SANTA ANA A 40-year-old Westminster man who has spent more than half of his adult life behind bars was tentatively sentenced on Friday to 80 years in prison for the shooting death of his uncle.
On the night of March 8, 2015, Daniel Lee Duvall got into a heated argument with his 56-year-old uncle, Frank “Dino” Duvall, at a birthday party. They were at the Westminster home of Doris Duvall – the uncle’s mother and Daniel Duvall’s grandmother.
A prosecutor, in court documents, said the argument apparently started over the uncle’s treatment of his adult daughter, who was born addicted to drugs and suffers from mental illness.
“Duvall would yell sharply and criticize his uncle Frank for not taking better care of (the daughter) and not taking her to the doctor,” Senior Deputy District Attorney Jim Mendelson wrote.
The argument escalated as several people at the party tried to hold back the nephew as he yelled at his uncle, the prosecutor said. The two struggled and crashed into a big-screen television.
The two eventually went outside so as to not upset Doris Duvall, 82 at the time.
The uncle retreated into his van parked outside the home, at which point Daniel Duvall pulled out a handgun and shot him in the back, Mendelson said.
People at the party witnessed the incident but nobody initially called for help and Frank Duvall was left in his van to bleed to death, the prosecutor said.
“Nobody came to help him,” Orange County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Menninger said in her courtroom on Friday. “They left him in the car to die alone. I find that really tragic.”
After the shooting, Daniel Duvall fled on his motorcycle as his girlfriend, Tina Arbogast, 49, took his gun for him and returned to the home, where she told party-goers to “keep your mouth shut,” Mendelson said.
Arbogast has been charged with one felony count of being an accessory after the fact and is due in court on June 23.
A jury in February found Daniel Duvall guilty of first-degree murder.
In court documents, Mendelson noted his lengthy criminal history that includes six prior felony convictions, such as a being a felon in possession of a firearm and burglary.
Daniel Duvall’s father and the uncle’s brother, Daniel Duvall Sr., was in jail on drug charges at the time of the murder. In court, Daniel Duvall Sr. said his brother didn’t deserve to die.
“He was a good man, he would do anything for you,” he said.
While Daniel Duvall will be sentenced to 80 years in prison, the judge on Friday agreed to postpone the official sentencing to June, allowing the younger Duvall to temporarily remain in custody in Orange County so his severely ill father can visit him.
The killer’s aunt and Frank Duvall’s sister, Darlene Gallaher, fought back tears in court as she asked her nephew how he could kill his own uncle – a man who cared for him while his father was incarcerated many times over the years.
“The death of Dino has put this family in a spiral of emotions,” she said.
SOCIAL SAVVY: Rachel Zoe today launched a phone case collaboration with Google.
The tech accessories would seem the most natural progression in the build out of Zoe’s brand and draw inspiration from her fall ready-to-wear collection with a large dose of sequins. The collaboration with the tech firm includes a dozen different case designs that can be used on the Pixel, Pixel XL, Nexus 5x and Nexus 6p.
Google’s Pixel was the technology company’s first phone and launched this past fall. The Rachel Zoe Live Case collection — Live Cases being Google’s customizable phone covers — retail for $40 and are available through the Google Store. The cases are equipped with near-field communication technology, allowing it to sync up with the phone once snapped. Once the sync occurs, the device’s wallpaper also then matches the customized case’s artwork.
The designer is expected to celebrate the collaboration Saturday during her Zoeasis party running alongside the annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif.
Zoe joins a growing roster of artists and designers who have partnered with Google on Live Case artwork including Jen Stark, Skrillex, Jeff Koons, Opening Ceremony and Gray Malin, among others.
The Google collaboration isn’t Zoe’s first foray into the realm
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Jeremy Scott is returning to the desert for his 11th annual bash at Coachella, this time on behalf of Moschino, with mobile game Candy Crush and streaming video platform Tidal, which will live-stream musical performances from the party including appearances from Lil Uzi Vert and a surprise headliner. (Hint: It’s not an act performing at the festival.)
The always colorful event this year will be inspired by the Moschino Candy Crush collaboration on a capsule collection of summer festival items including a limited-edition backpack ($650); iPhone case ($70), and women’s and men’s swimwear ($300 and $205, respectively). Designs in the collection were inspired by the colorful candies featured in the mobile game Candy Crush. The pieces will be available on moschino.com starting today until supplies last.
Celebrities expected are Scott’s BFF Katy Perry, Kylie Jenner, Jared Leto, Sophie Turner, Emma Roberts, Justine Skye, Hailee Steinfeld, DNCE, Kiersey Clemons, Frances Cobain, Paris Hilton, Emily Ratajkowski, Kehlani, Joan Smalls, Stella Maxwell, Taylor Hill, Soo Joo Park, Jasmine Sanders, Jordan Barrett, Romee Strijd, Chanel Iman, Dilone, Bebe Rexha, Will Peltz, Jasmine Tookes, Elsa Hosk, Grace Mahary, Soko, Riley Montana, RJ King, Martha Hunt, Georgia Fowler, Shanina Shaik, Matthew Noszka, Izabel Goulart, Poppy Delevingne, Charli XCX,
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Candice Huffine has partnered with Fortnight on a capsule collection.
The curvy model, who discovered the Canadian-based lingerie brand while on a photo shoot, worked directly with Fortnight’s founder Christina Remenyi on a six-piece collection. This is the first time Fortnight has partnered with a model or celebrity on a product.
“Before Fortnight, I never found a lingerie brand that I was so connected with,” said Huffine. “I found that lingerie for me was either very basic or very lacy and racy. I always craved something more, so when I found Fortnight it was an ‘a-ha’ moment.”
The line includes a longline wireless bra, balconette, slip, bodysuit, high-waist bottom and bikini coming in two exclusive prints that were created by Toronto artist Danielle Suppa. The collection, which will be available on Fortnight’s e-commerce site and specialty boutiques this July, will retail from $52 to $178.
Fortnight is known for its diverse sizing, but Remenyi said Huffine’s involvement and insight helped her expand the range even more with four additional bra sizes (36E, 34F and 30–32G) and move into XXL for bodysuits and slips.
“There is so much negative messaging out there in the lingerie world,” said Remenyi, who started the line in 2010. “It’s really
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Bergdorf Goodman senior vice president of fashion and store presentation Linda Fargo, former Saks Fifth Avenue president Marigay McKee and artist Michele Oka Doner are expected to be among the speakers at Santiago Barberi Gonzalez’s memorial service in Manhattan.
The president and creative director for the Nancy Gonzalez luxury brand of exotic skin goods died March 24 at age 40. As previously reported, his memorial is to take place April 25 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
Fargo and Barberi Gonzalez had maintained a close relationship. Barberi Gonzalez had long said that the Nancy Gonzalez brand did not need a New York stand-alone store because of the label’s fruitful relationship with Bergdorf Goodman. In December, Fargo further championed the brand by introducing the label’s first run of shoes in a prime location at Bergdorf’s shoe salon during the holiday shopping season.
It is understood that McKee, who departed Saks in April 2015, was consulting for the Nancy Gonzalez brand at the time of the fashion executive’s death.
Barberi Gonzalez was known as a supporter of the arts, and had collaborated with Oka Doner on numerous occasions. In 2006, the Nancy Gonzalez brand and Oka Doner teamed up on a limited-edition line of bags. In 2014, Oka
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MAN UP: The men’s arm of French fashion’s governing body, the Chambre Syndicale de la Mode Masculine, on Friday announced two new members: OAMC and Rochas.
They were elected full-fledged members of the union by the newly elected management board of the organization, whose full name is Chambre Syndicale du Prêt à Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode, at a general assembly on April 12.
Buzzy men’s wear label OAMC was co-founded by Luke Meier, who earlier this month was appointed co-creative director of Jil Sander, alongside his wife Lucie Meier. Rochas, meanwhile, relaunched men’s wear this January under Béatrice Ferrant after a 22-year hiatus.
The new management board also re-elected Sidney Toledano, chief executive officer of Christian Dior Couture, as president, and Paul Smith’s Isabel Ribeiro as vice president, of the Chambre Syndicale. This will be the final two-year stint in the roles for both executives, since a maximum of two terms is permitted.
The next Paris men’s fashion week is to take place between June 21 and 25.
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Jesse Johnson as Roger Miller rehearses for the world premiere of Laguna Playhouse’s “King of the Road: The Roger Miller Story” in Laguna Beach, CA on Wednesday, April 12, 2017. (Photo by Sam Gangwer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Jesse Johnson rehearses for the world premiere of Laguna PlayhouseÕs ÒKing of the Road: The Roger Miller Story.Ó in Laguna Beach, CA on Wednesday, April 12, 2017. (Photo by Sam Gangwer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Jesse Johnson, left, as Roger Miller and Trevor Wheetman, right, Kenneth “Thumbs” Carllile, rehearse for the world premiere of Laguna Playhouse’s “King of the Road: The Roger Miller Story” in Laguna Beach, CA on Wednesday, April 12, 2017. (Photo by Sam Gangwer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Jesse Johnson, left, as Roger Miller and Trevor Wheetman, right, Kenneth “Thumbs” Carllile, rehearse for the world premiere of Laguna Playhouse’s “King of the Road: The Roger Miller Story” in Laguna Beach, CA on Wednesday, April 12, 2017. (Photo by Sam Gangwer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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The year is 1966 and wisecracking novelty songwriter Roger Miller is at the peak of his career with multiple Grammy Awards under his cowboy belt and his own prime-time variety television show. Life looks great on the outside, but behind the scenes is a different story, as seen in the new play “King of the Road: the Roger Miller Story.”
Written by Cort Casady and Miller’s wife, Mary Miller, the true story about the man who introduced hits such as “Dang Me” and “Kansas City Star” to the world, will have its world premiere this week at the Laguna Playhouse. Previews will open Wednesday, April 19, and regular performances will run April 22-May 14.
The play begins with Roger, played by actor Jesse Johnson, during the most successful era of his career when everything seems to be going right – despite his heavy use of drugs and alcohol. The stage will be set to look like his hit ABC television show “The Roger Miller Show,” with flashback scenes in his dressing room and home that present various events that led to his success.
When he is visited by the spirit of his younger self, played by actor Braxton Baker, Miller is forced to face his demons, confront his self-destructive tendencies and accept love from others. The second act will fast-forward the audience to 1991 at the Birchmere music hall in Virginia, during one of the last performances of his life before he died of lung cancer in 1992.
Actor Jesse Johnson was cast in the lead role after director Andrew Barnicle saw him perform in the band of the Laguna Playhouse play “I’m Still Getting My Act Together” in 2015. Johnson, the son of actor Don Johnson and actress Patti D’Arbanville, said he did not initially know who Miller was, so he will bring his own portrayal to the part.
“I didn’t really go deep down the rabbit hole with studying his movements and personality on videos and stuff, because I want an authentic performance that is me, rather than a Roger mimic,” said Johnson.
With more than 20 live songs featured in the show, the lead role demands a lot of singing and guitar-playing, which Johnson said has not been a problem since he has played in bands since high school. Backed by a five-piece band, Johnson will perform alongside his real-life best friend, Trevor Wheetman, who will play the role of “Thumbs” Carlille, Miller’s longtime friend and musical director.
Johnson, 34, and Wheetman, 36, grew up in Colorado and attended Aspen Community School together, where they performed with one another in musical theater. Although Johnson lives in Los Angeles and Wheetman lives in Nashville today, they have remained close friends, which Wheetman said helps bring a special dynamic to their roles, since Roger and Thumbs were good friends.
“Trevor came to my school when I was in fourth grade and booked the lead in our school musical that year. He’s always been an incredible musician and actor,” said Johnson, “We’ve been thick as thieves since we met – I even gave a best man speech at his wedding.”
This play will be the first time both actors have joined each other on stage since grade school. Wheetman said he has always been a fan of Miller and his music, and he hopes the play will shed light on the Grammy and Tony Award-winning country legend for those who are not familiar with his work.
“The play is not highly biographical in my opinion – it’s not following his life chronologically. But there are key things to learn about him, especially the parts that show his struggle and success,” said Johnson, “I really hope we give his songs justice too, so the audience can enjoy his fun lyrics.”
Miller is best known for his comical novelty songs, such as “Chug-a-Lug” and “England Swings,” as well as hit country classics, such as the chart-topping “King of the Road.” He also wrote and performed several of the songs for the 1973 Disney animated film “Robin Hood,” and in 1983, he acted in and wrote the music and lyrics for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical “Big River.”
Miller privately struggled with depression, insomnia and addiction, which often resulted in him canceling shows and even walking off stage during his concerts. Such events and struggles will be presented in the play.
“I hope the play introduces this profound musician that has had such a large effect on the American culture and see the remarkable talent he was,” Johnson said. “For people familiar with him, I hope it kicks off the feelings of their adolescence of growing up with Roger, and maybe bring back memories of the glory days.”
‘King of the Road: The Roger Miller Story’
Where: Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna Canyon Road
When: Previews Wednesday, April 19-Friday, April 21; regular performances Saturday, April 22-May 14. Curtain times 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturdays, 2 p.m. Thursday, April 20, 5:30 p.m. April 23 and 30, 1 p.m. May 7 and 14
Ducks center Rickard Rakell (67), right, scores past Calgary Flames goalie Brian Elliott during Game 1 of their Western Conference first-round playoff series on Thursday night at Honda Center. (Photo by Kyusung Gong, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Ducks center Rickard Rakell (67), left, celebrates his goal with center Ryan Getzlaf (15) during the game 1 of the Western Conference first-round series against the Flames at Honda Center in Anaheim on Thursday, April 13, 2017. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Orange County Register/SCNG)
Ducks fans cheers for the team before the game 1 of the Western Conference first-round series against the Flames at Honda Center in Anaheim on Thursday, April 13, 2017. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Orange County Register/SCNG)
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ANAHEIM >> He didn’t have time to wonder what was wrong with this picture. Kevin Bieksa got the puck and looked up and saw the landscape of Antarctica. Nothing but permafrost, as far as he could see.
Well, he did see Ryan Getzlaf, motoring toward the opposite blue line, but he didn’t see any opponents. No Calgary Flames. It was an odd time to hold a team meeting.
“We stopped playing,” Calgary coach Glen Gulutzan said. “We did that twice in this game.”
Bieksa fired the pass to Getzlaf at the Calgary blue line. Getzlaf was joined by Rickard Rakell as five Flames poured out of the bench to replace the truants. But they couldn’t get out there quickly enough to prevent a 3-on-zero.
Getzlaf’s rebound went off Brian Elliott and right to Rakell, who scored to tie the score in a game the visitors had been threatening to take over.
“That was a game-changer,” Gulutzan said, accurately, and the Ducks went on to win Game 1 of this first-round series, 3-2.
It wasn’t the whole game. Anaheim had back-to-back power plays later in the period and took a 3-2 lead on Jakob Silfverberg’s shot, after the Flames had been pinned in their own zone for 1:25.
And the Ducks had to survive a 3-on-5 and a 4-on-6 at the end, with goalie John Gibson stopping Calgary’s Johnny Gaudreau on a bid for overtime
But the Ducks were able to score a goal against air. In playoff games that have molecular margins of error, this was a gift that the Flames couldn’t give.
“I saw they were on a change, I saw Getzie was out there with speed, and all I wanted to do was give him a perfect pass,” Bieksa said. “That’s what happened. He didn’t have to wait for it.”
How in the name of Penn and Teller does a team just disappear?
The Flames changed all five players, and the line of Kris Versteeg, Alex Chiasson and Sam Bennett didn’t get off the ice before Bieksa saw the wide-open spaces. That’s where plus-minus can be fraudulent. Mikael Backlund, Matthew Tkachuk and Michael Frolik got a minus, and all they did was scramble onto the ice, which they couldn’t do until the laggards arrived.
“That’s playoff hockey,” Bieksa said. “There’s a lot of confusion going on. I don’t know if their D were caught out on a shift or what (to create the five-man change), but that’s what wins or loses playoff games. We’ve been on the wrong end of bad changes at times. It’s the type of thing that decides a game.”
The Flames had shaken off a bad first minute and took a 2-1 lead early in the second when Versteeg’s slick backhand pass was converted by Bennett. “They were keeping us bottled up,” Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said.
But the Ducks only needed a little twist of the cap to escape that bottle and get straightened out. Refusing to punish such mistakes is another way to avoid winning a playoff game.
“That’s something we talked about in detail the last couple of days because details like that are important,” Gulutzan said. “But I guess we thought it was icing on that play, and we hesitated coming to the bench, and it cost us.
“We stopped playing early in the game, too, on the too-many-men penalty when the puck hit their skate and it wasn’t called. That set us back, too.”
That happened in a frenzied opening minute. The Ducks were charging and the Flames employed the old Scott Niedermayer trick of shooting the puck at the bench area in hopes of hitting someone leaving the ice, which would be a too many men penalty. The puck did hit Hampus Lindholm but the infraction wasn’t called. Next thing you know, Dougie Hamilton of the Flames is called for tripping, and Getzlaf is beating Elliott on a shot from the right point, with Patrick Eaves buzzing the net.
Sean Monahan tied it on a power play goal after T.J. Brodie kept intercepting what Carlyle called “soft clears” by the Ducks. Then the Flames played very comfortably until they realized none of them was on the ice.
The Flames took too many penalties, thanks to “youthful exuberance” according to Gulutzan, but then the Ducks spent the final minutes in a minority. But Getzlaf, brilliant all game, kept clearing the puck, and he also had to win faceoffs with Ryan Kesler in the box.
“You need to win draws in that situation,” Gulutzan said.
The Ducks’ rookie defensemen, Brandon Montour and Shea Theodore, held up their end. Theodore played over 12 minutes, blocked three shots and had two assists, both on the power play.
“They were very solid,” Bieksa said. “I thought generally we were comfortable with the first period. I thought we might be overzealous, maybe run around and take some penalties, but I thought we were pretty poised most of the game, very mature. We don’t need anybody to play like Superman.”
But if the Ducks can recover the superpower it takes to vaporize a whole hockey team, they’ll take that.
“Their Finest “ is a movie about making a movie, specifically a glossy propaganda film meant to bolster morale in Britain in the darkest days of the Second World War. It is also very much a movie-movie. Good-looking, finely acted, and well-told, director Lone Scherfig (“An Education”) has made a charming, witty and romantic gem. It is “Shakespeare in Love” in World War II.
Adapted by Gaby Chiappe from the novel “Their Finest Hour and a Half” by Lissa Evans, “Their Finest” is centered on Catrin Cole (a luminous Gemma Arterton), a copywriter hired by the government to help write the “slop,” or female dialogue, for a film meant to lift the spirits of a war weary citizenry. She’s a sort of proto-Peggy Olson whose talents and thick skin get her a place at the table alongside the men (although she is, they make sure to hammer home, paid less than her male counterparts).
Catrin takes the job out of necessity — her husband Ellis (Jack Huston) is a disabled and temperamental artist whose bleak industrial landscapes aren’t selling and thus not bringing in any money for their rent. Although Ellis tries to talk her out of the work, Catrin comes alive in the writer’s room, sparring with the egotistical lead writer Tom Buckley (Sam Claflin) as they try to meld minds to make a compelling story out of a newspaper account of twin sisters who stole their alcoholic father’s boat to rescue soldiers from Dunkirk.
It’s a relentlessly appealing take on the creative process, laced with humor and insight as Tom and Catrin bicker and banter about just who the hero should be (a man or the woman?), and how strictly they should adhere to the facts (not much, and, by the way, be sure to cut out the boring parts). What ends up being put into production, of course, is worlds away from reality, but there’s a lovely discovery of the truth at the heart of the sisters’ heroics that eventually makes it onto the screen.
Caiappe and Scherfig pack the film with fun side characters and pseudo showbiz insider jokes, like when they go out to the past-his-prime actor Ambrose Hilliard (Bill Nighy, always the scene stealer) for the “corpse role” of the drunken father who’s described as being a “shipwreck of a man” who is in his 60s but “looks older.” Ambrose of course thinks he’s being considered for the part of the hero and is stunned to realize otherwise.
They’re also, late in the game, instructed that they have to cast an American in the film because, in addition to British propaganda, the government now needs this film to persuade the U.S. to help out with the war efforts. The star they have in mind is a real Air Force pilot, Carl Lundbeck (Jake Lacy) — a Captain America type with golden locks and a million dollar smile. You can guess how that goes.
But just because some of the beats are predictable doesn’t mean that “Their Finest” is ineffective — quite the opposite. The elegantly composed script even begins to mirror the film within the film as the romantic tension grows between Catrin and Tom. Both need an ending, but what will it be?
Claflin in particular is a standout, ironically because he’s been made to look less glamorous than usual. His mousy brown hair, rounded specs and layers of tweeds and wool lets his real acting heft shine through. You actually believe he’s the underdog.
Without giving too much away, there is a beat (you’ll know it when it comes) that might sour things for some audiences, but it’s not enough to destroy all the good that’s there. Inspiring, funny and genuinely romantic, “Their Finest” is a solid, refreshing crowd-pleaser.
‘Their Finest’
***1/2 Rated R: For some language and a scene of sexuality. Starring: Gemma Arterton, Bill Nighy, Sam Claflin. Director: Lone Scherfig. Running time: 1 hr. 50 min. Playing: Areawide.
