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Because the stars know things we don't.
Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is an 7 Wait to make a final decision; there's no need to rush. Think over all the hidden options. Take a hike or get into physical action, and the perfect answer percolates.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is a 7 Yesterday's fool had pranks (or not).Today you may as well wait to make a move.The joke would fall flat. Keep planning, and analyze a strategy for success.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 7
Cash flow improves, and you feel more balanced now. It's not as much as you hoped, or as little as you'd feared. Stick with the facts, and let the rest go.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is an 8
Abundance is yours. Sync schedules with your partner. Some of the things you try might not work, but your community has all the resources you need.
Don't fear exploration and adventure. Finish tasks at work, work out the finances and make it happen. You have what it takes. Whatever you lack can be found close by.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 8
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is on 7
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is an 7 You may find an answer in a dream. You're wiser than you realize. Big stories are just that. You feel more balanced and assured, so take on a new leadership role.
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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Today is a 7 Meditate for equilibrium, and that peace gives you focus and strength to power through the day. It's not a good day for travel. Distractions could tempt. Stick to basics.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 6
Stick to your principles. Ask
for what you want. Generate
harmony at home. Friends and
finances don't mix for about
thirty hours, so postpone money
talk. Get some sunshine.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec.21)
Today is a 7
Don't fear the road less traveled. You're likely to find romance along the way. Avoid financial risks, though. Trust your intuition and dance into the night.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 6
When all else fails (or before it does), focus on the small details. It's easy to get distracted from your financial goals. Adaptation is key. Watch the trail ahead.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 7
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 7
Start the week with an injection of optimism and self-confidence. Focus on abundance, even if it seems impossible.
You can rely on others, and they on you.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 8
Your imagination comes in handy to solve a work problem.
Beware of a mirage, financially speaking. Reward yourself with good amounts of deep, delicious rest.
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1 Spaces
5 Slight touch
8 South American country
12 Geometric multiplication
13 Individual
14 Ostriches' kin
15 Willing, old-style
16 Bowling variation
18 Wool provider from 8-Across
20 Examiner
21 — -tat-tat
23 Set of parts and tools
24 Anarchist's belief
28 Pinches
31 Coach Parseghian
32 Choral composition
34 Actress
Vardalos
35 Poet
37 About 78
percent of our
atmosphere
39 Melody
41 Bar
42 Confesses
45 Hang
around
49 Early
bird's
opposite?
51 Change
52 Hint
53 Island
neck-
wear
54 Great
Lake
55 Watches
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1 Festive party
2 Seed covering
3 Chick's sound
4 Jungle expedition
5 Philanthropic gift
6 Blackbird
7 Crooked
8 Stomach enzyme
9 Sending out
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10 Mysterious letter
11 Cold War country (Abbr.)
17 “A mousel”
19 Serene
22 Moving about
24 Arrest
25 A Gershwin
26 Lecture
27 Made of iron, e.g.
29 Baked dessert
30 — Francisco
33 Three-some
36 Plates
38 Martini garnishes
40 Trench
42 Formerly
43 Crafty
44 Staff
46 Poi source
47 Ireland
48 Deli loaves
50 Drenched
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SCREENWRITING
'Great Expectations adapted into series
MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
In the latest BBC adaptation of "Great Expectations," which airs in two parts on Masterpiece Classic, only Miss Havisham, as played by Gillian Anderson, is allowed the full dimension of her literary nature. Anderson, who also gave a stellar performance as Lady Dedlock in 2006's "Bleak House," shines as one of the author's most famous creations, a woman jilted on her wedding day who refuses to move beyond that moment, moldering along with her wedding cake and bridal finery. And I mean literally shines; when we
LOS ANGELES — The trouble with attempting to adapt any novel by Charles Dickens into a three-hour miniseries (a mini miniseries?) is that even the best, cleverest screenwriter will be forced to boil the story down to its essential plot. And though Dickens did not shirk on plot, deliriously crisscrossing fistfuls of them as if each book were an unending game of cat's cradle, action is not what defined his work.
God, they say, is in the details, and so is Charles Dickens, in the evocation of place, the palpable rise of mood and, most important, the creation of characters so freighted with eccentricity as to be unbelievable but so finely drawn that they live and breathe nonetheless.
first meet her, through the eyes of young Pip (Oscar Kennedy), she is as luminous in a way that recalls Ian McKellen's Gandalf, after he has become Gandalf the White. Within that alarmingly CG-ish halo is a riveting performance that Dickens, who hastened his death 200 years ago by giving intense dramatic readings of his works, would no doubt applaud.
Pip soon finds himself sent to Satis House, the home of Miss Havisham, to provide companionship to the lady's young ward, Estella (Izzy Meikle-Small). Despite Estellas coldness, Pip falls in love and longs to become a gentleman, and worthy of Estella, rather than a lowly blacksmith like Joe, who Phelps has deprived of his unwavering faith in Pip.
Although the basic story remains intact, the rest of the characters are sacrificed to time, space and screenwriter Sarah Phelps' choices, a small tragedy considering the talent of the performers. Raised by his "rampaging" older sister (Claire Rushbrook) and her kindly husband, Joe Gargery (Shaun Dooley), in the marshy wastelands, Pip one day encounters an escaped convict (Ray Winstone) who demands a file; Pip adds a pork pie, and when the convict is recaptured, he keeps Pip's actions to himself.
SUDOKU
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MOVIES
'Anchorman' sequel announced on 'Conan'
COMEDY
LOS ANGELES — The announcement from a burgundy-suited, white-shoot Will Ferrell on "Conan" Wednesday night that an "Anchorman" sequel was on its way prompted cheers from fans who have followed the project's ups-and-downs for years.
Certainly the cast had become pricier as the stock of Ferrell and Steve Carell rose after the 2004 film.
What exactly changed at studio Paramount, which had long floured the flutist and balked at a Ron Burgundy follow-up (and, more to the point, the price thereof) remains a discussed question in Hollywood.
- Mcclatchy Tribune
Filmmaker discusses new 'Deep Blue Sea'
MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
Davies, an erudite, frank and soft-spoken man, visited Los Angeles recently from his home in London to talk about "The Deep Blue Sea" and to attend a tribute for him at the American Cinematheque.
LOS ANGELES — Independent filmmaker Terence Davies, 66, has made only five narrative feature films in the last 24 years. After making several short films, including his trio of autobiographical works known as "The Terence Davies Trilogy," he made his feature directorial debut with his 1988 autobiographical drama "Distant Voices, Still Lives," about a young boy growing up in a large working-class Catholic family in Liverpool in the 1940s and '50s. Among his other films are 1992's autobiographical drama "The Long Day Closes" and his 2000 adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth."
His latest film, "The Deep Blue Sea," is set in post-World War II London, where 40-year-old Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz) has left her wealthy, upper-class and passionless life with her titled husband (Simon Russell Beale) after she experiences erotic love for the first time with a dashing young ex-Royal Air Force pilot, Freddie (Tom Hiddleston). But Hester soon discovers that the only thing she has in common with him is sex; the film opens with her failed suicide attempt.
"The Deep Blue Sea" is based on British playwright Terence Rattigan's ("The Browning Version," "Separate Tables") 1953 play and the 1955 film version, which he adapted, starring Vivien Leigh as Hester and Kenneth More as Freddie. Stylistically and thematically, Davies also pays homage to one of his favorite films that also explored illicit passion and love — David Lean's 1945 "Brief Encounter."
Q. Are the original Rattigan play and the movie vastly different than your adaptation?
A. The problem with the play and with all of his plays is the whole of the first act is exposition and it's not interesting. I said to myself, "If we do it from Hester's point of view, most of the exposition can go because you can show it on-screen." The first act is collapsed into nine minutes, and if there are not scenes in the play to which Hester is not privy, they have got to be dropped because she's not there. That made it that much easier. It also made it look more interesting. Although it is sort of a linear narrative, it is an expressionistic linear narrative with some flashbacks.
MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
Q. I read that you were initially reluctant to do "Deep Blue Sea." Was it because you had never adapted a play?
Q. The majority of your characters in your films are outsiders. Hester is no exception, because she has given up the world of privilege but doesn't fit into the working-class universe. You also have often stated that you feel like an outsider.
A. It goes back to childhood. I was the youngest of 10. In England, you go to primary school from 5 to 11, and then you go to secondary school from 11 to 15, which is when I left school. I couldn't hear myself, so I thought I spoke like everyone else, with a very thick Liverpool accent, but I sounded like this even at 11. I was beaten every day for four years (at school).
A. I switched the TV on and this film had already started and this girl came on with this won-
A. I was afraid because I hadn't done it before. But the Rattigan Trust couldn't have been more supportive. They said, "Be radical," which is fantastic. It is the jewel in their crown. They could have gotten a really big studio to do it, but they said, "No, we want you to do it."
Director Terece Davies attends the screening of "Deep Blue Sea" in Toronto, Canada. Sept. 11, 2011.
like now in Britain?
A. The class system is still well alive and in England. It's just hidden. We showed the film in Cambridge, and at the end of the Q&A, one lady stayed behind and said, "I have to ask you about the scenes with (Hester's mother-in-law)." I said to myself, "Oh, Lord." You can tell when someone is a bit strange. She said, "When Hester ate the soup, did she deliberately eat it the wrong way to antagonize the mother?" and I said to her, "I had no idea there was a right or wrong way."
Q. Britain of the 1940s and early 1950s seems very emotionally stunted.
A. In those days, Britain was much more reticent. Emotion was considered vulgar, (Composer) Edward Elgar died in 1934, and there were still people around at the time who thought he was still too passionate. Displays of emotion were considered embarrassing even in the working class. A lot of people in those days — both men and women — didn't know much about sex.
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