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May 15 - 21, 2017 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Actress on "This Is Us" (2) 9. Auntie Em's home: abbr. 10. Semi-hard cheese 11. "Bird __ __ Wire"; 1990 Goldie Hawn movie 13. Clear the slate 15. "Take Me Home, Country __"; John Denver song 17. "__ Donuts" 18. "Just Go with __"; 2011 Adam Sandler film 20. "__, Wilderness!"; 1935 Lionel Barrymore movie 21. Word in the title of CCH Pounder's series 23. Bart's "Grampa" 24. Word of mild surprise 25. Word with bone or breaker 26. Word in the title of Roma Downey's series 29. "According __ Jim" 30. Priyanka Chopra's series 34. Praises 36. Sticker 38. __ Gold; role on "The Good Wife" 39. Skelton's Freddie the Freeloader, for one 42. Very small amount 43. Series for Minnie Driver DOWN 1. Deface 2. Actress Ortiz and others 3. "Star Trek: __ Space Nine" 4. Linear measure: abbr. 5. One of the Kettles 6. Actor Katz 7. Laugh loudly 8. "This Is the __"; 2013 James Franco film 9. Role on "Kevin Can Wait" (2) 12. "__ __ __ Turns" 14. "3rd Rock from the __" 16. Comic strip "Alley __" 19. "__ Wolf"; Tyler Posey MTV series 20. Blind as __ __ 22. "__ Bought a Zoo"; 2011 Matt Damon movie 23. __ Michalka; actress on "The Goldbergs" 27. Son on "Father Knows Best" 28. "__ Age"; 2002 blockbuster animated film 30. Witty remark 31. 1975 Wimbledon champ 32. "American __" 33. Fall months: abbr. 35. Roker and Gore 37. Certain batteries 40. "The __"; 2003-07 series for Adam Brody 41. Comedian Hackett's initials Solution on page 2 CoverStory By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it A story can be so big, more than one television project vies to tell it. So it is in the case of Bernie Madoff, the finan- cier and investment ad- viser whose client-bilking Ponzi scheme — using new investors' money to pay returns to previous investors — inspired a Richard Dreyfuss-starring ABC miniseries last year. Now, fellow Oscar winner Robert De Niro reteams with his "Wag the Dog" and "Sleepers" director Barry Levinson to give their ver- sion of the saga (co-written by Levinson's son Sam) as the HBO film "The Wizard of Lies" premieres Satur- day, May 20. Based principally on the Diana B. Henriques book "The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust," with added mate- rial from Laurie Sandell's "Truth and Consequences," the drama also considers the impact of the fraud on Madoff's family life. Michelle Pfeiffer plays his wife Ruth, with Alessandro Nivola and Nathan Darrow ("House of Cards") as their sons, Mark and Andrew. Kristen Connolly (also of "House of Cards" as well as "Zoo"), Lily Rabe and Hank Azaria ("Brockmire") also appear. "What he did is beyond my comprehension," De Niro says of Madoff, "There's a disconnect somehow in him, and I still would like to understand. Some people just ... you can go so far (in playing them). You can do your in- terpretation. The only thing I do feel strongly about is that he didn't tell his kids and he didn't tell his wife (what he had done), but everyone around him probably had an idea. They just didn't want to look too deeply, because they knew something wasn't quite right." In making his debut in an HBO movie, De Niro also is an executive pro- ducer of "The Wizard of Lies," as is his longtime production partner Jane Rosenthal. "We had looked at doing this as a theatrical before we brought it to HBO," Rosenthal reflects, "and we realized that no studio wanted to make it. We would have had to go the independent-film route, and it was going to be a strug- gle to get that made. You'd have a much smaller audi- ence seeing it as a theat- rical, so as screens are all blurring and the business is so radically changing, this was the best place to make the film and to ensure that we would have an amazing audience for it." Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer star as Bernie and Ruth Madoff in Saturday's new HBO movie "The Wizard of Lies." Robert De Niro engages in 'Lies' as Bernie Madoff in new HBO movie WE CARRY LAWN MOWERS 711 E. WATERFORD • WAKARUSA • 574.862.1163 SALES • SERVICE • RENTALS ® MOWERS ®

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