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April 30 - May 6, 2018 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Series for Torrey DeVitto (2) 9. __ alai 10. City in Utah 11. __ room; place for a pool table 13. Playful prank 15. Actor Sam __ 17. Series for Eddie Kaye Thomas 18. "Witches __ East End" 20. Word in the title of Howie Mandel's game show 21. "__ and Stacey" 23. Short-lived 1996-97 Ted Danson sitcom 24. Lunch order, for short 25. Ryan, for one 26. "The Road to __ Dorado"; 2000 Kevin Kline film 29. Ed Begley __. 30. Actor on "Blindspot" (2) 34. "Full __" (1987-95) 36. Fannie __; "Match Game" panelist 38. Trauma ctrs. 39. __ Sandler 42. Floor covering 43. Actor on "MacGyver" (2) DOWN 1. "Kevin __ Wait" 2. Strikes 3. 2017 computer- animated 3D film 4. Setting for "Evening Shade": abbr. 5. Appliance brand 6. Prefix for bus or potent 7. One of John-Boy's sisters 8. Rock singer __ Shannon 9. Actor on "Chicago P.D." (2) 12. Actor on "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." (2) 14. "__ Age: Collision Course"; 2016 sequel 16. Very long time 19. Actor Norman 20. "The Crazy __" (2013- 14) 22. Initials for Marlo's dad 23. "__ Not There"; 2007 Christian Bale movie 27. Word in the title of LL Cool J's series 28. As wise as an __ 30. Trick 31. Smokey or Yogi 32. "The Best __ __"; 2014 James Marsden film 33. Fragrant ointment 35. NATO or OPEC 37. Astronaut __ Grissom 40. Initials for Glover of "The Color Purple" 41. Start of a vowel list Solution on page 2 CoverStory By George Dickie © Zap2it Talk to James Camer- on and one comes away with the sense that this is a man who has truly lived life, thought deeply about it and turned it into stories and films. The humanity he brings to the nonhuman charac- ters in productions such as "Avatar," "The Abyss" and the "Terminator" and "Alien" movies makes them seem more human than actual people in others' films and has helped make science fiction increasingly accessible to a wider au- dience. As one of its leading practitioners these days, Cameron is passionate about sci-fi and and ev- er-curious about how others in his position ap- proach it, which he brings to his new "AMC Vision- aries" documentary series "James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction," premier- ing Monday, April 30, on AMC. In the six hourlong epi- sodes, the Oscar-winning filmmaker looks at the origins of a genre that has become a cornerstone of popular culture, exploring its roots, futuristic vision and our fascination with it through conversations with contemporaries such as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ridley Scott, Chris- topher Nolan and Guiller- mo del Toro, among other series participants, and considering where it might be headed next. "I think if there was a common thread," Cameron says of the filmmakers, "it was unfettered. Any image that they could imagine, they could create a story that could support that image. And for Steven, it was looking at the night sky as a kid and having seen a UFO ... and then never getting that out of his mind and always wanted to express something about that, about his sense of awe and wonder about the greater mystery of the universe. That's what drove him to make 'Close Encounters,' which was very personal. ... Guillermo tells similar stories. George Lucas tells similar stories. "So I mean, we're all just storytellers," he continues. "Science fiction writers are always taking something that's their particular bee in their bonnet — whether it's about the nature of society or lack of inclusiveness or gender issues, racial issues, whatever — and putting it through the lens of an alternate society or an alternate future, so you can make a point without pushing people's specific buttons and alienating them. So people come to it from all sorts of different di- rections. Some have social axes to grind, some are just starry-eyed, filled with wonder like Arthur Clarke." James Cameron (left) and Steven Spielberg discuss the genre in "AMC Visionaries: James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction," premiering Monday on AMC. James Cameron does a deep dive into a popular genre in AMC's 'Story of Science Fiction'

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