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October 12 - 18, 2015 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Role on "NCIS" (2) 8. Miffed 9. "Here Comes the __"; 2012 Kevin James movie 10. Actor on "The Blacklist" (2) 14. __ Marie Hupp 15. Bell and Barker 16. "__ Fly Away" 17. "__ Stevens"; 1999- 2003 Disney Channel series 18. Series for Wallace Langham 19. Urkel, for one 20. Long-running Broadway musical 24. Mandible 27. Like peas in __ __ 28. "What Kind of Fool __ __?" 29. "__ __ Man Answers"; 1962 Sandra Dee film 32. Chihuahua child 33. Role on "Madam Secretary" (2) 36. Actor LaBeouf 37. Almond __; toffee candy 38. Role on "Cheers" (2) DOWN 1. Car to use while yours is being fixed 2. "The __ Boy"; 1961 Jerry Lewis movie 3. "... __ the ramparts we watched ..." 4. Lincoln and Vigoda 5. "__-Stop"; 2014 Liam Neeson film 6. Shaped like a tepee 7. Actor Jannings and his namesakes 8. Barber's offering 11. Actress Mimieux's initials 12. "__ Femme Nikita" 13. Hilary Swank's age 14. Bill's wife on "The Little Couple" 20. 1971-76 William Conrad series 21. Per person 22. Skater Harding 23. Monogram for the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court 24. "Space __"; 1996 Michael Jordan film 25. Pile up 26. "Die Hard: __ __ Vengeance"; Bruce Willis film 29. Mosque leader 30. Note of the scale 31. "__, Wilderness!"; 1935 Lionel Barrymore film 34. Allen, for one 35. Spanish gold Solution on page 2. CoverStory By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it If anyone knows how quickly and surprisingly the lows of show business can turn into the highs, it's Rachel Bloom. The actress-come- dian-musician saw her pet project cut loose by Showtime, only for it to be picked up and retooled by The CW as its sole new series of the fall sea- son ... and its extremely rare transfer from cable to a broadcast network is just one component of Bloom's real-life Cin- derella story. Premiering Monday, Oct. 12, the musical-comedy-oriented "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" casts her as Rebecca Bunch, a lawyer who makes a sharp turn on the verge of a professional victory. She ditches her life in Manhattan to chase a big part of her past: Josh (Vincent Rodriguez III), the guy she adored while they were in their teens. Encountering him again 10 years later, she learns he's relocating to West Covina, Calif. If she merely accepts that, there goes the series — so she follows him, and it doesn't take long for new cohorts including Paula (support- ing-cast standout Donna Lynne Champlin) to real- ize why Rebecca really is there. "I'm still not convinced that this whole thing isn't a prank by my mid- dle-school bullies," Bloom muses. "This is amazing. I grew up in Southern Cal- ifornia always feeling like this weird theater kid, so the fact that we got to do an old-fashioned musical number in an outdoor mall in Southern California (in the debut episode) ... that just felt so much like my childhood, it was very therapeutic. I fired my psychiatrist. No longer need him." A frequent composer of the show's songs, Bloom recalls her first meeting with "My Crazy-Ex Girl- friend" co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna — the screenwriter of "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Morn- ing Glory" — as "a blind date. She saw my music videos online and said, 'Do you want to get to- gether and talk about mu- sic and TV shows?' It was the equivalent of Lana Turner being discovered at Hollywood and Vine in a drug store. It was amaz- ing." The series' setting came to McKenna be- cause, as she explains, "I grew up in a suburb, and I think a lot of people who grow up in suburbs have that sort of mixture of affection and feeling like, 'Am I really stuck here?' Someone might look down on those places, but Re- becca does not, and the show does not. For her, it's a wonderland where she can explore new things and try and figure out who she is, so it's an affectionate look at some- one from a big city coming to a smaller town." Bloom and McKenna maintain they didn't think of the Keri Russell show "Felicity," which aired on CW forerunner The WB, in developing a heroine who also follows the fel- low she adores. Related to that theme, Bloom is quite specific about her in- tention for having "Crazy" in the title. "As someone who has gone through and strug- gled with depression and anxiety, it's very important to me that we make it clear that this is not like an 'SNL' ('Saturday Night Live') character," she says. "This is someone who is strug- gling with issues, because someone who is a crazy ex is going to be strug- gling with issues ... so we are going to explore that throughout the series, in the ways that Rebecca is in denial about it and deals with these things." Rachel Bloom stars in "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," premiering Monday on The CW. 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