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Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 9
Follow a stronger leader, and beat your best time. You're a champion. Toss the ball to your partner. Your luck has just improved immensely. Pay it forward.
Take every opportunity to share good tidings. Important people speak well of you. Be prepared for uninvited company. Accept a pearl of wisdom from a friend.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 9
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6
Handle kitchen repairs, and you'll appreciate it daily. A discovery brings sought-after information. Accept a tough assignment that brings more income.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is an 8
Think of ways to increase your resources. Offer new services. Help your friends, and let them help you. Expand your view. It's a great time for travel.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 8
Your career can really take off now. The money's available, but save more than you spend. Relationships are most important. Rid yourself of unnecessary obligations.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
You're on a roll. Step onstage,
and speak your part. You're
lining up the pieces for a
positive change. Be prepared,
so you can move quickly when
necessary.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is on 9.
Today is an innovation. What you learn today benefits more than just yourself. Your theory works! Replenish your reserves Tap into your environment.
Work in partnership with others to get the most value today.
Your good energy's contagious.
Extra effort earns you a bonus.
A romantic evening beckons.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 9
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec.21)
Today is a 9
Today's a whirlwind of activity. Your productivity reaches new heights, especially when you're having fun. Anything's possible. Leave time for relaxation.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 9
Today is a 9
ideas flow like water, so pluck some from the stream and write them down. Charm customers with your skills.
Competition has you pick up the pace.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 7
Friends help you solve a philosophical problem. Your imagination profits. Make commitments and promises in the privacy of your own home.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 8
Today is an 8
Get into the books for the next couple of days. You may get mixed signals and contradicting information. Find out what works for you, and use it.
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WASHINGTON — Faux news host Stephen Colbert isn't the only comedian with a super PAC
Maher gives money to Obama super PAC
connection.
Political satirist Bill Maher got into the act Thursday night, pledging $1 million to a political committee supporting President Barack Obama.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
A cynic on politics who often
Maher announced during a Yahoo-webcast special, "CrazyStupidPolitics," that he was giving $1 million to Priorities USA Action, a super political action committee backing the president. Even as he made his sizeable pledge, Maher mocked the committee's "tongue-twister name," joking that it was dreamed up by Borat; the English-addled Eastern European comic creation of Sacha Baron Cohen.
Maher
takes liberal stands on issues on his HBO talk show "Real Time." Maher joins Dreamworks Animation executive Jeffrey Katzenberg and the Service Employees International Union as the committee's top funders. Katzenberg gave the group $2 million, and the union donated $1 million.
Colbert created and funded his super PAC — Making a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow — to satirize the unfettered flow of corporate and union funds into political campaigns.
More than half of the $60 million donated to groups supporting Obama and his GOP presidential rivals since early last year has come in million-dollar-plus donations. With Maher's donation, $4 million of Priorities USA Action's entire $5.5 million in contributions will have come from million-dollar-plus gifts.
Associated Press
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Oscars deny new Cohen character
LOS ANGELES — Sacha Baron Cohen's plan to show up at Sunday's Oscar ceremony in character as Adm. Gen. Shabazz Aladeen, the focus of his upcoming movie "The Dictator," may have been scuttled by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, but Cohen (or at least his character) isn't taking the slight quietly. He's taking the fight to the media.
MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
Cohen called into NBC's "Today" show on Friday morning, in character as Aladeen, upset about being banned from the Oscars red carpet. (Cohen is still welcome to attend, but only as himself.)
ACADEMY AWARDS
Playing along, hosts Ann Curry and Carl Quintanilla asked the dictator about the red carpet ban. Aladeen responded that he had
issued an ultimatum to the academy, "They have until midday on Sunday to give me my tickets back. If they do not, they will see and face unforeseen and unimaginable consequences."
Los Angeles Times that he had warned Paramount Pictures, the studio distributing "The Dictator," that Cohen showing up in character was "a bad thing to do."
Curry made some effort to get Cohen to break character, asking Aladeen what he thought of Cohen's performance in the Oscar-nominated film "Hugo," but Aladeen wouldn't bite, responding that he hadn't heard of "Hugo" and that the only films shown in his country were those written by and starring himself. "Hugo" was also distributed by Paramount.
He also tried to keep the anchors off-balance by throwing out questions such as "How is your eunuch, Al Roker?"
The joking ultimatum against the academy was repeated from a short video Cohen released to Deadline.com in which Aladeen addressed the academy as the
"How is your eunuch, Al Roker?"
SACHA BARON COHEN Actor
When asked what those unimaginable consequences might be, Aladeen responded, "Let's just say oil prices might be raised."
On Wednesday, academy President Tom Sherak told the
"Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Zionists."
It's still unclear whether Cohen will show up at the Oscars on Sunday at all, or if he really
intends to retaliate in some way against the academy. But as a way of drumming up interest in his upcoming movie in May, he's got the wheels of the promotion machine cranking in high gear already.
MUSIC
George Strait to play make up show in KC
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Country music star George Strait says he'll play in Kansas City next week to make up for a weekend concert he cut short because he was too sick to continue.
Strait made it through two songs Saturday night at the Sprint Center before telling the crowd he couldn't keep going because he was ill. The Kansas City Star reports the singer's voice was labored and hoarse.
All tickets for the first show will be honored at the March 3 concert.
Associated Press
Many of the 18,000 in attendance stood and gave him a rousing ovation after they got over their initial disappointment.
Martina McBride opened for Strait with a one-hour set, and she says she will be back next Saturday to open for him again.
MOVIES
Perry's new film fails to impress
IMCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
There are always pearls of wisdom in the cinematic semonettes of Tyler Perry. And even if they're a tad too obvious, it's plain that his connection to Oprah has paid off when he has characters in his films talk about personal responsibility, taking control of your own life and marriage, or simply making it a motto to do the right thing.
But the movies around his astute observations about life are generally slow-footed slogs, in desperate need of editing. "Good Deeds" or ("Tyler Perry's Good Deeds") has a few good scenes, a few solid messages about the importance of being needed in a relationship or marriage and the financial tightrope a lot of families are walking in this economy. But he's such a dull dramatist and boring actor that the message isn't delivered.
Perry stars as Wesley Deeds, a San Francisco CEO who rides herd over his hotheaded screw-up brother (Brian White, in a role so broad and inaptly written that he'doomed before he opens his mouth). Their martinet mom (Phylicia Rashad) raised them to be "gentleman," and ambitious ones at that. So Wesley is marrying a stunning, shallow go-getter Realtor (Gabrielle Union).
"Am I living my own life, or the one I'm told to live?" he asks in the sermon's opening narration.
The result is an overlong, flat movie in which he's hitting his "women as victims" a theme a bit more lightly, but which lacks an edge and does nothing to keep us from guessing the ending, pretty much based on the title.
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