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In the city of Los Angeles, there are three “proprietary” departments, operations that pay for themselves, pretty much without tax money and with their own commissions, independent of the City Council, powerful entities unto themselves.

By some accounts, he was a dark horse in a conclave race which many predicted would deliver unto us a Pope Pizzaballa.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him.

But the loss of that metaphorical heart — and I do think the movie business as we’ve long understood it is never coming back; it’s a subsidiary of the tech industry now, no longer an industry unto itself — is meaningful.

To his evangelical true-believers, who no doubt spent a grip of similar Sundays learning about "doing unto the least of you" and being "strangers in Egypt," he shared a sermon of outright hate for immigrants and the judiciary.