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LINDSEY BAHR AND JAKE COYLE empathetic and unflinching. This time his Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How ‘The Graduate’ Became the AP Film Writers subjects are the so-called “hidden homeless” Touchstone of a Generation” living on the outskirts of Orlando in a low Associated Press Film Writers Lindsey rent motel, featuring an all-timer nice guy Good news! Thursday, at Bahr and Jake Coyle name their choices for performance from Willem Dafoe, and some the Main Library, there will be the best films of 2017. truly exciting acting discoveries in the young a free screening of the iconic Brooklynn Prince and Bria Vinaite. “The Graduate.” It will be fol- LINDSEY BAHR: 6.“Get Out”: This film isn’t your standard lowed by a discussion with 1. “Dunkirk”: I’m not sure I’ve ever been horror and that’s what makes it great. Beverly Gray, author of a ter- so wholly transported by and viscerally Writer-director Jordan Peele brilliantly rific book about the movie engaged in a theatergoing experience as I weaved poignant social commentary into a that coincides with the golden was watching Christopher Nolan’s master- top-notch genre pic — a tricky thing to do, anniversary of its original piece “Dunkirk,” but the filmmaker contin- especially when it’s your directorial debut. release. ues to innovatively use the generous budgets With it, the man who had previously been Bad news. If you, as I did, his success has afforded him to push the known as a comedian and actor made him- saw “The Graduate” fifty years envelope of immersive cinema and story- self a must-follow filmmaker too. ago, we're no longer spring telling. 7. “Phantom Thread”: Paul Thomas chickens. (Thankfully, I heard 2. “Lady Bird”: Thank you, Greta Gerwig, Anderson went relatively small for his latest an expression recently, “old is for introducing us to Lady Bird, her mother effort, a funny and wry chamber drama twenty years older than you Marion, her friend Julie, her boyfriends Kyle dressed up in couture. Vicky Krieps is a true currently are.”) and Danny, her brother Miguel and his girl- find and holds her own and then some Ms. Gray is a longtime friend Shelly, her father Larry and all the opposite Daniel Day-Lewis, as his muse and Santa Monica resident whose other wonderfully complex humans who source of occasional annoyance. It’s also father was a 1932 Samohi populate the world around a selfish, but also possibly Day-Lewis’s last performance. grad. Other Santa Monica evolving, Sacramento teenager’s life. “Lady Thankfully it’s a very good one. “Graduate” connections: the Bird” is one of those instant classics, one you 8. “Wonder Woman”: Patty Jenkins Oscars, during which Mike want to start again as soon as it’s over. deserves all the credit in the world for doing Nichols won “Best Director,” 3. “mother!”: What controversy? Darren right by “Wonder Woman,”which she mold- was held at the Civic. Aronofsky’s “mother!” is a thrilling and ed into a highly enjoyable, warm-hearted Lastly, Dustin Hoffman provocative riot. Don’t be scared off by and action-packed origin story about the attended SMC and was a THAT scene because Jennifer Lawrence is Amazonian princess, who is perfectly fundraiser for The Broad excellent in the straightforward but riveting embodied by Gal Gadot. This one, I imag- Stage. (Reportedly there was biblical allegory (that can also be about ine, will impact generations to come. talk of naming the Broad after whatever you want — narcissistic artists, the 9. “Jane”: Director Brett Morgen uses Hoffman who suggested bath- subjugation of women, the environment). never-before-seen National Geographic rooms be named after him 4. “Call Me By Your Name”: There aren’t footage to craft a loving tribute to the because “there are never bathrooms for actors.”) a lot of truly sexy movies nowadays, which is extraordinary life of Jane Goodall, given As revealed in Ms. Gray's page-turner, “The Graduate” was the right message at the right just one of the many reasons Italian film- extra grandeur from a stimulating Philip time. It garnered seven Oscar nominations and a staggering $100,000,000 domestic box maker Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me By Your Glass score. office. A few years earlier, it's shocking story line of a 21-year-old's affair with his father's law Name” stands out among the rest. 10. “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”: Rian partner's wife twice his age, might not have been accepted by the public. (FYI, in real life, Deliciously indulgent in every possible way, Johnson made Star Wars fun and funny Anne Bancroft was only 6 years older than Hoffman.) it is a lovely, decadent time falling in love again, while still delivering a truly exciting A few years later and “The Graduate” would have dealt with Vietnam not exactly great with Elio (Timothee Chalamet) and Oliver story (and fresh step forward) for the aging comedy fodder. Explaining the film's remarkable success, Nichols observed, “We hit some (Armie Hammer) over the course of one franchise. Our old heroes might be fading wind that was circling the earth that nobody could have predicted.” pretty, wistful summer. away, but the future suddenly looks promis- A story editor for twelve years for Roger Corman,“King of the B Movies,”Gray was seem- 5. “The Florida Project”: Director Sean ing again. ingly destined to write this book. A baby boomer, she was a college senior when “The Baker is so good at showing us pockets of Honorable Mentions: “Good Time,”‘’The Graduate” debuted. She was deeply affected by Benjamin Braddock's angst of what to do our world that most of us either don’t see or Disaster Artist,” ‘’I, Tonya,” ‘’Their Finest,” with his life, other than “be different” from his parents. don’t want to see, and painting portraits of ‘’Song to Song” In her fast-paced tome, Gray covers how many key choices, how much talent and, per- its inhabitants that manage to be both haps, how much luck went into making the film such a success. The result was “The SEE MOVIE PAGE 5 Graduate” changed how movies were made. Dustin Hoffman, an unknown, was the unlikeliest leading man. Jewish, 5'6,” and some thought homely, he was no Gable, Dean or Brando. Even Hoffman told Nichols he wasn't PUBLISHER ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE right for the part. Ross Furukawa Robbie Piubeni [email protected] [email protected] 1640 5th Street, Suite 218 Robert Redford would have been a far safer Benjamin as Nichols had directed him in the Santa Monica, CA 90401 Broadway hit, “Barefoot in the Park.” But when Nichols asked about the heartache of a CONTRIBUTING WRITERS OFFICE (310) 458-PRESS (7737) woman leaving him, Redford responded earnestly, “What do you mean?” EDITOR IN CHIEF David Pisarra, FAX (310) 576-9913 Matthew Hall Charles Andrews, Nichols felt no one would buy Redford as a loser. He hoped, however, they could see [email protected] Jack Neworth, Hoffman had far more inside. Sarah A. Spitz, As Gray notes, Hoffman's success opened doors for other unconventional leading men: STAFF WRITER Cynthia Citron, Charles Grodin, Richard Benjamin, Elliott Gould, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. In 2000 Kate Cagle Kathryn Boole in the New Yorker, Hoffman commented, “There is no casting in the twentieth century more [email protected] PRODUCTION The Santa Monica Daily Press publishes courageous than putting me in that part.” ADVERTISING MANAGER Monday - Saturday with a circulation of 10,000 The vast number of interviews Gray conducted reveal rich and interesting stories of DIRECTOR Darren Ouellette on weekdays and 11,000 on the weekend. The almost everyone involved in “The Graduate.” These include Lawrence Turman, the fledgling Daily Press is adjudicated as a newspaper of Jenny Rice [email protected] general circulation in the County of Los producer who saw merit in first time novelist Charles Webb's book, hardly noticed by [email protected] Angeles and covers news relevant to the City reviewers and the public. CIRCULATION of Santa Monica. The Daily Press is a member of the California Newspaper Publisher’s Buck Henry, the screenwriter (shared credit) added great humor to the film. One of he Keith Wyatt ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Association, the National Newspaper [email protected] most memorable lines was just the word “plastics.” A friend of Benjamin's father tells Ben Andrew Oja Association and the Santa Monica Chamber of plastics is the future, and somehow that resonated as the opposite of the lives boomers were [email protected] Achling Holliday Commerce. The paper you’re reading this on is [email protected] composed of 100% post consumer content and seeking, Gray weaves what brought the interviewees' to “The Graduate” and how the movie's the ink used to print these words is soy based. success impacted their lives for good and ill, even decades later. We are proud recipients of multiple honors for outstanding news coverage from the California After the delightful “Seduced by Mrs. Robinson” I had to see “The Graduate” again. (As TO ADVERTISE IN THE SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS Newspaper Publishers Association as well as a hopefully you will see on Thursday, Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson was amazing! Even the IN PRINT OR DIGITAL, PLEASE CALL 310-458-7737 Santa Monica Sustainable Quality Award. character actors were terrific.) PUBLISHED BY NEWLON ROUGE, LLC Spoiler alert, at the end when Benjamin and Elaine run off together, fifty years ago I © 2017 Newlon Rouge, LLC, all rights reserved. cheered. This time and to my horror, I thought, “They hardly know each other.” I felt really old until I remembered “really old” is twenty years older than I am.

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Fraud 1700 block 15th 9:57 a.m. The Santa Monica Police Traffic collision Main / Hollister 10:13 a.m. Department Responded To 275 Vandalism 1300 block Wilshire 10:48 a.m. Calls For Service On Dec. 26. Burglary 1500 block Broadway 11:04 a.m. Petty theft 1300 block 3rd Street Prom HERE IS A SAMPLING OF THOSE 11:06 a.m. CALLS CHOSEN BY THE Theft suspect 1300 block 3rd Street Prom SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS STAFF. 11:23 a.m. Petty theft 700 block Broadway 11:33 a.m. Grand theft 300 block Arizona 11:37 a.m. Lost property 300 block Santa Monica Theft suspect 200 block Broadway 12:23 Pier 12:12 a.m. p.m. Attempt suicide 400 block Santa Monica Grand theft 1800 block 19th 12:23 p.m. Pier 12:18 a.m. Strongarm robbery 700 block Broadway Found person 15th / Wilshire 1:36 a.m. 12:32 p.m. Battery 2nd / Santa Monica 2:08 a.m. Petty theft 1200 block 3rd Street Prom Assault w/deadly weapon 1200 block Bay 12:35 p.m. 2:20 a.m. Burglary 1300 block 17th 1:03 p.m. Vandalism 600 block Wilshire 5:19 a.m. Found property 1400 block 2nd 2:31 p.m. Vandalism 600 block Washington 5:31 Vandalism 1400 block 4th 2:44 p.m. a.m. Battery 1500 block Ocean 3:29 p.m. Encampment 1200 block 4th 5:53 a.m. Traffic collision Cloverfield / Olympic 4:02 Encampment 3100 block 2nd 6:44 a.m. p.m. Vehicle parked in alley 2800 block Kansas Petty theft 1900 block Arizona 4:40 p.m. 7:01 a.m. Burglary 1400 block Ocean 4:42 p.m. Fight 1500 block 2nd 7:02 a.m. Petty theft 1300 block Wilshire 4:48 p.m. Burglary 2800 block Wilshire 7:47 a.m. Hit and run 600 block 22nd 5:21 p.m. Lewd activity 700 block Arizona 8:32 Auto burglary 1300 block 6th 5:27 p.m. a.m. Petty theft 400 block Santa Monica 5:52 Audible burglar 1600 block 10th 8:48 a.m. p.m. Theft recyclables 400 block 22nd 8:49 Theft suspect 1400 block 3rd Street Prom a.m. 6:01 p.m. Grand theft 2600 block Lincoln 9:00 a.m. Prowler 2600 block 33rd 6:01 p.m. Auto burglary 1200 block 2nd 9:03 a.m. Auto burglary 1200 block 2nd 6:24 p.m. Vandalism 2900 block 31st 9:19 a.m. Burglary 1200 block 12th 6:24 p.m. Burglary 1100 block 5th 9:33 a.m. Traffic collision Lincoln / Maple 6:28 p.m. Battery 1900 block 6th 9:39 a.m. Hit and run 1500 block Pacific Coast Hwy Encampment 2800 block the beach 9:43 6:30 p.m. a.m. Traffic collision Lincoln / Maple 7:07 p.m. Encampment 1600 block 5th 9:44 a.m. Attempt burglary 1000 block Princeton 8 Vandalism 1300 block Princeton 9:47 a.m. p.m.

DAILY FIRE LOG THE ORIGINAL BIKE SHOP ON MAIN STREET Across from Urth Cafe EMS 2800 block Pico 10:38 a.m. The Santa Monica Fire Department EMS 1600 block Arizona 11:37 a.m. HOLIDAY Responded To 32 Calls For EMS 2000 block Hill 1:22 p.m. EMS 1000 block 14th 1:23 p.m. SAVINGS Service On Dec. 26. EMS 300 block Olympic 1:38 p.m. HERE IS A SAMPLING OF THOSE EMS 500 block Alta 1:43 p.m. EVENT! CALLS CHOSEN BY THE Traffic collision with physical rescue 20th WIDE SELECTION OF BIKES SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS STAFF. / Interstate 10 2:50 p.m. FOR EVERY AGE AND BUDGET! EMS 2800 block Pico 3:19 p.m. SHOP NOW AND SAVE, WE CAN EMS 700 block Pico 3:52 p.m. STORE YOUR GIFTS UNTIL THE HOLIDAY Emergency Medical Service 400 block Traffic collision with injury Cloverfield / Expo Line 12:29 a.m. Olympic 4:03 p.m. EMS 2500 block Santa Monica 12:43 a.m. EMS 17th / Michigan 4:07 p.m. EMS Cloverfield / Olympic 1:23 a.m. Traffic collision with injury Cloverfield / 310.581.8014 EMS 200 block Santa Monica 2:10 a.m. Olympic 4:38 p.m. Automatic alarm 700 block Santa Monica EMS 500 block Olympic 5:17 p.m. www.bikeshopsantamonica.com 2:14 a.m. EMS 2200 block Ocean Front Walk 5:37 EMS 1200 block Bay 2:22 a.m. p.m. Automatic alarm 300 block Olympic 4:39 EMS 2900 block Pico 6 p.m. a.m. Traffic collision with injury Lincoln / Maple EMS 500 block Colorado 5:49 a.m. 6:28 p.m. Haz mat - level 1 1200 block Bay 8:03 EMS 1300 block 20th 6:40 p.m. a.m. EMS 1200 block 19th 10:49 p.m. Automatic alarm 1500 block 6th 9:15 a.m. EMS 1800 block 20th 10:51 p.m. EMS 2200 block Colorado 9:39 a.m. EMS 2600 block 34th 11:45 p.m. EMS 1300 block 15th 10:34 a.m.

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2400 MAIN CRIME WATCH Body of Knowledge MYSTERY PHOTO STREET BY DAILY PRESS STAFF ■ The average person can expect to breathe in about 40 pounds of Crime Watch is culled from reports provided by the Santa Monica dust over his or her lifetime. Police Department. These are arrests only. All parties are inno- Get Me That, Stat! cent until proven guilty in a court of law. ■ A new Lancet Commission report puts numbers to the health ON DECEMBER 1 AT ABOUT 5 A.M. toll caused by pollution. The While conducting periodic checks for livability issues in report says diseases driven by pol- the downtown area, officers saw a subject lying in front of lution, such as cancer and heart a doorway of 1423 2nd Street. Officers noticed the sub- disease, accounted for 1 in 6 six ject was sleeping and contacted her to issue a citation. deaths worldwide in 2016. The vast The subject was not in possession of any identifiable infor- majority of these deaths -- more mation and would not provide her name. The subject was than 90 percent -- occur in low- placed under arrest and transported to SMPD Jail. income and middle-income coun- Barbara Mayor, 29, homeless, was arrested for sleeping in tries, primarily among minority a doorway. Bail was set at $ 500. populations.

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after that state legalized marijuana in 2014. a booth under a large white canopy stopped main route from Arizona to San Diego, gets LAWS California is a far busier route for illegal drivers for a few seconds to ask their citizen- busy with drivers returning from weekend FROM PAGE 1 crossings with many more agents. ship or waved them through after peering getaways but is less traveled than others. State and federal marijuana laws have inside. Agents say a checkpoint on Interstate 5 seizures at Border Patrol checkpoints from conflicted since California became the first In about an hour, three raised enough between San Diego and Los Angeles can fiscal years 2013 to 2016 were an ounce (28 to legalize marijuana for medical use in suspicion to be ordered aside for a thorough cause a 4-mile (6.4-kilometer) backup in 90 grams) or less from U.S. citizens, according 1996. Next week, California will be among vehicle search. seconds during peak hours. to a Government Accountability Office seven states and Washington, D.C., with legal A dog discovered a marijuana stash about The government faces pushback over report last month. California’s law allows recreational pot. the size of a thumbprint inside the pickup checkpoints. Some residents complain about anyone 21 and over to carry up to an ounce. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a truck of a man with Arizona license plates delays and trespassers trying to circumvent The Border Patrol operates 34 permanent staunch opponent of legalization, said last who was taking his elderly uncle to a hospi- checkpoints — some even dying from heat checkpoints along the Mexican border and month that he was taking a close look at fed- tal appointment. It would have taken up to and exhaustion. Motorists who consider an additional 103 “tactical” stops, typically eral enforcement, suggesting a tougher an hour to process the arrest, so agents them a privacy invasion steadfastly refuse to cones and signs. stance than President Barack Obama’s released him after seizing the pot and warn- answer questions and post their test encoun- Ronald Vitiello, acting deputy commis- administration. ing it was illegal. ters on YouTube. sioner of parent agency Customs and Border At highway checkpoints, Border Patrol “I didn’t know that, sorry,” the driver Border Patrol officials insist they are Protection, called drug seizures an “ancillary agents look for signs of nervous drivers, like said, walking to his truck after waiting on a effective. Without them, Vitiello said, smug- effect” of enforcing immigration laws. clutching steering wheels and avoiding eye bench a few minutes while the dog searched. glers would have open passage to cities like Motorists typically are released after being contact and interrupting when passengers The animal sniffed something in another Phoenix and Albuquerque, New Mexico, photographed and fingerprinted. They gen- are asked to state citizenship. Some panicked car but found nothing in the seats or trunk. once past the border. erally aren’t charged with a crime because drivers make a U-turn when they spot the The apologetic driver said she smoked mar- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1976 prosecutors consider them low priority. checkpoint, a dead giveaway. ijuana a week earlier, implying the odor lin- that agents can question people at check- The clash between state and federal mar- One recent morning on westbound gered. points even without reason to believe any- ijuana laws played out on a smaller scale Interstate 8 about 40 miles (64 kilometers) The Pine Valley checkpoint, amid oak- one in the vehicle is in the country illegally near the Canadian border in Washington east of San Diego, an agent standing outside and chaparral-covered mountains on the and don’t need a search warrant.

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Discuss how you feel, because that will tell people more about you than any fact you could share. Why do you want them to know? The better they know you, the better they can help you or allow you to help them. Your relationships are your gold. The connections you make will bring you your heart’s desire. Scorpio and Pisces adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 22, 31, 25 and 5.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) You don’t have to be the cause of an event to You’ll spend time in planning mode and in liv- feel that you’re the one to do something about ing mode too. You’re doing this right. When in it. If all you do is hope for the best, you will be planning mode, you think of the long term and doing more than most. Of course, you’ll take the distant results. But when you’re in living bigger action than that. It’s who you are. mode, you seize each hour like it’s the last. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) You have plenty that you can leverage into plenty A key secret to love, war and life in general: more. It’s all how you play it. Step back and assess Know when to get out. Everything has its cycle. where you are. Talk to outsiders about it — people Leave the party when the going is good and Agnes By TONY COCHRAN who see you more objectively than you can. you’ll have the right energy for what’s next. GEMINI (May 21-June 21) SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) When you act to please people, the opposite Positive leaders and influences will help get will happen — not always, just today. See, it’s your mind off of nagging issues that can’t be really supposed to be your turn. So take care of changed. They’ll inspire you instead to start your own needs, and pursue what delights you. dealing with things that can be changed: People will like you all the more for it. There’s so much to work with in that realm. CANCER (June 22-July 22) CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Narrow your focus. If you go too broad, people The more you care about others the more they will have no idea how to relate to you, where to care about you. Respect is the same. You’ve a hook in or what to do with you. Home in on the healthy amount of it flowing through your one thing you want that people can support world now to command and to give. you in now. You’ll make friends. Dogs of C-Kennel By MICK & MASON MASTROIANNI & JOHNNY HART AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) It’s as though your purpose clears a path for There are things that should be discussed, and you. Once you know why you’re doing a thing, a lot that shouldn’t. Discretion will be the bet- you can figure out how to do it much more eas- ter part of diplomacy. The proverb states, ily. Also, you can understand, see and tolerate “Even a fish wouldn’t get into trouble if it kept things better. its mouth shut.” PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The quarrelsome people tend to find each Common sense isn’t always common practice. other — or rather, they bring it out in each If anyone can get in there and improve the other. Avoid them altogether, because they’ll ratio of logical action to nonsense, it’s you. be especially difficult, and there’s no sense Bonus: You have a nice way of getting people in messing up the perfect peace available to to see it your way. you today. Zack Hill By JOHN DEERING & JOHN NEWCOMBE Cosmic Invocation of the Muses

Mars and Neptune form a magic triangular window in the sky that serves as a cosmic invitation to the muses to generously grace us with inspiration and increased creative powers. Tasks that require inventive thinking will go exceptionally well. Any and all parts of life will be improved with an open-minded, imagina- tive approach.

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