TUESDAY OCTOBER 4, 2011
entertainment
HOROSCOPES
Because the stars know things we don't.
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
Today is a 7
Your ideas flow with ease. Take
notes (with pictures). Make a
list with the obvious steps to
realize the most tantalizing
dreams first. Take the first step.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 6
Conditions for long-distance travel improve. Check your lists twice. Be sure that your tires are properly inflated, and the oil level's fine ... then, green light, go!
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6
Staying busy may be the best way to stay out of trouble today. Take a deep breath and think before making important decisions. Don't use big words Keep it simple.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is an 8
You're entering a negotiation phase. Work behind the scenes when needed, and beware of sudden changes. Choose your partners wisely for different roles.
Today is an 8
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 8
Don't let this busy Monday get on your nerves, or your health could suffer. Giggle of rest. Take breaks from the screen and stretch regularly. Take one task at a time.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 8
Let a loved one set the schedule. You enjoy the company of dear family and friends. A coming change is for the better, so go along with it, and encourage them as well.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Now's the best time to make changes at home. Keep a positive attitude, and play it like a game that you mean to win but don't mind losing. Then go ahead and win.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
Great language skills accelerate getting your message across. Continue to study the subject you're teaching. Focus on your favorite angle, and learn as much as you can.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
Making money requires imagination today. Others want to study what you're up to. Share the knowledge, and use collaboration and group thinking for real innovation.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.19)
Today is a 6
Some concepts won't work, but try them anyway. Failure refines the process, adding velocity for future success. A startling revelation provokes change. Go out and play later.
Aquarius (Jan. 2U-Feb.18)
Today is a 7
Keep existing promises first, and consider before committing to new ones. Clarify your schedule and direction with friends. A change in their plans could affect yours.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 6
Destruction is part of the creative process. Inhibit any more bizarre suggestions. Strange demands could be made. New and intriguing educational opportunities develop.
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1 "Zounds!"
5 Not operating
8 Pump or oxford
12 Long story
13 Squeezing snake
14 Day fraction
15 Athletic awards
17 Deserve
18 Stone in a peach
19 Raspy
21 Induces ennui
24 Half-quart
25 Always
26 Long-short feet, in poetry
30 Started
31 Actor Michael
32 Conk out
33 Woes
35 Paddock papa
36 Requirement
37 Say
38 Carlsbad attraction
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41 Sis' counterpart
42 Operatic solo
43 Street-cars of a sort
48 Slapstick arsenal
49 A billion years
50 Concept
51 Vortex
52 Place for 15- Across, maybe
53 "Cut it out!"
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"There's still moments of heaviness and darkness, but it's balanced with more moments of love and celebration in ways that we haven't done in the past," Harmer said.
2 Needle-fish
3 Past
4 Sharply dressed
5 Last write-up
6 Adversary
7 Coutu-riers' styles
8 Scabbard
9 Frost
10 Yours and mine
11 Sea eagle
16 Towel designation
20 Formerly
21 Hit hard
22 Finished
23 Change the decor
While listening to all the demos and ideas that were being considered for the "Codes and Keys" album, the band, which performed at City Market last night in Kansas City, Mo., gravitated toward ideas leaning toward the positive.
("The song is) about feeling a place to fit in, knowing where you're at isn't home any longer," Harmer said. "I think it speaks to transition, speaks to those things you tell yourself when you're moving through any transition. It's about staying positive and hoping change is a good thing."
The first single is "You Are a Tourist."
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Showing off a new style
The album was recorded on the West Coast over a seven-
"And that energy gets brought back into the band, that feeling good and feeling positive, that acceptance of this being a lifetime of us playing music together."
On the rock band's previous album, "Narrow Stairs" (2008), bassist Nick Harmer said he and his band mates were getting along but were wallowing in dark places personally.
"The band was a rock of a relationship to depend on, but outside of the band there were transitions in life, dark clouds hanging over," Harmer said. "But in between that album and the making of 'Codes and Keys', we all came out of that and are all in great places.
ST. LOUIS — Death Cab for Cutie believes it has turned a corner with its latest album, "Codes and Keys."
MUSIC
month period. This type of recording isn't unusual for Death Cab for Cutie.
Early on, Harmer said, his band liked the romantic idea of four guys going off into the woods to work on an album, cloaking themselves in mystery and emerging with a masterpiece. But they quickly realized that concept doesn't work for them.
"We tried that, and it didn't go so well for us," he said. "At the end of it, we lost our mind and our perspective. The fun seeped out. We became very critical about what we were doing and very precious about everything."
By recording in more fragmented ways, the band feels more invested in the project and is more apt to adhere to a start and finish time.
"You have to be more efficient and work harder because you're not just (recording) indefinitely," Harmer said.
"Idefinitely understand where that word comes from," Harner said. "For me, emo music was presented to me as more hardrock edged, bigger guitars, and it seemed to have a little more glamour involved. But I never felt we were under that, though we definitely write songs from matters of the heart, and we're an emotionally centered band."
24 Used a crowbar
26 Having a flair for
27 Rewrite, maybe
28 Green land
29 Crystal gazer
31 Trucker with a radio
34 “— lies the head …”
35 Emotionless
37 Web address, for short
38 Part of a Superman costume
39 Sahara-like
40 Fought (for)
41 German city
44 Fish eggs
45 Tokyo’s old name
46 Longing
47 Took a chair
Albums such as "Codes and Keys" continue taking Death Cab for Cutie further from the days when it was considered just another eon band.
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"But over time, that moniker and label has faded away. We don't hear it so often. We just write music and write albums and let the journalists describe how to talk about it."
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TELEVISION
Movie, more shows for 'Arrested' fans
On Sunday, during a New Yorker Festival event that reunited him with the show's cast, Hurwitz promised the audience that a film adaptation of the Bluth clan was still in the works—and there even a set of nine or 10 television episodes, each focusing on a certain character, that would serve as a curtain raiser to the movie. Hurwitz said he was about halfway done with a screenplay with his co-writers Jim Vallely and Dean Lorey. No details on what studio is backing the movie or the TV episodes, nor which network the TV portion would be broadcast on.
LOS ANGELES — An "Arrested Development" comback on the big screen? It's the myth that keeps on giving since the show went off the air five years ago. But fans of Fox's quirky comedy who have longed for its return in movie form can now breathe a little easier with creator Mitchell Hurwitz's latest morsel of hope.
Jason Bateman, who starred as Michael Bluth, also took to the masses and tweeted Sunday: "It's true. We will do 10 episodes and the movie. Probably shoot them all together next summer for a release in early '13." VERY excited."
Current "Up All Night" star Will Arnett, who appeared in "Arrested Development" as Gob, confirmed the news on Twitter: "I'm peeing with @batemanjason at the moment ... and we can confirm that we are going to make new AD eps and a movie."
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CLEVELAND — Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez have taken a couple of major road trips recently.
Bus tour promotes 'The Way'
One, on a big bus, has taken them to more than a dozen cities, including Cleveland not long ago. The trip aimed to promote "The Way," a movie about modern way-farers walking the 500-mile Camino de Santiago religious pilgrimage through France and Spain. Estevez wrote and directed the movie and his father, Sheen, stars; it opens in some cities on Friday and in others on Oct. 14.
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"We don't have a $40 million print and ad campaign to bombard the airwaves," Estevez said. "But we do have ...
The Cleveland visit included an invitation-only screening at Cleveland's Tower City Cinemas to generate early word-of-mouth praise for the film. Sheen, Estevez and producer David Alexian have also done interviews during their tour stops.
"A $40,000 bus," said Sheen on cue. "Rented, of course."
Could that happen? "When we were making the film, we said, what's the demographic for this film?" Estevez said. "We thought, well, maybe AARP-ers, maybe backpackers. And we started screening the film, and we realized maybe the demographic is
The reaction from some audience members in Cleveland was comparably emotional, and in many cases grateful for a film that is not about big-budget action and explosions. Estevez has likened the film to "The Help" in its focus on smaller-scale human drama; he hopes his movie can draw something akin to the enthusiasm greeting the other film, which has grossed more than $155 million at the U.S. box office.
"The Way" stars Sheen as an eye doctor who decides to complete the pilgrimage after his son (played by Estevez) dies in an accident early in his own journey along the Camino. On the trip, the doctor meets other travelers, and they all have emotional realizations during their trip.
The movie, Estevez said, "celebrates family, faith and community, and the best of our humanity," issues that seem to preoccupy Estevez these days; his next project will be "Johnny Longshot," the first in what he hopes will be a series of family films set around harness racing in Lebanon, Ohio.
human beings, period."
"The Way" began gestating in 2003 when Sheen traveled along the Camino by car during a hiatus from "The West Wing." Estevez's son Taylor, then 19, was working as Sheen's assistant and went along; in Spain, he met an innkeeper's daughter, moved to Spain and later married her.
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