THE UNIVERSITY DAIRY KANSAS
TUFSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
HOROSCOPES
Because the stars
know things we don't
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 8
Gather up more of the good stuff, and get farther than expected, thanks to a friendly boost. Work around your rules, but don't break them. Postpone a romantic interlude.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 5
Breathe deep to get through challenges and interruptions. It could end up being a very rewarding day. It's worth the extra work.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Today is a 7
You're making progress. Let this metamorphosis happen naturally, with or without a little help from your friends. Don't spend all your money partying.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Today is a 7
Whistle while you work, and your career gets a boost. You're very persuasive now. Get family to help. Don't shop yet. Invest earnings into your future, practically and conservatively.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Your ideas could get challenged. Keep an open mind to learn from the experience. Come out a bit more humble and wiser. Add power colors. The conclusion is delightful.
Today is a 5
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
May 13, 2015 It's easier now to release old wounds and reinvent your mission. Create new space and get money for your junk. It's not necessarily a good time to travel.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is
Throw yourself into a project with passion and confidence. Keep track of important facts, and think fast. Keep costs down. You're quite popular now. No talking back. Compassion grows.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 6
Convince yourself about a change
Confer with family. You have more
than you need. Prepare payments. Get
old stuff appraised. Restraint is
advised; angry words are expensive.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
It's a good time for transformations and metamorphosis. Stash away the surplus. There's good news from far away. Postpone an outing, and finish an old job. You're gaining wisdom.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 8
Hide away a treasure for later. Accept a generous offer, and ask for benefits. Stick to your budget. The company is lively. Your reputation precedes you. Propose a change, gently.
CROSSWORD
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is a 7
Check possible work and study conflicts. Pay attention to accounting. If you can't go, send a friend. Provide leadership, and press for an advantage. Others give you a boost.
Things are still unstable financially,
and you have plenty. Push for results.
Sort and file, but don't hide your loved
one's stuff. Accept deferred rewards.
Do what you promised.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
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9 Write in the margins
12 Time of your life?
13 — -Saxon
14 Raw rock
15 India's movie industry
17 Meadow
18 "The — Daba Honey-
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19 Zigzag on skis
21 Agile
24 Alluring
25 Commodion
26 Banned bug spray
28 Not intoxicated
31 — podrida
33 Knight's address
35 Protuberance
36 Alabama city
38 Apiece
40 Literary collection
41 Sweet potatoes
43 Chaste
45 Archaeologist's relic
47 Greek H
48 Clay, today
49 Broadway heroine who debuted in 1964
54 Poorly lit
55 Precipitous
56 Basketball's Jeremy
57 "Help!"
58 Yonder
59 Enthusiast
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2 Past
3 Tooth-paste type
4 Convertible couch
5 To the center
6 Id counterpart
7 Lip cosmetic
8 A bunch
9 Dinghy's cousin
10 Cream-filled trea
11 Squad
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21 Neighbor of Cambodia
22 Not working
23 Model who co-starred in "Las Vegas"
27 Gratuity
29 Writer Ferber
30 Authentic
32 You love (Lat.)
34 Party animal
37 In the thick of
39 Confirm a password, perhaps
42 Laziness
44 Bando of baseball
45 Crazes
46 Hodge-podge
50 Shelter
51 Sprite
52 By way or
53 Hostel
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Heartless Cosmopolis
LANDON MCDONALD editor@kansan.com
MOVIE REVIEW
"My prostate is asymmetrical," declares Eric Parker (Robert Pattinson), offering what passes for existential insight in director David Cronenberg's terminally literal adaptation of Don DeLillo's social satire "Cosmopolitan."
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Such dialogue seems sadly appropriate for a movie so taken with its own entrails. Hamstrung by faux profundity and clunky, one-note performances, "Cosmopolis" represents a rare creative misfire for Cronenberg, the Canadian auteur best known for a string of veneeral sci-fi classics and his 2005 masterpiece "A History of Violence."
The majority of "Cosmopolis" takes place aboard Packer's luxurious white limousine; its cerulean, coffin-shaped interior playing host to a revolving door of bodyguards, business associates, whores and a urologist tasked with administering the paranoid Packer's daily prostate exam. Every passenger speaks in the same oblique monotone, pontificating on subjects ranging from the meaning of the word "airport" to the metaphysical implications of where all the limos go at night. This charming cycle is then repeated ad nauseam for nearly two hours.
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Director David Cronenberg, left, and actor Robert Pattinson attend the Cosmopolitan Germany amnience at Cinema International, in Berlin, Germany on May 31, 2012.
Like the rambling half-wit cousin of "American Psycho," the film aspires to reveal the inhuman void at the heart of corporate America, represented in the alarmingly pale personage of Eric Packer, a Wall Street whiz kid whose soul has been deadened by years of sex, marriage and other futile business transactions. Deciding that he really just needs a haircut, Packer embarks on a daylong pilgrimage across a New York City plagued by traffic jams from a presidential visit, the funeral of a popular hip-hop artist and an Occupy-style street protest.
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'Cosmopolis' final rating:★★
Cronenberg's critics are quick to deride his films as soulless and clinically detached from their characters, yet his best work contains intimately scaled portraits of humanity, where moral corrosion
The film's actors struggle to give life to these moody, motormouthed marionettes. Pattinson, clearly eager to hang up the hair gel and vampire glitter, seems well suited to play the preening, emotionally stunted Packer, yet his lines often feel as if they were delivered between yawns. He showed far more promise in last year's soapy but sweet "Water for Elephants."
Mathieu, Amalric, Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton and a slew of other reliable performers duck in and out of the story without consequence. Only Paul Giamatti manages to make an impact as Benno, a neurotic assassin convinced that his genitals are receding into his abdomen. His scene with Pattinson forces the younger performer to reach beyond his usual arsenal of sideways glances and postured mumblings.
is often expressed through physical decay and transformation. His celebrated remake of "The Fly," released at the height of the AIDS pandemic, powerfully captured the horror of bodily betrayal with stark, unadorned sympathy. "Cosmopolis," however, contains no human characters for him to engage with, only chattering archetypes with heads firmly planted up their own asymmetrical anuses.
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LOS ANGELES — Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in "The Green Mile" and such other box office hits as "Armageddon," "Planet of the Apes" and "Kung Fu Panda," is dead at age 54.
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Clarke died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for a heart attack,
The muscular, 6-foot-4 Duncan, a former bodyguard who turned to acting in his 30s, "suffered a myocardial infarction on July 13 and never fully recovered," the statement said. "Manigault is grateful for all of your prayers and asks for privacy at this time. Celebrations of his life, both private and public, will be announced at a later date."
which he spoke of how much better he felt since becoming a vegetarian three years earlier.
Clarke Duncan
said his fiancé, reality TV personality Rev. Omaras Manigault, in a statement released by publicist Joy Fehilly.
"I cleared out my refrigerator, about $5,000 worth of meat," he said. "I'm a lot healthier than I was when I was eating meat."
In the spring of 2012, Clarke had appeared in a video for PETA, the animal rights organization, in
Duncan had a handful of minor roles before "The Green Mile" brought him an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. The 1999 film, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, starred Tom Hankas as a corrections officer at a penitentiary in the 1930s. Duncan played John Coffey, a convicted murderer with a surprisingly gentle demeanor and extraordinary healing powers.
Duncan's performance caught on with critics and moviegoers and he quickly became a favorite in Hollywood, appearing in several films a year.
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