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August 24 - 30, 2015 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Series for Clare Bowen 8. Skirt for Twiggy 9. Owner's document 10. Actor on "Cristela" (2) 14. Easter egg preparer 15. Peg for Palmer 16. Chip accompaniment 17. __ on; be overly fond of 18. "Voyage to the Bottom of the __" 19. "__ __ Little Tenderness"; Otis Redding song 20. "__ __ old cowhand ..." 24. Suffix for cartoon or violin 27. Dog in "Peter Pan" 28. Letter from Greece 29. Actor Vigoda 32. "The Guilt __"; 2012 Barbra Streisand film 33. Role on "Castle" (2) 36. Cunning trick 37. Solo for Sills 38. Actor on "The Middle" (2) DOWN 1. Hal Holbrook's age 2. Mitchell or McArdle 3. Alec Guinness or Elton John 4. Eric of Monty Python 5. Peggy or Bruce 6. Third-largest city in the UK 7. Son on "The Munsters" 8. Title for Randall M. Winston, Jr. on "Spin City" 11. Spielberg's 1982 blockbuster 12. "__ Bought a Zoo"; 2011 Matt Damon film 13. Group bath 14. Banned insecticide letters 20. Recent medical school graduate 21. Lawrence, for one 22. Ekberg or Gillette 23. Rest 24. Irritate 25. One of the Wayans brothers 26. Comedienne __ Fields 29. Murder victim No. 1 30. "I Shouldn't __ Alive" (2005-12) 31. Clapton's initials 34. Role on "The Good Wife" 35. Actress Panabaker Solution on page 2. By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it Edward Burns says he's been in "pre-produc- tion for 20 years," his en- tire filmmaking career, on "Public Morals." The actor-writer-director behind such acclaimed independent features as "The Brothers McMul- len" and "She's the One" brings his talents to TNT with his New York-set 1960s crime drama pre- miering Tuesday, Aug, 25. Reunited with executive producer Steven Spiel- berg who directed him in "Saving Private Ryan" Burns stars as police of- ficer Terry Muldoon, who tries to steer his officers through a war between Irish mobsters while his wife (Elizabeth Masucci, "Inside Amy Schumer") wants out of the city. "The show was borne out of different ideas I've had for films, going back to 'The Brothers McMul- len,"' Burns explains. "My dream project, and a script that I actually wrote for Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks back in '97, was called 'On the Job.' It was my attempt at an Irish-American 'God- father,' set against the NYPD. It was 20 years in a big Irish cop family, and I could never get that film made, but I never gave up hope that I would make it. "As I would walk around Manhattan, I was constantly taking mental notes ... and later, with my iPhone, taking pictures of locations that I would want to use in that film. I would look for those streets and those old restaurants and bars that were stuck in time and hadn't changed. And I had four other scripts that had to do with Irish gangsters in Hell's Kitchen." "Public Morals" is the result, and its ensemble also includes: Michael Rapaport as Muldoon's second-in-command, who takes a personal interest in a prostitute (Katrina Bowden); Ruben Santi- ago-Hudson, Wass Ste- vens, Patrick Murney and Austin Stowell as other cops in the Public Morals Division; and Brian Wiles as a fresh-faced newcom- er to the force. Timothy Hutton appears early on as an underworld bookie, with Brian Dennehy, Neal McDonough and Robert Knepper also in guest roles. The cars, the clothing and even the music (with the Standells classic "Dirty Water" prominent in the pilot episode) of "Public Morals" have to reflect the atmosphere of the mid- 1960s consistently. Burns, who also wrote and di- rected all 10 first-season stories, points out that he had a lot of help from "born-and-bred New York- ers" in virtually every area. "I was very lucky in that all of the department heads stayed on for all 10 — the director of pho- tography, the production designer, the music su- pervisor — and they're all folks that I've been work- ing with for a long time on all of my indie films. Some of them know what it's like to have to try and make a movie for $150,000, so when we were given the opportunity to make this show with a substantial budget, having an execu- tive producer like Steven Spielberg who believes Edward Burns is the writer, director and star of "Public Morals," premiering Tuesday on TNT. in your vision, we were put in a great situation to succeed." Though it's the first under his full guidance, "Public Morals" isn't for- mer "Entertainment To- night" assistant Burns' first TNT series: He played a mobster himself, the infamous Bugsy Siegel, in Frank Darabont's 2013 drama "Mob City" (which also featured McDonough and Knepper). Burns at- tests that even when he's just an actor for hire, each project adds something to his own filmmaking. In fact, he says his "Mob City" work "opened my eyes to what is possi- CoverStory Burns gives TNT 'Morals' ble in television. I knew, as a fan of 'The Sopranos' and 'Mad Men,' the kinds of stories you could tell. You could go deeper with characters and paint on a much bigger canvas than you could in a film. And I took those stacks of un- produced screenplays and thought, 'Why don't I take my two passions, the big family cop story and the big family gangster story, and connect the two fami- lies through marriage (with Muldoon's aunt wed to the Hutton character)?' And the minute I had that idea, I was off to the races." DON'T STAY DON'T STAY … IN THE DARK. CALL 574-533-2151 OR 800-487-2151 ext. 393 TODAY ! Start your newspaper subscription today and see the light. Stay up to date on all the latest business, entertainment, sports, local news and more! Buffet 7 Days A Week! 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