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Brooklyn: To Voicer Tim Higgins: Gen. George Patton’s recommendation after Germany surrendered in 1945 to rearm the German Wehrmacht and join it with the Americans and the British to attack Russia was absolute madness. It would have had no support among the war-weary soldiers and civilians of the Western Allies, who viewed the Russians as valued and heroic allies.

Bronx: As we rapidly approach the April 1 start of a new fiscal year, I am concerned about a provision in the governor’s proposed state budget that could reduce the number of health plans in the Medicaid program —allowing no fewer than two but no more than five in each region of the state.

Manhattan: Our public schools need your help. The city has dramatically increased the staffing and training of the Situation Room, the group that responds to outbreaks of COVID. It has also increased the frequency and extent of COVID testing in our schools and through home-based tests.

Better Tagline: "I *am* in a world of shit." Not So Brief Plot Synopsis: In the early 1980s, all South African males age 16-60 were conscripted into the South African Defence Force to defend their countrys apartheid regime against Soviet-backed Angola. One new recruit, Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer), has to contend not only with the brutal training, but hiding the fact hes gay (derogatorily referred to as a "moffie" in Afrikaans) from both military command and his brothers-in-arms...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The SAG Awards were presented last weekend, with prizes in the movie categories going to Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Yuh-Jung Youn, Daniel Kaluuya and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” cast. It was the first time all four individual movie honors went to people of color. Glenn Whipp took a look at what the winners might mean moving forward, as the quartet of SAG acting winners have gone on ...

Kai Luke Brummer, center, in a scene from "Moffie." (IFC Films) Kai Luke Brummer in "Moffie." (IFC Films) Kai Luke Brummer in a scene from "Moffie." (IFC Films) South Africa, 1981. A few teenage soldiers, tanned, blond, just out of boyhood, enjoy a rare night out with a few female companions. Michael (Matthew Vey) drags on a cigarette and informs their new friends that, “we don’t feel a thing.” Later, he repeats himself back at camp, near the Angolan border, where the troops patrol for la...