ACROSS
1 __ Khan: Rita
Hayworth’s
husband
4 Composure
10 Turkish title of
honor
14 Life story, briefly
15 Cigar-smoking
George’s spouse
16 Swag
17 *One of three in a
daily diet
19 Former
Mississippi
senator Trent
20 Where sailors go
21 Like a
disengaged
engine
23 Plant anchor
24 *A roll of two, in
craps
26 Bring up, as a
topic
29 Grant permission
30 “Dig in”
31 Glacial historic
period
34 The Macarena,
pet rocks, etc.
35 Fred Astaire and
Ginger Rogers,
e.g., and, literally,
what the first
words of the
answers to
starred clues can
be
39 One, to
Beethoven
40 Regular practice
41 Quagmire
42 Fed. assistance
program
44 Key related to D
major
48 *Opening night
“Best of luck!”
52 Pear center
53 __ powder
54 Unevenly
balanced
57 Confident “Are
you the one for
this job?”
response
58 *Guffaw from the
gut
60 Copenhagen
native
61 Abode that’s
abuzz

62 Hawaii’s 
Mauna __
63 Those, to José
64 Shorthand pros
65 Sinusitis-treating
MD

DOWN
1 Soak up
2 Bar bottle
contents
3 “I’m not the only
one?”
4 Farming prefix
5 Air Force One
VIP
6 Metal-threaded
fabrics
7 Atlantic or
Pacific
8 Soccer star
Hamm
9 Resemble
10 TV’s “Kate & __”
11 Name on a blimp
12 Detective’s
promising clues
13 Swears to
18 Reaches
22 Trawling gear
25 Red flag
27 300, to Caesar
28 “__ Haw”
32 March follower
33 Moo goo __ pan

34 Woman’s name
from the Latin for
“happy”
35 Scenes in
shoeboxes
36 Actress Jolie
37 Place for a bath
38 ’60s war zone,
briefly
39 Drop in the sea
42 Product identifier
similar to UPC
43 Ballroom dances

45 Little lump
46 West Coast state
47 Cardinal’s
headgear
49 Entr’__: play
intervals
50 “Dallas” Miss
51 __ Heights:
disputed Mideast
region
55 Fire: Pref.
56 Stone and Stallone
59 Able, facetiously

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TV NOTEBOOK
‘Teresa’ exploits 
family struggles

Giudice legal 

problems explored 

in ‘Housewives’ 

spin-off

By SHIR AVINADAV

Daily Arts Writer

Whether 
from 
shock, 
or 

pure interest, I could not peel 
my eyes away from 14-year-old 
Gia Giudice’s heavily made-up 
face as she was interviewed on 
the latest episode of the three-
part series “Teresa Checks In.” 
The eldest of four daughters to 
Teresa and Joe Giudice — who 
were recently sentenced to jail 
for bankruptcy fraud — is put 
in the spotlight alongside her 
father and siblings in lieu of her 
mother, who has only contrib-
uted to the show through phone 
calls. In a thinly veiled effort to 
exploit this, has Bravo officially 
crossed the boundaries of real-
ity television? Or has this been 
a long time coming for the Giu-
dices?

“The Real Housewives of New 

Jersey” has followed the Giudice 
family, in addition to the family’s 
multiple other cast mates for the 
last five years — digging deep into 
their personal lives, extravagant 
lifestyle, ludicrous spending hab-
its and most of all, family drama. 
Though much of this content is 
edited and even scripted by the 
show’s producers, the couple’s 
legal issues began long before 
the show. Manipulating these 
circumstances to make for more 
emotional television would have 
been just plain tacky. Yet, as with 
the show’s nature, the “House-
wives” franchise has become 
successful doing just that – using 
emotional situations to entertain 
audiences and create TV perso-
nas with large fan bases. “Teresa 
Checks In” is just a test of her fan 
base, whose support she needs 
now more than ever.

What’s especially ironic is that 

the very show that put the spot-

light on the Giudices during their 
grapple with their legal issues, is 
now the primary media source 
redeeming them from their 
negative public image. Accord-
ing to Joe, “being in the public 
didn’t help,” yet it is being in the 
public eye that propelled Tere-
sa’s cookbooks, haircare line 
and other businesses, garnering 
millions of fans. However, these 
fans seem to be lacking with the 
recent premiere of the show, 
which follows the family during 
Teresa’s absence. Just 1.2 mil-
lion viewers tuned in to the first 
episode. Teresa’s attempt to sal-
vage her fame and regenerate 
her and Joe’s lost fortune over-
estimates the loyalty fans have 
to the superficial figures cre-
ated through Bravo’s depraved 
formula for reality television.

This 
formula 
(essentially, 

wealth + scripted television = 
exorbitant antics) is the source 
of success behind various other 
shows that draw millions of 
viewers, such as those who 
follow the “Real Housewives” 
series. “Keeping Up with the 
Kardashians” is one such exam-
ple. Most of the show’s 18 to 
34-year-old audience, including 
myself, have been keeping up 
with the family since the show’s 
early 
episodes, 
which 
pre-

miered in 2007. As the audience 
has aged, so has the show’s cast, 
making it feel as though they 
are a part of the family’s lives. 
We’ve accepted two divorces, 
three kids, a few lip injections 
and a gender transition as much 
a part of our lives as theirs. The 
reality on screen has become 
our own — online, in newspa-
pers and magazines, in books 
and so on. It’s even second 
nature for us to refer to them as 
if we know them personally.

As far as this goes for Tere-

sa, her fame — which shed an 
undesirable spotlight on her 
and her husband’s financial 
indiscretions — has had reper-
cussions not only on her and 
her family, but also on viewers 
everywhere. When a convicted 

white collar criminal contin-
ues to receive fame and money 
after being held responsible for 
their actions, it sends a perplex-
ing message to the millions of 
people who observe this. Once 
sentenced, most criminals do 
not have the luxury of mending 
their public image and making 
money by means of carefully 
composed 
reality 
television. 

In fact, this got Teresa into 
some trouble, when she asked 
her daughter Gia to tweet on 
her behalf and thank her fans 
for their “support.” Given her 
experiences, Teresa may have 
been knocked down a notch or 
two, but she doesn’t seem to 
fully grasp the extent to which 
she must take responsibility 
for her actions. And her fans 
seem to agree. Though “Teresa 
Checks In” presents only a sliv-
er of her current reality, it is a 
shoddy attempt at reshaping the 
family’s image and extorting 
whatever publicity it can from 
the remains of Teresa’s Bravo 
legacy.

The problem with reality 

TV, simply put, is that it’s not 
real. Whatever the content, it’s 
a means by which to distort 
perception. Whether it’s paint-
ing the Giudice family as well-
meaning people who are truly 
remorseful for taking advantage 
of the system to fend off their 
growing debt, or the wealth-
fueled antics of the Botox-lad-
en Kardashian clan — reality 
programming shapes its view-
ers’ ideas of right and wrong 
— what is desirable and what 
isn’t and what the appropriate 
responses are to inaccurately 
fabricated situations. When it 
comes to cases as ubiquitous 
as “The Real Housewives,” the 
monstrous public figures they 
have shaped out of affluence and 
scripted antics wield an alarm-
ing amount of power over view-
ers. The consequences of this 
power: a representation of real-
ity so misconceived that the very 
notion of what is acceptable and 
what is not has become skewed.

MUSIC NOTEBOOK
Hey, it’s Millennials 
and we love Disney

By DANIELLE IMMERMAN

Daily Arts Writer

This 
week, 
Daily 
Music 

Writers are looking back on the 
first albums they ever loved. 
Today, 
Danielle 
Immerman 

remembers 
Disney 
Channel 

greats. 

I don’t believe in favoritism. I 

can barely decide which cookie 
I want at Insomnia, so please 
don’t ask me to decide what my 
first favorite album was. Also, 
asking a music lover what her 
first favorite album was is kind 
of like asking Donald Trump 
what his imperfections are — 
you won’t get an answer.

Seeing that I don’t believe in 

favoritism, I decided to ask all 
four of my friends here at the 
University of Michigan what 
tickled their fancies early on in 
life.

My 
dear 
friend 
Mallory 

Robbins, 
an 
LSA 
freshman 

and proud srat sister of Alpha 
Delta Pi, proclaimed that the 
2006 hit Hannah Montana is 
the first album she fell in love 
with. According to my Mal pal, 
“Hannah Montana is my idol 
— she’s amazing and really had 
the best of both worlds. Her 
wig was phenomenal and just 
changed my life.” Too true, Mal. 
Hannah Montana did indeed 
change all of our lives.

LSA freshman Natalie Gray, a 

salty resident of Bursley and the 
most exuberant member of the 
Delta Phi Epsilon sisterhood, 
took me for a walk down 
memory lane. Hilary Duff’s 

Metamorphosis is her first fave 
album. Nat Gray backs up this 
confession by saying Duff “was 
a real day one that spoke true 
words.” Well, Nat Gray, if we’re 
being completely transparent 
here, I would probably have to 
agree with you.

Emily 
Cornelius, 
another 

LSA freshman (because those 
are the only people willing to 
talk to me), divulged that her 
first love is none other than Mr. 
Lupe Fiasco. Lasers is number 
one on E Corn’s list because 
back when she was a youngster, 
“Lupe just really got me.” (Fun 
fact, when I pronounced Lupe 
wrong, Mal Pal bitched me 
out by saying “Jesus, Dan, you 
can’t pronounce it like that; it’s 
disrespectful to Mr. Fiasco.”)

LSA 
freshman 
Catherine 

Karns, a fellow Donald Trump 
hater, can’t seem to shake the 
memory of The Cheetah Girls 
from her mind. Cat watched 

them 
open 
for 
Hannah 

Montana back in the day and 
elaborated profusely about this 
experience by saying “it was 
lit.” I asked Cat why she loves 
The Cheetah Girls so much and 
she responded, “I honestly don’t 
know. They were just boss-ass 
bitches before I even knew what 
that meant.” Truth, Cat, truth.

As you can see by this 

massive survey I conducted, 
there is very little variation in 
millenials first favorite albums. 
Basically, if it wasn’t on the 
Disney Channel, I doubt any of 
us would dub it our favorite first 
album (unless you actually knew 
what shitty music sounded like 
when you were eight years old). 
In conclusion, I would like to 
thank my gaggle of friends for 
taking thirty seconds of your 
life to answer my pivotal earth-
shattering questions. You are all 
true day-ones, but Hilary Duff 
is still better than you.

WALT DISNEY

The Miley’s always greener on the other side of the fence.

CONCERT REVIEW
Halloween at The 
Ark with Wild Child

By AMRUTHA SIVAKUMAR

Daily Arts Writer

I hadn’t heard a lot of Wild 

Child before Saturday. But one 
look at the audience, and I knew 
exactly where I was. There was 
a comfort, a cheerful warmth 
at 
The 
Ark, 
Ann 
Arbor’s 

staple folk venue, on Saturday 
night. What started as sweet 
serendipity 
quickly 
turned 

into one of the best indie folk 
experiences of my life.

Clad in Halloween costumes 

ranging from simple mustaches 
to the “Ann” of Ann Arbor, 
the Austin-based, seven-piece 
band wove every sad story on 
their discography into a saga of 
forgiving and moving on.

“Victim to Charm,” from 

Wild 
Child’s 
2011 
release 

The Runaways, harmoniously 
blended vocalists Kelsey Wil-
son and Alexander Beggins 
with a powerful mix of vio-
lin and cello. In seconds, the 
venue was glued to every word. 
The strings echoed just long 
enough after every verse ended 
to keep everyone feeling privy 
to the magic shared on The 
Ark stage. “Break Bones,” from 
Fools, the group’s latest album, 
darkening lyrics were almost 
inappropriately masked in an 
infectious piano-backed melo-
dy, which made me take until 
the end of the song to question 
how I was feeling.

It didn’t take long for the 

entire venue to catch on to 
the familial joy being thrown 
around stage. For “Cocaine 
Hurricane,” not a single person 
shied away from trying to 
catch all the childish syllables 
of the song in a single breath. 
As “Crazy Bird” ‘s familiar 
introductory riff hit cellist 
Sadie Wolfe’s bass strings, the 
crowd was visibly awakened. 

Lead vocalist Kelsey Wilson 

has the ability to bring peace to 
sadness and weave melancholia 
into just another memory. The 
rather 
unusual 
harmonies 

between ukulele, cello and 
violin — held together by 
Wilson’s salient vocal — spread 
to every corner of the Ark, 
making it impossible to not 
share joy with every other fan 
in the sold-out venue.

“You feel like you’re together 

in something — like you’re 
experiencing the whole thing 
together. It’s a family therapy 
with a lot of dancing,” Wilson 
said of her music on the band’s 
website.

Therapy is right. Two hours 

later, I felt refreshed. Maybe, 
I felt, this is what music was 
created to be. An outlet for all 
the weight we feel on a day-to-
day basis. A place where secrets 
become just another story, and 
struggles become something to 
be cherished and learned from.

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