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Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
New opportunities open up for your relationships. Let go of old views, and create from zero. Get excited about a new possibility, and go ahead and tell everyone.
Make the first move.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 9
The home decisions you make now may very well last for generations. You'll fare better if you consciously intend to enjoy the process. You discover something new and amazing. Consider well, and choose.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Today is a 9
The workload is intense. Shift into higher gear and rake in the bucks. Keep organized. You're in your element. Push for what you want. Aim for long-range goals. Motivate and encourage. Relax in appreciation after.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Today is a 9
Go with your instincts. You're energized by love, quite irresistible. There's a completion and new beginning at work, or regarding your participation in public projects. Move quickly. It's okay to do this.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 9
A rush job demands attention. There's more work than you can possibly do. Eliminate surplus by delegating. Enjoy the satisfaction of a job well done. Flault it. A change of decor may be in order.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 8
Things are getting stirred up at home. You don't want to go anywhere. Exceptional patience is required. Meditate before taking action. Respect, and be respected. There's a happy ending. Soak in the love.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Todav is a 9
You've let go of an old habit. No more procrastination. Enter a new, more receptive period; go on intellectual alert. Team efforts work best now. Capitalize on the flow of ideas. Love finds
Passions stir a shift in priorities. Declare your intentions, promising what, by when. It's a powerful moment. A new phase begins at home. Keep track of the paperwork. Pay off bills. A partner supports.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
Make travel plans for a spiritual adventure. Your actions improve a situation considerably. Have confidence in yourself. Do a job yourself and save. How hard can it be? Learn something
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 9
Try not to get impatient, impetuous or angry. Remember what you're doing it for. You're feeling more secure. A temptation's strong now. A female works behind the scenes. There's a beneficial development
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is an 8
Today is an 8
Simplify matters. Clean your closets. Mull them over. Start or end a trip. Increase your security. A new stage begins at home.
Take advantage of renewed confidence to maintain harmony.
Depend on others more.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 8
Focus your intention, and dig deeper. Passion surrounds you. Start a new art project. Keep track of the money. A female changes an alliance. Check things off your lists mentally. Love actually never ends.
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Romantic comedies such as "Friends with Benefits," "No Strings Attached" and "The Proposal" are examples of movies that give viewers unreal expectations for relationships, sex, and romance.
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UNREAL LOVE
Romantic comedies give audiences unrealistic expectations of love
Jamie is wandering around Grand Central Station searching for her mother in a crowd when a flash mob breaks out. She glances at the stairs across from her and spots Dylan casually leaning against the railing.
"You said you wanted your life to be like a movie," Dylan says. He then proceeds to pour his heart out to Jamie and even knelows down on one knee, like princess charming, and asks her to be his best friend again because he is in love with her. They kiss, and of course, we assume they live happily ever after.
This scene from "Friends with Benefits" has some essential qualities of a romantic comedy: attractive stars, perfect sex, bold gestures, love monologues, and a relationship that flourishes despite complications.
Although romantic
"Reel life isn't anything like real life when it comes to sex and romance."
Some young people may recognize that romantic comedies are just a film genre for pure entertainment, but may not realize how much they can still influence us.
movies because we know they are just movies" Galician said. "But they can provide an idea of what is normal and we are, in different ways, certainly affected in terms of expectations and standards in what we expect of a relationship."
Disappointment is one effect Edinburgh researchers discovered when viewers' love lives did not live up to the movies. Alesia Woszidlo, an assistant professor in communication studies at the University, said that romantic comedies can make us feel bad about our own relationships.
"Movies can make us feel inadequate, like we are not meeting the norm," Wozzillo said. "They can make us feel disfrenched and dissatisfied enough to even look for a new mate, but we don't meet Prince Charmings."
"We all like to think we are not at all affected by
MARY-LOU GALICAN
Associate Professor at Arizona State University
comedies are a top-grossing film genre, they contain unrealistic themes and portrayals of love, which scholars have concluded are affecting viewers' love lives. According to a 2009 study by researchers at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, 90 percent of young people search for insight on the nature of romantic relationships from movies, and their unrealistic expectations about love increase the more they view these impractical representations.
"Real life' isn't anything like real life when it comes to sex and romance," said Mary-Lou Galician, head of Media Analysis and Criticism at the school of journalism at Arizona State University and creator of Realistic Romance, a program created to help consumers understand and avoid unhealthy mass media myths and stereotypes of sex, love and romance. "There is this whole idea of a wedding coming together and a happily ever after, but there are no conflicts or barriers of getting to that point."
Despite romantic comedies' improbable structures, they still thrive at the box office. Zach Saltz, a second-year Ph.D. student from Eugene, Ore., and president
of Film and Media Graduate Council at the university, said romantic comedies have been popular for the last 100 years and have had the same template since their beginnings.
"Studios are risk adverse and they are noncontroversial," Saltz said. "They do not push the status quo."
Galician says that romantic
"The public is asking for it by not asking for it" Galician said. "It is up to audiences to be media literate and understand what is appropriate and absolutely ridiculous."
comedies are also so popular because producers are just satisfying what the public wants.
Deb Merskin, an associate professor in the school of journalism at the University of Oregon and co-author of "Critical Thinking about Sex, Love and Romance in Mass Media," said viewers need to be savvy media consumers as well.
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"If a viewer says to him or herself, 'I wish I could find someone like that', it is good to remember what he or she is watching is an actor playing a role, not a real human relationship." Merskin said in an email. "Be mindful that media representations are designed to sell one-dimensional stories about love, life and relationships that have little to no relationship to the challenges of the real world."
— Amber Kasselman
Paisley's 'Accidental Racist' draws attention to new album
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BRAD PAISLEY "Wheelhouse"
Grade: B-minus
Brad Paisley has decided to take control of things.
While his 2011 album "This Is Country Music" was a little too agreeable and pandering, on "Wheelhouse" (Arista Nashville) he is out to ruffle some feathers. It's his first self-produced album, and all 14 songs were written or co-written by Paisley, which turns out to be both a blessing and a curse.
Paisley offers plenty of worthy new entries to his already-lengthy catalog of country hits.
"Beat This Summer" is a catchy, carefree tribute to seasonal love, while "Southern Comfort Zone" celebrates life in Tennessee. He's at his best, though, on "Death of a Single Man," where he travels from sly Lyle Lovett country to guitar showcase and back again, as he laments the effect of a friend's marriage on his poker game.
It's clear, though, that Paisley needs the occasional outside voice of reason. Maybe the nonsensical nature of "I Can't Change the World," where he argues that changing his woman's world won't have any effect on anything else, can be forgiven as a sales-pitch love song. However,
when he tries to tackle race relations in "Accidental Racist," with a non-apology apology for wearing a Confederate flag T-shirt, things go wrong, even though LL Cool J's rap cameo helps a little. And Paisley's odd defense of Christians in "Those Crazy Christians" may not actually deliver the point he's trying to make.
"Wheelhouse" would be a lot stronger if Paisley would have sought a little more input on some of these songs and taken a little more advice.