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June 20 - 26, 2020 —3 The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN June 20 - 26, 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 2 x 1.5" ad midway const. By Jay Bobbin Any preconceived notion you might have of "Perry Mason" is about to be tossed out of court. The most enduring image of nov - elist Erle Stanley Gardner's iconic character surely is the urbane defense attorney played by Raymond Burr in a 1957-66 television classic that remains a staple of nostalgia-driven networks. However, a younger, scrappier Mason fuels a limited HBO series debuting Sunday, June 21. Executive-produced by Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan, and set in the Depression era, it casts Emmy winner Matthew Rhys ("The Americans") in the title role while exploring Mason's roots as an unconventional detective as much as a nascent lawyer. "That is why I jumped at the op - portunity," the friendly Rhys confirms of helping to generate a new Mason. "When the initial call came, this strange thing went through my head: 'Perry Mason?' I realize more and more that I'd had a unique relation - ship to it without necessarily having a true grasp of what it was. I was aware of the (original) show, but in true recollection, I wasn't sure that I ever watched it ... though my grandparents did. "You feel like you know this identity of a trial lawyer who got everybody to confess on the stand," adds Rhys, "but as soon as you heard that HBO was remaking 'Perry Mason,' you knew immediately, 'Well, OK. That's going to be a very different take.' And it is. It's the origin story of how he became a trial lawyer, and I thought, 'Oh, how interesting.' And then I read the first script, and that was that." Such other familiar characters as Della Street (now played by Juliet Ry - lance) and Paul Drake (Chris Chalk) also are reinvented by the "Perry Ma- son" reboot. John Lithgow (as Mason's mentor in the law), Tatiana Maslany ("Orphan Black") and Robert Patrick ("Scorpion") are among the cast members as well. HBO-series veteran Tim Van Patten ("Game of Thrones," "The Sopranos") is the director and an executive producer of the show. In preparing to play Mason, the Welsh-born Rhys — the real-life partner of his fellow "Americans" star Keri Russell — had a valuable resource in Tom Hanks while they made the recent movie "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood," since Hanks had done the similarly styled 2002 film "Road to Perdition." "When you're engulfed in some - thing on this kind of scale, it's hard not to believe the world you're in," Rhys reasons of the "Perry Mason" costumes and production design that are so evocative of the early 1930s. "You don't see anything but hundreds of supporting actors in the costumes and cars, and whole streets have been made to look the way they were then, so it only strengthens the make- believe." Celebrity Scoop Celebrity Scoop Matthew Rhys is HBO's new, very different 'Perry Mason' Cover Story Cover Story By George Dickie Talk to most any actor and they'll tell you a transformation takes place when they don heavy makeup, pros - thetics or costumes for a role. Much of the time, it helps them find the character. That also holds true for Zachary Quinto for his role of sinister Charlie Manx in the AMC supernatural hor - ror series "NOS4A2." He says the hours he spends in the makeup chair definitely helps him get into the headspace of the shriveled immortal. "It becomes about sort of manag - ing the changes that happen in physicality when you have to put all that stuff on," the 43-year-old Pittsburgh native explains. "So I think it's like there's something that happens whether I think about it or not or whether it's conscious or not. There's something that just happens, too, to my physicality and the way that I sort of move and speak and play those scenes as a result of that process." Checking in with Zachary Quinto As Season 2 opens Sunday, June 21, it's eight years after the events of Season 1 and Charlie finds himself targeted by working-class young artist Vic McQueen (Ashleigh Cum- mings), who is bent on destroying him. But Charlie, who has faced his own mortality, knows Vic has a vulnerability and a soul he desires — that of her 8-year-old son Wayne. With her boy's future at stake, it's up to Vic to protect him from this child-stealing monster and confront the mistakes of her past, a storyline Cummings embraced and left Quin- to impressed by her performance. "I think fast-forwarding the plot a little bit and giving her a little more agency and some more internal conflict and ultimately this child to protect and to care for was a great move," Quinto says. "And also as far as Manx was concerned, it makes it much more personal between Manx and Vic because now her kid is at risk ... . So he knows once he comes back that she has a kid and ... it's an engine of conflict that I think is re- ally valuable throughout the whole course of the season." Full name: Zachary John Quinto Birth date: June 2, 1977 Birthplace: Pittsburgh Residence: New York City Family ties: Separated from her hus- band of eight years, James Cannon Alma mater: Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama in 1999 Other TV credits include: "The Others," "Touched by an Angel," "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "Lizzie McGuire," "Six Feet Un - der," "Charmed," "24," "Joan of Arcadia," "Crossing Jordan," "So Notorious," "Heroes," "Ameri- can Horror Story," "Girls," "The Slap," "Hannibal," "Unbreak- able Kimmy Schmidt" Movie credits include: "Star Trek" (2009), "Margin Call" (2011), "Star Trek Into Darkness" (2013), "We'll Never Have Paris" (2014), "Star Trek Beyond" (2016), "Snowden" (2016), "Who We Are Now" (2017), "Hotel Arte - mis" (2018), "High Flying Bird" (2019), "The Boys in the Band" (forthcoming) 921 W. 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