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Why California Voters Rejected Criminal Justice Reform
1 month, 1 week ago

Why California Voters Rejected Criminal Justice Reform

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING In the past decade, California’s incarceration rate has dropped about 30%. “The other side co-opted reform messaging,” said Anne Irwin, the director of Smart Justice California, a progressive criminal justice reform group. “Those are an anomaly, they happen, they are part of the public consciousness, but going forward those aren’t necessarily the people who are going to …

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Emilia Pérez: Selena Gomez’s Netflix movie is a musical about a trans drug lord. It … rips?
1 month, 1 week ago

Emilia Pérez: Selena Gomez’s Netflix movie is a musical about a trans drug lord. It … rips?

Slate  

From the first frames of Emilia Pérez, writer-director Jacques Audiard makes it clear this is going to be a musical. The story, part crime caper, part domestic melodrama, part meditation on the mystery of selfhood, will involve suspense, disguised identity, the search for redemption, tragic hubris—a full complement of themes from genres as divergent as film noir and the kind …

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Why a Frenchman was the right director for women-led, Mexico-set ‘Emilia Perez’
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Why a Frenchman was the right director for women-led, Mexico-set ‘Emilia Perez’

LA Times  

Welcome to our fourth and final special edition of the Envelope newsletter from the 2024 Toronto International Festival. The day’s buzziest premieres A scene from the Robbie Williams biopic “Better Man.” At least since “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox” story was released almost two decades ago, it’s been clear that the musical biopic is in desperate need of reinvention, yet …

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Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ wins Palme d’Or, the Cannes Film Festival’s top honor
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ wins Palme d’Or, the Cannes Film Festival’s top honor

Associated Press  

Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or. The win Saturday for “Anora” marked a coronation for Baker, the 53-year-old indie filmmaker of “The Florida Project " who used iPhones to make his 2015 film “Tangerine.” …

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L.A. hotels hire migrants from Skid Row homeless shelter to replace striking workers. Gascón investigates
1 year, 2 months ago

L.A. hotels hire migrants from Skid Row homeless shelter to replace striking workers. Gascón investigates

LA Times  

State Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, left, confers with Norelis Vargas, right, from Venezuela, along with Angelica Salas, center, executive director of Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles, after a news conference Monday to address the allegation that hotels are using staffing agencies to hire homeless migrants as replacement workers for strikers. “The people outside, it was their job, and …

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Jedidiah Murphy and the evolving debate on mental illness and capital punishment
1 year, 2 months ago

Jedidiah Murphy and the evolving debate on mental illness and capital punishment

LA Times  

Jedidiah Murphy was sent to Texas death row in 2001 and was scheduled for execution in October 2023. “One of the big reasons California’s death row has not declined as much as everybody else is because the state fails to provide lawyers, so cases that would have been reversed haven’t made it through the courts,” Dunham said, pointing to a …

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Unsealed transcripts open door to end of Roman Polanski’s 45-year legal saga in the U.S.
2 years, 5 months ago

Unsealed transcripts open door to end of Roman Polanski’s 45-year legal saga in the U.S.

LA Times  

A Los Angeles County judge intended to sentence Roman Polanski to only 90 days in prison for sexually abusing a child in 1977, according to court transcripts made public for the first time this weekend that bolster the Oscar-winning director’s chances of terminating his status as a fugitive. Polanski’s defense attorney, Harland Braun, said Monday he believes the transcripts prove …

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L.A. on the Record: Climate change is mostly taking a back seat in mayor’s race
2 years, 9 months ago

L.A. on the Record: Climate change is mostly taking a back seat in mayor’s race

LA Times  

The L.A. Department of Water and Power Valley Generating Station in Sun Valley, shown in 2020, has been the source of health and climate concerns. Jonathan Parfrey, executive director of the Los Angeles nonprofit advocacy group Climate Resolve, said he’s been volunteering for Bass’ campaign to boost understanding of climate issues. “I’d like to see, hear more talk about climate,” …

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‘It’s a showdown’: California district attorneys battle over criminal justice reforms
3 years, 10 months ago

‘It’s a showdown’: California district attorneys battle over criminal justice reforms

LA Times  

Criminal justice reformers nationwide rejoiced when L.A. County voters chose George Gascón to lead the nation’s largest prosecutor’s office, celebrating a big win in a years-long campaign to replace traditional law-and-order district attorneys with ones intent on change. Nearly as quickly, the news instigated a brawl among California’s public prosecutors, with the organization representing 57 out of the state’s 58 …

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