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©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
04/24/19

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

04/24/19

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

Release Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2019

ACROSS
1 Keepsake
containers
7 Biological pouch
10 “I’m up for it!”
14 Change in a big
way
15 Santa __ winds
16 Singer Adams
17 World’s largest
peninsula
18 Antagonist in
many le Carré
novels
20 Nemesis
21 Teeny-tiny
fraction
23 “Better Call Saul”
actress Seehorn
25 Wrigglers sought
by snigglers
26 Demean
29 Floating ice
hazard
31 Hearing things?
35 Leader of a flock:
Abbr.
36 Remote
precursor
38 Hooch
40 Sport-__
41 Oatmeal-crusted
treat
43 12 meses
44 Uproarious
confusion
46 Places to shoot
hoops
47 Big kahuna
48 Jai __
49 Places, as a bet
51 Signs of the
future
53 Those opposing
us
55 Counting-out
word
57 Seven-sided
61 Saintly glow
65 “Madame
Bovary” subject
66 Competitive
edge, as
illustrated in
the answers to
starred clues
from left to right
68 Steady look
69 Bridal bio word
70 Excitedly
unwrapped
71 Layer over some
cities
72 Mar.-to-Nov. hrs.
73 Genesis follower

DOWN
1 __ bisque
2 Mount Olympus
queen
3 McGregor of
“Christopher
Robin”
4 Sleeps it off, with
“up”
5 Prefix with atomic
6 Circle the rink
7 H.H. Munro’s
pseudonym
8 One opening a
can of worms?
9 *Telegraphed
message
10 *346-piece Big
Ben, e.g.
11 Paradise
12 Salon treatment
13 Meyers of “Late
Night”
19 Have a bug
22 Moroccan capital
24 Gossip columnist
Hopper
26 Dutch-speaking
Caribbean island
27 Asian palm nut
28 “Plant-powered”
hair care brand
30 *Gray wrote
one in a country
churchyard

32 Tequila source
33 Scrap
34 Puts an end to
37 *Post-
apocalyptic Will
Smith film
39 Welles who
played Kane
42 What “two”
meant to Paul
Revere
45 *What makes
Guy a guy?
50 Ovid collection

52 “You saved me!”
54 Tipped top
56 Make very
happy
57 Fairy tale crones
58 Paraffin-coated
cheese
59 “The Godfather”
novelist
60 Nureyev’s no
62 On in years
63 Tropical party
64 Chooses
67 Bagel topper

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Salman Rushdie has had, in no particular
order, more than a life’s share of excitement,
success and peril. His fourth novel, “The Satanic
Verses,” enraptured both pop culture and world
politics with its controversial 1989 release
(leading to, among other things, assassination
attempts
against
Rushdie
himself).
He’s
published nineteen books — fourteen since the
controversy — for which he’s been awarded a
Booker and PEN Pinter Prize. This excludes, of
course, his most recent “Quichotte,” which is
currently shortlisted for the 2019 Booker, and
still a potential prize winner.
But
nothing
about
his
well-completed
biography is inhibiting Rushdie. “The road
ahead is shorter than the road behind,” Rushdie
said to an audience in Rackham Auditorium
Thursday night. Yet this means little — he’s
more concentrated on his writing than ever
before, hoping to put his work to use more
by diagnosing and accepting its purpose and
potential.
The event, put on by Literati Bookstore,
facilitated a talk covering subjects from
writing methodology to age to immigration.
In conversation with “PBS Books” host Rich
Fahle in front of an audience laden with
new copies of the 400-page “Quichotte,”
Rushdie made clear that degree of thought
and intention injected into both his novels
and philosophy. He spoke easily and quickly
in response to even controversial political
topics, though his responses never felt half-
hearted
or
incomplete.
Rushdie’s
humor
landed happily — each bit of drollery said with
script-placed perfection — over the audience.
Rushdie spoke of the intrigue of a spy novelist
in his new book, the details pulled from his
first-hand experience with spies after “The
Satanic Verses” controversy. And he spoke
to the ups and downs of the writing process,
which included hours of binge-watching reality
television. Done as research for his reality-
television-induced main character, Rushdie
made it no question that he finds such cultural

norms absurd. In moments like these Rushdie
excelled on stage.
Recurring in the conversation was the
theme of a road in Rushdie’s work, particularly
“Quichotte.” Compared to his prior novel,
which was placed entirely in New York City,
the Booker Shortlister falls over a much larger
space, with characters traveling during much of
the story. In writing his earlier novels, Rushdie
remembered telling himself, “Next time, you
need to leave town.” It was too restricting,
being contained to one space. And so he did.
Hoping to capture the greatness of many novels
that mechanize movement — “The Hobbit,” say,
or “Lolita” — Rushdie incorporated the road
throughout “Quichotte” as his main character
traversed the country with his (imaginary) son
in search of love. The road is “an ancient form
of pilgrimage,” Rushdie explained, a physical
change that can mirror the internal twists a
character experiences.
Nearing the end of the discussion, the
talk turned distinctly political. “Quichotte”
has been described as a “gutting satire of
America right now,” and Rushdie owned up
to such clamor without hesitation. We are in a
transitional moment, he explained. One where
things — technologically, politically — are
changing at a more rapid pace than ever before.
Much of today’s politics are unrecognizable
from
a
past
perspective.
In
crafting
“Quichotte,” Rushdie said he hoped to mold a
comedy with something of a darker side that
can simultaneously critique and make sense of
the chaos of present-day America. With these
hopes he aimed to incorporate subtle themes
of race and immigration into his reworking of
“Don Quixote.”
“In times of tyranny, literature becomes
particularly important,” Rushdie said, looking
thoughtfully to the crowd at Rackham. Even
when the state pushes information that may
not be true, the significance of art remains,
he explained — it is the artist who gets to set
the narrative straight. “We get to tell the story
to the future.” It seemed, throughout his talk,
that if there is an author of competence this
responsibility should be delegated to, Rushdie
may be it.

Rushdie on travel & prose

EVENT REVIEW

JOHN DECKER
Daily Book Review Editor

Walking into the Van Andel Arena, I felt exactly
as I did when I saw the Jonas Brothers open for
Miley Cyrus 12 years ago. While the crowd was
transformed from grade-school girls to college
students, the rest felt oddly familiar: 2009 tour
T-shirts, eair-piercing screams, even some tears.
The Jonas Brothers have become a symbol for the
golden years of my youth, and the band has played
into the nostalgia by revisiting the music that now
serves as an artifact of our childhoods.
As the lights dimmed in the small arena, the
screens on stage displayed a video of three young
boys representing the young Kevin, Joe and Nick.
The short imagined the boys wandering around a
carnival scene, and after it ended the brother-band
floated onto the stage while performing the song
“Rollercoaster” off their new album, Happiness
Begins.
The story of the three boys played a large role
in the show, with short clips inserted in between
songs. They included motifs from previous albums
and resolved with a meeting between the boys and
their older selves — the current Jonas Brothers.
The band primarily dedicated the first half of
the show to their newer music, including popular
songs like “Cool” and “Only Human.” Sprinkled
throughout their repertoire of new music were
some throwbacks as well, including their 2007 hit
“S.O.S..”

While the majority of the show was played from
the main stage, the band migrated to the back of the
arena where they performed more of their older
work, including a seven-song medley of some of
their most popular songs. The show was made a
unique experience with two song requests taken
from fans and performances of two tunes from the
Disney Channel movie “Camp Rock.” Among the
other iconic songs were their love anthem “When
You Look Me In The Eyes” and the classic sing-
along “Burnin’ Up.”
The show itself was very fast-paced, with the
Brothers jumping into one song after the next
without much pause, keeping the energy high from
start to finish. During a brief break, Kevin thanked
the crowd for “giving us the time to figure it out”
before the brothers performed the most sentimental
song of the night: “Comeback.” The trio also gave a
toast to the crowd, thanking their dedicated fans for
supporting them back when they were just starting
their careers and even thanked their fans’ parents
for taking their kids to their earlier shows.
Unlike most reunions where bands try to
rebrand themselves in a totally new way, the Jonas
Brothers have embraced their past and transformed
it into something relevant for both themselves and
their fans today. While the band has gone from
a group of teenage heartthrobs to a group of men
with wives and kids, they still hold a special place
in their fans’ hearts. The brothers are learning and
growing alongside their fan base, and it’s this kind
of relationship that makes the Jonas Brothers so
successful in the music world today.

The Jonas Brothers bring
back the pure glory of ’07

CONCERT REVIEW

KAITLYN FOX
Daily Arts Writer

HOLLYWOOD RECORDS / FLICKR

In the 70-year history of the NBA, in a league
with personalities and mystiques that tend
to outshine the sport itself, Dennis Rodman
manages, to this day, to be the player whose
legend remains a tier above the rest. So much has
been written, conjectured and analyzed about
the Hall of Famer. The new “30 for 30 Rodman:
For Better or Worse,” narrated by Jamie Foxx,
provides a valuable and sympathetic look at how
he became the man behind the myth.
Rodman’s tumultuous childhood is presented
as the main contributing factor to all the endless
controversies that followed in later decades. In a
way, his childhood was a prolonged one. Shy and
introverted to the extreme, with few interests
and friends even in high school, his consistent
conflicts with his family led to extended periods
of homelessness. Like many “30 for 30”’s focusing
on a single personality, Rodman is there to narrate
it all in the image that is more recognizable today.
Despite all the flash and outlandishness people
know him for his inherent shyness is on display
in these interviews. Deion Sanders, as portrayed
in his own “30 for 30” earlier in the year, is as
cocky and self-assured as ever in his interviews
for the film, but when watching “For Better or
Worse,” it is very easy to see how Rodman is still
the soft-spoken teenager who got his late start at
Southeastern Oklahoma State.
The film also features interviews with various
figures from throughout Rodman’s life, each
profoundly impacted by the man in extremely
different ways. Foxx mentions at the beginning

that reducing Rodman’s life story to a tragedy is
a massive oversimplification, but hearing from
his mother, former coaches, friends, teammates
and others makes it hard to overlook the very
tragic aspects of his life. Sure, words like ‘lunatic’
and ‘crazy’ are thrown around, but one gets the
impression that these people felt a mixture of
pity, respect and admiration all at once. Isaiah
Thomas, the legendary point guard of the “Bad
Boy” Pistons with whom Rodman felt the closest,
tears up at a point when describing the sensitive
nature of Rodman, and how he could not accept
the fact that the NBA is a business where teams
don’t always stay together, retire together, as
families.
Even Michael Jordan himself, one of the
most sociopathically competitive athletes to
ever live, speaks about Rodman in a measured,
understanding manner, recognizing the troubled
soul lashed out due to a deep-seated anger
and abandonment issues. However, none of
these platitudes condone the other realities of
Rodman’s life the film presents, those in which
he abandoned his own children from multiple
mothers. Alexis Rodman, his first child, makes
the point that she could never understand
how her own father could treat her the way
he did, considering her relationship with her
own children. The documentary suggests it all
plays into the tragic cycle of abandonment that
Rodman himself both experienced as a kid and
contributed to as a father.
Despite the legendary career he had and the
impact he has had on the league ever since, it is
clear that there is a sadness that underpins it all,
and one can hope that he and the people around
him find peace.

Exploring the enigma that
makes up Dennis Rodman

TV NOTEBOOK

SAYAN GHOSH
Daily Arts Writer

ESPN

By Paul Coulter
©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
09/16/19

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

09/16/19

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

Release Date: Monday, September 16, 2019

ACROSS
1 Really big hit
6 Numero uno, with
“the”
10 One always
ready with quick
comebacks
13 W.C. Fields
persona
14 Strand during a
sleet storm, say
16 Green prefix
17 Football non-
passing offense
19 Fish eggs
20 __ the table:
arrange
silverware and
such
21 MBA or MFA:
Abbr.
22 Behind, or hit
from behind
24 Farm song
refrain
26 Hasenpfeffer, e.g.
27 Open-and-__
case
30 Get one more
card for twice the
bet, in blackjack
34 36-Across skunk
Pepé
36 Warner Bros.
creation
37 Author Tolstoy
38 European peak
39 “Gosh, look at the
time”
42 Sundial seven
43 You, to Goethe
44 “Peter Pan” dog
45 Sediment
47 Car engine
measure
51 Arthur of tennis
52 “Unforgettable”
singer
53 Peter, Paul or
Mary
55 Philosophy
school with no
classes?
58 Biol. or geol.
59 “Bingo!”
62 Australian bird
63 Opening kickoff,
say, and what
both parts of
17-, 30- and
47-Across can be
66 Sailor’s “Help!”
67 Woodsy path

68 Deed
69 Gallery hangings
70 Bldg. with a pool
71 “I Am of Ireland”
poet

DOWN
1 Lat. and Est.,
once
2 Grimace
3 Em, to Dorothy
4 Nine-digit ID
5 Alpine heroine
6 Astros Hall of
Famer Craig __
7 Cardio readout
8 Blacken
9 Schedule
opening
10 Human/canine
shape-shifters
11 Screen symbol to
click on
12 Open-__ shoes
15 Tidied, as a
room
18 Require
23 Cabernet color
24 Summer in Lyon
25 Western bad
guys
27 Cut drastically,
as prices
28 Prefix for “sun”

29 Elite group
31 Fancy neckwear
32 Mull over
33 Bam, bang or
boom
35 Sommelier’s
menu
40 Complex woven
textile
41 __-Caps: candy
46 Backstabber
48 Fenway team,
familiarly

49 SoCal Latinx
neighborhood
50 Puerto __
54 Really cool
55 Big butte
56 Love, in Lima
57 Hat-tipper’s word
of address
59 Opposite of baja
60 “Stop right there!”
61 Shipboard yeses
64 Rocker Ocasek
65 Dessert pastry

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