I found SEXT APES would fit and could lend itself to a humorous clue (no doubt, something with bonobos), but it requires the use of the plural to fit.įill likes: Sarah SILVERMAN, STOPLIGHT, “ GOSH DARN,” BAVARIA, SPUTNIK, ACTIVISM, tickled IVORIES, “ GRACIAS,” and NOOBS. If you’re going to have the same mechanism in three of your theme answers, it really would be better if the fourth did the same thing. And this would make a good title for a Bugs Bunny short.Ĭute theme. “ Even then.” I came across Miss Prissy in a puzzle recently (can’t remember where). Still, could be the basis for a sequel to A Bug’s Life. Too bad a fourth similar entry wasn’t found. I’ve seen this before (not necessarily in a crossword), but it’s still a good one. moving the first letter of the second word to the end of the first word). In three out of four entries, this involves re-parsing (i.e. The other theme answers are words or phrases that end in an ANIMAL (on the right, get it?) while the first part of those words or phrases comprise a different word. Hen’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “B-East”-Jim P’s review If you’ve been hankering for a graphic novel with insider jokes about crosswords, this one’s for you!- AmyĬhase Dittrich & Jeff C. I’ve read a draft and thoroughly enjoyed it. Read all about it right here and pledge your support by March 30 to get a print or digital copy of Hayley’s book. The characters include crossword bloggers (!), there’s a Margaret Farrar angle, there’s wit and romance, and the book includes crosswords that are made expressly for the graphic novel (by Andy Kravis and Mike Selinker) and figure into the storyline. Hayley Gold, whose “Across and Down” puzzle cartoons you might remember, has created a 128-page graphic novel called Letters to Margaret. “And it’s no exaggeration.Announcement! There’s a new crossword-related Kickstarter I wanted to let you know about. Who plays the director? “That’s me,” says Temple with a laugh. Temple even pokes fun at his profession, staging a hilarious scene in which Rebel freaks out at a video shoot, attacking his director, who’s precariously perched on a huge crane. (For a real surprise, watch the clip a few times till you figure out who plays the critic.) One of the clip’s most comical moments features the obligatory rock interview scene, with Rebel swigging Jack Daniel’s while a nerdy rock critic fumbles with his ailing tape recorder. “I just gave him a phone and let him loose.”) Petty’s real-life manager, Tony Dimitriades, looks especially at home playing Rebel’s agent. The band also pops up in cameos within the story line-Benmont Tench as an A&R exec, Howie Epstein as a Harley salesman and Stan Lynch as a club doorman.

To emphasize the video’s Brothers Grimm storybook quality, Petty and his band, the Heartbreakers, appear performing on a surreal, over-size set that gives them the look of Tom Thumb-style elves. That bit with his pimple at Harlewood was all his idea.” In fact, Johnny’s a huge Sex Pistols fan-and I think you can see a lot of Sid in his performance. Johnny Depp could be James Dean or Sid Vicious or Axl. “We just wanted to capture the song’s depiction of the perils of rock stardom,” explains Temple, who has directed five Petty clips and has long been one of pop’s most gifted video magicians. One classic: Flush with cash, Rebel buys a new Harley at Harlewood, stopping only to use the cycle’s rear-view mirror to pop a pimple on his cheek. There are plenty of moments when Depp’s Rebel character seems to walk a tightrope between parody and reality.

Outfitted as the Mad Hatter, Petty is the clip’s knowing narrator, chronicling the rise and fall of Eddie Rebel, played by Depp as a tattooed, Axl Rose-style hayseed who rockets to the top almost as fast as he plunges back to earth. Directed by Julien Temple, the dazzling video is easily one of the year’s best, an artful-and wonderfully comic-meditation on the loopy excesses of rock stardom. In fact, Petty’s new clip, which premieres on MTV Thursday night, features a host of celebs, most notably Faye Dunaway, who plays Depp’s manager and fairy godmother, and Terence Trent D’Arby and Chynna Phillips, who have walk-ons as pop stars at a club opening. a lowly roadie.Ĭredit either Petty’s team-player instincts or his sly sense of humor, but the rock-hero role in Petty’s new clip, “Into the Great Wide Open,” is played by someone who actually began his career as a rock guitarist, but went on to win acclaim as a young actor. So it’s a testimony to how secure Tom Petty feels about his niche in pop stardom that of all the characters he plays in his new video, the one he seems to relish the most is. Nothing feeds a performer’s already inflated ego more than his latest rock video.

Mad as a hatter crossword