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May 8 - 14, 2017 Page 3 ACROSS 1. "Breaking __"; 2008-13 AMC series 4. Behrs of "2 Broke Girls" 8. "American __"; 1999 Jason Biggs film 11. Suffix for Nepal or Japan 12. Lotion ingredient 13. Garden tool 14. Actress on "Fresh Off the Boat" (2) 17. Number of seasons for "The Honeymooners" 18. Actress __-Margret 19. "__ Attacks!"; 1996 Jack Nicholson movie 21. "Jane __"; 2011 film remake for Mia Wasikowska 24. Actor Molinaro 25. Initials for actress Dukakis 26. Media mogul Ted's initials 27. "Just Shoot __!" 28. "Cougar __" 30. "The __ Campbell Goodtime Hour" 32. "A Boy and __ Dog"; 1975 Don Johnson film 34. Actor McBride 35. Actor on "NCIS" (2) 41. "__ of Practice" 42. Middle East nation 43. Fifth or Pennsylvania: abbr. 44. Mayberry resident 45. __-up; confined 46. Blue DOWN 1. "The Fresh Prince of __-Air" 2. School in Tempe, for short 3. Style of drapes, furniture, paint color, etc. 4. Actor Christian 5. Building annex, often 6. Gout site 7. "For __ __ jolly good fellow..." 8. Insincere 9. Network that was formerly Pax TV 10. Brain wave test, for short 15. 2002 Al Pacino movie 16. "It Happened __ __"; Clark Gable movie 19. Dillon or Damon 20. Singing voice 22. "To __ with Love"; 2012 Woody Allen film 23. Sher of "The Middle" 29. "__ House Down"; 2013 Channing Tatum movie 31. Minnelli and Snyder 33. Make a tiny cut 34. Penny 35. Denver or Hope 36. Actress McClanahan 37. Role on "Black-ish" 38. Actor Somerhalder 39. Mendes or Longoria 40. __ Flanders; character on "The Simpsons" Solution on page 2 CoverStory By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it If "Anne of Green Gables" is a story worth re-reading, it's also one that producers clearly be- lieve is worth retelling on film ... again and again. Consider that just six months after a PBS movie took the beloved saga by Lucy Maud Montgomery out for another screen spin, a Netflix series is now doing so, too. Set to begin streaming Friday, May 12, "Anne With an E" — adapted by Emmy-win- ning co-executive producer Moira Walley-Beckett ("Breaking Bad") — casts Irish-Canadian actress Amybeth McNulty as the plucky orphan. Arriving in late-19th-cen- tury Prince Edward Island, Anne Shirley isn't the adoptee who's expected by aged siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert (Geraldine James, R.H. Thomson). Still, she soon wins them and their whole community over with her natural spirit. "I received the book for my ninth birthday from my mum," the pleasant McNulty (who's in her mid-teens now) recalls of her own history with the tale, adding that she didn't envision then that she'd be playing Anne one day, and relatively soon. "Oh, no, not at all," she con- firms. "I was and still am a bookworm, definitely, so it was kind of another book in passing that I just really enjoyed. There wasn't too much (acting-related) think- ing going into it." Any casting call for a new "Anne of Green Ga- bles" inherently draws a big field of hopefuls for the main part. "I was just so honored to even be thought of for the role, for a little girl from Ireland," says McNulty, whose biggest previous role internationally was as a younger incarna- tion of the genetically engi- neered title character in the sci-fi movie "Morgan" last year. "I met some of the other girls (who auditioned to play Anne), and they were all so lovely, it was really nice that it didn't feel too competition-y. We were all rooting for each other." Once she was in front of the cameras, which involved location filming in Prince Edward Island, McNulty felt the respon- sibility of playing Anne strongly. "At first, when I knew I had the part, I was a bit overwhelmed," she confirms. "I was thinking, 'OK, how am I going to play it?' I never saw any other adaptations of it, and I was happy that it was just coming from me and Moira. That really took the pressure off." Amybeth McNulty and R.H. Thomson star in "Anne With an E," which begins streaming Friday on Netflix. 'Anne' enlivens Green Gables again in new Netflix series Providing for the Agricultural and Gardening Needs of our Community 711 E. WATERFORD • WAKARUSA • 574.862.1163 SALES • SERVICE • RENTALS

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