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February 1 - 7, 2021 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Role on "MacGyver" (2) 8. Cry of distress (2) 9. Ward, for one 10. Actress on "The Conners" (2) 14. Regarding (2) 15. See 1 Down 16. Mediocre mark 17. Movie 18. Refrain syllable 19. Prefix for cast or vision 20. 2004-10 series for Matthew Fox 24. __ moment; instant of realization 27. __ Garrett; "The Facts of Life" housemother 28. __ Moines 29. Role on "The Big Bang Theory" 32. Blood vessel 33. Actor on "Chicago Med" (2) 36. __-back; relaxed 37. Baseball's Slaughter 38. "__ __ __ __ Time" DOWN 1. With 15 Across, Irving Berlin song (3) 2. "When __ __"; 2010 Kristen Bell movie 3. Hawaii's Mauna __ 4. European capital city 5. John-Boy Walton's grandpa 6. Vote into office 7. Less common 8. Actor Davis 11. "__ Joe: The Rise of Cobra"; Dennis Quaid film 12. "__ Do Anything"; song from "Oliver!" 13. Actress Leoni 14. Fore and __ 20. "The Oscar __ Show" (1958-60) 21. Keats' "__ __ __ Nightingale" 22. Pouty moods 23. Fawn's color 24. "Much __ About Nothing" 25. "__, Dolly!" 26. Thai or Chinese 29. Mr. Foxx 30. Setting for "Evening Shade": abbr. 31. Paar's initials 34. Compete 35. Actress Michele Solution is on page 2. CoverStory By George Dickie For those who have de- lighted in the adventures of the Peanuts gang over the decades, "The Snoopy Show" offers up pure red meat. Indeed, the half-hour series that premieres Friday, Feb. 5, on Apple TV+, presents the further adventures of the care- free beagle made famous in late animator Charles Schulz's 1950-2000 comic strip and subsequent TV specials, joined by his best friend Woodstock. Charlie Brown, Linus and Lucy and the rest of the crew serve as background characters here. Each episode consists of three seven-minute vignettes that are based on the iconic comic series and features the signature animation style that has entertained audiences for more than seven decades. The objective, says executive producer Mark Evestaff, is to stay as true to Schulz's original cre- ation as possible. "For a lot of the people working on the show, they're all fans first and all the artists are fans first, so the opportunity to give Snoopy his own series felt like the right thing to do," he explains. "And certainly there was enough material with Charles Schulz pro - ducing like almost 18,000 strips over the years. and a lot of our stories are mined from those strips specifically to create sto- ries in the show. ... We really did go back to the strips and really looking at the details of Schulz's poses and even of course lines from the strip, if we can use them and it still works, then absolutely. We tried to stay as close and faithful to that spirit." And part of that spirit lies in the dialog — or lack thereof. As a dog and a bird, Snoopy and Wood- stock don't speak human English so Evestaff and the team had to come up with ways to tell stories without the use of words. "It really was just more animation, more act- ing and then adding, of course, the odd vocaliza- tions to what we do have and carried that through ...," Evestaff explains. "You throw enough artists at it, enough talented art- ists that have a passion and bring that passion, we're able to tell these stories and it's really wonderful how that some of our best stories are almost without dialog at all through seven minutes and are some of our most heart-warming and our best friendship stories." In the end, this is a sto- ry of a friendship between two iconic characters with whom viewers have had a long relationship and Eve- staff didn't want to betray that. The iconic beagle flies high in Apple's 'The Snoopy Show' The identity of the featured celebrity is found within the answers in the puzzle. In order to take the TV Challenge, unscramble the letters noted with asterisks within the puzzle.

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