Page 2 November 11, 2021
Community Briefs
Time to Shop
Til You Drop at Mattel
Mattel Toy Store is offering great savings and
opportunities to get your early holiday shopping
done. Black Friday sales start November
13 and are taking place all month long. New
deals will be added every Saturday. Also, be
sure to stop by their Holiday Tent and save up
to 70% off open now through December 23.
The Mattel Toy Store is located at 1955
E. Grand Ave., El Segundo, and open Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from
11am - 5 or go to Matteltoystore.com for
more information.
Free Rain Barrels Available for
Delivery and Pick-Up
The free Rain Barrel Program from the
West Basin Municipal Water District is back.
Residents of the West Basin service area may
now register at www.westbasin.org/rain-barrels
for free home delivery or a drive-through pickup
event hosted in El Segundo on January
29 and in Carson on February 5, 2022.“The
Rain Barrel Program returns in time for what
will hopefully be a plentiful rainy season to
help alleviate the drought,” said West Basin
Board President Harold C. Williams, MSCE,
P.E. “The 50-gallon rain barrels, valued at
$80 each but free to participants, are an easy
way to capture precious rainwater and reduce
stormwater runoff.”
Two options are available for service area
residents to receive their free rain barrels. This
year, there are 700 rain barrels available for
free home delivery. Residents interested in
this option must reserve barrels by a January
20, 2022 deadline. The District will also host
two drive-through pick-up events to distribute
400 barrels at each event. Pick-up event #1
will be at West Basin’s Edward C. Little
Water Recycling Facility in El Segundo on
Saturday, January 29, 2022 from 8-11AM;
and pick-up event #2 will take place at
West Basin’s headquarters in Carson on
Saturday, February 5, 2022 from 8-11AM.
Advance registration for the rain barrels
is required.
Since 2015, West Basin has helped save
millions of gallons of water in the region
by providing over 14,000 rain barrels at no
cost to residents in West Basin’s 17 cities
and unincorporated areas of Los Angeles
County. One rain barrel can save up to 620
gallons per year. In addition, a rain barrel
helps meet the requirement for a rainwater
capture feature that is part of West Basin’s
grass replacement rebate program (www.
westbasin.org/grass-replacement), which starts
at $3 per square foot of grass replaced. Visit
the rain barrel program website to learn more
about eligibility and conditions. Provided by
West Basin Municipal Water District
Help for Loved Ones
Memory loss in yourself or a loved one
can feel daunting. Certified Dementia Practitioner
and Palos Verdes News ‘Alzheimer’s
columnist Lauren Mahakian, invites you to
benefit from her free interactive presentations,
offered with the Solvang Library. She
will inform, educate, listen to questions and
respond to these. All presentations are offered
on Zoom to ensure greater access: November
18, 11 am: Let’s Talk! Tips and Techniques
for communicating with memory impaired
loved ones; December 2, 11 am: Dashing
Through Dementia: Learn new and creative
ways to enjoy the holidays with your memory
impaired loved one
When support is needed, so are honesty
and authenticity. This is what our Support
Group, Memory, Coffee & Compassion, is
all about. If you are caring for a loved one
with dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s or
other cognitive disorders, join our Support
Group on Zoom any Wednesday at 10am.
Please email us or call for a Zoom link. New
Memory Care Home opening in Solvang.
Family Connect Memory Care is proud to
be opening its fourth state-of-the-art, specialized,
memory care home. Like the current
three homes in Torrance, it uniquely offers
a 1-to-2 ratio of one caregiver to two residents!
Specialized menus, and our patented
Stimuli program for stimulation, exercise
and validation therapies. Please contact us to
inquire about availability, waiting lists, and
tours in Solvang and Torrance. Learn more
about the many things happening at Family
Connect Memory Care at FamilyConnect-
MemoryCare.com, by email at BusOffice@
familyconnectcare.com, or by calling (310)
383-1877 for a chat or a tour.
– Provided by Family Connect Memory Care •
“Gratitude is when memory is stored
in the heart and not in the mind.”
– Lionel Hampton
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Entertainment
Film Review
With ‘The French Dispatch,’ Wes
Anderson Invents with Short Stories
By Ryan Rojas, Cinemacy
In ‘The French Dispatch’–an anthology of
short films about a fictional magazine and its
articles–Wes Anderson finds new corners to
invent. Anyone who has seen all–or even just
one–Wes Anderson movie knows that every
outing from the prolific auteur is pure dessert
for moviegoers. A mere moment is among
the richest of intricately made confectionary
treats. Eating an entire box in a single sitting
is either the most savory of experiences, or
the most uncomfortably stuffing.
I’m happy and relieved to say that the
new film is actually, again, something of
another detour in Anderson-land. Where
Wes’ previous eight films have all adhered
to a single plot-driven storyline, the writer/
director breaks from that convention only
slightly in creatively making The French
Dispatch an anthology series of short stories.
That larger backdrop is a fictional magazine
(the Liberty Kansas Evening Sun) and its press,
which he clearly loves the history of both. It’s
actually obvious to see how The New Yorker
magazine–which he was fascinated with as
a child (can’t you just picture it?)–inspired
his particular and creative writing style that
evokes high-society intelligentsia. The French
Dispatch is an homage to the institution and
people that shaped that early artistic vision.
The film’s structure breaks from his previous
films, in that this outing is a series of
short films–articles within an edition that
cleverly mirrors a magazine itself. And it’s
this anthology structure that makes it so
welcome and appetizing at this point in his
filmography (where was he supposed to go
after the enormous accomplishment that was
the decades-spanning screwball caper The
Grand Budapest Hotel?).
Anderson’s recognizable camerawork and
cast fit together like clockwork once again:
Bill Murray leads the ensemble as the
magazine’s editor in chief, Arthur Howitzer
Jr. His personal sayings “No crying” and
“Just pretend you meant to write it like that”
can’t help but call back to Wes’ own fixation
with composed deliberateness.
The rest of his regulars pop up again as well,
all understanding their assignments. Owen
Wilson strolls the city as a “man about town”
bicycling reporter. Tilda Swinton earns laughs
as an art lecturer. Adrien Brody entertains
as a greedy art dealer, and newly-minted
Oscar winner Frances McDormand shows
she can deliver dry humor better than any.
It’s the new faces though that make the
biggest splash, and who provide the most
exciting time in the film. Benicio Del Toro
and Léa Seydoux star in the film’s second
short story, playing a brilliant but tortured
artist/prisoner, and that prisoner’s muse/
guard. “It” boy Timothée Chalamet stars
as a student protestor attempting to lead a
revolution in 60s France. And in the film’s
fourth story (and most emotionally profound),
Jeffrey Wright plays a writer and food critic
with a larger story to tell.
However, the nature of the short story is
also the film’s biggest limitation. For all of
its brilliantly-staged choreography that binds
everything together, I was left without feeling
a deeper significance to invest into, rather
than let myself simply be in awe over these
madcap comedies. Anderson clearly connects
to these stories and characters: of Del Toro’s
tortured artist, Chalamet’s youthful rebel,
and Jeffrey Wright’s melancholic food critic,
in which we see Wes offer profundity and
poignancy in a very welcoming way.
‘The French Dispatch’ is now playing in
theaters.
The French Dispatch
I don’t think that The French Dispatch will
be included in the shorthand of Wes Anderson’s
most memorable films. However, it is a
different sort of achievement in its own right.
The French Dispatch, courtesy Searchlight Pictures.
See Film Review, page 4
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