading six players
who scored in double figures
for the Bears (6-2) against
the Bearkats (5-4).
SOUTHLAND
MEN TONIGHT
Nebraska Omaha at UC
Santa Barbara, 7
UC Riverside at Pepperdine,
7 of what some people are
heavily invested in Lonzo,
the Bruins have never really
played with LiAngelo, 19,
who wasn’t expected to have
a big role on the team and is
thus far not considered
NBA material.
The Lakers need Lonzo
so they must tolerate his
father, something which is
increasingly difficult in the
wake of his repeated public
criticism of Lakers coaches.
This week, the Lakers even
announced an enforcement
They can distance them-
selves from LaVar’s initial
comment that the shop-
lifting was “no big deal.”
They can separate them-
selves from LaVar’s attempt
to capitalize on the incident
when he loudly refused to
thank President Trump for
helping negotiate the play-
ers’ release.
The school’s compliance
people don’t have to worry
about LaVar risking the
NCAA’s wrath by having
LiAngelo attempt to peddle
his brand’s shoes or apparel.
LaVar thinks UCLA mis-
treated his son.
“Waste,” LaVar said. “I’m
not going to let them deter-
mine his future.”
What’s being wasted, of
course, is a first-class edu-
cation for a young man
whose father is unwilling to
allow him to accept conse-
quences for his actions and
receive some real-world
schooling.
“I’m taking him and I’m
gone,” LaVar said. “My boy
is loyal to me. I tried to let
UCLA deal with the process
dise on the backs of one kid
who quit high school, anoth-
er who quit college, and a
struggling NBA rookie.
In the rare event that he
will actually be eligible,
LaMelo is reportedly still
planning to attend UCLA as
the final member of that
once-celebrated trio of Ball
brother commitments.
Here’s guessing UCLA
won’t be leaving the lights
on.
bill.plaschke@latimes.com
Twitter: @BillPlaschke
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NFL

Steelers
rally for Chargers stuck it out together
really wasn’t as concerned long enough to know that together into groups. We

win over Lynn says players

never turned on each
other despite starting
as maybe I should have
been.”
Strangely enough, nei-
ther were the players.
there are stretches where
things can get bumpy and
rocky,” Rivers said. “And the
guys that have been here,
have a sports psychiatrist
that’s on hand here, and he
works with the guys as far as
different things that we

Bengals the season 0-4.

By Dan Woike
Boswell’s field goal When the Chargers were
sitting at the bottom of the
caps wild comeback. NFL, winless after four
Shazier is hospitalized games, questions should
have been asked. Cracks in
with back injury. the team’s foundation
should have started to show.
PITTSBURGH 23 The losing streak had es-
CINCINNATI 20 sentially eliminated them
from postseason contention
associated press
since only one team in mod-
ern NFL history has recov-
CINCINNATI — No mat- ered from such a horrendous
ter how high the stakes, how start.
big the deficit or how late in The Chargers, it seemed,
the game, Ben Roethlis- were in for a long slog to me-
berger and his tough-to- diocrity at best, and disaster
catch playmakers always at worst. But Anthony Lynn,
find a way to leave the Cin- the team’s first-year coach,
cinnati Bengals wondering believed that the problems
what just happened. were only going to be tempo-
Chris Boswell kicked a rary.
field goal on the final play “When we started out
shortly after Antonio Brown that way,” he said Monday, “I
caught a six-yard touch-
down pass — taking a hit to
the head while landing in the
end zone — and the Pitts-
burgh Steelers pulled off an-
The typical signs of frus-
tration — inconsistent ef-
fort, finger pointing, hordes
of players hiding out in the
training room — didn’t hap-
pen.
When faced with total
disappointment, the team
didn’t flinch.
“We’ve been through it
before,” quarterback Philip
Rivers said.
Nine weeks later, the
Chargers are one of the
hottest teams in the NFL
and definitely the hottest
team in the AFC West, some-
how tied for first place with
the Kansas City Chiefs and
Oakland Raiders. They are
in the thick of the wild-card
race.
They are in this position,
thanks in part to their short-
comings in San Diego.
Over the last two sea-
sons, the Chargers have tak-
en more punches to the gut
than a boxer, routinely los-
NFL WEEK 14
Chargers vs.
Washington
AT STUBHUB CENTER
Sunday, 1 p.m., Channel 2
ing games by a few points
here and a few points there.
Injuries have piled up. And
the road they had to travel
over the course of the season
with a relocation hanging
over their head? That was
rough too.
But for the veterans on
the Chargers who survived
all the hiccups and ham-
strings, the ones undeterred
by the moving trucks, they
knew how volatile an NFL
season could be.
When something crashes
down in a matter of weeks, it
can be rebuilt just as quickly.
“Enough guys on this
team have been in the league
we’ve been through it plenty
of times.”
The experiences coupled
with current training have
helped affirm what Lynn
hoped about the team dur-
ing offseason work — that
this would be a team capable
of handling the adversity
that an NFL schedule can
dish out.
“This group meets once a
month on team-building ex-
ercises right now. In the off-
season, we did some things
like that with this group as
well,” Lynn said, declining to
discuss specifics.
“When guys are together
like that and they learn to
trust one another and play
for one another, then, I be-
lieve, that’s when you see
guys don’t abandon ship,
guys continue to fight and
believe in the process and in
one another. …
“I don’t want to talk
about the topics, but we get
RAMS REPORT
want to go over every single
month.
“These guys talk it out.
They do exercises. Some of it
is mental training, some of it
is focus and some of it is just
trusting one another and be-
ing together.”
While the final four weeks
of the season, and possibly
the playoffs, will present the
Chargers with all kinds of
mental and physical chal-
lenges, they hope to be pre-
pared based on how they
have recovered from the
early-season woes.
“I was really pleased in
how everyone stayed pos-
itive,” Lynn said. “It was so
encouraging, just looking at
the organization and the
building. So it says a lot
about what we’re building
here and the culture that we
have.”
dan.woike@latimes.com
Twitter: @DanWoikeSports

Ogletree is
other improbable comeback
against the stunned Ben-
gals, rallying for a 23-20 vic-
tory Monday night.
Down 17-0 early, the Steel-

expected to
ers (10-2) extended their
best start since 2004 in a
physical game with a couple
of frightening injuries.
Brown's touchdown tied the

play Sunday
score at 20-20 with 3:51 to
play — safety George Iloka
was penalized for hitting
him in the head after the
catch. Boswell won it with a
38-yard field goal, his second
consecutive winner in the
closing seconds after he beat By Gary Klein
the Green Bay Packers with
a 53-yard field goal Nov. 26. Rams linebacker Alec
“It sort of reminded me of Ogletree, who suffered an el-
the playoff game — what was bow injury against the Arizo-
it, two years ago?” Steelers na Cardinals, is expected to
defensive end Cameron be ready for Sunday’s game
Heyward said. “It's sort of against the Philadelphia
the best reality TV show out Eagles, but his status will
there — better than the Kar- not be determined until later
dashians.” in the week, coach Sean Mc-
Two years ago, the Steel- Vay said Monday.
ers came to Paul Brown Sta- “We all know the type of
dium and pulled out an im- competitor Alec is,” McVay
probable 18-16 playoff victory said during a news confer-
set up by Cincinnati's fumble ence in Thousand Oaks. Rick Scuteri Associated Press
and personal fouls on Von- “He’s going to do everything RAMS LINEBACKER
taze Burfict and Adam “Pac- in his power to be ready to Alec Ogletree was in-
man” Jones. Boswell won go.” jured against Arizona.
that one with a 35-yard kick Matt Marton Associated Press Ogletree returned an in-
with 14 seconds left. JARED GOFF of the Rams, left, and Carson Wentz of the Eagles react after being terception for a touchdown “But I think when you look at
Desperate for a win to sal- taken with the top two picks of the 2016 NFL draft. Now their paths cross again. in the first quarter of Sun- the stakes because of the
vage their playoff hopes, the day’s 32-16 victory over the way that we’ve played and

Young quarterbacks at
Bengals (5-7) still couldn’t Cardinals at University of the way that they’ve played
find a way to beat their Ohio Phoenix Stadium. He punc- — as these games get further
River rival, not even after tuated the play with a flip on into the season they
getting off to the big early that included a hard landing mean a little bit more be-
lead. They’ve dropped six in on his right side. cause of the implications.”
a row and nine of 10 against
the Steelers.
“Very disappointing,”
Bengals receiver A.J. Green
said. “We had it.”
center of Rams-Eagles
[Farmer, from D1] the huge step up from North Rob Gronkowski was sus-
But he said that he hy-
perextended his left elbow
on a later series.
The Cardinals identified
the weakness and ran plays
Ready for noise
With two division-leading
teams squaring off, the
Rams are expecting their
The hard-hitting game two picks in the 2016 draft, Dakota State to the NFL. pended for a week Monday at Ogletree before he was re- largest home crowd of the
was full of personal fouls, might have patience but “The thing that I noticed in the wake of his cheap- placed by Bryce Hager. season.
penalties and injuries that they have turned around when they were going shot hit on Buffalo corner- “I couldn’t use my arm, And that will include a
could have a long-term effect their losing franchises in a through the footwork and back Tre’Davious White. but I let my ego get in the way vocal contingent of Eagles
on the Steelers. hurry. They will face each the accuracy is that they The Patriots are catching a a little bit,” Ogletree said af- fans.
Their leading tackler, other for the first time when both could move well,” break with that punishment ter the game. “I would say I In a Week 4 game against
linebacker Ryan Shazier, the 9-3 Rams host the 10-2 Tollner said. “You can tell because they play at Miami should have just come out the Chargers at StubHub
suffered a back injury in the Eagles on Sunday in a piv- when someone can move next Monday night, a game and let Bryce go in.” Center, boisterous Eagles
first quarter and was taken otal NFC showdown. their feet, stay in rhythm, they should win handily. If Ogletree cannot play fans filled the stadium.
off the field on a cart en route Tollner, who worked with and get the ball out of their Had Gronkowski been against the Eagles, Hager The Rams will be pre-
to a hospital for evaluation. them as a consultant for the hand fast. That stuff to me penalized a week later, he would probably start, Mc- pared.
Coach Mike Tomlin had no first four months of 2016, is has always been more im- would have missed the Vay said. Cory Littleton also Because of noise from Se-
details about his injury or his loving their success but portant than whether they game at Pittsburgh, more would be worked into the attle Seahawks fans, the
prognosis after the game. concedes he didn’t expect it have the perfect three- important in the playoff scheme, he said. Rams were forced to go to a
Burfict was carted off in to come this quickly. quarters-delivery release. picture. As it stands, the The Rams are already silent count late in a Week 5
the fourth quarter after JuJu “You always think it’s It’s just getting it out quick, Patriots and Steelers are down one starting lineback- game at the Coliseum.
Smith-Schuster leveled him going to take a few years to and they could do that.” the AFC’s top two seeds. er. They could employ a sim-
with a high hit, then taunted make that transition to real More important, they Connor Barwin, who ilar strategy on Sunday if
the linebacker by walking games in the NFL and the were hungry to learn what Wild, wild West played four seasons with the Eagles fans make it tough.
over him. There were 11 per- speed of it all,” said Tollner, they didn’t know. The AFC West is the only Eagles before signing with “The way that these play-
sonal fouls in another acri- who was head coach at USC “What we’re seeing now division featuring a three- the Rams last spring, will re- ers have played, we’re hop-
monious rematch in their from 1983-86 and later is very rewarding, especially way tie for first place, with main sidelined at least an- ing to get a great crowd to
hard-edged series. The Ben- worked as an offensive when you’ve got guys that Kansas City, the Chargers other week while recovering come out and support us
gals self-destructed with 13 coach with several NFL want to work,” Tollner said. and Oakland all 6-6. from surgery for a broken and create a great home at-
penalties for a team-record teams. “Because young “It’s not like you have to talk There will be some clar- forearm suffered against the mosphere,” McVay said,
173 yards. players don’t understand them into it. ‘Let’s go out ity after Week 14, when the New Orleans Saints. adding that if noise from
the speed. These guys have and do this now.’ What Chiefs host the Raiders. Rookie Samson Ebukam Eagles fans becomes “some-
Steelers 23, Bengals 20 learned it fast. They’re you’ve got to talk them out Then, the Chargers play at started in Barwin’s spot thing that we anticipate, you
Pittsburgh...............................0 3 7 13—23 getting good coaching of is, ‘Hey, that’s enough for the Chiefs in a Saturday against the Cardinals and bet we’ll make sure that we
Cincinnati .............................10 7 3 0—20
where they are, and they’ve today. I don’t want you night game Dec. 16, in what made five tackles. have some contingency
First Quarter
Cin—FG Bullock 35, 10:48.
learned how to do these throwing any more today.’ could be the key to deter- “I was nervous coming in, plans in place.”
Cin—Green 8 pass from Dalton (Bullock kick), :41. things rapidly.” That was more of the issue. mining which team winds but after talking to the older
Second Quarter Goff and Wentz both are They don’t want to stop up in the playoffs. guys, they just told me to do Etc.
Cin—Green 15 pass from Dalton (Bullock kick), :31. represented by Irvine-based working, or looking at film The sands are shifting what I do,” Ebukam said. McVay blamed himself
Pit—FG Boswell 30, :00.
Third Quarter REP 1 Sports, composed of when they’re not working for the Chargers, who “After I got a little confi- for poor clock management
Pit—Bell 35 pass from Roethlisberger (Boswell kick), cousins Bruce and Ryan out. started the season 0-4 but dence in me, I was just like, at the end of the first half
8:58. Tollner — Bruce is Ted’s son “They’ve got a legitimate have clawed their way back ‘OK, I’m ready to play.’ ” against the Cardinals, when
Cin—FG Bullock 41, 3:33.
Fourth Quarter — Chase Callahan and work ethic — not one they to relevance, and on Sunday The Rams will face an the Rams were forced to kick
Pit—FG Boswell 37, 10:07. Nima Zarrabi. Ted Tollner is just talk about.” won their third in a row. The Eagles team that is 10-2 after a field goal with four seconds
Pit—Brown 6 pass from Roethlisberger (Boswell kick), a consultant for them, as is Raiders, who at one point Sunday’s 24-10 loss at Seat- left. “Those types of things
3:51.
Pit—FG Boswell 38, :00. former NFL quarterback This is a test lost four straight, seem to tle, a defeat that ended the are inexcusable and that’s
Attendance—56,029. Ryan Lindley, who also The six seeded NFC have righted the ship by Eagles’ nine-game winning all on me,” he said, adding,
TEAM STATISTICS Pit Cin
First downs ...................................24 19
worked with the QBs on a teams heading into Week 14 winning four of six. streak. “Fortunately it didn’t cost
Total Net Yards .............................374 353 daily basis leading up to the are, in order, Minnesota, Meanwhile, the Chiefs McVay watched the game us, but those are the type of
Rushes-yards ............................22-92 22-130
Passing.......................................282 223 draft. Philadelphia, the Rams, have squandered their 5-0 before and during the Rams’ things that get you beat and
Punt Returns ................................2-7 2-9 Ted Tollner said the goal New Orleans, Seattle and start, have lost four in a row flight home from Phoenix. I can’t do that to our team.
Kickoff Returns ...........................2-38 2-29
Interceptions Ret...........................0-0 1-0 was to best prepare them for Carolina. Each of those and are grasping for an- The Eagles, led by I’ve got to be smarter and
Comp-Att-Int..........................24-40-1 21-36-0 their pro days and individu- teams has a tough game this swers. quarterback Carson Wentz, learn from that.”… The
Sacked-Yards Lost .........................1-8 2-11
Punts .....................................4-44.5 5-49.2 al workouts with teams, week, with the Vikings at the The Chargers host Wash- are tied with the Rams as the Rams are off Tuesday. They
Fumbles-Lost................................0-0 0-0 fine-tuning their fundamen- Panthers, the Eagles at the ington on Sunday, and NFL’s top scoring teams, av- resume practice on Wednes-
Penalties-Yards ...........................7-66 13-173
Time of Possession ....................29:49 30:11 tals. Goff, for instance, lined Rams, the Saints at Atlanta, that’s no layup. The Red- eraging 30.1 points per game. day…. Rather than making a
Individual Leaders up in the shotgun through- and Seattle at Jacksonville. skins are 2-0 on the West The Eagles are second in cross-country trip twice in
RUSHING: Pittsburgh, Bell 18-76, Conner 3-12, out his college career at This time next week, the Coast this season, having rushing at 143.3 yards per two weeks, the Eagles are
Roethlisberger 1-4. Cincinnati, Bernard 13-77, Mixon 7-
34, Dalton 2-19. California and needed to get playoff picture will be in beaten both the Rams and game and third in total of- staying in Southern Califor-
PASSING: Pittsburgh, Roethlisberger 24-40-1-290. accustomed to taking a sharper focus. This is a Seahawks on their home fense (385.1 yards per game). nia and practicing at Angel
Cincinnati, Dalton 21-36-0-234.
RECEIVING: Pittsburgh, Brown 8-101, Bell 5-106, snap under center, some- prove-it week. turf. They are 14th in passing Stadium.
Bryant 4-40, Smith-Schuster 4-17, James 1-13, Grimble thing he hadn’t done since (241.8).
1-9, Rogers 1-4. Cincinnati, Green 7-77, LaFell 4-55,
Kroft 2-30, Bernard 2-19, Boyd 2-15, Malone 2-9, his sophomore year of high Stroke of luck sam.farmer@latimes.com “Our approach will re- gary.klein@latimes.com
Uzomah 1-21, Mixon 1-8. school. Wentz was taking New England tight end Twitter: @LATimesfarmer main the same,” McVay said. Twitter: @latimesklein
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Warriors 125, Pelicans 115

STANDINGS GOLDEN STATE
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Standings have been arranged to reflect how the teams will be deter- Durant.............34 8-21 2-3 0-7 5 3 19
mined for the playoffs. Teams are ranked 1-15 by record. Division Green..............38 6-12 4-5 0-9 7 1 19
standing no longer has any bearing on the rankings. The top eight McGee ............11 3-4 2-2 2-4 0 3 8
teams in each conference make the playoffs, and the top-seeded
Curry...............34 9-19 8-9 2-5 11 5 31
team would play the eighth-seeded team, the seventh team would
play the second, etc. Head-to-head competition is the first of several Thompson........37 8-13 2-3 0-3 1 0 22
tiebreakers, followed by conference record. (Western Conference di- Iguodala ..........26 2-4 0-1 0-4 7 0 4
visions: S-Southwest; P-Pacific; N-Northwest; Eastern Conference Young..............13 2-4 0-0 0-1 0 0 6
divisions: A-Atlantic; C-Central; S-Southeast). West ...............13 4-5 1-2 0-4 2 1 9
Bell.................12 2-2 0-0 1-1 0 1 4
WESTERN CONFERENCE Casspi.............11 0-1 0-2 0-1 2 2 0
McCaw ..............4 1-2 0-0 0-0 1 1 3
Team W L PCT GB L10 Rk. Looney ..............3 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0
1. Houston 18 4 .818 9-1 S1 Totals 45-87 19-27 5-40 36 17 125
2. Golden State 19 6 .760 1
⁄2 8-2 P1 Shooting: Field goals, 51.7%; free throws, 70.4%
Three-point goals: 16-33 (Curry 5-11, Thompson
3. San Antonio 16 8 .667 3 7-3 S2 4-5, Green 3-5, Young 2-4, McCaw 1-1, Durant 1-5,
Casspi 0-1, Iguodala 0-1). Team Rebounds: 6. Team
4. Denver 13 10 .565 51⁄2 5-5 N2 Turnovers: 16 (22 PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Green 2,
4. Portland 13 10 .565 51⁄2 6-4 N1 Durant, McGee, West). Turnovers: 16 (Durant 7, Iguo-
dala 3, Bell 2, Curry 2, Green 2). Steals: 14 (Green 4,
6. Minnesota 14 11 .560 51⁄2 4-6 N3 Iguodala 3, Durant 2, Bell, Curry, McCaw, Thompson,
7. Utah 13 11 .542 6 7-3 N4 West). Technical Fouls: coach Warriors (Defensive
three second), 9:57 first
8. New Orleans 12 12 .500 7 4-6 S3 NEW ORLEANS
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Cunningham.....32 5-11 1-2 5-9 2 3 11
9. Oklahoma City 10 12 .455 1 5-5 N5 Moore .............37 11-18 0-1 3-6 2 5 27
10. CLIPPERS 8 14 .364 3 3-7 P2 Cousins ...........31 7-15 2-4 0-11 7 3 19
Holiday............38 13-21 4-5 1-6 4 3 34
11. Phoenix 9 16 .360 31⁄2 4-6 P3 Rondo .............27 4-9 0-0 0-5 11 2 10
12. LAKERS 8 15 .348 31⁄2 3-7 P4 Miller ..............34 3-8 1-1 0-2 1 3 9
Nelson ............20 1-3 0-0 0-2 6 3 2
12. Memphis 8 15 .348 31⁄2 1-9 S4 Asik ................11 1-2 0-0 1-5 0 1 2
14. Sacramento 7 16 .304 41⁄2 4-6 P5 Allen .................3 0-3 1-2 1-1 0 3 1
Clark.................2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
15. Dallas 7 17 .292 5 5-5 S5 Diallo................0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Totals 45-91 9-15 11-47 33 26 115
EASTERN CONFERENCE Shooting: Field goals, 49.5%; free throws, 60.0%
Team W L PCT GB L10 Rk. Three-point goals: 16-39 (Moore 5-6, Holiday 4-11,
Cousins 3-6, Miller 2-6, Rondo 2-6, Nelson 0-1, Cun-
1. Boston 21 4 .840 8-2 A1 ningham 0-3). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: 21
2. Cleveland 17 7 .708 31⁄2 10-0 C1 (29 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Cousins 3, Miller). Turn-
overs: 21 (Cousins 7, Moore 5, Holiday 3, Miller 2,
3. Toronto 14 7 .667 5 7-3 A2 Asik, Cunningham, Nelson, Rondo). Steals: 11 (Cous-
ins 5, Rondo 2, Clark, Cunningham, Holiday, Moore).
4. Detroit 14 9 .609 6 4-6 C2 Technical Fouls: Cousins, 4:24 third
5. Philadelphia 13 10 .565 7 6-4 A3 Golden State 26 23 39 37— 125
6. Milwaukee 12 10 .545 71⁄2 6-4 C3 New Orleans 33 36 22 24— 115
7. Indiana 13 11 .542 71⁄2 7-3 C4 A—17,004. T—2:19. O—Matt Boland, Derrick
Stafford, J.T. Orr
8. Washington 12 11 .522 8 4-6 S1

9. Miami 11 12 .478 1 5-5 S2 Mavericks 122, Nuggets 105

9. New York 11 12 .478 1 4-6 A4 DENVER
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
11. Charlotte 9 13 .409 21⁄2 4-6 S3 Chandler..........27 1-11 2-2 3-7 3 0 4
12. Orlando 10 15 .400 3 2-8 S4 Faried..............27 6-13 1-2 6-11 2 2 13
Plumlee ...........19 1-2 1-6 2-7 4 1 3
13. Brooklyn 9 14 .391 3 4-6 A5 G.Harris ...........42 7-17 4-4 0-3 4 3 21
14. Atlanta 5 18 .217 7 3-7 S5 Murray.............28 7-12 4-4 0-0 0 2 22
Barton.............41 9-20 1-3 2-8 6 5 23
15. Chicago 3 19 .136 81⁄2 1-9 C5 Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times Mudiay ............15 2-6 0-0 0-2 3 1 5
THE LAKERS’ 6-FOOT-9 BRANDON INGRAM is still skinny, but “he’s using his body a lot better” Lyles ...............15 3-5 0-0 1-6 2 2 7
TODAY’S GAMES Hernangomez ...11 2-4 0-0 0-2 1 3 5
this season, teammate Corey Brewer says. “Last year he was getting hit and he couldn’t finish.” Beasley .............7 0-0 2-2 1-3 0 0 2
Favorite Line Underdog Time Jefferson............2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
at Toronto 131⁄2 Phoenix 4:30 p.m. Totals 38-91 15-23 15-49 25 19 105

Ingram has added strength

at Oklahoma City OFF Utah 5 p.m. Shooting: Field goals, 41.8%; free throws, 65.2%
at Portland 51⁄2 Washington 7 p.m. Three-point goals: 14-36 (Barton 4-6, Murray 4-8,
G.Harris 3-8, Lyles 1-2, Hernangomez 1-3, Mudiay 1-3,
Faried 0-1, Jefferson 0-1, Chandler 0-4). Team Re-
bounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 7 (9 PTS). Blocked Shots:
5 (Lyles 2, Beasley, Murray, Plumlee). Turnovers: 7
(Plumlee 2, Beasley, Chandler, G.Harris, Hernan-
RESULTS [Ingram, from D1] an advisor to Ingram, familiar with scorer.
gomez, Mudiay). Steals: 5 (G.Harris 3, Barton, Mur-
ray). Technical Fouls: None.
DALLAS
The 6-foot-9 Ingram came into the the plight of a too-skinny teenager “We’re at our best when he’s in the Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
NBA weighing 190 pounds, too skinny trying to play forward in the NBA. game trying to not only get to the rim Barnes ............36 9-18 3-3 0-10 3 1 22
Kleber .............19 1-1 0-0 1-5 1 4 2
to be as effective as the Lakers knew “I think I lost myself into the game and put pressure on but also looking Nowitzki...........20 2-6 4-4 0-6 2 1 9
he would be later in his career. He a little bit and just trying to compete to be a playmaker for his teammates Matthews.........33 5-10 2-3 0-1 2 3 15
struggled with his shot, taking con- and think that the competitive na- when the defense collapses. I think Smith Jr. ..........30 9-16 0-0 2-5 3 2 20
Ferrell .............25 7-9 1-1 0-2 1 1 16
tact and finishing at the rim. Two of ture came out when we were scoring [at Denver] the defense collapsed a Powell .............23 5-6 1-3 2-7 3 2 11
Booker’s 46 points those issues have been negated sig-
nificantly as he has added strength.
… trying to get to the rim,” Ingram
said of the game against the Warriors.
lot on him and forced some turnovers
because he wasn’t ready to make
D.Harris ...........22 5-8 1-3 0-1 2 2 14
Barea..............19 3-9 0-0 0-2 9 1 7

help Suns stun 76ers “He knows how [to get to the rim]
now,” Brewer said, and gave a
“I think that some of my best games
are when I just have a clear head.”
those passes and he didn’t make
those same mistakes tonight.”
Mejri .................9 3-3 0-0 0-3 0 1 6
Totals 49-86 12-17 5-42 26 18 122
Shooting: Field goals, 57.0%; free throws, 70.6%
Three-point goals: 12-26 (D.Harris 3-4, Matthews
glimpse of Ingram’s mentality. Against the Rockets, Ingram’s One part of Ingram’s game that 3-8, Smith Jr. 2-4, Barnes 1-2, Ferrell 1-2, Nowitzki 1-2,
PHOENIX 115 “ ‘When I come off, I know I’m going to streak of 20-point games ended, but still needs improving is his shooting. Barea 1-4). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 7 (6
PHILADELPHIA 101 be able to get past this guy. I know if I Lakers coach Luke Walton almost Excluding shots at the rim, where he
PTS). Blocked Shots: 6 (D.Harris 2, Kleber, Matthews,
Mejri, Powell). Turnovers: 7 (Smith Jr. 3, Barea, Barnes,
go to the rim, it’s going to be a big guy liked that game better than Ingram’s scores the majority of his points, he D.Harris, Ferrell). Steals: 4 (Barea 2, D.Harris, Ferrell).
Technical Fouls: None.
Devin Booker scored 32 of his 46 coming over but I’ve got to finish.’ higher-scoring efforts. has made only 32% of his shots. Denver 23 24 35 23— 105
points in the second half to lead the “He’s using his body a lot better. “I’d rather him have games like “He’s getting to the rim with ease Dallas 39 25 29 29— 122
Phoenix Suns to a 115-101 win at Last year he was getting hit and he this than [against Denver],” Walton now,” Brewer said. “Once he im- A—19,419. O—Scott Wall, Gediminas Petraitis,
Philadelphia on Monday night. couldn’t finish. This year he’s getting said. “I think he finished with 20 [at proves his jump shot he’s going to be Ken Mauer

Booker made 17 of 32 shots and hit and he can finish.”
hit four three-pointers, including Ingram showed off his ability to
three in the fourth quarter to put score in the paint against Durant and
away a 76ers team that played one the Warriors. Durant has served as
of its worst games of the season.
J.J. Redick led the 76ers with 25
points. Joel Embiid had 22 points Hornets 104, Magic 94
and 12 rebounds. ORLANDO
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Gordon............35 4-15 4-4 0-6 3 2 14
Cleveland 113, at Chicago 91:
Simmons .........34 7-12 0-0 2-6 1 4 15
Dwyane Wade and Kevin Love each Vucevic............27 5-12 0-0 1-8 5 4 10
scored 24 points, LeBron James Fournier...........29 7-13 1-2 0-3 2 5 18
Payton.............31 4-9 2-2 1-4 7 3 11
had 23 and the Cavaliers won their Afflalo .............18 3-6 0-0 0-2 1 3 6
12th straight as the Bulls lost their Biyombo ..........17 2-3 0-1 1-3 0 2 4
ninth in a row. Augustin ..........16 3-3 5-5 0-5 2 0 13
Speights ..........15 1-7 0-0 0-1 2 5 3
Hezonja .............8 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 1 0
Golden State 125, at New Orleans Iwundu..............5 0-1 0-0 0-1 1 1 0
Totals 36-82 12-14 5-40 24 30 94
115: Stephen Curry had 31 points
Shooting: Field goals, 43.9%; free throws, 85.7%
and 11 assists but left on crutches Three-point goals: 10-32 (Fournier 3-7, Augustin 2-2, Gor-
don 2-7, Payton 1-2, Simmons 1-3, Speights 1-4, Hezonja 0-1,
after spraining an ankle late. Klay Afflalo 0-3, Vucevic 0-3). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers:
Thompson scored 22 as the Warri- 20 (29 PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Vucevic 2, Gordon, Payton,
Speights). Turnovers: 20 (Simmons 4, Augustin 3, Payton 3,
ors came back from 21 down. Kevin Gordon 2, Speights 2, Vucevic 2, Afflalo, Biyombo, Fournier,
Durant had 19 before he and De- Hezonja). Steals: 5 (Vucevic 2, Augustin, Gordon, Simmons).
Technical Fouls: coach Magic (Defensive three second), 1:58
Marcus Cousins were ejected. first
CHARLOTTE
at Boston 111, Milwaukee 100: Kyrie Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Kidd-Gilchrist....25 5-9 1-1 1-8 0 3 11
Irving had 19 of his 32 points in the Williams ..........24 2-4 2-2 2-5 1 3 7
second half, helping offset 40 Howard............29 5-14 2-3 4-9 1 3 12
Batum.............37 3-8 5-8 0-11 5 2 11
points by Giannis Antetokounmpo
Walker.............34 7-16 14-14 0-2 7 1 29
as Boston improved to an NBA-
Kaminsky.........23 6-14 1-4 2-9 1 2 14
best 21-4. Al Horford had 20 points, Lamb ..............22 4-10 4-4 0-2 1 0 12
Zeller ..............18 1-3 4-4 1-3 0 2 6
nine rebounds and eight assists. Carter-Williams .13 1-5 0-0 1-3 1 2 2
Bacon .............10 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
at San Antonio 96, Detroit 93: Totals 34-84 33-40 11-52 17 18 104
Shooting: Field goals, 40.5%; free throws, 82.5%
LaMarcus Aldridge had 17 points Three-point goals: 3-17 (Kaminsky 1-2, Williams 1-2, Walker
and 10 rebounds to help a fourth- 1-8, Carter-Williams 0-1, Batum 0-2, Lamb 0-2). Team Re-
bounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 14 (9 PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Zeller
quarter rally. Reggie Jackson had 2, Batum, Kidd-Gilchrist, Walker). Turnovers: 14 (Howard 5,
27 points to lead the Pistons. Batum 3, Carter-Williams 2, Zeller 2, Kidd-Gilchrist, Lamb).
Steals: 13 (Walker 3, Kidd-Gilchrist 2, Bacon, Batum, Carter-
Williams, Howard, Kaminsky, Lamb, Williams, Zeller). Technical
at Utah 116, Washington 69: Alec Fouls: None.
Orlando 23 22 29 20— 94
Burks scored 27 points and the
Charlotte 26 28 21 29— 104
Jazz won their sixth straight as the
A—14,419. T—2:21. O—Derrick Collins, Jacyn Goble, Tony
Wizards set a season low for points. Brothers
at Charlotte 104, Orlando 94:
Suns 115, 76ers 101
Kemba Walker had 29 points and
PHOENIX
seven assists in his return from a Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Chriss..............22 1-5 1-2 2-6 2 0 3
shoulder injury and the Hornets
Warren ............34 12-19 0-0 2-8 3 0 25
snapped a four-game skid. Dwight Chandler..........36 3-4 1-2 5-12 4 4 7
Howard moved past Paul Silas and Booker ............38 17-32 7-8 3-8 1 1 46
Ulis.................37 4-10 3-4 0-1 12 4 12
Dikembe Mutombo for 19th on the Bender ............25 1-5 0-0 1-1 1 0 3
all-time NBA rebounding list. Jackson ...........23 2-8 2-3 1-3 0 2 7
Len .................11 3-5 1-1 1-3 0 3 7
Daniels..............5 1-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 3
at Indianapolis 115, New York 97:
James ...............5 0-1 2-2 0-3 2 0 2
Thaddeus Young scored 20 points Totals 44-91 17-22 15-46 25 14 115
Shooting: Field goals, 48.4%; free throws, 77.3%
to lead seven Pacers in double fig- Three-point goals: 10-22 (Booker 5-8, Daniels 1-1,
ures. The Knicks were again with- Jackson 1-2, Bender 1-3, Ulis 1-3, Warren 1-3, Chriss
0-2). Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: 11 (14 PTS).
out leading scorers Kristaps Blocked Shots: 9 (Bender 4, Chandler 2, Chriss 2,
Porzingis and Tim Hardaway Jr. Booker). Turnovers: 11 (Booker 3, Jackson 3, Warren 2,
Chandler, James, Ulis). Steals: 10 (Chandler 3, Booker
2, Jackson 2, Warren 2, Daniels). Technical Fouls:
at Memphis 95, Minnesota 92: None.
PHILADELPHIA
Marc Gasol scored 21 points,
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Tyreke Evans added 16 — including Covington.........33 3-13 2-2 3-6 5 1 10
two key free throws with 12.7 sec- Saric ...............33 5-11 0-0 3-9 4 4 10
Embiid ............34 7-18 8-8 2-12 2 1 22
onds left — and Memphis snapped Redick.............33 9-16 4-4 0-1 1 3 25
an 11-game skid. Jimmy Butler led Simmons .........36 9-18 2-2 1-8 7 3 20
the Timberwolves with 30 points. Lwwu-Cbrrot .....25 4-8 0-0 1-2 3 5 8
Bayless............21 2-6 0-0 2-5 0 4 6
Johnson...........13 0-0 0-0 1-4 1 0 0
at Dallas 122, Denver 105: Harrison Stauskas ...........7 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
Totals 39-91 16-16 13-47 23 22 101
Barnes scored 22 points as the
Shooting: Field goals, 42.9%; free throws, 0.0%
Mavericks had their highest-scor- Three-point goals: 7-30 (Redick 3-10, Bayless 2-5,
ing game of the season. Will Barton Covington 2-10, Luwawu-Cabarrot 0-1, Stauskas 0-1,
Saric 0-3). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 14 (22
led the Nuggets with 23 points. PTS). Blocked Shots: 6 (Embiid 4, Covington, John-
son). Turnovers: 14 (Covington 3, Simmons 3, Redick
2, Stauskas 2, Bayless, Johnson, Luwawu-Cabarrot,
Brooklyn 110, at Atlanta 90: Caris Saric). Steals: 9 (Simmons 6, Covington, Redick,
LeVert scored a season-high 17 Saric). Technical Fouls: Bayless, 00:32 third.
Phoenix 28 32 29 26— 115
points to help avenge Saturday’s Philadelphia 28 19 32 22— 101
home loss to the Hawks. A—20,564. T—2:07. O—Tony Brown, Rodney Mott,
— associated press Kevin Scott
Denver] but tonight he had five as- almost unguardable.”
sists and nine rebounds. That to me Jazz 116, Wizards 69
is who Brandon is. He’s more of a tania.ganguli@latimes.com WASHINGTON
basketball player than he is just a Twitter: @taniaganguli Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Morris .............22 4-9 2-2 1-1 0 5 11
Porter Jr. ..........28 6-13 0-0 1-6 1 0 14
Gortat .............23 0-4 0-0 2-7 3 1 0
Beal................27 4-15 3-5 0-1 1 2 11
Pacers 115, Knicks 97 Grizzlies 95, Timberwolves 92 Spurs 96, Pistons 93 Frazier .............19 1-1 2-2 0-0 1 1 5
Oubre Jr...........27 2-8 7-8 0-1 0 2 11
NEW YORK MINNESOTA DETROIT
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Satoransky.......24 2-6 4-4 0-2 1 0 8
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Meeks .............22 2-9 0-0 1-2 1 2 4
Beasley ...........14 6-10 1-1 1-3 0 3 13 Gibson ............37 4-11 6-6 1-5 4 2 14 Harris..............39 6-15 0-0 0-5 1 5 15
Scott...............19 0-4 0-0 1-1 1 3 0
Lee .................19 4-7 0-0 0-0 1 1 8 Wiggins ...........36 6-17 0-0 2-5 0 4 12 Tolliver.............24 1-4 2-2 0-3 1 3 5
Kanter .............18 3-8 1-1 3-6 1 1 7 Mahinmi ..........10 1-1 0-0 3-3 0 2 2
Towns..............37 2-6 2-2 1-11 3 4 7 Drummond.......31 4-8 3-6 5-15 2 3 11
Dotson ............29 3-8 1-2 1-7 1 1 9 McCullough........9 1-7 1-2 1-5 0 1 3
Butler..............40 11-21 6-7 1-2 5 2 30 Bradley............33 1-9 1-1 0-1 4 3 3
Jack................16 1-3 0-0 0-2 5 1 2 Smith................4 0-3 0-0 2-2 0 2 0
Teague ............32 5-6 2-2 0-1 2 2 12 Jackson ...........33 12-21 1-4 0-4 3 1 27
Totals 23-80 19-23 12-31 9 21 69
McDermott.......29 5-8 1-2 0-1 2 0 12 Dieng ..............20 4-5 2-2 2-7 1 1 10 Johnson...........30 4-10 5-7 0-10 1 4 14
Ntilikina...........26 2-11 3-3 1-3 2 4 7 Crawford ..........19 2-10 0-0 0-1 1 0 5 Moreland .........16 1-1 0-0 1-1 1 2 2 Shooting: Field goals, 28.7%; free throws, 82.6%
Baker ..............21 2-3 3-4 0-0 4 2 9 Jones ..............15 1-3 0-0 0-2 1 1 2 Smith..............14 4-10 3-4 0-1 2 1 11 Three-point goals: 4-20 (Porter Jr. 2-2, Frazier 1-1,
Hernangomez ...16 7-10 0-1 4-10 3 0 14 Morris 1-2, Satoransky 0-1, McCullough 0-2, Scott
Totals 35-79 18-19 7-34 17 16 92 Galloway............8 1-4 0-0 1-2 0 0 2
Thomas ...........16 2-7 0-0 0-0 1 1 4 0-2, Meeks 0-3, Oubre Jr. 0-3, Beal 0-4). Team Re-
Shooting: Field goals, 44.3%; free throws, 94.7% Kennard ............7 1-3 0-0 0-0 0 0 3 bounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 13 (16 PTS). Blocked
Sessions..........13 2-8 0-0 0-1 2 1 5 Three-point goals: 4-17 (Butler 2-7, Towns 1-2, Ellenson ............0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Shots: 2 (Morris 2). Turnovers: 13 (Frazier 2, Gortat 2,
Noah ................8 1-2 1-2 2-4 3 0 3 Totals 35-85 15-24 7-42 15 22 93
O’Quinn.............7 2-6 0-0 3-6 1 0 4
Crawford 1-5, Gibson 0-1, Wiggins 0-2). Team Re- Mahinmi 2, Morris 2, Oubre Jr. 2, Beal, Meeks,
bounds: 3. Team Turnovers: 9 (14 PTS). Blocked Shots: Satoransky). Steals: 8 (Gortat 4, Frazier, Satoransky,
Totals 40-91 11-16 15-43 26 15 97 2 (Dieng, Towns). Turnovers: 9 (Butler 2, Dieng 2,
Shooting: Field goals, 41.2%; free throws,
Scott, Smith). Technical Fouls: None.
62.5%
Shooting: Field goals, 44.0%; free throws, 68.8% Teague 2, Wiggins 2, Gibson). Steals: 9 (Butler 4, Wig-
Three-point goals: 8-27 (Harris 3-7, Jackson 2-4, UTAH
Three-point goals: 6-23 (Baker 2-3, Dotson 2-5, Sessions gins 2, Dieng, Gibson, Jones). Technical Fouls: coach
1-1, McDermott 1-3, Beasley 0-1, Hernangomez 0-1, O’Quinn Timberwolves (Defensive three second), 3:18 second.
Kennard 1-2, Johnson 1-3, Tolliver 1-4, Galloway 0-3, Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Bradley 0-4). Team Rebounds: 10. Team Turnovers: 10 Favors .............24 3-7 3-4 2-8 2 2 9
0-1, Lee 0-2, Ntilikina 0-3, Thomas 0-3). Team Rebounds: 7. MEMPHIS (9 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Drummond, Moreland). Ingles..............22 4-6 0-0 0-2 2 2 11
Team Turnovers: 17 (26 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Dotson, Mc- Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Turnovers: 10 (Jackson 3, Bradley 2, Drummond 2,
Dermott). Turnovers: 17 (Beasley 5, Lee 3, Hernangomez 2, Gobert.............21 2-4 0-0 4-10 3 3 4
D.Brooks..........27 4-6 0-0 0-4 0 3 9 Smith 2, Tolliver). Steals: 8 (Drummond 3, Johnson 2, Mitchell ...........25 8-13 2-2 2-3 2 2 21
McDermott 2, Sessions 2, Baker, Noah, Ntilikina). Steals: 4 Green..............36 4-11 6-7 1-9 2 3 14 Harris, Jackson, Smith). Technical Fouls: None.
(Dotson 2, Noah, Thomas). Technical Fouls: None. Rubio ..............23 1-6 2-4 1-5 4 4 4
Gasol ..............34 6-14 8-9 1-7 5 2 21
INDIANA SAN ANTONIO Jerebko............29 2-7 0-0 0-5 1 1 6
Evans ..............33 6-14 2-2 0-5 9 1 16
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T McLemore........18 1-3 0-0 0-5 1 1 2
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Burks ..............27 9-13 6-6 1-5 3 5 27
Aldridge...........35 5-17 7-7 1-10 4 3 17 O’Neale ...........24 4-5 0-0 0-7 6 1 11
Bogdanovic ......29 7-11 2-2 1-2 2 1 19 Ennis III ...........26 5-11 2-2 1-2 0 2 13
Gay.................31 5-12 1-1 4-10 4 2 12 Neto ...............18 3-5 1-2 0-4 5 0 8
T.Young ............26 9-11 0-1 2-6 1 3 20 Chalmers .........20 1-4 0-0 0-2 3 1 2
Turner..............25 6-9 0-0 0-5 1 4 12 Harrison ..........18 2-2 3-4 1-4 2 4 8
Gasol ..............28 6-13 2-2 0-10 4 1 15 Sefolosha ........12 4-6 0-0 0-3 1 0 9
Green..............34 4-9 0-0 2-6 3 2 11 Udoh ................7 3-4 0-0 0-0 0 0 6
Collison ...........25 4-10 2-2 0-4 10 1 10 Martin .............13 2-3 0-0 1-2 0 3 4 Totals 43-76 14-18 10-52 29 20 116
Oladipo ...........29 6-10 1-2 0-5 4 1 16 Parker .............19 3-5 1-1 0-4 3 1 7
Davis ..............10 3-4 0-0 1-1 0 2 6
Stephenson......29 3-7 2-2 0-3 3 3 9 Ginobili ...........26 4-9 1-1 0-2 3 4 12 Shooting: Field goals, 56.6%; free throws, 77.8%
Totals 34-72 21-24 6-41 22 22 95
Sabonis...........24 5-11 2-2 3-12 2 5 12 Shooting: Field goals, 47.2%; free throws, 87.5%
Mills................25 4-8 0-0 1-4 3 1 11 Three-point goals: 16-34 (O’Neale 3-4, Burks 3-5,
Joseph ............21 4-8 2-2 0-1 4 0 12 Bertans ...........15 4-8 0-0 1-3 2 1 11 Ingles 3-5, Mitchell 3-6, Jerebko 2-5, Neto 1-1, Se-
Three-point goals: 6-21 (Evans 2-4, Harrison 1-1, Forbes.............13 0-1 0-0 1-1 1 2 0 folosha 1-3, Favors 0-1, Rubio 0-4). Team Rebounds:
Leaf ................16 0-5 0-0 1-5 0 2 0 D.Brooks 1-2, Gasol 1-2, Ennis III 1-5, Chalmers 0-2,
Murray...............8 0-0 0-0 0-1 2 2 0 9. Team Turnovers: 16 (7 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Gob-
J.Young..............7 2-3 1-2 0-0 1 0 5 McLemore 0-2, Green 0-3). Team Rebounds: 8. Team ert 2, O’Neale). Turnovers: 16 (Ingles 3, Jerebko 3,
Wilkins ..............3 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Turnovers: 16 (16 PTS). Blocked Shots: 8 (Evans 3, Paul..................1 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 1 0
Mitchell 3, Rubio 3, Gobert 2, Favors, O’Neale). Steals:
Totals 46-86 12-15 7-44 28 20 115 Davis 2, Chalmers, Gasol, Martin). Turnovers: 16 (Ev- Totals 35-82 12-12 10-51 30 20 96
ans 3, Harrison 3, Chalmers 2, Gasol 2, McLemore 2,
9 (Rubio 2, Burks, Favors, Gobert, Ingles, Jerebko,
Shooting: Field goals, 53.5%; free throws, 80.0% Shooting: Field goals, 42.7%; free throws, 0.0% O’Neale, Udoh). Technical Fouls: Gobert, 9:16 third.
Three-point goals: 11-26 (Bogdanovic 3-5, Oladipo 3-5, T.Y- D.Brooks, Ennis III, Green, Martin). Steals: 6 (Davis, Three-point goals: 14-31 (Bertans 3-6, Ginobili 3-6, Washington 15 15 22 17 — 69
oung 2-2, Joseph 2-4, Stephenson 1-3, Leaf 0-1, Wilkins 0-1, Ennis III, Evans, Green, Harrison, McLemore). Techni- Green 3-6, Mills 3-6, Gasol 1-2, Gay 1-3, Aldridge 0-1,
cal Fouls: None. Utah 29 35 24 28 —116
Turner 0-2, Collison 0-3). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: Forbes 0-1). Team Rebounds: 3. Team Turnovers: 16
16 (17 PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Collison 2, Oladipo 2, Turner). Minnesota 26 27 22 17— 92 (14 PTS). Blocked Shots: 7 (Green 3, Gasol 2, Gay 2). A—17,227. T—2:06. O—Ron Garretson, Marc Davis,
Turnovers: 16 (Sabonis 5, Oladipo 4, Turner 3, Stephenson 2, Turnovers: 16 (Ginobili 4, Aldridge 3, Gasol 2, Green 2, Ben Taylor
Memphis 29 27 20 19— 95
T.Young 2). Steals: 10 (Collison 3, T.Young 2, Bogdanovic, Jo- Mills 2, Parker 2, Murray). Steals: 2 (Aldridge, Gino-
seph, Oladipo, Stephenson, Turner). Technical Fouls: None. A—14,012. T—2:05. O—Gary Zielinski, Curtis Blair, bili). Technical Fouls: None.
Mike Callahan CLIPPERS, LAKERS STATISTICS
New York 19 21 25 32— 97 Detroit 29 24 20 20— 93
Through Monday
Indiana 31 35 29 20— 115 San Antonio 28 22 19 27— 96
A—12,018. T—1:57. O—Ray Acosta, John Goble, Kevin Cutler Nets 110, Hawks 90 A—18,288. T—2:11. O—James Williams, Tre Mad- CLIPPERS PPG RPG APG
dox, Nick Buchert
BROOKLYN Griffin 23.6 7.9 5.1
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Carroll .............27 4-10 2-2 1-8 4 0 13
L.Williams 18.9 2.6 4.4
Cavaliers 113, Bulls 91 Celtics 111, Bucks 100
Hollis-Jefferson .29 6-14 3-3 3-10 3 3 16 Rivers 14.3 2.2 3.4
CLEVELAND Zeller ..............16 3-4 1-2 3-9 0 1 7 MILWAUKEE
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Crabbe ............22 3-8 0-0 0-4 1 6 8 Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Gallinari 12.8 4.6 3.0
Crowder...........21 3-8 0-0 0-0 2 1 9
James .............34 9-15 3-4 0-7 6 1 23
Dinwiddie ........30 5-10 0-0 0-5 6 0 13 Antetokounmpo 39 14-24 12-14 1-9 4 5 40 Beverley 12.2 4.1 2.9
Harris..............31 3-6 2-2 2-4 0 4 11 Middleton ........41 6-11 6-6 0-8 5 2 19
Love................22 8-13 5-5 0-13 0 0 24 LeVert..............27 7-13 2-2 1-2 7 4 17 Jordan 10.4 13.9 .9
Henson............21 0-6 0-0 1-3 1 1 0
Calderon..........27 2-5 0-0 1-4 1 4 5 Allen ...............20 5-6 0-0 1-1 2 3 11
Smith..............25 1-3 0-0 2-2 5 2 3
Bledsoe...........34 6-9 3-4 1-3 3 3 18 W.Johnson 7.5 3.6 1.1
Booker ............19 4-8 1-2 1-8 5 5 9
Wade ..............25 9-13 5-5 1-6 2 0 24
Snell ...............39 4-8 0-0 0-0 0 1 11
Wilson 5.8 1.2 .5
Acy .................10 1-5 2-2 0-1 1 2 5 Brogdon ..........31 4-13 0-0 0-2 3 2 10
Frye ................25 1-3 0-0 0-2 0 2 2 Kilpatrick ...........4 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Terry................12 1-2 0-0 0-1 0 1 2 Teodosic 5.5 .5 4.0
Green..............25 6-10 1-1 0-8 2 2 14 Totals 41-85 13-15 12-52 29 28 110 Liggins ............12 0-1 0-0 0-1 1 1 0
Korver .............22 3-8 0-0 0-0 3 1 7 Reed 5.3 3.0 .2
Shooting: Field goals, 48.2%; free throws, 86.7% Maker ...............8 0-4 0-0 0-1 0 1 0
Osman ..............5 0-2 0-0 0-1 1 0 0
Three-point goals: 15-36 (Carroll 3-5, Harris 3-5, Dinwiddie Totals 35-78 21-24 3-28 17 17 100 Harrell 4.9 3.2 .7
Zizic..................4 0-1 2-2 1-3 0 0 2 3-6, Crabbe 2-6, Allen 1-1, Hollis-Jefferson 1-3, LeVert 1-3, Acy
Totals 42-81 16-17 5-46 22 13 113 Shooting: Field goals, 44.9%; free throws, 87.5%
1-5, Booker 0-1, Kilpatrick 0-1). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turn- Evans 4.4 1.3 1.3
Shooting: Field goals, 51.9%; free throws, 94.1% overs: 23 (17 PTS). Blocked Shots: 7 (Allen 4, Hollis-Jefferson,
Three-point goals: 9-21 (Snell 3-4, Bledsoe 3-6,
Brogdon 2-6, Middleton 1-3, Antetokounmpo 0-1, Thornwell 4.4 1.0 .6
Three-point goals: 13-36 (Love 3-6, Crowder 3-7, James LeVert, Zeller). Turnovers: 23 (Harris 5, Carroll 3, Hollis-Jeffer- Terry 0-1). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 9 (14
2-4, Wade 1-2, Calderon 1-3, Green 1-3, Smith 1-3, Korver 1-5, son 3, LeVert 3, Allen 2, Booker 2, Crabbe 2, Zeller 2, Acy). Dekker 3.2 2.0 .4
Frye 0-1, Osman 0-2). Team Rebounds: 2. Team Turnovers: 7 (6 Steals: 7 (LeVert 2, Acy, Allen, Crabbe, Harris, Hollis-Jefferson).
PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Middleton, Terry). Turnovers: 9
(Antetokounmpo 4, Bledsoe 2, Brogdon, Henson, C.Williams 2.7 1.0 .9
PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Crowder, Love). Turnovers: 7 (Calderon Technical Fouls: Crabbe, 4:31 fourth. Middleton). Steals: 6 (Middleton 2, Bledsoe, Henson,
2, Crowder 2, James 2, Smith). Steals: 6 (Crowder 2, James 2, ATLANTA Liggins, Terry). Technical Fouls: coach Jason Kidd, 4:44 B.Johnson 1.7 1.3 .1
Calderon, Korver). Technical Fouls: None. Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T second.
CHICAGO Ilyasova ...........20 2-5 0-0 1-2 1 2 5 BOSTON
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T LAKERS PPG RPG APG
Prince .............27 2-9 1-2 0-6 2 1 6 Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Markkanen.......31 5-13 2-2 1-7 1 2 13 Plumlee ...........21 0-4 1-2 2-7 0 3 1 Horford............34 8-10 3-4 2-9 8 4 20 Kuzma 16.8 6.6 1.5
Valentine .........30 3-7 0-0 0-3 2 2 7 Bazemore ........25 3-9 6-6 1-5 0 0 13 Tatum..............32 5-6 3-4 0-6 0 1 17 Ingram 16.0 5.4 2.9
Lopez ..............25 5-7 4-5 3-5 2 1 14 Schroder..........30 9-17 0-1 2-5 4 3 19 Baynes ............15 3-6 4-4 2-4 2 3 10
Dunn...............30 6-13 1-3 1-6 5 3 15 Bembry ...........27 5-12 2-3 1-3 2 5 13 Clarkson 14.8 2.8 3.0
Holiday............30 4-11 3-3 1-6 3 3 14
J.Brown............22 4-9 0-0 3-7 2 3 8
Cavanaugh .......22 1-5 1-2 2-2 2 2 4 Irving ..............33 13-24 4-5 1-4 1 2 32
Portis ..............26 4-13 0-0 3-9 3 1 10 Taylor ..............20 3-8 2-2 0-2 1 1 9 Smart..............29 3-8 1-2 0-4 7 3 8
Caldwell-Pope 13.7 5.2 2.4
Nwaba ............16 0-2 2-2 0-1 3 3 2 Belinelli ...........18 1-7 6-6 0-2 2 0 8 Morris .............24 1-6 0-0 0-6 2 1 3 Lopez 13.3 4.5 1.8
Zipser..............14 0-4 0-0 0-2 1 1 0 Babbitt ............16 1-3 0-0 0-2 2 1 3 Rozier..............24 3-5 0-0 0-4 1 2 7
Grant ..............13 3-6 0-0 0-0 1 0 6 Delaney.............4 2-2 2-3 0-0 1 1 6 Ojeleye ............12 0-0 0-0 0-0 2 1 0
Randle 12.3 6.5 1.7
Felicio .............11 3-4 0-1 0-0 0 0 6 Dorsey...............4 1-1 0-0 0-2 1 0 3 Theis...............10 3-4 0-0 0-1 0 0 6 Nance Jr. 9.4 7.2 1.1
Felder ...............4 1-2 2-2 0-3 0 0 4 Totals 30-82 21-27 9-38 18 19 90
Pondexter ..........4 0-0 0-0 1-1 0 0 0
Totals 43-78 15-19 8-45 25 20 111
Ball 8.7 6.9 7.0
Shooting: Field goals, 36.6%; free throws, 77.8% Shooting: Field goals, 55.1%; free throws, 78.9%
Totals 34-82 14-18 10-43 21 16 91 Three-point goals: 9-30 (Dorsey 1-1, Babbitt 1-2, Bazemore Three-point goals: 10-22 (Tatum 4-5, Irving 2-4, Hart 3.2 2.1 .5
Shooting: Field goals, 41.5%; free throws, 77.8% 1-2, Taylor 1-2, Ilyasova 1-3, Bembry 1-4, Prince 1-4, Cavanaugh Horford 1-2, Rozier 1-2, Morris 1-3, Smart 1-3, Theis
Three-point goals: 9-34 (Holiday 3-8, Dunn 2-4, Portis 2-6, 1-5, Schroder 1-5, Belinelli 0-2). Team Rebounds: 8. Team 0-1, J.Brown 0-2). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: Brewer 2.7 1.3 .8
Valentine 1-4, Markkanen 1-5, Felder 0-1, Nwaba 0-1, Grant Turnovers: 18 (23 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Bembry, Cavanaugh). 14 (22 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Baynes, Horford, The-
0-2, Zipser 0-3). Team Rebounds: 1. Team Turnovers: 11 (16
Deng 2.0 .0 1.0
Turnovers: 18 (Bazemore 5, Plumlee 4, Bembry 3, Taylor 2, is). Turnovers: 14 (Smart 4, Irving 3, Horford 2, J.Brown,
PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Lopez 2, Dunn, Holiday, Markkanen). Babbitt, Cavanaugh, Delaney, Schroder). Steals: 10 (Ilyasova 3, Morris, Ojeleye, Tatum, Theis). Steals: 5 (Irving 2, Mor- Ennis 1.8 .7 .8
Turnovers: 11 (Dunn 3, Grant 3, Markkanen 2, Nwaba 2, Valen- Bazemore 2, Plumlee 2, Bembry, Prince, Schroder). Technical ris, Rozier, Smart). Technical Fouls: Smart, 1:36 sec-
tine). Steals: 4 (Markkanen 2, Holiday, Nwaba). Technical Fouls: None. ond.
Bogut 1.1 3.1 .6
Fouls: None. Brooklyn 33 20 31 26— 110 Caruso 1.0 1.0 2.0
Cleveland 29 32 25 27— 113
Milwaukee 26 23 32 19— 100
Atlanta 32 22 15 21— 90 Boston 34 28 26 23— 111 Zubac 0.7 .7 .0
Chicago 22 23 26 20— 91
A—12,056. T—2:07. O—Tom Washington, Leon Wood, A—18,624. T—2:03. O—Sean Wright, Justin Van
A—21,323. T—1:57. O—Matt Myers, Karl Lane, Bill Kennedy Mitchell Ervin Blue 0.5 .2 .3
Duyne, Brent Barnaky
L AT I ME S . CO M/ S P O RT S T UESDAY , DEC EMB ER 5, 2017 D5
THE DAY IN SPORTS

Reeling Giants
oust coach, GM
Summer Games. Federations
staff and wire reports
deemed much of the Russian team in-
eligible for the event, but numerous
Believing the team was spiraling athletes were allowed to compete
out of control, the New York Giants under their country’s flag. IOC Presi-
went out of character by making two dent Thomas Bach is expected to
major in-season moves, firing coach make an announcement at the con-
Ben McAdoo and general manager clusion of an executive board meeting
Jerry Reese. in Lausanne, Switzerland.
With the team reeling at 2-10 in a — David Wharton
season where most felt it was a Super
Bowl contender, co-owners John
Mara and Steve Tisch reached the ETC.
decision Monday morning. It came
less than a day after the Giants lost at Heisman finalists
Oakland, with quarterback Eli Man-
ning benched and the offensively in- Oklahoma quarterback Baker
ept team performing poorly again. Mayfield and 2016 Heisman Trophy
“We agreed that wholesale winner Lamar Jackson of Louisville
changes to this organization needed are Heisman finalists for the second
to be made to get us back to the team consecutive year and will be joined in
we expect it to be,” Mara said at a New York for the presentation cere-
hastily called news conference. “We mony by Stanford running back
also agreed it was pointless to wait Bryce Love.
any longer to make these changes.” The award for most outstanding
Defensive coordinator Steve college football player will be given
Spagnuolo will take over as interim out Saturday night.
coach for the final four games.
Aaron Boone’s hiring was final-
The NFL suspended New England ized by the New York Yankees, who
Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski gave the ESPN broadcaster a three-
one game for a late, gratuitous hit to year contract to succeed Joe Girardi
Ringo H.W. Chiu Associated Press
the head of Buffalo Bills defensive as manager.
DANILO GALLINARI , sidelined since Nov. 5 because of a strained left glute, has played in back Tre’Davious White. The Yankees, who picked Boone
only nine games with the Clippers, averaging 12.8 points and 4.6 rebounds. White was lying face down on the over five other candidates last week,
sideline after intercepting a pass at scheduled a news conference for
CLIPPERS REPORT Buffalo on Sunday when Gronkowski Wednesday at Yankee Stadium.
body-slammed him, driving his fore- Boone, 44, has never been a man-

Gallinari and Teodosic arm into White’s back and head.

Gronkowski was called for unneces-
sary roughness but not ejected.
“Your actions were not incidental,
could have been avoided and placed
ager or coach at any level since retir-
ing as a player after the 2009 season.

U.S. Soccer Federation president

Sunil Gulati will not seek a fourth

are expected back soon the opposing player at risk of serious

By Broderick Turner
The Clippers finally got a
measure of good news Monday
when injured starters Danilo
Gallinari and Milos Teodosic
practiced with a group of players
on the club’s development
league team.
Gallinari, who has been side-
lined 13 games because of a
strained left glute, and Teodosic,
who has been sidelined since the
second game of the season be-
cause of a plantar fascia injury to
his left foot, practiced with the
Agua Caliente Clippers of Ontar-
io at the Clippers’ practice facil-
ity in Playa Vista.
Gallinari and Teodosic
looked pretty good during the
session, and the club’s hope was
that both would practice with
the Clippers on Tuesday.
Gallinari, asked Sunday in
Minneapolis when he might be
able to play again, told The
Times “maybe the next game,”
referring to Wednesday night’s
game against the Minnesota
Timberwolves at Staples Center.
The Clippers don’t expect
Teodosic back before Dec. 13,
when they start a four-game trip
at Orlando.
The Clippers will host the
Washington Wizards on Sat-
urday and the Toronto Raptors
on Monday before leaving town.
Jordan hires agent
After spending the last two
seasons without representation,
DeAndre Jordan has hired
agent Jeff Schwartz, several
NBA executives who were not
authorized to speak publicly on
the matter said.
The plan is for Schwartz to
talk to Lawrence Frank, the
Clippers’ president of basketball
operations, about the center’s
future with the Clippers.
Jordan had told The Times in
Hawaii during training camp
that he wants to retire with the
Clippers.
But he’s also looking for a
maximum deal for five years that
could be worth more than $207
million, a deal the Clippers have
not been inclined to offer.
If the two sides can’t reach an
agreement, the Clippers may
look to trade Jordan. There has
been chatter that other teams
have expressed interest in Jor-
dan, and that the Clippers have
been willing to listen.
The Wizards and Cleveland
Cavaliers are among the teams
that like Jordan, several NBA of-
ficials said.
An NBA executive not au-
thorized to speak publicly on the
matter said that the Clippers
were looking for a top-10 draft
pick in exchange for Jordan.
Jordan, who’ll earn $22.6 mil-
lion this season, could have some
say in where he might land be-
cause he has a player option for
next season that would pay him
$24.1 million. He could opt out of
the contract after this season
and become a free agent.
broderick.turner@latimes.com
Twitter: @BA_Turner
injury,” NFL vice president Jon Run-
yan said in a letter to Gronkowski.
Gronkowski will appeal the puni-
shment, his agent, Drew Rosenhaus,
told the Associated Press. White en-
tered the concussion protocol, Bills
coach Sean McDermott said.
OLYMPICS
Russia decision looms
The long-running Russian doping
scandal could take a dramatic turn
Tuesday when International
Olympic Committee leaders decide
whether to ban the country’s entire
team from the 2018 Winter Games.
Investigations over several years
have found evidence of widespread,
systemic cheating among Russian
athletes, coaches and officials.
The IOC could issue an outright
ban or pass the responsibility onto
the individual federations that gov-
ern each sport. Olympic leaders
chose the latter option before the 2016
COLLEGE
BASKETBALL
AP TOP 25
Florida State 83, No. 5 Florida 66
No. 23 Baylor 84, Sam Houston State 56
SOUTHLAND
Long Beach State 76, Stanford 68
Montana 86, CS Northridge 68
WOMEN
AP TOP 25
No. 24 Michigan 86. Detroit 50
term, announcing his decision two
months after the Americans failed to
qualify for next year’s World Cup.
Former national team players
Paul Caligiuri, Eric Wynalda and
Kyle Martino are among the candi-
dates for the election in February.
The NBA suspended Golden
State Warriors guard Shaun Living-
ston for one game and removed offi-
cial Courtney Kirkland from the offi-
ciating rotation for a week because of
an altercation during a game Sunday.
Livingston served his suspension
Monday. Kirkland’s suspension runs
through Sunday and he’ll be eligible
to officiate again Dec. 11. ... Derrick
Rose ended his self-imposed separa-
tion from the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The veteran point guard, who has
been dealing with a sprained left an-
kle for much of his first season with
the Cavaliers, returned to the team to
resume rehab and treatment. A frus-
trated Rose had left the team Nov. 22
to contemplate his future, but he’s
back and working toward a return to
the floor.
TRANSACTIONS PRO FOOTBALL
BASEBALL
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Boston—Agreed to terms with pitcher Tyler
Thornburg on a one-year contract. West W L T Pct. PF PA
Chicago White Sox—Named Omar Vizquel RAMS 9 3 0 .750 361 222
manager for Winston-Salem (Carolina). Seattle 8 4 0 .667 290 222
N.Y. Yankees—Named Aaron Boone manager Arizona 5 7 0 .417 219 310
and agreed to terms on a three-year contract; San Francisco 2 10 0 .167 202 298
signed Larry Rothschild to a one-year contract. North W L T Pct. PF PA
Oakland—Named Al Pedrique first base
coach; moved Mike Aldrete to assistant hitting Minnesota 10 2 0 .833 285 204

UCLA’s Kelly begins putting

Detroit 6 6 0 .500 314 308
SOUTHLAND coach and Marcus Jensen to bullpen coach. Green Bay 6 6 0 .500 258 281
No. 7 UCLA 74, UC Santa Barbara 44 San Diego—Named Matt Stairs hitting coach, Chicago 3 9 0 .250 191 267
Skip Schumaker first base coach and Josh John-
MEN’S AP TOP 25 South W L T Pct. PF PA
son infielders coach; assigned first base coach
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ New Orleans 9 3 0 .750 353 243
Johnny Washington to assistant hitting coach.
college basketball poll, with first-place votes in Carolina 8 4 0 .667 269 238
Seattle—Named Brian DeLunas bullpen
parentheses, records through Dec. 3, total points

together his coaching staff

He is expected to retain
three offensive assistants
and has hired two former
Oregon assistants.
By Ben Bolch
Chip Kelly will not be starting
completely anew with his UCLA
football coaching staff.
The Bruins coach is expected
to retain offensive assistants De-
Shaun Foster, Hank Fraley and
Jimmie Dougherty, said two peo-
ple with knowledge of the situa-
tion who were not authorized to
comment publicly because the
moves have not been formally
announced.
Kelly has also hired California
defensive line coach Jerry Azzi-
naro to be the Bruins’ defensive
coordinator and former long-
time Oregon assistant Don Pel-
lum to coach the linebackers.
Azzinaro and Pellum both
coached at Oregon when Kelly
was the head coach, from 2009-
2012.
Azzinaro, 59, followed Kelly to
his stops with the NFL’s Phila-
delphia Eagles and San Fran-
cisco 49ers.
Pellum remained at Oregon
as the linebackers coach and lat-
er the defensive coordinator
under Kelly’s successor, Mark
Helfrich. Pellum, 55, was solely
the linebackers coach with the
Ducks during the 2016 season be-
fore Helfrich and his staff were
fired.
Oregon’s defense ranked No.
3 in the Pac-12 Conference in
scoring defense (21.6 points per
game) and No. 6 in total defense
(374.2 yards allowed per game)
during 2012, the last season Azzi-
naro and Pellum both coached
under Kelly.
Kelly is also considering keep-
ing UCLA defensive line coach
NEW COACH Chip Kelly is keeping a few UCLA assistants
while bringing on former defensive coaches from Oregon.
Angus McClure, who has been
with the Bruins since 2007 and is
widely considered a top recruiter
whose knowledge of the inner
workings of the UCLA academic
system make him valuable.
Kelly has also engaged in dis-
cussions with UCLA interim
coach Jedd Fisch, the offensive
coordinator whose future re-
mains unclear beyond his com-
mitment to coach the Bruins
(6-6) in the Cactus Bowl against
Kansas State (7-5) on Dec. 26 in
Phoenix.
Fisch has overseen an offense
that ranked No. 5 in the nation in
passing offense (345.3 yards per
game), No. 19 in total offense
(465.7 yards per game) and No. 31
in scoring offense (33.8 points
per game).
Kelly will have an extra hire to
coach. Atlanta 7 5 0 .583 274 244
based on 25 points for a first-place vote through Tampa Bay 4 8 0 .333 243 288
Texas—Agreed to terms with pitcher Tony Bar-
one point for a 25th-place vote and previous
nette to a one-year contract; agreed to terms with East W L T Pct. PF PA
ranking:
pitcher Chi Chi Gonzalez, outfielder Anthony Philadelphia 10 2 0 .833 361 215
Rk School W-L Pts. Pv. Gose, pitcher David Hurlbut and infielder Chris- Dallas 6 6 0 .500 286 284
tian Lopes on minor league contracts. Washington 5 7 0 .417 272 314
1. Duke (65) ..................10 1625 1 BASKETBALL N.Y. Giants 2 10 0 .167 189 291
2. Kansas .....................7-0 1525 2 NBA—Removed official Courtney Kirkland
3. Michigan St. ..............7-1 1500 3 from the league's officiating rotation for one
week and suspended Golden State guard Shaun
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
4. Villanova...................8-0 1434 4 West W L T Pct. PF PA
Livingston one game for their roles in an on-court
5. Florida......................5-1
6. Wichita St. ................6-1
1301 6
1197 8
altercation during a Dec. 3 game at Miami.
Memphis—Assigned forward Ivan Rabb to
Kansas City
CHARGERS
6 6
6 6
0
0
.500 303 274
.500 268 212
7. Texas A&M ................7-0 1192 9 Memphis (NBAGL).
FOOTBALL
Oakland
Denver
6 6
3 9
0
0
.500 249 278
.250 206 315
8. Kentucky...................7-1 1174 7
9. Notre Dame...............7-1 1156 5
NFL—Suspended New England tight end Rob
Gronkowski one game for a violation of unneces-
North
Pittsburgh
W L
10 2
T
0
Pct. PF PA
.833 281 113
10. Miami ......................7-0 1122 10 sary roughness rules in a Dec. 3 game against
Baltimore 7 5 0 .583 280 207
11. North Carolina ...........8-1 999 13 Buffalo. Cincinnati 5 7 0 .417 119 238
Atlanta—Waived running back Terrence
12. Gonzaga ...................7-1 856 15 Cleveland 0 12 0 .000 176 308
Magee; signed cornerback Leon McFadden.
13. Xavier.......................7-1 768 21 Indianapolis—Signed running back Matt South W L T Pct. PF PA
14. Minnesota.................8-1 758 12 Jones; put cornerback Pierre Desir on injured re- Tennessee 8 4 0 .667 266 282
serve; signed cornerback Taurean Nixon to the Jacksonville 8 4 0 .667 299 178
15. Virginia.....................8-0 728 18
practice squad. Houston 4 8 0 .333 296 309
16. Arizona St. ................7-0 609 20 N.Y. Giants—Fired coach Ben McAdoo and Indianapolis 3 9 0 .250 205 330
17. Cincinnati .................7-1 583 11 general manager Jerry Reese; named Steve East W L T Pct. PF PA
18. West Virginia .............7-1 557 19 Spagnuolo interim coach and Kevin Abrams in- New England 10 2 0 .833 348 223
19. Seton Hall.................7-1 405 —
terim general manager. Buffalo 6 6 0 .500 227 283
Oakland—Announced wide receiver Michael N.Y. Jets 5 7 0 .417 266 288
20. TCU..........................8-0 311 23 Crabtree wasactivatedfrom reserve/suspended Miami 5 7 0 .417 209 298
21. Purdue .....................8-2 266 — list; waived defensive tackle Darius Latham.
22. Nevada.....................8-0 199 — Washington—Signed wide receiver Robert Monday’s result
Davis from practice squad; claimed offensive Pittsburgh 23, at Cincinnati 20
23. Baylor.......................5-2 182 16
lineman Kyle Kalis off waivers from Indianapolis; Thursday’s schedule
24. Tennessee .................6-1 96 — waived linebacker Pete Robertson and defensive New Orleans at Atlanta, 5:15 p.m.
25. USC .........................4-2 90 14 lineman Caraun Reid. Sunday’s schedule
Others receiving votes: Texas Tech 82, UCLA 75,
HOCKEY Washington at CHARGERS, 1 p.m.
DUCKS—Assigned forward Kalle Kossila to Philadelphia at RAMS, 1:15 p.m.
Rhode Island 73, Creighton 53, Louisville 50,
San Diego (AHL). Oakland at Kansas City, 10 a.m.
Texas 32, Alabama 21, SMU 15, Mississippi St.
11, Kansas St 10, Arizona 10, Washington St 9,
Arizona—Signed defenseman Pierre-Olivier San Francisco at Houston, 10 a.m.
Joseph to a three-year, entry-level contract; re- Minnesota at Carolina, 10 a.m.
Georgia 9, Oklahoma 7, Providence 6, Florida St.
called defenseman Kyle Capobianco from Tuc- Chicago at Cincinnati, 10 a.m.
6, Clemson 5, Valparaiso 5, Georgetown 4, Tex
son (AHL). Green Bay at Cleveland, 10 a.m.
Arlington 3, Oklahoma St. 3, W. Ky. 2, Towson 1.
WOMEN’S AP TOP 25 Buffalo—Put forward Matt Moulson on Detroit at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m.
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ waivers; recalled forward Evan Rodrigues Roch- Indianapolis at Buffalo, 10 a.m.
women’s college basketball poll, with first-place ester (AHL). Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 10 a.m.
votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 3, to- Colorado—Recalled forward Rocco Grimaldi Tennessee at Arizona, 1 p.m.
tal points based on 25 points for a first-place from San Antonio (AHL); assigned forward Domi- N.Y. Jets at Denver, 1 p.m.
Josh Lefkowitz Getty Images vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and nic Toninato to San Antonio. Seattle at Jacksonville, 1:15 p.m.
last week’s ranking: Dallas—Assigned forward Jason Dickinson to Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m.
Texas (AHL). Dec. 11
Rk School W-L Pts. Pv. Detroit—Acquired a 2019 fifth-round draft New England at Miami, 5:30 p.m.
pick from Buffalo for forward Scott Wilson.
1. Connecticut (32)........7-0 800 1
Nashville—Recalled goalie Juuse Saros from
2. Texas........................7-0 749 2
make after the NCAA allowed Milwaukee (AHL); assigned goalie Anders Lind- VOLLEYBALL
3. Notre Dame...............7-1 717 3 back to Milwaukee.
coaching staffs to increase from 4. Louisville ..................8-0 710 4 COLLEGE 2017 NCAA VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT
nine to 10 assistants for the 2018 Nebraska—Named Greg Austin offensive line WOMEN
5. South Carolina...........8-1 660 5 coach, Erik Chinander defensive coordinator, Third round
season. The Bruins have two big 6. Mississippi St. ...........8-0 632 6 Mike Dawson defensive line coach, Jovan Dewitt Friday's schedule
recruiting weekends ahead be- 7. UCLA........................7-1 622 7 outside linebackers-special teams coach, Travis UCLA (21-10) vs. Florida (27-1), 1 p.m.
8. Baylor.......................7-1 606 9 Fisher defensive backs coach, Ryan Held running USC (24-9) vs. Minnesota (28-5), 3 p.m.
fore the Dec. 20 early signing pe- backs coach and Mario Verduzco quarterbacks Kentucky (28-3) vs. BYU (30-2), 9 a.m.
9. Oregon .....................7-1 506 10 coach. Missouri (22-11) vs. Penn St. (31-1), 11 a.m.
riod. 10. West Virginia .............7-0 482 11 Texas—Announced junior cornerback Holton Colorado (24-9) vs. Nebraska (28-4), 11 a.m.
UCLA has picked up commit- 11. Tennessee .................8-0 461 12 Hill will enter the NFL draft. Illinois (23-10) vs. Michigan State (23-8), 1 p.m.
ments from Tulare Union High Texas Rio Grande Valley—Named Alfred Cas- Texas (26-2) vs. Utah (24-9), 6 p.m.
12. Ohio St.....................8-2 447 8
tillo athletic trainer. Stanford (28-3) vs. Wisconsin (22-9), 8 p.m.
tailback Kazmeir Allen and Eti- 13. Florida St. .................8-0 418 13
ODDS
14. Duke ........................6-2 390 14 SOCCER
wanda offensive tackle Alec An- INTERNATIONAL Friday’s schedule
15. Maryland ..................7-2 353 15
derson since Kelly’s arrival. (Home team listed first) At Hialeah Park Racing & Casino, Hialeah, Fla.
16. South Florida.............7-1 284 17 SPAIN (FS1), Jean Pascal vs. Ahmed Elbiali, 10, light-
A few other prospects have 17. Missouri....................7-1 247 19 La Liga heavyweights; Chad Dawson vs. Edwin Rodri-
decommitted, with Tyreke John- 18. Stanford ...................5-4 220 16 Girona 2, Alaves 3 guez, 10, light-heavyweights.
ITALY Saturday’s schedule
son, a defensive back from Jack- 19. Oregon St..................5-2 198 21 Seire A At The Theater at Madison Square Garden,
sonville (Fla.) Trinity Christian 20. Kentucky...................7-1 170 20 Crotone 0, Udinese 3 New York (ESPN), Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Gui-
21. Texas A&M ................6-2 168 18 Verona 0, Genoa 1 llermo Rigondeaux, 12, for Lomachenko's WBO
Academy, tweeting that he was
22. Villanova...................7-0 131 25 THIS DAY IN World super-featherweight title; Christopher Diaz
no longer considering the Bruins vs. Casey Ramos, 10, junior-lightweights.
23. Green Bay .................6-1 96 — SPORTS At Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas
because of “the instability of the 24. Michigan...................5-2 93 22 1976—O.J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills rushes (HBO), Orlando Salido vs. Miguel Roman, 10,
coaching staff.” 25. California ..................5-2 90 24 for 203 yards and a touchdown in a 45-27 loss junior-lightweights; Tevin Farmer vs. Kenichi
to the Miami Dolphins. Ogawa, 12, for vacant IBF junior-lightweight title;
Others receiving votes: Arizona St. 41, Iowa 26,
1981—USC’s Marcus Allen, who set an NCAA Francisco Vargas vs. Stephen Smith, 10, junior-
New Mexico 26, Marquette 13, Syracuse 12,
ben.bolch@latimes.com Oklahoma St. 8, DePaul 7, USC 7, Oklahoma 6, record for yards rushing in a season with 2,342, lightweights; Jaime Munguia vs. Steven Martinez,
wins the Heisman Trophy. 10, junior-middleweights.
Twitter: @latbbolch South Dakota St. 4.
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NHL

WHAT WE LEARNED
IN THE NHL
What we learned in the NHL over the last week of play:
No grudge match when
Kings’ slump is over
Remember the 1-6-1 slump that triggered flashbacks to
the bad old days of the last few seasons? Neither do the
Kings, who have a five-game winning streak and have re-
gained the Pacific Division lead. “I think part of it is we’re get-
Kings face off with Wild
ting scoring from up and down our lineup, which I think is key coach Bruce Boudreau last a South Bay home with have been going.”
to win in this league,” right wing Dustin Brown said Monday. Folin and Kuemper, summer and joked he was Kuemper. “There’s a lot of
“We’re getting big goals from so-called third- and fourth-lin- looking forward to this guys around the room that’s TONIGHT
ers. That helps.” It also helps that they’ve given up only six let go by Minnesota, matchup, but didn’t carry won a couple Stanley Cups, VS. MINNESOTA
goals in that streak. “We’re not giving up very many scoring are holding no ill will. any animosity with him and it shows. It’s fun to be When: 7.
chances, which is a staple. When we’re on our game, it’s al- when he moved west. part of it every day and I’m On the air: TV: NBCSN; Ra-
ways there,” Brown said. “It’s just a business. I’m just pushing to get better, dio: 790.
By Helene Elliott not going to have any sour something I’ve been doing Update: Forward Andy An-
Ducks’ struggles continue emotions towards anyone in my whole career.” dreoff practiced Monday for
The Ducks, or what’s left of them while they endure a It makes for a good story the Minnesota organiza- Kuemper never seized the first time since he was
plague of injuries, made a good move in acquiring estab- line, but there’s disappoint- tion,” said Folin, whose goal the Wild’s starting job and dropped by a Kevin Bieksa
lished center Adam Henrique and depth forward Joseph ment in store for anyone who against Chicago on Sunday lost his backup role late last punch on Nov 25. “I’m all
Blandisi for defenseman Sami Vatanen and a conditional expects Kings goaltender might keep him in the lineup March when Alex Stalock good now. I think they’re just
draft pick. The Ducks’ depth on defense made turnover- Darcy Kuemper and de- when the Kings try to extend was promoted. being cautious in taking the
prone Vatanen expendable. They should be formidable up fenseman Christian Folin to their winning streak to six. “I “I think I knew I wasn’t week off,” Andreoff said. …
the middle when Ryan Kesler (hip surgery) and Ryan Getzlaf approach Tuesday’s game really enjoyed playing there. going to be back in Minne- Winger Kyle Clifford (upper
(facial bone surgery) return, but they’ll have to end a 1-4-2 against Minnesota as a I had three great years and I sota, which was a lot of body) also skated but
slump to stay near the playoff pack. They’re scoring only 2.59 grudge match because the have lots to be thankful for. It mixed feelings,” said Kuem- there’s no timetable for his
goals per game and giving up a league-worst average of 36.3 Wild let them depart as free was a good time in my life per, who is 4-0-2 with a 1.72 return. … Minnesota has
shots against per game. agents last summer. and I made lots of really goals-against average and won its last two games and
Kuemper, who’s ex- good friends.” .944 save percentage in eight eight of 12. The Wild remain
They’re on the downside pected to back up Jonathan He has felt comfortable games this season. “It was without forward Zach Par-
A 10-1 loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday left the Quick, and Folin, who’s try- with the Kings from the the only team I’d ever played ise, who had surgery on a
Detroit Red Wings’ faces as red as the color of their classic ing to keep a regular spot, start. “I like being around for and a lot of good experi- herniated disk in October.
uniforms and extended their winless streak to 0-4-3. “Basi- had only good things to say the guys in the room. You ences there, but I’m really
cally embarrassed everyone that played for the Winged about Minnesota on Mon- can tell there’s a lot of experi- happy to be here now and helene.elliott@latimes.com
Wheel tonight,” team captain Henrik Zetterberg said, ac- day. Folin said he saw Wild ence,” said Folin, who shares really happy with how things Twitter: @helenenothelen
cording to the Detroit News. “We have to live with that.”
The Philadelphia Flyers’ winless streak hit 0-5-5 after a
3-0 loss to the Boston Bruins on Saturday. Fans didn’t even
stick around the Wells Fargo Center to boo them at the end of
the game or to repeat their previous calls for the firing of
coach Dave Hakstol. Their streak ended Monday with a 5-2
win at Calgary.

They’re on the upside

The Pittsburgh Penguins are again playing like Stanley
Cup champions and have a season-best four-game winning
streak. Rookie goalie Tristan Jarry has stepped in for injured
Matt Murray, and Sidney Crosby has scored at least one goal
in five consecutive games. “We’re back,” forward Evgeni
Malkin told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The Dallas Stars, who had a slow start, stretched their
winning streak to five games by sweeping a home-and-home
series with the Chicago Blackhawks. “It’s how you deal with
adversity,” coach Ken Hitchcock told the Dallas Morning
News. “You can build or you can crumble, and we’re build-
ing.”

Twin accomplishments
Vancouver forward Daniel Sedin joined his twin, Henrik,
in the ranks of players who have scored 1,000 points. It was fit-
ting that Henrik set up the power-play goal that made them
the only brothers to have each scored 1,000 points. They’re
class acts off the ice, too, and have generously supported
causes related to children’s health.
— Helene Elliott

NHL STANDINGS
WESTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE
Pacific W L OL Pts GF GA Metropolitan W L OL Pts GF GA
KINGS 17 8 3 37 85 61 Columbus 17 9 1 35 79 66
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
Vegas 16 9 1 33 90 82 N.Y. Islanders 16 8 2 34 99 86
San Jose 14 10 2 30 66 61 New Jersey 15 7 4 34 80 80 JACK JABLONSKI: “The best way I can describe my injury is I understand my injury but I don’t accept it. ...
Vancouver 13 10 4 30 75 77 Washington 16 11 1 33 84 84
I understand the obstacles I’m going to have to conquer. But I’m always going to keep striving.”
Calgary 14 12 1 29 80 88 Pittsburgh 15 10 3 33 83 91

Jablonski is finding purpose

DUCKS 11 11 5 27 72 82 N.Y. Rangers 14 10 2 30 87 78
Edmonton 11 14 2 24 78 92 Carolina 11 9 5 27 72 77
Arizona 7 18 5 19 73 104 Philadelphia 9 11 7 25 75 83
Central W L OL Pts GF GA **TEMPTAG**
Atlantic W L OL Pts GF GA
Winnipeg 17 6 4 38 94 71
Nashville 17 7 3 37 87 78 Tampa Bay 18 6 2 38 95 67
St. Louis 17 8 2 36 88 72 Toronto 17 10 1 35 99 84
[Elliott, from D1] they said, was severed, and ing for our high school team
13 12 3 29 78 86
Dallas
Minnesota
16
13
10
10
1
3
33
29
84
78
76
77
Montreal
Boston 12 9 4 28 69 73
He also got into the habit of
focusing on his feet, espe-
if it’s severed, you’re not
supposed to move below the
after he got injured. They
really valued his input.”
‘He has a great
Chicago 12 10 5 29 82 73 Detroit 10 12 5 25 74 90
cially when he wore flip- level of injury,” she said. Jablonski lives in a hand- hockey mind and
Colorado 12 11 2 26 79 82 Ottawa 9 10 6 24 74 86
flops and could directly look “And for these things that icap-accessible apartment a
Note: Overtime or shootout losses are worth one Florida 10 13 4 24 79 93 at his feet and toes, but the he’s been able to do, I’m block from campus. His ... he’s impressed a
RESULTS
point. mind-body link there re-
mained elusive … until
sorry, I have to think there’s
something still left, even if
room is decorated with
photos of him playing in an
lot of people.’
AT WASHINGTON 4 Alex Ovechkin scored his 20th goal and the Capitals beat
about 10 days ago, when he it’s one thread. That’s all you outdoor game in minus-20 — Kelly Cheeseman,
saw a twitch. need to get things possibly degree temperature, of his Kings executive on Jack Jablonski
SAN JOSE 1 the Sharks for the fourth time in their last 18 meetings.
It was small, but it pro- moving again.” high school jersey being
N.Y. ISLANDERS 5 Mathew Barzal scored the winner in a shootout; Panthers vided an enormous emo- Jablonski, 22, isn’t retired, and of him with
AT FLORIDA 4 (SO) goalie Roberto Luongo was injured in the second period. tional boost. “Just got my merely waiting for miracles retired NHL star Jeremy don’t accept it. I’m aware of
AT NASHVILLE 5 Craig Smith had two goals and an assist, and the right big toe to move a little to materialize. He’s pursu- Roenick, a friend and tire- what happened. I under-
BOSTON 3 Predators won for the third time in their last four games. bit!” he said via Twitter, ing medical advances such less fundraiser for Jab- stand the obstacles I’m
adding the hashtag “#little- as epidural stimulation, lonski’s foundation. A full- going to have to conquer.
PHILADELPHIA 5 Scott Laughton scored twice, including in a three-goal
bylittle”. which has allowed some time caretaker tends to But I’m always going to keep
AT CALGARY 2 second period, and the Flyers ended a skid at 10 games.
As of a few days ago, he spinal cord injury patients Jablonski’s medical needs striving.”
For complete NHL summaries, go to latimes.com/sports/scores hadn’t repeated that move- to bear some of their own and whatever else comes up, Maybe he’ll be an NHL
ment. But the fact that he weight and make stepping- such as the fire alarm that team executive. Maybe a
**TEMPTAG** did it was worth celebrating like motions, and he’s carv- went off at 3:30 a.m. one day commentator. He bears no
TODAY’S GAMES and incentive for him to ing out a new life that’s still last week. grudge toward the sport
DUCKS at Vegas, 7 p.m. Minnesota at KINGS, 7 p.m. continue raising money for centered on hockey. “That’s how it is. It’s that was the backdrop for
New Jersey at Columbus, 4 p.m. New York Islanders at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m. spinal cord injury research He has worked in public college,” Jablonski said, his accident.
New York Rangers at Pittsburgh, 4:30 p.m. Winnipeg at Detroit, 4:30 p.m. through his Bel13ve in Mira- relations for the Kings and smiling. “Your normal reaction
St. Louis at Montreal, 4:30 p.m. Nashville at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. cles Foundation, which is featured on their “All the Friends, his Tau Kappa would be, ‘I’m never going
Buffalo at Colorado, 6 p.m. Carolina at Vancouver, 7 p.m. partners with the Mayo Kings Men” podcast, a Epsilon fraternity brothers, back into a rink again,’ but I
Clinic. The 13 represents his natural progression from and representatives of know how much the game
WEDNESDAY’S GAMES jersey number at Benilde- the radio show he hosted in USC’s Disability Services meant to him and how much
Ottawa at DUCKS, 7 p.m. Calgary at Toronto, 4:30 p.m. St. Margaret’s High and his high school and his Program help him with he loved it,” his mother said.
Chicago at Washington, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Edmonton, 6:30 p.m. admiration for skillful for- summertime experiences tasks such as notetaking, “To see him still be involved
mer Detroit star Pavel Dat- shadowing various Minne- though he can type on his in a different way, using his
THURSDAY’S GAMES
syuk. sota Wild executives. It’s a phone with his right thumb. mind and his voice, is just
Ottawa at KINGS, 7:30 p.m. New York Islanders at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.
For now, that toe twitch great fit because he’s smart His younger brother, Max, incredible. Hockey will
Arizona at Boston, 4 p.m. Colorado at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m.
is a small candle in a dark and gregarious. His upbeat joined him at USC this year always be a part of his life
Winnipeg at Florida, 4:30 p.m. Calgary at Montreal, 4:30 p.m.
room, casting a brave, defi- attitude inspired his team- and pledged the same fra- and our lives.”
Dallas at St. Louis, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
ant light on his path toward mates to win the state ternity. “It’s great to have The extent of his connec-
regaining as much function championship after he was him around,” Jablonski tion is eerie. “To this day, I
and independence as he hurt. When friends visited said. still feel like I have skates on
can. him in the hospital and were Jablonski is on a five- my feet. It’s very weird,” he
DUCKS TONIGHT “I know for a fact I did it uncomfortable, he’d lift year plan, taking 12 credits said. “That’s the last feeling
on my own and it wasn’t just their spirits. per semester. “I’m in no I had. Do I feel like I have
AT VEGAS a spasm,” said Jablonski, “I knew how hard it rush. It’s literally paradise breezers [hockey pants]
When: 7. who this week will complete would be for them and I here, especially coming and shin pads on? I don’t
On the air: TV: Prime Ticket; Radio: 830. his third year at USC as a always wanted to make from Minnesota,” he said, really know, but for some
Update: Rickard Rakell, the Ducks’ leading goal scorer, re- communications major with them feel welcome and get noting that his disability reason they still feel like
turned to practice Monday and could suit up against the a sports media minor and is the elephant in the room off leaves him unable to control they’re in skates.”
Golden Knights. He has sat out the last five games because of in his third season as an their mind,” he said. his body temperatures and He believes he will walk
an upper-body injury. He skated on the No. 1 line with Corey intern with the Kings. “At Kelly Cheeseman, the he’s often cold. Every day is again someday. No one who
Perry and newcomer Adam Henrique. To make room on the the same time, I expect it to Kings’ chief operating offi- a challenge: For a 10 a.m. has met him can doubt that.
roster for Rakell, rookie Kalle Kossila was reassigned to San come and go. Whether it’s cer, attended the same high class he must wake up at “To hear that he’s moved
Diego. ... When the Ducks played the expansion team in their progress or not, the most school but earlier than 7:30 to get ready and he his big toe, it gives you
first regular-season meeting last month, Vegas outshot the important thing is some- Jablonski and didn’t know must prepare for every hope,” Cheeseman said. “I
Ducks 49-19 and won 4-2. Now, the Ducks will play in Nevada thing’s connected, and I was him. They connected when possible emergency. He also know he’s worked very, very
for the first time. ... Jakob Silfverberg (upper-body injury) is told from Day One it’s a the school’s hockey coach, has learned to avoid taking hard at it. He works his tail
still on the mend and could sit out another game. ... Henrique complete sever.” Ken Pauly, told Cheeseman classes in buildings that are off every day to get better,
has two assists in two games with the Ducks. ... William Back in Minneapolis his that Jablonski was coming difficult to navigate. and I think that also reflects
Karlsson and Jonathan Marchessault are tied for the team mother, Leslie, was getting to USC. Cheeseman met “After three years you’ve on how hard he works to get
lead with 25 points apiece. No Ducks player has at least 20 texts from friends about his him and gladly became a kind of got it down to a better at what he wants to
points. ... Vegas’ surprising run continues, with 33 points, achievement. He doesn’t mentor. system,” he said, “but at the do in life next. That’s what
only five behind the Western Conference-leading Winnipeg always tell her about things “I’d like him to be able to same time, if one thing lets we value in the organiza-
Jets. The Golden Knights have hit a rough patch recently, such as that for fear she do more when he has the go, everything could just fall tion, and I think he’ll have
though, with only one victory in their last four outings. ... This might get too excited. Un- time. He has a great hockey apart. You learn to adjust. an imprint with us as long as
is the final game of the Ducks’ six-game road swing. They derstandably, she was mind and I know that he’s That’s just life with paraly- he wants to be here.”
have won only once during the trip, but two of the defeats thrilled. impressed a lot of people,” sis. … The best way I can
came in shootouts. “It’s not supposed to be Cheeseman said. “I know he describe my injury is I helene.elliott@latimes.com
— Mike Coppinger possible. His spinal cord, did some particular scout- understand my injury but I Twitter: @helenenothelen
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CALENDAR T U E S D A Y , D E C E M B E R 5 , 2 0 1 7 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L E N D A R

A royal
role for
Misty
in her
Getty Museum

la-et-cm-pst-golden-kingdom-review -- Feathered Panels, AD 600-900, Wari, Peru; Macaw feathers on cotton; Credit: Getty Museum

return
ABT’s Copeland will
be back in SoCal as
Clara/Princess in
‘The Nutcracker.’
By Deborah Vankin

Misty Copeland has far-

transcended the rarefied
world of ballet, appearing as
a guest judge on “So You
Think You Can Dance,”
touring with Prince and
serving as the face of Estée
Lauder’s Modern Muse fra-
grance — not to mention at-
tracting more than 1.5 mil-
lion Instagram followers.
There’s even a Misty Cope-
land Barbie doll.
As the first African
American woman promoted
to principal dancer in the 75-
year history of American
Ballet Theatre, Copeland
had drawn new and younger
audiences to dance.
The San Pedro native will
return home this holiday
season to appear in ABT’s
production of “The Nut-
cracker” at Segerstrom Cen-
ter for the Arts in Costa
Mesa. Copeland will dance
the role of Clara/Princess, in
three performances choreo-
Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum, top; Museo de la Nación, Ministerio de Cultura del Perú graphed by ABT artist-in-
A GETTY MUSEUM exhibition on the ancient Americas explores the growth of luxury arts and the use of various precious materials residence Alexei Ratman-
such as a tapestry-like panel of macaw feathers, top, AD 600-900, from Peru. Also from Peru, a gold forehead ornament, AD 300-600. sky.
“The Nutcracker” is the
PACIFIC STANDARD TIME: LA/LA | ART REVIEW first full-length ballet Cope-
land appeared in onstage —
an experience that she calls

A ‘Golden’ stunner
“magical.” Returning to
[See Copeland, E3]

Will
The Getty takes a vivid look at luxury in the ancient Americas
BY CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT ART CRITIC >>> Which is more A spectacular exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum of-
Oscar
valuable: a pound of gold or a pound of feathers?
The answer might seem obvious but depends on where
you are, when. It hangs on the value system that a given so-
fers stunning demonstration. “Golden Kingdoms: Luxury
and Legacy in the Ancient Americas” brings together more
than 200 resplendent objects dating from at least 1000 BC
care?
ciety has in place. to the 16th century. For starters, compare just two of them,
If it’s 16th century Spain — or 21st century America — one near the entrance and the other at the exit.
Just because critics
gold wins, hands down. But if it’s the Andes Mountains of First is a big, 21-foot-wide wall of rectangular fiber pan- love ‘Lady Bird’ and
South America before the first millennium, it’s feathers all els, each covered in solid blocks of feathers in rich royal blue ‘Call Me’ doesn’t
the way. and vivid marigold — tens upon tens of thousands of them, a mean academy will.
Precious metal was neither absent from nor undesirable gridded wall that is like a Post-Minimalist mural made By Justin Chang
in the region of what is modern-day Peru, and it was used in from the dorsal and ventral feathers of parrots. The other is and Glenn Whipp
all kinds of glittery ways. Gold was gorgeous, if only for its an imposing oil painting of dignified men, all decked out in
light-reflective properties, but just not that big a deal. sumptuous gold adornments. Last week, the New York
Film Critics Circle named
Feathers, on the other hand, were a wow — visually and The feathered panels were found in 1943, rolled up in ce- “Lady Bird” the best film of
conceptually. ramic jars and buried at a ceremonial [See ‘Golden,’ E2] 2017. On Sunday, the Los An-
geles Film Critics Assn. gave
top honors to “Call Me by
Your Name.” Times critics
POP MUSIC REVIEW Justin Chang and Glenn
Whipp, who are members of

A play for longevity, not spectacle

the L.A. organization, sat
down to discuss the results
and what they say (or don’t
say) about the state of
awards season.

JUSTIN CHANG: If the

Tori Amos shows her
dedication to great
songwriting in her
concert at the Ace.
MIKAEL WOOD
POP MUSIC CRITIC
Tori Amos put her songs
first on Sunday night.
Literally.
Welcoming a capacity
crowd to the third of three
sold-out shows at the Thea-
tre at Ace Hotel, the veteran
singer and pianist said it had
been a privilege for the songs
— “and for me” — to be heard
by audiences across North
America over the last few
weeks.
Sunday’s show con-
cluded a tour behind Amos’
recent “Native Invader” al-
bum, and like the other gigs,
it was emphasizing music
over the type of spectacle
and pageantry that pop con-
[See Amos, E3]
Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences cared
what film critics think, one
might assume that both
“Lady Bird” and “Call Me by
Your Name” are bound for
Oscar glory following their
big critics’ wins in the past
week. The academy, of
course, doesn’t care what we
think, as its members have
proven time and time again.
Sometimes there’s overlap,
to be sure: In the past two
years the L.A. critics gave
their top prize to “Spotlight”
[See Critics, E4]
Cinematheque
snags a classic
A new 70 mm print of
“Lawrence of Arabia”
will screen exclusively
in two theaters. E4
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VETERAN singer-pianist Tori Amos caps her Native Invader tour with show Sunday at Theatre at Ace Hotel.
E2 T U E S DAY , D E C EM BE R 5, 2017
QUICK
TAKES
Disney
puts ‘Olaf’
on ice
Even as the animated
film “Coco” has led the box
office for the last two week-
ends, there have been com-
plaints about the short film
that precedes it, “Olaf ’s
Frozen Adventure.” The
short will leave theaters af-
ter Thursday.
A representative for Dis-
ney confirmed that the short
was always intended for a
limited run.
A “Frozen” spinoff featur-
ing the voices of Josh Gad,
Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel
and Jonathan Groff, “Olaf ”
features four original songs
and runs more than 20 min-
utes, significantly longer
than most shorts.
Audiences ready for the
Day of the Dead-themed
“Coco” reportedly have been
confused about what movie
they’re actually seeing.
— Mark Olsen
Rush steps down
after accusations
Oscar-winning actor
Geoffrey Rush resigned Sat-
urday as president of the
Australian Academy of Cin-
ema and Television Arts fol-
lowing allegations of inap-
propriate behavior while
working on a 2015 produc-
tion of “King Lear” at the
Sydney Theater Company.
The Australian academy
said it accepted Rush’s deci-
sion to step aside. The exact
nature of the complaint
against Rush, 66, has not
been made clear.
“Certain recent media re-
ports have made untenable
allegations concerning my
standing in the entertain-
ment community,” Rush
said in a statement. “It is un-
reasonable that my profes-
sional colleagues should be
somehow associated with
such allegations.”
— Mark Olsen
Jorja Smith nabs
key Brit Award
English R&B singer Jorja
Smith has won the Brit
Awards 2018 Critics’ Choice
award, putting her in the rar-
efied company of previous
honorees Adele, Sam Smith
and Ellie Goulding.
The annual award singles
out “future British recording
talent.” It caps growing buzz
for Smith, who also has been
recognized by Canadian
rapper and producer Drake,
who included her on his
“More Life” mixtape and
brought her onstage earlier
this year when he played
London’s O2 Arena.
The 20-year-old singer
will receive the award Jan.
13.
— Randy Lewis
THE GETTY Museum’s “Golden Kingdoms” exhibition on the ancient Americas includes plenty of works that feature the precious metal.
A show that’s as good as gold
[‘Golden,’ from E1]
site. It’s a long way from the
macaws’ natural habitat in
northwest Brazil to that
burial ground in the far
south of Peru. Exotic impor-
tation made the panels’
feathers, hailing from the
Amazon rainforest, even
more dear.
What was their function?
Scholars are uncertain. The
best guess is that the port-
able panels, which date to
between AD 600 and 900,
were originally meant as ar-
chitectural adornments.
Think of them as ancient
Andean tapestries.
Imagine a chieftain’s
council room lined in them.
Organic objects and shapes
are rigorously organized into
rectilinear patterns.
Brilliant feathers dazzle,
not unlike the gold threads
that made the tapestries of
medieval and Renaissance
Europe such splendiferous
and imposing works of art.
But the capture of alien, air-
borne feathered creatures to
make the ancient tapestries
lends an inescapable ele-
ment of supreme power fac-
ing the dominant muscle of
natural elements that ruled
so much of daily life. Human-
kind takes dominion over
nature, while acknowledg-
ing its beauty and grandeur.
Now look at the last work
in “Golden Kingdoms,” a
well-known painting by An-
drés Sánchez Gallque dated
1599 that shows things from
a point of view appealing to
Renaissance Spain. “Por-
trait of Don Francisco de
Arobe and his Sons Don
Pedro and Don Domingo”
was commissioned in Peru
for “His Majesty Philip III,
Catholic King of Spain,” as a
cartouche in the upper right
corner helpfully explains.
The stately triple-por-
trait meant to seal an impor-
tant political alliance be-
tween the Spanish Crown
and leadership in the Ecua-
doran coastal region of Es-
meraldas. Standing tall, the
three have doffed their hats
to the king.
A sumptuous compen-
dium of extravagance
merges Spanish doublets
and ruff collars with Chinese
textiles and Pacific sea-
shells. The most eye-grab-
bing feature, however, is the
abundance of gold jewelry —
earrings, elaborate nose
rings, a neck ring, chunky
collar-necklaces, etc. The
metal shines brightly, espe-
cially against the dark, Afro-
Indian skin of the elegant
trio, where it frames and ac-
cents their attentive faces.
Ten years later Philip
would begin expelling the
Moors from Spain. But gold
told the king what he wanted
to know about these black
men from his colony across
the ocean, and in a language
of value he would under-
stand: This chief and his two
young sons, whom Philip
would never meet but had to
trust, were men of power and
authority. Their word was as
good as gold.
The exhibition has lots of
the exquisite material —
gold jewelry, plaques, cups,
funerary masks, votive figu-
rines, ceremonial tools, ar-
mor and more. A little 4½-
inch spoon, to cite one very
small example, was fash-
ioned from 22 separate
pieces of sheet-metal to cre-
ate a golden figure squatting
on his haunches and holding
a silver conch shell to his lips,
like a trumpet. The spoon
was probably used to inhale
hallucinogens during reli-
gious ceremonies.
Elsewhere the design of a
forehead ornament recalls
an octopus, its eight jagged,
spiraling arms culminating
in stylized catfish heads.
And flat T-shirts of solid
J. Paul Getty Museum
A SMALL Mayan jade
sculpture, AD 675-725,
was found in a sacred
well at Chichen Itza.
‘Golden
Kingdoms:
Luxury and
Legacy in the
Ancient
Americas’
Where: J. Paul Getty
Museum, 1200 Getty
Center Drive, Brentwood
When: Through Jan. 28;
closed Mondays,
Christmas Day and New
Year’s Day
Info: (310) 440-7300,
www.getty.edu
gold may have been made to
be sewn to cloth backing for
use as armor, or else they
were fabricated to cover a
body during burial.
The brilliance of the ex-
traordinary craftsmanship
is heightened simply by
knowing that much that was
produced over the course of
several thousand years by a
variety of cultures — includ-
ing Moche, Wari, Inca, Chi-
riquí, Tolima, Zapotec and
Mixtec — was destroyed af-
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Christopher Knight Los Angeles Times
ter Europeans arrived in the
early 16th century. We’re see-
ing some of what survived in
gold, but the friction be-
tween competing value sys-
tems generated enough heat
to melt a lot of it down for
hauling back to Spain. Given
what remains, what was
lost?
Gold is the show’s
through-line, moving north
along the Pacific coastline
from the Inca Empire in
Peru to Colombia, Panama,
Costa Rica, Guatemala and
Mexico, ending at Tenochti-
tlan. But other materials
were also considered emi-
nently suitable for luxury
production, depending on
the indigenous society. For
simple clay, certain sea-
shells and volcanic stone,
the sophistication of applied
decoration and carving —
evidence of human mastery
— did the trick.
For the Olmec and Maya,
jade was the most valuable
material. Among the show’s
great treasures is a small,
dignified head of an ances-
tor crowned by a jaguar
headdress, carved in jade in
Guatemala but found 300
miles north in the sacred
well at Chichen Itza.
A cenote, or sinkhole, the
well was a portal between
the earthly realm and the
watery underworld — and
thus an excellent place to
drop in your favorite luxury
item as a serious bit of spir-
itual offering. (People, alas,
got sacrificed there too.)
Just over 3 inches high, the
noble head feels monumen-
tal — a piece of power-stone.
Originally worn as a belt
ornament, the sculpture is
marked on the bottom with a
tangle of pictographs —
among them the artist’s
name, perhaps the only ex-
ample of ancient Meso-
american jade signed by its
maker. Surely that’s an indi-
cation of the value assigned
to achieving such aesthetic
refinement.
There are wonderful sur-
prises, including a dark,
iron-gray, stirrup-spout ce-
ramic bottle in the shape of
conjoined seashells — one a
twirling conch, the other a
spiny bivalve mollusk. They
shouldn’t go together but
they do, a formally distinct
odd couple that seamlessly
manages to get along. It’s
from the Cupisnique cul-
ture, which is new to me, that
flourished along the coast of
northern Peru beginning
more than 3,000 years ago.
Some things are more fa-
miliar, although the show’s
rich context makes them
sing anew. At the top of that
list is a large, fringed mantle
that’s a treasure in the col-
lection of the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, used
as a burial wrapper a few
millennia ago. The intricate
pattern of interlocking ser-
pent and feline creatures
echoes the sophisticated
material weave and embroi-
dery of its slender threads in
red, black, indigo and white.
Structuralism, matching
visual image and physical
form is at work, courtesy of
the ancient Americas.
The magnificent show
was organized by Getty Mu-
seum Director Timothy
Potts, Getty Research Insti-
tute specialist Kim Richter
and Joanne Pillsbury, cura-
tor at New York’s Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art, where it
travels in February. A stand-
out in the sprawling Pacific
Standard Time: LA/LA ini-
tiative celebrating art
throughout Latin America
— and the only Pre-Colum-
bian component — it’s on
view in Brentwood through
Jan. 28.
christopher.knight
@latimes.com
L AT I ME S . CO M/ CA L E N DA R
MISTY COPELAND, principal dancer for American Ballet Theatre and a San Pedro native, performs as the Princess in Alexei Ratmansky’s “The Nutcracker.”
Copeland attracts new ballet fans
[Copeland, from E1]
Southern California is no
less so, she said in this edited
conversation.
You’ve popularized ballet,
and it’s been suggested
you’re revitalizing — or
“saving,” as Jimmy Kim-
mel once put it — the clas-
sical dance world. Isn’t that
a lot of pressure?
I take it all with a grain of
salt. I understand that I’m
getting people interested in
ballet. I’m happy to be able
to represent the ballet. But I
am, by no means, ballet. I’m
a representation, a window
for people to come in and be
introduced to the broader
world of ballet. That’s what I
feel my duty is: I’m a vessel.
And I’m lucky to be a small
faction of ballet history.
Your promotion, in 2015, to
principal dancer broke
barriers. Is ballet evolving,
do you think? Or is it still
fairly exclusive?
Yes. I think the fact that
me, a black woman, is what
has kind of introduced a lot
of people to the ballet world
is huge. It’s definitely forced
a lot of ballet companies to
address the issue of the lack
of diversity.
You know — and I con-
stantly say this — even if it’s
not something that they’ve
ever wanted to do, the world
is looking in now. More so
than ever before. The ballet
For Tori Amos, it’s
all about the songs
[Amos, from E1]
certs are often built around.
Seated between a grand
piano and a rack of key-
boards, unaccompanied by
a band, Amos sang and
played with vivid determina-
tion as she moved through
complicated, deep-feeling
tunes from her extensive
catalog: “Pretty Good Year,”
about a young person strug-
gling with apathy; “Russia,”
a politically inspired song
from the new record; “Ala-
mo,” which she cleverly in-
tertwined with lines from
Sade’s “Smooth Operator.”
During “Juarez,” she
used the fallboard over the
piano’s keys to smack the
body of the instrument for
a startling percussive effect
— just one example of her
commitment to her raw
materials.
To some degree, Amos
was eschewing the pop-star
world is so secluded and
lives in this bubble, and it’s
easy to get away with a lot.
So with the attention I’ve
brought to ballet, I think
they’re definitely being
forced to make some
changes.
You’ve been an athletic and
artistic role model for so
many young people. Who
do you look to for inspira-
tion?
It’s definitely shifted and
changed throughout my
training and the course of
my career. Growing up,
Paloma Herrera was the
ballerina I looked to. She
was just so inspiring to me.
Raven Wilkinson was kind of
that person who really
changed my point of view
and perspective on my
career and how I wanted to
approach it and represent
the black dancers in the
classical ballet world. She
really allowed me to have a
clearer vision of what my
purpose is.
But I feel like I’m sur-
rounded by the best dancers
in the world every day. It’s
amazing to be able to have
that type of inspiration
around me.
Let’s talk “Nutcracker.”
You have a deep connection
to this ballet. Take us back
to that time you first
danced it.
I had been dancing for, I
stuff, because these days,
she’s not much of a pop star.
“Native Invader,” with
songs about nature and fam-
ily and the uncertainties
concerning government em-
bodied by President Trump,
is the singer’s 15th solo stu-
dio disc; it comes long after
Amos, who’s 54, stopped cre-
ating radio hits (such as
“God” and “Cornflake Girl”)
and began playing to an
ultra-loyal core eager to hear
her follow her every artistic
impulse.
Lately, those have in-
cluded theatrical works and
forays into classical music.
Yet “Native Invader” marks
a return in a sense to the
florid but earthy voice-and-
piano sound of early records
like “Little Earthquakes”
and “Under the Pink.”
The album’s opening
track, “Reindeer King,”
which Amos performed at
think, eight months. I did
the role of Clara. It was the
first ballet I ever performed
with the San Pedro City
Ballet. The following year I
did the Sugar Plum Fairy.
The second “Nut-
cracker” I ever performed in
was Debbie Allen’s produc-
tion of “The Hot Chocolate
Nutcracker.” I might’ve
been 14 or 15; I did it two
years. It was a very diverse
cast. It was amazing to
share the stage with Debbie
Allen. I’ve done ‘Nutcracker’
for most of my career in
different productions. Just
hearing the music makes
you think of Christmastime
and wintertime.
What makes this “Nut-
cracker” special?
Alexi’s production, I
think, is my favorite that I’ve
ever done. The dancing is
just so free. It’s not like the
traditional version. It has
kind of a more modern
contemporary movement to
it. It’s just a really exciting
version.
And I’m excited to be
dancing the lead part with
Daniil Simkin. We’ve never
done this role together
before. It’s also so nice for
me to be able to do this at
home in California.
Your story — growing up
with a single mom in a
cramped motel room with
five siblings and becoming
the Ace, has the kind of
swooping vocal melody and
cascading piano part that
made her a name brand in
the early 1990s.
In Taylor Swift’s 2017,
though, that style hardly
represents a mass-market
proposition — unless, of
course, it arrives in the
hands of someone much
younger, such as Adele or
Sam Smith. (As Amos
pointed out last month in an
interview with Vulture: “Our
industry … doesn’t value
women songwriters that are
50 and over.”)
For Amos, then, this inti-
mate presentation felt like a
play for longevity — a means
of fortifying her connection
with fans so devoted that
some leaped from their seats
and rushed toward the stage
for the singer’s encore.
It’s not right to say that
Amos has lost her grip on
America’s most famous
ballet dancer — is a classic
triumph-over-adversity
tale. What was it like to
discover dance?
I would say it was mag-
ical. I had never experienced
anything like it. To be able
to have this escape and be in
the studio and feel like I
actually am living this fairy
tale. There was nothing in
my life that was anything
remotely close to a fairy tale
— so it was such a magical
time of discovery for me.
You’ve described yourself
as cripplingly shy as a
child. Are you still? Do you
get nervous onstage?
Oh, that was never an
issue for me. I was really shy
as a child, but it never
crossed over to the stage. It
was the only time in my life
that I wasn’t that way.
I feel like as dancers get
older they tend to get more
anxious and nervous. I
think it just depends on the
role that I’m doing. If it’s a
really high-pressure role, I
tend to get nervous.
I don’t know if I would
say I’m shy anymore. But I
definitely like to keep my
personal life private. I have
to respect myself. I feel like I
give so much of myself in my
career — and I want to do
that — but you have to have
something left for you.
Does it feel surreal, now, to
A SMILING Tori Amos accompanies herself on keyboards during Sunday show.
her old star power, as that
bit of commotion made
clear; she’s still a char-
ismatic presence who can
say plenty just by widening
her eyes or by swinging a leg
over her piano bench. Her
singing too is as dynamic as
it’s ever been, with enough
texture and emotion to
make up for the instruments
not being played Sunday.
But there was an almost
T UESDAY , DEC EMB ER 5, 2017
Doug Gifford Segerstrom Center for the Arts
‘The
Nutcracker’
Where: Segerstrom Center
for the Arts, 600 Town
Center Drive, Costa Mesa
When: Opens Thursday;
ends Dec. 17.
Performances are 7 p.m.
Wednesdays-Fridays,
2 and 7 p.m. Saturdays,
and 12:30 and 5:30 p.m.
Sundays
Tickets: Starting at $29
Info: (714) 556-2787,
www.scfta.org
Running time: 2 hours
be so far on the other side
of the hardships you grew
up with?
Yeah, it absolutely does
feel surreal. I’m constantly
thinking of that. I don’t feel
like I’m jaded in any way. I
am just like, “I can’t believe
this is my life, I can’t believe
I get to do what I love.” It’s
just an amazing thing to
have.
Tell us about your upcom-
ing film debut in “The
Nutcracker and the Four
Realms.”
That’s coming out No-
vember 2018. We’re still
working on the name of my
character. I’m kind of a
production within the pro-
duction of the movie. It’s like
selfless quality to the way
she kept seeking to disap-
pear into the music, espe-
cially in a sequence near the
middle of the show when a
video screen flashed a modi-
fied version of the Fox News
logo that read “Fake Muse
Network.”
Here Amos was paying
tribute to some of the tunes
that had inspired her to
write, including Joe Jack-
E3
a performance that the
characters are experienc-
ing. It’s me dancing, and I’m
portraying all of the differ-
ent scenes that happen in
“The Nutcracker,” the snow
scene, the battle scene, the
land of the sweets.
I’ve never been in a film.
It was so, so surreal to be a
part of the Disney family. I
never, ever imagined I
would. It was just a really
incredible opportunity. It
was a lot of hard work.
Dancing and film is really
difficult to kind of marry
because dancers have to be
[warmed up]. It’s really
difficult to sit around for
hours and then get up and
dance. We have to be
warmed up properly. There
were long days.
Is it meaningful to return
home?
Coming home, and being
in Orange County, and
being in that theater — it
just takes me back to that
place. I saw American Ballet
Theatre perform a lot when
I was 13, 14, 15 years old — in
Costa Mesa at the same
theater we’ll perform at, as
well as the Dorothy Chan-
dler Pavilion.
Coming to those thea-
ters in California definitely
takes me back.
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@latimes.com
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son’s “Real Men” and John
Denver’s “Leaving on a Jet
Plane.” And although she
was making them her own —
the latter came mashed up
with parts of Amos’ “Mer-
man” and “Operation Peter
Pan” — what you really
heard was her belief that a
great song can outlast any
singer.
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E4 TU E S DAY , D EC EM BE R 5, 2017
What do critics’ picks mean to Oscar?
[Critics, from E1]
and “Moonlight,” both of
which went on to win best
picture Oscars. But the
nature of these very occa-
sional overlaps is coinciden-
tal rather than predictive.
You and I both participa-
ted in the LAFCA vote,
Glenn, along with our Times
colleagues Kenneth Turan,
Mark Olsen, Jen Yamato
and Geoff Berkshire. Any-
one who’s ever attended a
year-end critics group meet-
ing knows that the process
is far too unruly and arbi-
trary to reflect any clear
agenda. We get together at
someone’s house and cast
our ballots one by one,
effectively squeezing a
year’s worth of cinematic
highlights into five hours.
And as ever, our final list of
winners — which included
big wins for “The Shape of
Water,” “Lady Bird,” “The
Florida Project” and “Get
Out” — doesn’t tell the
whole story.
It may surprise some
folks to learn, for example,
that Dee Rees (“Mud-
bound”) tied for third place
with Sean Baker (“The
Florida Project”) in a highly
competitive director race.
Or that films like “mother!,”
“Marjorie Prime,” “War for
the Planet of the Apes,”
“Good Time,” “Columbus,”
“A Fantastic Woman,” “A
Quiet Passion” and the
one-of-a-kind documentary
“Dawson City: Frozen
Time” all drew support in
multiple categories. The
system favors consensus, of
course. Which is a bit of a
shame, since some of the
most interesting films each
year are those that don’t
build consensus but defy it.
GLENN WHIPP: Defiance
is a proud LAFCA tradition.
The group named Terry
Gilliam’s “Brazil” best pic-
ture in 1985, helping force
Universal to release
Gilliam’s cut of the movie
after a bitter, protracted
battle between the film-
maker and the studio. We
also had that inspired inter-
national run of best actress
winners a few years ago,
including Yolande Moreau
(“Seraphine”), Kim Hye-ja
(“Mother”) and Yun Jung-
hee (“Poetry”).
That established pattern
of seeing beyond the obvi-
ous made this year’s LAFCA
slate feel a tad conventional.
I can’t complain about the
choices. Yet, I left disap-
pointed that this was the
rare year when our selec-
tions — even the runners-up
— all seem destined to be
rubber-stamped by count-
less other groups, including
the motion picture acade-
my. Instead of pointing the
way forward, as we arguably
did in years past with early
honors for “Mad Max: Fury
Road” and “Amour” and a
best picture award for
“WALL-E,” our picks were
almost — and it hurts me to
say this — predictable.
I think one of the most
vital things a critics group
can do is expand the defini-
tion of what constitutes an
awards-worthy perform-
Desert epic
as it was meant
to be seen
New 70 mm print of
‘Lawrence of Arabia’
coming to American
Cinematheque sites.
By Mark Olsen
The American Cinema-
theque will have exclusive
rights to exhibit a new 70 mm
print of David Lean’s 1962
film “Lawrence of Arabia”
in Los Angeles. The movie
will receive two extended
runs per year, one at the
Egyptian Theatre in Holly-
wood and the other at the
Aero Theatre in Santa Moni-
ca. The first of these runs will
take place Dec. 15-30 at the
Egyptian.
“Renewed interest in 70
mm print exhibition has
generated many requests for
new 70 mm prints of
‘Lawrence,’ and we decided
that this would be a good
time to honor those re-
quests,” Grover Crisp, Sony
Studios’ executive vice pres-
ident of asset management,
film restoration and digital
VINCE VAUGHN , below left, may not get as much recognition for his performance in “Brawl in Cell Block 99” as Timothée Chalamet, top,
in “Call Me by Your Name” or Willem Dafoe in “The Florida Project,” but all three earned votes from Times film critic Justin Chang.
ance. The New York Film
Critics Circle did that a few
days ago when it gave
Tiffany Haddish its sup-
porting actress honor for
her deranged comic turn in
“Girls Trip.” We did that
four years ago with James
Franco in a Harmony Ko-
rine movie (“Spring Break-
ers”).
I’m not saying we have to
fly our freak flag in every
category, Justin. But as
much as I loved Sally
Hawkins’ work in “The
Shape of Water,” we had the
opportunity to make a more
electrifying choice — say,
Daniela Vega (“A Fantastic
Woman”) or Kristen Stew-
art (“Personal Shopper”) —
by going in a less expected
direction in that lead ac-
tress category. Both those
performances are, I believe,
every bit the equal of
Hawkins’ turn.
CHANG: I love flying our
freak flag, the higher the
better. And why not? As
critics, we exist to acknowl-
edge obviously great work
but also great work being
done on the margins. And so
while I was happy to go
along with consensus favor-
mastering, said in a state-
ment. “The new 70 mm
prints are really meant for
those audiences who truly
appreciate the art and
technology of film produc-
tion and exhibition.”
Crisp is scheduled to in-
troduce the first screening of
the new print on Dec 15.
“David Lean’s epic tale
has long been extremely
popular with Cinematheque
audiences. With its sweeping
desert vistas, it demands to
be seen on the big screen and
has become a rite of passage
for film fans to see it pro-
jected at the Cinematheque
in 70 mm,” said American
Cinematheque’s executive
director, Barbara Smith,
also in a statement.
“It is one of our most re-
quested titles and continues
to fill our 600- and 400-seat
theaters. Our patrons tell us
they want to see it as the di-
rector intended, in 70 mm.
We decided we needed a new
print to satisfy the interest in
this title and to ensure that
viewing it was a satisfying
experience,” said Cinema-
theque programmer Gwen
ites like Timothée Chalamet
(“Call Me by Your Name”)
and Willem Dafoe (“The
Florida Project”), I also
couldn’t resist voting for
Stewart, Haddish, Cynthia
Nixon (“A Quiet Passion”)
and Vince Vaughn, who’s
riveting — and totally
awards-worthy — in “Brawl
in Cell Block 99.”
As for Hawkins: Some
may recall that while her
brilliant performance in
Mike Leigh’s “Happy-Go-
Lucky” (2008) earned her
prizes from the New York
and L.A. critics, the Na-
tional Society of Film Critics
and the Hollywood Foreign
Press Assn., all that love
couldn’t snag her an Oscar
nomination in the end. She
was clearly a major talent,
but she was also a relative
unknown. Nine years later,
she’s headed for much
smoother sailing with the
academy for “The Shape of
Water” and deservedly so. (I
think she’s even better in
her other movie this year,
the artist biopic “Maudie,”
and indeed the group briefly
considered recognizing her
for both films.)
In the end, I couldn’t be
too disappointed with our
“LAWRENCE of Arabia,” with Peter O’Toole, will screen in new 70 mm print at the Egyptian starting Dec. 15.
Deglise.
Starring Peter O’Toole as
a character based on the
real-life British military offi-
cer T.E. Lawrence, “Law-
rence of Arabia” won seven
Academy Awards, including
best picture, director for
Lean, color cinematography
for Freddie Young and edit-
ing for Anne V. Coates
The new print of “Law-
group’s selections, espe-
cially when the top two
choices for best picture,
“Call Me by Your Name” and
runner-up “The Florida
Project,” were two of my
favorites as well. You’re
right, Glenn, that many of
the winners seem in line
with what other groups, the
academy included, may end
up recognizing. That said,
given the unusually broad
range of fine films and the
absence of a “La La Land”-
or “Moonlight”-style jugger-
naut, this doesn’t strike me
as a year in which cut-and-
dried conclusions can nec-
essarily be drawn.
Chalamet’s NYFCC and
LAFCA wins have given him
a nice boost in the actor
race, but from an industry
perspective he’ll still look
like a young underdog next
to, say, Gary Oldman’s far
showier work in “Darkest
Hour.” I imagine that
“Three Billboards Outside
Ebbing, Missouri,” which
received three LAFCA
runner-up placements on
Sunday, is cooling its heels
in preparation for a bigger
showing elsewhere. “The
Post,” though ignored by
NYFCC and LAFCA after
rence of Arabia” comes at a
time of renewed interest in
screening formats, as a spe-
cial showing of a movie may
be the deciding factor to
leave the house.
Last year, the Cinema-
theque announced exclusive
rights to a new 70 mm print
of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001:
A Space Odyssey.” This year,
both “Dunkirk” and “Mur-
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its big wins from the Na-
tional Board of Review (not
technically a critics group),
remains very much in the
conversation.
And I hope the same is
true of Christopher Nolan’s
remarkable “Dunkirk,”
which has been largely
overlooked so far, but
which fulfills an all-too-
rare awards-season prom-
ise: It’s a sweeping, acade-
my-friendly spectacle
and a bona fide critics’
darling.
WHIPP: I’m not worried
about “The Post.” Oscar
voters packed its screening
last night at the motion
picture academy’s theater
in Beverly Hills and roared
their approval when Steven
Spielberg came on stage for
a Q&A afterward.
Circling back to the idea
of consensus choices win-
ning awards, “The Post”
feels like the kind of movie
that the academy might
honor at this moment in
time. Fashioned as a thriller
dramatizing the decision to
publish the leaked Penta-
gon Papers in 1971, it touches
on issues — gender equity,
freedom of the press — very
der on the Orient Express”
were released to theaters
in 70 mm. It has also been
announced that the upcom-
ing “Star Wars: The Last
Jedi” will be shown in Imax
70 mm.
“If you haven’t seen
‘Lawrence of Arabia’ in 70
mm, you have not seen the
film,” Cinematheque pro-
grammer Grant Moninger
much in the conversation in
2017. Academy members
want the best picture Oscar
winner to reflect well on
their industry, and most
would probably agree that a
vote for “The Post” would do
just that.
Now, I’d argue that
there’s another movie — a
better movie — that speaks
to the current moment, and
that’s “The Florida Project,”
Sean Baker’s expansive,
emotionally raw look at
people living on the frayed
edges of America. Set in a
rundown motel in the sha-
dow of Orlando’s Disney
World, the film follows a
group of modern-day Little
Rascals romping around a
magic kingdom of their own
making while the grown-ups
(some barely removed from
their own childhoods)
struggle, often desperately,
to make ends meet. It’s a
miracle of a movie, buoyant
and heartbreaking, and
surveys an America we
don’t often see depicted
on screen.
As for Nolan, I’d guess
that he’ll finally earn his
first nomination as a direc-
tor for “Dunkirk.” But his
ambitious, twisty movies
leave a lot of people cold,
and “Dunkirk” is no excep-
tion. After I wrote about the
strong reaction the movie
received at its academy
screening in July, several
voters emailed me to tell me
that they most definitely
weren’t applauding from
their seats that evening.
Nolan might have to content
himself with the total artis-
tic freedom afforded by his
commercial successes. No
small prize that.
justin.chang@latimes.com
glenn.whipp@latimes.com
Columbia Pictures
said in a statement. “We are
fortunate to be able to pro-
ject in 70 mm, as it still reigns
as the greatest projectable
format. Its sharp, detailed
image does a great service to
one of the most epic adven-
ture stories ever told on-
screen.”
mark.olsen@latimes.com
Twitter: @IndieFocus
L AT I ME S . CO M/ CA L E N DA R
“AMERICA TO ME,” with Jada Buford and Tyrone Williams, is an indie episodic entry from Steve James.
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
‘Indie episodic’ to debut
The institute had
previously screened
such content, but this
is a new section for ’18.
By Mark Olsen
The Sundance Film Fes-
tival will add a new section,
dubbed indie episodic, to the
upcoming 2018 edition. The
festival has also announced
its short-film program and
several titles in the special
events section.
Other festivals, such as
the Toronto International
Film Festival and the South
by Southwest Film Festival,
already have sections dedi-
cated to episodic content.
Sundance has previously ex-
plored screening episodic
content, including Jane
Campion’s miniseries “Top
of the Lake” in 2013 and Ezra
Edelman’s multi-part docu-
mentary “OJ: Made in
America” in 2016, both in
their entirety. The Sun-
dance Institute has also
been running a program for
episodic projects among
their talent labs for the last
few years.
“I think we’ve always
prided ourselves on embrac-
ing what change is happen-
ing in these different me-
diums for storytellers to
work in,” Trevor Groth, the
festival’s director of pro-
gramming, said in a recent
interview of the festival’s
embrace of episodic work.
“We felt that a lot of the
storytellers who were work-
ing in that form were Sun-
dance artists. And so we
started showing more and
more.”
Among the selections for
the inaugural indie episodic
section are “America to Me,”
directed by Steve James;
“Cherries,” directed by Diaz
“I’M POPPY” stars the singer Poppy in the official
fest entry from director-musician Titanic Sinclair.
Jacobs; “Franchesca,” exe-
cutive produced by Franch-
esca Ramsey and directed
by Kaitlin Fontana; “Half-
way There,” directed by Rick
Rosenthal; “High & Mighty,”
directed by Carlos Lopez
Estrada; “I’m Poppy,” di-
rected by Titanic Sinclair;
“Leimert Park,” directed by
Mel Jones; “Mr. Inbetween,”
directed by Nash Edgerton;
“The Passage,” directed by
Kitao Sakuri; “The Show
About the Show (Season 2),”
directed by Caveh Zahedi;
“This Close,” directed by An-
drew Ahn, and “Tropical
Cop Tales,” directed by Jim
Hosking.
“That’s what I love about
this episodic work too —it’s
allowing [for] all of these dif-
ferent voices,” said Groth.
Groth said the ultimate
goal of the section was “try-
ing to create a bit of a market
around this work like we did
for film back in the late ’80s,
early ’90s, and you saw this
whole industry grow up
around it. I think the same
thing will happen with the
episodic work.
“Whether it’s connected
to the film space or becomes
its own industry, we don’t
know, but we want to help
stimulate it as much as we
can.”
The festival has previ-
ously screened episodic
work in the special events
section, where this year Os-
car-nominated documen-
tary filmmaker Matthew
Heineman will world pre-
miere “The Trade,” a docu-
series exploring the opioid
epidemic on both sides of
the U.S./Mexico border.
Also screening as a spe-
cial event will be “The King,”
an ambitious look at Ameri-
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can cultural, political and
economic power via a 1963
Rolls-Royce once owned by
Elvis Presley, directed by Eu-
gene Jarecki and executive
produced by Steven Soder-
bergh.
“Pass Over,” an adapt-
ation of the play by An-
toinette Nwandu directed by
Spike Lee, will have its world
premiere. As will “Wild Wild
Country,” an examination of
a utopian community in ru-
ral Oregon, directed by
Chapman Way and Maclain
Way.
Sundance also released
the lineup of 62 short films
that will play at this year’s
festival.
Among the selection are
“Home Shopper,” directed
by Dev Patel; “Maude,” di-
rected by Anna Margaret
Hollyman; “Painting With
Joan,” directed by Jack
Henry Robbins; “LaZer-
cism,” directed by Shaka
King; “War Paint,” directed
by Katrelle N. Kindred;
“Careful How You Go,” di-
rected by Emerald Fennell
(and starring “Fleabag” lead
Phoebe Waller-Bridge), and
“Cheer Up Baby,” directed
by Adinah Dancyger.
Among the animated
shorts are “A Brief Spark
Bookended By Darkness,”
directed by Brent Green,
“The Burden,” directed by
Niki Lindroth von Bahr ,and
“World of Tomorrow Epi-
sode Two: The Burden of
Other People’s Thoughts,”
directed by Don Hertzfeldt.
Mike Plante, senior
programmer for the festival,
said in a statement, “We are
always thrilled to discover
new voices in filmmaking
through the short-film pro-
gram. They take risks in
story and style you might
not expect.”
mark.olsen@latimes.com
Twitter: @IndieFocus
E6 TU E S DAY , D E C E M BER 5, 2017
HOROSCOPE
By Holiday Mathis
Aries (March 21-April 19):
If you can delay a knee-jerk
verdict, you’ll set off a series
of sweet events, all made
possible by your act of listen-
ing.
Taurus (April 20-May
20): Make sure you’re on the
same track with the other
person; that way, you’ll avoid
the problems that come with
making assumptions.
Gemini (May 21-June 21):
With most things you tackle
today, the result will be bet-
ter if you delay the payoff for
as long as possible.
Cancer (June 22-July 22):
Aware of most people’s short
attention spans, you’ll aim
your words toward a par-
ticular destination and leave
out anything that doesn’t di-
rectly address the issue.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):
You’ll come across those
who’ve yet to discover their
own depths. Alas, the rela-
tionship can only go as deep
as the shallowest person.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Go forward in full faith that
you have a chance at victory,
even if you feel like an under-
dog.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
The trouble with looking for
“why” is that what follows is
often praise or blame. Some-
times there really is no de-
finitive “responsible party.”
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21):
You want to be influential,
but if you don’t empha-
size individuals’ common
ground, they’ll mistrust you.
Group acceptance will be re-
quired.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21): It’s as if you were de-
signed for adventure these
days. March forward and the
others will follow.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): Today there probably
won’t be a clear guide
through unknown territory;
learn from the uncertainty.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): Like a nice neighbor-
hood that wants to preserve
COMICS
the peace, your life could use
a few speed bumps — con-
structs you can put in place
to slow yourself down.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March
20): The scenario is fresh,
and you’re still deciding who
you want to be. Consider
what each role requires.
Today’s birthday (Dec.
5): Your cosmic gift is one of
determined and exclusive
focus on the things that are
going to make your life bet-
ter. You’ll be freeing yourself
of an anchor of sorts over the
next three months. In
March, family works to-
gether and all are lifted. In
2018 you’ll take pleasure in
the sale of something that
helps people. Leo and Pisces
adore you. Your lucky num-
bers are: 6, 10, 23, 40 and 11.
Holiday Mathis writes her
column for Creators
Syndicate Inc. The
horoscope should be read
for entertainment. Previous
forecasts are at
latimes.com/horoscope.
BRIDGE
By Frank Stewart
It had been ages since
Secondhand Rose had dark-
ened the door of my club.
When the lesson about sec-
ond hand low on defense was
taught, Rose must have
been absent.
Rose was today’s East,
and South played at four
spades after West doubled
his one-spade bid for take-
out. West led the queen of
hearts. After dummy’s ace
won, South led the 10 of
trumps, pretending he was
about to try a finesse. And
Secondhand Rose ... with
the ace!
Rose then led a diamond,
and West took the queen and
ace and got his ace of clubs.
South makes game if
Rose plays second hand low
on the first trump. South will
ASK AMY
Tough, recurring issue
Dear Amy: The woman I
have employed to clean my
house for several years has a
very difficult life. She’s a
hard worker, does a beauti-
ful job and is completely
trustworthy. But, like so
many people in her situa-
tion, her financial situation
is extremely precarious.
I pay her very well and am
generous at Christmas,
birthdays and so on. When
she is faced with a sudden
emergency such as her car
breaking down, I will give her
some extra money to tide
her over. She always says
she’ll find a way to pay me
back, but we both know that
won’t happen.
These extra amounts
probably total around $1,000
a year, overall.
I am able to afford to help
her, and she is always tearful
and very grateful, but I am
increasingly uncomfortable.
I hate being put in the posi-
tion of being her “last re-
sort.” The last time she came
to me, she needed $300.
How do you think I
should handle this?
Trying to Be Kind
Dear Trying: If you are
willing to spend $1,000 annu-
ally to help this person, you
could either raise her pay by
that amount — and perhaps
be willing to say no to any ex-
tra entreaties, or put aside
LAT IMES. C OM/ CALENDAR
win in his hand and pitch a
diamond from dummy on
the king of hearts, avoiding a
second diamond loser.
Rose’s play was clear
enough in retrospect. West’s
opening lead marked South
with the king of hearts, and a
discard was impending. But
many Easts would have
feared that West had a sin-
gleton king or queen in
trumps.
Question: You hold: ♠ 9 ♥
Q J 10 8 6 ♦ A Q 7 2 ♣ A Q 2.
You open one heart, and
your partner raises to two
hearts. What do you say?
Answer: Your hand isn’t
promising enough to bid
four hearts, but since a well-
fitting hand for your partner
will make game, you must
try to get there. Bid three
diamonds, asking him to
judge based primarily on
whether he has help for your
that amount into a private
“emergency fund.”
As she draws down the
fund, you will have to decide
what to do if she asks for over
the amount within the
course of a year. You should
also do some research to see
if there are local organiza-
tions that might help with
her utility bill (for instance),
or with emergency needs.
You could also help by
recommending her high-
quality cleaning service to
others. Income from an ad-
ditional client might give her
the cushion she needs.
Dear Amy: I recently had a
difficult anniversary of a
loved one’s death and was
under a lot of pressure at
work. I ended up treating my
intern badly (I was hyper-
critical and micromanag-
ing).
She switched supervi-
sors and badmouthed me to
my colleagues (she tended
to badmouth people, so I
should’ve seen that coming).
The intern has now com-
pleted her internship and is
working elsewhere.
I feel so ashamed of how I
treated her. I am having a
hard time forgiving myself.
How do I begin to move on
from this?
Sad Supervisor
Dear Sad: The path
second suit. If he holds a
hand such as 7 6 5, K 9 7, K J 6,
J 6 5 4, he will jump to four
hearts.
South dealer
Both sides vulnerable
NORTH
♠ 10 7 4 2
♥A
♦83
♣J97643
WEST EAST
♠9 ♠A5
♥ Q J 10 8 6 ♥9742
♦AQ72 ♦J964
♣AQ2 ♣ 10 8 5
SOUTH
♠KQJ863
♥K53
♦ K 10 5
♣K
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
1♠ Dbl 2♠ Pass
4♠ All Pass
Opening lead — ♥ Q
Tribune Media Services
toward forgiving yourself
starts with acknowledging
your behavior to the person
you have wronged. You
should also ask that person
to forgive you.
Contact the former
intern through email or a
Facebook private message.
Write: “I feel very guilty for
how I treated you. I was go-
ing through a very stressful
and rough patch in my own
life, which is not an excuse,
but an explanation for my
behavior, which was unpro-
fessional and unkind. You
deserved better from me,
and I regret that I didn’t take
the opportunity to apologize
to you in person. I hope you
will find it in your heart to
forgive me. I wish you all the
very best in your career.”
Understand that if this
person could copy and paste
and share your apology with
others, depending on her
motivation and maturity
level. Regardless, you will
have demonstrated an im-
portant attitude of acknowl-
edgment. Then, you should
make an effort to turn the
page, understanding that,
like all of us, you occasionally
make very human mistakes.
Send questions to askamy@
amydickinson.com or to
Tribune Content Agency,
16650 Westgrove Drive, Suite
175, Addison, TX 75001.
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COMICS
E8 TU E S DAY , D E C E M BER 5, 2017
TV HIGHLIGHTS
SERIES
The Flash Caitlin (Danielle
Panabaker) is abducted
by Anumet (returning
guest star Katee Sack-
hoff) and is forced to per-
form a tricky medical pro-
cedure. The Flash (Grant
Gustin) also becomes a
prisoner in this new epi-
sode. 8 p.m. KTLA
The Middle In its final sea-
son, the comedy marks its
200th episode. Patricia
Heaton, Neil Flynn, Atti-
cus Shaffer, Eden Sher
and Charlie McDermott
star. 8 p.m. ABC
Lethal Weapon Riggs and
Murtaugh (Clayne Craw-
ford, Damon Wayans Sr.)
try to separate fiction
from fact when an investi-
gation draws them into a
world of conspiracy theo-
ries. 8 p.m. Fox
Will & Grace When Will,
Grace, Karen and Jack
(Eric McCormack, Debra
Messing, Megan Mullally
and Sean Hayes) wish
they could have experi-
enced Christmas in old
New York, they’re magi-
cally transported back to
the early 20th century in
this imaginative holiday
episode. 9 p.m. NBC
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
The Legends travel back
to the era of Vikings,
where Damien Darhk
(Neal McDonough) reap-
pears. 9 p.m. KTLA
black-ish Dre (Anthony An-
derson) becomes im-
mersed in his company’s
giving-back-to-the-com-
munity campaign in this
new episode. 9 p.m. ABC
Major Crimes An attorney
celebrated for her defense
of oppressed women is
found dead, the long list of
high-profile suspects in-
cludes family members, a
film director and a former
football player as a four-
eisode story arc begins.
Mary McDonnell stars. 9
p.m. TNT
Superstore Amy (America
Ferrera) tries to make
working Christmas Eve at
the store lively and memo-
rable for her co-workers.
9:30 p.m. NBC
The Mayor Courtney (Bran-
don Micheal Hall) tries to
prevent a legendary music
venue from shutting down
by staging a festival. Rap-
per E-40 guest stars. 9:30
p.m. ABC
Chris Haston NBC
CHRISTMAS in old New
York City on the NBC
comedy “Will & Grace,”
with Debra Messing.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine The
entire precinct attends a
funeral in Los Angeles,
only to miss their flight
back to the East Coast.
9:30 p.m. Fox
Stripped In the premiere of
this new eight-episode un-
scripted series participa-
nts give up everything ex-
cept toilet paper, water
and food. 10 p.m. Bravo
The Long Road Home Pfc.
Tomas Young (Noel
Fisher) gets a crash
course in the harsh reali-
ties of war. 10 p.m. Na-
tional Geographic
MOVIES
Spy (2015) 9 a.m. FX
Cloudy With a Chance of
Meatballs (2009) 12:18
p.m. Encore
Angry Angel (2017) 2:30 p.m.
Freeform
TALK SHOWS
CBS This Morning Michael
Preysman; author Stan-
ley Bing. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS
Today Claire Foy; Matt
Smith; Naomi Judd. (N) 7
a.m. KNBC
Good Morning America
James Franco; author
Ginger Zee; Seal per-
forms. (N) 7 a.m. KABC
Good Day L.A. Nasiba
Adilova, the Tot; Hill
Harper (“The Good Doc-
tor”); Allison Holker and
Stephen “tWitch” Boss.
(N) 7 a.m. KTTV
Megyn Kelly Today Naomi
Judd. (N) 9 a.m. KNBC
Live With Kelly and Ryan
James Franco; Lily
James; Brett Young per-
forms. (N) 9 a.m. KABC
The View Author Corey
Lewandowski; Keegan-
Michael Key. (N) 10 a.m.
KABC
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The Wendy Williams Show
Kenya Moore; Elvis Du-
ran. (N) 11 a.m. KTTV
The Talk Ana Gasteyer;
Keltie Knight; Hilary Duff.
(N) 1 p.m. KCBS
The Dr. Oz Show Women
say a doctor used treat-
ments as leverage to ex-
tract sexual favors. (N) 1
p.m. KTTV
The Doctors DIY liver flush.
(N) 2 p.m. KCBS
Steve Alfonso Ribeiro;
Michael Rappaport
(“This Book Has Balls”).
(N) 2 p.m. KNBC
Harry Jay Pharoah; Carly
Chaikin. (N) 2 p.m. KTTV
Dr. Phil A woman says she
has alternate person-
alities. (N) 3 p.m. KCBS
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Chris Pratt and Bryce
Dallas Howard; the Na-
tional performs. (N) 3 p.m.
KNBC
The Real Guillermo Díaz
(“The Dating Game
Killer”). (N) 3 p.m. KTTV
SoCal Connected The ethi-
cal dilemmas of what to do
with 1 million unused em-
bryos. The outdoor cloth-
ing company Patagonia.
(N) 8 p.m. KCET
The Daily Show (N) 11 p.m.
Comedy Central
Conan Jean-Claude Van
Damme; Barkhad Abdi.
(N) 11 p.m. TBS
The Tonight Show Starring
Jimmy Fallon Kate McK-
innon; Patton Oswalt; Wiz
Khalifa; Ty Dolla Sign. (N)
11:34 p.m. KNBC
The Late Show With
Stephen Colbert Saoirse
Ronan; author Van Jones;
Morrissey performs. (N)
11:35 p.m. KCBS
Jimmy Kimmel Live Tracee
Ellis Ross; author
Amanda de Cadenet. (N)
11:35 p.m. KABC
Tavis Smiley (N) midnight
KOCE
The Late Late Show With
James Corden Matthew
Broderick; Gina Rodri-
guez; Christopher Meloni.
(N) 12:37 a.m. KCBS
Late Night: Seth Meyers
Michael Shannon; Ilana
Glazer and Abbi
Jacobson; Hiss Golden
Messenger; Brooks Wack-
erman. (N) 12:37 a.m.
KNBC
Last Call With Carson Daly
Michael Kelly; Bad Suns
perform; Amber Stevens
West. (N) 1:38 a.m. KNBC