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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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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
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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
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“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