The Extreme Rodeo brought fans to their feet at the OC Fair.
The event included bulls marching through people in rings of fire, a teeter-totter, and a poker table.
Video by Jonathan Khamis, for the Orange County Register.
A brief look at UCLA’s training camp practice Wednesday at Spaulding Field
BIG MOMENT
Freshman Austin Burton is buried on the depth chart when it comes to the backup quarterback competition, but the rookie showed flashes of brilliance.
In one team period, Burton dropped the snap but regained his composure and unloaded a 25-yard throw while getting hit in the backfield. Receiver Jordan Lasley adjusted to the slightly underthrown ball and caught it in traffic for a touchdown on the first play of Burton’s drive.
DEPTH CHART
UCLA is sorting through five options at running back and it was junior Bolu Olorunfunmi who got the first snaps Wednesday. Sophomore Brandon Stephens emerged as a second option.
PERFECTION
Sophomore kicker J.J. Molson didn’t miss a single kick during practice. His closest call came on a 30-yarder that banged off the upright before caroming through the goal posts. Molson was inconsistent as a true freshman, converting 12 of 20 field-goal attempts, but worked hard in the offseason to nail down a solid routine, head coach Jim Mora said. Mora also connected his young kicker with Morten Andersen, who Mora coached in New Orleans and Atlanta. Anderson will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend.
QUOTABLE
“Three, four, five years ago, it was just this dream. To sit there and look at it, it’s pretty cool.” — Jim Mora on UCLA’s new $75 million Wasserman Football Center
‘’Kidnap,’’ in which a working-class single mom chases down her little boy’s abductors, is the latest B-movie vehicle for Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry. It’s a serviceable thriller: nothing more, nothing less.
In many ways, the setup is more preposterous than all the mayhem that follows the child snatching. Berry plays Karla, an impossibly beautiful and wonderful mother who works as a waitress at a tacky diner. She seems buoyant as ever as she drives her impossibly cute kid, Frankie (Sage Correa), to a fair.
Then comes the phone call. Karla’s ex has decided he wants full custody of Frankie, and a distracted Karla loses sight of her boy, who of course likes to hide from her. The redneck kidnappers, who would raise eyebrows at even an NRA convention, need only a millisecond to abduct Frankie in front of hundreds of people, and there are no witnesses.
Fortunately for Karla, the knucklehead kidnappers are frightfully slow in their getaway, and she spots them in the parking lot. Inconveniently — or conveniently, if you are the screenwriter — Karla drops her phone as she begins her pursuit, eliminating the possibility of 911 calls.
Despite the pileup of implausibility at the beginning, the film rallies by quickly cutting to the chase, and within minutes, Karla finds herself in a frantic race on the freeways of Louisiana. The entire police force of the state seems to be at Mardi Gras, but otherwise, the frenetic set-pieces are reasonably realistic, and it’s refreshing to see true stunt work rather than an over-reliance on computer-generated imagery.
The kidnappers, who clearly missed Berry’s 2013 thriller, ‘’The Call,’’ are not the sharpest tools in the shed, and we know from the get-go that they will be no match for Karla when she gets her hands on them. This contributes to an aura of predictability that hangs over the proceedings, though there are a few clever turns during some of the chase sequences.
Director Luis Prieto is wise to keep the camera fixated on Berry, who delivers a sturdy performance in which she is under extreme duress for almost the entire film. This is pulpy material, but Berry gives it her all. The only time she falters is when she talks to herself in the car, becoming an on-the-nose narrator more than a character. It’s too bad that Hollywood has still not figured out how to use this actress better.
Like ‘’Taken,’’ which this movie most closely resembles, ‘’Kidnap’’ derives much of its power from our natural instincts to protect children at all costs, and many in the audience are likely to respond to it on that level. This is a film that keeps it simple: Don’t cross a mother, or she’ll hunt you down.
‘Kidnap’
**
Rated R: For violence and peril.
Starring: Halle Berry, Sage Correa, Chris McGinn.
Director: Luis Prieto.
Running time: 1 hr. 34 min.
Playing: Areawide.
FULLERTON — One man was arrested and several video game machines allegedly used for gambling purposes were seized during a search of two video game businesses on Wednesday, Aug. 2, authorities said.
The Fullerton Police Department seized 11 video gaming machines from a business in the 2600 block of West Orangethorpe Avenue and additional machines — the total there was not specified — at a video gaming lounge near the intersection of Gilbert Street and Commonwealth Avenue, Sgt. Jon Radus said.
One man was arrested on suspicion of possession of illegal gaming devices, Radus said. The man’s identity was not provided Wednesday.
Police issued the search warrant after an extensive investigation in conjunction with the Department of Justice determined that the businesses were operating illegal gambling halls, Radus said.
Authorities had also received numerous complaints from residents and businesses in the area of the video gaming businesses about an increase in crimes such as theft, burglaries, drug-related crimes, gang activity, and prostitution since the businesses opened up, Radus said.
An investigation is ongoing.
It’s summer — at least in the Northern Hemisphere — and that means it’s time to break out the swimsuits and resortwear in locales from Miami to Shanghai, where bikinis and sunglasses seem to be the outfit du jour.
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Danskin on Wednesday will debut its fall 2017 “Fit for Everything” campaign featuring brand ambassador Jenna Dewan Tatum wearing its debut collection of intimates and loungewear.
“What’s really exciting to me about our ‘Fit for Everything’ campaign is that it’s so true to how I live my life. Dressing for day-to-night became a necessity when I became a mom, and I wear my Danskin from taking my daughter to school, to running errands, to date night or girl’s night out. We really wanted to capture that essence in this shoot,” said Dewan Tatum, who is a producer and host of NBC’s “World of Dance.”
Yu Tsai shot the campaign at a seaside Malibu, Calif., mansion, with Dewan Tatum practicing yoga on the balcony in leggings, relaxing in a bodysuit and joggers in the kitchen, and lounging in a coordinating bralette and high-waisted panty set. The actress-dancer was also photographed doing a “tree pose” on the beach while wearing an olive-toned leotard with laser-cut details. Danskin will also debut sleepwear and shapewear this fall.
“As an entrepreneur and mom-on-the-go, Jenna truly exemplifies the modern spirit of our fall collection, which is designed to meet the needs of Danskin’s contemporary consumer, whose wardrobe needs to
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Entreprenuer and television personality Marcus Lemonis is expanding his fashion footprint with the opening of the ML West Showroom, a 4,000-square-foot multibrand showroom in downtown Los Angeles’ The New Mart building.
Among the lines housed there are those that have been featured on his CNBC show “The Profit,” in which Lemonis helps struggling family businesses turn things around.
Those include Susana Monaco, swim and resortwear brand Siloett, Flex watches, Inkkas shoes and in-house brands The Line (casual basics) and AM by Marcus Anthony (silk blouses). The latter two are stocked in Lemonis’ retail chains Denim & Soul and Runway. He also has fast-fashion concept Union 72 and a sample sale concept called Final Sale, and is developing a fifth retail concept.
ML hosted an opening party on Monday during L.A. Market, drawing crowds of buyers, influencers and reality stars. Siloett president and designer Mary Ellen McAteer said, “We were very humbled by the process on the show. You see so many family businesses suffer, and with Marcus’ help and some reworking we have cohesion. He told us to do brand extensions, see what works. Now a weekender bag is our bestseller and all of a sudden we have a new category.”
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Fashion’s list of long-haul independents is short, the status hard to achieve and harder still to maintain. Among the most notable: Dries Van Noten, Anna Sui and Derek Lam, each in his and her own way both realist and iconoclast.
Josie Natori merits a place on the roster alongside those more obvious names. On Tuesday night she celebrated the Natori Co.’s 40th anniversary with a cocktail party for 250 people including friends, business associates and Natori staffers. It was an event both elegant and understated, much like the woman, whose intense expectations of herself and others are not prone to the kind of rampant self-congratulation that has become au courant in the social-media age. It’s not that she’s given to false modesty, but whether by nature or nurture (most likely a combination of the two), she finds obvious self-celebration tacky.
Yet 40 years is indeed an accomplishment, one even Natori couldn’t let go. Thus, in the lead-up to her fall 2017 collection, she enlisted filmmaker Tim Braun to create a film, which debuted at the party — as chic as it was hastily arranged, Natori having gone back and forth about whether to mark the occasion before ultimately deciding in the affirmative.
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Ellen DeGeneres: not just for grown ups anymore.
DeGeneres’ fashion line ED Ellen DeGeneres has launched a baby collection, the company revealed on Wednesday. The lifestyle collection, available now exclusively at Buy Buy Baby stores, includes furniture, bedding, bibs, bath, blankets, apparel, swaddles, footwear, diaper bags, mattresses and strollers. Her signature positivity-focused branding extends to the baby collection, with items featuring sayings like “Love,” “Kind,” “Joy,” “Made with Love,” and “I Can and I Will.”
“Babies love to be swaddled and should always be surrounded by love and kindness,” DeGeneres said in a release. “I created my baby collection with that thought in mind. Each piece has a message of love and the line is filled with whimsical and fun pieces. I don’t have a baby but I love to be swaddled and you will too.”
A look from ED Ellen DeGeneres Baby Collection.
JOHN HUBA
The line is rooted in DeGeneres’ love of animals; several items are done with animal patterns, including her signature “ED doodle dog.” The baby collection is done in partnership with a variety of brands: Crown Crafts for infant bedding, blankets, bibs and bath; Naturepedic for organic crib mattresses and pads; Peg Perego for umbrella strollers; WeePlay for playwear apparel;
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