ENTERTAINMENT
THE UNIVERSITY HAILY KANSAN
ACROSS
1 Duchamp's art movement
5 Uncooked
8 Remain
12 Tel —
13 Blackbird
14 Vagrant
15 Downhill racer
17 Follow the rules
18 Follow
19 Food fish also called mahi mahi
21 Coagulate
24 Year-end abbr.
25 Familiar folks
28 Actress Campbell
30 Letterman's network
33 Id counterpart
34 Farm statistic
35 Erstwhile acorn
36 San Francisco's — Hill
37 Ms. Moore
38 Wan
39 Singer Sumac
41 No neatnik
43 Urge earnestly
46 Eccentric
50 Tow
51 Admittedly
54 Advantage
55 Actor McBride
56 Black, in verse
57 Tree hugger?
58 Glutton
59 Ohio nine
DOWN
1 Cornerstone info
2 Shakespeare's river
3 Firsties
4 Acknowledge
5 Scott Joplin's music
6 Ortiz of "Ugly Betty"
7 Kite flyer's need
8 Coast
9 Shag et al.
10 Sleeping
11 Vacillate
16 Solidily
10 Keatsian works
22 Formerly
23 Contract details
Solution time: 21 mins.
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25 Author
Follett
26 Billy
Joel's "—
to
Extremes"
27 Vessels
that
resemble
stout
men
29 Bridal
cover
31 Scrooge's
cry
32 Firma-
ment
34 Hebrew
month
38 Exploit-
ative
one
40 Pack
animals
42 Indivisible
43 Throat
clearer
44 Pedestal
part
45 Engrave
47 Tooth-
paste
holder
48 Walked
(on)
49 Longings
52 Discovery
call
53 Ginor-
mous
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Conceptis Sudoku
By Dave Green
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Difficulty Level ★★★
Produced by Peter Jackson,
District 9 has all the bells and
whistles of a late-summer, video-
game-playing-crowd, crowd-
pleaser; explosions, bloody gore,
sewing, massively destructive
alien weaponry, et cetera.
I love a good blow-stuff-up with-a-message flick.
But,oh,yea,it also has that "message."
Movie:"District 9"
The movie opens with a documentary-style catch-up of the 20 or so years leading up to the present. It swiftly, and realistically introduces the audience to a harsh reality in which aliens have been living in a former refugee camp - now a militarized ghetto - on the edge of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Set and shot in director Neill Blomkamp's native country, these plot points interestingly evoke not only South Africa's history of racism, but the kind of human oppression that seems to repeat over and over again
This movie still, released by Sony Pictures, shows a character from "District 9". Aliens are restricted to a refugee camp.
throughout the world.
Sharlto Copley adeptly carries the film in its only major role as Wikus van der Merwe, an annoyingly chipper paper-pusher hired by his father-in-law to oversee the forced relocation of the aliens by Multi-National United. MNU is the government contractor in charge of District 9 that also happens to be one of the world's largest weapons manufacturers.
Wikus leads a camera crew through the slum as he goes from shack to shack giving notice of the relocation while attempting – and largely failing – to ease tensions between military and "humanitarian" groups. It's then that he stumbles upon and accidentally sprays himself with a mysterious alien substance.
Within 24 hours, Wikus' DNA begins to transform, horrifyingly threatening to transform the loving husband and painfully self-conscious people-pleaser into one of the "prawns" he sees as lower life forms.
The plot twist that this DNA transformation makes Wikus incredibly valuable to MNU supplies the action of the film. His former employer, MNU seeks to harvest his body in its attempt to manipulate alien weaponry for human use.
After escaping the MNU lab, Wikus, now powerless and alone, is forced to hide in the last place he'd ever go before his transformation — District 9.
Wikus forms a tense alliance with an alien called Christopher Johnson, Jason Cope, and the two go against MNU. Suffice to say, a lot of stuff gets blown up.
And Wikus, fast turning into an alien, wrestles with emotions that make him seem more likeably human than ever before.
District 9 has a rare, perfectly balanced combination between well-paced summer blockbuster action and cerebral, emotional testimony of what it means to be human. That combination is what makes it both really entertaining and well-thought-out enough to be really, really good.
Movie:"The Time Traveler's Wife"
— Alex Garrison
Fans of best-selling novel "The Time Traveler's Wife," fear not. The movie adaptation is a superb portrayal.
"The Time Traveler's Wife" follows the lives and relationship of Henry DeTamble, played by Eric Bana, and Clare Abshire, played by Rachel McAdams, who are tangled in a touching love story that is tested by Henry's Chrono-Displacement Disorder. The disorder causes him to involuntarily time travel, which often leaves Clare lonely and waiting for him to return. Clare met Henry when she was six years old, but he did not meet her until he was 28. Yet in the present, they are only eight years apart in age - confused yet?
The book can be perplexing as it switches narration between Henry and Clare, not to mention the changing dates and ages. However, it translates as well as one could hope for on the big screen.
As with any book-based film, some things were not included. But when dealing with 536 pages of details, screenplay writer Bruce Joel Rubin did an excellent job. The movie left out some of the more R-rated events and foul language but added bits of humor and oneliners.
Henry's time-traveling "disappearing act" is handled well by the special-effects team, making it believable.
Since it was announced the book would be made into a movie, film and book Internet message boards were riddled with concerns that the movie would focus more on the love story, making it similar to "The Notebook", and less on the science fiction aspect. However, an appropriate amount of screen time was dedicated to Henry's genetic mutation. While the overarching plots of "The Notebook" and "The Time Traveler's Wife" are somewhat similar, "The Time Traveler's" wife maintains its own identity and is worth watching.
Michelle Sprehe
TELEVISION
ASSOCIATED PRESS
'Millionaire' return saves ABC ratings
The first night of a two-week run of "Who wants To be A
million are prime-time specials Aug. 9 was seen by 7 million people. Nielsen Media Research said. That's very different from summer 1999, when the show
NEW YORK — Regis Philbin has saved ABC again — this time from embarrassment.
Philbin
had audiences as big as 22 million the first time out.
the network's history, Nielsen said. Without Philbin, ABC would no doubt have a lower average than the 3.46 million it had the same week in August 2008, its lowwater mark. Philbin was credited by some for "saving" ABC with the original "Millionaire" when the network was in a ratings trough.
"Who Wants to Bea Millionaire" gave ABC its biggest summer audience on a Sunday for a nonsporting event in two years.
Yet it was twice what ABC averaged in prime time last week. ABC's average of 3.48 million viewers is the second-lowest in
CBS' lineup of reruns helped CBS win the week, but the strength of "America's Got Talent" and a Saturday night National Football League exhibition game led NBC to a solid second-place showing.
In another indication of cable's growing strength, USA network averaged 3.08 million prime-time
viewers last week, its best week ever. The season finale of "Burn Notice" had 7.6 million viewers, USA's most-watched original series episode ever.
CBS averaged 6.2 million viewers (4.1 rating, 7 share), NBC had 5.9 million (3.8, 7), Fox 5.3 million (3.2, 6) and ABC a 2.2 rating and 4 audience share. My Network TV had 1.4 million viewers (0.9, 2), the CW 970,000 (0.7, 1) and the ION Network 660,000 (0.4, 1).
Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision averaged 3 million viewers (1.6 rating, 3 share), Telemundo had 870,000 and TeleFutura 830,000 viewers (both 0.4, 1) and Azteca 210,000 (0.1, 0).
NBC's "Nightly News" topped the evening newscasts with an average of 7.6 million viewers (5.0,11). ABC's "World News"
was second with 6.5 million (4,4,
10) and the "CBS Evening News"
had 5.1 million viewers (3,6,8).
A ratings point represents 1,145,000 households, or 1. percent of the nation's estimated 114.5 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.
For the week of Aug. 3-9, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 12.96 million; "America's Got Talent," (Wednesday), NBC, 10.67 million; "NCIS," CBS, 9.89 million; "So You Think You Can Dance," (Thursday), Fox, 9.57 million; "60 Minutes," CBS, 9.5 million; "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 9.46 million; "The Big Bang Theory" CBS, 8.39 million; "Wipeout," ABC, 8.02 million; "CSI: NY," CBS, 7.99 million; NFL Exhibition Buffalo vs. Tennessee, NBC, 7.92 million
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