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July 4 - 10, 2016 Page 3 ACROSS 1. McLellan of "NCIS: New Orleans" 4. Actor Jack 8. "What Kind of Fool __ __?" 11. Suffix for part or tutor 12. In the distance 13. Andrew Cuomo or Chris Christie: abbr. 14. Series for Patrick Dempsey (2) 17. "What __ to Wear" 18. "Samantha __?" (2007- 09) 19. Jeff Bridges' brother 21. "The __ of Night"; crime series of past decades 24. Role on "Home Improvement" 25. Initials for Bud Abbott's pal 26. Mitchum's initials 27. Syllable from the hard of hearing 28. "The __ and the Beautiful" 30. Former late-night host 32. "__ __ Big Girl Now" 34. Texter's laugh 35. Actor on "Limitless" (2) 41. "__ Life to Live" 42. "A __ in the Life" (1987- 88) 43. Ms. Longoria 44. Ames and Asner 45. "__-Pro"; 2008 Will Ferrell movie 46. Role on "Everybody Loves Raymond" DOWN 1. __ when you should have zagged; make an error 2. Rower's need 3. Actress Verdugo 4. "__ Man Standing" 5. "Men __ __ Certain Age" 6. "When Time __ Out ..."; 1980 Paul Newman thriller 7. "Win, Lose or __" 8. "__ __ Day to Die Hard"; 2013 Bruce Willis movie 9. Series for Allison Jan- ney 10. Climbing plant 15. "Just __ __ __, Kid"; George Burns/Brooke Shields film 16. "__ __ Purple"; Whoopi Goldberg movie 19. Stanwyck, to friends 20. One of the Muppets 22. "The __ Campbell Goodtime Hour" (1969- 72) 23. "Earth to __"; 2014 Teo Halm sci-fi movie 29. "Somebody Up There __ Me"; 1956 Paul Newman film 31. Fudd of cartoon fame 33. Grant and Carter 34. Actress Loughlin 35. Penny or Pesci 36. "You, Me __ the Apocalypse" 37. Mediocre grade 38. Hoover, for one 39. Actress Gardner 40. Anti's vote Solution on page 2. CoverStory By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it Television is never at a loss for ways to celebrate the Fourth of July — and one of them is returning this year. While it has continued to be broadcast in and near the city itself, the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular hasn't had full CBS coverage since 2012, but it'll be shown to the entire country again Monday, July 4. Largely produced by network-owned affiliate WBZ-TV, it rejoins an evening that also features two more ongoing holiday TV traditions: "A Capitol Fourth" on PBS and "Ma- cy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular" on NBC. Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato, plus country mu- sic's Little Big Town, will be the guest performers with conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orches- tra. Dennis Alves — the Pops' director of artistic planning — says, "Our first responsibility always is to our local crowd, but you'd have to describe it as more than a 'crowd.' It sometimes can be 500,000 or 600,000 of our closest friends who show up, Bostonians and New Englanders but also others who come from far and wide to get a seat on the Esplanade." Certainly, there's extra significance to the Boston Pops organization in be- ing able to display to the nation how strong Boston is following the 2013 Mar- athon bombings. "We're delighted to be back on network TV," Alves con- firms. "CBS has gone all out, with Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato joining us, and we're very excited about that. Hopefully, they'll sing a duet or two together." (The two artists are touring together this summer.) Kenny Loggins also has performed with the Boston Pops, but he'll be in Wash- ington, D.C., for "A Capitol Fourth" this Independence Day. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter shares the bill with returning host Tom Bergeron ("Dancing With the Stars"), Motown legend Smokey Robinson, Gavin DeGraw, Yolanda Adams, "Glee" alum Am- ber Riley, singer Jackie Evancho, "Younger" star and Broadway veteran Sutton Foster, Christopher Jackson (alias George Washington in the Broad- way smash "Hamilton"), the cast of the Gloria and Emilio Estefan musical "On Your Feet!," Olympic medalist Scott Hamilton, Gen. Colin L. Powell and two winners of NBC's "The Voice": Season 3's Cassadee Pope and the most recent round's Alisan Porter. The movie title tune "Footloose," which Log- gins recently revised for younger listeners, and "Conviction of the Heart" are among the numbers he plans to render on "A Capitol Fourth." He re- flects, "I've played Earth Day there on the lawn (of the U.S. Capitol Building), but I've never done the Fourth of July there, and it sounds like fun. (Washing- ton) is a pretty cool place and I love sharing it with my kids." As a solo artist after his 1970s partnership with Jim Messina, Loggins has scored such other enduring hits as "When- ever I Call You Friend," "Meet Me Half Way" and the movie themes "I'm Al- right" (from "Caddyshack") and "Danger Zone" (from "Top Gun"). "The irony of my career," he says, "has been that it's (largely based in) what they call 'soft rock.' I started with an acoustic guitar around the same time as James Tay- lor and Cat Stevens. For me, they were the models of the introspective sing- er-songwriter, so that's the direction I started in. "I have a big brother who's four years older than me, and he was always turning me onto R&B and rock-and-roll, so my real dream as far as performing goes was to be in a band like The Who. When 'Footloose' came along, I finally had an opportunity to do some rock, and that launched me into the era of trying to transform toward that childhood dream." Kenny Loggins is among the performers on "A Capitol Fourth" Monday on PBS. The Boston Pops and Kenny Loggins go forth in Independence Day specials

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