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ACROSS
1 Heist
4 Pasta nutrient
8 Archie Bunker
types
14 Statement
softener, in
emails
15 Command to
Silver
16 Shangri-la
17 Five-time NBA
championship-
winning coach
19 Find hilarious
20 No votes
21 Half an oz.?
23 Olympian
Lipinski
24 German 
wheels
27 Seize the
opportunity,
sunshinewise
29 Same old story
32 Metal corrosion
33 Part of a
biathlete’s gear
34 2017 award for
Emma Stone
38 Yale email
address ender
39 Finger painting?
42 “Deadwood”
channel
43 A little lit
45 Hellenic “H”
46 All hands on
deck
47 Captain’s choice
at the Super
Bowl
51 Italian rice dish
54 Transparent soap
brand
55 “I’m __ you!”
56 “Hunh!?”
58 Harvard’s is
“Veritas”
61 Excited reply to
“Who wants
dessert?”
63 Hiker’s snack
that’s literally
found in 17-, 
29-, 39- and 
47-Across
66 Evening meal
67 John known for
overlapping
diagrams
68 Loved, with “up”
69 Agrees
70 Air Quality Index
factor
71 Owen, to
Stephen King

DOWN
1 Morning co-host
with Seacrest
2 Muscat’s country
3 “Cheers!”
4 Sculptor’s tool
5 Be under the
weather
6 Grass in a J.D.
Salinger title
7 R&B’s __ II Men
8 Part of a
bedroom set
9 “What am __
do?”
10 Buffalo Bill and
Charles Dickens
wore them
11 “60 Minutes”
part-time
correspondent
12 Prom queen’s
crown
13 Thai snack
18 Hit the ball hard
22 Defib expert
25 Bart’s brainy
sibling
26 Munro pen 
name
28 Pretzel shape
29 Ridge on a neck
30 German wheels
31 Makes mad
35 Present time?
36 Eve’s second

37 Theater seating
arrangements
39 Putin’s no
40 Perched on
41 Like a double
eagle in golf
44 Sure victors
46 35-Down song
48 On the clock
49 “How stupid am
I?!”
50 Title job for
Shakespeare’s
Petruchio

51 PEDs, in slang
52 “The Best Exotic
Marigold Hotel”
locale
53 Poker-faced
57 Off-rd. 
transports
59 Bandleader
Puente
60 Team on a 
field
62 __ volente
64 Sleep phase
65 Mexican year

By Ed Sessa
©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
01/31/18

01/31/18

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

RELEASE DATE– Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

6A — Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

It 
makes 
perfect 
sense 
for David Wain, one of the 
masterminds behind “Wet Hot 
American Summer,” to direct a 
biographical film behind one 
of the great figures of modern 
comedy. Douglas Kenney, who 
founded National Lampoon 

Magazine, 
wrote 
“Animal 
House” and “Caddyshack” and 
indirectly assembled much of 
the original cast of “Saturday 
Night Live,” before they were 
taken from under his nose, is 
a master of ensemble comedy. 
When a number of people work 
on one project with different 
styles of comedy, the result 
will often be something of 
widely varying quality, at least 
in each person’s eyes. Some 
respond more to screwball 
and one-liners (like me), some 

respond 
more 
to 
physical 
comedy (OK, also me). As 
was the case with National 
Lampoon, so it was with “Wet 
Hot American Summer.”
Then why, why, why does “A 
Futile and Stupid Gesture,” a 
biopic of Kenney’s tragically 
short life directed by Wain 
feel so empty? Why does a 
most 
unconventional 
man, 
played satisfyingly but not 
compellingly by Will Forte 
(“Last 
Man 
on 
Earth”), 
receive a harshly conventional 
treatment? These are questions 
Wain must answer, both to 
us and to his comedy idols. 
Perhaps the starting point is 
the too often-made conflation 
between bombast and being 
interesting. 
In 
a 
decision 
truly 
befitting 
the 
film’s 
title, Kenney’s story is told 
by “modern” Doug (Martin 
Mull, “Veep”), who committed 
suicide in 1980. In an attempt 
to further humanize the man 
for whom a filmic depiction 
should be sufficient, Kenney’s 
resurrection feels not only 
strange, 
but 
somewhat 
malevolent, 
a 
cinematic 
dancing-on-the-grave of sorts.
Kenney, 
especially 
his 
romantic 
and 
professional 

relationships, is so naturally 
compelling. Having his story 
told lifelessly and whittled 
down to nothing for the sake 
of event-retelling feels like 
a giant missed opportunity. 

It’s not that the film is 
dramatically bad — in fact, it’s 
often rather funny (but not 
enough) — it’s just so utterly 
mediocre that it ends up just 
meaning nothing more than an 
excuse for Wain to pay homage 

“A Futile 
and Stupid 
Gesture”

Neflix

Sundance: ‘Hearts Beat 
Loud’ & ‘Futile and Stupid’

DANNY HENSEL
Daily Arts Writer

SUNDANCE REVIEW

NETFLIX

to his role model. That’s good 
enough for him, but not for us.
***
The 
title 
of 
“Hearts 
Beat Loud,” the latest film 
from 
director 
Brett 
Haley 
(“The 
Hero”) 
comes 
from 
a song written by one of its 
protagonists 
Sam 
(Kiersey 
Clemons, 
“Flatliners”), 
one 
day after she takes a pre-med 
summer school class before 

going off to UCLA. Her teacher 
explains that the heart beats 
loudly during cardiovascular 
stress, but also, he says with 
something of a wink when 
someone falls in love. Later 
that same day, Sam meets 
Rose (Sasha Lane, “American 
Honey”) and, sure enough, 
she takes a liking to her. Her 
heart, beating loudly, becomes 
the subject of a song that she, 
after refusing several times, 
records with her father Frank 
(Nick 
Offerman, 
“Comrade 
Detective”), who is a retired 
musician who now owns a 
fading record shop in Red 
Hook, Brooklyn, a seemingly 
magical neighborhood where 
everyone knows each other. 
In a sort of twist, after 
Frank secretly uploads the 

song to Spotify and it appears 
on the New Indie Mix playlist, 
“Hearts Beat Loud” becomes 
something of a minor hit. 
While it doesn’t lead to any 
tangible 
financial 
benefits, 
and We’re Not a Band — the 
adamant response by Sam 
that Frank turned into their 
name — doesn’t become a 
major 
phenomenon, 
father 
and daughter become closer. 
“Hearts Beat Loud” doesn’t 
offer anything by way of twists 
and turns, but it’s a delightful 
movie at which, when it hits 
theaters, one can imagine in 
late July, audiences will have 
a splendid time. What’s not 
to love? Offerman is reliably 
goofy, Clemons and Lane are 
charming 
and 
convincingly 
enamored with one another. 
Ted 
Danson 
(“The 
Good 
Place”), who plays Frank’s 
local bartender and friend, 
delivers some great jokes. The 
songs by We’re Not a Band, 
which sound something in 
between “Ultralife” by Oh 
Wonder and “Slip Away” by 
Perfume Genius, erring on the 
pop side, are pretty great!
There are some knots in the 
plot, which contains a tad too 
many threads for such a breezy 
movie. A strange will-they-
won’t-they dynamic between 
Frank and his landlord Leslie 
(Toni Collette, “xXx: Return 
of Xander Cage”) feels forced 
and never leads to any sort of 
emotional peaks or valleys. 

Tacked on is a thread of Frank’s 
mother 
Marianne 
(Blythe 
Danner, who worked with 
Haley in “I’ll See You in My 
Dreams”), who is repeatedly 
arrested for shoplifting, even 
in her golden years.

Artificial though it is, this 
is also a film with some killer 
indie cred. Mitski is name-
checked (a major thrill for yours 
truly, who could identify when 
Sasha 
Lane 
recommended 
“Your Best American Girl” 
without mentioning the artist) 
and Frank explains the merits 
of Animal Collective’s “My 
Girls.” Once Frank realizes 
that he needs to let go of his 
too-strong attachments to his 
college-bound daughter and 
his 17-year-old record store 
and develop a sense of parental 
responsibility, there is some 
tender emotional digging that 
might bring a faint tear to the 
eye.

“Hearts Beat 
Loud”

Directed by Brett 
Haley

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE

Having his story 
told lifelessly and 
whittled down 
to nothing for 
the sake of event-
retelling feels like 
a giant missed 
opportunity 

COMMUNITY CULTURE PREVIEW

Singer-songwriter Rachael 
Yamagata 
is 
returning 
to 
Ann 
Arbor 
for 
a 
soulful 
performance on her United 
States 
tour. 
Yamagata 
has 

collaborated with many well-
known artists in the past 
(including 
Bryan 
Adams 
and Jason Mraz), and is now 
bringing her own poetic style 
to The Ark this Thursday.
Yamagata started off her 
career and love of music non-
traditionally. 
She 
did 
not 
enjoy piano lessons growing 
up, 
and 
she 
struggled 
to 
find herself during college, 
bouncing 
between 
majors 
and universities. She finally 
found her calling by playing 
around on the piano and 
seeing the funk group Bumpus 
play in Chicago while she was 
in college. This inspiration 
was all that she needed as 
validation to start her career. 
Yamagata became infatuated 
with the idea of talented 
people her age playing music 
for the fun of it and realized 
that a music career is what she 
wanted to pursue.
“I’m really excited about 
(taking) 
down 
the 
fourth 

wall — having a living room 
style, special experience,” said 
Yamagata, in an interview 
with The Daily. The intimate 
concert is bound to be a 
personal 
experience 
for 
everyone who comes.
“(I hope my concert) can 
inspire 
people,” 
she 
said. 
“Almost like when you go see a 
movie by yourself, (and) you’re 
like, ‘Wow, I really felt that 
wholeheartedly.’” 
Yamagata 
hopes to reach every member 
of the audience, affecting them 
in personal and unique ways. 
Her music aims to affect every 
audience member differently. 
The audience brings their 
distinct experiences to the 
concert, 
while 
Yamagata 
brings her poetic lyrics and 
indie groove to dissect these 
experiences 
and 
destroy 
inhibitions, creating a raw 
experience that is meant to 
heal.
Vulnerability plays a large 
role in the songs of the set: 
“My songs are (like a) deep 
dive into what makes us really 
uncomfortable and angular, 
and makes us feel like our 
heads and hearts are going to 
explode, and then I put you 
back together,” she said.
Yamagata 
is 
fearless 
in 
the face of topics that are 
otherwise difficult to discuss. 
She strives to create a space 
where she encourages people 
to look at themselves in a 
different light — a concert 
dedicated to the introspective.
She hopes to break the 
emotional fronts that humans 
put up and use the power of 
her music to heal the audience. 
She creates a safe space for 
people to open up by leading 

by example and pouring her 
heart out to the audience in 
the way she knows best: song.
In addition, Yamagata has a 
special place in her heart for 
the city of Ann Arbor.

“I love that it’s a college 
town,” she said. Being in Ann 
Arbor is reminiscent of her 
own college years, and she 
is excited to give students 
what she felt with Bumpus in 
Chicago: a real, raw, emotional 
experience with music and 
people.
“Anyone in school, and you 
don’t know what you’re doing 
— it’s OK. You will figure it 
out!” Her concert is bound to 
be one of emotional depth and 
healing for anyone trying to 
find their own voice and place. 
She also encourages audiences 
to come to the show as early as 
possible to hear her opening 
act, Hemming, an acoustic 
singer-songwriter, 
whose 
compelling 
performance 
is 
also bound to inspire and heal.

Rachael Yamagata to heal 
through music at the Ark

ISABELLE HASSLUND
Daily Arts Writer

Rachael 

Yamagata

Thursday, Feb. 1 @ 
8:00 p.m.

The Ark

$20

Her concert is 
bound to be one 
of emotional 
depth and healing 
for anyone trying 
to find their own 
voice and place 

Artificial though 
it is, this is also a 
film with some 
killer indie cred

