6 — Tuesday Janurary 14, 2020
Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

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By Roland Huget
©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
01/14/20

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

01/14/20

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

Release Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020

ACROSS
1 Watering hole
4 African language 
group
9 Suddenly took 
interest
14 Québec street
15 Future oak
16 Way to go it
17 City near the 
Great Salt Lake
19 Has to have
20 Biceps exercises
21 Hosting a show, 
briefly
23 Tennis do-over
24 Breyers __ 
Cookies & Cream
25 “Be yourself,” 
nowadays
27 Arnaz-Ball 
production 
company
29 Muss, as hair
30 Magazine VIPs
31 Adjust to one’s 
environment
35 Old fast fliers
36 Casino advantage
39 Fleshy fruit
42 Barbecue spot
43 Can opener
46 Feathered friends
49 Beethoven’s 
“Tempest,” e.g.
51 “Be right with you”
55 Chimps and 
gorillas
56 Furry sitcom 
extraterrestrial
57 Chutzpah
58 Stick with a pin
59 Early American 
crop
61 Earth’s most 
central geologic 
layer ... or what 
can be found 
in each set of 
puzzle circles
63 Geographer’s 
volume
64 Tokyo-based 
watchmaker
65 No-frills bed
66 Filters (through)
67 Jacket material
68 “Very cute!” 
sounds

DOWN
1 Tacit rules of 
male friendship
2 Was a sign of
3 Set right
4 Passes a law 
against
5 Pressure prefix
6 “I’m innocent!”
7 Barely detectable 
amount
8 Far from cool
9 Serenaded
10 Stein filler
11 Like many 
summer shoes
12 Still being 
shuffled
13 Tablet crushers
18 “The Time 
Machine” race
22 Little point to pick
25 Spiral-horned 
antelope
26 Tricky plan
28 Vientiane people
32 Poisonous 
African snake
33 Stew morsel
34 Vietnamese New 
Year

36 Cookbook verb
37 Spinal segment
38 Bit of baby talk
39 Often-
abbreviated 
attire
40 Produce eggs
41 Put in the wrong 
folder
43 Pudding choice
44 Was humiliated
45 Laundry holders

47 “Easy to clean” 
ad claim
48 __-Cat: winter 
vehicle
50 DEA agent
52 Live
53 Muscular power
54 Start of a 
counting rhyme
58 Cattle poker
60 Microwave
62 Squeeze (out)

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Introducing the

WHISPER

“Live in the 
now.”

“Ain’t no 
war like the 
class war.”

“Mingi 
wants you 
to know he 
hates 
tomatoes. 
He likes 
kevin.”

A number of movies could 
have 
quote-along 
showings 
with packed theaters full of 
diehard fans following along to 
every line of the film. But, from 
my experience, most of those 
aforementioned movies are part 
of some epic saga or franchise 
that has a hardcore fanbase — 
“The Avengers,” “Star Wars” 
and other major franchises. 
Which is great, of course 
(full disclosure: I am one of 
the diehard fans that could 
quote 
every 
line 
of 
“The 
Avengers”). But there are few 
movies outside of this category 
that can fill theaters with fans 
eager to relive the film with the 
characters. One of those rare 
movies is without a doubt Rob 
Reiner’s (“When Harry Met 
Sally”) “The Princess Bride.”
I went to the Michigan 
Theater’s 
“Princess 
Bride” 
quote-along, 
not 
really 
knowing 
what 
to 
expect. 
Maybe a few people shouting 
out “inconceivables” or “as you 
wishes” and the occasional “my 
name is Inigo Montoya.” That’s 
not what I got.
I got a packed theater, full 
of people who hadn’t just seen 

“The 
Princess 
Bride” 
once 
or twice before, but people 
who had the movie almost 
entirely 
memorized. 
People 
were 
following 
along 
with 

the characters’ lines, making 
jokes to one another from 
opposite ends of the theater and 
absorbing this movie that is so 

undeniably loved.
The 
thing 
about 
“The 
Princess Bride” is that it is an 
entirely new level of ridiculous. 
A prince named Humperdink 
(Chris 
Sarandon, 
“Fright 
Night”), a bizarrely gentlemanly 
sword fight, the notion of being 
“mostly dead”? None of these 
things strike anyone as being 
normal by any means, and in 
most other cases, details like 
these would be out of place. But 
in this movie, they’re perfect. 
This movie is unlike any other 
because the crazy, unbelievable 
moments 
complement 
the 
heartwarming scenes so well. 
To put it simply, for every 
scene where Buttercup (Robin 
Wright, 
“Forrest 
Gump”) 
literally flings herself down 
a hill in pursuit of Westley 
(Cary Elwes, “Saw”) — which 
is without a doubt one of the 
funniest (and most quotable) 
scenes in the movie — there is 
another scene where Westley 
jumps into quicksand without 
hesitation to save her. Every 
laughable moment has a lovable 
moment to match it.
The audience at the quote-
along knew that. They knew to 
laugh when Vizzini (Wallace 
Shawn, 
“Toy 
Story”) 
“out-
thought” Westley, they knew 
to boo the moment Prince 
Humperdink 
appeared 
on 

screen and they knew to cheer 
when Inigo (Mandy Patinkin, 
“Wonder”) finally avenged his 
father. They didn’t just quote 
the 
scenes; 
they 
matched 
Vizzini’s every lisp, Fezzik’s 
(André the Giant, “The Six 
Million Dollar Man”) gruff but 
sweet tone and the lilt of Inigo’s 
Spanish accent. They didn’t 
just know the movie; they were 
acting it out just as well as the 
characters were.
The bizarre and completely 
unrealistic moments in “The 
Princess Bride” would annoy 
movie watchers for just about 
any other film, but not this one. 
Those details are what make the 
movie what it is: an absolutely 
iconic film that nearly the whole 
world has seen. This isn’t the 
kind of film you can just walk 
away from and forget. You 
remember it. Not just the “as 
you wishes,” but the whole 
beautifully constructed story. 
And because it has become 
one 
of 
those 
movies 
that 
everyone has seen and loved, 
it can have a quote-along that 
is enormously successful. “The 
Princess Bride” draws in people 
who have seen it before but are 

willing to see it again because 
they just love it that much. Not 
many other films can do that. 
This one is special.

The memorable charm
of ‘The Princess Bride’ 

FILM NOTEBOOK
FILM NOTEBOOK

20TH CENTURY FOX

One question has plagued 
seniors at this university for 
decades: “What are you doing 
after graduation?” As I begin 
the last semester of my college 
career in the Film, Television 
and Media program, I can’t stop 
hearing this inane question. 
Everywhere you go, everyone 
you speak to, every barista, 
every aunt and uncle, every 
student from your first year 
writing class, every Tinder 
swipe, every single person 
on this dying planet wants to 
know what you — yes, you — 
are doing after graduation. No 
matter how many times they 
ask, they will ask again. They 
will all ask until the question 
mark at the end wraps around 
your neck like a condescending 
scarf, or rather, noose.
They 
wonder 
how 
your 
liberal arts degree will help 
you get a job. They ask why 
your 
parents 
paid 
tuition 
for you to watch movies. 
They don’t understand why 
you did not choose to study 
something more established 
or employable, like computer 
science or economics. They 
can’t wrap their heads around 
comedy as a profession, but 
they’ll ask: Have you seen “The 
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”? Did 
you know that Joe Something-
stein 
interned 
at 
Saturday 
Night Live 20 years ago? He 
works in insurance now, he 
can put you in touch. Their 
college 
roommate’s 
son’s 
college 
roommate’s 
sister’s 
ex-boyfriend’s 
uncle 
works 
in entertainment, or was is 
marketing?
Everyone wants to help you 
but they have no idea how. 
They want to give you a name, 
a number, a weak connection of 
any kind to prove something, 

perhaps to you but also to 
themselves. They want to be 
the ones who got you the job, 
so you won’t forget them when 
their kid needs a job. I’ll scratch 
your back if you scratch mine, 
or I’ll pass your shitty excuse 
for a resume to some assistant 
at Warner Bros. who my sister 
knows from BBYO so you don’t 
forget where you came from.
They inquire about your 
employable skills. You are more 
than proficient in Microsoft 
Office, but so is everyone. You 
spent years learning a language 
that no one speaks anymore. 
You 
used 
Photoshop 
once: 
naturally, you are an expert 
now. You have strong verbal 
and written communication 
skills, whatever the fuck that 
means. You can multitask, like 
that time you wrote an essay on 
Chaucer while simultaneously 
binge-ing “Love Island.” You 
are organized, but your room 
doesn’t highlight that (you are 
just super busy right now, if 
you were less busy, you would 
be way more organized). You 
are a team-player, as in you 
played on a little league team 
as an adult and you were still 
a benchwarmer. You are a 
problem-solver, 
you 
solve 
sudokus every day, even the 
medium level ones. You take 
initiative, you requested to 
follow him on Instagram before 
he requested to follow you. You 
have a positive attitude, you 
only cried twice this morning. 
You are a quick learner, you 
learned to use a tampon in 
the five minutes before Talia 
Shapiro’s pool party.
They 
cross-examine 
you, 
asking 
about 
entry-level 
assistant 
positions, 
you 
can surely get one of those, 
right? Well, assistants need 
assistance only if you’ve had 
assistance in previously being 
an assistant. So, no.
So, what are you doing after 
graduation?

How will you use 
that degree?

DAILY HUMOR COLUMN

SABRIYA IMAMI
Daily Arts Writer

People were 
following 
along with the 
characters’ 
lines, making 
jokes to one 
another from 
opposite ends 
of the theater 
and absorbing 
this movie that 
is so undeniably 
loved.

BECKY PORTMAN
Daily Humor Columnist

“The Princess 
Bride” draws in 
people who have 
seen it before 
but are willing 
to see it again 
because they 
just love it that 
much. Not many 
other films can 
do that. This one 
is special.

