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4A / ENTERTAINMENT / WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2011 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
Conceptis SudoKu
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9 8 2 6
8 4 5
2 7 4
1 2 6 8
6 1 9 3
2 4 6 7 1
9 4 8
5
5/11
Answer to previous puzzle
Difficulty Level ★★
Difficulty Level ★★★
| 9 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 2 |
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| 3 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 4 |
| 4 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 7 |
| 7 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 |
| 8 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 9 |
MONKEYZILLA
Kevin Cook
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Nick Sambaluk
TELEVISION
TV stars vie for Oprah's crown
BY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Ooprah Winfrey, the monarch of daytime television, tapes her final episode this month. For 25 years, Winfrey, avatar of the national psyche and high priestess of the self-empowerment movement, has ruled the daytime airwaves by inviting celebrities and statesmen to her couch for friendly tete-a-tetes watched by millions of loyal followers.
Already, members of TV's royalty are plotting to seize Winfrey's crown. Katie Couric is marshaling an insurgency. Anderson Cooper has staked a beachhead. Judith Sheindlin — aka "Judge Judy" — has built her own fortress with more than 6 million daily viewers. Ellen DeGeneres is carving out her niche as the queen of nice.
There's even an opening for a new jester of daytime as Regis Philbin — who has logged more hours in front of the camera than any player in the realm and turns 80 in August — exits "Live With
It could be years before any of the claimants emerge as Winfrey's rightful heir — if at all. Daytime television may never again give birth to an uber-personality like Winfrey. With hundreds of cable channels and thousands of Internet sites vying for people's time, it is becoming ever harder for an individual to command a common audience of shared interests and empathy.
"It's going to be very difficult, if not impossible, for someone to be as dominant as Oprah has been," said Bill Carroll, director of programming for Katz Media. "When she came on the air, most cities had only two or three TV stations and cable penetration was relatively low. Many channels didn't exist."
The turnover comes as soap operas — once the chief form of escapism from the tedium of household chores for countless women — are nearly washed up.
When ABC's "All My Children"
"and One Life to Live" end their
runs next season, only four network soaps will remain on the air, compared with nearly a dozen a decade ago. At its peak in 1981, more than 14 million people watched "General Hospital" on ABC. Now, fewer than 3 million tune in daily.
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"There is a transition going on in daytime television, and it is a generational change," said Ken Werner, president of Warner Bros. domestic television distribution.
A wave of women flooding the workforce has been accompanied by a rise in the popularity of shows featuring women in charge of their lives — and influencing others.
Staple soap opera themes of women in jeopardy or navigating relationships has given way to role models such as Winfrey powerbroking presidential candidates on her show, upscale female professionals crossing swords on "The View," and litigants submitting to justice dispensed by a stern 68-year-old schoolmarm-in-a-lace-collar on "Judge Judy"
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
HOROSCOPE
Keep putting your message out there. Guests contribute, and love comes from near and far. Prospects are excellent, and offers start pouring in. It's a great time for romance.
Gather with family to make plans. There's a promise of more money coming in. You're very persuasive now. Use what he kept hidden to lengthen the long-term goals.
Get all your responsibilities into your schedule. Study with an expert to learn faster. Abundance shows up at home.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
News at work is good, and it's a good time to deliver a message. Get coaching from a trusted mentor, and prepare a plan for success. The spotlight beckons.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is an 8
Today is an 8
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
You may feel strong temptation to spend on a whim, but consider it well. Your heads full of ways to make money, but not in the form of pocket money. Practical work earns dividends.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
You can see clearly now, the rain is gone.
You're beginning to understand and are back in control. Nothing can stop you now that you believe in yourself. Keep
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
You're getting compliments, even if the voice in your head doesn't want you to hear them. Pay attention anyway. You know them, and the acknowledgment is fair.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 6
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Get a financial deal in writing. You have the home court advantage; don't let it go to waste. Reduce or eliminate your debt from now until the end of June.
Today is an *B*
work coming in, and the
place is energized. Folks are checking out your performance, so put aside distractions and focus. It pays off.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
For about six weeks, competition will be fierce. Friends help you stay on the right track. Talk to them and listen intently. Do it all for love. Keep your promises.
Today is a 7
It's all about collaboration today. Listen graciously. Be receptive, and respect your partner. New business opportunities appear when you're open to them.
PISCES (Feb.19-March 20)
There's a new assignment in coming. Focus on the work that you most want to do. You find beauty right around the corner. Study with a partner. Experiment with color.
A publicist says Paul McCartney is engaged to his girlfriend of nearly four years.
Third time is the charm for McCartney
Stuart Bell said Friday that recent media speculation over a proposal is true but declined to give further details on when and how the former Beatle asked New York socialite Nancy Shevell to marry him, saying only "we're all thrilled for him."
McCartney and Shevell started seeing each other in Long Island's Hamptons area in late 2007.
MUSIC
Associated Press
The marriage will be McCartney's third; his first wife, Linda, died of cancer in 1998 and the rocker divorced his second wife, Heather Mills, in 2008 after a separation period.
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ACROSS
1 Equine repast
4 Swear
8 Kitten's comment
12 Way back when
13 Chills and fever
14 Sandwich cookie
15 Aye canceler
16 Disneyland, e.g.
18 React to a pun
20 Mischievous tyke
21 "I tait I — puddytat!"
24 56-Across style
28 Roughly estimated
32 Mexican entree
33 "Eureka!"
34 Aid for a sore arm
36 Ultra-modernist
37 Soak some rays
39 Texas city
41 Loathe
43 Bat a gnat
44 Existed
46 West Point newbie
50 Cartman's home
55 NAFTA signatory
56 Car
57 Satan's specialty
58 Suitable
59 Team of workers
60 Relinquish
61 Caustic solution
DOWN
1 Suspend
2 Culture medium
3 Toy on a string
4 Quick snoozes
5 "That tastes awfull"
6 Seek damages
7 Big rig
8 Tyke
9 Geological period
10 — the fields we go ..."
11 Stir-fry pan
12 Type measure:
13 Pac. counter-part
14 Forest (Ger.)
15 The Ram
Solution time: 21 mins.
25 Comical Carvey
26 Computer brand
27 Cubby-hole
28 Rum cake
29 Moby-Dick's pursuer
30 Whip
31 Recognized
35 Large blackbird
38 Bow obsequiously
40 Bake sale org., maybe
42 Cheer-leader's cry
45 Detail, for short
47 Two-way
48 Catch sight of
49 London gallery
50 Pouch
51 "— Town"
52 Multi-purpose truck
53 Rd.
54 Disen-cumber
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TELEVISION
Palin daughter gets her own reality show
BY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
When John McCain talked about job creation back in 2008, he probably wasn't thinking about Bristol Palin.
Still, the man who tapped Sarah Palin as his running mate three years ago could probably claim some credit for the apparently unstoppable career of the former Alaska governor's 20-year-old daughter, whose latest gig, a 10-episode "reality" show on A&E's Bio channel, was announced Monday.
But then McCain might be just as happy to have been left out of the Bio statement, which hailed Palin as "the most famous single mother in America" (yes, even more famous than the ones on "16 and Pregnant") and a "national media darling."
Prominently mentioned: Palm's "odds-defying, ratings record-breaking run on (ABC's) 'Dancing with the Stars.'"
Not mentioned: Her mother,
who has, after all, had her own
"really show," TLCs "Sarah Palin's
Alaska," in which Palin played herself.
Don't expect much mountain-climbing or deep-sea fishing in the so-far untitled Bio project, which has Palin and her son, Tripp, moving to Los Angeles to work for a "small charity in need" that the network won't yet identify and to share a home with her fellow "Dancing with the Stars" contestant Kyle Massey and his actor brother, Christopher.
Because, according to Bio, since "Dancing," Palin and the brothers "have become best friends."
And as Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie taught us long ago, there's no better way to truly be BFEs than to do a TV show together. (Hilton's newest show, Oxygen "The World According to Paris," will focus in part on her friendship with Charlie Sheen's ex, Brooke Mauler.)
Bio describes the show as following Palin as she moves from Alaska to L.A.