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March 13 - 19, 2017 Page 3 ACROSS 1. One of the boys on "Home Improvement" 5. "Cold __" 9. 1942 Disney classic 10. "Sesame Street" character 12. "__ Given Sunday"; 1999 Al Pacino movie 13. "Promised __" (1996-99) 16. "__ __ Girl Watcher"; hit song of the 1960s 17. Initials for the portrayer of John Walton Sr. 18. "Dawn of the __ of the Apes"; 2014 film 20. "Life Goes __" (1989- 93) 21. "Family __" (1982-89) 23. "The West __" 25. "__ a Little Tenderness"; Otis Redding song 26. Very long time 27. Trump's opponent, for short 28. "Get __"; 2009 Robert Duvall/Sissy Spacek film 29. Emmy winner for Best Comedy Series 30. Small bottle 32. "__ All Night" 33. Actor Peter __ 38. Sabrina __ Beauf 39. Actor Gulager 41. Actor Calhoun 42. __ out a living; get by 43. "__ la vista, baby" 45. "Tomorrow __ Dies"; 1997 James Bond thriller 47. "McHale's __" 48. Within reach DOWN 1. Matt LeBlanc sitcom (4) 2. "Judging __" 3. Initials for Liz's Burton 4. "__ Bill: Vol. 1"; 2003 Uma Thurman movie 5. "__ Black" 6. "__ the World Turns" 7. Chem. or biol. 8. Actor on "Chicago Fire" (2) 9. Homer's boy 11. "You __?"; Lurch's line on "The Addams Family" 14. Battery size 15. Nolte's initials 18. 1960 Alfred Hitchcock horror movie 19. Number of seasons for "NYPD Blue" 22. Goofs 24. "__ Arabian Nights"; Mr. Magoo movie 29. "The Man Who Knew Too __"; James Stewart film 31. Malicious look 34. Cafeteria patron's item 35. Initials for Popeye's love 36. Word in the title of Howie Mandel's game show 37. Actress Redgrave 40. "McFarland, __" 2015 Kevin Costner movie 42. Eddie's "Green Acres" costar 44. "The __ Set"; 2006 David Duchovny/ Sigourney Weaver film 46. Emilio's initials Solution on page 2 CoverStory By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it John Lithgow has been seen making a murderer before, but a new spoof of true-crime shows poses the question, "Is he or isn't he?" The five-time Emmy win- ner for projects including "3rd Rock From the Sun" — honored recently with a Screen Actors Guild Award for his Winston Churchill portrayal in Netflix's "The Crown" — returns to series duty in NBC's sitcom "Trial & Error," premiering with back-to-back episodes Tuesday, March 14. Pre- viously lethal as the Trinity Killer on "Dexter," Lithgow now plays small-town poetry professor Larry Henderson, suspected of slaying his wife ... which draws murder-case-nov- ice Josh Segal (Nicholas D'Agosto, "Gotham"), an attorney from New York, to South Carolina to defend him. The lawyer doesn't get much help from his client, whose quirks only make him look increasingly culpable of the crime. Sherri Shepherd ("The View") and Steven Boy- er ("Orange Is the New Black") play Segal's assis- tants, though their "help" often is questionable, and "Glee" alum Jayma Mays co-stars as a prosecutor eager to send Henderson up the river. The suspect's daughter (Krysta Rodri- guez, "Smash") and Segal develop a romantic interest in each other, complicating the case even more. Filmed in the style of a documentary, "Trial & Error" appealed to Lithgow from the start. "I loved the whole idea," the pleasant actor, musician and chil- dren's-book author says. "It was so completely original. I mean, primetime true- crime documentary series were completely teed up for a great satire, a great parody. Nobody has done this yet, and it was brilliant- ly written. And I loved the challenge of playing a part who at any given moment could completely, plausibly have committed or not committed this crime. This seemed to me a wonderful kind of magic trick to pull off, and I love challenges like that. "They created a charac- ter for which this trick can work," adds Lithgow. "He's completely driven by his id. It's completely unedited. He has no sense of priority or proportion. The tiniest things have absolutely as much importance to him as the crime of murder, and you see it in the very first moment of the series, in that 911 call." Nicholas D'Agosto (left) and John Lithgow star in "Trial & Error," premiering Tuesday on NBC. It's a case of 'Trial & Error' for John Lithgow in true-crime satire 574-533-2079 www.billsheatinginc.com Serving Goshen and Surrounding Areas for 65 Years f 803 Linway Drive Goshen, In 46526

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