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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 14 april 2018
Video: Will Ferrell Trial begins in civil case focused

treated after rollover on David Copperfield show

freeway crash By REGINA GARCIA CANO

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The
tricks behind a disappear-
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) — ing act that magician Da-
Video shows actor Will Fer- vid Copperfield performed
rell was treated by para- for years in Las Vegas
medics after sustaining were revealed in court Fri-
minor injuries from a roll- day, the first day of trial in
over crash on a Los Ange- a civil case brought by a
les-area freeway. British tourist who claims he
The video by OnScene.TV slipped, fell and was injured
showed the 50-year-old after he was randomly se-
Ferrell sitting on the side of lected from the audience
the highway talking to a to participate in the show.
firefighter shortly after the Attorneys for tourist Gavin
Thursday night crash. An- Cox, Copperfield, the MGM Illusionist David Copperfield, center, appears at the Regional
Justice Center in Las Vegas before opening statements in a civil
other video by LA-OC.tv In this March 14, 2012 file pho- Grand casino-resort, which trial on Friday, April 13, 2018.
showed Ferrell talking on to Actor Will Farrell arrives at a hosts the show, and others Associated Press
a cellphone as he sits on premiere in Los Angeles. detailed the route that ran-
a stretcher and firefighters domly selected audience "So, Mr. Cox (said) 'OK. I people are hurried. He said
load him into an ambu- Ferrell's manager did not members follow during the guess I'm going to be OK. a confluence of events
lance. immediately return phone trick in which Copperfield Why would David Cop- caused his client to fall and
Ferrell is believed to have and email messages seek- supposedly makes them perfield, who is so famous, be injured — running in a
been in a limousine SUV ing comment. disappear from a platform select me and not protect dark area, following an
with three other people Before the crash, Fer- on stage and gets them me?'" unknown route, encoun-
when a 2007 Toyota veered rell was appearing at an to reappear in the back of Cox filed the lawsuit in tering an unknown incline,
into their lane on Interstate event in character as Ron the theater. 2014 months after he was and dust and debris due to
5, according to a Califor- Burgundy, the buffoonish Cox was injured along the randomly selected to par- construction in the area.
nia Highway Patrol report. 1970s news anchor from route in a 2013 show. ticipate in the final trick of MGM Grand's attorney
The Toyota hit the rear right "Anchorman: The Legend Attorney Benedict Morelli, Copperfield's show on Nov. Jerry Popovich told the jury
side of the SUV, causing it of Ron Burgundy," accord- who represents Cox and 12, 2013. that Cox simply missed a
lose control, hit the center ing to posts on social me- his wife, told the jury during Attorneys on Friday de- step when he fell and did
divider and overturn. dia by people at the event opening statements that scribed how Cox sat on not slip. He explained that
Orange County Fire Au- and its host, Funny or Die. the illusion known as the a platform on stage and the site where the accident
thority Capt. Larry Kurtz said Comedian and actor Bil- Thirteen was "an accident later followed a route that happened, about 22 feet
the three men in the SUV ly Eichner, who also ap- waiting to happen" and took him through hallways before reaching the door
had minor injuries, while a peared at the event, "obviously dangerous." He and an outdoor area near to re-enter the casino, is
27-year-old woman had tweeted about the crash added that his client was a door that would have led essentially level with only a
critical injuries. The driver of on Friday. never warned about a pos- him back inside. But it was 1-degree drop.
the Toyota was not hurt. "I wasn't in the car," Eichner sible injury if he participat- at that point when he hit "Mr. Cox did not slip, he
The highway patrol said the wrote. "Will and everyone ed in the illusion. the floor. tripped," Popovich said.
woman was the only one are OK. Very scary but very "Quite the contrary, he and Morelli argued that the Cox in his lawsuit argues
not wearing a seatbelt. thankful everyone is OK." possibly all of the other par- audience doesn't get to he has spent more than
The crash was under inves- "Quick healing, God- ticipants had an expecta- see the "chaos" going on $400,000 on medical care
tigation. speed," he wrote.q tion of safety," Morelli said. behind the scenes, where and treatment. q

Meaghan O'Connell book on motherhood is funny and sarcastic

By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH, tials. O'Connell wanted to that couples face after be- castic, and readers will ap-
Associated Press write a novel. ing put in such a situation. preciate O'Connell's pas-
Having a baby — especial- One day she started feeling Should we keep the baby? sion on the subject, which is
ly before you're ready — is a little funny. So she took a Do we have enough mon- evident in the prose.q
no small task. pregnancy test. It came ey for daycare? Will our re-
Just ask author Meaghan back positive. lationship and careers suf-
O'Connell, who chronicled "Motherhood was the far- fer once the baby is here?
the time she unexpect- thest thing from the lives we Will I get the epidural?
edly got pregnant in her were living but still out there O'Connell does a fine job
new memoir, "And Now waiting for us," O'Connell at putting the reader in her
We Have Everything: On writes. "Of course, we had shoes, including the scene
Motherhood Before I Was more important things to leading up to giving birth.
Ready." do, or that was the party "I had wanted a 'natural
She was an idealistic line. We had our careers." labor and birth' for reasons This cover image released
20-something, living and It's a story many women will that, now that I was actu- by Little, Brown and Com-
working in New York City relate to — goals and life ally living through natural pany shows "And Now We
and engaged to her boy- getting circumvented by labor, I no longer related Have Everything: On Mother-
friend of a couple of years. happenstance. to," she writes. "I had drunk hood Before I Was Ready," by
They had big plans to travel Throughout the book, there the Kool-aid." Meaghan O'Connell.
the world after their nup- are the usual quandaries The book is funny and sar- Associated Press