THE UNIVERSITY DAILY GANSAN
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HOROSCOPES
Because the stars know things we don't.
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 9
Venus enters Libra for the next
225 days. In general, love, beauty
and art will flower. Simple appreciation of quality satisfies.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 8
The finer things in life call to you,
but you should resist spending
impulsively. Create a plan to
attain your desire permanently.
You've got the power.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 7
You may want to talk about beauty and romance, but consider your words carefully. Be respectful as you stand up for a passionate cause. Make a strategic plan.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 7
Words of justice stir you to action. Some chaos at work and on the roads makes staying close to home a good idea. Share a meal with someone interesting.
There's a test or a challenge ahead. Try doing something you've never done before, if the answer's not obvious. Don't try to pay everyone's way. They want to contribute.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 7
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Find a way to make your personal anxieties productive. Use nervous energy to get the dishes washed. There's always something to learn. Express yourself through art or science.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
You may want to win every argument today, but choose your battles well and save energy for those worth fighting. It's a balancing act, especially where love is concerned.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 8
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You can't be in two places at the same time, no matter how hard you try. The closest approximation is to teach someone the job you love less, and hand it over to them.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 7
You're very attractive now (in spite of yourself). Focus on a passion. You appreciate loveliness. Write some poetry, especially if you don't know how.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 9
Use creative energy to make your home work for you. Small changes in decoration go a long way for your self-esteem. A new low-energy light bulb saves money, which adds up quickly.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is an 8
Focus on fine-tuning your place for the next couple of days. Make sure your nest is in order and that you're comfortable with where everything is. This provides peace.
Get in communication with the people that need to hear from you (you know who they are). They'll be glad, and you benefit from the conversation. It lightens your spirit.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 8
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Weapons
5 Lovers' quarrel
9 Captain Kirk, to pals
12 Clay-rich soil
13 Unrestrained revelry
14 Actress Thurman
15 Prank victim, perhaps
17 Zero
18 Two trios
19 Occurrence
21 Symbol for mercury
22 Chocolate substituter
24 Smelling a bit off
27 Rowing need
28 Hide in the bushes
31 McKinley's first lady
32 Old tele-vangelism initials
33 Space
34 "Simon
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36 Author Umberto
37 Venomous vipers
38 Bungle
40 Ess preceder
41 Not just plump
43 In the wrong direction
47 Supporting
48 Mad Tea Party attendee
51 Remote
52 Prune, pre-withering
53 Elec. co., e.g.
54 Piggen
55 Referee's call
55 Authentic
DOWN
1 "Oh, woe"
2 Lasso
3 "You Bet Your Life" host
4 Workplace "under the spreading chestnut tree"
5 Cushy
6 Expert
7 Past
8 Tenth President
9 Some large beetles
10 "Here's my ante"
11 Brewery supply
16 Journey segment
20 Loudness (Abbr.)
22 Snag
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"It's not enough to just give lip service to the idea of increasing diversity behind the camera," said Paris Barclay, the DGA's first vice president and co-coach of its diversity task force. "These programs are so far failing to live up to their promise.
23 Singer Guthrie
24 USO audience, often
25 Okla- homa city
26 Sheriff Andy Taylor's bailiwick
27 Oil cartel
29 Knock
30 Some duties for 24-Down
35 "Help!"
37 Camelot ruler
39 Dangle a carrot
40 Blonde shade
41 Kills, "Sopra-nos"-style
42 Gravy vessel
43 Pinnacle
44 Assessment
45 La Scala show-stopper
46 Holler
49 Will Smith biopic
50 Pirates' potation
The guild singled out nine shows that hired no women or minority directors for the 2010-2011 season, including HBO's "Bored to Death." Showtime's "Weeds" and FX's "Justified." Sixteen other shows hired women and minorities for fewer than 15 percent of episodes. Those include Fox's "House" (produced by NBC) and Lifetime's "Army Wives" (produced by ABC).
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The directors guild, which over the years has prodded production companies to establish diversity programs and improve hiring practices, expressed disappointment with the findings, noting that the results show little change from a similar survey in the 2009-2010 television season.
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TELEVISION
Women, minorities directing few shows
A survey conducted by the Directors Guild of America of more than 2,600 television episodes from 170 scripted TV series for the 2010-11 season found that white males directed 77 percent of all episodes, and white females directed 11 percent of all episodes. Minority males directed 11 percent all episodes and minority females directed just 1 percent of the shows, according to the survey of programs from the major broadcast and cable networks.
Further evidence has emerged that Hollywood has made little progress in hiring women and minorities to work on prime-time television shows.
"We are encouraging shows, production companies and networks, when they weigh in, to offer opportunities to up-and-coming directors from all backgrounds," said Lesli Linka Glatter, co-chair of the DGA diversity task force and co-executive producer of "The Playboy Club."
So we're going to take the discussion straight to the people on each show who make hiring decisions," added Barclay, an executive producer for the FX show "Sons of Anarchy."
The DGA negotiated a new provision in its most recent contracts, which took effect July 1, that allows union officials to meet directly with executives responsible for hiring at the individual show level.
McClatchy Tribune
The DGA's findings echo those of other recent surveys, including a recent report from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University. The report found during the 2010 season women composed 15 percent of writers for prime-time dramas, comedies and reality shows on the broadcast networks, down 29 percent from the 2009-2010 season.
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9/15
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CINEMA
Of all the personalities to turn up at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, none seemed more outsized, and yet oddly appropriate, than Madonna.
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"I directed "Fifth & Wisdom" to teach myself about filmmaking."
Madonna transitions role in movie world
The singer and actress is looking to make her mark on the directing world. And Toronto, host to 300 films and a dizzying array of international celebrities, seems the perfect venue for one of the most famous women in the world to take up a new career. So into town she rode with "W.E." a time-jumping historical romance that made its North American premiere at the festival, ahead of its opening for general U.S. audiences on Dec. 9.
Sitting primly (in fishnet stockings) in a hotel suite high above Toronto earlier this week, the 53-year-old made no secret of her latest ambition." I want to be taken seriously as a filmmaker," she said.
In a series of flashbacks and shared-screen fantasy moments with Wally, Simpson (Andrea Riseborough) reveals that any happiness she felt with the duke was gilded at best. The pressure for their relationship to essentially
"When we were young, my sister and I would sit around and say we wanted to marry a cowboy poet. That was the ideal," she said. "And as soon as you have an ideal, the universe conspires to humiliate you. Like you might get that cowboy poet, but they're a raving lunatic."
she added, alluding to her lightly regarded immigrant tale of music and cross-dressing that was released in 2008. "And now, with this self-punishing process of being a producer and a writer and a director, I'm taking the next step."
"W.E" cross-cuts the 1998 story of Wally (Abbie Cornish), an unhappily married young woman in New York who becomes increasingly obsessed with early-20th century Baltimore socialite Wallis Simpson. A playful firecracker, Simpson fell in love with — and ultimately married — the Duke of Windsor, a king-in-waiting, in a scandal that rocked England and caused the Duke to abdicate the throne (Eve Best played Wallis in "The King's Speech," Guy Pearce, the duke).
take the place of the monarchy proved, in the end, too much for Simpson to bear.
The film's central theme, however, is arguably not love but fame. Specifically, it's the gap between Wallis Simpson as perceived by the outside world and Wallis Simpson as her life was really lived — the illicit Buckingham Palace romance, in other words, as TMZ indictment.
— McClatchy Tribune
Madonna said she didn't set out to make a pessimistic film, but that her own once-starry attitude toward romance has dimmed over the years.
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