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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 17 January 2018
Cult movie ‘Heathers’ gets

TV makeover, Doherty cameos

By LYNN ELBER the Paramount Network, confidence to trash every-
AP Television Writer formerly Spike TV. Jasmine body around them.”
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) Mathews, Brendan Scan- The show takes a deeper
— The 1988 cult movie nell and Melanie Field star. look than the movie could
“Heathers” and the title “In the movie, we have at what motivates the
characters get makeovers these like three beauti- characters, said executive
in a new TV series. ful white women who you producer Jason Micallef.
In the big-screen dark com- wouldn’t expect to be sort He sees both the original
edy, the queen bees who of like wreaking havoc on a Heathers and the new
shared the name Heath- school, and that was sort of ones as victims, not villains,
er were three white high new and hadn’t been seen which the show will explore, In this Nov. 14, 2015 file photo, Shannen Doherty attends the 4th
school students by played before,” Scannell said. The Micallef told TV critics Mon- Annual Baby2Baby Gala in Culver City, Calif.
by Shannen Doherty, retelling turns the story on day. Associated Press
Lisanne Falk and Kim Walk- its head, he said, with teens Both projects also fit their a time of transition. And I Heather Duke in the movie,
er. A girl of color and a boy from traditionally margin- time, he said. think now we’re sort of in will have cameo roles in
named Heath, who is gay, alized communities “using “The original film was re- another clearly political three episodes, including
are part of the trio on the the power of the internet leased ... sort of at the end time of transition,” Micallef the first, he said, declining
show, debuting March 7 on and the power of pure self- of the Reagan era, and in said. Doherty, who played to provide details.q

James Anderson delivers uncon- Kunis named woman

ventional mystery in new novel of the year by

By OLINE H. COGDILL baby sitter is sick and the Harvard’s Hasty Pudding
Associated Press new mother has to be at
The road stretches long her job at Walmart.
— and hard — in a re- So begins Ben’s most celebrate her achieve-
mote area of Utah that unusual trek, making his ments in a truly unique and
trucker Ben Jones has deliveries of water, food, memorable way,” Hasty
been traveling nearly 20 mail and supplies to far- Pudding Theatricals co-
years. It’s not exactly a flung homes of those who producer Annie McCreery
Jack Kerouac road trip relish the remoteness. said in the announcement.
as this bleak stretch of Along the way, Ben Kunis earned a Golden
road known as Route 117 comes across his friends, Globe nomination for her
is filled with treacherous preacher John who portrayal of Lily in 2010’s
curves, unpredictable drags a life-size crucifix “Black Swan.”
weather and people along the highway, a She more recently starred
more eccentric and pe- state trooper who’s on in “Bad Moms” and “A
culiar than any beat poet duty only if he wears his Bad Moms Christmas” and
imagined. This book cover image hat and an ex-coal min- just wrapped production
As he did in his 2015 de- released by Crown shows er who survives with odd on “The Spy Who Dumped
but, “The Never-Open “Lullaby Road,” a novel by jobs. But danger rears up In this Oct. 30, 2017 file photo, Me,” scheduled for release
Desert Diner,” James James Anderson. as Ben dodges a speed- Mila Kunis arrives at the Los in August.
Anderson delivers an un- Associated Press ing semi that almost Angeles premiere of “A Bad She’s perhaps best known
conventional mystery fuel island. The “some- crashes into him and as Moms Christmas.” for two early television
Associated Press
melding near lyrical prose thing” turns out to be a he eludes people with roles, Jackie Burkhart in
with a strong sense of at- child about 5 or 6 years guns. The child and the CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — “That ‘70s Show” and as
mosphere and an affinity old with a note plead- dog hold the key to pain- Mila Kunis, who made her the voice of Meg Griffin in
for oddball characters — ing for Ben to take the ful secrets. mark on two long-running the animated series “Fam-
even the most outlandish youngster named Juan Anderson evocatively il- television comedies and ily Guy.”
are believable. because of “Bad Trou- lustrates the beauty and earned a Golden Globe The Ukraine-born actress
A sense of the menac- ble.” harshness of Utah’s high nomination for her work on will be honored Jan. 25
ing hangs over the plot The child is accompa- desert while also delving the big screen, was named with a parade through the
of “Lullaby Road,” and nied by a large protec- deep into the characters Woman of the Year on streets of Cambridge fol-
when violence erupts, it’s tive white dog. Ben has and their motives for liv- Tuesday by Harvard Univer- lowed by a roast at which
expected, yet still surpris- no intention of taking the ing where they do. sity’s Hasty Pudding Theat- she will receive her pud-
ing. child, and especially not The product of foster ricals. ding pot.
“Lullaby Road” works well the dog. homes, the flawed and Kunis is being honored by Hasty Pudding has been
as a story about isolation, But the weather has fascinating Ben just tries the nation’s oldest colle- naming a Woman of the
loss, parenting and pred- turned frigid and the to get by each day, do- giate theatrical organiza- Year since 1951, and previ-
ators. seedy truck stop manag- ing the right thing, while tion because she is one of ous winners include Debbie
In this story, Ben is putting er isn’t an option. relishing the terrain’s vast- Hollywood’s “most sought Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor
diesel in his rig when the His next-door neighbor ness, “drawn toward it, after, vivacious, and en- and Lucille Ball. Last year’s
manager of the Stop ‘n’ further complicates his into it, like it was some gaging actresses.” winner was Octavia Spen-
Gone Truck Stop tells him passenger list by insist- crazy lover forever prom- “We have been watching cer.
that something has been ing that he take her in- ising passion and never her on both the big and The 2018 Man of the
small screen since we were Year has not yet been
left for him at the eighth fant daughter along; her love.”q
young and can’t wait to announced.q