THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012
Because the stars know things we don't.
HOROSCOPES
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
You've got tons of energy for making big strides toward final outcomes. Don't worry about details right now. Your easy humor lets you coast to victory.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 8
A slow morning leads to big picture conversations with a broad outlook. Take notes.
New doors are opening for greater leadership.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 7
Continue developing partnerships in impossible places. In case of doubt, review the instructions. Put yourself in another person's shoes.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 9
As if you're not busy enough, there's more work coming. Someone shows you how to use technology to increase productivity. Two heads are better than one.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 9
Don't wait until the last minute to finish projects. It's about to get intense, and you want to make it to the finish line. Relax with friends after a job well done
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 7 You keep your family together with your capacity to see both sides of the story. Create better communication channels. Don't get too serious.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Enla (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
You get a morale booster.
Now see if you can pass it on.
There are many opportunities for growth, especially in your relationships. Let them know what you heard.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
There may be morning grumpiness or frustration. Get into projects with diligence and passion, and afternoon energy relaxes.
Look for beauty, and find it.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec.21)
Today is a 9
Put the pieces together.
There's nothing that can stop you now. You can always get help for the puzzles you don't understand. A friendship thrives.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 5
Enjoy the sunshine, if you can. A partner's encouragement empowers you.
Face-to-face interactions produce great ideas. Follow your schedule.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 7
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 7
You can really make it happen.
Surround yourself with those who truly support your creative vision. No need for extravagance.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 7
Enjoy peaceful moments. See yourself in a new light. Your enthusiasm and creativity are quite attractive. You're more appreciated than you know.
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ACROSS
1 Burst
4 Answer an invite
8 Mid-June honorees
12 George's brother
13 — out (supplements)
14 Out of the storm
15 Unimprovable place
17 “— do for now”
18 Back
19 Great commotion
21 “America's Got —”
24 First st.
25 Wall climber
26 Listener
28 Distance down
32 Nap
34 Crazy
36 Avis adjective
37 Basin accessories
39 Pie filling?
41 Deterio-rate
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42 Last
(Abbr.)
44 Political argument
46 Colored like hippier shirts
50 Website section, often
51 Opposed to
52 South American country
56 Old card game
57 Thing
58 Heady brew
59 "South Park" kid
60 Knighted woman
61 Playing marble
DOWN
1 Spot on a domino
2 "... man mouse?"
3 Render immobile
4 Given a makeover
5 Tackle moguls
6 Two-piece suit's lack
7 Intellectual pretender
8 Company that merged with Benz in 1926
9 Choir member
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10 Sandwich shop
11 Vend
16 Census stat
20 Roulette bet
21 Ocean motion
22 Acknowledge
23 Highlander's hat
27 Aries
29 Strong herbi-cide
30 Jog
31 Loathe
33 Scholarly
35 Flop
38 Crafty
40 Malign
43 Luke-warm
45 Satchel
46 Chore
47 Black
48 List-ending abbr.
49 Information
53 Sleep phenom
54 Carte lead-in
55 Ever-green type
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BBC remaking shows for U.S.
"Coming out here, I would say that I was a highly functioning madwoman," said Jane Tranter, head of BBC Worldwide Productions. "Suddenly I had to spend an awful lot of my day in cars: driving on the wrong side of the road, not knowing where I was going and getting lost. I couldn't get used to the heat, so I would arrive sweating and covered in dust."
TELEVISION
LOS ANGELES — The scene had the feel of a slapstick British comedy: Wildly successful television executive trades her big job in London for a post in Los Angeles and frantically tries to put her company on the map while navigating the city's maddening roads and culture.
The veteran TV executive three years ago left her high-profile BBC role, where she was responsible for a $1 billion annual programming budget, to run the broadcaster's U.S. production company. The L.A. unit produces "Dancing With the Stars" for ABC and the auto show "Top Gear", which began its third season Tuesday on the History channel.
Tranter's primary objective is to remake BBC shows for U.S. audiences. She's not the first. Norman Lear in the 1970s turned the BBC's "Till Death Us Do Part" into CBS' "All in the Family." ABC later hit the jackpot with an American version of British network ITV's "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire," and Fox turned ITV's "Pop Idol" into "American Idol," television's biggest hit. In 2006 "Dancing With the Stars" became ABC's most popular program.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The gambit is paying off. BBC Worldwide Productions has put more than five shows on American channels, and it has eight others in production.
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WHALFS TALE
ENTERTAINMENT
Music sales increase after Houston's death
LOS ANGELES — Not surprisingly, the public's appetite for Whitney Houston's music erupted in the hours after she died Saturday in Beverly Hills, as more than 100,000 albums and nearly 900,000 individual tracks sold in a little over 24 hours.
The Nielsen SoundScan retail sales monitoring service reported that 91,000 digital albums and another 10,000 physical albums along with 887,000 digital tracks were sold by the close of the reporting period that ended Sunday night. Those numbers and new Billboard chart positions will be released on Wednesday.
The top-selling title among the albums was her 2000 compilation "Whitney Houston — Greatest Hits," which sold 64,000 copies.
The most popular song was "I Will Always Love You," which was responsible for 195,000 of the downloaded tracks. Additionally, according to Nielsen BDS, which tracks radio airplay, that song was played 2,137 times on U.S. broadcast radio stations Saturday and Sunday.
Sales figures constitute a quantum leap in public interest in Houston's music. Compared with the week before she died, her digital album sales increased more than 17,000 percent, sales of the greatest hits collection jumped by more than 10,000 percent and digital track downloads were up 5,730 percent. Radio airplay of "I Will Always Love You" rocketed from 134 plays before her death.
KITTY KORNER
Associated Press
THEATER
- Mars Denton
"I felt that it should be absolutely set today," Fiennes said. "I'm sure you could put 'Coriolanus' into various historical contexts, because of its themes of nobility and warrior prowess — they're
PHILADELPHIA — Ralph Fiennes' "Coriolanus" is not your typical toga-and-sandals Shakespeare. It's camouflage-and combat boots Shakespeare, it's gritty, it's graffited. Although the actor and first-time director is faithful to the Bard's text, setting his tale of usurpation and political upheaval in the city-state of Rome, it looks more like Bosnia, or Beirut.
Shakespeare's play inspires director's modern edition
Slabs of grim modernist architecture, the rubble and debris of poverty and conflict, TV monitors reporting news of rioting and war — Fiennes "Coriolanus," with its people's uprisings and its uniformed demagogues, its partisan clashes and elitist arrogance, is about as contemporary as it gets.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"But I still feel that those themes are even more relevant today. Certainly, when I read up about the sort of military ethic of places like West Point, things haven't changed much, really."
In "Coriolanus," with a screen adaptation by Oscar-nominated John Logan, Fiennes is Caius Martius Coriolanus, a mighty, mightily feared military leader. His mother, Volumnia, is pushing him to seek the position of consul, but the citizens have turned against him. After much sturm and draug, Coriolanus is expelled from Rome, only to ally himself with his enemies — led by Gerard Butler — and then return to take revenge.
ancient.
Fiennes, the English actor of
"Schindler's List," "The English Patient" and "The Reader" fame — not to mention the role of one Lord Voldemort in a series of wee little fantasies about a boy wizard — has been thinking about a screen adaptation of Shakespeare's last great tragedy since he starred in a London stage production, back in 2000. Throughout the decade, he made his pitches to producers and film finance folk.
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