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August 7 - 13, 2017 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Role on "Chicago Med" (2) 9. Fraternity letter 10. Unconscious state 11. Show-off 13. "Made of __"; 2008 Patrick Dempsey movie 15. "xXx: __ of the Union"; 2005 film for Ice Cube 17. 2016-17 series for Mireille Enos & Peter Krause (2) 18. "__, Wilderness!"; Wallace Beery movie 20. Edith, to Gloria 21. Melinda __; role on "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." 23. Adams or Johnson 24. "__ You There, Chel- sea?" 25. Mr. Estes 26. Initials for actor Mos- tel 29. "__ Ordinary Family" 30. Actor on "NCIS" 34. Wynonna's mom 36. "The __ Movie"; 2008 Len Cariou film 38. Wildebeest 39. Sitcom about a dea- con 42. "Bill __ the Science Guy" 43. "NCIS: __ __" DOWN 1. __ Paulo, Brazil 2. Em or Bee 3. Unit of farmland 4. Entertainer Don __ 5. Mitchum's initials 6. "Witches of __ End" (2013-14) 7. Iranian leader's title, once 8. "Please Don't __ the Daisies" 9. "__ __ Race" 12. Actress on "The Blacklist" (2) 14. Sandra of "Grey's Anatomy" and others 16. Fort Worth univ. 19. Lead role on "JAG" 20. Soleil __ Frye 22. "My Son, My Son, What Have __ Done"; Willem Dafoe film 23. "__. Ken" 27. 117 years ago 28. "3rd Rock from the __" 30. Pouty expression 31. Sophia Loren's fare- well 32. "The __ Ranger" 33. Setting for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show": abbr. 35. __-Margret 37. Comments from nan- ny Fran Fine 40. "__. Belvedere" (1985-90) 41. "The Road to __ Dorado"; 2000 Kevin Kline film Solution on page 2 CoverStory By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it To the list of movies you might not expect a televi- sion series to spring from, add "Get Shorty." Not only is the 1995 John Travolta-Gene Hackman film a source of the seriocomic Epix show — which premieres Sunday, Aug. 13 — so is the Elmore Leonard novel about a professional kill- er (now played by Chris O'Dowd, retaining his Irish accent) who leaves Ne- vada for Hollywood to try to make a fresh start as a novice movie producer. A has-been filmmaker (Ray Romano), who's doing whatever he can to stay in the business, reluctantly agrees to become the re- forming hit man's partner. The new version of "Get Shorty" expands on the original themes in the same way as another big-screen property MGM Television developed for weekly purposes, "Fargo." The main characters have been renamed, so as not to have to hew overly closely to Leonard's cre- ations. ("Shameless" and "In Treatment" alum Davey Holmes did the adapta- tion.) "I saw the pilot, and I did not care for it," deadpans O'Dowd, whose work has included "Bridesmaids" and HBO's "Girls" (in a recur- ring part). "No, I thought it was really terrific. It's got a very specific kind of style, with these long tracking sequences that are four or five minutes at a time, and the music sounds like (that in the movie) 'Birdman.' It's very exciting to watch." For Romano, whose post-"Everybody Loves Raymond" work has in- volved "Men of a Certain Age" and "Parenthood," straddling the line between comedy and drama is fa- miliar. " 'Washed-up,' I can identify with," he muses of his "Get Shorty" role. " 'Producer' is a stretch. I've got to be honest, I don't think I ever saw the movie back then. I've seen it now because of the show, and I loved it ... but the show is closer in tone to the book. I describe it as ' "Fargo"-es- que,' quirky and funny but intense." O'Dowd also hadn't seen the "Get Shorty" mov- ie when he was cast for the series, though he allows he "had a general idea of what it was about. I wasn't that interested in playing a Ma- fia guy, because it sound- ed like there was an awful lot of that around already ... but Davey asked to meet, so I did, and he pitched me this idea of an ex-Irish paramilitary guy who be- came the heavy for a crime syndicate outside Vegas. It felt like a fresh take on that world, then I read the script and loved it." Ray Romano stars in the series version of "Get Shorty," premiering Sunday on Epix. Chris O'Dowd and Ray Romano bring 'Get Shorty' to Epix in series form

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