MONDAY, MAY 6, 2013
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Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
You're more confident. Somebody else's crazy idea inspires you.
Confront old fears. Come up with a plan and dive into action.
Postpone travel or launching. Be open for miracles.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 8
Clarify your direction with friends. Encourage creative thinking. Contemplate potential outcomes. Your views change concerning group membership. You don't need to spend your savings on trinkets.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Today is an 8
Rest and gain clarity. There could be a disagreement about priorities or a difficult situation. Follow a prosperous hunch. These days are good for travel; set sail on a new course.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Today is a 9
Practice makes perfect in the coming phase. You have what it takes. Do the harder job first. Keep the faith, even with an unexpected development. Avoid arguing with your partner. Let off steam after.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 7
Conditions look good for travel and romance. Financial modesty is appealing. Review your holdings, and do some long-range planning. You may need to turn down a request or cut spending to hit the target.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 8
Do your own research, and prepare to negotiate carefully. Review financial arrangements. There's a breakthrough regarding service. In a moment of confusion, ask for help. Encourage creativity.
A partner comes to the rescue, and together you stir things up. Negotiations resume, with brilliant insight. Imagine perfection. Review details: some targets have become superfluous.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 9
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 9
A colleague demands your time now. Let your subconscious mind help. Quiet your natural curiosity, and listen for a startling discovery. You have the power. Get a lot done today and tomorrow.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 9
This phase is reserved for fun.
Don't let recent successes
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care of at home.
Focus on home and family. You can see multiple ways to solve problems. Apply that ability to improving the quality of your environment. Keep a secret. Enjoy it together.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is an 8
Today is a 9 Study and practice. You thrive doing what you love. You don't have as much as you think you do because you're so generous.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 9
CROSSWORD
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 9
This week is good for making money. Focus on finances for insight. In a stroke of genius, discover savings or a new income opportunity and follow through. Don't share about it, yet.
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23 Liveliness, in music
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32 Dakar's country
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10 Savings institution
11 Make — meet
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19 Prejudice
20 Tavern
21 Line of symmetry
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--introduction in 1964. Although the original Mandarin was conceived as a Fu Manchu-style antagonist who drew his power from 10 mystical rings, Kingsley, an actor capable of embodying almost any ethnicity, insists on playing the supervillain as a multicultural mangle, drawing inspiration from the televised theatrics of Osama bin Laden, the scraggy facial hair of a Tolkien dwarf and the grandiose inflection of Sam the Eagle. I understand the Mandarin in the comics has been decried as a racial stereotype (albeit a largely rehabilitated one), but this version could almost pass for another character entirely.
'Iron Man 3' resuscitates, brings closure to franchise
The first "Iron Man" may have resuscitated Robert Downey Jr's career, but it was Shane Black who applied the defibrillator paddles back in 2005 when the "Lethal Weapon" screenwriter-turned-director cast the newly sober Downey as a motor-mouthed amateur sleuth in his rollingick L.A. neo-noir "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang." Despite its tepid box office returns, the film wowed critics and helped to persuade studio bigwigs that its star was no longer an insurance liability. Six years later, Downey returned the favor by lobbying for Black to direct and co-write the third installment of Marvel's highest-grossing franchise.
The result is "Iron Man 3," a sharply written, relentlessly entertaining beast of a summer block-buster which augments the expected digital eye candy with an even grander spectacle: a gifted, clearly restless performer straining against the limits of what's become his signature role. The line between Downey Jr. and Tony Stark began to blur a long time ago, and Black's film, which has more in common with his rapier-witted action thrillers than a standard superhero movie, is far more interested in testing the mettle of our hero's psyche than the metal of his gold-titanium exoskeleton.
Apparently the experience of flying a nuclear missile through a wormhole to destroy an alien mothership is enough to traumatize even the most well-adjusted genius billionaire playboy philanthropist. Since the events of "The Avengers", Stark has been plagued by insomnia and crippling panic attacks that have caused him to spurn the affections of Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) and hole up in his basement, compulsively tinkering with new Iron Man suits to prepare for the next invasion.
This self-imposed exile is lifited after he learns of the threat posed by the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), a shadowy terrorist mastermind with a deep-seated grudge against Western decadence and the misappropriation of Asian iconography. His latest scheme involves turning maimed U.S. Army veterans into brainwashed, molten-skinned human bombs with help from Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), a weapons-tech upstart Stark inadvertently inspired during his days as an arms dealer, and a failed super-soldier serum known as Extremis.
Those issues aside, the cast of "Iron Man 3" is its greatest asset. Kansas City native Don Cheadle has much more to do this time around as Stark's staunch ally Colonel James Rhodes, whose state-sponsored War Machine persona has been rebranded as the Iron Patriot after the latter tested better with focus groups. The lovely Rebecca Hall, so memorable in Ben Afflock's "The Town," also lending a surprising amount of pathos to her role as Stark's pre-Pepper love interest Maya, the scientist who may have created Extremis.
Thanks to Marvel's auteur-friendly hiring practices, Black has made an "Iron Man" flick that's truly and utterly his own, from the rampant film noir references (Downey opens and closes the story with voice-over narration) to the devious, whip-smart dialogue. He also manages to end the trilogy on a point of genuine thematic closure (something that might be looked back on as prescient depending on how Downey renegotiates his contract). As it turns out, the man makes the suit after all.
Edited by Brian Sisk
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