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HOROSCOPES Because the stars know things we don't.
Aries (March 21-April 19)
today is an 8
Share information openly with your friends. Make time to look at your current financial situation, and then discuss with family. Creative thinking can take you farther. Let friends inspire you to new heights.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Start the week with a new perspective. There are so many new adventures to begin. Don't forget to do something you promised. Discover new spiritual or philosophical concepts, and get lost in study.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Today is a 9
You've earned a good rest, but the work isn't done yet. Take a power nap and go at it again. But don't push yourself too hard. Let your partner take over sometimes.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Today is a 9
Open communication with partners brings new rewards and increased profits. Let them discover your true value. Be on your best behavior. One good friend connects to another.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 8
You're surprisingly productive today. Tie up loose ends, and start planning a new project. Keep track of what works so you can repeat the process. You're exceptionally lucky now. Run with it.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
Romance, art and beauty capture your heart. Get out of your normal routine and into unexplored realms. Your imagination provides a work answer. It's a good time to ask for money.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 8
Study your roots, and stimulate intellect at home. Friends help you solve great philosophical conundrums. An old dream get validated and reaffirmed. Use what you're learning. Take a moment to commit to love.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 9
Set long-range goals, and prepare for action. Check out an offer's details. Get into studies for an amazing discovery. Invest in your home and family.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
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New profits become available. Keep a practical focus on continuing the cash flow. Travel in moderate style. Associates deliver good news. Others ask your advice. Keep the faith.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 7
You're empowered and self-confident, with the Moon in your sign. Accept a new assignment. Use something you've been saving. Update communications. Do you need everything top of the line? Confer with family.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is an 8
An uncomfortable situation at home leads to more study. Wrap up details. Imagine the finished result Revise your budget. Clarify your direction with friends. Keep your wits about you.
Associates need support now. Ask probing questions, so you can get to the bottom of it. Accept expert tutoring. Committees are especially effective. Share your vision of the problem solved.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 8
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5 "Eurekal"
8 Book of prophecies
12 Lotion additive
13 Chaps
14 Tooth-paste container
15 Anger
16 Conventional
18 One up?
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21 Leopold's co-defendant
23 Four qts.
24 One of Monopoly's light blue avenues
28 Speech impediment
31 Great noise
32 Disrobe
34 Female deer
35 Bird of
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41 Ireland
42 Secular
45 Servile
49 Form a union
51 Top
52 isn't well
53 Calendar abbr.
54 Prolonged sleep
55 Run away
56 Automaton, for short
57 Slaughter of baseball
37 Decoration
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2 Pelvic bones
3 Nut partner
4 Pvt. Bailey
5 Cherub, in art
6 The girl
7 Picnic invaders
8 Musically keyless
9 Flood after math, perhaps
10 Reed instrument
11 Send a naughty
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17 Embrace
19 Billions of years
22 Wilkes-
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25 Brazilian
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27 Ache aid
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HOLLYWOOD
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Bay's 'Pain and Gain' shows unexpected flair
LANDON MCDONALD
imcdonald@kansan.com
Desperate for a taste of the good life and brainwashed by an aphorism-spewing self-help guru (Ken Jeong), Lugo recruits fellow gym rat Adrian (Anthony Mackie) and huking ex-con Paul
Question: What happens when Michael Bay foregoes almost everything that makes him the eyeball-straining, intellect-draining king of summer blockbusters: his nine-figure budgets, his penchant for non-stop explosions, his borderline incomprehensible editing style and his inexplicable affinity for Shia Labeouf and leghumping robots? Answer: He turns around and makes his best movie since 1996's "The Rock."
Like the unholy spawn of "Scarface" and "Magic Mike", Bay's new comedy "Pain and Gain" is a visceral sleazoid delight, a story defined by madcap absurdities that seem all the more potent given their purported basis in fact (Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely's screenplay was adapted from a series of Miami New Times articles). The year is 1994 and the American Dream seems to have turned its star-spangled backside on Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg), a bodybuilder who's been reduced to working as a personal trainer at Miami's Sun Gym. Lugo's least favorite client is the half-jewish, half-Colombian Victor Kershaw (Tony Shalhoub); a vulgar local businessman who spends their workout sessions bragging about his offshore holdings while insisting that salad was invented by poor people.
(Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) for a harebrained scheme to kidnap Kershaw and divvy up his massive, possibly ill-gotten fortune. Of course, their plans quickly devolve into a succession of progressively violent blunders that earn them the attention of Detective Ed DuBois (Ed Harris, reliable as always), and eventually the entire state of Florida.
Although the real-life saga of the so-called Sun Gym Gang culminated in the murder and dismemberment of two innocent people, "Pain and Gain" plays the whole bloody affair strictly for laughs. The story unfolds like a low-rent version of a Coen Brothers crime caper as directed by the late Tony Scott, minus the acerbic wit of the former and the show-stopping visual panache of the latter. This is still a Michael Bay joint after all, replete with enough casual racism, blatant homophobia and gratuitous slow motion to fill three more "Transformers" sequels (don't worry, there's more of those on the way).
The reason "Pain and Gain" outclasses most of Bay's recent output has a great deal to do with the nerve and verve of its central performances. Wahlberg in fulltilt "Boogie Nights" mode here, playing a character whose drive to succeed in life has mutated into a raging steroidal version of Manifest Destiny. Johnson, who tempered his weapons-grade charisma with newfound dramatic range earlier this year in "Snitch," practically walks away with the movie as Paul, a born-again lunkhead with a titanically unresolved
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As the bodies pile up and the authorities close in on our increasingly antagonistic protagonists, the film struggles to decide whether it's a wry send-up of consumer culture or an endorsement of the American Dream as the ultimate performance enhancer. It never quite manages to make up its mind, ending with a jarring tonal shift that feels somewhat disingenuous in light of all the consequence-free Bay-hem that's preceded it. Yet for most of its runtime, "Pain and Gain" excels at showing us exactly what its director is capable of when he's free from the constraints of making $200 million toy commercials.
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As is often the case with Bay, the supporting cast here is ridiculously over-qualified. Rebel Wilson, fresh off last year's box office hit "Pitch Perfect," brings some much-needed girl power to the underwritten role of Adrian's nurse-turned-wife, while Shalhoub calls on every nasty epithet he can muster to make Kershaw the world's least sympathetic extortion victim. Harris, a Bay veteran since "The Rock," is obviously meant to serve as this movie's answer to Marge Gunderson, the Frances McDormand character from "Fargo," the honest cop who surveys the carnage and laments its futility.
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