Kelsey Grammer has played Frasier Crane for nearly a quarter century — most recently on a “Frasier” follow-up series that just last month wrapped its second season streaming on Paramount+. So it might be natural for longtime fans to conflate the small-screen psychologist with the man who won four Emmy Awards portraying him.

In Sunday Funday, L.A. people give us a play-by-play of their ideal Sunday around town. Find ideas and inspiration on where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on the weekends.

That’s why when we spoke late last month to discuss Grammer’s ultimate Sunday L.A. itinerary, I was curious as to how much overlap there might be between the actor’s downtime and that of his most famous character.

“Honestly, I just play Frasier,” he said. “But I guess if Frasier could go sailing he would — and I’m pretty good on a boat. … And my favorite food is caviar, so I suppose that [would be something in common]. But that was my favorite food before I played Frasier.” (For the record, Grammer likes to score his salted sturgeon roe at the Cheese Store of Beverly Hills.)

Beyond that, Grammer, who says he’s lived in L.A. “since 1984, basically,” envisions the perfect Sunday here as one spent at home with wife Kayte Grammer, their three young children and a couple of miniature Australian Labradoodles.

This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for length and clarity.

5:30 a.m.: Coffee, phone calls and Word Cookies
I like to wake up in the morning and sit with my cup of coffee and enjoy the sort of the misty air that comes in off of Santa Monica. … I actually kind of like those June Gloom days when there’s a bit of moisture dripping down the windows of the kitchen from the fog that rolled in the night before [that] slowly recedes back toward the ocean.

I like to wake up early so I have a little bit of time on my own to write. I’ve been writing things for the last several years in that sort of magic hour as the sun starts to come up. So I sit down and try to peck out a few words, a few thoughts on a couple ideas I have. There’s a book about my sister [Karen Grammer] coming out in May, and there’s another one about [my experience working with veteran’s group] Operation Restored Warrior I’ve been working on. And there are several other things in the pipeline.

Years ago, I used to do the New York Times crossword puzzle every morning. I’ve sort of fallen from grace and tend to play board games on my phone now. I’ve got a whole bunch of apps on my phone, but pretty much the only one I play is Word Cookies. So I’ll do a little of that; I’ll do a couple of phone calls with the East Coast. I started a [Margaretville, N.Y.-based] beer company called Faith American Brewing Co. [in 2015], so there’s usually some beer business to catch up on.

7:30 a.m.: Kids and Koala Crisp
Then the kids start to get up and trundle in — the younger ones, who are 12, 10 and 8. And they’re like, “May I have a bowl of cereal,” which is usually organic — Koala Crisp is what I think it’s called. My older son, Jude, who was living with us — he’s off to college at Emerson right now — wouldn’t come down until sometime around three in the afternoon.

And then Kayte usually trundles in, and she’ll offer to tee up some oatmeal. She does a great morning oatmeal. So that’s all five of us just hanging out — plus sometimes folks who are in town visiting. And we all sit around and have some oatmeal.

10 a.m.: Hit the beach — or the trail — with the dogs
And then maybe we’d drive to the beach or go on a hike with the dogs — we have a couple of miniature Australian Labradoodles — up in the Santa Monica Mountains on a trail that comes out on Temescal Canyon. If it’s the beach, we’d be going to the Santa Monica Pier.

That basically would be the traffic of the day. In the old days, I would have gone sailing. I don’t have a sailboat anymore but, in my salad days, I’d go sailing at least twice a week. I had a Baltic 37, a sloop, that was a beautiful sailing boat, and I’d go out with a couple of friends and enjoy the day. But those days are coming again; we’re talking about getting a boat and maybe keeping it in Florida.

Noon: Midday multimedia multitasking
After that, it’s mostly just the family hanging out, maybe doing some reading together. “The Monstrumologist” [by Rick Yancey] is one my daughter Faith is reading. My son Gabriel is reading “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” and my son James is reading the “Frog and Toad” [book series by Arnold Lobel]. So we’ll read those. Or they’ll catch up on their homework.

Sometimes we’ll watch a movie. I have a relationship with the studios and a server at the house, so they will just send over a first-run film, and Gabriel is nuts about trying to see movies on the day they come out. I think the last one we watched was “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,” and that was fun.

After that, honestly, we just sort of hang out. It’s a very domestic life. The kids love to go swimming; sometimes we’ll go for a hike in the mountains and that sort of thing.

2:30 p.m.: Get out in the garden
I’ve been doing some gardening lately and get out there about every day. So I might go out and sniff around our garden a little bit if I have a spare minute; pull up a few weeds or pick a tomato. The tomatoes were great this year — the cherry tomatoes were unbelievable — and we had great eggplants, bell peppers and jalapeno peppers. We have a spice garden too. The kids are not that interested [in gardening], although we have planted some strawberries together, and they like to go out there and pick them.

4 p.m.: Steak tartare and a martini
In the late afternoon, I love to go over to the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel and have steak tartare and a martini.

6:30 p.m.: Head to Nobu or e. Baldi
In the evening, we’d all jump into the car and head to Nobu because the boys love the yellowtail jalapeno. We also go to e. Baldi a lot [which is closed on Sundays]. Kayte likes to order penne arrabbiata [off the menu]. She also enjoys a dish called [My Favorite] Childhood Memory [“ravioli con la coda” filled with green chard and ricotta in melted butter and Parmigiano].

After that I might watch a football game on TV. My go-to team is the Miami Dolphins, but they’ve just been a tragedy for so long. I’m still nursing the [wounds of the] ’72-’73 season.

And one of my favorite things to have — and it’s been this way for a long time — is a hot fudge sundae. So, my ideal Sunday would probably include the best impression of a Denny’s hot fudge sundae I could find: vanilla ice cream — I love Häagen-Dazs — with crushed nuts and all that.

9:30 p.m.: Bedtime
Since I’m up at 5:30 a.m., I’m usually in bed by 9:30 p.m., so that’s when I shut things down. Pretty exciting, right?

The killing of health insurance executive, Brian Thompson has led to a flood of anger on social media — directed not at the shooter but at health insurance providers — and suddenly, we’re surprised that in the public imagination, insurance companies seem to be bad guys? But Hollywood’s been making villains of them for years.

In 1997’s Oscar-winning comedy As Good as It Gets, one of the biggest laughs was always the scene in which Helen Hunt erupted into profanity while talking to a sympathetic doctor about care for her son. Care that’s not been coming his way because of “F****** HMO b****** pieces of s***,” is how she somewhat indelicately puts it.

When she glances at the doctor and adds a quick “I’m sorry,” he offers a bemused, “Actually, I think that’s their technical name.”

This moment in one of 1997’s most popular movies was just the tip of the HMO-bashing iceberg that year. Two other movies actually centered health insurance in their plots. The satirical comedy Critical Care took a doctors-eye view at a hospital where patients with good insurance were seen as cash cows, as opposed to the John Grisham thriller The Rainmaker, where Matt Damon’s crusading, if inexperienced, lawyer struggled to get his clients any care at all.

Negativity: A pre-existing condition?

Was all this negativity about health insurers just a bad year’s PR for the industry? Well, for a while, insurance companies didn’t have a lot of good years in Hollywood.

• Queen Latifah got a brain tumor diagnosis in Last Holiday (2006) that her HMO wouldn’t cover.
• Michael Moore suffered no health industry fools in his documentary Sicko (2007).
• The horror flick Saw VI (2009) centered on an insurance adjustor who quickly wishes he hadn’t denied coverage to the Jigsaw killer.
• Even Pixar’s animation team got into the act in The Incredibles (2004), though about insurance companies in general, not just health insurance. When Mr. Incredible is told to hang up his suit at the beginning of the film, he glumly returns to his insurance office cubicle to do what movie insurance adjusters invariably do: deny coverage to a sweet little old lady who lives on a fixed income. Then, his wife jokes about saving the world one policy at a time, and he comes up with a way to help her. But that gets him in trouble with his boss, who screams at him to stop writing checks to every Harry Hardluck and Sally Sobstory, and remember that his job is to keep Insuricare in the black.

Managed care and cost control

Films inevitably reflect public attitudes, and by the late 1990s and early 2000s, the public was demonstrably not happy with how health insurance works.

A 2004 article in the Journal of Health Law argued that Hollywood healthcare stories had turned into horror stories after insurance companies in America largely turned to a system called “managed” care — aimed at reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and making the healthcare industry more efficient.

By the mid-1990s, these corporate plans were widely credited for doing that. But their success came at a reputational price: never mind that hospitals, drug companies and others had all played roles, insurers got cast as the prime villains, and that sentiment was the one being reflected in Hollywood films, nowhere more urgently than in the 2002 medical thriller, John Q.

Denzel Washington played the title character who, when told his insurance wouldn’t cover a heart transplant for his critically ill 9-year-old, took hostage not just the hospital’s emergency room, but the sentiments of a public that gathered behind police lines on the street outside the hospital, seeming as disenchanted with insurers as he was.

And, much as his plight resonated with that crowd on screen, it seemed to touch a raw nerve with the more than 17 million movie patrons who saw John Q in theaters worldwide.

The film inspired editorials, soul searching and even full-page ads by the American Association of Health Plans, attempting damage control: “John Q: It’s not just a movie,” proclaimed the ads, “it’s a crisis for 40 million people who can’t afford health care.”

Critics were less enthused, but who’s ever accused a critic of having a heart?

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Wash. — Deputies arrested a man and a woman who were accused of stealing thousands of dollars in jewelry, then trying to escape on foot, by car, and, finally, by row boat.

The ordeal began around 8:00 a.m. when a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call reporting a burglary from a shipping container on Killapie Beach Road, near the Hood Canal Bridge.

The 911 caller said a man and a woman had just stolen $11,000 in jewelry from the container and were fleeing the area in an SUV, according to Sgt. Brent Anglin.

Deputies in Jefferson County called for help from the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office after a witness saw the fleeing SUV driving south on the Hood Canal Bridge.

As Kitsap County deputies responded, they came across an SUV matching the description from the 911 call. The SUV had been in a rollover crash near Port Gamble.

The Kitsap deputies saw the man and woman walking away and attempted to stop them while calling in additional resources. Anglin said that the man and woman had managed to steal a rowboat on Port Gamble Bay.

Deputies deployed a drone that recorded the suspects’ attempted escape on the water. The drone video shows the suspects using plywood and an oar to propel the rowboat, which had begun taking on water.

The man and woman eventually ditched the rowboat and swam to shore, where they were arrested.

The suspects haven’t been identified and are expected to be booked into the Jefferson County jail. Anglin said the SUV they were driving would be taken for processing, and he noted it is not yet clear if the stolen jewelry was recovered.

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