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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
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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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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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