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June 4 - 10, 2018 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Role on "Inhumans" (2) 8. __ like; appear to be 9. Woody's boy 10. With 33 Across, daytime serial (5) 14. Ukraine's capital 15. "__ About You" 16. Sara, for one 17. Women's magazine 18. Beast of burden 19. Sparks and Beatty 20. Current letters 24. Nav. rank 27. "Man with a __" 28. "Orange Is the __ Black" 29. "Live Free or __ Hard"; Bruce Willis movie 32. "__ & Gain"; 2013 Mark Wahlberg film 33. See 10 Across 36. "The Big __ with Donny Deutsch" 37. "__ A"; 2010 movie for Emma Stone and Stanley Tucci 38. "Madam __" DOWN 1. Looked at 2. Jane of "Frasier" 3. Mom on "Little People, Big World" 4. "Making the __" (2000-02) 5. NATO or OPEC 6. Camel's smaller cousin 7. Tennille and Braxton 8. Staircase for climbing over a fence 11. Initials for Felix Unger's roommate 12. "Rocky" production co. 13. Public prosecutors, for short 14. Actor Berry 20. Come into view 21. Elegant 22. Donald Duck's love 23. Network for Wolf Blitzer 24. Suffix for exist or differ 25. Flavored soft drinks 26. Stockholm resident 29. "__ John" (1988-92) 30. "My Name __ Earl" 31. Spielberg's alien 34. __ room; place for a pool table 35. __ Thompson Solution on page 2 CoverStory By George Dickie © Zap2it Bonnie Nolan is a wom- an in for a rude awaken- ing — and it's probably the best thing that could happen to her. As played by Alicia Silverstone ("Clueless") on the half-hour comedy "American Woman," pre- miering Thursday, June 7, on Paramount Network, she's the 1970s Beverly Hills trophy wife of Steve (James Tupper, "Grey's Anatomy"), a real estate agent whose substantial commissions have them and their two daughters sitting pretty in their swanky SoCal home. That is, until she catch- es him cheating on her, and she shows him the door. Now with a divorce looming, Bonnie is forced to stand on her own two feet for the first time and support the kids, but with no marketable skills that won't be easy. Fortunately she has two supportive best friends ready to help: Kathleen (Mena Suvari, "American Beauty"), a woman living off Daddy's money with the help of closeted gay boyfriend Greg (Cheyenne Jackson, "30 Rock"); and Diana (Jennifer Bartels, "Bro- ken"), a singleton stuck in an unsatisfying life and bank job. The series is full of the trappings of the '70s — bell-bottoms, pantsuits and references to Richard Nixon, along with lots of trysts, drug use and cig- arette smoking — and is based on the life of Kyle Richards ("Real House- wives of Beverly Hills"), a series co-executive producer on whose late mother the character of Bonnie is modeled. "It's a real survival sto- ry," Silverstone explains, "and it's a real awakening and a liberation story of all three females, finding their voices and being liberat- ed and being brave and taking risks, and Bonnie's at the center of that. She does it first, like she's the one who goes and burns the house down. She basically burns the house down and she's like, 'Wait a second, I have nothing. How am I going to get back?' And her friends are there to help her, but then they have their own very, very deep, interesting stories." Jennifer Bartels, Mena Suvari and Alicia Silverstone (from left) star in "American Woman," premiering Thursday on Paramount Network. Adversity brings out character in 'American Woman' Pressure Washer CONSTRUCTION PLUMBING LAWN EQUIPMENT RESERVE ANY TYPE OF EQUIPMENT 574-293-6595 homanlumber.com Mon – Fri 7 am – 5 pm • Sat 8 am – 12 pm 1650 W. Lusher Avenue | Elkhar t, Indiana WEEKEND RENTAL SPECIAL! PICK UP THE EQUIPMENT ON FRIDAY BETWEEN 3P-5P, RETURN BY 9A MONDAY MORNING, PAY A ONE DAY RATE! E

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