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October 12 - 18, 2019 —3 The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN October 12 - 18, 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 To become Patsy Cline for a cable movie, Megan Hilty made a deep dive into the country-music icon's life, times and songs. Debuting Saturday, Oct. 19, Lifetime's made-in-Nashville "Patsy & Loretta" recounts the friendship between Cline and Loretta Lynn (played by Hilty's fellow Broadway veteran Jessie Mueller, of "Waitress" and "Beau - tiful: The Carole King Musical"). They were at very different career stages when they met, with Cline well-established and Lynn just starting out ... and after Cline's tragic death in a 1963 plane crash, Lynn carried the mantle of ac - complished women in country for both of them. "I normally have a really hard time watching myself," friendly "Smash" alum Hilty says, "but with this, I think because I look so different, I was able to sit back and enjoy it. When they first approached me about it, I said, 'How much hair is going into the wigs?' I feel like no matter how good the script and everything else is, if you don't have a good wig, people are going to be focused on that the entire time. And they told me that was a massive priority." Still, Hilty understood there was more to the part than the look and "Crazy," "I Fall to Pieces" and "Walkin' After Midnight" are among the Cline classics she renders. "I didn't really know about her life," she admits, "and the more research I did, the more madly in love I fell with her. I read two different books, and I did not like one of them very much because it seemed like a lot of gossip. Then I read another biography on her that made sense, and I watched anything of her that I could get my hands on; it's mostly of her performances and not much patter, so the personal stuff was a lot of guesswork." Reuniting Hilty with "Smash" executive producer Neil Meron (in his first solo effort after the passing of his longtime producing colleague Craig Zadan), "Patsy & Loretta" was directed by someone who knew its background: Cal - lie Khouri, the Oscar-winning "Thelma & Louise" writer who created and produced the drama series "Nashville." The result, Hilty maintains, was "the most pleasant working experience I've ever had. Everybody on that set was legitimately upset that it was ending, and you dream of having that kind of environment." Cline and Lynn's daughters — respectively, Julie Fudge and Patsy Lynn Russell — are co-producers of "Patsy & Loretta," which made Hilty even more determined to get her task on the film right. Cline was "a real person, with a real legacy to uphold, and I wanted to be extremely respectful of that," Hilty reflects. "I think the script does her justice." Celebrity Scoop Celebrity Scoop Megan Hilty is Patsy Cline in Lifetime's 'Patsy & Loretta' Cover Story Cover Story By Jay Bobbin Caitlin McGee is laying down the law her own way. The actress has a prominent role as an attorney who's the daughter of another lawyer — her long-estranged father, played by Jimmy Smits — in NBC's new, Memphis-set Monday drama "Bluff City Law." Her Sydney Strait is as impulsive as dad Elijah is methodical, often escalating the strain between them as they try to work to- gether again. "She started at the firm with him," McGee explains. "He was the beacon of hope and this pil- lar in the community, and that idealism was robbed from her through personal instances and moments in the courtroom — and the law not going her way. You can feel really defeated by losses in the courtroom, in the world, and it's hard to not just throw your hands up in the air Checking in with Caitlin McGee and just say, 'Well, what else am I going to do?' "She put up walls and some- how made a living off of these terrible companies, but made it make sense to her, which you see in the show," adds McGee. "Somehow, she found ways to justify it, and it's a dark thing that I think a lot of people can do. And you can see in her journey that you can come back to that idealism and that hope, and working on the right side of the law." Also appearing in Amazon's an- thology "Modern Love," McGee opted not to have a Southern accent in "Bluff City Law." She notes Caitlin is "relatively world- ly but also doesn't want to be pi- geonholed. I love doing accents. I've done many, but I wanted her to specifically not have one." Birthdate: Jan. 9, 1988 Birthplace: Massachusetts Current residence: Los An- geles Marital status: Single Other television credits include: "Modern Love," "You're the Worst," "I'm Dy- ing Up Here," "Grey's Anato- my," "Chicago Med," "Libby and Malcolm," "The Marvel- ous Mrs. Maisel," "The Great Indoors," "Halt and Catch Fire," "Shades of Blue," "Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll," "Blue Bloods," "Unforget- table" Movie credits include: "Plus One," "Standing Up, Falling Down," "Motion Picture Mar- tyr," "Winter Slides" On what she wants the legal cases in "Bluff City Law" to depict: "I think it's really im- portant to show the human stories behind those head- lines. We read a headline, and we don't actually get to know the people behind these cases and these sto- ries." 921 W. 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