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Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 7
You can sell your concept now.
It takes action. Do a good job,
and there's a potential for more
money to flow in. If breakdowns
occur, you can handle them.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
Don't let worries about money interfere with love. With Venus in your sign, art, beauty and romance are yours. Might as well listen, though ... you might have to compromise.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
today is a 6
Changes higher up are to your
benefit. Send off the paperwork
for an increase in funding. Go
for what you want in career and
romance. You're lucky with love
and money.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is all 6
You're still learning, and your concentration's keen. You see new ways to prosper and are moved into action. Use that Midas touch at work (and leave it there).
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 8
It's wise to be frugal. Anticipate overruns of cost. Let others bring food. Your friends are your inspiration. You can make it work; teamwork solves any puzzle.
Today is an 8
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Here comes a pleasant surprise. Gather up as much as you can. Venus enters Taurus in your fifth house, influencing creativity, romance and fun. Enjoy.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 8
For about three weeks, you're especially vibrant and charming. Give in to creature comforts and beauty. Serve others with artistry.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 9
Have faith in your imagination and bring in the dough. Focus on providing a great service. Think twice before making a purchase. Do you really need it?
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec.21)
Today is a 7
There's no mountain high enough to keep you down. Pack the essentials and explore, even if it's just metaphorically speaking. Keep a journal for future reference.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 6
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Today is a **6**
You may feel like spending some quiet time, but don't dismiss others who appreciate you. Take a moment to connect. Water seeds. Reveal your dreams.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.18) Today is a 8
Your imagination runs wild, attracting bright new ideas and potential clients. New partnerships and responsibilities lead to new rewards. Speculate.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Hit the ground running and get busy without delay. Even if you miss a few, you hit the mark more times than not. You're more powerful than you think.
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42 Big party
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44 Long story
46 Horse's neck hair
47 Prayer ending
48 Legislations
50 Bill
Cherry, who sat stone-faced at the defense table throughout Sheridan's testimony, contends he only gave Sheridan what his lawyer called "a light tap on the head" to demonstrate how he wanted her to hit another character in a scene. His attorneys
LOS ANGELES — It started as normal Hollywood friction — an actress who wanted better lines and a writer annoyed by her suggestions. But the splayable on the "Desperate Housewives" set four years ago took an unusually nasty turn that led Thursday to a downtown Los Angeles courtroom.
"It stunned me." Sheridan said of what she described as a "nice wallow" to her temple. Her face reddening and her eyes filling with tears, she told jurors, "It was unfathomable to me that I had just been hit by my boss."
The actress, 48, is suing Cherry and Touchstone Television Productions for wrongful termination and battery. She contends that after she complained about Cherry's conduct, he retaliated by killing off her character, the promiscuous real estate agent Edie Britt.
Actress Nicolelette Sheridan told a jury that series creator Marc Cherry slapped her in the head during a rehearsal after she repeatedly questioned him about deleting what he considered to be a particularly funny line for her character.
By her lawyer's estimation, departing the ABC hit cost Sheridan about $6 million in income and other damages.
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But in her testimony, Sheridan said that on the contrary, Cherry had told her in 2008 that Edie would not be killed off because it would create an uproar with fans. She said she was under that impression on Sept. 24, 2008, when she confronted Cherry about removing a line in which her character used a Beatles song to tease her on-screen husband's songwriting struggles: "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah. How hard is that?"
Nicoletta Sheridan attends "An Evening With "Desperate Housewives"" held at the Academy's Leonard H. Goldenson Theater in North Hollywood, California, February 22, 2005.
have said Edie's demise in the fifth season was plotted months before the incident.
After the second time she asked, Sheridan said, he pulled her aside and smacked her. She said he later came to her trailer, apologized and gave her an even better line: "Play that funky music middle-aged white boys."
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On Thursday, Lionsgate's adaptation of the best-selling book came onto "tracking," the survey data used by Hollywood executives to measure pre-release interest, and the numbers are massive. People who have seen the numbers but were not authorized to discuss them publicly said the film, which debuts March 23, could have a domestic opening weekend of close to, and possibly more than, $100 million.
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More consumers rate "The Hunger Games" as their first choice film to see than any movie coming out in the next four weeks. Typically, the movies that get the highest "first choice" ratings are ones closest to their release dates.
Currently, the three biggest companies that provide tracking data are estimating that "Hunger Games" will open to between $70 million and $90 million.
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LOS ANGELES — "The Hunger Games" is poised to slaughter the box office competition with an opening that could surpass $100 million.
'Hunger Games' predicts opening day ticket sales
— MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
Dr. Seuss film set for debut
MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — "Dr. Seuss' the Lorax" is primed to rake in lots of green at the box office this weekend.
The 3-D animated film, based on a popular 1971 book by Dr. Seuss, could debut with as much as $50 million, according to those who have seen pre-release audience surveys. The weekend's only other new release, the low-cost, R-rated party movie "Project X," will probably start off with a healthy sum of about $20 million.
"The Lorax," about an environmentally friendly creature who works to save trees, features the voices of Danny DeVito, Zac Efron and Taylor Swift. The movie was directed by Chris Renaud, the filmmaker behind "Despicable Me" in 2010. That movie, also produced by Universal Pictures' family unit Illumination Entertainment, opened with $56.4 million domestically and ended up grossing $543 million worldwide.
"The Lorax" has earned far more positive reviews than "Project X," which followed three teenage boys trying to throw the biggest party in their high school's history. The film is the latest to fall into the growing found-footage genre, which this year has included the horror movie "The Devil Inside" and the superhero flick "Chronicle."
Universal spent about $70 million to finance the film, which will debut overseas next weekend. "The Lorax" is the second animated movie based on a Dr. Seuss property. It follows 20th Century Fox's 2008 release "Horton Hears a Who," which also opened in March and collected nearly $300 million globally.
Though the raunchy "Project X" features no recognizable actors and was directed by newcomer Nima Nourizadeh, it has generated lots of buzz online. Warner Bros., which spent only $12 million to produce the film, has marketed it heavily to young males on Twitter and Facebook, including
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"Project X" is a departure for Warner Bros., which is known for big-budget tentpole movies. In the coming months, the Time Warner Inc.-owned studio will release such films as "Wrath of the Titans" and "The Dark Knight Rises." But the inexpensive "Project X" was a passion project for producer Todd Phillips, who is highly valued at the studio because of his work on the successful "Hangover" comedy franchise.
fan feedback in its promotional campaign.
Meanwhile, Weinstein Co. will expand Academy Award best picture winner "The Artist" from 966 locations to 1,756 theaters. The silent black-and-white picture — which also took home Oscars for director Michel Hazanavicius and leading actor Jean Dujardin last weekend — has grossed $32.9 million since its release over Thanksgiving. In the same time period last year, Weinstein Co.'s 2011 winner, "The King's Speech," had sold $114 million worth of tickets.
Foreign film tells stories of real Holocaust victims
Agniesza Holland's "in Darkness," nominated for a foreign-language Academy Award (it lost, to "A Separation"), is set in the city of Lvov, then part of Poland and now the Ukraine, in the midst of World War II. It's a harrowing Holocaust tale, but one that speaks to humankind's capacity to endure, to fight on in the face of terrible cruelty.
Adapted from Robert Marshall's
book "In the Sewers of Lvov," Holland's technically impressive film offers a grueling account of the true story of a group of Jews who spent 14 months living in a rat-infested underground sewer, dark, damp and redolent of human excrement. These were not heroes, but ordinary citizens — flawed, afraid, ungenerous — who, forced from the ghetto as the Nazis lined up Jews for the work camps, and the death camps, fled to the sewers instead.
"In Darkness" is also, pivotally, the
story of a city sewer worker, Leopold Socha (Robert Wiewickey). A married man, a Gentile, whose moral core seems fairly coreless at first, Socha takes money to harbor the Jews — guiding them to hideouts, bringing food and supplies. It was a mercenary act, not a missionary one, but over the course of the year and two months that he served as their secret guardian. Socha undergoes his own transformation.
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