Santa Monica Dispatch

The Fourth of July celebration will get off to a fast start in Santa Monica Wednesday morning with the inaugural Santa Monica 4th of July Parade on Main Street.

Reviving a century-old tradition, the Ocean Park Association, in
conjunction with the North of Montana Association (NOMA), will stage a parade down Main Street on the morning of July 4th at 9:30 am.

The Main Street Merchants, Wilshire-Montana Neighborhood Coalition and various businesses and organizations are all pitching in to help to underwrite the costs of the parade, which is also being aided and abetted by a City Council grant,

The parade will take off from Pico Boulevard and march south on Main Street to Marine Street. 55 groups will take part.

Parade Grand Marshall will be Jerry Harris, the retiring principal of Roosevelt Elementary School.

The Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission will vote on the designation of the Barry Building as an Historic Cultural Monument at a final hearing on Thursday. July 12.

The Barry Building at 11975 San Vicente Boulevard in Brentwood is an architectural landmark that has been home to a cultural landmark and icon, Dutton’s Brentwood Books, for nearly three decades.

The graceful two-story building and its distinguished tenant are as integral to Brentwood as the Case Study houses on Hanley and the Archer School for Girls’ historic Main building on Sunset.

Dutton’s is arguably the best bookstore in Los Angeles, and one of the best bookstores in America. In the last several decades, virtually every writer of note has appeared at Dutton’s to read and sign books. It’s also noted for its children’s programs.

Monday morning, Senator Patrick Leahy, chair of the Judiciary Committee, said the panel might be force d to charge President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and some of their henchmen with contempt of Congress, a criminal offense, for refusing to respond to committee subpoenas.

Several hours later, Bush announced that he was commutin g the jail sentence of former Cheney Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby. Subsequently, he suggested that he might give Libby a full pardon later.

The only surprising thing about it is that anyone was surprised.

The commutation was simply further proof, if any were needed, that Bush has always held the rule of law, due process, the Constitution, the notion of equal justice, and the American people, as well as Congress in contempt.

Pam O’Connor began her fourth term as a Santa Monica City Council member in December.

Since 2001, she has also been a member of the Metropolitan Transit Authority Board of Directors, representing Westside and South Bay cities, In addition, she represents Santa Monica on the Exposition Light Rail Construction Authority Board, which is in charge of the development of a light rail system from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica.

On July 1, O’Connor became MTA board Chair, succeeding Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina.

The 13-member board is comprised of the five Los Angeles County Supervisors, four members appointed by the Los Angeles County/City Selection Committee, the Mayor of Los Angeles and three members appointed by him.

The Board recently adopted a $3.1 billion budget for Fiscal Year 2007-08 that began July 1.

Some people, particularly City Hall insiders, have seen O’Connor’s stint on the MTA board as an asset, presuming that her presence gives Santa Monica some sort of advantage. Thus far, there is no tangible evidence to support that presumption.

As MTA chair, she has more power and more authority, and she also has a major dilemma.

Santa Monica’s interests and MTA’s interests are not, can’t be and shouldn’t be synonymous. If there’s a conflict between Santa Monica interests and MTA interests, which side will O’Connor take?

The Los Angeles National Impeachment Center opened today, July 4.

Sponsored by the Santa Monica Democratic Club. the Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles, the Westside Greens and the Los Angeles Greens, the Center’s purpose is to facilitate “the speedy impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney,” in the words of a Center press release.

Project organizers said they will focus on persuading the Santa Monica and Los Angeles City Councils, members of the State Legislature and the stare’s Congressional delegation to approve resolutions calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney for high crimes, specifically abuses of executive power, including “Misleading the American people to wage the U.S. war on Iraq; issuing signing statements to override federal legislation on torture and other issues; approving massive illegal wire taps in violation of the Fourth Amendment; And suspending habeas corpus and Sixth Amendment due process rights in the indefinite imprisonment and torture of detainees.”

Speaking at the Center’s opening were Congresswoman Maxine Waters, former Assembly candidate Peter Thottam and former Congressional Candidate Byron DeLear.

Scheduled to speak at a picnic in La Cienega Park following the opening were former Assembly members Jackie Goldberg and Paul Koretz and Executive Director of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California Shakeel Syed, Anthony St. Martin and Larry Everest.

The Center is located at 8124 West Third Street at Crescent Heights.

For more information, go to www.bcimpeach.com.

And the bad news just keeps on coming.

According to a story in the Daily Press, plans are now underway to turn the fine old movie theater, the NuWilshire, into retail space.

Senior planner Paul foley told the Daily Press that as the change isn’t “that radical,” and retail stores are a permitted use on that stretch of Wilshire, the change isn’t subject to public review.

Obviously, the City uses a different dictionary than we do. It’s hard to imagine a more radical change than the conversion of a 1930s art deco movie theater that features independent and foreign films to “retail,” specifically, again according to the Daily Press, Anchor Blue and Lucky Dungaree chain stores.

Santa Monica is drowning in “retail.” Not essential, useful, locally owned hardware stores and bookstores and office supply stores and the like – all of which have been forced out by the City’s aggressive economic policies, but chain stores.

The City of Santa Monica
Civil Engineering and Architecture
1437 4th Street, Suite 300
Santa Monica, California 90401
Attention: EUGENIA CHUSID, PROJECT MANAGER

RE: CALIFORNIA INCLINE
BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECT

Dear Ms. Chusid:

The Pacific Palisades Community Council ( the “Council”) represents thousands of Los Angeles residents and numerous businesses that may be significantly and adversely impacted by the above-referenced project (the “Project’).

On June 8, 2006, and again on June 14, 2007, the Council unanimously passed the resolutions that are enclosed with this letter. The Council’s primary concern is that the work on the Project will exacerbate safety and traffic issues for the stakeholders in our community (as well as many residents of the City of Santa Monica) to the extent that egress from, and ingress into, the Pacific Palisades will be stifled and that concomitant issues of safety to drivers and residents in the Pacific Palisades will be increased to unacceptable levels.

Council Board Members have attended various meetings put on by the City of Santa Monica to allay the concerns and fears of our citizens. The effect of these meetings has, unfortunately, had the contrary effect. The Council believes that the City of Santa Monica has not worked through thoughtfully enough the traffic and safety mitigation issues necessary to reduce inconvenience to the lowest possible level and to raise safety to the highest possible level.

Apparently, Santa Monica City officials have determined that Santa Monica is the star of the Westside show, and our neighbors in Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica Canyon, Brentwood, Mar Vista and Venice are mere supporting players.

First, City leaders set out to turn this exquisite, low-key beach town
into a “regional commercial hub” and tourist mecca, and, in the process, created a regional traffic crisis.

Then they banned Los Angeles dogs from the dog run in Airport Park, though Mar Vista residents live closer to the park than any Santa Monicans.

And now Craig Perkins, Director of the City’s environmental programs and public works department has blown off an utterly reasonable request from L.A, City Councilman Bill Rosendahl, who represents our neighbors.

It’s a Capra movie. The billionaire vs. the bookstore.

The billionaire announced in January that he planned to demolish the lovely old Barry Building that had housed the town’s beloved bookstore for many years, and replace it with “luxury condominiums.”

Upset at the prospect of losing their beloved bookstore, the townspeople immediately rallied to oppose the billionaire’s plans.

In July, the billionaire announced that instead of building condos on the site of the bookstore, he would construct a two-story retail complex in which the bookstore would have a prominent place.

Steven Spielberg will star on Turner Classic Movies (channel 292 in Santa Monica) tonight, Monday, July 9.

A new documentary, “Spielberg on Spielberg,” made by Richard Schickel, will have its world premiere on TCM at 5 p.m. and repeat at 9 p.m.

Two of Spielberg’s most influential films will also be screened: “Jaws” At 6:30 p.m. and “Close Encounters Of the Third Kind” at 10:30 p.m.

Schickel, once a film critic, now divides his time between books and documentaries.

And so it is that Spielberg has officially been inducted into the Classic pantheon.

The State of California mandates that cities revise their General Plans every 20 years. As Santa Monica’s last revision was done in 1983, it is now four years out of compliance with the law, and, by the time the current revision is completed and approved, in 2009, it will have been out of compliance for six years.

In a rare show of wisdom, the state offers a clean, smart way out of this dilemma. With the state’s blessing, the City can declare a moratorium on all new projects. But, to date, it hasn’t even put it on the City Council
agenda.

We have called for the moratorium countless times since work on the General Plan revision began in 2004, as have numbers of other residents, Several weeks ago, representatives from the Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City and all of the active neighborhood groups met with City Manager Lamont Ewell and CityAttorney Marcia Moutrie to propose a moratorium.

The same group then asked the Planning Commission to recommend the moratorium to the City Council. Several commissioners favored it, but the others didn’t, and so the question was continued.

Euclid Park in the 1500 block of Euclid between Colorado Avenue and Broadway, will open Sunday, July 15, at 1 p.m.

Designed by Rios Clementi Hale Studios and artist Abbie Baron, The new park, which measures less than one-half acre, has been outfitted with shade trees, a trellis, seating, a swing set and climber for children, and a gardening area with 10 plots – two of which are accessible, raised planters -- and an area for gardening classes

The park is next to Hacienda del Mar, a 1928 brick Spanish Colonial Revival structure that had been an L.A. county health facility, was renovated by United Cerebral Palsy in 2003 and is now a 13-unit residence for people with disabilities.

When the park was proposed, some of the residents of the Hacienda del Mar and people from the neighborhood opposed it, alleging that It would attract undesirables.”

The Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission recommended Thursday that the Barry Building on San Vicente in Brentwood, which has been home to Dutton's Brentwood Books for more than two decades be designated a historic-cultural monument.

If the Los Angeles City Council's Planning and Land Use Management Committee agrees with the designation, it will pass it on to the full Council, which will have the last word.

In January, when billionaire Charles Munger, 81, announced his plans to demolish the Barry Building and replace it with a large luxury condominium complex, Dutton’s customers and neighbors immediately mounted a campaign to save it.

One of the best bookstores in America, it is also a favorite neighborhood gathering place. Virtually every writer of note has appeared there, and many of its customers literally grew up at Dutton’s. Drawings of the store by current young readers now hang on Dutton’s walls.

California Senator Barbara Boxer, a Democrat, said yesterday that impeachment “was still on the table.”

Almost immediately thereafter, CNN’s Jack Cafferty asked viewers whether they favored impeachment of the President. An hour later, he reported that an “overwhelming” number of viewers’ emails wanted the President to be impeached.

It was, as they say, an unscientific poll, but, judging by the emails Cafferty read on the air, it was vehement.

The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified .School District Board of Education voted Thursday night to declare a moratorium on confidentiality agreements, or gag orders, on resolution contracts made with special education parents.

The moratorium takes effect immediately.

Board member Oscar de la Torre said, "I was for a moratorium before and I am for it now... We need to practice responsive leadership and place an immediate stop [on] confidentiality agreements."

The other three Board members who were present -- Barry Snell, Maria Leon Vasquez and Kathy Wisnicki -- then voted unanimously in support of de la Torre's motion.

A teacher by profession, Denny Zane made his mark as a co-founder of Santa Minicans for Renters’ Rights, and went on to be a City Councilman, Mayor, SMRR’s boss of bosses, and environmental/political/education consultant. Now, according to the Los Angeles Times, he’s founded a non-profit group, Subway to the Sea.
Chances are, the group isn’t planning to raise the estimated $5 billion it will cost to build the 16-mile line under Wilshire Boulevard from downtown Los Angeles to Ocean Avenue.

We surely don’t need both the subway and the Expo light rail line. Does Zane’s entry mean the bloom is off light rail -- in Santa Monica anyway?

Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky recently proposed making Olympic and Pico Boulevards “one-way paired streets between downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica” as a means of decongesting Westside traffic. A study done by transportation planner Allen Rifkin found that the change would reduce congestion,
A July 10 press release from Santa Monica’s so-called Traffic Management Division asked, “Would the conversion of Olympic and Pico Boulevards to one-way streets solve Westside traffic congestion?”

No
.
It wouldn’t reduce Westside traffic congestion, much less “solve” it, but it would add a layer of confusion to the congestion.

Representatives from Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City (SMCLC) and neighborhood organizations met several weeks ago with City Manager
Lamont Ewell and City Attorney Marcia Moutrie to request that the City declare a moratorium on new development until the revision of the General Plan is complete. Subsequently, the representatives asked the Planning Commission to recommend that it recommend the moratorium to the City Council (See Dispatch stories, “City Hall Vamps,” Current, and “Why Is City Stalling?” Archive, June)

Neither the City nor the Planning Commission has acted yet, but the question is on the Planning Commission agenda for Wednesday, July 18, and SMCLC has asked residents, via email, to ask Planning Commission members to act.

The text of SMCLC’s email follows

Dear SMCLC supporter:

Development pressures on Santa Monica are relentless. While developers make huge amounts of money, residents pay the cost in increased traffic and a deceased quality of life due to congestion and high-density construction. Do developers care if residents are negatively impacted by their projects? Why should they, unless residents force them to care?

It’s not clear yet how it started, but it ended with four people being treated for gunshot wounds in local hospitals, and a suspect in custody.

According to a Santa Monica Police Department press release, Sunday night at 1:50 a.m., SMPD patrol officers responded to a report of gunshots in the 400 block of 11th Street On arriving, the officers were told by guests at a party in a house on the block that some other partygoers were arguing in front of the house, when one of them pulled a gun and fired several shots. The suspect or suspects then left the scene in a silver BMW, 5-series

On Saturday, July 21, the City will hold a community workshop to explore what the area it calls “the industrial lands” should become in the next 20 years.
Once largely industrial, the target area has become the most mixed section of the city in the last 20 years. It lies more or less between Centinela Avenue to the east, the 10 Freeway to the south, Lincoln Boulevard to the west and Colorado Avenue/Broadway to the north.

It is currently dominated by the cluster of luxe office buildings bounded by Twentieth and Stewart Streets and Broadway and Colorado.

It was George Santayana who said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Soon after California became a state, and before Santa Monica was founded, this locale was a port of sorts. Cargo ships came and went from jerrybuilt
docks.

Senator John P. Jones, who’d made a fortune in silver in Nevada, bought land here with an eye to building a railroad from the beach to Los Angeles.

About the same time, Collis P. Huntington, one of the so-called Big Four (the other three were Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins and Leland Stanford), who had built the transcontinental Central Pacific Railtoad, founded a coastal line, Southern Pacific Railroad.

The City will hold a workshop Saturday (see Dispatch story, “Future of Mixed Up Area”) on what it calls “The Industrial Lands.
”
“The Industrial Lands.” It sounds like something out of a 10th century English novel: primitive gloomy factories, black smoke curling out of their smoke stacks, a ruined landscape choking on soot.

But Santa Monica’s a Southern California beach town and it’s the 21st century, and the only real factories that were ever here were part of Douglas Aircraft and they were as clean as operating rooms, and they were demolished decades ago.

The dedication of the refurbished facilities at Will Rogers State Beach will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, July 23, at the north end of parking lot #3.

Enter the lot at Temescal and drive north, beyond the maintenance yard. The ceremony will be held immediately north of the site of the Lobster Pot, which is now gone.

According to a Malibu Surfside News story by Hans Laetz, “…Douglas Failing, the District 7 director of the California Department of Transportation, said Monday that Caltrans will not grant Santa Monica any permits to close lanes on state-owned PCH unless those closures are limited to light-traffic periods, which will likely require evening or overnight work…

“Failing was asked if Santa Monica’s plan to close PCH lanes for the daytime-only replacement of the California Incline bridge and stabilization of the Santa Monica bluffs would be modified by Caltrans to require nighttime work. ‘I’m going to say yes,…I’m not sure they [Santa Monica] have that choice, the work hours are our choice.’

By Ava Tramer

Beaches
Warm and sunny
Highs: 72-75; Lows: 64-67

Inland
Hot and sunny
Highs: 91-96; Lows: 62-65

Deserts
Scorching and sunny
Highs: 104-109; Lows: 81-85

This is a banner night for millions of people all over the world, for as clocks
strike 12 midnight in city after city, the seventh and final volume in the saga of Harry Potter, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” by J.K. Rowling goes on sale.

As we write, Harry Potter’s most avid English devotees are deep into the seventh volume, their counterparts in New Yorkers are already three or four chapters in, and all the Angelenos who lined up outside bookstores all over Los Angeles many hours ago finally have the books in their hands.
And we’ll warrant that none of them has so much as peeked the final pages.

300 million copies of the first six volumes are in print. Three million advance sale copies of the seventh volume will arrive in people’s mailboxes today. And that’s just the beginning of the latest chapter in this literary phenomenon.

Responding to Wisconsin Democratic Senator Russ Feingold’s plan to
ask the Senate to censure President George W. Bush for his management of the Iraq war and his "assault" on the Constitution, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, said,” The president already has the mark of the American people — he's the worst president we ever had. I don't think we need a censure resolution in the Senate to prove that."

As the 1983 iteration of Santa Monica’s state-mandated 20-year General Plan became obsolete in 2003 and the revision will not be finished until 2009, Santa Monica is out of compliance, and in limbo.

In this no-plan land we now inhabit, unprecedented problems proliferate, along with the same old problems.

Most cities of this size have no hospitals. Santa Monica has two first-rate major hospitals, and both are currently in the midst of multi-million-dollar expansions. At the same time, the number of local extended care facilities is in decline. But the City doesn’t know how many such facilities exist, much less how many are needed. As a result, though we have a surfeit of luxury condo complexes, another one, which would displace an extended care facility, is now making its way through the review process.

Surely, City Hall should know precisely what Santa Monica has in the way of vital services and what it needs.

It was the great Yale scholar Harold Bloom who said that William Shakespeare invented human beings. As a species, we have not evolved a whit since then and so his plays remain vital and pertinent, as well as perfect works of art.

The fourth annual summer Shakespeare Festival is now underway in Reed Park – outdoors on tennis court #1 and indoors in Miles Memorial Playhouse, featuring three of the wizard’s plays in rep through July 29.

A one-hour and 20-minute version of “Twelfth Night” will play Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m. on the tennis court. “Richard III” will be performed Sunday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 3 p.m. and an all-woman cast will do “Taming of the Shrew” Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. – both in Miles Memorial Playhouse.

Reed Park is located at Wilshire Boulevard between Lincoln Boulevard and Seventh Street. Miles Playhouse is on Lincoln a half-block north of Wilshire.
Admission is free for anyone 18 years old and under. Tickets range from $20 to $25, with discounts for students and senior citizens. Tickets may be purchased by calling (310) 270-3454, by emailing shakespeareSantaMonica@gmail.com or visiting www.shakespearesantamonica.com.

Billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife really didn’t like Bill Clinton and spent most of the 1990s and quite a lot of dough, relatively speaking, financing far right wing think tanks’ assaults on President Clinton’s polices, as well as subsidizing a series of so-called exposes of his Arkansas years that proved to be more shrill than factual.

Now, to the surprise of nearly everyone, the ultra-conservative Scaife has savaged the ultra-conservative George W. Bush in print.

Council members Bobby Shriver and Ken Genser’s frustration at Tuesday night’s Council meeting was almost palpable as they each tried, and failed, to engage their fellow Council members and City staff in a serious discussion of whether the City should declare a city-wide moratorium that would put proposed projects on hold until the revision of the General Plan is complete.

Planning Director Eileen Fogarty’s report to the Council had summarized some of the possibilities for development in the industrial lands that would be considered during the drafting of the revision of the General Plan. In addition, she had outlined ways of dealing with the large number of potential projects that City Hall has received. The alternatives are a moratorium on all development, a moratorium with exceptions for projects undertaken via a development agreement, revised development standards and maintenance of the status quo.

City Attorney Marcia Moutrie and Deputy City Attorney Barry Rosenbaun had evaluated the efficacy of the alternative means of dealing with current projects – from a legal point of view. Their preference was an interim ordinance that would cover only the industrial lands.

Several residents had spoken in favor of a city-wide moratorium.

When questioned by Genser and then Shriver, the attorneys continued to focus on the legal aspects, alleging that a city-wide moratorium would be hard to craft and defend.

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is currently installing “adaptive signal controls” at various locations along the 20-mile stretch of Pacific Coast Highway between the McClure Tunnel in Santa Monica to Topanga Canyon Boulevard in Malibu.

“Adaptive signal controls” enable Caltrans to automatically adjust signal timing based upon real time traffic flow.”

Caltrans crews are working now on the two-mile portion of northbound PCH between the McClure Tunnel and Temescal Canyon Road.

Construction activities are limited to Sunday through Friday nights from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Intermittent lane closures will be limited to one lane in each direction.

Motorists are advised to expect delays during construction hours.

“TEMPORARY NO PARKING” signs will be posted where needed. Use of the street and access to properties will not be impacted.

Work should be completed in October.

The controls should improve traffic flow and safety, according to Caltrans.

For more information, contact Marcia Graves at (213) 897-7602 or via e-mail at marcia graves@dot.ca.gov or the Public Affairs office at (213) 897-3656.

CodePink describes “Writers on Politics Now” as “a literary event for those who love art with their activism.”

It’s scheduled for Saturday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. at Beyond Baroque, and will feature novelists Gayle Brande and Diane Leefer.

Brande’s novel, “Self Storage,” is “a post-9/11 story of a woman who is launched on a path of self-discovery while buying and reselling storage unit contents.”

Leefer’s “California Transit,” is “an examination of the difference between justice and law in Southern California.”

The writers will be followed by a musical performance by Jill Sobule.

In addition, Tom Hayden and CodePink’s Jodie Evans will deliver an “Out of Iraq” message.

CodePink will hold a cocktail party prior to the event to raise funds to send mayors to Washington DC for Cities for Peace Day.

For tickets to reading and/or party, Call 310 827 4320.

Beyond Baroque is located at 681 Venice Boulevard, two blocks west of Lincoln.

By Ava Tramer

Beaches
Mostly sunny and warm
Highs: 70-76; Lows: 63-66

Inland
Sunny and slightly cooler after the weekend
Highs: 89-95; Lows: 60-65

Deserts
Sunny and hot
Highs: 102-107; Lows: 81-84

A grandmother sits with her grandson in a cottage in Santa Monica:

The most significant action the Santa Monica City Council took at its Tuesday night meeting was not approving a city-wide moratorium to put development on hold until the revision of the General Plan is complete.

It did, however, direct staff to draft an ordinance that would temporarily limit the size of developments in the industrial area (see story, “City Gets It Wrong…Again”).

Among the Council’s other more piquant actions were several items on the Consent Calendar that it okayed Without discussion.

I would like to reassure any of our community members who are following the drama that has been unfolding about the City Council's concerns about secret deals issue in SMMUSD Special Education, specifically the "clarifications" proposed by the school district staff at the July 12 meeting of the Board of Education.

The legalese used in this "clarification" can only be intended to confuse and redirect attention away from the secret deals, the off-IEP contracts that are the concern of the City Council and the reason the council voted to hold $530,000 in abeyance until the practice is scrutinized.

It is important to notice that the "clarifications" generated by school district staff reference Dispute Resolution Agreements, NOT the secret contracts that are at issue. Dispute Resolution Agreements are part of a legal pathway proscribed by federal law after parents have declared that they want to pursue legal action against the district.

Bea Daniels was very short, but people rarely noticed, because everything
else about her was outsized. She was. quick, smart, funny, outspoken, and impatient. She was also a devout Catholic.

She gave people orders, if they needed them, but she preferred people who didn’t need them. She could probably have run a company or a country, for that matter, but she chose to use her considerable gifts in service to her husband and children.

Bea’s devotion to the people she loved was boundless, and fierce, as anyone who had the brass to criticize or bully them quickly learned.

She was a consummate wife and mother, but she was also a pluperfect stage manager – whether the stage was the family home, a hotel suite on the road, a sound stage in Hollywood, a Broadway stage, or the Danny Daniels Dance America studio in Santa Monica, and she was Oscar-worthy in all her roles.