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THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Tundra
The Samurai of Puzzles
By Chad Carpenter
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Newsmakers Celebrity scoop ■ By The Associated Press
Fonda, Tomlin to reteam for Netflix series NETFLIX SAID IT’S reuniting Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin for a new comedy series. The online TV network will launch “Grace and Frankie,” starring Fonda and Tomlin as Fonda longtime foes who come together when their husbands desert them after falling in love. Tomlin The single-camera comedy will film a first season of 13 half-hour episodes to premiere on Netflix next year. The two actresses costarred a quarter-century ago in the comedy hit “Nine to Five.” Fonda recently appeared on HBO’s “The Newsroom”
and was seen in the film “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.” Tomlin appeared in last year’s Tina Fey comedy “Admission.” Marta Kauffman is a writer and creator of “Grace and Frankie.” She’s also a creator of the sitcom classic “Friends.”
2004’s “The Incredibles.”
Oprah chai tea
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz brought Oprah Winfrey on stage Wednesday at the shareholders meeting in Seattle to announce a drink named after the media mogul. Begin‘Stars Wars’ future ning The new “Star Wars” April 29, has an official timeline and customers one confirmed returning will be able character: robot R2-D2. to walk into Director J.J. Abrams Starbucks will begin shooting in May and Teavon “Star Wars: Episode ana stores Winfrey VII,” which is set three across the decades after 1983’s U.S. and “Return of the Jedi,” DisCanada and order Teavana ney CEO Bob Iger said Oprah Chai Tea. Tuesday. Starbucks will make a Speaking at the compa- donation to the Oprah Winny’s annual shareholder’s frey Leadership Academy meeting in Portland, Ore., Foundation for each prodIger said the movie would uct sold. feature “some very familiar Schultz also told sharefaces along with a trio of holders the coffee company new, young leads.” is still in the early stages Abrams has a penchant of growth and has a longfor secrecy, and Iger said term target of doubling its R2-D2 was the only “official market cap to $100 billion. cast member” he would Television writer and announce. producer Norman Lear “Episode VII” is set for kicked off the meeting by release in December 2015. introducing the Playing For Iger also said Pixar Change Band, whose third plans a third “Cars” album will be available in movie and a sequel to Starbucks stores in June.
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS PENINSULA POLL TUESDAY’S QUESTION: How often do you take “selfies” with your smartphone or digital camera? All the time 1.2% Sometimes
3.7%
A few times
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By The Associated Press
SAM LACEY, 66, a leading NBA center of the 1970s who could do just about anything on the court but was often overlooked, playing for mostly lackluster teams, died Friday at his home in Kansas City, Mo. His daughter Gretchen Downey said the cause had not yet been determined. Spending most of his 13 National Basketball Association seasons with the Cincinnati Royals and the Kansas City Kings, the Royals’ successor franchise, Mr. Lacey was a rugged rebounder, at 6 feet, 10 inches and 235 pounds, and an outstanding shot blocker. He also hit timely baskets and was a fine playmaker. Seeking to rebuild after trading Oscar Robertson to the Milwaukee Bucks, the Royals selected Mr. Lacey in the first round of the 1970 NBA draft after he led New Mexico State University to the NCAA tournament’s Final Four. Mr. Lacey teamed with guard Nate Archibald, his fellow rookie and a future NBA scoring champion, to provide some spark for a losing Royals team. Mr. Lacey averaged in double figures in points and rebounds in his first six professional seasons, and he averaged 5.3 assists in 1974-75, when he was an All-Star. But his teams never made it past the Western Conference finals, which the Kings reached in 1981 after posting a 40-42 regu-
17.2%
What’s a ‘selfie’? lar-season record.
_________ VERNITA GRAY, 65, a gay rights activist who wed her partner in Illinois’ first same-sex marriage, has died. Ms. Gray died late Tuesday of cancer at the same Chicago home where she married Patricia Ms. Gray Ewert in in 2013 late November, family friend Jim Bennett told The Associated Press. Bennett was among friends who were gathered at the home when Ms. Gray died. Ms. Gray’s failing health and her wish to marry convinced a federal judge to order that an expedited marriage license be granted to the couple ahead of the June 1 effective date of the state’s same-sex marriage law. A subsequent judge’s ruling then paved the way for more same-sex couples to marry early in some Illinois counties. Ms. Gray worked for gay rights for decades, advocating for same-sex marriage long before many other activists saw it as a possibility, Bennett said. To win over conservatives, she made the case that her Social Security survivor benefits should go to her
partner, and her knack for working with people across the political spectrum “made everyone feel that they had a unique contribution to move us forward,” he said.
68.0% 9.9%
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Peninsula Lookback
Setting it Straight
From the pages of the PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
were elated with a temporary restraining order haltOtto A. Simdars, 68, a resident of the East End of ing some 140 timber sales planned in 12 Northwest Clallam County for 67 years, died in Sequim today national forests, including Olympic National Forest. after a lengthy illness. U.S. District Judge WilBorn in Ohio in 1870, liam Dwyer issued the temSimdars came with his porary hold in Seattle to parents to a farm they allow for a hearing on the established immediately need for additional habitat east of Sequim in 1871. for the northern spotted He later developed a owl, listed as endangered in large dairy farm in Happy Washington state. Valley. John Lowe, deputy He is survived by his regional forester for the wife and five children, including three of Sequim. U.S. Forest Service in Portland, Ore., said the Forest Service believes the pro1964 (50 years ago) The Port Angeles Hotel- posed timber sales do not threaten the spotted owl, Motel Association is hostand the agency sticks by its ing about 50 people from earlier position that the Victoria in the travel and animal’s continued exisaccommodations fields to see various North Olympic tence can be ensured by setting aside 374,000 acres Peninsula scenic spots. in Washington, Oregon and The Port Angeles High Northern California. School band was on hand at the ferry landing as the MV Coho docked and pasLaugh Lines sengers disembarked. Tomorrow, the group STEVEN SPIELBERG will go by donated GreyIS rumored to be directing hound Sceni-cruiser to visit a “West Side Story” the Hoh Rain Forest and remake. other West End attractions. Except the Spielberg version will feature actual 1989 (25 years ago) sharks versus actual jets. Environmental groups Seth Meyers
1939 (75 years ago)
Corrections and clarifications
■ A photograph on Page A5 Thursday was of Les Schnick’s sculpture “Roots,” one of the award winners in this month’s “Earth Matters” show at the Northwind Arts Center in Port Townsend. It was erroneously said to be Gloria Lamson’s “Yes and . . .,” which won Best of Show.
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Seen Around Peninsula snapshots
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Looking Back From the files of The Associated Press
TODAY IS THURSDAY, March 20, the 79th day of 2014. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring arrives at 9:57 a.m. PST. Today’s Highlight in History: ■ On March 20, 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential novel about slavery, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was first published in book form after being serialized. On this date: ■ In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his “Hundred Days” rule. ■ In 1933, the state of Florida electrocuted Giuseppe Zangara for shooting to death Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak at a Miami event attended by President-elect Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt, the presumed target, the previous February. ■ In 1974, Britain’s Princess Anne was the target of a kidnapping attempt near Buckingham Palace; the would-be abductor, Ian Ball, was captured. ■ In 1985, Libby Riddles of Teller, Alaska, became the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race. ■ In 1994, El Salvador held its first presidential election following the country’s 12-year-old civil war. Armando Calderon Sol of the ARENA party led the vote but needed to win a runoff to achieve the presidency. ■ In 1995, in Tokyo, 12 people were killed and more than 5,500
others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin were leaked on five separate subway trains by Aum Shinrikyo cult members. ■ In 1999, Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Brian Jones of Britain became the first aviators to fly a hot air balloon around the world nonstop as they floated over Mauritania past longitude 9 degrees west. They landed safely in Egypt the next day. ■ Ten years ago: Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide rallied against the U.S.-led war in Iraq on the first anniversary of the start of the conflict. The Rev. Karen Dammann, a lesbian Methodist pastor, was
acquitted of violating church doctrine in a trial held in Bothell. ■ Five years ago: President Barack Obama reached out to the Iranian people in a video with Farsi subtitles, saying the U.S. was prepared to end years of strained relations if Tehran toned down its bellicose rhetoric; Iranian officials dismissed the overture, saying they wanted concrete change from Washington, D.C., before they were ready to enter a dialogue. ■ One year ago: Five former elected officials of Bell, Calif., were convicted of misappropriating public funds by paying themselves huge salaries while raising taxes on residents; one defendant was acquitted.