Santa Ana winds updates. Occupy L.A. protesters still in jail. Filmweek: KPCC film critics Tim Cogshell and Henry Sheehan join Larry to review the week’s new film releases, including Shame, Coriolanus, The Lady and more. Michael Giacchino: Academy Award winning composer.
Wild winds and what comes after
Many of us woke up yesterday morning to a houseful of problems: torn roofs, downed trees, shattered windows, crushed cars. City crews will clean up the debris on our streets, but what about the cost of weather damage to our homes? Californians accept earthquakes, mudslides, wildfires and torrential rains as a more or less annual event, but the near-hurricane level winds we saw this week presents a whole new set of problems.
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What kinds of repairs are you facing this weekend? Does your homeowner’s or renter’s insurance cover the damage? What if a tree fell on your car while it was parked on the street – who pays, you or the city? And what’s in the wind for the weekend? Have we seen the last of these blustery days?
Guest:
Dave Jones, California’s Insurance Commissioner
Roger Lamoni, Decision Support Service Meteorologist for National Weather Service, Western Regional Office in Salt Lake City
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#OccupyLA protesters still in jail
As of last night, over 200 of the 300 people arrested as part of the Occupy L.A. removal were still in jail. This fact has raised the ire of several civil rights attorneys, who stress that an overwhelming majority of those imprisoned face no charges and should be released immediately.
Those arrested are predominantly from the Los Angeles area, young, white, male and unemployed, although other races and a wide age group were accounted for. Thus far, nineteen protestors have been charged by city prosecutors. Some of these arrestees were released on Thursday, but only under the condition that they do not return downtown to City Hall.
Civil rights attorneys take issue with this, not to mention the fact that there are several people without prior convictions that face no charges, and yet are still in jail. Attorneys for the city remain steadfast in their actions, saying that the length of these prison stays is not unusual and that such a situation may “sensitize” people to getting arrested.
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Are city officials being unfair, and simply punishing those who associated with Occupy L.A.? Does the city have the legal right to prosecute? Just because they do, should they? Do you know anyone who was or still is in jail? What’s their story?
Guest:
Cynthia Anderson-Barker, Civil Rights Attorney and member of the National Lawyers Guild; Anderson-Barker joins us from the Central Arraignment Court for L.A.
Frank Stoltze, KPCC reporter
Filmweek: Shame, Coriolanus, The Lady and more
KPCC film critics Tim Cogshell and Henry Sheehan join Larry to review the week’s new film releases, including Shame, Coriolanus, The Lady and more. TGI-FilmWeek!
Guests:
Tim Cogshell, film critic for KPCC and Box Office Magazine
Henry Sheehan, film critic for KPCC and henrysheehan.com
Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino on Super 8, The Incredibles and Up
His name might not be familiar, but you’ve undoubtedly heard much of Michael Giacchino’s work. The award-winning composer has composed scores for video games, television shows and beloved, blockbuster movies.
He’s worked extensively with Pixar, providing music for “Ratatouille,” “Cars 2” and “Up,” for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score. But his work doesn’t stop there.
Giacchino collaborates regularly with J.J. Abrams. He composed all the original music for Abrams’s “Lost,” episodes of “Fringe,” and the movies “Star Trek,” “Mission: Impossible III,” and “Super 8,” which comes out this week on DVD and Blu-ray. If video games are more your bag, guess what? He’s scored a few of those too including the “Medal of Honor” and “Call of Duty” franchises – and the first original score for a console video game, PlayStation’s “The Lost World: Jurassic Park.”
When Giacchino was only ten years old, he made stop motion animation films in his basement in Riverside Township, New Jersey. In the process, he discovered his favorite part was putting music to the pictures. Giacchino joins Larry in-studio to talk about his love of music and his journey from basement to Hollywood success.
Michael Giacchino, award-winning composer of several films, television shows and video games. He scored J.J. Abrams's "Super 8," which came out on DVD this week.