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August 24 - 30, 2019—3 The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN August 24 - 30, 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 Kirsten Dunst has a soft spot for satire. The actress has proven it in projects from the movie "Drop Dead Gorgeous" to the second season of the series "Fargo." She tackles the genre again — as both the star and (along with fellow "ER" alum George Clooney and others) an executive producer — as a revenge-minded crusader against a pyramid marketing scheme that costs her a lot in the early 1990s in "On Becoming a God in Central Florida," initially made for YouTube Red but with Showtime debuting it instead on Sunday, Aug. 25. "Mostly, I always look for (a desired) director or things that I would want to see or characters I'd like to play," Dunst explains. "and I have to say this material was just so special to me. It's been three years now, and we've really had a little bit of a roller coaster of how this show actually got made to now being at Showtime." The series' Founders American Merchandise — or FAM, to make the acronym clear — is fictional, but actual operations have shared its personalized approach that Dunst's character Krystal Stubbs comes to oppose with fury. "I wasn't totally familiar with that kind of multilevel marketing scheme," Dunst says, "but I was more familiar with cults and that kind of thing, which I think this is comparable to." Co-star Mel Rodriguez ("The Last Man on Earth"), who plays Krystal's boss at a water park, has had experience with such situations. "My mother was in Grand Rapids, Mich., where Amway started," he notes, "and she almost got into it and regrets the day that she didn't, because she would have been really wealthy now. "Later on, my poor mom got involved with an oil company, and she called me and told me all the benefits of this oil. She kept saying, 'They're pharmaceutical grade, honey.' That was the big thing. And we ended up having to buy (it) all off of her, all the kids. And it was really awful, because it took advantage of this older woman who really didn't know any better. She spent money she didn't have, a little over $1500." Adds executive producer Esta Spalding, "Everyone on the show wants something more for their life, and there's no way they can get that working for minimum wage in 1992. That's when Americans were really betrayed; the working class couldn't earn a living that they could sustain and feed their families with, so they're all reaching for something else, and the (FAM) scheme moves into that. This show really lives in the world of people just trying to be happy in their daily lives, and they're being preyed on." Celebrity Scoop Celebrity Scoop Kirsten Dunst returns to series work by 'Becoming a God' Cover Story Cover Story By Jay Bobbin Ian Ziering has a lot of new activity, but he's also proving he's not opposed to revisiting his past. After recently following his "Sharknado" tenure on Syfy with "Zombie Tidal Wave" — as both star and producer — and having appeared in DC Uni- verse's "Swamp Thing," he also has gone back to the franchise that brought him fame. In Fox's Wednesday summer series "BH90210," he plays a variation of himself and also reassumes his former series role as Steve Sanders. "We're all excited to be working together for these six episodes," Ziering says. "There's a lot of pressure to give the audi- ence something they'll love, and we're not giving them exactly what they may be expecting. This is us playing ourselves Checking in with Ian Ziering through imaginary circum- stances." Ziering notes that's a tricky proposition, though fellow "Bev- erly Hills, 90210" alums Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling were very involved in developing the new show. He reasons the pro- ducers "really have to be respect- ful of the tone and the voice that they're putting in our mouths. If it was Steve Sanders, it could be anything, but they're playing around with our actual personas. We've had story meetings where there were objections, then oth- ers where we totally embraced what was going on." Noted by all on the "BH90210" set is the absence of the late Luke Perry, alias the original series' Dylan. "He's very missed," Ziering confirms. "We weren't just co-workers, Luke and I were very good friends. It continues to be difficult, and there are moments when we're all together and take a pause to regain our composure. It's tough. He was a big part of all of our lives." Birthdate: March 30, 1964 Birthplace: Newark, N.J. 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