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January 18 - 24, 2016 Page 3 ACROSS 1. "__ __ Paradise" 9. And not 10. Actor Sandler 11. "The __"; 1994 Denis Leary movie 13. Praise enthusiastically 15. Word in the name of a U.S. state 17. Series for Katharine McPhee 18. "Truth __ Consequences" 20. Madonna's state of birth: abbr. 21. 2010 Bruce Willis thriller 23. Baer or Gail 24. Actress Thompson 25. Large bird that cannot fly 26. "__ Dorado"; John Wayne film 29. "The Hobbit: __ Unexpected Journey"; 2012 movie 30. "__ Minds" 34. Kitchen alcoves 36. "Home __"; highest-grossing comedy film of 1990 38. Layer of turf 39. "High __"; Gary Cooper classic 42. VP Rockefeller's monogram 43. Role on "NCIS: Los Angeles" (2) DOWN 1. "The __"; 2009 Cameron Diaz sci-fi thriller 2. Carney and Garfunkel 3. Ring of light 4. Series for Josh Randall, once 5. "__ Law" (1986-94) 6. Actor Katz 7. "__ Man"; 2008 film for Robert Downey, Jr. 8. Stacey's man 9. "NCIS: __ __" 12. Role on "The Odd Couple" (2) 14. Three months ago: abbr. 16. Start of the title of Viola Davis' series 19. Rod's partner, in phrase 20. Role for Vicki Lawrence on "The Carol Burnett Show" 22. "The Shaggy __"; 1976 Disney film 23. "Lie to __" (2009-11) 27. Joan Van __ 28. Actor Kilmer 30. "Source __"; 2011 Jake Gyllenhaal movie 31. "__ She Great"; 2000 film for Bette Midler 32. Dog in "Peter Pan" 33. Actress Shelley 35. __ and aah; express delight 37. Scottish denial 40. Comment from nanny Fran Fine 41. "__' Man River" Solution on page 2. CoverStory By George Dickie © Zap2it It's 2166 and immortal evil madman Vandal Sav- age is about to achieve his goal of the total anni- hilation of humanity. It's up to time traveling rogue Rip Hunter to make sure that doesn't happen. In "DC's Legends of Tomorrow," premiering Thursday, Jan. 21, on The CW, Time Master Hunter (Arthur Darville, "Doctor Who") travels 150 years into the past to assemble a carefully selected team of rogues and heroes to stop the threat. They are: bil- lionaire scientist Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh, "Superman Returns") — aka the Atom — whose exo-suit can shrink him to miniscule size; trained assassin Sara Lance (Caity Lotz, "Mad Men"), otherwise known as the White Canary; Profes- sor Martin Stein (Victor Garber, "Alias") and Jefferson "Jax" Jackson (Franz Drameh, "Edge of Tomorrow"), who togeth- er form the meta-human Firestorm; Leonard Snart and Mick Rory (played by former "Prison Break" co-stars Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell), known as Captain Cold and Heat Wave; and Kendra Saunders (Ciara Renée, "The Flash") and Carter Hall (newcomer Falk Hentschel) — aka Hawkgirl and Hawkman — many-times-reincar- nated souls who can fly — and who have the critical advantage of hav- ing a spiritual connection to Savage (Danish actor Casper Crumb). Together, the "Leg- ends" travel back and forth through time to stop Savage's plans from be- ing set into motion and to ultimately save the world. And ideally, that means killing Savage but since he's immortal that's a tall order. "There's a certain set of circumstances that have to be put in play in order for him to actually die ... so he's immortal with an asterisk," explains Routh with a laugh. "But it's harder than like 'High- lander,' where if you cut off his head he's gone or something like that. And because he's several thousand years old ... he is incredibly intelligent and great at strategy and close to getting to all the powerful people in the world and trying to destroy the world or have all the power in the world, he amasses armies and despots at his command. "Basically, because he's been around so long he knows all the tricks of the trade of humanity, so he's very wily," he con- tinues. "And he can also kind of sense the one or two people who can actually kill him because in the lore of the comics they're all connected and he can sense that they're around, so it's hard to sneak up on him as well." Routh, who has experi- ence playing superheroes through his 2006 turn as the Man of Steel and Clark Kent in "Superman Returns," borrowed a little from that character to create Roy Palmer/The Atom. "I think every superhe- ro has a little bit of Su- perman in them, they just deny it a little bit," Routh says. "For instance for Ray, Ray is not clumsy but he is very energetic and very excited and very passionate about what he does, so he comes off a little goofy because of his pure passion about his technology and about creating a suit and just even saving people, I would say. And that's what makes him create the Atom suit, is to help people and to protect them the way he couldn't protect important people in his life in the past. I mean, he makes a choice to do that." Caity Lotz stars in "DC's Legends of Tomorrow," premiering Thursday on The CW. 'Legends' band together to save humanity in new CW series Solution on page 2

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