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October 23 - 29, 2017 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Pesci or Penny 4. "My Two __" (1987- 90) 8. "__ Men"; popular 2007-15 AMC series 11. "__ Fly Away" 12. __ Granger; "NCIS: Los Angeles" role 13. "__ __ walked out in the streets of Laredo..." 14. "__ __ __ Middle" (2000-06) 17. Slip up 18. "Ace Ventura: __ Detective"; Jim Carrey film 19. Singer Mitchell 21. "__ She Great"; 2000 Bette Midler movie 24. Prefix for spoken or stoppable 25. Setting for "Evening Shade": abbr. 26. "__ Cab"; 1983 film for Adam Baldwin and Mr. T 27. Word in the title of Howie Mandel's game show 28. __ Moore 30. Actor Pitt 32. "__ Life to Live" 34. "Tic Tac Dough" win 35. Judge on "America's Got Talent" (2) 41. "__ My Children" 42. Capital city in Europe 43. "__ O.C." 44. Stallone, to friends 45. "Oh, for Pete's __!" 46. Lead role on "Providence" DOWN 1. __ Halpert; role on "The Office" 2. Ending for pay or Motor 3. Mary __; one of John-Boy's sisters 4. "Let's Make a Deal" player's choice 5. Pointed tool 6. Carter or Clinton: abbr. 7. Make a tiny cut 8. Damon and Dillon 9. Bit of sooty residue 10. "__ Another Day"; 007 movie 15. __ Yang; role on "Grey's Anatomy" 16. "The Good __"; 2016 James Caan film 19. Naomi or Wynonna 20. "__ Upon a Time" 22. Dog in "Peter Pan" 23. __ on; trampled 29. Melissa McCarthy's role, recently 31. 1977 miniseries for LeVar Burton 33. Baseball's Slaughter 34. Woodwind instrument 35. Bell and Barker 36. Building annex, often 37. "Love __ __ Many- Splendored Thing" 38. Antlered animal 39. "__ Did I Get Married?"; Janet Jackson film 40. "__ and Stacey" Solution on page 2 CoverStory By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it In being heard but not seen for a change, Lucas Till helps to salute one of the top icons of pop music. The title star of the "MacGyver" reboot lends his voice to CBS' new, animated special "Michael Jackson's Halloween" Friday, Oct. 27. Also sort of a tribute to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," the tale — with Jackson's es- tate among its producers — uses many of the late superstar's tunes, certain- ly including "Thriller," as Till and Kiersey Clemons ("Flatliners") voice charac- ters who meet at a strange hotel on the night of trick- or-treating. An animated version of Jackson eventually figures into the tale, whose voice cast also features Till's "MacGyver" colleague George Eads plus fellow CBS stars Jim Parsons ("The Big Bang Theory"), Lucy Liu ("Elementary") and Christine Baranski ("The Good Fight"). Net- work veterans Alan Cum- ming (returning later this season in "Instinct") and Brad Garrett ("Everybody Loves Raymond") also are heard. "I've always wanted to" do cartoon-voice work, the friendly Till maintains. "I thought, 'Well, a couple of "X-Men" movies (in which he co-starred) have gone by. I'm an established ac- tor now, and I'm going to jump into voiceovers.' And that's not how it works. I like doing funny voices and stuff like that, but it wasn't so simple to get into. And it's not so simple to actu- ally do; I was spending my weekends doing it, and it's not as simple as you might think." Indeed, Till explains, "Talking to someone face- to-face is a different thing. Doing this, you literally look like you're in a Disney show; you're overdoing it when you do a voiceover, but that's what works. It's a totally different animal." That was even more the case for Till since he wasn't "with the other peo- ple you're so excited to be on the card with," recording his lines by himself. He re- ports that except for Eads, "I haven't met a single one of them." Till readily attests to being a Michael Jackson fan: "Come on, I don't think you can't be one. There may be people who are super-fanatical about him, and I don't reach that level, but I love Michael Jackson music. In this (special), almost anytime you hear anything by him, it's a mash-up of at least two of his songs. It's really cool." The new special "Michael Jackson's Halloween" airs Friday on CBS. 'Michael Jackson's Halloween' is Lucas Till's cartoon-voice debut

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