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October 31 - November 6, 2020—3 The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN October 31 - November 6, 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 If Hugh Laurie's latest television role echoes his long run as Dr. Gregory House, he maintains he didn't intend it. The British talent portrays an ethi - cally sketchy politician in "Roadkill on Masterpiece," a BBC-produced drama debuting on the PBS anthol- ogy series Sunday, Nov. 1 (check lo- cal listings). Written by the esteemed David Hare ("Plenty"), the four-part tale finds Laurie's Peter Laurence barely keeping the approval of England's prime minister (Helen McCrory, "Peaky Blinders") after he wins a libel suit. He also must deal with his wife's (Saskia Reeves) and daughters' (Millie Brady and "Elementary's" Ophelia Lovibond) discovery of his affair with a librarian (Sidse Babett Knudsen, "Borgen"). Iain De Caestecker,("Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.I.E.L.D.") also stars. The wry Laurie appreciates ex - posing Laurence's nature slowly in "Roadkill." He says, "it may actu- ally be in my nature anyway to not reveal too much too soon. I think it has become a sort of necessity nowadays, in the selling of a story, that you have to declare to the audi- ence what your story's going to be. Sometimes in the form of a trailer, you have to say, 'Good guy, bad guy, traitor, existential threat' ... whatever it is. You have to lay out your wares very quickly. "It was a challenge, but also a luxury, to have the four hours in which to gradually reveal all of these characters," notes Laurie. "I think it is an amazing cast, and it was won - derful to watch all of them — under Michael's (Keillor) direction, and with David's wonderful script — re- veal themselves piece by piece, rather than coming in with a trombone an- nouncing themselves from the start." Playwright Hare reflects of devel- oping the "Roadkill" plot, "There used to be something called disgrace. When a politician did something wrong and was caught doing some- thing wrong, there was usually meant to be calamity. Something was meant to follow, and now, noth- ing follows. I wanted to write about that, the change in politics whereby it's OK to do things and you have a fair chance of getting away with them on the likelihood that you resemble the people who vote for you." As for any comparisons between House and Laurence, Laurie rea- sons, "There are some things I can't do anything about. I am the same height as Gregory House, and I am a little bit older. (With) anything I do, there are going to be moments or expressions or certain inflections that will possibly cause someone to remember something. Every actor goes through that. That's the nature of the thing." Celebrity Scoop Celebrity Scoop Hugh Laurie racks up 'Roadkill' in new PBS 'Masterpiece' drama Cover Story Cover Story By Jay Bobbin Aubrey Dollar believes it's not bad to be "Filthy Rich." The "Women's Murder Club" and "Battle Creek" alum has returned to series work in Fox's new Monday saga of Southern relatives shaken to discover that their recently deceased patriarch secretly had three illegiti - mate children ... who have claims on the family fortune, to others' dismay. It's ironic that a show largely about money features an actress named Dollar, who plays Rose Monreaux, an aspiring fashion designer pursu - ing her own identity away from her domineering mother (Kim Cattrall). The friendly Dollar reasons that "Filthy Rich" creator and executive producer Tate Taylor ("The Help") "writes women who have a lot of contradictory things inside of them. I am Southern, and it's really fun Checking in with Aubrey Dollar for me to get to sort of tap into my roots in that way. "I think Rose is very caught between being the good Southern woman that her mother wants her to be, and (being) a wild creative artist (who) lives somewhere deep inside of her," notes Dollar. "I think having these new siblings brought into her life kind of makes her wrestle with which of those hats to wear." Having become a mother since her previous series, CBS' "Battle Creek," Dollar reflects that "it does feel like this is the right moment" for her to undertake such work again. "My son is old enough. Being apart from him was really hard for me, but my mom was with me down there watching him (while "Filthy Rich," held by Fox from last season, was in produc - tion in New Orleans), so I think the timing has been really magical in a lot of ways." Birthdate: Sept. 23, 1980 Birthplace: Raleigh, N.C. 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