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2 • June 16 - 22, 2019 • Brainerd Dispatch By Joy Doonan TV Media H ollywood mogul Ben Affleck is no stranger to the subgenre of Boston crime dramas. The Academy Award winner grew up just outside of Boston, and his rise to directorial acclaim is marked by films about his hometown's criminal underworld. "Gone Baby Gone" (2007), a drama about a local private eye's hunt for a child abductor, displays the work- ing-class realities of a Boston neighborhood ridden with drugs and violence; 2010's "The Town" follows the real-life events of a large-scale bank robbery in Fenway Park. Now, Affleck has teamed up with childhood friend and co-Oscar win- ner Matt Damon ("The Departed," 2006) to co-executive produce his latest brainchild, "City on a Hill." The series, with a debut season con- sisting of 10 episodes, is a fictional- ized account of "Operation Ceasefire," a project now more commonly known as the Boston Mira- cle. Starring Kevin Ba- con ("Footloose," 1984) and Aldis Hodge ("Straight Outta Compton," 2015) in lead roles, "City on a Hill" premieres Sunday, June 16, on Showtime. The Boston Miracle occurred in the '90s, when the city's police de- partment implemented a program, designed by criminology professor David M. Kennedy, to combat the rampant youth gun violence of the time. The program, dubbed Opera- tion Ceasefire, was groundbreaking in that it employed research tactics to help law enforcement under- stand and effectively target the main sources of gun trafficking and gang crimes. The project was such a sweeping success that Boston's youth homi- cide rate fell by 63 percent, and it was the inspiration behind Group Violence Intervention projects that are still being employed throughout New York and other states today. Contemplating how the historic event of the Boston Miracle shook the city's entire law enforcement to its core, "City on a Hill" writer Chuck Ma- cLean said, "Everything had been one way for such a long time, it seemed impossible to change, and it did, very quickly." The show depicts Boston as it was in the 1990s, a world in which ram- pant crime and gang violence is propped up by a cesspool of corrupt law enforcement officials who are in- vested in the status quo of a crime- driven economy, and a culture of un- checked racism. Bacon stars as cor- rupt-but-respected FBI agent Jackie Rohr, while Hodge portrays Decourcy Ward, a newly appointed assistant district attorney from Brooklyn. According to Showtime, the ten- sion-fraught pairing "take on a family of armored car robbers in a case that grows to involve, and ulti- mately subvert, the entire criminal justice system of Boston." The series also stars Jonathan Tucker ("King- dom"), Mark O'Brien ("Republic of Doyle"), Amanda Clayton ("If Lov- ing You Is Wrong") and Jill Hennessy ("Crossing Jor- dan"). Bacon's Rohr is smug and dismissive, a man well practiced at tam- pering with local justice to his own ends. As comfortable with partaking in the city's illicit underworld as he is with policing it, he oversees corruption in dealings with Boston street gangs. He is not pleased with the prospect of an "affirmative action hire," as he calls Ward, stepping in to crack down on local crime. Ward shakes up the entrenched status quo when he comes to town, dealing firsthand with the racism of local cops and driving hard for a major upheaval of the current gun policing. "I want to rip out the ma- chinery in this city," he says. First, however, he needs to walk the line between maintaining his integrity and getting his hands dirty in order to operate within Boston's tight- knit network of corruption. When Rohr and Ward wind up working together on the Charles- town car robber case, their pairing sparks a more revolutionary change than either of them could have imagined. The relationship between the two leads isn't just an unlikely investigative duo; "City on a Hill" attempts to delve into the compli- cated humanity of the players in- volved, to tell a story of struggling communities and determination to affect change. Boston's darkest hour 'City on a Hill' tells a story of crime and redemption Cover Story this week Aldis Hodge and Kevin Bacon star in "City on a Hill" Conan A billionaire, Robert F. Smith, gave the commencement address to the graduating class of Morehouse College and he pledged to pay off all their student loans. Since this Morehouse speech, Smith has received offers to speak at 8,000 other universities. Bernie Sanders said he will crash Walmart's annual shareholders meeting in protest. This could be risky because the last time Bernie got close to a Walmart, they made him a greeter. The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon I saw that the rapper Future got his five-year-old son a Rolex for his birthday. When Future's son saw the watch, he was like, "I would've preferred 2 Chainz." I heard that Michelangelo's first-ever piece of artwork was discovered, and it was drawn when he was just 12. Even crazier, it was found on his parents' refrigerator. The Late Late Show With James Corden Watching "Game of Thrones" is kind of like running a marathon. Even if you chose not to take part, you're still forced to listen to people at work talk about it forever. It is kind of sad that "Game of Thrones" is over. People everywhere are just now realizing that most of their friendships were based entirely on sharing a single HBO password. 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