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By Brooke Lefferts | The Associated Press»LOS ANGELES — The character Beverly Goldberg on ABC’s hit comedy series “The Goldbergs” can elicit laughter before she even speaks, thanks to the over-the-top outfits that are a love letter to the mother of the show’s creator and to 1980s fashion.

“No dialogue necessary,” laughs “Goldbergs” star Wendi McClendon-Covey, who plays the overbearing but lovable Beverly on the show.

The tops always start with the shoulder pads, then the embellishments. Details range from hanging beads, flashy


sequins, ribbons, fringe and ruffles, to phrases like “What’s shakin’ bacon?” and “I’m so flappy!”

The wig McClendon-Covey wears — blond bangs and feathered layers that flip out like wings — also helps inform her character, who can be tough and opinionated, smothering and meddling, but also loving.

“I’ve got my armor on, my helmet and my shoulder pads and then I’m good to go. I un-derstand my mood for the day based on what I open my closet and find,” McClendon-Covey told The Associated Press in a recent interview.

Costume designer Keri Smith creates the signature looks for the fictional Beverly, who is

inspired by creator Adam Goldberg’s real-life mother, also named Beverly. The character has a wardrobe his mother would have envied back in the day, with a minimum of five costume changes per episode, each a one-of-a-kind work of ‘80s nostalgia.

When the show first started in 2013, the real Beverly shipped boxes of sweaters and acces-sories she’d saved for decades to Smith. Many have made appearances on the show.

“It was amazing and it helped me grasp who she was,” Smith told the AP. “And that was im-portant for Wendi, too ... to know that she was actually legitimately wearing something that Beverly Goldberg wore.”

Smith and her team of costumers also shop at vintage stores and on eBay and Etsy for Bev-erly’s sweaters, but most need extra bedazzling for maximum scene stealing.

“If I know that Beverly Goldberg is on a mis-sion and she is trying to do something for her son at the school, she’s going for it. She’s either in full bedazzle or (the sweater) has like lions or tigers on it,” Smith said.

Since fans are often looking out for Bev’s wacky garb, Smith and the writers have had to up their sweater game.

“There was once a sweater that was made up of a bunch of different little teeny sweaters that spelled out ‘sweater.’ Try sourcing that.”

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McClendon-Covey said.The “sweater” sweater made Smith proud,

but it was a journey to get it right and win Adam Goldberg’s approval. First, she cut out her own idea — sweaters made of cloth — but Goldberg told her to start over and find actual knitted sweaters. With only one day to get it done, Smith found a way.

“This woman knits little tiny sweaters, like as ornaments, on Etsy, and I was able to contact her,” Smith explained. “She FedExed them overnight. We made little hangers out of paperclips. And then you look at it and it’s ... 500 times better than my first one. He’s right. That’s what it was supposed to be — little tiny actual knit sweaters. Genius!”

The outfits have become such a key part of the show that fans regularly mail sweaters to Smith.

“If a fan sends something in, I am using it for sure. And they all have good taste,” Smith said. “And then we let them know when it’s airing. And it’s just wonderful. It’s like everyone gets to feel like they’re involved.”

“If I know that Beverly Goldberg is on a mission and she is trying to do something for her son at the school, she’s going for it. She’s either in full bedazzle or (the sweater) has like lions or tigers on it.”KERi SMiTh, COSTUME DESignER


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With the U.S. baby boomer population now estimated to be approximately 73 million and growing, there’s potential for a dramatic increase in retirement-age bicy-clists during the next few years. While some will simply continue to embrace an activity they’ve enjoyed since childhood, others, like 70-year-old Indianapolis resident Dave Hall, will perhaps discover the joy of cycling for the first time as they search for new ways to remain active and improve physical fitness.

“My son was a very good soccer player, and I was always sitting on the couch, yelling at him to work harder,” Hall recalled. “However, I was overweight and didn’t get much physical activity so I decided it was time for me to start doing something too, especially for health reasons. Once I got into cycling, I really enjoyed it. I started taking it pretty seriously in 1997, and it became a part of me.”

Hall’s newly found commitment to the sport at that time didn’t entirely protect him from the health-related

issues he would later encounter, but now, looking back, he’s convinced biking lessened the severity of what he ultimately had to endure.

“I had a minor heart attack during a ride in 2000, and when doctors did a heart catheterization, they found two full blockages and a partial,” he said. “But they also told me my exercise had triggered new vessel growth around the heart so I ended up only needing to have stents.”

Since that time, the Central Indiana Bicycling Associa-tion member has continued to train regularly, riding three to four times per week as weather allows.

“I’ve averaged about 2,500 miles per year in the past and have done several 100-mile rides, including one in Michigan,” Hall said. “Cycling is such a good sport to get into because there are so many levels of participation,” he added. “I like to go on distance rides and enjoy the scenery. There are a lot of ways to get involved with your community through bicycling, too.”

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Southsider Lisa Searles has been a cycling enthusiast for a long as she can remember. In fact, as a 50-year-old in 2007, she participated in a six-week cross country ride from Man-hattan Beach, California, to Revere Beach, Massachusetts.

“I was part of a tour group, and we started with about 35 riders, but not everybody was able to finish,” Searles said. “We averaged about 80 miles per day but also did back-to-back 120-mile days. I loved every moment of it.

“Missouri has a lot of rollers — hills — so we probably had the most fun there. Kan-sas, on the other hand, was very hard. The winds were terrible. It took us five days to get through that state,” she added. “I even had a flat tire during a hailstorm at one point. There was no place to hide.”

From the physical fitness enhancement and potential for social interaction it provides to the stress relief and environmental awareness it promotes, cycling is a sport that virtually anyone at any age can enjoy, and a growing number of boomers seem to be realizing that.

“There has definitely been an increase in the number of older riders out there during the last few years,” said Jon Kahlenbeck, owner of Columbus Cycling and Fitness. “With more people being health conscious, boomers are learning that biking is a low-impact exercise that is also a lot of fun.”

In addition, Kahlenbeck believes the Columbus People Trail has inspired many re-tirees in the area to dust off the wheels on ex-isting equipment or perhaps even try cycling for the first time. The trail consists of more than 25 miles of sidewalks, on-road bike lanes and paved off-road pathways that connect parks, the city’s downtown area, shopping facilities, schools and three rivers. Greenwood and Franklin also boast extensive trail systems that are constantly being expanded.

“As we get older, we naturally become more worried about falling from a bike and being hit by cars, so the trail system is really good for relieving those concerns,” he said.

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Searles agrees and said traffic can be a concern for riders of all ages and levels of experience.

“I’m not afraid around traffic, but I’m al-ways watching, and I always have my head-light and rear light on for visibility,” she said. “I ride very cautiously when I’m in the city.”

Of course, part of safe riding involves using the right types of equipment, but area experts say baby boomers don’t need to worry about age-appropriate gear.

“Helmets are pretty universal. The bottom line is that you need to wear one,” Kahlenbeck said. “There’s a lot of protective gear out there too, and while it’s important to wear some, the older generation probably doesn’t need a lot of it because they’re not taking as many risks as younger riders. Bikes, on the other hand, are completely dependent on the person, their ability to ride and their goals.”

Hall agrees. “I’m strictly a road biker, so if you’re going to be that type of rider, you want to make sure your bike can handle it. How-ever, if you’re going to do longer distances, you want to find a bike that handles well and is more comfortable,” he said. “If you’re going to be serious about it, it’s worth investing in a good bike.”

Seat selection is also important. “If want to go out and hit it hard, you want a harder and stiffer seat,” Hall said. “But if you’re just doing neighborhood riding, you might want to keep the seat softer and wider.”

What about proper attire?“Many people laugh about the clothing

bikers wear, but you have to understand it’s colorful and flashy for a reason,” Hall said. “It’s much more comfortable than jeans and shorts, and you can cool down a lot faster when you’re wearing cycling clothes.”

Ultimately, at least according to Hall, Sear-les and Kahlenbeck, biking is a sport that can be tailored to just about anyone

“It’s my lifeblood,” Searles said. “If I can’t get out there and ride, I’m not happy. Cycling makes me feel free. Runners get a high from running. I get a high from riding.”

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Many in Johnson County may not know of the hidden gem in their own backyard. The Camp Atterbury Museum is a testament to the vital role the camp has played in our na-tion’s history, a must-see for history buffs young and old.

The indoor museum uses a time-line to take visitors through Camp Atterbury’s history, beginning from before it became a military base in 1942, said Capt. Jesse Bien, public affairs officer for Camp Atterbury.

During World War II, its peak years, Camp Atterbury’s mission was

to provide combat training for the U.S. Army. Regionally drafted people or people who signed up came to the camp for basic training, schooling and collective training before being deployed overseas, Bien said.

According to indianamilitary.org, Camp Atterbury was initially more than 40,000 acres when it opened, extending over Johnson, Brown and Bartholomew counties. Four U.S. Army divisions, as well as numerous auxiliary and service units, trained at the camp during World War II. In all, nearly 275,000 men received

training there, with thousands more who received their initial training elsewhere coming to Camp Atter-bury for advanced training.

Wakeman Hospital Center, one of the largest hospitals of its kind in the nation, trained medical personnel and treated an estimated 85,000 pa-tients during the war. Between 1943 and 1946, a portion of the camp was used as an internment camp, first for Italian and then for German prison-ers of war.

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to receive training at Camp Atterbury in 1942. Helen Miller, his widow, played an important role in setting up the museum, still serves as a volunteer and sits on the board that oversees it.

Miller, 86, remembers her husband telling her of the heavy rain in the spring of 1942 that made the grounds a muddy mess for builders, who nicknamed the camp “Mudbury.” Ames Miller trained young soldiers at the camp before shipping out with one of the units as part of the D-Day invasion. He was wounded in France and returned to the United States. Helen Miller is proud of the fact that several of the artifacts on display at the museum belonged to her husband, including one of his Purple Hearts, his hat from the 14th Cavalry Regiment and a watch he wore during the war.

In addition to the indoor museum and a veterans memorial, other historical items of in-

terest at the camp include the outdoor museum and the Chapel in the Meadow, a church built in 1943 from scrap materials by Italian prisoners of war who wanted something that reminded them of their homeland. After falling into disre-pair, the small building was restored in 1989.

The outdoor museum, which is visible from Hospital Road, features 25 static displays, in-cluding an M1 Abrams tank, a UH-1 helicopter, an Honest John rocket system, an M4 Sherman tank, an M60 Patton and several artillery pieces. The outdoor area extends over several acres and has a walking path and a fish pond.

In addition to regular visitors, the museum offers group tours. Bien does most of the tours and says he tries to make them as interactive as possible, especially when they’re for school-children. The kids get a chance to handle hand grenades and bayonets and try on helmets,

body armor and jackets from World War II.“We have a lot more items you can touch here

than other (museums),” Bien said. “I feel they will remember it more than if they just hear about it.”

The indoor museum moved to a new loca-tion in 2012, according to the Atterbury-Mus-catatuck website. The museum now is outside the main gate, a factor that has made a big dif-ference, Bien said. The public can visit without having to go through the secured entrance.

“The move has increased our traffic a lot. It is more readily accessible than it used to be,” he said.

The origins of the indoor museum began in 1995, when Col. Jack Noel, the commander of Camp Atterbury at the time, noticed there were a bunch of artifacts stored in various places throughout the base, said Myles Clayburn, a re-

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“Volunteers were in here day and night, week after week, and it just kept growing,” he said. “Without our volunteers it would not have hap-pened.”

Clayburn said the museum is funded entirely by donations from individuals and grants. The museum’s founders also met with a lot of cura-tors of other museums as part of their research, including a trip to Camp Mabry in Austin to see the Texas Military Forces Museum.

Clayburn said the museum has also benefited from partnering with the Indiana Historical Society, receiving items on loan and sending it items, including a display at a recent POW exhibit at the history center.

Clayburn, who rose to the rank of chief war-

rant officer 5 during a military career that in-cluded service in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom, is still at Atterbury, working full time as a contract civilian. The man who grew up in Brown County on the western bor-der of Camp Atterbury is steeped in its history and honored to be a part of the museum that brings that history to others.

Helen Miller shares that feeling.“It is a wonderful tribute to the military,”

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The museum is located in the Camp At-terbury Welcome Center on Hospital Road. Admission is free, and hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Access to the military camp is not required to visit the museum or the outdoor museum and veterans memorial located nearby. It is wheelchair accessible and has extra wheel-chairs on hand for someone who may have diffi-culty standing for long periods.

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I walk a pretty straight line. I don’t mean I’m perfect. I am as flawed as the next person. In fact, I dwell so much on how flawed I am that dwelling on my flaws has become one of my chief flaws.

But back to my walking a straight line.If I see a sign that reads, “Keep Off The

Grass,” I keep off the grass. If the speed limit sign reads, “Speed Limit 30,” I drive 30 mph.

I may be the only person in this state who tries always to drive the posted speed limit. Most people fudge a bit. I’m not judging. I’m just saying.

My husband, Dan, has been wearing an orthopedic boot on his right foot because of a sprained ankle tendon. Therefore, his driving is limited. For the first time in over 45 years of marriage, I am the chief driver. And it isn’t easy. For either of us.

Like you, I have established driving habits:• How and when I change lanes.• Where I park on big department store lots.• How closely I follow another vehicle.• The route I take when entering and exiting

our neighborhood.• How I judge whether a yellow light leaves

me time to continue.I have the luxury these days of rarely being

in a hurry. I don’t have a job or kids to shuttle to events. I am, I guess you could say, a lei-surely driver. The kind of driver non-leisurely drivers hate.

I plan my car trips to make my stops in a prescribed order, trying to avoid making left-hand turns on busy highways. And I get along just fine.

But now that I’m chauffeuring Dan, I have forgotten how to drive. That’s because I’m try-ing to drive the way he drives because I am a ... wait for it … people-pleaser.

On about our second outing after I began driving, Dan asked, “Why do you take this street out of the neighborhood when you’re planning to turn south onto Sawmill Road?”

“I don’t know,” I said. “I just do.”“If you go down one more street, you’ll

avoid a stop sign.”“Oh ... well,” I said.Now, at this point, a string of ques-

tions starts running through my brain. My thoughts go something like this:

Why does this matter to Dan? And if it does matter to him, why can’t he just tolerate the way I choose to exit the neighborhood? Why does he have to comment? Why can’t he keep his mouth shut and let me drive?

You may be shocked at the route my thoughts took (not at the route I took exiting the neighborhood) because you think I’m a nice person. I am a nice person. Most of the time. Can you make a higher claim? Hmmm?

But, and this won’t surprise you, when Dan is in the car, I now take his route when I leave the neighborhood, intending to turn left onto Sawmill Road. And why is that? Because I am a people-pleaser.

I also choose my parking spots based upon his recommendations. I change lanes or don’t change lanes, stop at yellow lights or proceed through yellow lights, cross a double yellow line to go around a stopped mail delivery ve-hicle or don’t cross a double yellow line to go around a stopped mail delivery vehicle based upon what I think he thinks I should do.

I try to do every driving thing the way Dan believes every driving thing should be done. I might as well wear a bracelet engraved with WWDD?

Not only do I do things his way, I — heaven help me — ask his advice as I drive.

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Putting the peanut gallery aside, I have run my last red light


“Do you think I should go around this truck?”“Is this the best place for me to park?”“Should I have stopped at that yellow light

instead of going on through?”“What would you have done?”And I hate myself for it. Hate myself for this

people-pleasing approach to life I have chosen.On the first Sunday I drove us to church, the

inevitable happened. We were running late. That is not the inevitable thing. Well, it sort of is, but it isn’t the inevitable thing for the telling of this story. I won’t go into whose fault it was that we ran late. That subject is for another day and another article.

We were running late. Dan was checking his watch, sighing heavily, squirming in the passen-ger seat, looking at the speedometer and showing other signs of discomfort.

We approached a traffic light. The light was at what I would describe as not a major intersec-

tion but not a minor intersection either. I would rate it a Class 2 intersection. Moderately busy.

The light was yellow. It had been yellow for a prolonged time. There was no way I could make my way through the intersection before the light turned red.

Muhammad had met the mountain.Should I break the law and proceed through

the intersection, knowing the light would turn red as I was halfway through, or should I stop and wait for the next green light, knowing that would cause Dan more discomfort?

What should I do? I gunned the engine and raced through the yellow/red light. And then I was mad. Mad at Dan. In my mind I vowed, “That is the last red light I’m running for you, mister!”

Now, if I had uttered that vow aloud, Dan would have been shocked. “What are you talking about?” he would have asked. “I didn’t ask you to

run that red light.”“Yes, you did,” I would have countered. “I

wouldn’t have run that light if you hadn’t been in the car. It’s your fault!”

“You’re crazy!” he would have said.“Oh, yeah?” I would have said. “If I’m crazy,

you made me crazy. When are you going to be finished wearing that blasted boot?”

I check our mailbox every day as soon as I hear the mail truck go by. I anticipate receiving a traffic violation notice. Certainly, that traffic light at that intersection had a camera attached. It is probably the only traffic light in the county with a camera snapping away all day every day to catch lawbreakers like me.

I can’t take it. When that traffic violation notice arrives in our mailbox, I will tell you this: Dan is the one who is going to traffic court.

He ran that red light. I don’t run red lights. I walk a straight line.

The light was yellow. It had been yellow for a prolonged time. There was no way I could make my way through the intersection before the light turned red.

Muhammad had met the mountain.


Book Review: ‘One Tough Out,’ by Rod Carew, with Jaime Aron

“One Tough Out” by Rod Carew, with Jaime Aron;

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Autobiography adds human touch to baseball, sports

»Any doubt that the Twin Cities has a special place in baseball player Rod Carew’s heart will be erased upon learning that he brought his daughter, Michelle, back to Minneapolis to be buried after her death from leukemia in 1996 at age 18.

Although born in Minnesota, she was just a baby when Carew left for Southern California after joining the Angels in 1979.

In the Orange County, Calif., hospi-tal where she died, she often expressed her desire to see it snow, never having experienced it growing up.

In his autobiography “One Tough Out: Fighting Off Life’s Curveballs,” Carew recounts the burial at United Hebrew Brotherhood Cemetery in Richfield, where Twins legends Tony Oliva and Kirby Puckett were pallbear-ers:

“She wore one of her favorite T-shirts. It was purple, her favorite color. Those small gestures meant a lot to us. But it was nothing compared with what happened during the burial. It snowed. Not heavy and not for very long, just enough for everyone to absorb the power of the moment. I

looked up to the heavens and thought, ‘Now she is at peace.’”

The book, written in first person with Jaime Aron, starts with his up-bringing in Panama and really takes off after Carew details how he broke into the majors after moving to New York City in part to elude an abusive father.

Cut from his high school team in the Washington Heights neighborhood near Yankee Stadium, Carew tried out for a sand lot team. A Twins “bird dog” scout, Monroe Katz, saw him play and tipped off an official Twins scout, Herb Stein, who in turn notified Hal Keller, head of the farm system.

Keller arranged an on-field tryout the next time Minnesota came to the Bronx to play the Yankees. They suited the 18-year-old in Oliva’s uniform and let him take batting practice. In his first two series of five at-bats, he clouted four home runs over the right-center fence.

“Two swings into my third round,” Carew writes, “Twins manager Sam Mele had seen enough. He came run-ning over and said, ‘Get that kid out of there!’ He sent me out to second base to field some grounders before the

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Yankees figured out what was going on.”Mele was worried that the Yankees would

discover this talent who lived in their backyard and make him an offer. Instead, at midnight on June 25, 1964, one day after Carew’s high school graduation, the Twins signed him for a $5,000 bonus and a $400 monthly salary and sent him to a rookie league in Florida.

The book is roughly split into two parts: his playing days, and his post-career dealing with the sickness of his daughter and his own heart problems, which culminated with a heart transplant.

It’s a must-read for Twins fans and baseball and Minneapolis historians. First-person ac-counts of All-Star seasons, meeting Jackie Rob-inson, and the daily grind with teammates Oliva and Harmon Killebrew are fascinating.

Carew recounts that June 26, 1977 — Rod

Carew Jersey Day at Metropolitan Stadium — was his best day in baseball. The biggest crowd ever for a regular-season game, 46,463, came to see Carew chasing .400 with the division lead on the line with the Chicago White Sox.

No. 29 scored five runs, and slugged six RBI and a home run in a 19-12 victory, which in-cluded several standing ovations for Carew.

“It resonates primarily from the reaction from the fans,” Carew writes. “The kinship and camaraderie developed over our decade-plus together crystallized in this moment. … When-ever I’m asked my favorite or most memorable day in baseball, the answer is always June 26, 1977.”

He had a sort of love-hate relationship with Twins owner Calvin Griffith, who, speaking at a Lions Club dinner in Waseca on the Thursday before the 1978 season ended, said Carew was

“a damn fool” for playing for $170,000.Carew nearly quit on the spot upon hearing

the remarks, but instead signed with the Angels at the end of the season for $4 million and be-came the highest-paid player in baseball.

Yet, at his 1991 induction speech into the Baseball Hall of Fame (he received 90% of the baseball writers’ votes on his first year of eligi-bility), one of the first people he thanked in ad-dition to his mom, the scout Stein and manager Billy Martin was Griffith, for his “patience and confidence” in him when others in the organi-zation didn’t think he was ready to make the jump to the big leagues.

With its heartbreaking description of his daughter’s battle and death, and his own struggles with heart disease, Carew, now 74, puts a human touch into the book that extends beyond baseball and sports.


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To make the most of lemons, I blend the zest, which contains essential oils that hold the floral aroma of the fruit, with the sugar. I don’t love biting into wispy strands of zest in a finished cake, so I grind the zest into the sugar in a food processor, then use the machine to quickly mix the rest of the batter. (If you don’t have a food processor or don’t want to wash yours, you can rub the zest into the sugar with your fingertips and mix the batter by hand.)

All of the tangy juice from the fruit gets used too. A splash is mixed into the batter, its tartness echoed by yogurt, and the rest simmers into simple syrup for soaking the baked cake. I like to brush it only on the bottom and sides to pre-serve the caramelized crispness of the top crust. The juice delivers a sunshine brightness, making this loaf as great for breakfast as it is for dessert.By genevieve Ko | Los Angeles Times (TnS)

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ingREDiEnTS1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour2 teaspoons baking powder½ teaspoon kosher salt1 ¼ cups granulated sugar, divided

2 lemons1/3 cup vegetable oil2 large eggs, room temperature

1 cup full-fat plain Greek yogurt1 teaspoon orange blossom water

inSTRUCTiOnS1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly coat an 8 ½- by 4 ½-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray. Line the bottom with parchment paper and spray again.2. Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Place 1 cup sugar in the bowl of a food processor. Use a Microplane grater to remove the zest from both lemons, letting it fall directly over the sugar. Juice the lemons into a bowl and reserve; you should have at least 6 tablespoons.3 .Pulse the sugar until it’s evenly yellow and has the texture of wet sand. Add the oil and pulse until well-mixed. Add the eggs and pulse just until incorporated. Add the yogurt, 1 tablespoon reserved lemon juice and ½ teaspoon orange blossom water. Pulse just until the last streak of white yogurt disappears. Sprinkle the flour evenly over wet ingredients and pulse just until smooth. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top.4. Bake until a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes.5. Meanwhile, combine the remaining ¼ cup sugar with ¼ cup of the reserved lemon juice in a small saucepan. Set over medium heat and bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar, then boil until the

liquid is clear, about 1 minute. Remove the pan from the heat and stir the remaining ½ teaspoon orange blossom water into the syrup.6. Unmold the warm cake and brush the bottom and sides evenly with the lemon syrup. Cool completely on the wire rack.

VARiATiOnS:Glazed Lemon Loaf: Stir 4

teaspoons fresh lemon juice and ½ teaspoon

orange blossom water into 1 cup powdered sugar to make a very thick glaze. Spread evenly over the cooled cake, letting the glaze naturally drip down the sides.

Lemon Olive Oil Cake: Substitute extra-virgin

olive oil for the vegetable oil.

Yogurt Citrus Cake: Substitute other citrus, such as oranges,

Mandarins, clementines, grapefruit or limes or a combination, for the lemons.You can buy orange blossom water, preferably the Mymouné brand, online or in Middle Eastern or specialty stores.You also can make the batter by hand: Place the sugar in a large bowl, zest the lemons over and rub in the zest. Whisk in the oil, then the eggs, then the yogurt, lemon juice and orange blossom water. While whisking slowly, sprinkle in the flour mixture until the batter resembles pancake batter. Add half of the remaining flour and fold with a spatula just until incorporated and repeat with the remaining dry ingredients.

Orange Blossom Yogurt Lemon LoafTime: 1 hour 30 minutes

Yields: Makes one 8 ½- by 4 ½-inch loaf

Orange blossom water gives this cake a lovely floral scent and a unique citrus aroma that’s much lighter than the taste you get from orange oil, which would overpower it. If you can’t find blossom water, use pure vanilla extract instead.

MAKE AhEAD:

The cake can be wrapped tightly in

plastic wrap and kept at room temperature

for up to 1 week.


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For sports fans missing live sports, ESPN has been holding it down in the docuseries depart-ment. The Michael Jordan/Chi-cago Bulls series “The Last Dance” recently wrapped up, and ESPN immediately dropped the first installment of a two-part “30 for

30” documentary about contro-versial cyclist Lance Armstrong, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Marina Zenovich. It’s a fascinat-ing and instantly addictive watch, as Armstrong attempts to spin his own narratives while Zenovich’s probing questions about his use of performance-enhancing drugs and his poor treatment of his team-mates continually punctures the cocoon of his carefully crafted truth. Hoisted by his own petard, as they say. The second installment dropped May 30

»A new season of Karina Longworth’s incredible Hollywood history podcast “You Must Remember This” dropped recently, and this one may prove to be the most groundbreak-ing season yet. If you’re not already familiar with “You Must Remember This,” it’s a spellbinding oral his-tory throughout the first century of Hollywood’s hallowed halls, researched, written and narrated (in her signature style) by the film critic and author.

She’s done seasons on Charles Manson in Hollywood, movie stars and World War II, Howard Hughes and his many loves (which she also spun off into a book, “Seduction”). Now she seeks to inscribe a new piece of Hollywood history with a season dedicated to Polly Platt, who came to prominence collaborating with her ex-husband, Peter Bogda-novich, on “The Last Picture Show,” and was later seen as the spurned wife when Bogdanovich left her for “Picture Show” star Cybill Shep-herd (whom she suggested he cast).

Platt later became a successful producer in her own right. Long-worth, with a manuscript of Platt’s unfinished memoir furnished by her daughters, will spend the sea-son exploring Platt’s imprint on the films she made with Bogdanovich, which far exceeded the production design credits she received. She’ll also dive into Platt’s subsequent career in Hollywood, as well as the systemic barriers that prevented her from becoming the kind of dei-fied director like her male contem-poraries.

Based on the first episode, the season won’t simply be an explora-tion into Platt’s life, but a bracing corrective to the public narrative and an assertion of her influence. Longworth herself provided us a few streaming movie suggestions to watch along with the podcast (or you check out the weekly watch-along hosted by Los Angeles-based film foundation Vidiots, with an Instagram Live discussion every Tuesday night through June 28.

A good starting point is “The Last Picture Show” ($2.99 on Amazon and Vudu, $3.99 on iTunes, Google Play, YouTube), the 1971 star-studded, Oscar-winning black-and-white drama of high schoolers in Texas, on which Platt was credited as a production designer, though the podcast suggests she had a far greater role in shepherding this story to the screen.

Next, check out “What’s Up, Doc?” Bogdonavich’s 1972 comedy caper stars Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal, and Platt also received a production design credit ($1.99 on Amazon Prime, Vudu, Google Play, $3.99 on iTunes).

Then, onto “Broadcast News” ($3.99 on Amazon Prime, Vudu, Google Play, YouTube), the 1987 TV news-based romantic dramedy, which she produced for director James L. Brooks. She had a long working relationship with Brooks as vice president of his Gracie Films company, where she produced the directorial debuts of Cameron Crowe, “Say Anything” ($3.99 on Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google

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