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ACROSS
1 Touch, e.g.
6 Model in a bottle
10 SALT weaponry
14 “Ta-ta, mon ami”
15 Students’
lunchroom
17 Secondhand
wave of
excitement
19 Surprised cries
20 Court plea,
briefly
21 Bridal path
22 “Uh-uh—
however ... ”
24 They may be
raised in casinos
25 Saudi neighbors
27 Google Apps
component
29 Place to get
delivery
instructions?
31 Pro bono TV ad
34 “Hamilton” climax
35 27-Across
alternative
36 Has second
thoughts about
37 Member of the
fam
38 Hare care site
42 Thick
43 Off the beaten
path
44 Arcade activity
47 Welcome words
to a hitchhiker
48 Kicking partner?
49 Ancient France
51 St. Petersburg’s
river
54 Minister or imam,
say ... and, in two
ways, a hint to
words hidden in
17-, 29- and 38-
Across
57 Jaguar’s jaguar,
e.g.
58 Clarence Odbody
in “It’s a
Wonderful Life,”
e.g.
59 Give a finer edge
to
60 Word with bill or
ball
61 In __: unborn
DOWN
1 Hockey
announcer’s cry
2 Actress Falco
3 The Sultan of
Swat and The
Splendid Splinter
4 Like produce at
farm-to-table
restaurants
5 The Danube’s
cont.
6 “Run along now”
7 Pull with effort
8 “Assuming it’s
true ... ”
9 Guinea pig, e.g.
10 Taken from
above, as photos
11 Invigorating
12 Jacque’s
thousand
13 Cyber Monday
events
16 “To clarify ... ”
18 Operating
23 Show __
24 Copenhagen
carrier
25 Former GM
division
26 Haleakala
National Park
locale
27 Round Earth map
28 Landlocked
African nation
30 Airport lineup
31 Made tense
32 Doctrinal faction
33 Tennis great
Arthur
36 Cud-chewing
mammal
38 Go back (on)
39 Director Lee
40 Disruptive forum
visitor
41 With it, once
42 Cut into parts
44 Brooks with two
Grammys
45 Last 25-Down
model
46 Italian fashion
city
47 Iditarod runner
49 Hockey
announcer’s cry
50 Pervasive glow
52 Turn sharply
53 Guthrie who sang
about Alice
55 Little trickster
56 Seine filler
By Jeffrey Wechsler
©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
03/28/18
03/28/18
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:
RELEASE DATE– Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
Almost 10 years ago, “Iron
Man” was met with great
critical
and
commercial
success. The film ended with
the now well-known “post-
credits sequence,” in which
an eyepatch-wearing Samuel
L. Jackson (“The Hitman’s
Bodyguard”)
arrived
on
the
scene
and
mentioned
something called the “Avengers
Initiative.” The rest is history.
Ten years and 18 movies later,
we are now one month away
from “Avengers: Infinity War,”
the
ostensible
culmination
of the sprawling superhero
saga and the capstone to all
that has come before. I don’t
particularly care for these
Marvel movies, but I am
hopeful about “Infinity War.”
I have long argued in this
column that ending defines
meaning. For a story to have
a point, it has to have an end.
Without an ending, a story
isn’t a story at all, but merely
a continuous series of events
that goes on and on and on.
Even the most elementary
of storytellers could tell you
that everything has an arc, a
beginning, middle and end. The
Marvel Cinematic Universe (or
MCU), that idea of smashing
different franchises together
into one super franchise, in its
quest to continue expanding
ad nauseam, has utterly failed
in its attempts to tell an
overall story. “Infinity War” is
its final chance.
In broad strokes, it would
be easy to say that the MCU
has told a story. In the films
leading up to “The Avengers,”
we saw The Avengers form.
In “Captain America: Civil
War,” we saw them fall apart.
And now, in “Infinity War,”
we will see them come back
together
to
fight
Thanos,
the evil alien who is after
all of the MacGuffins from
previous films which, when
collected, can be combined
into the ultimate MacGuffin
that he will use to take over
the universe. That’s the story.
But it hasn’t been told. Or at
least, not told well. Oh sure,
the events have happened,
more or less. But the fatal flaw
of the MCU has long been that
the idea is much cooler than its
actual execution.
Almost every single film
in the series begins with the
status quo and ends with the
status quo. A major character
has never died. Over the course
of almost 20 movies, we have
seen the Earth be saved from
complete destruction almost
20 times. Never once has any
of it seemed to mean much
of anything. The story of a
team coming together, falling
‘Infinity War’ & Beyond
DAILY ENTERTAINMENT COLUMN
IAN HARRIS
“When I was a kid, I
was always putting models
together. My bedroom was full
of hot rods, monster trucks
and classic cars. Deep inside
my soul, I am still that kid
when it comes to building
these
vehicles.
And
when
I’m
immersed
in
building
something from scratch, I am
no longer in prison. I’m sitting
in my bedroom, gluing in each
piece, getting it just right.
I hope you enjoy checking
these out as much as I enjoyed
creating them.”
That is the artist statement
from Michael Hiltz-Denman,
whose work appeared in the
“23rd Annual Exhibition of
Art by Michigan Prisoners”
in
the
Duderstadt
Center.
The exhibit showcases works
created by people incarcerated
in Michigan Department of
Corrections facilities. Curators
and volunteers visit artists in
all 28 adult prisons to select
work for the show. The pieces
range in media, content and
level of artistry, making for a
diverse exhibit.
I don’t often think of the
incarceration experience, save
for the few times I drive past
a corrections facility. Yet it
was impossible not to consider
it when looking at all the
pieces. Some of the art directly
addressed
the
experience,
portraying the bars and the
cells. Others, like Monster or
Victim? by Parrish Collision,
were clearly meant to make
us question the conviction
process. At first glance, the
piece appears to be a huge
human eye, drawn in close
detail. But in the pupil, you
can see the courtroom and two
hands in handcuffs. I spent
a long time wondering about
the backstory of this artist and
about the amount of artwork
I saw that similarly hinted at
wrongful convictions.
We could also read artists
statements from those who
decided to write one. As I
flipped through the booklet,
I was struck by the common
threads — for many of them,
art is a means to express
themselves
or
remember
different
times,
much
like
Hiltz-Denman’s statement. It
was a surprisingly intimate
look
into
the
minds
of
prisoners, who we may often
forget or choose not to think
about because they dredge
up conflicted feelings about
the
horrible
crimes
that
have
been
committed
and
the way our system handles
criminal behavior. I found the
statements to be incredibly
humanizing and a way for me
to think about each individual,
instead of thinking collectively
of them as prisoners.
The
exhibit
also
made
me think beyond issues of
incarceration
or
wrongful
convictions. Artists made a
variety of statements, whether
personal,
environmental
or social. Spill Ink Not Oil
by Bradlee M. Patrick is a
watercolor and acrylic piece
depicting an ocean in dark
blue hues. The black that seeps
into the water stems from a
massive quill pen’s ink, and the
colors drip off the canvas onto
its mounting. This is a piece
that’s stunning because it’s so
simple and elegant. It doesn’t
try hard to tell us what it’s
about. Instead, its power is in
the detailing of the feather and
the droplets spraying off of it.
Another piece I spent a lot
of time looking at was One
Forgotten Part by Thomas
Gordon. It’s a sculpture of a
robot fashioned out of metal
parts. One arm holds up a
circular box with a mechanical
heart placed inside it. A frame
at the bottom of the piece
showcases a poem written by
the author, discussing how
he was once a human but was
changed into a lifeless bot. The
ending lines hit at the dilemma
Gordon is portraying: “They
say I have no emotions and
can’t feel pain, / Then why do I
cry from the stress and strain, /
Do they not realize they missed
one part. / I still am suffering
because they forgot my heart.”
It was tough for me to
look at this work when I was
wondering about why these
people were incarcerated. A
part of me wanted to believe
these artists had done nothing
wrong, but a few quick Google
searches of some of them
hinted at troubled backgrounds
and
serious
crimes
like
sexual misconduct. It was an
uncomfortable conflict, and I
wasn’t sure how much empathy
to feel or not feel, how much I
was supposed to like the art or
not like it. Though I want to
ignore the discomfort, I know
that I can’t. Instead, I must
look at this art as a reminder
that
these
incarcerated
adults are people too, who
have creativity, emotions and
passions. And while it may be
difficult for me to view, their
art deserves the chance to be
shared.
Exhibition of Art by Mich.
Prisoners quietly stuns
DANYEL THARAKEN / DAILY
COMMUNITY CULTURE PREVIEW
NITYA GUPTA
Daily Arts Writer
23rd Annual
Exhibition of
Art by Michigan
Prisioners
Mar. 21 - Apr. 4
Duderstadt Center
Gallery
Free
apart and having to come back
together again is a classic one
and one that should not have
been that hard to tell. But
the problem is that the MCU
has worked almost entirely
in bullet points, without the
connective tissue needed for
such a story to work. At the
end of the original “Avengers”
movie from 2012, the heroes
all go their separate ways after
fighting one battle together
and meeting each other. At the
beginning of 2015’s “Avengers:
Age of Ultron,” the group is
now best friends that have
clearly been working together
for months or even years.
Two of them are suddenly in
a previously never-mentioned
relationship. Tensions exist
that were nowhere to be found
in the original. The Avengers
are now a family, but we never
got to see them become one.
The films elided the part
where the characters actually
got to know each other. The
audience is left to assume
that there were a bunch of
adventures off-screen in which
the characters developed. It
doesn’t work.
Something similar happened
with “Civil War.” What on
paper is the story of our heroes
disagreeing about whether or
not superheroes should have
to be held accountable by
the government in actuality
turned out to just be a conflict
about whether or not Iron
Man can get over the fact
that Captain America’s buddy
Bucky Barnes killed his mom
(never mind the fact that
Bucky did it while under mind
control, because the film never
seems to care about it). The
central conflict of hero versus
hero, of a family torn apart
by a fundamental political
disagreement, is sidestepped
in favor of a story that boils
down to miscommunication.
“Civil War” wanted to be the
dark middle chapter of the
franchise, the “Empire Strikes
Back” of the saga so to speak.
But it misses its chance by
both undercooking the central
conflict and leaving its heroes
in a pretty good place with
each other at the end. No one
dies. No one is truly hurt.
The closest thing we get is
Don Cheadle’s War Machine
breaking his legs. He’s up and
walking again by the end of
the movie. You want to come
out of this, a film called “Civil
War,” feeling that there is no
way the Avengers will be able
to handle what is coming to
them. In the end, you get the
sense everything will be just
fine.
And now comes Thanos.
The big baddie to end all
big baddies. The thing that
all of this has been building
towards. Or has it been? You’ll
notice Thanos has barely been
mentioned thus far in this
article. That’s only one or two
times fewer than he’s appeared
in all 18 films. J.K. Rowling
did a better job building up
Voldemort as the ultimate
villain in the pages of her
first Harry Potter book than
Marvel has done in 18 feature-
length
films.
What
does
Thanos want? Where does he
come from? Who in fact is he?
If you haven’t read a ton of
comic books, it’s doubtful that
you have any idea. Has he had
any real impact on any of the
events that have come before?
If he has, it hasn’t been made
clear. And if all he wants is to
take over the universe using a
magic power MacGuffin, what
makes him more dangerous
or more threatening than the
countless villains we’ve seen
before who wanted to do the
exact same thing? In the end,
despite all of the bluster and
popular cheer, the Marvel
Cinematic
Universe
has
operated far too much like a
comic book, and not enough
like a film series.
I said at the beginning of
this piece that I had hope for
“Infinity War.” I do. I’m not
naïve enough to think that
there won’t be more MCU
films after this. But many of
the original actor contracts
expire with this film and it
seems this is the closest thing
to an ending we will ever get.
It’s the series’ final chance
to prove that it is more than
just a giant advertisement
for toys and comic books. It’s
the final shot for the series
to decide to actually be about
something. For it to give the
characters arcs that last, for
Tony Stark to finally make the
ultimate sacrifice, for Captain
America to decide what it truly
means to be a symbol, for The
Hulk to come to grips with
his affliction, for Hawkeye to
do something, anything, this
is the last chance. Stick the
landing, and you can make
it all worthwhile. The Ant-
Mans and Doctor Stranges
and forgettable Thor movies
and rebooted Spider-Man — it
can all be made to have lead to
something great, like how the
original pre-Avengers movies
were raised up by the quality
of what they led to. It isn’t too
late for the MCU to prove that
it’s actually telling a story,
rather than just trying to print
money. The alternative is that
“Infinity War” will turn out
to merely be the lead-in to
“Avengers: Ultimate War” or
“Avengers:
Eternal
Battle”
and then we will get three
more “Iron Mans” and six
more “Thors” and 17 “Black
Panther” spin-offs and on
and on it will go forever and
ever and ever. On April 27, we
will have reached “Infinity.”
Please just for once, let us not
go beyond.
And now comes
Thanos. The big
baddie to end all
big baddies
On April 27, we
will have reached
“Infinity.” Please
just for once, let us
not go beyond
6A — Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Arts
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