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ACROSS
1 Diplomat Henry
__ Lodge
6 Former Ford
division, briefly
10 “Kindly let us
know,” on invites
14 Like a noisy
stadium
15 Length times
width
16 Israeli airline
17 *The president’s
annual salary,
e.g.
19 Lily that’s Utah’s
state flower
20 Mary __
cosmetics
21 Agree silently
22 Avoid shipping
out?
24 Electrically
connected
26 Weds in secret
27 Kind of football
kick
30 Prairie dog or
squirrel
32 Brown photo
tone
33 Long skirt
34 Carpe __: seize
the day
37 Hawaii’s
Mauna __
38 Pool diving area
... and, literally,
what the start of
each answer to a
starred clue can
be
41 Dean’s list fig.
42 How some
audiobooks are
recorded
44 Prayer ending
45 Autumn shade
47 Pencil mark
remover
49 PC memos
50 Say yes (to)
52 Arabian
Peninsula
country
54 Thick fog
metaphor
56 Prefix with east
or west
57 Comedian
Margaret
60 X-ray units
61 *Prince film
featuring “When
Doves Cry”
64 “Understood”
65 Flanged fastener
66 It’s measured in
degrees
67 “Why don’t we?”
68 “__-dokey!”
69 1971 Eric
Clapton hit
DOWN
1 Wine barrel
2 Operatic solo
3 Squarish, as
some cars
4 Lummox
5 __ and Tobago:
West Indies
nation
6 “All in the Family”
spin-off
7 Make a typo, say
8 “Cheers” actor
Roger
9 Redeemed, as
casino chips
10 English
translation of the
start of 10-
Across
11 *“Sweet dreams”
12 Unclear
13 Lands heavily
18 2000 Bush
opponent
23 Pub potable
24 Nintendo game
system
25 Window
treatment
27 Capital of
Norway
28 Gas used in
signs
29 *Scatterbrain
31 Team on the farm
33 Viral video, e.g.
35 Fencing sword
36 Fourth planet
39 Approach
cautiously
40 Fait accompli
43 Puts on clothes
46 “Vaya __ Dios”
48 Commotion
49 Actor Jannings
50 Tax deadline
month
51 Put an end to
53 “E” on a gas
gauge
55 Rock genre
57 Clever
58 Sledding slope
59 Most fit for
military duty
62 Regret
63 Genetic stuff
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Strut like you mean it.
By JACOB RICH
Senior Arts Editor
Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds,
“The Proposal”) is perhaps
Marvel
Comics’
most
memorable
character
of
the ’90s, and
he sometimes
feels
like
a
time capsule of
that
decade’s
pop
culture.
His
stories
are
self-
referential,
ultraviolent
and filled to the brim with
the
same
skateboard-riding,
backwards hat-sporting ‘tude
that filled the era’s music
videos
and
professional
wrestling
shows.
Lately,
though, his books have felt a bit
dated — the chimichanga jokes
have been getting a bit tired,
and the fourth-wall-breaking
metahumor has, at this point,
been done better elsewhere.
Thankfully,
20th
Century
Fox and Reynolds’s long-in-
the-making superhero vehicle
provides a nice update to a
character on the verge of feeling
passé. “Deadpool” is a comedy
surprisingly on the pulse of
contemporary
geek
culture,
gleefully satirizing the nine-
figure grossing comic book
films that have skyrocketed
Disney and Marvel to the
forefront of the film zeitgeist.
While he’s killing the bad guys,
Deadpool loves to spit one-liners
and make fun of superhero
tropes. No pop culture is safe
here — from digs at Reynolds’
terrible 2011 “Green Lantern”
film to a particularly nasty
“127 Hours” meets Judy Blume
joke (yeah, I’m not going to try
to explain that one here — just
see the movie), “Deadpool” ’s
referential satire is refreshingly
on point.
But it isn’t purely a comedy.
“Deadpool”
is
a
decent
comic-book
origin
story
sandwiched between two huge,
extraordinarily
entertaining
action scenes. Reynolds is a
superb Wade Wilson, a lowlife
gun-for-hire with a heart of gold,
who falls for Vanessa (Morena
Baccarin, “Homeland”), a sassy
but endearing prostitute. The
two fall into a superficial but
still rather sweet romance (via
one of the better meet cutes I’ve
seen lately), which is promptly
interrupted by some bad news
for Wade — he’s diagnosed with
terminal cancer.
We don’t quite get enough
time with the two to really
care about their relationship,
but we get the point. He loves
her, he’s going to die and he
needs to cure himself so he
can be with her. Wade makes
a deal with the devil: he’s
deceived by the Machiavellian
Ajax (the Jai Courtney-esque
Ed Skrein, “The Transporter
Refueled”) into undergoing a
brutal mutation treatment. He’s
cured, and given Wolverine-like
mutant powers to boot — but
his features are deformed, he’s
brainwashed and left for dead.
Deadpool is born, and he’s out
for revenge.
That
last
part
probably
sounds pretty familiar, huh?
For all its innovation as a piece
of satire (I’ll be spoiling none
of its jokes here), “Deadpool”
doesn’t nail the formal meat-
and-potatoes stuff of being
a
good
superhero
movie.
Skrein’s Ajax continues the
long tradition of lame, one-
dimensional supervillains that
plague the Loki-less Marvel
films. Vanessa is an initially
interesting foil for Wade, but
she’s quickly packed away into
a damsel-in-distress box and
isn’t really given space to feel
interesting again. Perhaps most
obnoxiously, mutants Colossus
(Stefan Kapicic, “24”) and the
insufferable Negasonic Teenage
Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand,
“Annie
Undocumented”)
are
shoehorned into the otherwise
excellent fight scenes for no
perceivable reason other than to
promote the upcoming “X-Men”
film.
But where “Deadpool” fails
as a straightforward superhero
movie, it more than makes up
for in its subversive humor,
and
its
performance
from
Reynolds. This is by far the
most impressive work, comedic
or dramatic, that Reynolds has
done. His razor-sharp cadence
and bravado carry this film
even when it’s on its most tired
dregs in the second act. He’s
dropping six jokes a minute, and
the majority of them hit hard.
T.J. Miller (“Silicon Valley”),
essentially playing himself, is
another highlight as Deadpool’s
confidante Weasel, a smarmy
hipster who somehow ended up
as the proprietor of the tough-
guy bar where ‘pool hangs out.
“Deadpool” is at its best when
it’s poking and prodding the
lurching Kevin Feige-shaped
blob of the “other” Marvel
Comics movies, and isn’t quite
as competent at standing freely
as its own superhero film. But
with the exception of a few
unfortunate clunkers (there’s a
pretty transphobic joke or two
in there, ugh), “Deadpool” ‘s
innovative, hilarious comedy is
more than enough to justify the
trip to the theater.
Stay until the end of the
credits. If you’ve been paying
attention, I shouldn’t have to
tell you why.
‘Deadpool’ excels
with odd humor
B+
Deadpool
20th Century
Fox
Rave and
Quality 16
‘Sparkler’ a success
By
MARIA
ROBINS-SOM-
MERVILLE
Daily Arts Writer
“I think it’s important to find
out first, are you one of two writ-
ers? Do you write what you know
or are you just a vivid imaginer
— or are you some sort of com-
bination of both?” said Amber
Tamblyn in a phone interview
with The Michigan Daily.
The actress and poet’s most
recent book of poems, “Dark
Sparkler,”
strikes
a
balance
between
Tamblyn’s
familiar
and imagined world. The col-
lection focuses on the untimely
deaths of female actresses from
the iconic Marilyn Monroe, to
actresses whose names war-
rant few results from a Google
search.
“It’s such an interesting topic
to me — how we immortalize
celebrities and glamorize them
after they’re dead and sort of
treat them like objects and so I
wanted to give a voice to female
actresses because I am one. I
have some sense of what that
loneliness and life must have
been like,” she said.
Tamblyn has intimate knowl-
edge of the way that the world
regards young female actresses.
Having risen to success in roles
in “General Hospital” and “Sis-
terhood of the Traveling Pants”
(a piece of her identity that may
resonate deeply with the tween
hearts of University of Michigan
students) she meditates on the
destructive nature of fame on
the psyches and habits of young
starlets through poetry.
Tamblyn read from “Dark
Sparkler” on Saturday at Lite-
rati Bookstore in Ann Arbor. Her
reading was punctuated by can-
dor and hints of dark humor. She
offered the audience a healthy
dose of hugs, selfies, feminism
and her two cents on sexist cri-
tiques of Hillary Clinton.
She discussed her process
of writing “Dark Sparkler” as
emotionally taxing. She start-
ed working on the collection
in 2009 following the death of
“Clueless” actress Brittany Mur-
phy, and she worked on it for six
years with a one-year hiatus in
between. Tamblyn joked about
taking a year off, suggesting that
there were a lot of things from
which audience members likely
hoped to take a year-long break.
“Can we just get a year off of
the patriarchy? Y’all can come
back and swing your dicks
around — just give us a year off,”
she said. I laughed — she knew
her crowd.
Her experience as a young
actress is supplemented by a life-
time of writing poetry and expo-
sure to influential female poets
such as Claudia Rankine, Wanda
Coleman, Diane Di Prima and
Marie Howe, all of whom have
done extensive writing on what
it means to be a woman.
“She (Wanda Coleman) cer-
tainly wrote about the dark-
est parts of being a woman and
her mind could go to really
dark morbid tough places about
soul-searching and connecting
herself with the souls of other
women, so that really influenced
me,” Tamblyn said.
Tamblyn still has the clear
and versatile voice of a seasoned
actress, from precise enuncia-
tion and a style that inflicts dis-
tinct emotional undertones to
each poem she reads.
Her dark humor is displayed
in the naturalistic slant rhymes
in “Untitled Actress” in the
lines, “Straight teeth a must,
Must be flexible. Small bust a
plus. Can do own stunts. Will
waive rights to image, likeness,
publicity and final cut.”
Other moments in the col-
lection are more whimsical and
abstract. The poem entitled
“Laurel Gene,” from which the
title “Dark Sparkler” is pulled
has a few lines that resonate
deeply within the larger scope
of the book. Tamblyn writes, “I
was his dark sparkler. A taran-
tula on fire. / An innocent with
apple juice eyes and a/ brain full
of famished birds.” She recog-
nizes a life that is powerful, yet
volatile and vulnerable.
Amid the recounting of sto-
ries outside of Tamblyn’s own,
she anticipates a search for her
personal stake in the matter.
She included an epilogue to the
book, that catalogues her pro-
cess of creating “Dark Sparkler”
through lists, Google searches,
emails and narratives of her own
experience generated from a
good portion of life spent in the
limelight.
“My editor there was really
adamant that people were going
to want to know what it was like
to be me while I was writing
those poems. People were going
to want that meta-experience,”
Tamblyn said.
The directly personal por-
tion of the book is a point of both
angst and pride.
“I was proud of that because
I meditated on it for a long time
and I kicked and screamed psy-
chologically like a little kid.
I threw an internal tantrum
because really, I didn’t want to
go back over all of the emails and
the notes I took over five years,”
she said.
Read the rest of the interview
at michigandaily.com
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