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Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com
By Roland Huget
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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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WHISPER
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.