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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

11/18/19

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Release Date: Monday, November 18, 2019

ACROSS
1 Aquarium
5 Yeshiva teacher
10 Dance in a pit
14 Iranian money
15 For all to hear
16 Baja’s opposite
17 Swashbuckling 
leading man 
of Hollywood’s 
Golden Age
19 Precious
20 Delivers, as 
a convention-
opening speech
21 Donny or Marie
23 Hairstyles
24 Art Deco 
designer
25 Barbara of 
“Mission: 
Impossible”
27 German 
shepherd of 
’50s-’60s TV
32 Beach head-
turners
33 Forest moon 
that’s home to the 
Ewoks
34 Dedicated poem
35 First chip in the 
pot
36 Tokyo’s country
37 Pinot __: white 
wine grape
38 Geol. or chem., 
e.g.
39 Nattily dressed 
fellows
40 Fortune-teller’s 
card
41 North 
Vietnamese 
leader with a trail 
named for him
43 City near Provo
44 “SportsCenter” 
channel
45 Gear tooth
46 “Peanuts” 
newspaper 
section
49 Jeep model 
named for a tribe
54 “I get it now!” 
cries
55 Hotel chain since 
1952
57 Trap fluff
58 __ Oyl
59 Advance, as 
money
60 Enemies

61 Package sealers
62 Pre-revelry nights

DOWN
1 Long haul
2 Suffix with billion
3 __ a soul: no one
4 Ice cream bar 
named for a 
Yukon river
5 Rapids transports
6 Fashion monthly
7 Pop music’s 
Backstreet __
8 Pastry that might 
be sticky
9 Ralph Kramden’s 
pal
10 Drama set at 
an advertising 
agency
11 Bread spread
12 Laurel seen with 
Hardy
13 Difficult
18 Diving birds
22 Swizzle
24 Hyphen-like mark
25 Con game
26 Bit of high jinks
27 Transfer to 
memory, as data
28 Best way to sign
29 MLB exec Joe

30 “Take the cake” 
or “cream of the 
crop”
31 Home on a 
branch
32 Diner fare
36 Basketball 
scoring technique
37 Grotesque 
architectural 
figure
39 Part of DVD
40 Irish lullaby start

42 Thieves’ bank jobs
45 Hands over
46 Cow kid
47 State east of 
Indiana
48 Horse hair
49 Paper holder
50 Bee home
51 Ukraine’s capital
52 Feminine suffix
53 Breaks off
56 Suffix with pay or 
Cray-

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Showrunner John Wells miscalculated the 
direction “Shameless” should go in the post-
Fiona era.
If the Season 10 premiere is any indication, the 
problems with the show have only been further 
magnified. “Shameless” is a show that revolves 
around multiple central characters, so when it 
was announced that Fiona Gallagher (Emmy 
Rossum, “Cold Pursuit”) would be written off 
the show this season, the news was upsetting, 
but did not completely ruin my expectations of 
what was to come. However, it was the quality of 
the storylines themselves, rather than Rossum’s 
absence, that has decreased the critical acclaim 
that came early on in the show’s run. With 
nine seasons and 110 episodes of character 
development to work with, it baffles me how 
much content Wells chooses to ignore. By picking 
and choosing which events from prior seasons 
to engage in, Wells effectively erases what 
happened. 
This is not a new development: Numerous 
storylines have been introduced, only to be 
sidelined with no explanation. Despite all of this, 
dedicated fans, like myself, who have watched the 
show for years still find reasons to be optimistic, 
yet 
critical. 
Next 
week 
will 
reintroduce 
“Gallavich” — the relationship between Ian 
Gallagher (Cameron Monaghan, “Gotham”) and 
Mickey Milkovich (Noel Fisher, “The Red Line”) 
— to the narrative. When a new season starts, 
the first episode is supposed to set the tone to 
give viewers a preview of what this season will 
be about. This leaves viewers wondering why 
“Gallavich” was not explored in the premiere, 
with the rest of the storylines being stale and not 
worthy of including in a premiere.
Somehow, the writers made Debbie (Emma 
Kenney, “The Connors”) less likable. The 18-year-
old has now assumed the authorities previously 
held by the former family matriarch Fiona. Part 
of this is managing the $50,000 check Fiona left 
the family. But, in typical Debbie fashion, she is 
secretly buying and returning fancy clothes that 
she keeps in a storage locker, in order to pick up 
women at hotel bars instead of saving for a rainy 
day. If you need more evidence for why Debbie is 
the worst, when she does this, she tells her family 
that she is completing job training and leaves her 

daughter next door. On another note, Debbie is 
certainly not 21 and does not look it — there is 
no way a fancy hotel would serve someone who 
looks as young as her.
Two of the most misused characters on 
“Shameless” are Kevin Ball (Steve Howey, “Dead 
to Me”) and Veronica Fisher (Shanola Hampton, 
“Three’s Complicated”). Last season, their young 
identical twins were enrolled as one student 
at a private school and this plotline was largely 
ignored until it was convenient for the show. This 
latest installment features Kevin being insecure 
about his age due to his miscalculated belief that 
there is some correlation between his sneakers 
and his basketball ability, a convenient excuse 
to get him back to the place where he spent a 
lot of last season: a gay strip club (because of 
the better tips, even though he is straight). This 
development was uninteresting, as Kevin being 
bad at basketball didn’t come as a surprise to me 
nor has it ever been brought up before so there 
was little reason to care about how it would 
play out. Veronica is being utilized to help the 
youngest Gallagher, Liam (Christian Isaiah, 
“21 Bridges”), discover more about his African-
American identity. Where this plotline falls 
short is that Liam has spent much of the previous 
season exploring his racial identity with his 
friends, raising a simple question — why didn’t 
this happen sooner?
Frank Gallagher (William H. Macy, “Krystal”), 
the alcoholic patriarch of the Gallagher clan, is 
engaged in his usual scams that will amount 
to nothing. Carl Gallagher (Ethan Cutkosky) 
graduated from military school and had an 
absurd amount of sex with his girlfriend. Oh 
yeah, I almost forgot — Lip (Jeremy Allen 
White, “Homecoming”) is now a dad and his 
girlfriend Tami (Kate Miner, “Deviant Love”) is 
in emergency surgery and we’re left wondering 
if she will survive ... even though she appears 
alive and well in the promotional images for the 
season.
The only reason I’m not classifying this 
season of “Shameless” as a failure is because 
the problems I have with the premiere are no 
different than those I had with past seasons. The 
reason “Shameless” continues to be renewed, 
in my eyes, is because of the potential that still 
exists. Even a decade later, there are still so many 
stories to be told with characters we have grown 
to love. But until Wells realizes this potential, 
“Shameless” may continue to be aimless.

‘Shameless’ is bad right now

TV REVIEW

JUSTIN POLLACK
Daily Arts Writer

Shameless

Season 10 Premiere

Showtime

Sundays @ 9 p.m.

Believers Never Die (Volume Two), the band’s 
second greatest hits collection, is a more promising 
place than their first. Believers Never Die (Volume 
One) mostly consisted of emo singles, allowing the 
band to compile the songs that broke them into the 
popular music scene in the first place. However, 
its release came just before the band’s unfortunate 
announcement of their 2009 hiatus where it later 
became clear that the band’s rapid success was 
quickly turning into something toxic for all four 
band members. After their four year breather, the 
band broke the silence with their 2013 release of “My 
Songs Know What You Did in The Dark,” serving 
as a gateway to a new era for the band, coined “Fall 
Out Boy 2.0.” It’s within this six-year period that 
Believers Never Die (Volume Two) finds its basis, 
covering their best songs from their albums Save 
Rock and Roll (2013), American Beauty / American 
Psycho (2015) and MANIA (2018). 
The album runs through their greatest hits in 
chronological order, fittingly starting with “My 
Songs 
Know 
What You Did in 
The Dark” before 
transitioning into 
the 
symphony 
theatrics 
and 
gritty 
vocals 
of 
“The 
Phoenix” 
and the energetic 
beats 
of 
“Alone 
Together,” 
also 
off of Save Rock 
and 
Roll. 
From 
here, songs and 
their ideas become 
larger and farther-
reaching 
with 
the 
introduction 
of 
“Centuries,” 
a 
high-energy 
tune featuring the passionate, powerful vocal 
performance from Patrick Stump as he belts 
“You will remember me for centuries!” Also 
off of American Beauty / American Psycho is 
“Immortals,” a song with a taste of Asian- styled 
electronics written for Disney’s Big Hero 6, as well 
as “Uma Thurman,” which samples from the “The 
Munsters” theme song.
The final half of the album borrows from their 
most experimental album, MANIA, and “The Last 
of the Real Ones” exemplifies the band’s attempt 
for a fresher sound. While the tune maintains 
the band’s signature vocal spunk, it deviates from 
their rock and roll style with its electronic motifs 
and heightened production approach to smooth 

out some of the band’s rougher edges. “I’ve Been 
Waiting” pushes these boundaries even further 
with its crisp beats and collaboration with Lil Peep 
and iLoveMakonnen. 
What makes this album stand out among the 
greatest hits collections is that the band finishes 
the album with two previously unreleased songs, 
“Dear Future Self” 
and “Bob Dylan.” 
The 
former 
features 
Wyclef 
Jean 
and 
runs 
through 
bouncy 
pop 
loops 
with 
subtle 
electronic 
pulses lingering in 
the 
background. 
The latter ties up 
the album nicely 
with 
winding 
digital 
melodies 
and 
emotional, 
love-stricken 
lyrics that draw 
parallels between 
the love one feels 
for their significant 
other and the love they feel for music’s most well-
respected artists: “Cause everyone loves Bob Dylan 
/ I just want you to love me like that, yeah / Would 
you bury me next to Johnny Cash?” 
While Believers Never Die (Volume Two) 
demonstrates the distance the band has maintained 
from its emo roots, the most notable aspect of 
the album is its emphasis on how much the band 
has progressed since it first started. Despite their 
lengthy hiatus, the band has proven its ability 
to learn from their mistakes and keep running 
with music that works well for them. Fall Out Boy 
continues to fearlessly pursue the very best versions 
of themselves, and this hopeful attitude is what will 
make them “remembered for centuries.”

FOB highlights their hits

ALBUM REVIEW

KAITLYN FOX
Daily Arts Writer

Believers 
Never Die 
(Volume 2)

Fall Out Boy

Universal Island Records

UNIVERSAL ISLAND RECORDS / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

“Dance has been a really special thing to 
help me build my confidence, both in my voice 
physically and vocally,” said School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance senior Sally Butin. 
Though Butin doesn’t speak in her pieces, 
she has found her voice through dance. Over 
the years, Butin has been inspired by her peers 
and mentors to express herself and channel 
her own ideals into her artform. With her 
senior recital quickly approaching, this is what 
inspired her pieces.
“Dance, but just art in general I feel, has 
been this incredibly refreshing medium for me 
to express my values and create work that feels 
impactful and important,” Butin said.
Alongside Butin, SMTD seniors Victoria 
Briones and Alyssa Winnie will be performing 
their senior dance recital titled “recollect-us” 
from Nov. 21 to Nov. 23 at 8 p.m. each night. 
Like the other seniors in the dance school, the 
trio were assigned their partners and given 
the task of creating their own show, handling 
everything from choreography to program 
design. The theme of self-reclamation was 
unanimously decided because of the personal 
experiences that each dancer has endured. 
“We all discussed what our pieces were 
looking like schematically or what ideas we 
wanted to create,” said Butin. “There were a lot 
of themes about identity and how we are aware 
of our identity both from the past and from the 
present, even the future, sometimes, ”Butin 
explained.
The whole show has been a collaborative 
project, but through this process, each dancer 

has discovered a unique way of expressing her 
ideas and how she relates to the world. The 
show is deeply personal to each dancer and 
something they’ve all been working towards 
throughout their years at the University of 
Michigan.
“It’s a more personal show,” Butin said. 
“We’re all definitely dealing with topics and 
themes that we feel are affecting our lives 
often and are important. Whether it’s in light 
of something or shedding some light on a more 
dark kind of instance. It’s definitely special to 
see people have such a personal experience on 
stage. I think this show will have a lot of that.”
Through their time in the dance program, 
the three women have formed a tight bond, 
making this opportunity to dance together 
even more special. Butin has learned a lot from 
her fellow classmates and other young artists at 
the University.
“There’s such an all-over-the-map difference 
in training and background that people come to 
the school with, and it’s been really special to 
meet other dancers and artists and collaborate 
with them,” Butin said. “Now that I’m naming 
my senior piece, I’ve been a part of a lot of 
other ones, so I’ve learned a lot from the older 
students in the department and got to hear 
voices that inform mine.”
Butin’s personal growth throughout her years 
in the dance program has come as much from 
her individual studies as from her collaborations 
with other young artists. Collaboration has 
allowed the dancers to explore new ideas and 
realize how important it is to share their voices. 
With all her previous experiences influencing 
her current performance, Butin and her fellow 
dancers have the opportunity to inform new 
artists through their art form.

The ‘recollect-us’ trio finds
a voice through their dance

COMMUNITY CULTURE PREVIEW

DANA PIERANGELI
Daily Arts Writer

recollect-us

Nov. 21-23 @ 8 p.m.

Betty Pease Studio Theater

$7

