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May 7 - 13, 2018 Page 3 ACROSS 1. __ Keen; role on "The Blacklist" 4. Know-it-__; smart alecks 8. "Kindergarten __"; Schwarzenegger movie 11. "__ __ Man Answers"; Sandra Dee/Bobby Darin film 12. Sophia Loren's farewell 13. "Love __ __ Rooftop" (1966-67) 14. Role on "Chicago Fire" (2) 17. "...__ will be done on earth as it is in heaven..." 18. NO forerunners 19. Bandleader who played a bandleader 21. Actress on "Cheers" 24. Richard Karn's "Home Improvement" role 25. Prefix for regular or rational 26. McCallum's initials 27. Ming-__ Wen 28. "__ Like It Hot" 30. Pleased 32. "...__ the ramparts we watched..." 34. "Murder, __ Wrote" 35. Actor on "Young Sheldon" (2) 41. Laurence Olivier's title 42. Knitter's purchase 43. Actor Diesel 44. "I __ __ Rock"; Simon & Garfunkel hit 45. __ up; arranges 46. "The __ and I"; Fred MacMurray movie DOWN 1. Dan Bakkedahl's "Life in Pieces" role 2. "Men __ __ Certain Age" 3. Damon and Dillon 4. Sore 5. "__ to Me" (2009-11) 6. "The __ and Harry McGraw" (1987-88) 7. "__ it to me!"; line from "Laugh-In" 8. Topper or Kramer 9. "Murder __" (1995-97) 10. "__ It Forward"; 2000 film for Kevin Spacey 15. "Ocean's __"; 2007 George Clooney movie 16. "Up __ __" (2011-12) 19. "My Two __" (1987-90) 20. "Sesame Street" character 22. One of Columbus' ships 23. Cap-and-gown wearer, for short 29. Actress Kelly 31. "__ It to Beaver" 33. Charles and Liotta 34. Stealing and covetousness 35. "Love __ __ Many Splendored Thing" 36. Shoot carefully 37. Charlotte __ 38. Actor on "The A-Team" (2) 39. Oscar-winning actor __ Young 40. Jamaica's official lang. Solution on page 2 CoverStory By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it When Benedict Cum- berbatch says he wants to play a certain part, others listen. The actor who has giv- en Sherlock Holmes and Hamlet new images found such a part in Patrick Melrose, the centerpiece of five novels by British author Edward St. Au- byn, who applied many of his own experiences to Patrick's journey from an abuse-fraught child- hood into an adulthood of overcoming addiction and struggling to live his best life. With each of the five episodes covering one of the books, Showtime de- buts "Patrick Melrose" on Saturday, May 12. "They are the most extraordinary prose," Cumberbatch says of the original "Melrose" stories. "They're an exceptional achievement, and at the heart of the subject matter was a world that I thought I knew ... turned on its head through the perspec- tive of this really unique character, who suffers so much and goes on this extraordinary journey from victimhood to survivor, and (is) a champion of his circumstance in a way. "When you have books that are that rich in detail and have that extraordi- nary depth of character, you've got an amazing blueprint to work off," adds Cumberbatch, "and you can only ever hope to try to do justice to that kind of work. That's the biggest challenge of this project, to bring it to the screen and give something back to readers who have al- ready had the most amaz- ing cinematic experience by just reading the novels ... as well as bring it to a wide audience who hav- en't yet read the books." Also an executive pro- ducer of "Patrick Melrose," Cumberbatch has an impressive cast to work with. Jennifer Jason Leigh and Hugo Weaving play Patrick's unsupportive parents, and Allison Wil- liams ("Girls," "Get Out") appears as one of the women who crosses Pat- rick's path. "it was so much fun to go back in time and get that sort of '80s expe- rience," Williams says, "after having been firmly planted on 'Girls' for so many years, it was very fun to sort of reach back not so far and find that character." Benedict Cumberbatch stars in "Patrick Melrose," premiering Saturday on Showtime Benedict Cumberbatch is 'Patrick Melrose' in Showtime limited series

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