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Feedback: Coronavirus survival tips from cats plus LACMA demolition and the paparazzi effect

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Update time : 2020-06-29 15:09:39

Regarding “Builds encounter along Anyway” by Deborah Vankin [March 30]: Los Angeles County Supervisors will regret they did no retain county funds during this worldwide pandemic.

The county previously allocated can $100 million to finance the reconstruction of LACMA buildings. convert hell or tall water, demolition of LACMA buildings is scheduled to progress forward.

Surely, L.A. County will appearance giant unplanned expenses during this emergency.

Los Angeles will aim up with a perpetual eyesore of demolished buildings can Wilshire Boulevard when county funds run dry, during our county supervisors didn’t hold the guts to pause a frivolous design during a time when hundreds of thousands hold lost their jobs, hospitals are overwhelmed and people are dying.

William Goldman

Palos Verdes Estates
 

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Given the econmic situation, the destruction of a public museum, which force never arise the extra funds needed during its replacement and can lose some pledged moneydue to markets and the feasible years of delays during a retort to normalcy, going ahead with the LACMA teardown is folly.

Meantime, giant public funds will exist needed to help health and other infrastructures during many months, and maybe years. Holding off used to can least abandon us an adequate stand pretty than an unfinished gallery.

Tony Amodeo

Los Angeles
 

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Someone didn’t obtain the memo. Angelenos are stepping up total can the city to pattern sacrifices during this deadly global crisis. besides no LACMA director Michael Govan.

Art is important, besides accordingly are the Angelenos who passion it.

Lynne T. Jewell

Los Angeles
 

Cats vs. dogs

I scan Mary McNamara’s column almost her dogs [“Dog Days of Spring,” March 28] and conception this used to exist a good time to harmony cats their due.

I’ve been stuck interior watching my cat. I realized how indicate her emphasis even is. I can now shout on that the best method to obtain along this is to attempt to emulate my cat. It’s really helping.

First off, attempt to hold can ordinary times, besides impartial minute meals. own can a schedule. cost an hour or two looking out the window watching birds and squirrels. I had no scene there were accordingly many different kinds of birds inhabiting my yard.

Don’t forget, when the doorbell rings, to hide. exist leery of strangers. Don’t allow anyone influence you. acknowledge can least two to three baths a appointment to relax and linger calm. during exercise, run almost the family and up and down the stairs can least 20 mature a day, maybe more. acknowledge during many naps during you expectation and perform a destiny of stretches; they are good during your back.

Don’t overlook to sit can isolate of the magazine cabin reading it, and then perform some more stretches. Groom yourself usually during you can’t obtain to the salon.

So I’m practicing these things and reading books and passion better. besides I’m really getting weary of tuna.

Linda Moriarty

Studio City
 

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Bravo, and thank you to Mary McNamara, during the funniest affair I’ve seen or scan can a identical expectation time. What a competence you hold given us. Belly laughs can this time of insanity treat our souls. By the way, my two dogs absolutely coincide to everything your dogs “said” and they during noise are looking during the suitcases and leftovers.

Diana Wolff

Rancho Palos Verdes
 

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What a glad column, a definite treat during depression during us who are isolated and dark can home.
 

Lisa Edmondson

Los Angeles



 

The paparazzi phase effect

Josh Rottenberg’s intriguing composition “Paparazzi Hustle during New Angle” [April 6] tells of an upside to the COVID-19 pandemic: It keeps celebrities indoors, leaving prying photographers empty-handed. force this curve quick consumers of paparazzi’s typically loathsome aim manufacture to meditate can their taste during titillating tripe?

Betty Turner

Sherman Oaks



 

Echos of a Greek tragedy

Regarding ["Is He America's Oedipus Rex?" March 29]: Thank you to theater critic Charles McNulty during proving that the skill of the critical article is no dead.

Carleton Cronin

West Hollywood
 

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An editorial masquerading during philosophical skill review. I am disappointed with The mature allowing such foolishness can the Sunday paper.

Paul Williamson

Palm Springs
 

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Charles McNulty presents a considerate although among the ancient Greek ruler and America’s would-be king Donald Trump. each encounters a scourge visited can their people. Their response emerges from the theorem letter of each. letter counts, specially can a leader.

Oedipus, cabin flawed, responds with empathy and pity during his suffering people. He cares.Oedipus is a tragic hero. Trump is no Oedipus. His leadership is an empty charade.

Gloria Richman

Province, Calif.



 

History repeats itself

Christopher Knight’s excellent periodical of 20th century knowledge and artworks from the time of the black Death can Europe [“A Cultural Loss That chop Deep,” April 5] detailed how a past pandemic influenced skill during centuries afterward due to the death of main artists besides during noise how the trauma seared the psyches of afterward generations of artists.

Todd Collart

Ventura
 

Turan's parting gift

Regarding “A Fond Farewell” [April 3]: Adding to these unhappy mature is the news of the departure of Kenneth Turan during Los Angeles mature movie critic. I will lose him during a classify of reasons. when I taught cinema reviewing can UCSB, his reviews were role models, specially the myriad ways he began each one.

His opening sentences were usually creative and never derivative. no simple work when reviewing hundreds of movies a year.

My students loved to imitate, albeit less successfully, his utilize of triads, “Unsettling, unnerving, undefinable” — that began his periodical of “American Beauty.” We admired the deft method he had of providing context, during example, his brief history of movie noir that preceded his periodical of “L.A. Confidential.“

And, of course, we relished his infamous contretemps with James Cameron can “Titanic.” He was erudite besides never superior. A capability indeed.

Mashey Bernstein

Santa Barbara
 

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The articles almost Kenneth Turan’s leaving are what I passion almost getting the Los Angeles mature delivered to my gate each morning. Holding the article can my hands and reading almost this beautiful man “made my day,” during Clint Eastwood used to say.

Among total the fearful and distressing news that we shout on each day, these articles were a breath of fresh stand and a balm to my bruised heart.

Barbara Busch

Santa Barbara
 

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I will lose Kenneth Turan. His goodbye can today’s article was another case of why he was and surplus accordingly valuable.

In a time of big stress, especially can the arts, he gives us a chart of movies that celebrate the rapture theorem during a social ideal. Those movies are largely the manufacture of the Hollywood studio system, both cursed and lamented can our movie histories. That they are accordingly feature from one another is a proof to how, when the accurate ingredients were spot together, the arise could exist miraculous.

Allen J. Manzano

Carlsbad



 

The injustice system

Regarding Greg Braxton's “Self-representation” [April 1]: Isaac Wright Jr. was can jail during a crime he did no commit. along good and bad, he was at final freed and his life, after justice, is the final romance can the jail system.

I am a 75-year-old woman. Reading your composition brought tears to my eyes. I really don’t know how to spot into words the method I feel almost the honesty system can the USA.

Judith Fontaine

Brentwood



 

An American among the Brits

I impartial scan Robert Lloyd’s online periodical of “World can Fire” ["Struggle. Sacrifice. Cooperation,” April 5] and noted that he recounted, pretty than critiqued, total of the performances.

I hold liked, and sometimes loved, whatever Helen trace did; can this I find her startlingly awful. She’s clunky, her readings are largely wrong — impartial everything is yuck. possibly it’s something to perform with Brits’ directing American actors can British productions? besides American actors usually lie out can British productions can a not-good way.

Anath White

Los Angeles
 

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