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February 15 - 21, 2020—3 The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN February 15 - 21, 2020 — 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 Amy Poehler doesn't mind getting cartoonish in her latest television role ... actually, roles. The "Parks and Recreation" and "Saturday Night Live" vet- eran supplies the voices of both the young central character and his mother in "Duncanville," joining Fox's Sunday "Anima- tion Domination" lineup on Feb. 16. The life of Duncan might not seem special on the surface, but his adventures in adolescence and family life are enough to fuel a series also featuring Ty Burrell ("Modern Family") in the regular voice cast, with Rashida Jones and Wiz Khalifa among guest stars. Poehler is a creator and execu- tive producer of the series as well, along with "The Simp- sons" alums Mike and Julie Scully (Mike also worked with Poehler earlier on "Parks and Recreation"). "The mom is, frankly, just based on my own mom," Poehler explains, "a Boston mom who is very worried all the time and high-strung and likes to yell — although my mom doesn't like to yell. And Duncan, just take anything you are doing and then cut the en- thusiasm and effort in half, and you've got kind of a 15-year- old boy. I so admire incredible female voice actors, like Nancy Cartwright and Pamela Adlon, who have played young boys. I just love that sound, so I'll just stay up at night and try to copy them." Mike Scully notes that Poehler's real-life role as a mother of two sons came in handy as "Duncanville" was being developed. "The teenage boys are basically all like Larry David," he reasons. "They are very put-upon. Everything is a huge effort and exhausting." "Duncanville" is far from the only project on Poehler's docket: Her NBC do-it-yourself series with Nick Offerman, "Making It," has been renewed for a third season — and she and Tina Fey are booked to return as hosts of next year's Golden Globe Awards, plus she's producing the women's- soccer sitcom "Division One" for the forthcoming Peacock streaming service (which also will have "Parks and Recre- ation" in its entirety). Still, "Duncanville" has a ma- jor place on Poehler's agenda. She reflects that in watching television with her sons (whose father is her ex-husband, Will Arnett), "it's hard to find stuff we can watch together that they are interested in and that I'm interested in. 'The Simpsons' was one of the first shows we really watched together and laughed at the same things for the same reasons, so that's what's really exciting about working on this. It feels like this is the kind of stuff that we all get to watch with our kids, as well as our friends, and all be laughing at the same joke ... because they like a lot of things that I think are not funny." Celebrity Scoop Celebrity Scoop Amy Poehler makes her voice heard in Fox's 'Duncanville' Cover Story Cover Story By Jay Bobbin In his latest television role, Peter Galla- gher is singing a different tune — liter- ally — most weeks. Seen in recent seasons on such shows as "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Grace and Frankie," the Broadway veteran's musical experience helps the NBC series "Zoey's Extraordinary Playl- ist," which follows its January preview airing by starting its regular weekly run Sunday, Feb. 16. Gallagher plays Zoey's (Jane Levy) father, rendered speechless and immobile by a neurological disease ... but as with everyone else surround- ing Zoey, in her visions, he's a singing- and-dancing wonder. "I could not possibly hope for more," says Gallagher, who rendered Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" in the opening episode. "They are songs that I didn't know until now that I've always wanted to sing." As for not speaking in the show, though, Gallagher muses, "I just thought how fortunate the rest of the cast was. It's really the hardest thing in the world for me to do (to stay quiet)." The medical condition of Gallagher's "Zoey's" character mirrors the illness that series creator and executive pro - Checking in with Peter Gallagher ducer Austin Winsberg's late father had, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (or PSP). "It was a chance to be part of a story that I just thought I wanted to be a part of telling," Gallagher reflects, "because it's about what connects us as people and not what divides us. It's about the fact that everybody has a story, and there's no way you can know it by look - ing at them, as others might lead us to believe; you have to listen, so that was powerful. My mom had Alzheimer's for many years, which was a similar kind of thing." Birthdate: Aug. 19, 1955 Birthplace: New York Current residences: Los Angeles and Connecticut Marital status: Married; his two children are actress Kathryn Gallagher ("You") and writer- director James Gallagher Other television credits include: "Grace and Frankie," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "The Gifted," "The Conners," "Murphy Brown," "Man Seek - ing Woman," "New Girl," "To- getherness," "The Good Wife," "Covert Affairs," "Whitney," "Rescue Me," "Californication," "The Gathering," "The O.C.," "The Secret Lives of Men," "Fallen Angels," "An Inconve - nient Woman," "The Murder of Mary Phagan," "Skag," "Guid- ing Light" Movie credits include: "A Bad Moms Christmas," "Hello, My Name Is Doris," "Step Up Revo - lution," "Burlesque," "Convic- tion," "The War Boys," "Mr. Deeds," "Center Stage," "House on Haunted Hill," "American Beauty," "To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday," "Last Dance," "While You Were Sleeping," "The Underneath," "Mrs. Park - er and the Vicious Circle," "The Hudsucker Proxy," "Malice," "Short Cuts," "Watch It," "Bob Roberts," "The Player," "Sex, Lies and Videotape," "Summer Lovers," "The Idolmaker Doughty-Stevens Funeral Home 423-638-4141 www.doughty-stevens.com 1125 Tusculum Blvd. Greeneville, Tennessee Established 1892 Serving the community for 127 years! 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