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COVER STORY..............................................................2 The Sentinel FEATURE STORY...........................................................3 SPORTS.....................................................................4 MOVIES............................................................8 - 22 WORD SEARCH/ LATE LAUGHS/ CABLE GUIDE....................10 COOKING HIGHLIGHTS..................................................12 SUDOKU..................................................................13 tvweek STARS ON SCREEN/Q&A..............................................23 January 29 - February 4, 2017 Family Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy matters Moore star in “This Is Us” Ewing Brothers 2 x 3 ad www.Since1853.com Averaging more than nine million viewers per episode, “This Is Us” is barreling through its freshman season, having secured a full-season order just hours after its premiere. Starring Milo Ventimiglia (“Gilmore Girls”) and 630 South Hanover Street Mandy Moore (“A Walk to Remember,” 2002) among its ensemble cast, the series jaunts back and forth between Carlisle•7 17-2 4 3-2421 different time periods as it follows several characters whose lives are intertwined. An episode of “This Is Us” airs Tuesday, Jan. 31, on NBC. Steven A. Ewing, FD, Supervisor, Owner 2 JANUARY 28 CARLISLE SENTINEL cover story out, putting the focus on sec- mon”), the doc who delivered Dan Fogelman’s ‘This Is Us’ is a freshman hit ondary characters and their Kevin and Kate and comes own back stories. Here, in par- back into the picture a decade By Jacqueline Spendlove ticular, we see more into the or so later. TV Media past of Randall’s birth father, Catch up with “This Is Us” William (Ron Cephas Jones, when an episode of the break- f you’re perusing a list of the “Half Nelson,” 2006), and Dr. K out hit airs Tuesday, Jan. 31, Ibest new shows of fall 2016, (Gerald McRaney, “Simon & Si- on NBC. there’s a good chance that “This Is Us” is among the top contenders. The heartwarm- BUD FOUR ing, tear-jerking dramedy has (REG & LT) LOKOS 00 proved a hit this season, and 3/$ 5 2/$ 00 it’s maintained a strong follow- ANSNS 24 OZ CANS5 ing from the get-go. Catch an 25 OZ CANS episode of “This Is Us” when it PRICES GOOD airs Tuesday, Jan. 31, on NBC. JANUARY 28TH TO FEBRUARY 3 RD 2017 The series comes from the mind of Dan Fogelman, writer COORS (REG & LT) BUD (REG, LT, SELECT, & 55) BUSCH (REG & LT) MILLER HIGH LIFE (REG & LT) of “Crazy, Stupid, Love” (2011) MILLER LITE KEYSTONE (REG, LT, & ICE) and creator of “Galavant” $ 99 $ 99 and “Pitch.” It premiered in 21 18 September to an audience of SAVE $4.30 30 PK - 12 OZ CANS SAVE $1.50 30 PK - 12 OZ CANS more than 10 million in the SEAGRAM'S FOUNDERS MILLER 64 & MGD U.S., scoring itself a full-season VARIETY ALL DAY IPA order just hours after its de- $ 99 &PILS $ 99 but. The show nabbed three 27 $ 99 19 Golden Globe nods, including a SAVE $4.00 19 24-12 OZ BOTTLES OR CANS SAVE $6.30 nomination for Best Television EVERYDAY PRICE 15 PK-12 OZ CANS 30 PK 12 OZ CANS CORONA (REG & LT) MOOSEHEAD BUD Series–Drama, and is racking LABATT (REG, LT, & LT LIME) (REG & LT) up loads of critical acclaim for Sterling K. Brown in a scene from “This Is Us” HEINEKEN (REG & LT) (REG & LT) AMSTEL LT. $ 99 the writing and stars alike. (Chrissy Metz, “American Hor- Kate and Randall lead very or anything,” Moore told E! $ 99 18 Jaunting through a num- $ 99 22 $ 49 SAVE $6.30 ror Story”) and Randall (Emmy different lives, with very dif- “Those shows are great, but 20 PK 16 OZ 28 24 ALUMINUM ber of different time frames, winner Sterling K. Brown, ferent problems. Pretty-boy this is just people living life, SAVE $3.20 12 OZ BOTTLES SAVE $2.30 30 PK 12 OZ CANS 12 OZ BOTTLES BOTTLES “This Is Us” follows several “The People v. O.J. 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Kate is morbidly obese is resonating so well with SAVE $3.00 SAVE $3.50 24-12 OZ CANS his twists, after all, and the and while each episode is and determined to lose weight, viewers — most of us can see 12 OZ BOTTLES 24-12 OZ CANS SAVE $2.50 SAVE $2.00 SAVE $3.70 24-12 OZ BOTTLES episode delivers. grounded in the present, we’re in a struggle she’s dealt with some part of ourselves and our DALE'S PALE ALE ROLLING ROCK MICHELOB When the series opens, Jack constantly given glimpses her entire live. Randall, the lives in at least one character. (REG, LT, & ULTRA) (Milo Ventimiglia, “Gilmore into the past that clarify and adopted son, has never fully “I think that’s what’s so great $ 99 $ 99 $ 99 Girls”) and Rebecca (Mandy expand on what’s going on in felt he belonged, being a black about this show,” Ventimiglia 30 18 22 Moore, “A Walk to Remember,” SAVE $4.00 the here and now. man raised in a white home told E! “It is for everyone. SAVE $5.00 24-12 OZ CANS 30 PK - 12 OZ CANS SAVE $4.00 30 PK-12 OZ CANS 2002) are about to become “I was always fascinated by and never knowing the parents There is no separation be- new parents to a brood of the bigger fabric of our lives who abandoned him. tween gender or race or age BECK'S OLD MILWAUKEE COORS (REG & LT) & MILLER LITE (REG, LT, DARK, SAPPHIRE) (REG & LT) triplets. Tragically, one of the and how our lives are informed As for Jack and Rebecca, or weight, sexual preferences, BUD (REG & LT) baby boys doesn’t survive, but by the lives of our parents and the flashbacks show us their anything, nothing. It’s human $ 99 $ 99 $ 99 $ 69 as fate would have it, another their parents before them,” own struggles, and the strain beings.” 26 16 20 7 SAVE $5.70 SAVE $2.50 8 PK baby is brought to the hospital Fogelman explained in a Vul- that parenthood puts on their The first 10 episodes — 24-12 OZ BOTTLES SAVE $2.50 30 PK - 12 OZ CANS 24-16 OZ CANS that same day, having been ture interview. “I sat down to loving marriage. Both have those prior to the Christmas left at a fire station. Deter- write ‘This Is Us’ ... about a dreams that they step away hiatus — maintained a fairly NATURAL (LT & ICE) EXTRA GOLD HAMM’S (REG & LT) mined to make lemonade from bunch of people at a similar from for the sake of the family: consistent audience, averaging $ 99 ICEHOUSE & GENNY (REG, LT, ICE & CREAM ALE) “the sourest lemon that life age that I was — in their late Rebecca has singing aspira- 9.5 million U.S. viewers. The 15 $ 99 has to offer,” the young couple 30s. There were all these peo- tions that are pushed aside final episode before the hiatus 13 adopts the parentless boy, ple I recognized from my own so she can focus on her kids, ended with a cliffhanger and a SAVE $2.00 30 PK - 12 OZ CANS SAVE $2.50 30 PK - 12 OZ CANS returning home with what Jack life, and I kept thinking about and Jack’s ambition to start number of revelations that put MONDAY-THURSDAY calls their Big Three. how different everybody’s lives his own architectural firm is a particular emphasis on the 8 AM - 9:30 PM 241-BEER (2337) As the episode wraps up, we were.” abandoned to make way for non-Pearson characters. While 10210 RITNER HWY • CARLISLE learn that the rest of the char- Indeed, despite growing up a steady income through an the Pearson family remains at FRIDAY-SATURDAY acters we’ve been following in the same house together, unfulfilling desk job. the core of the show, it bodes 8 AM - 10:30 PM – Kevin (Justin Hartley, “The having the same parents and “It’s not a superhero [show], well for the future of the series SUNDAY MYBEVEXP.COM Young and the Restless”), Kate being the same age, Kevin, there’s not a case of the week that it can successfully branch 9 AM - 9 PM CARLISLE SENTINEL JANUARY 28 3 feature story Big-screen hit ‘Training Day’ jumps to small screen explosions abound in the circles. After studying theater a Trace,” not to mention fea- new series, which brings a at the University of Louisville, ture films such as “Top Gun” decidedly feature film feel to he landed a gig with the Chi- (1986) and the Pirates of the television. However, CBS’s new cago Shakespeare Theater. His Caribbean franchise. Antoine series is not just a rehash of other credits include roles in Fuqua, the director of the the 2001 movie. Unlike many the television series “Empire” big-screen “Training Day,” has recent big-screen-to-small- and “Chicago P.D.,” as well as also signed on as an executive screen adaptations that use Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” (2015). producer, along with Will Beall the same characters and sce- Paxton and Cornwell are in (“Gangster Squad,” 2013) and narios, CBS’s “Training Day” is good company with “Train- Jonathan Littman (“CSI: Crime set 15 years after the events ing Day’s” supporting cast.