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March 5 - 11, 2023 WHATS UP! T11 "Community" never quite made it to hit status — it be- came an icon of the "bubble- show" phenomenon, a show al- ways on the cusp of being can- celled — but those who liked it loved it, and it launched a lot of careers. Alison Brie, who played the somewhat mousy Annie, has had one of the best post- "Community" runs. She starred in another critically beloved sitcom, Netflix's "GLOW," and embarked on a big-screen ca- reer including starring in and producing her own films, such as "Horse Girl" (2020) and "Spin Me Round" (2022). All this success has nearly eclipsed the fact that, prior to "Community," she had a regu- lar role on one of the most re- spected drama series of all time: AMC's "Mad Men." In her only major pre- "Community" role, she played Trudy Campbell, wife of cen- tral character Pete. She was on the show from its launch in 2007 and continued to appear as a part-time cast member af- ter "Community" debuted in 2009. As a quietly suffering wife in the show about the hypocrisies and small tragedies of 1960s America, the role might not seem like a natural step to- wards a sitcom gig, but it cer- tainly offered a preview of the meatier work Brie would do af- ter "Community." Q: Are they making a se- quel to "The Gentlemen"? The end seems to set one up. A: A sequel to Guy Ritchie's big-screen crime-comedy hit "The Gentlemen" (2019) is be- ing produced right now, but it has nothing to do with the set- up at the end of the movie. And also, it won't be a movie. I won't spoil the original film's ending because I don't have to: The sequel will feature all new characters who exist in "the world" of the original film. This info comes from Netf- lix, which is producing the fol- lowup as a series instead of a movie. No premiere date has been announced yet, as the filming only started in Novem- ber. It will star Theo James (star of the "Divergent" films, as well as the HBO series "The Time Traveler's Wife") as a young British aristocrat who inherits his family's estate, only to learn that it sits on top of a sprawling underground mari- juana farm. (This is the link to the original film, which was about a crime lord trying to sell his sprawling empire of these subterranean grow-ops.) This will be Ritchie's third attempt to turn one of his hit crime movies into a series. He first tried adapting his career- making hit "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998) for Britain's Channel 4, but it was cancelled after just a few episodes in 2000. He tried again with his fol- lowup film, "Snatch" (2000), which got the TV treatment in 2017. This one got two seasons before getting yanked. Have a question? Email us at questions@tvtabloid.com. Please include your name and town. Personal replies will not be provided. Advance Pest Control 2 x 2 TAKE 5 Solution on page T23 Use the clues above and beside the grid to fill in the squares BY ADAM THOMLISON TV Media Q: Has Tom Hanks ever done any singing roles? A: Not many. You pretty much have to be filmmaking great Robert Zemeckis, and then to hire composing greats Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard, if you want to get Tom Hanks ("Forrest Gump," 1994) to do a proper singing role. Famed writer and director Zemeckis ("Back to the Fu- ture," 1985) directed Hanks in "Polar Express" (2004) and again in "Pinocchio" (2022), and those are pretty well the only times Hanks has done mu- sical numbers on screen. And the songs he performed were all written by Silvestri and Bal- lard. Cinemablend.com asked Sil- vestri and Ballard point-blank what the secret is to getting Hanks to sing on screen. Rath- er than just saying something along the lines of, "You have to be us," Silvestri talked about the importance of the song to the film. "If there's a secret, I think it's something to do with is this piece of material really deserv- ing to be in this film? And I think you can depend on Mr. Hanks to honor the intent of the film." Hanks admits he's reluctant to sing on screen. But, because he is who he is, he did it in a charmingly self-deprecating way. He produced the film adap- tation of the classic stage musi- cal "Mamma Mia" (2008) and joked on "The Graham Norton Show" about auditioning for a role. "I wanted to hire myself, but my singing voice would have scared the children." You can catch snippets of him singing in some of his oth- er films — he plays a ukulele and sings while stuck on a raft in "Joe Versus the Volcano" (1990), and does a pretty cringy rap on the soundtrack of his big-screen adaptation of "Dragnet" (1987). But the mo- ments are brief, so they don't amount to a singing role (and what he does in "Dragnet" defi- nitely isn't singing). Q: I know she's done a lot since "Community" ended, but how did Alison Brie get her start? A: Early '10s NBC sitcom Tom Hanks with co-star Meg Ryan in "Joe Versus the Volcano" HOLLYWOOD Q&A www.advancepestcontrolnwa.com Family Owned, Competitively Priced, Quality Service Since 1981 Rogers 479-636-5590 Springdale 479-756-1788 Eureka Springs 479-253-8967 PEST CONTROL TERMITE FERTILIZATION WEED CONTROL PRE-EMERGENTS