2B • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
ENTERTAINMENT
THURSDAY, SEPT. 13, 2001
HOROSCOPES
Today's Birthday (Sept. 13).
Today's Birthday (Sept. 15):
Your social life is a whirl during the first part of the year. With all those parties and meetings to attend, you barely have time for your job. Perfect your workplace routine so that it doesn't take very much effort to keep body and soul in harmony. Even then, by the end of the year you'll be ready for some quiet time. Schedule a summer retreat.
Aries (March 21-April 19). Today is a 7.
Something you thought was going all wrong could turn out in your favor, so don't evaluate your performance yet. Wait until you have a chance to talk it over with somebody who's a little more objective than you are. Make it somebody you trust and who loves you.
Taurus (April 20-May 20). Today is a 7. Take on extra work if it means extra money You have plenty of ways you can spend it. Studying helps you stretch your dollars even further. Discuss your options with your family. The work you take on doesn't have to be pick-and-shovel stuff. It might be extra paperwork.
Gemini (May 21-June 21). Today is a 7.
Your fiscal conservatism will pay off. Be
frugal with your money just a little longer.
Invest in educational materials for yourself
and for the ones you love.
Cancer June 22 - July 22). Today is a 6.
You're confident, and with good reason.
You're kind, considerate and a good shopper. You're also pretty good at doing business. Got anything to sell? Let people know. Tomorrow will be good for making money.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22). Today is a 6.
The winning idea may have come to you in a dream. It's a way to find the money you need to advance toward your objective.
Work out the details before sharing this idea with your partner. This will make you look even smarter.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22), Today is a 6.
Get everybody organized. There's a lot of work to be done and a lot of money to be made. You'll win if everybody's working at maximum efficiency, and so will they. Besides, it's more fun to play with teammates who know what they're doing, and fewer toes get stepped on.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22). Today is a 7. Another few hours of behaving yourself, and you should be able to break free Schedule an outing with friends in order to let off a little steam. Leave room in your schedule for romance, too.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Today is a 7.
Make sure your boss, or some other influential older person, knows what you've been studying. Every little bit helps as you advance toward your objective. And you ARE advancing. Slowly, perhaps, but steadily.
sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is a 6.
Besides more money, you need more time
A Friday off would be great. But if you
haven't already earned the time, it's
unlikely you'll get it. Collecting old debts
works better now than any other kind of
deal.
capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Today is a 6. Head an expert's advice when it's time to pay the bills — someone who's an excellent shopper. You're good, of course, but you have a soft side. This other person's ruthless when it comes to saving money. You can learn a lot from a person like that.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Today is a 6.
Better pack a lunch again. Schedule your date for later or for tomorrow. Your mind should be working quite well, but there's a lot to be done. Don't avoid theicky jobs. That way you'll feel even better at tomorrow's evaluation.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20). Today is a 7.
Put the finishing touches on your latest scheme. There's nothing you can't accomplish with the right person at your side. If you're pretty sure who that person is, start there. Reaffirm your relationship.
The events of the past days have taken the spark out of many peoples' eyes. Sex suddenly seems pointless, a vulgarity — nobody is really in the mood for loving after watching our country pitched into chaos.
Love, contact help through terror
However, just as these tragic events have put life, liberty and freedom into perspective—they also can put things like sex and love into a clearer focus.
For instance, does it really matter whether people are gay or straight? A virgin or experienced? Not really. What matters is that, as humans, we have many ways to show love — physically or otherwise. We have the capacity to reach out and touch, kiss, hug — just be close to one another.
There is a way to do this that transcends sexual orientation, the strife over virginity and the differences between kinky or straight. You can even do it in front of your parents (probably just about the only thing in
Commentary
Meghan
Bainum
Sex Columnist
jayplaykaana.com
this column that will ever have that statement before it). Show a little love by giving your significant other, that bottie in your dorm, your special friend, roommate or even just a regular person, a hug.
Simple. Squeeze tightly and use both arms for best effect. Let it last for a while. Don't be in a hurry. Bury your face in a neck, or shoulder and enjoy being alive and feeling another human being.
After the hug, take a little time to tell that person why they are special to you. Why you care about them. Then hug them again. If that hug
leads to something more, let it. Just keep in mind - at least this time how amazing it is to be close to somebody. Be sure to look your lover in the eyes, and share the warmth and the love that can happen between two people.
Go on with the positive part of life.
Ask out that cute girl or guy you've been eying for weeks — what do you have to lose? Go on a date. Hold hands. Whether you get a hug good night, or a little something more, just enjoy being with another person, and being young and alive.
Basically, when the rest of life seems to be falling apart, when the very basis of our country and our society is crumbling into so much dust and ash, love is what will keep us together and bring us through.
What kind of love, be it straight sex, gay sex, a lusty French kiss, or a chaste hug, doesn't really matter as long as it's from the heart and as long
"It's been said for years,but it rings true more today than ever — make love,not war."
as it brings together, and doesn't tear apart.
In a world so full of hate, let your love shine through. Be grateful to be with the one you love, or just really like, or even be grateful that that hottie in psychology turned you down — after all, you have tomorrow, and tomorrow there will be more hotties.
It's been said for years, but it rings true more today than ever — make love, not war.
Contact Bainum at 864-4810
'Huntsman' addresses racism in heartland
Whitney Terrell's first novel, The Huntsman, delves deep into the muck and grime of the Missouri River. What surfaces from its murky depths are the bitter racist mentalities of the citizens of Kansas City and with it, the divisions that continue to plague the city so many years after desegregation.
Only the brutal murder case of the daughter of a federal judge proves capable of crossing color lines and encouraging communication and even reconciliation between both sides of the state line.
Mara Reichman
Book Reviewer
jayplay.ansan.com
Commentary
When Clarissa Sayers's body is dragged from the river, accusations immediately fly in the direction of Booker Short, a young African-American man from Tulsa, Okla. Booker is not only fleeing from his shady past with the law, but also seeking answers to a family history strewn with questions.
Arriving from his grandparents' farm in Oklahoma, he seeks out Mercury Chapman, the captain under whom his grandfather fought in World War II. Unsurprisingly, the man he seeks is Caucasian and rich: — two characteristics prompting instant resentment.
Through the enigmatic Mercury Chapman, Booker begins a gradual ascent into a life of his own, his ultimate goal being a life of independence achieved by any means necessary, even blackmail.
Mercury, a bit unsure what to do with the black teen-ager who turns up at his doorstep with a slew of financial requests, eventually drives Booker to Waterloo where old men with old Kansas City money convene to hunt in the winter months.
While working odd jobs, Booker meets a girl who will derail his previous plans and alter his life. His initial meeting with Clarissa Sayers is laden with a cautious indifference, uncertainty and curiosity.
As the two spend more and more time together, it is apparent to
Taught from an early age to distrust Caucasians and beware their seemingly friendly inclinations, he cannot help feeling drawn to this girl. When their relationship crosses the dangerous boundary between friendship and romance, Booker's link to Clarissa is firmly cemented in the minds of all who observe the odd pair.
Booker that Clarissa is not the type of girl with whom he should associate. After all, she "embodied everything that his life's experience and his conscious, rational mind told him to distrust. She was involved with the law (through her father), she was rich (like Mercury), and she wanted to be his friend..."
But in a city where friends are difficult to find, Booker grasps Clarissa tightly and accepts her invitations to flaunt their unusual relationship under the noses of Kansas City's most affluent citizens.
Terrell paints Kansas City in a gray, antiquated and tumultuous light. Though the city is dank and unglamorous like the river flowing through it, the portrayal of race relations between the Kansas and Missouri sides is strikingly realistic.
Terrell spares nothing in his vivid journey from the Kansas suburbia of Prairie Village and Mission Hills to the wealthy Ward Parkway, continuing to the crime and filth closely associated with streets like Troost and the Paseo. The discrepancies between classes are alarmingly familiar, reflecting the demographics of Kansas City today.
With an array of diverse and opinionated characters, Terrell succeeds admirably in capturing the city's various attitudes toward racism, some
more subtle than others.
A few minor characters are arguably expendable, but on the whole, their presence demonstrates Terrell's knowledge of Kansas City and what makes it tick. And although the description of Booker's childhood is excessively drawn out, Terrell's picturesque landscapes and attention to detail prevent the text from seeming too lengthy.
Terrell makes a startling debut with The Huntsman and its controversial issues. In such a dichotomous society where closed-minded wealth clashes with indignant poverty, it is Clarissa Sayers who voices her disgust with the those around her: "In the real world — by that I definitely do not include Kansas City — in the real world, sometimes I feel like mentioning, you know, things have changed." Explicitly pointing out to Booker the archaic notions of class and racial separation still so adamantly enforced in Kansas City, Clarissa vehemently criticizes the inequality running rampant around her.
But it is not until the worst occurs that opposite sides of the city's dividing line finally come together to discover the truth behind the river's offering.
Contact Reichman at 864-4810
Young actress lands triple bill in movie theaters
The Associated Press
TORONTO — Leelee Sobieski has joined the movie-of-the-month club.
The 19-year-old actress, who has played Joan of Arc and a latter-day Kubrick Lolita in her short career, is breaking out in a big way with the thrillers The Glass House and Joy Ride and the independent drama My First Mister, all arriving in theaters just weeks apart.
The flurry of films — one in September, one in October and one in November—was just a coincidence, Sobieski said in an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival, where Ioy Ride premiered.
"They were much more spread out
when they were shot, and they just kind of appeared, boom, at the same time," Sobieski said.
She's a bit concerned about the over-exposure.
"But on the other hand, I think it's kind of exciting that people are going to see me in all these different types of characters at the same time," she said.
Until now, Sobieski was best known for the title role of the television miniseries Joan of Arc, which earned her an Emmy nomination and a small part as a teen temptress in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.
Her other film credits include the dramatic romance Here on Earth.
the comedy Never Been Kissed, the asteroid flick Deep Impact and the literary drama A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries.
Sobieski co-stars with Paul Walker and Steve Zahn as motorists terrorized by a murderous trucker seeking revenge for a CB-radio prank in the black comedy Joy Ride.
With The Glass House, she plays a teen-ager unraveling sinister doings by her guardians after her parents are killed in a car wreck.
Glass House director Daniel Sackheim said Sobieski has remarkable self-possession for an actress still in her teens.
"She's aged beyond her years." Sackheim said. "She's not particularly interested in money or fame for fame's sake. She makes her decisions on the work that interests her. There's an awful lot to tempt young actors with, but she has her head so squarely on her shoulders."
Sobieski plans to spend half the year in school and half working.
Besides acting, she wants to indulge some other artistic passions.
"I want to keep doing films as an actress, but I want to have more time to do other things, as well, and go to school," Sobieski said. "And other things can only help you as an actress. If you're going to play a painter, learn how to paint. It can only help you to portray a life if you know something about it."
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