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June 15 - 21, 2019—3 The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN June 15 - 21, 2019 — 3 2 x 3.5" ad a) greene cnty farmers b) swango's 2 x 4" ad williams electric 2 x 1.5" ad ymca 2 x 1.5" ad doughty stevens By Jay Bobbin Boston is famous for many things, one being its history of crime. Such names as Gaspare Messi- na, James "Buddy" McLean and James "Whitey" Bulger confirm that — and it's well-known by Oscar winners Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, who grew up as friends in Cambridge, Mass. Both have made movies about the crime culture related to Boston, and they revisit it as executive producers of "City on a Hill," a Showtime drama pre- miering Sunday, June 16. Developed by fellow execu- tive producer Chuck MacLean from his and Affleck's idea, the 1990s-set show tenuously teams an assistant district attorney newly relocated from Brook- lyn (played by Aldis Hodge, formerly of "Leverage" and "Underground") and a FBI vet- eran (Kevin Bacon, returning to series work after "The Follow- ing" and "I Love Dick") whose renown partially cloaks his cor- rupt ways. The two men pursue a family that robs armored cars, ultimately impacting the whole of criminal justice in Boston. "The thing about 'City on a Hill' that I loved from the first time I read the pilot," Bacon explains, was that his character "Jackie's voice was something that I heard. The way that Chuck MacLean constructs dia- logue in this world of '90s cops and robbers had a kind of gritty vibe to me that was reminiscent of the movies that I loved in the '70s from (directors Martin) Scorsese and Sidney Lumet. And I felt like there wasn't much on television that was re- ally in this pocket. "Television is great, and there's a lot of really cool stuff to watch, but nothing that quite feels like this," adds Ba- con. "Also, the thing that I like about 'City on a Hill' is that when you go into a situation where there's crime involved, your character can live most of the time on the job ... which is only interesting up to a point as far as I'm concerned as an actor. It gets interesting in 'City on a Hill' because he goes home." To that end, "Law & Order" and "Crossing Jordan" alum Jill Hennessy also stars as Jackie's wife. Additional cast members include Cathy Moriarty ("Rag- ing Bull"), Boston native Jona- than Tucker and Mark O'Brien as members of the crime family, as well as Sarah Shahi ("Person of Interest"), Amanda Clayton, Kevin Chapman (also born in Boston), Kevin Dunn and Rory Culkin. With former "Homicide: Life on the Street" partners Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana, two-time Oscar-ceremony pro- ducer Jennifer Todd and film- maker James Mangold ("Walk the Line") also among executive producers of "City on a Hill," Hodge notes that he appreci- ates his prosecutor alter ego's dilemma in the series, "fighting for himself at the same time he's fighting for justice. Which is not a fair fight." Celebrity Scoop Celebrity Scoop Kevin Bacon fights Boston crime in Showtime's 'City on a Hill' Cover Story Cover Story By Jay Bobbin Even if she hasn't been seen much lately, Poppy Montgomery hasn't been out of the television game. The former "Without a Trace" and "Unforgettable" actress spent three years developing a new show for her- self as both the star and an executive producer. Premiering Thursday, June 20, ABC's "Reef Break" — filmed in Montgomery's native Australia — casts her as Cat Chambers, a former thief now working for a Pacific island's governor to fix whatever situ - ation needs fixing. Often complicat- ing her efforts are her ex-husband (Ray Stevenson, "Rome"), who happens to be an FBI agent, and the police detective (Desmond Chiam, "Now Apocalypse") who's her cur - rent love interest. "It was almost more busy in its own weird way than the simple, lovely job of showing up to do a TV show once it's already all put together," the pleasant Montgomery says of being in on "Reef Break's" Checking in with Poppy Montgomery ground floor. "Putting one together is something else, but it's amazing. It took us a while to get this from idea to screen." Montgomery reports that she started to formulate "Reef Break" during her journey with "Unforget- table," a show that was canceled and "uncanceled" twice: "During one of those 'canceled' periods, we went and filmed a sort of 'sizzle reel' (or sample) for this show on phones in Hawaii, and that was sort of the beginning of what was 'Reef Break.' The setting is now a place we've cre - ated that is a U.S. territory. It doesn't really exist, so we can make up our own rules." That's also the case with Cat, who evolved from Montgomery's thought that "I need to be a criminal, I've been a cop for so long in my career! One of the inspirations was 'Point Break' and Patrick Swayze's charac - ter; Cat's sort of a member of a surf- ing gang who's a criminal, but she al- ways falls in love with cops. She also drives boats really fast and jet-skis, so it's sort of everything I'd never done all rolled into one character." Birthdate: June 15, 1972 Birthplace: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Current residence: Los An- geles Marital status: Married to Mi- crosoft executive Shawn San- ford; she has a daughter and a son with him, and a son from a previous relationship Other television credits in- clude: "Unforgettable," "A Surrogate's Nightmare," "Signed, Sealed, Delivered: From Paris With Love," "Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story," "Lying to Be Perfect," "Without a Trace," "Raising Waylon," "Glory Days," "Going to California," "Blonde," "The Beat," "Relativity," "NYPD Blue," "Party of Five," "Silk Stalkings" Movie credits include: "Be- tween," "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover," "This Space Between Us," "Life," "The Other Sister," "Dead Man on Campus," "Devil in a Blue Dress" Call 638-4181 To Advertise In... 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