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ACROSS
1 “Dancing With
the Stars”
network
6 Early sign of
spring
11 Big, uncouth guy
14 Flap
15 Now
16 King of ancient
Rome
17 Songs without
words?
19 Celebrity known
for wearing gold
jewelry
20 Like
21 Check for a
poker player?
22 Corner of a
diamond
23 Place name
derived from a
Koyukon word for
“tall”
25 Touch
27 Earthquake
consequence?
31 Span. title
34 Pasta sauce
flavoring
35 Jane __, only
female Chicago
mayor
36 Strong flavor
38 Dog or fox
40 One looking
ahead
41 Autobahn autos
43 Dreaded
mosquito
45 Mercedes
roadsters
46 House cat’s
challenge?
49 Supplements
50 Date night
destination
54 Corporate money
mgrs.
55 Hustler’s genre
59 Dollar alternative
60 Pop __
61 Money-making
fiasco?
63 Important time
64 Leader of the
pack?
65 Main artery
66 __ Taco
67 Manage
68 Solid that, when
divided into three
parts, describes
this puzzle’s
theme

DOWN
1 Sportscaster
Rashad
2 Capital on its
own river
3 “__ Thro’ the
Rye”: Burns
4 Kin, informally
5 Soccer practice
transport
6 Sphere 
opening
7 Lynda Bird’s
married name
8 Auteur’s starting
point
9 Stock-tracking
device
10 Part of PBS:
Abbr.
11 Current-carrying
components
12 Staff
13 Substances that
add protein to
meat
18 Pioneer
mainframe
22 Depth indicators,
at times
24 Court ploy
26 Texter’s “Gimme
a sec”
28 Son of Abraham
29 Levi’s Stadium
player, familiarly

30 Skate
31 Stood
32 In quick
succession
33 Like some
speech
components
37 “Cagney &
Lacey” co-star
39 Church VIP
42 Rest
44 Govt. stipend
provider
47 “Fat chance”

48 Charm
51 “If __ Would
Leave You”
52 Perfume
applications
53 State in northeast
India
56 How ties may be
broken, briefly
57 Re-entry need
58 Word in many
place names
61 Stir-fry additive
62 Opening

By Warren Stabler
©2016 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
03/25/16

03/25/16

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

RELEASE DATE– Friday, March 25, 2016

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

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SUMMER EMPLOYMENT

‘The Bronze’ not 
funny as intended

Sundance darling 
doesn’t stick the 

landing

By MADELEINE GAUDIN

Daily Arts Writer

Once upon a time, Hope 

Ann Gregory (Melissa Rauch, 
“The Big Bang Theory”) was 
America’s sweetheart. She won 
the titular bronze in the 2004 
Olympics 
and with it, 
the hearts of 
fans 
across 

the 
United 

States.

Twelve 

years 
later, 

back at home 
in Amherst, 
Ohio, 
not 

much has changed in Hope’s 
mind. She’s still an “American 
hero” deserving of free food 
at the mall food court. Except 
there’s a new child prodigy 
in town and, following the 
death of Hope’s old coach (and 
some 
complicated 
business 

with her inheritance money), 
Hope is forced to step up and 
help Mighty Maggie (Haley 
Lu Richardson, “The Young 
Kielowski”) on her path to 
stardom.

“The 
Bronze” 
takes 
its 

time getting to that so-called 
stardom. Hope initially sets 
Maggie up for failure, filling her 
with junk food, Avril Lavigne 
and a highly potent “green” 
smoothie. Then a quick change 
of heart alongside the promise 
of money turns her around. 
From there, Hope must struggle 
with 
being 
an 
absolutely 

miserable person and her fear 
that 
Maggie’s 
success 
will 

overshadow her own.

Rauch plays the insufferable 

Hope perfectly. So perfectly, 
in fact, that she’s absolutely 
unbearable 
to 
watch. 
She 

swears in a thick Midwestern 
accent 
and 
snorts 
Claritin 

each morning to start her day. 
She bullies everyone from her 
angelically patient dad (Gary 
Cole, “Tammy”) to her weed 
dealer. While her abrasiveness 
and complete lack of self-
awareness are clear attempts 
at comedy, Hope induces more 
cringing than laughing.

Poor Thomas Middleditch 

(“Final Girls”) seems destined 
to play the same twitchy nerd 
he always does. This time he’s 
Ben, the nervous gym assistant 
and Hope’s eventual (read: 
inevitable) love interest. Who 
could ever love someone like 
Hope, you might ask? Only this 
guy, who she is relentlessly 

cruel to. 

“The Bronze” tries to break 

free of its formulaic narrative 
by throwing in as many plot 
twists as it can. It twists and 
turns so much that it finds itself 
in much the same place where 
it began. Loyalties change and 
change back and change back 
again. People fall in love on and 
off the high bars. “The Bronze” 
actually does its best when it 
sticks to the narrative formula. 
But it tries too hard to surprise 
its audience. In the end, things 
are (somehow) resolved and, 
by some miraculous salvation, 
Hope is not the absolute worst 
person ever.

“The 
Bronze” 
is 
almost 

funny. In its quieter moments, 
it’s entertaining — a sweet 
moment 
between 
Ben 
and 

Hope is peppered with gentle 
awkwardness and Ben asking 
Hope if she tapes down her 
boobs in an attempt to tell her 
she’s pretty just the way she 
is. But, unfortunately, “The 
Bronze” relies too heavily on 
the 
crutch 
of 
raunchiness, 

favoring crude sex jokes and 
swearing over well-developed 
humor.

So “The Bronze” doesn’t stick 

the landing, that’s clear. But 
even worse, much like its main 
character, it doesn’t know when 
to quit. 

ABC

Pimp my ride.

FILM REVIEW

C

The Bronze

Sony Pictures 
Classic

State Theater

AAFF documentary 
shorts not compelling

By ANA LUCENA

Daily Arts Writer

It’s not easy to generalize 

the variety of films shown at 
this year’s Ann Arbor Film 
Festival, but solitary living was 
a running thread in the tenth 
set of shorts 
that 
were 

screened 
on 

March 
20. 

The 
strong 

production 
value 
and 

quality 
of 

subjects 
and 
actors 

filmed 
was 

consistent 
throughout.

The 

collaboration 
of 
several 
countries 

was 
showcased 
as 
well, 

demonstrating how film can 
allow diverse groups of people 
to coalesce. This was most 
notable in the documentary 
“Le Boudin,” in which German 
teenager Elias Greißler shares 
his experience of being forced 
into the French Foreign Legion. 
Portuguese filmmaker Salomé 
Lamas effectively strengthens 
the authority of Greißler’s story 
by splicing it with testimony 
from Portuguese serviceman 
Nuno 
Fialho. 
The 
striking 

similarities between the two 
men’s 
experiences 
brings 

gravity to the young man’s 
scary time in military service 
with another country. The 
fact that the two subjects are 
so distant in age and country 
of origin makes the issue 
addressed in the documentary 
all the more real.

The highlight of the set is 

the 
documentary 
“Omnia,” 

by Amena Al Nowais of the 
United Arab Emirates. Omnia, 
a 
young 
Egyptian 
woman, 

retells a horrifying childhood 
experience when she was in 
excruciating pain and could 
not use her legs to get away. 
Her blunt, simple language 
powerfully 
conveys 
her 

suffering as a result of female 
genital mutilation the way she 
felt it, without any preconceived 
ideas clouding her truth. This 
piece understandably received 
the most applause.

Several of the short films 

covered 
the 
daily 
routines 

of individuals with unique 
occupations, 
which 
became 

repetitive. “The Digger” shows 
Pakistani 
caretaker 
Zeib 

Kahn, who tends to a massive, 
pre-Stone 
Age 
graveyard 

in an Emirati desert. Other 
than a few shots of preserved 
skeletons in high-tech facilities, 
the short film mainly consists 
of a lone man traversing the 
desert for 24 minutes. There’s 
little activity onscreen to merit 
such a long running time. At 
one point, a car with exuberant 
music blasting through the 
windows zooms past Kahn. 
At that moment, I pitied the 
caretaker, who feels obliged 
to preserve nature without 
so much as a thank you. But 
it also made me question why 
the filmmaker found his story 
compelling.

“Sorelle Povere Di Santa 

Chiara,” 
or 
“Poor 
Clares” 

in English, tells the story of 
a monastery in San Marino 
committed to living in poverty, 
but it’s more of a series of 
photographs than a narrative. 
The monastic morning routine 
documented 
by 
the 
film 

consists of sewing, cooking, 
ironing, tending the garden 
and taking care of livestock and 
crops. With such a mundane 
subject, I’m disappointed that 
filmmaker Nina Danino didn’t 
go beyond the surface of these 
nuns. Investigating why these 
elderly women are committed 
to such a lifestyle would have 
made a far more interesting 
portrait of their lives.

“Baba Dana Talks to the 

Wolves” was more successful 
in its attempt to paint a portrait 
of an unusual lifestyle. In the 
short, 85-year old woman Baba 
Dana lives by herself in the 
Bulgarian mountains without 

electricity 
and 
most 
other 

modern conveniences. She has 
become very good at identifying 
and handling encounters with 
the local wolves. The lovely 
panning shots of her house and 
surroundings capture how she 
lives without taking away focus 
from its subject. The warm 
colors of the film convey the 
high regard held towards the 
rural woman.

Many of the short films 

take advantage of the scenic 
landscapes they were filmed in 
by using gorgeous establishing 
shots. Though this technique 
makes the films feel more like 
postcards than stories at times, 
it’s still fascinating to see the 
beauty of faraway lands. This 
is most evident in “Solace,” 
in which a girl goes through 
cycles of setting the table inside 
her plain, silent house, and 
taking care of chickens in the 
beautiful outdoors, alive with 
the songs of birds. The actors 
never speak in the film, robbing 
“Solace” of the opportunity to 
explain its intentions through 
dialogue. The conclusion of 
the film is puzzling, as the girl 
takes matters into her own 
hands when a source of conflict 
is never directly presented. 
That being said, the farm she 
lives on is very pretty.

The filmmakers of two of 

the short films were present 
at the screening: “Solace” ’s 
Katarzyna Plazinska and “Baba 
Dana” ’s Ralitsa Doncheva. 
After the show, they discussed 
the 
sources 
of 
inspiration 

for their work. Their answer 
was short: they wanted to 
capture the landscape of their 
hometowns, both in Eastern 
Europe. Other than that, little 
explanation was offered to 
help deepen my understanding 
of their work. When asked for 
questions from the audience, it 
wasn’t surprising that they got 
none. Their films’ thin plots 
spoke for themselves.

Though the set of short 

films is a mixed bag, it was 
a 
worthwhile 
experience 

to attend. It was a fantastic 
opportunity to see work from 
around the world, in no small 
part because they were well 
done. The main problem was 
the lack of dramatic tension: 
why am I compelled to see 
people 
repeat 
what 
they 

normally do? Hopefully these 
filmmakers will fight for their 
audience’s attention more in 
the future. 

B-

Films in 
Competi-
tion 10

Michigan 
Theater

Ann Arbor 

Film Festival

FILM REVIEW

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A GOOD 

DAY? 

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A BAD 
DAY?

EITHER WAY, 
YOU SHOULD 
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