MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19.2012
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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HOROSCOPES
because the stars know things we don't
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 9
Discover new business opportunities in your network of friends. Surround yourself with those who have similar dreams and aspirations. Keep it positive. Buy something that makes your work easier.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
Offers start pouring in. Everything's possible with love. One special friend calls you at a lucky moment. Believe you can prosper. Provide information, and add splashes of color.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Today is an 8
Be supportive, and your home life benefits. Be cautious, and you'll make a profit. Take action at a lucky moment, and expect great things. Find joy at home.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Today is a 6
There's more work coming in. Expand your menu. Your instincts are working well. Bake with love, and the delicious aroma flavors the air. You have what you need.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 8
You have more than expected. Divvy work fairly, and finish what you've started. Get creative, and the money rolls in. Reconnect with your base. Relax in the afterflow.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is an 8
Get the best ingredients. You have the skills you need. Get an expert perspective. Use what you've kept stored away. Consider family in all decisions. Imagine the goal accomplished.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 9
the long run.
Ask for what you've been promised.
Friends teach you the rules. When that's under control, extend your area of influence. Consistent effort wins in
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 9
Make the commitment. Tap into a wealth of information. See what you can get for free. You'll be more successful now. The money comes in unusual ways.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
Provide leadership. Complete an emotional task, and accept the reward. Take snapshots. Spend for something you've long wanted. You can afford it.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 7
Be loose with your imagination.
Read about the past. Your work impresses a generous person. Venture into new territory. Review what you already have. You're getting curiouser and curiouser.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is a 9
You can afford a special treat for the family. Send someone ahead. Get the word out discreetly. Go the extra mile to provide excellent service. Re-enable clients from resources.
plenish coffers from reserves.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 6
You can go ahead now. Count your friends among your blessings. Look at the big picture. Everything seems possible. Count each little chick that hatches.
FILM
EXCESS HOLLYWOOD Review
Hollywood gears up for a December to remember
For a year so flush with potential, 2012 has proven a decidedly mixed bag for filmgoers, overflowing with a dubious assortment of pleasant surprises and profound disappointments.
Films like Joss Whedon's "The Avengers" and the new 007 adventure "Skyfall" radically surpassed audience expectations while "The Dark Knight Rises," my own most anticipated movie of the year, ended up being a technically accomplished, creatively exhausted letdown. "Prometheus," director Ridley Scott's long-prosperized return to science fiction, earned the irie of "Alien" fans after revealing itself to be less a straightforward prequel to Scott's 1979 original than an audacious standalone effort that happened to be set in the same universe. And don't even get me started on "The Bourne Legacy," which sullied the perfect action trilogy with an unrelated quest for super-steroids.
While rebooted web-slingers, estrogenic archers and Rihanna-enhanced board game adaptations vied for box office supremacy, exciting aureist visions like Rian Johnson's time travel opus "Looper" and Paul Thomas Anderson's intoxicating religious allegory "The Master" struck a chord with audiences starved for intelligence and innovation.
So what can we expect from the rest of the year? Well, December is traditionally Hollywood's proving ground for Oscar contenders, meaning that the next few weeks will likely see a deluge of true-life dramas, visually extravagant period pieces and at least one more film featuring the British monarchy. The following five movies, drastically varied in terms of style and content and listed in no particular order, are the ones I have the highest hopes for.
First up is "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," the first part of Peter Jackson's new Middle Earth trilogy. The film's title is deeply ironic, mainly because fans have been anticipating its release for the better part of eight
years now, through the dark days of MGM's financial quagmire and the departure of Jackson's first choice to helm the series: Guillermo Del Toro, who spent more than two years designing creatures and developing the scripts with Jackson and his writing team. Despite the litany of setbacks, the finished product itself looks like a marvelous, if distended, adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved story, which finds homebody hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) being recruited by a company of dwarves to help reclaim their treasure from the wicked dragon Smaug (voiced by Freeman's "Sherlock" co-star Benedict Cumberbatch).
Setbacks were never a problem for Tom Hooper's star-studded take on "Les Misérables." After last year's Oscar haul, the director of "The King's Speech" was essentially given carte blanche for his dream project, a big screen version of the Broadway musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel of redemption and revolution in 19th century France. The new film is already generating buzz based on its rapturous trailer, which features Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe actually singing as opposed to merely lip-syncing to pre-recorded audio tracks. Ordinarily I'm no fan of musicals, but this one looks pretty damn stunning.
Two of the films on my list offer conflicting views of a far more intimate spectacle: the highs and lows of married life, Judd Apatow's "This Is 40," the pseudo-sequel to "Knocked Up," reacquaints us with the unhappily married Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann), who are trying to capture their
sex lives after a decade devoted to parenting and indulging their own petty hang-ups. This may be discouragingly familiar territory for Apatow, but I have faith Rudd and Mann will elevate the material, bringing warmth, insight and hopefully a third act that doesn't wear out a good premise.
"Amour," Austrian director Michael Haneke's austere meditation on age and memory, finds a couple at the opposing end of life's spectrum. Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) are comfortably retired music teachers with a grown daughter living abroad. One day, Anne suffers a severe stroke that dredges up years of regret and buried emotion. Trintignant, once a staple of the French New Wave, returned to film at the request of Haneke and his performance doubtlessly contributed to "Amour" winning the Palme D'Or last May at Cannes.
Last but certainly furthest from least is Quentin Tarantino's cheerfully controversial Christmas present "Django Unchained," an antebellum epic that tracks the exploits of a fugitive slave named Django (Jamie Foxx) and the gregarious German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) who takes the young man under his wing. The search for Django's kidnapped wife (Kerry Washington) ultimately leads the mismatched pair to the plantation of Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), a genteel fiend with a penchant for making his slaves fight to the death for his amusement.
At this year's San Diego Comic-Con, Tarantino made a point of telling us that "Django" is loosely based on the Norse hero Siegfried, another character consumed with rescuing his true love from a life of bondage.
To paraphrase the instantly quotable DiCaprio character: "You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention."
In other words, roll on December!
Edited by Brittney Haynes
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 One of the Three Bears
5 Unhappy
8 Stare
12 Exhibit "A," e.g.
14 Figure-skating leap
15 Give a home a makeove
16 Actress Sorvino
17 18-wheeler
18 Toxin
20 Support for a painting
23 Plant with fronds
24 Small salamanders
25 Went back on a promise
28 Put (down)
29 Partners
30 Churchill's gesture
32 Changed the title
SUDOKU
35 Matter-
horn's range
36 Bamboo-
eating critter
37 Nervous
system disorder
40 Relatives
41 Frau's mister
42 Hertz
deal
47 Too
48 Geo-
metric figure
49 Farm
implement
50 Collection
51 Isn't well
Difficulty Level ★
CRYPTOQUIP
2 "Hail, Caesar!"
3 Bowling target
4 Worships
5 Unseen problem
6 Perform-ance
7 Intensi-fied
8 Casino doings
9 Center of rotation
10 Nil
11 Verve
12 Satan's specialty
13 Raw minerals
14 Moray, for one
15 In the distance
DOWN
1 Apiece
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22 Eyelid
woe
23 Big
parties
25 "O'er the
— we
watched
26 Divisible by two
27 Out of play
29 Masculine
31 Greek vowel
33 Not wide
34 One of the bunch?
36 Pocket bread
37 Fellow
38 War, to Gen. Sherman
39 Approximately
40 Make a sweater
43 Before
44 Hollywood trickery, for short
45 The whole enchilada
46 In medias —
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