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September 7 - 13, 2015 Page 3 ACROSS 1. "__ '70s Show" 5. Judy Garland's eldest 9. __ Bara 10. Actress Verdugo 12. Harrison or Reed 13. "__ Man"; 1988 Dustin Hoffman movie 16. O'Neill and McMahon 17. "__ Not There."; 2007 Christian Bale movie 18. Brett of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." 20. Meredith Vieira's state of birth: abbr. 21. Role for Nabors 23. Runs up a tab 25. "__ City"; 2005 film for Bruce Willis 26. Role on "The Big Bang Theory" 27. Shade of brown 28. Hit animated film about a macaw 29. Garr or Hatcher 30. "__ __ Hollers, Let Him Go!"; '68 Dana Wynter film 32. Series for Maura Tierney, once 33. Sharon and Oliver 38. Setting for "Bonanza": abbr. 39. Michael J. Fox's age 41. "__ Man"; movie for Robert Downey, Jr. 42. "Love __ __ Many Splendored Thing" 43. "__ It to Beaver" 45. Actor Matt 47. Went down smoothly 48. Lennon or Penn DOWN 1. "__ __ of Laura" 2. Put a __ on; jinx 3. Promo 4. Estate for the O'Haras 5. Former "Tonight Show" host 6. Prefix for logical or legal 7. Alphabet member 8. Role on "blackish" (2) 9. "The Guilt __"; 2012 Barbra Streisand movie 11. In the present condition (2) 14. Role on "Married ... With Children" 15. "Minute to Win __" 18. Hopper or Weaver 19. Actor Chuck 22. "Jakob the __"; 1999 film for Robin Williams 24. Oliver Twist, for one 29. "To __ the Truth" 31. __ Roe of "Madam Secretary" 34. __ up; bound 35. Word in the title of Howie Mandel's game show 36. "Dr. __"; 1962 James Bond movie 37. Conclusions 40. __ Kilmer 42. "__ __ Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!" 44. "Star Wars Episode __: Return of the Jedi" 46. Einstein's initials Solution on page 2. By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it After more than a year of buildup, Stephen Col- bert is ready to just get going. The former "Colbert Report" anchor assumes the seat David Letterman had for almost 22 years when CBS debuts "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" Tuesday, Sept. 8. With the program's new host dropping what he labels the "character" he played on Comedy Central, he'll welcome Stay Human's Jon Batiste as his bandleader and George Clooney and Re- publican presidential can- didate Jeb Bush among his inaugural guests in New York's freshly reno- vated Ed Sullivan Theater. "CBS has asked noth- ing of me other than (that) I fill an hour every night Monday through Friday," a still-droll yet sincere Col- bert says, "so the format hasn't changed. There are certain things that happen perforce. There are six commercial breaks. There are seven acts. "I love the grind of a daily show. I love a live audience. I like meeting the guests, and I like tell- ing jokes ... but that's it. They haven't asked me to change or do anything. They like the show I used to do, and they said, 'Would you mind add- ing another 120 hours a year?' " For the bountiful come- dy he did on "The Colbert Report," Colbert believes the exchanges with guests will help make his "Late Show" transition easy and pleasurable: "I'm a comedian, but I have to say very quickly that my favorite thing on the (for- mer) show became doing the interviews because I got into comedy through improvisation. And when we're doing the jokes, which I love writing, and I love producing, I can only get those wrong. "But when you're in- terviewing people, you don't know what's going to happen. That's much closer to how I learned my craft. And you can have big stars or important poli- ticians or impressive think- ers, but it's sometimes the people you don't expect to impress you who can be your best guests." Indeed, Colbert notes that "all I really want from a guest is somebody who has something to say so I can play with them. We have some common topic to be talking about. My charac- ter was actively ignorant about them." That "character" Colbert exuded on "The Colbert Report" had reached the end of the line, he believes, when the "Late Show" offer came. "I felt I had done everything I could with him or every- thing I could do with that show ... other than have my honest interest in my guest, which is almost constant. And so now, I feel actually more freed up. That was in some ways the most energetic, the most exciting part of the show to me. And now, I don't have to hold back at all." For advice on taking over "The Late Show," Colbert went to the most logical source ... Letterman. "I asked him questions (for) about a half an hour, and at one point I said, 'Do you mind me asking you these questions?' And he said, 'I don't mind at all. No one's ever asked me these questions.' And I said, 'Really? No one's ever asked you these questions?' And he goes, 'Who would know to ask, and who would care what the answer was?' And that felt great. That was a very gracious way for him to say, you know, 'Only the person sitting behind that chair cares about the conversation we're having right now.' " Actually, a couple of others might, both named Jimmy: Fallon on NBC and Kimmel on ABC. Colbert's arrival only can stoke the competition among late night shows, but he main- tains he's staying focused on his own task. "I have my own hopes for the kind of show that I want to do, but I won't know until I'm on my wave," he says. "All I can feel right now is the swell behind me, and I'm pad- dling as fast as I can, but I do know that the idea of war between hosts makes no sense to me. It's not like my success takes away from anybody else, and fighting amongst each other doesn't sound funny. There's no joke there, so I'm not interested." "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" premieres Tuesday on CBS. CoverStory Here comes Colbert: Stephen takes over CBS' 'Late Show' DON'T STAY DON'T STAY … IN THE DARK. 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