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September 18 - 24, 2017 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Cartoon dog 4. Garrett, for one 8. "American __!" 11. "What Kind of Fool __ __?" 12. __ Parks; woman called the "First Lady of Civil Rights" 13. Get __ of; shed 14. Actress on "American Housewife" (2) 17. Female animal 18. __ moment; instant of sudden realization 19. Character on "The Simpsons" 21. Youngest daughter on "7 Little Johnstons" 24. "Studio 60 __ the Sunset Strip" 25. "__ All Night" 26. Marie Osmond's home: abbr. 27. Actress Sabrina __ Beauf 28. "__ Like It Hot"; Marilyn Monroe film 30. Ariel Winter's role on "Modern Family" 32. Sitcom alien's planet 34. Univ. in Dallas 35. Role on "Orange Is the New Black" (2) 41. "Who Do You Think You __?" 42. Family restaurant chain 43. "Harper Valley __" 44. "__ About You" 45. Uses a straw 46. Dough for sukiyaki? DOWN 1. Role on "The Big Bang Theory" 2. Second-largest bird 3. Role on "Frasier" 4. Scottish hillside 5. Laura Petrie's hubby 6. David Spade's alma mater, for short 7. Facts and figures 8. "I __ of Jeannie" 9. "Con __"; 1997 Nicolas Cage movie 10. Dentist's letters 15. "Wish __ __ __"; 2014 Zach Braff/Kate Hudson film 16. "Lady and __ __"; 1955 Disney classic 19. Costello and Ferrigno 20. "Star Trek __ Darkness"; 2013 sequel 22. Pack animal 23. Highest point 29. Sulked 31. Role on "Leave It to Beaver" 33. Actor Kristofferson 34. Gullible folks 35. Dawber or Shriver 36. Paul's cousin on "Mad About You" 37. Actor McBride 38. __ Sing; family cook on "Bonanza" 39. Polished off 40. Fabray, to friends Solution on page 2 CoverStory By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it Last season, 'The Good Place" turned out to be the Bad Place, but Kristen Bell still feels it's the best place for her to be. The "Veronica Mars" and "House of Lies" alum says she's "in love with" Season 2 of her current NBC come - dy series about the afterlife, which has an hour-long start following the "Ameri- ca's Got Talent" season fi- nale Wednesday, Sept. 20. Off the air since January, the show — normally to be seen on Thursdays again, beginning Sept. 28 — picks up after the climactic twist that saw Bell's character Eleanor discover the sup- posedly benevolent Michael (Ted Danson) had tricked her and others into believ- ing they were in a heavenly place, when it actually was the opposite. Filming on "The Good Place's" sophomore season was completed in July. "We have to start shooting around March," the spirited Bell explains, "In order to play in all of the special effects, of which we have even more this year. They need two months to do that, and they've really explored how to show this world." And that world is now turned around. Bell allows that under creator and ex- ecutive producer Michael Schur ("Parks and Rec- reation"), the show's first season amounted to "the challenge of how well we could keep a secret. It was a slower-paced season, so that we could reach the end goal of the reveal, but the second season has its foot on the gas from the first moment. Season 1 was the bad weather setting in, and Season 2 is the hurricane." Bell knew about the big plot twist from the begin - ning, but keeping it under wraps meant withholding it even from her husband, actor-writer-director Dax Shepard ("Parenthood," "CHiPs"). "He'd say, 'I think Ted is a little underutilized, just kind of one-note,"' Bell recalls. "I didn't spoil it for him, but I knew we were doing that for a very spe - cific reason. There wasn't a shot in Season 1 where (Danson) was ever alone, because if he was, you'd see that he was Michael from the Bad Place. In Sea - son 2, you get a lot more of Ted ... the right amount of Ted." Ted Danson and Kristen Bell star in NBC's "The Good Place," starting its second season Wednesday. 'The Good Place' Season 2: Both good and bad for Bell

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