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October 2 - 8, 2022 WHATS UP! T11 who said, "Something like that happened to me once." Should I have recognized him? He didn't look famil- iar. A: That was Nolan North. And while it's not so surprising that he didn't look familiar, to some he would have sounded very fa- miliar indeed. "Uncharted" (2022), the big- screen smash released earlier this year starring Tom Holland ("Spider-Man: Homecoming," 2017) and Mark Wahlberg ("The Fighter," 2010), was in fact based on the popular Uncharted series of video games. Serious fans of the games would recognize North's voice immediately as that of the games' main character. Like the film, the video games follow the treasure-hunting ex- ploits of Nathan Drake — a char- acter voiced by North in the games and played by Holland in the movie. And so his appearance in the film, as a hotel guest who pops up just to say to Holland's char- acter that a similar, wildly spe- cific treasure-hunting exploit happened to him, is a little joke aimed at the diehard game fans. No one else could be expected to recognize him. Well, that's not exactly true: There are, actually, reasons to recognize North that have noth- ing to do with "Uncharted." He's a prolific voice actor who did roles in blockbusters such as "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water" (2015), as well as dozens of other films and TV shows. And he's also been on-screen more than a few times, most no- tably as Chris Ramsey on the short-lived (by soap standards) daytime drama "Port Charles" in the late '90s. More recently, he played patriarch Peter Hast- ings on "Pretty Little Liars." Q: What has Emily Procter been doing since "CSI: Mi- ami" ended? A: A little more acting and a lot of community work. After her globally successful hit series "CSI: Miami" ended in 2012, Emily Procter did ex- actly three more screen roles: She did a guest run on two epi- sodes of USA Network's "White Collar" in 2013, an indie film called "Love Everlasting" in 2016, and then narrated an HBO fundraising special based on her other hit show, "The West Wing." This small number of roles in the past decade seems less due to lack of opportunity than to lack of interest: On her website (EmilyProcter.com), she says that she has "shifted focus" and is now more interested in her charity work. In 2019, she founded Ground Breakers Inc., a non-profit "working to create positive iden- tity opportunities for children, and additionally for adults, in compromised circumstances." She says she was inspired to this work after becoming a mother in 2010. She's since done extensive work with children, prisoners and more. She hasn't totally given up on the screen, though — her web- site still lists her as an "actress, activist and entrepreneur." Have a question? Email us at questions@tvtabloid.com. Please include your name and town. Per- sonal 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: Was "Alien vs. Preda- tor" based on the "Ancient Aliens" show? A: I'll say no, only to be nit- picky. They were both based on a third source — the work of Swiss author Erich von Danik- en. Von Daniken is the one who came up with the idea that formed the basis of the "Ancient Aliens" show — that various ma- jor events in planetary history were caused by alien visitors. One of the more famous piec- es of von Daniken's theory, first laid out in his landmark bestsell- ing book "Chariots of the Gods," is the suggestion that the pyra- mids built around the world in ancient times were built under alien supervision. This would explain the similarity between pyramids around the world, built by civilizations that as far as historians know had no con- tact with each other. "Alien vs. Predator" (2004), a sci-fi crossover movie that com- bined the previous Alien and Predator film franchises, bor- rowed from that theory for its plot. In it, the (human) protago- nists discover a massive pyra- mid under the ice in Antarctica. After becoming trapped in it, they learn that it was built in an- cient times by humans who wor- shipped the predators (who are themselves extraterrestrials, in case you haven't seen the mov- ies). The predators wanted it to serve as a sort of giant tourna- ment complex where they would breed and then hunt the xenomorph aliens of the Alien film franchise for sport. The film's director and writer, Paul W.S. Anderson, said in a be- hind-the-scenes featurette that he was "inspired" by von Danik- en's books (the author has in fact written several on the an- cient-astronaut theme), basical- ly combining his theory with a short story by H.P. Lovecraft called "In the Mountains of Madness." That story is about a group of Antarctic explorers who discover evidence of an an- cient civilization older than hu- manity. 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