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January 23 - 29, 2017 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Emeril, for one 5. "__ the Clock" 9. Actor Ballard 10. Luau greeting 12. "__ Vegas" 13. "__ Search" (1983- 2004) 16. Actor Olin 17. Most famous 1981 bride 18. Lennon of "The Odd Couple" 20. "__ On" (2012-13) 21. Part of the foot 23. Apple portable media player 25. "A Flea in Her __"; Rex Harrison film 26. Mr. Mineo 27. Role on "blackish" 28. Just a __; small amount 29. "Hey __"; Beatles hit 30. Actress Kathryn __ 32. Prefix for disturbed or detected 33. __ Moore 38. Spielberg's 1982 creature 39. 2015 Melissa McCarthy movie 41. Sher of "The Middle" 42. "Joan of __"; Ingrid Bergman film 43. "The __ Birds"; 1983 Richard Chamberlain miniseries 45. Comment from Trigger 47. Brynner's namesakes 48. "A Farewell to __"; Gary Cooper movie DOWN 1. Role on "Modern Family" (2) 2. "A Boy and __ Dog"; 1975 Don Johnson film 3. Character in "The Wizard of Oz" 4. Role on "Barney Miller" 5. Theda of the silents 6. "__ Dorado"; John Wayne movie 7. Perfectly acceptable (hyph.) 8. Series for Jeff Garlin (2) 9. Emmy winner Alan 11. "... and giving __ __, up the chimney he rose ..." 14. "Say Yes __ the Dress" 15. "I __ Weasel" (1997-99) 18. "__ Company" (1976- 84) 19. "__ Wives" 22. King or queen 24. Early "Tonight Show" host 29. "__ Shoot Me!" 31. Engrave 34. Egg producers 35. 2000-04 Tom Cavanagh series 36. "You, __ and the Apocalypse" 37. Paquin or Faris 40. "Mad About __" 42. Objective 44. Initials for Lansing 46. Most-watched series of the 1998-99 season Solution on page 2 CoverStory By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it It's not your parents' Archie ... nor Betty ... nor Veronica. Some of the comic-book world's most celebrated characters get a big, fre- quently dark transformation in a CW series named for their town: "Riverdale." Premiering Thursday, Jan. 26, the drama from prolific executive producer Greg Berlanti ("The Flash," "Ar- row," "Blindspot") involves the mysterious death of popular student Jason Blossom in the quintessen- tially all-American locale where musically inclined Archie Andrews (played by KJ Apa) is viewed ro- mantically by both longtime friend Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart) and sophisticated new arrival Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes). Other familiar figures featured in the program include Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse, "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody"), Josie McCoy (Ashleigh Murray) — as in Josie and the Pussycats — and the late Jason's sister Cheryl (Madelaine Petsch). Famously a former television teen himself, "Beverly Hills, 90210" alum Luke Perry portrays Archie's blue-collar fa- ther, with Madchen Amick ("Twin Peaks") as Betty's newspaper-editor mother and Marisol Nichols ("24") as Veronica's mom. Robin Givens has a recurring role as Josie's mother and Riv- erdale's mayor, and Molly Ringwald will surface later in the series as the mom who deserted Archie and his dad. "Riverdale" debuts just after the 75th-anniversary year of the Archie charac- ter's first appearance, and even if the show seems to take major gambles with the franchise, it has direct lineage. One of its principal writers is Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the chief creative officer of Archie Comics, and executive producer Jon Goldwater is a son of that brand's co-founder, John L. Gold- water (who developed "Ar- chie" with writer and artist Bob Montana). Co-star Reinhart notes that Archie and company are "humans, and humans have darkness to them. Archie Comics appreciates that we are putting a mod- ern spin on these iconic characters that have been around for so long, and we're making them come off the page in a very real way. We're able to create our versions of them, but it's been a very collabo- rative process between the actors and the writers and the producers. We've crafted these characters together, which is rare. And it's great." The "Archie" comic-book characters populate "Riverdale," a live-action drama premiering Thursday on The CW. 'Riverdale' puts dark, modern twists on the Archie comics Providing for the Agricultural & Gardening Needs of our Community 711 E. WATERFORD • WAKARUSA • 574.862.1163 SALES • SERVICE • RENTALS ® We Sell and Service Bad Boy and Scag We also service John Deere, Zero Turn, and most other lawn mowers.

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