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ACROSS
1 Tie with a cord
5 Acute anxiety
10 Miss from
Madrid: Abbr.
14 Texter’s “That
being said ...”
15 Get on the
phone, say
16 Lustful look
17 *Miracle Mets
center fielder
19 ‘‘If all __ fails ...’’
20 Weed whacker
21 Friskies eater
22 “Your choice”
24 Skip over in
pronunciation
26 *Creator of Daffy
and Bugs
28 Nevada gambling
city
29 __ for the course
31 Variety show
32 Dressing
component
36 Nav. rank
37 *“Songs About
Me” country
singer
39 Dashboard
meas.
41 Unsettled detail
42 Island near
Venezuela
44 Mexican mama
bear
45 Official records
49 *He voiced Buzz
Lightyear in “Toy
Story”
52 European toast
53 Come by
54 Fraternal club
member
56 CCV x X
57 Roughly
58 *Three-time
Super Bowl-
winning Cowboys
quarterback
61 Dumbfound
62 Wished (for)
63 Odometer unit
64 Pajama parts
65 Line in a ledger
66 Fret
DOWN
1 Pester
2 Peter of “Goodbye,
Mr. Chips” (1969)
3 Chinese noodle
dish
4 Unit of resistance
5 Bay __:
Oakland’s locale
6 Tidy
7 Joke
8 Bad thing to
make in public
9 Bad thing to get
at work
10 Record protector
11 Takes over for
12 Trial in simulated
conditions
13 “You __ My
Sunshine”
18 Skating surface
23 Large game fish
25 Way in
26 High-level betrayal
27 “You betcha!”
29 __ de gallo: salsa
fresca
30 Chevy hatchback
33 [I don’t remember
the words]
34 Laudatory poems
35 Swedish furniture
giant
37 Good sign from
Ebert
38 Fargo’s state:
Abbr.
39 Yoga class
rental
40 Before
43 They’re waved by
conductors
46 Say “I do,” say
47 Husk-wrapped
Mexican dish,
and when divided
in three parts, a
hint to the
answers to
starred clues
48 Never seen
before
50 Supple
51 Scandal-
plagued energy
giant
52 Enjoy the slopes
54 Watcher
55 Title for Godiva
57 East, to Ernst
59 Make a choice
60 Metric distances:
Abbr.
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Arts
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Blind ‘Hindsight’
VH1
I’ll be there for youuuuuuuuuu!
Poor writing and
unoriginality hold
back VH1’s new
series
By KAREN HUA
Daily TV/New Media Editor
Despite
an
intriguing,
if
unoriginal, premise, the pilot of
VHI’s “Hindsight” is full of cli-
chés. In areas
where
the
writers
could
have offered a
fresh lens, they
succumbed
to
hackneyed
plot points and
awkward dia-
logue.
Becca
(Laura
Ramsey,
“She’s
the
Man”) is a woman past her
prime
–
the
middle-aged
romantic finds herself facing a
second wedding, as she is now
engaged to a man (Nick Clif-
ford, “The Opportunist”) she
once found repulsive. Even now
that she has discovered “new
love,” Becca remains perpetu-
ally unhappy with her love life
and career. But just as she wal-
lows in self-pity about how she
reached her discontented state,
Becca suddenly finds herself
rewound to her first wedding
day in 1995. How opportune –
and how overused.
Becca’s past life features her
hunk of an Australian fiancé
(Craig Horner, “Legend of the
Seeker”) and her once insepa-
rable, eventually estranged best
friend Lolly (Sarah Goldberg,
“The Dark Knight Rises”). Soft
grunge is back in vogue, as are
choker necklaces, pagers and
AOL. Her first day caught in
the past consists of begging
Lolly to believe she’s from the
future, and contemplating the
love and happiness so elusive to
her life. Becca is determined to
use this opportunity to live life
differently without making the
same bad mistakes, which cul-
minated in the ever-so-original
run from the altar. However,
the show’s stock dramatic irony
is that we foresee Becca mak-
ing different mistakes – ones
that just lead to a life of dif-
ferent unhappiness. The show
is reminiscent of “13 Going on
30,” except Ramsey can’t quite
exude that retro presence like
Jennifer Garner.
Becca and Lolly’s friendship
is uplifting, but the other rela-
tionships have little potential
for development. Additionally,
many plot aspects feel forced,
especially when Lolly almost
immediately believes Becca’s
time-traveling scheme. Lolly’s
blind assumption has less to
do with her adherent devotion
to her best friend, and more
with an unbelievable lack of
awareness. The show gradual-
ly becomes too scripted, which
flattens all the characters,
including the protagonist.
The script allows for good
introspection, as the audience
hears Becca’s every thought,
pondering questions we must
all ask ourselves about the
meaning of happiness and the
existence of fate. As inspi-
rational as this initially may
be, her inner dialogue soon
becomes juvenile, every line
rewording
empty
truisms
with clunky philosophical lan-
guage. Ultimately, the writing
feels lazy – using voiceovers
and
external
narration
to
recount exposition. It breaks
a crucial law of writing: the
necessity to trust audience
intelligence.
While “Hindsight” ’s pilot
has some redeemable qualities,
its unoriginal script hampers
its potential, wasting a poten-
tially compelling premise. Not
only does Becca rewind the
clock, but the show reverts
back to overdramatic, stale sit-
com tropes as well.
‘Living Different’
struggles to subvert
By SOPHIA KAUFMAN
Daily Arts Writer
“I never in my life would have
guessed that I’d
be giving tes-
tosterone shots
to my girlfriend
once a week to
turn her into a
man.”
The
pre-
miere
episode
of
Oxygen’s
new four-part
special “Living
Different” kicked off with this line,
immediately letting viewers know
that they were about to get a fresh
take on what exactly “different”
means from a group of nine women
from a variety of backgrounds.
This episode, titled “#Love-
WithoutLabels,” focuses on two of
the nine: Lizz, a woman who has
been warily anticipating telling
her conservative Mexican Catho-
lic family that her girlfriend is not
only her girlfriend but also trans-
gender, and Rain, a woman whose
androgynous looks allow her to
model as both a man and a woman.
As a show that actively focuses on
groups that have been silenced by
the media and have experienced
prejudice before, it has potential to
help spread new understandings of
different sexualities and lifestyles.
Lizz is the first of her fam-
ily to graduate from college, and
she struggles with whether to tell
her family when they come for
her graduation that her partner is
transgender. She has to deal with
the reactions of both her family
and friends, one of whom asks her
in a puzzled tone as they sit in a bar,
“Are you gay or are you bi? Because
if she’s turning into a boy … ”
Rain was mistakenly booked as a
male on her first modeling gig; she
goes along with it and models as
both genders. She is more comfort-
able with male modeling shoots and
is nervous doing a lingerie shoot in
this episode, as she hints she may
be developing a crush on her female
photographer. Additionally, Rain
grapples with wanting a relation-
ship with her emotionally distant
father, as her ease with and control
of her own gender fluidity — espe-
cially modeling as a man but dating
both men and women — makes him
uncomfortable.
As with most reality TV, the
danger with this show lies in the
potential to be exploitative instead
of explanatory, pernicious instead
of progressive — and the premiere
episode leaves viewers distrust-
ful, still wondering which way
the show will go. The camera’s
influence on all of the people in
the show is all too apparent, even
for reality TV, and the resulting
awkwardness in stilted conver-
sations is palpable. Further, the
long-winded and smooth solilo-
quy-esque voiceovers don’t feel
authentic. However, there are
flashes that demonstrate a concern
for portraying the genuine frustra-
tion of those who don’t conform
to societal norms. Such instances
as Lizz’s reaction to her brother’s
misunderstanding the meaning of
transgender (“Gay? I mean I don’t
want to get into all the details … ”)
and Rain’s wondering tone when
she says, “This whole androgynous
thing is actually paying the bills,”
are particularly powerful.
Though
“Living
Different”
doesn’t feel like it’s quite living up to
its title yet, it shows brief glimpses
of what reality looks like for people
in these unconventional situa-
tions, contributing to discussion
about representation of diversity
in media. Future episodes will fea-
ture Hasidic musicians, an MMA
fighter and a psychic-medium,
among others. These are all women
who are used to others questioning
their lifestyles or choices, and they
seem united in a certain hope: that
by watching them push boundar-
ies and live in acceptance of them-
selves, audiences might be inspired
to do the same.
Groutfit chic
By CHRISTIAN KENNEDY
Daily Arts Writer
Gray sweats, gray crew neck.
We have all done it at some
point: the unmistakable and
completely atrocious groutfit (a
portmanteau of gray and outfit,
if you live under a rock). There
are two distinct roots behind a
mind that chooses an all gray
getup: 1) You, like my father,
simply don’t care what you’re
wearing, especially if it is just
around the house, or 2) you, like
me, have lost your mind and
your life is just in shambles (see:
finals week). So, my question is:
if someone with a decent sense
of fashion like myself opts for an
ensemble representative of all
50 shades of grey, why must you
kick me when I am down?
Comments come from sib-
lings, verbal harassment from
friends and “oh, honey” looks
come from hall mates. Grout-
fit rockers understand they
exceed the comfort levels of
others with their choices, but
believe me when I say groutfits
are the official uniforms of rock
bottom. Once there are three
essays, a French presentation
and a Michigan Daily article on
the line, fashion goes out the
window, down a hill and drowns
itself in tears and coffee. Instead
of the aforementioned reac-
tions, give a hug, thumbs up or
a slightly creepy wink to show
you’ve been there too.
As a personal rule, I try my
hardest to never leave the house
in my groutfit and all its great-
ness, but hey, shit happens. A
quick trip for Kroger sushi does
not present enough motivation
to put on a different colored pair
of sweatpants or sweatshirt.
So we can extend the family
and friends rule to strangers in
supermarkets …
You know my groutfit, not my
story. So kindly step off and let
me have my $4 California roll
with a sliver of dignity.
What’s even with the color
gray? Why are my gray sweat-
pants so much more enjoyable
than my black ones? Why is my
gray UM crew neck superior
to the blue one? Maybe it is all
in my mind and that of my fel-
low groutfitters … (Just realized
Urban Groutfitters would be a
great Etsy store).
Also, in defense of the color
gray: is there a better color
(excluding black) to create an
entire outfit out of? A student in
my high school once wore green
sweatpants and a green sweat-
shirt (he went to State … if that
needed further explanation). It
was awful, and I would pick a
groutfit any day over a greenfit.
Or a red, blue or yellow ensem-
ble as well.
From one groutfitter to the
rest: embrace it, and don’t let
any person in jeans tell you shit.
Rocking a groutfit is rocking a
state of mind – a state of mind
that says “leave me alone and
let me desperately try to get
my life together.” And for those
who wear groutfits because
they just don’t know anything
about dressing themselves (I’m
talking to all of the fathers out
there): stop. You’re making the
rest of us look like fools.
OXYGEN
I woke up like this.
B-
Hindsight
Series Pilot
VH1
Wednesdays
at 10 p.m.
B-
Living
Different
Minieries Pilot
Oxygen
Tuesdays at 9 p.m.
From one
groutfitter
to another:
embrace it.
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