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January 8 - 14, 2018 Page 3 ACROSS 1. "American __" 8. Talk back 9. "Did You __ About the Morgans?"; Hugh Grant film 10. Role on "Zoo" (2) 14. "The __"; Anderson Cooper game show series 15. "__, Dear" 16. "Love __ __ Many Splendored Thing" 17. Ending for Barb or Nan 18. "Orange Is the __ Black" 19. Author Uris 20. "__ City" (1996- 2002) 24. "Leah Remini: __ All Relative" 27. Relinquish 28. Natalie Cole's dad 29. King Kong, for one 32. __ up; delayed 33. Actor on "Salvation" (2) 36. "Be there __ __ square" 37. Unlike Eton and Morehouse 38. Role on "NCIS: Los Angeles" (2) DOWN 1. "__ __ the Chief"; short-lived 1985 Patty Duke sitcom 2. Televangelist Joel 3. John Ritter's alma mater, for short 4. "__ the Boss?" 5. Suffix for class or mess 6. Ron Moody's role in "Oliver!" 7. Clear the slate 8. Struck hard 11. Initials for comedian Henny 12. "__, Myself and I" 13. Slangy reply 14. Tillis or Torm"'e 20. "Old __"; 2003 Will Ferrell movie 21. Paul Reubens' character (hyph.) 22. Did nothing 23. "__ and Stacey" 24. Abbr. at the end of many business names 25. Lake near Reno 26. Last name for a Beatle 29. Sir __ Guinness 30. "Magnum, __" (1980-88) 31. Suffix for boot or trust 34. Batter's stat. 35. TV maker of old Solution on page 2 CoverStory By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it "Divorce" is about to run deeper for Sarah Jessica Parker, but fortunately, it's only an on-screen matter. The actress-producer (and wife of fellow talent Matthew Broderick) re- turns with Season 2 of her seriocomic, post-"Sex and the City" HBO series Sun- day, Jan. 14. Her charac- ter Frances struggles to adapt to life apart from her now-ex-husband Robert (Thomas Haden Church), which entails strained re- lations with her children, a potential love interest (played by former "Doubt" co-star Steven Pasquale) and new professional considerations at her art gallery. "I think that many peo- ple who are contemplating divorce imagine a fairly different life," the pleasant Parker says. "Most people are not expert at being di- vorced, so the theoretical is different than the actual day-to-day. If you combine that with being a parent and financial stress, Fran- ces discovers that it's not as simple as liberating yourself from another person. Many of the prob- lems don't go away, so it's been interesting to sort that out." That translates into Frances and Robert being in different places, quite literally, for much of "Di- vorce's" second season. "I really missed him," Parker says of co-star Church. "The problem with a show called 'Divorce' is that I have to, as an actor, divorce myself from Thomas in certain ways. By the end of the season, though, I think some of the better feelings in (the characters') past start to surface. That's the ideal situation ... that you get to a place with a former part- ner that is based on love, and that you can get past the battles." Much as "Sex and the City" was the saga of several women, so is "Divorce," though Parker (also one of its executive producers along with series creator Sharon Horgan, of 'Catastrophe" fame and "Sex" alum Jenny Bicks) clearly is the show's first among equals. Molly Shannon and Talia Balsam also return as Frances' friends, who sometimes are linked into her life more closely than she suspects. Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church return in Season 2 of "Divorce," beginning Sunday on HBO. Sarah Jessica Parker enters her second phase of 'Divorce'

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