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11 1014 Vaughn $7700
9 1015 Packard $6525
6 511 Linden $4800
6 1016 S. Forest $5400
6 1207 Prospect $4900
6 1355 Wilmot Ct $5075
5 935 S. Division $4000
4 412 E. William $3200
4 507 Sauer Ct $3000
4 509 Sauer Ct $3000
4 827 Brookwood $3000
4 852 Brookwood $3000
4 927 S. Division $3100
4 1210 Cambridge $3400
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1 Fancy pillowcase
5 Not as expensive
9 Stats for sluggers
13 Lotto variant
14 Actress Davis
played by Susan
Sarandon in TV’s
“Feud”
15 “Alice’s
Restaurant”
singer Guthrie
16 *2010 Grammy
winner for Best
Metal
Performance
18 Opinion sampling
19 2,000 pounds
20 French
possessive
21 __-Ball: midway
game
22 Discreetly, in
slang
26 Nag, nag, nag
28 Black-eyed __
29 Electrified particle
31 Without an escort
32 Bygone Honda
sports car
33 Impassive type
35 Dry-sounding
deodorant brand
38 ICU drips
39 *TV cooking
competition
hosted by Padma
Lakshmi
41 Sch. in Columbus
42 Tiny laugh
44 Bundle of papers
45 Put into service
46 Airline to Tel Aviv
48 Flub it
49 Letter-shaped
hardware item
50 Sinuous ski race
52 Gets in the way
of
54 H.S. exams
55 Dripping
57 SEAL’s org.
58 Tech news site
59 Paint choice ...
and what the first
word of the
answers to
starred clues can
literally be
64 Longfellow’s “The
Bell of __”
65 Standoffish
66 Just sitting
around
67 Pear variety
68 Mix, as a salad
69 What Simon does
DOWN
1 Word before bum
or bunny
2 “Tell __ About It”:
Billy Joel hit
3 “That’s __-
brainer!”
4 Wall calendar
pages
5 Welcoming
prop on
“Hawaii Five-O”
6 Scheduled
takeoff hrs.
7 Opposite of
cheap
8 Taste and touch,
e.g.
9 Nas or Nelly
10 *Started a
construction
project
11 More green
around the gills
12 Shoe bottom
14 Old Western
villain
17 “The Simpsons”
bartender
22 Footnote ref.
23 __-racking: very
stressful
24 *Money-saving
investment
accounts
25 Belt holders
27 Chief of __: Army
leader
30 Wall recess
33 Make off with
34 Sorbonne
sweetie
36 Point to debate
37 Collaborative 1993
Sinatra album
40 Half a winter
warmer
43 Stretchy
47 Like 1% milk
49 Wimbledon sport
50 __ Domingo:
Dominican capital
51 __ Yello: soft drink
53 23rd Greek letter
54 Picket line crosser
56 New Mexico town
known for its art
scene
60 Lean-__: shacks
61 Wash. neighbor
62 Tricky
63 Guys
By Janice Luttrell
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11/14/17
11/14/17
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SHOWTIME
‘Shameless’ takes on the
Trump era in season 8
Standing in her bra and
underwear,
staring
at
an
unclothed Tinder match, Fiona
Gallagher
(Emmy
Rossum,
“You’re
Not
You”)
shakes
her head and proclaims “I
can’t do this anymore.” It is a
moment of self-determination
and realization; in a single
sentence, this woman who has
struggled through hell and
high water decides that she’s
had enough — enough with
random hookups and enough
with the way life tosses her
around. As she smiles at the
blurred lights of Chicago’s
skyline while the chorus of
PrettyDeep’s
“SugarCane”
synths
in
the
background,
one
thing
becomes
glaringly
clear:
these are not the
Gallaghers
we
have seen before.
In
its
eighth
season,
“Shameless”
looks
to
transform
its
lovable,
degenerate characters in a way
that keeps them true to their
disposition while remaining
pertinent in 2017. Gone are the
Gallaghers of 2011, dancing
on the edge of poverty on
the
southside
of
Chicago.
These are the
Gallaghers
of the Trump
years,
and
they’ve
got
newfound
money in their
pockets to spend (albeit as a
result of pushing their dead
mom’s
meth)
and
mended
futures to pursue. And while
SAMANTHA DELLA FERA
Daily Arts Writer
the Trumpian effect is evident
in the show it is nowhere near
centerstage — at least not
yet. Newly militarized Carl
(Ethan Cutkowsky, “Law &
Order: SVU”) laments over
the ungrateful elite. An ICE
agent responds, “Do you really
have to ask?” when asked why
he only cares about illegal
Mexican
immigrants
over
Russian ones. Perhaps these
ideas will be explored further
as the season progresses, but
right now, those lines serve
the same purpose as the use
of a fidget spinner in various
scenes: “Shameless” is well-
aware of the trends and tirades
of 2017, it’s just not ready to
tackle them head-on quite yet.
But for once, that’s not a bad
thing. The season premiere
is filled to the brim with new
plotlines
that
poignantly
tackle
very
real
and
very
relevant issues. Fiona exploits
the benefits of gentrification
with her latest tenant status.
Debbie (Emma Kenney, “Epic”)
looks directly into the face
of collapsing trade industries
when talking to her new welding
classmates.
Kevin
(Steve
Howey, “Blue & Green”) faces
the stigma and uncertainty of
male breast cancer. Only Frank
(William H. Macy, “Room”)
seems to be stuck in his old
ways, continuing to blame his
deceased wife and enabler for
pretty much everything wrong
in his life. Still, it seems that
smoking a half-pound of meth
has allowed him to reach some
level of enlightenment. Every
scene with Frank shows him
apologizing
to
people
he’s
wronged over the past forty
or so years (which, by the way,
leads to the best line of the
episode, in which he kneels at a
tombstone and declares, “Wow,
when you’re right, you’re right.
I should’ve let you drive.”)
“Shameless” has finally freed
its characters, allowing them to
take control of their own lives
rather than having to work
with
the
continuous
blows
that life has delivered them.
Of course, the show would
not be the drama it is without
conflict, and the fact that the
Gallaghers and Co. are doing so
well right now only means that
their inevitable fall will hurt
that much more. Eradicating
the
looming
shadows
of
addiction and poverty let the
characters look deeper into
themselves and decide what
kind of people they are going
to be. Will they reverse back to
their old, destructive ways? Or
will they take the the high road
out? These are the difficult
questions driving the show
as it teeters on the edge of
becoming Showtime classic or
just another series overstaying
their welcome. I, for one, can’t
wait to come along for the ride.
‘Daddy’s Home 2’ a failure
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The Christmas season has
finally arrived, and with it,
the inevitable tide of bad
Christmas movies. We already
got
the
astonishingly
lazy
“A
Bad
Mom’s
Christmas”
last week, and this week we
come to “Daddy’s Home 2,”
the sequel to the 2015 comedy
that existed to make us forget
how great Will Ferrell (“The
House”) and Mark Wahlberg
(“Transformers:
The
Last
Knight”)
were
in
“The
Other Guys.” Now, its sequel
doubles
the
number of dads
and
drenches
everything in a
Christmas veneer
to
distract
the
fact that there’s
nothing going on
underneath.
Of course, the
shallowness would be easier
to forgive if “Daddy’s Home
2” were actually funny, and in
all honesty, there are moments
where it verges on entertaining.
It’s nearly impossible to count
more than five times when it
actually crosses the line into
chuckle-worthy,
but
there
are set-ups here that briefly
appear promising before they
go to waste. The obligatory
Christmas tree incident finds
Brad
(Ferrell)
accidentally
cutting down a cell phone
tower. The family gets into
a fight while participating
in a live Nativity. The other
patrons at a bowling alley get
way too invested in how bad
one of the kids is at the sport.
A director dedicated to their
premise would be able to guide
their cast to comedic gold with
any of these.
The
problem
is
in
the
execution.
In
“The
Other
Guys,” the scenes that worked
did so because Adam McKay
was willing to let Ferrell and
Wahlberg riff off each other.
The extras on the Blu Ray are
filled with alternate takes of
the two taking a premise like a
simple confrontation between
their characters and running
with it. With more outlandish
ideas like the ones on display
in “Daddy’s Home 2,” there’s
little reason they couldn’t do
the same, but director Sean
Anders (“Horrible Bosses 2”)
seems unwilling to allow his
cast to let loose. Audiences are
stuck with jokes and scenes
that either fizzle out before
they show any signs of life or,
in the case of an unfortunate
incest gag, probably shouldn’t
have been written in the first
place.
This is doubly disappointing
considering the caliber of the
cast. Ferrell, despite being
in the middle of a streak of
lackluster
flicks
like
“The
House” and “Zoolander 2,” is
an icon of modern comedy, and
on the rare occasions when
“Daddy’s
Home
2”
works,
it’s because of him. Mark
Wahlberg
has
also
proven
himself a more than capable
leading man in both drama and
comedy, and series-newcomer
John Lithgow (“Miss Sloane”)
— here playing Brad’s father,
Don — has recently carved
himself out a niche as a reliable
character
actor
of
genre
and
prestige fare.
Even
John
Cena
(“The
Wall”),
known
better
for
his
professional
wrestling
persona,
has
shown himself to be willing
to commit to insane stunts
for big laughs in projects
like “Tour de Pharmacy” and
“Trainwreck.” But again, the
material that would allow for
this simply isn’t there. Instead,
the talented cast languishes
under the unfunny material
and lackluster direction.
The obvious odd one out in
the cast is Mel Gibson (“The
Expendables
3”).
Like
the
rest of the cast, Gibson has
proven his comedic chops in
the past, but it’s hard to see
what he brings to the role of
Kurt, the father of Wahlberg’s
Dusty, besides the discomfort
of seeing the controversial
actor
essentially
playing
a
toned-down version of himself
for laughs. It seems like an
example
of
cynical
stunt
casting more than anything
else.
Still, “Daddy’s Home 2” is
a Christmas movie, or at least
it carries itself as one, so it’s
important to view it through
that lens. This is where the
film fails the most. It has all
the hallmarks of a holiday
movie — the bickering family,
the mall Santa, the lights-
related disaster — yet until
the shoehorned delivery of
the final message, it’s all
surface level. Even “A Bad
Mom’s Christmas” for how
tired its script was, seemed to
at least be written by people
who enjoy the spirit of the
season. In “Daddy’s Home 2,”
there’s nothing but paper-thin
characters paying unfunny lip
service to the most wonderful
time of the year.
JEREMIAH VANDERHELM
Daily Arts Writer
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Home 2”
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