Page 23 - MidWeek - June 29, 2022

JUNE 29, 2022 MIDWEEK 23
Words below taken from this week’s issue. See classifieds for answers.
Answers are in the classifieds
DARLA FLOWER FOODBANK FOURTH
HOLIER KUKULU PIPELINE PULMONOLOGY
SHUTOME STARS TAVARES TSUJI
UKULELE UNIQLO VISION YUNJI
AP PHOTOS
HBO Max’s The Time Traveler’s Wife, based on the 2003 novel by Audrey Niffenegger of the same title, wrapped its fifirst season last week. It stars Theo James and Rose Leslie, who play the time traveler and his wife, respectively. But this is not Leslie’s fifirst HBO show. She was Ygritte in Game of Thrones, which is where she met her now-husband, who played her love interest on the hit series.
Former President Barack Obama and wife Michelle are the executive producers of Netflix’s Bodkin, a seven-episode series about a group of podcasters who investigate a missing person case. The show is being categorized as a “dark comedy thriller” and stars this former Saturday Night Live cast member who once felt like “the last man on Earth.”
Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin is returning to filmmaking. He is co-starring with Daniel Brühl in Spanish director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s pandemic-themed thriller Rich Flu, about a deadly disease that starts killing off the richest people in the world.
It first strikes billionaires, then multimillionaires, etc. The film also stars this British actress who earned worldwide recognition for her debut as Bond girl Miranda Frost in the
2002 movie Die Another Day.
On-screen bibliophile BFFs Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen reprise their roles in Book Club 2: The Next Chapter. They’re currently in Italy filming for the movie, which follows the quartet on a fun girls trip, during which drama ensues and long-kept secrets are revealed. Also returning in the sequel (the first film was released in 2018) are Andy Garcia and Don Johnson, as well as this actor, whose known for coaching college football in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
July 1
National U.S. Postage Stamp Day
It was on this day back in 1874 that Congress gave the go-ahead for the fifirst federally issued postage stamps, which featured Benjamin Franklin (5 cents) and George Washing- ton (10 cents). We’ve come a long way in terms of value and creative images, and we’re just glad modern-day stamps come with adhesive backs instead of the foul-tasting ones that left a bad taste in the mouth.
Fill in the blank cells using numbers 1 to 9. Each number can appear only once in each row, column, and 3x3 block. Use logic and process of elimination to solve the puzzle. The difficulty level ranges from Bronze (easiest) to Silver to Gold (hardest). Answers are in the classifieds.
RATING: BRONZE
LONER I. CATSGN
Answers: 1) Kit Harington 2) Will Forte 3) Rosamund Pike 4) Craig T. Nelson