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1 Chickens (out)
6 Lay eyes on
10 Judge’s setting
14 Like kindling
when lit
15 Advil target
16 Insulate, as a
jacket
17 *Process of
electron gain or
loss
19 Killer whale
20 Cereal with
lemony lemon
and orangey
orange flavors
21 Falling-out
22 Bryn Mawr
undergrads
23 Have a bawl
24 *Beneficial
substance in
berries
26 Lacking the skill
28 Not as much
29 Katy who voiced
Smurfette in “The
Smurfs”
30 “Jeopardy!”
creator Griffin
33 Takes off the
shelf
34 *Eating
37 At the center of
40 Compete in a
sack
41 Lets up
45 Asian rice
porridge
47 Show up
48 *London subway
system, with “the”
52 Bus. card info
53 Highly
recommends
54 “Monday Night
Countdown” airer
55 Cruciverbalist
Reagle of
“Wordplay”
56 Danish shoe
company
57 Each answer to a
starred clue
begins and ends
with identical
ones
59 Big bunch
60 Golf game
spoiler
61 Sailor’s “Halt!”
62 Gull relative
63 Start of a
preschool song
64 __-Bismol

DOWN
1 Watches late TV
until a teen
comes home, say
2 “From my
perspective ... ”
3 Hotel room
amenity
4 Amount to pay in
Calais
5 “__ who?”
6 Absorb the loss
7 “The Martian”
genre
8 Snapchat upload
9 Nikkei index
currency
10 Diabetic’s
concern
11 High behind a
front, e.g.
12 Holy smoke
13 Campsite
shelters
18 Former
Education
secretary Duncan
22 Golfer Michelle
24 Kirk __, first
movie Superman
25 Last Super Bowl
won by the
Giants
27 Capital of
Barbados

30 “Tell __ story”
31 PC key
32 MapQuest
output: Abbr.
35 Oldest Brady
boy
36 Geeky sort
37 Most severe
38 Accessory for Mr.
Peanut
39 Ambien, vis-à-vis
sleep
42 Webpage index

43 “Into Thin Air”
peak
44 Does business
with
46 Workplaces for
LPNs
47 Green Gables girl
49 Post-op therapy
50 “Hamlet” courtier
51 Flip over
55 Bit of chess action
57 __-la-la
58 Con man’s target

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04/05/17

04/05/17

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There are movies so bad they

are good, then there
are movies that are
just bad. “Wilson,”
directed by Craig
Johnson
(“The

Skeleton
Twins”)

and
written
by

Daniel
Clowes

(“Art
School
Confidential”)

based off his own graphic
novel,
“Wilson”
is
almost

unwatchable.

Woody
Harrelson
(“The

Edge of Seventeen”) stars as
Wilson, a socially awkward
man with a heart of gold.
Harrelson gives it his all,
that much must be said. It’s
just a shame the character
he portrays is so incredibly
unlikeable that it’s hard to care
about him or root for him at any
step along the way. The plot
follows Wilson as he attempts
to reconnect with his drug-
using ex-wife and the daughter
said wife gave up for adoption
17 years ago. It’s weird. It’s also
just not entertaining.

The film moves at a glacial

pace.
It
takes
forever
for

the story to get moving, and
the overall plot is just so
hackneyed and ridiculous that
I spent almost the entire movie

wishing it were over. Ninety
minutes too long, “Wilson”
never manages to rise above it’s
schlocky writing and one-note
characters. If the graphic novel

has
anything

going
for
it,

none of it can
be found in the
translation
to

the big screen.

Movies like

“Wilson”
are

movies that need to stop being
made. Today, there’s a whole
genre of film that follows this
idea that “weird realism” is
a good way to connect with
audiences. It’s characters are
supposed to be more “real”
because they are so unlikeable
and
it’s
situations
portray

people who only make the
wrong decisions because that’s
what “real” life is like. No, it’s
not. A particularly disturbing
element of “Wilson” is the
way the film treats adoption.
The Wilson character never
seems to understand that in
all relevant and emotional
ways, the daughter his wife
gave up is not his daughter.
The movie treats the girl’s
adoptive parents as villains,
when all they do is ask that a
creepy man stop stalking and
kidnapping
their
daughter.

Wilson eventually gets thrown
in jail and then gets together

with his dog-sitter, who is at
least twenty years his younger.

All this random nonsense

adds up to a whole lot of
nothing. No amount of wacky
shenanigans can make up for

uninteresting characters and
cringeworthy dialogue. These
strange
exploits
might’ve

worked well as a comic strip,
but there’s no indication of
that here, nor is there any
indication of what it was about
the comic that made anyone
on earth think it would make a
good movie.

FOX SEARCHLIGHT

‘Wilson’ ultimately adds
up to a whole lot of nothing

IAN HARRIS
Daily Arts Writer

“Wilson”

Fox Searchlight

Pictures

Michigan Theater
No amount
of wacky

shenanigans

can make up for

uninteresting
characters and
cringeworthy

dialogue

BOOK REVIEW
‘The Barrowfields’ is a
deeply heartfelt debut

A
heartbreaking
love

letter to literature, loss and
life changing choices, “The
Barrowfields” by Philip Lewis
is an absolutely gorgeous debut
novel. Opening its pages is like
looking
directly

into
the
mind

of
the
novel’s

protagonist,
Henry
Asther,

and it reads as an
intimate tale of
sorrow, addiction
and growing up.

“The

Barrowfields”
is
set
in

fictional Old Buckram, North
Carolina — a place filled with
crippling poverty that is slow
to modernize. It is there, in a
ghostly skeleton of a mansion
high on a hill, that Henry Aster
is raised by an aloof father,
who has a massive literary
ambitions and a worsening
drinking habit, and a quiet, yet
supportive, mother. Henry is in
awe of his father’s ambitions;
his father works as a lawyer

during the day, but writes and
plays piano in his gigantic
library all night. In his young
adulthood, Henry begins to
take after his father. When
tragedy strikes, leaving Henry,
his mother and young sister
alone, he departs for college
and resolves to never return
home. He leaves the house
on the hill and his mother
and young sister to fend for
themselves.

Through
a
new
and

shocking journey in the real
world,
Henry
falls
deeply

and perplexingly in love. The
woman, ironically named Story,
brings her own baggage to
their relationship. Eventually,
after graduate school, Henry
finds himself traveling back
to his childhood home, which
stands unoccupied on the hill,

and in attempts
to
resolve
his

inner
demons,

grapples with his
feelings for Story
and find himself.
Through inspired
and
shrewd

prose,
Lewis

tells the story of

the challenging and thought
provoking life of Henry Aster.

Although this is Lewis’s first

novel, one would never guess
that he is new to the world of
authorship. He has close ties
to the narrative and setting of
his fictional tale, as he is from
a mountainous North Carolina
town.
He
also
practices

law, collects rare books and
studies language much like
the fictional Henry Aster and
his father. It is obvious he
has many personal ties to his
first novel — the passion and
realism radiating off the pages
is unparalleled to any recent
realistic fiction piece.

“The
Barrowfields”
is

clever, with a hint of nostalgia
and plenty of intellect. It
contains a great deal of literary
references,
ranging
from

Poe to Wolfe, which provide
lovely metaphors and layers
of additional meaning to the
story.
The
narrative
prose

is
precise
and
calculated,

creating a beautiful tone for
the reader that makes the piece
captivating and impossible to
put down.

The most striking part of the

novel is its deep authenticity.
It’s rare to pick up a piece of
modern realist literature that
feels like it is surrounding
you. It was nearly impossible

to separate my reality from
the reality of the book, and
that is important in regards
to its themes and messages.
The portrayal of the hope and
courage we are forced to adopt
in the face of grief and sorrow
is
incredibly
genuine.
It’s

refreshing to read something
that has such a strong sense of
truth.

The
world
that
Philip

Lewis creates in the “The
Barrowfields” is vivid and
honest. I urge any lover of
literature and flowing prose
who needs a story of hope
and courage to read it. I look
forward to whatever Lewis
has in store for readers next; I
predict a great deal of success
with his debut piece. It is the
type of novel that just thinking
about makes me wish I could
unread it’s every page just so I
could read them all again.

ELI RALLO

Daily Arts Writer

“The Barrowfields”

Philip Lewis

Penguin Random

House

March 7th, 2017

A heartbreaking

love letter to
literature, loss

and life changing

choices, ‘The
Barrowfields’
by Philip Lewis
is an absolutely
gorgeous debut

novel

The most striking

part of the

novel is its deep

authenticity

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