8A / ENTERTAINMENT / MONDAY, APRIL 12, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
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Answer to previous puzzle
4/12
Difficulty Level ★★★★★
Difficulty Level ✩
9 4 6 1 5 2 3 7 8
2 3 8 6 4 7 5 1 9
5 1 7 9 3 8 2 6 4
7 9 3 5 1 6 8 4 2
8 2 1 4 7 3 9 5 6
6 5 4 2 8 9 1 3 7
4 7 2 3 9 5 6 8 1
3 8 9 7 6 1 4 2 5
1 6 5 8 2 4 7 9 3
CHICKEN STRIP: 2010
Charlie Hoogner
SKETCHBOOK
LITTLE SCOTTIE
Drew Stearns
Todd Pickrell and Scott A. Winer
TELEVISION
Musical successes contradict history
Once upon a time, a celebrated producer put his clout behind a one-hour series about competing cliques who share a passion for spontaneously breaking into rap, gospel, R&B and power ballads.
It was called "Cop Rock" Stephen Bochco's short-lived 1990
experiment _ the "Ishtar" of network TV convinced the industry that characters on dramas and sitcoms shouldn't even whistle, much less sing and dance.
But 20 years later, brash newcomers have turned a deaf ear to history _ and reaped the rewards. Disney Channel and Nickelodeon have built empires on programs like "High School Musical," "Hannah Montana" and "Big Time Rush," bland sitcom fare enlivened
by karaoke-quality performances. "How I Met Your Mother" and "Scrubs" haven't been afraid to allow their characters to slip into la-la land where they float through choreographed song-and-dance numbers." Family Guy" got much media attention in February for an off-handed reference to Sarah Palin.
Associated Press
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
If you can take the day off with
your significant other, you'll
discover romance at your finger-
ties. If you can't, plan an evening
that starts as early as possible.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
HOROSCOPES
Today's 7 extra care when working on creative projects, especially when using sharp instruments. Make refinements in small increments, and evaluate as you go.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Today is a 7
Today is a 6
Every time you meet a deadline, you turn an obstacle into opportunity. Delivering ahead of time eliminates pressure for everyone and frees you for the next great idea.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 5
You find yourself in the spotlight without part of your costume.
Oops! Grab an associate or two and ask them to fix it, now!
They'll jump to help.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 5
You may be tempted to tiptoe
around a problem today A
better strategy would be to face
obstacles head-on while pulling
strings in the background.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 5
Be aware of your partner's unusual needs. The challenge is to meet demands even when neither of you enjoys the process. Add empathy, and then just take care of it.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 6
A solid strategy for work would be to challenge all participants Inspire enthusiasm by focusing on practical outcomes that everyone can appreciate.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 5
Spread your charm as far as you like. There's plenty to go around. Meanwhile, keep your opinions to yourself.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 6
You'll get more done today if you work around everyone else They have their own challenges, unrelated to yours. Leave them to their own devices.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 7
Everything will work out the way you want if you pay attention to your partner's requests. If you don't, you'll face major obstacles.
ing more intense violence on the big screen. A new study, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, offers some validation of the point.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Today is a 5
AQUINAS 3 (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 5
You surprise even yourself with
your careful management.
You recognize the challenge in
stretching dollars to cover it all.
Reward yourself, too.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 6
WASHINGTON — You don't need to be a pacifist to notice that American movies have gotten way more violent, and that younger and younger audiences are see-
MOVIES
What a difference it makes to be aware of your partner's foibles, and vice versa. Both of you feel a bit compulsive today. Creative teasing is in order.
Violent content increasing in films for younger viewers
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania coded each year's
"Narnia, CS Lewis,and the Classical Cosmology"
top-grossing 30 films from 1950 to 2006 to gauge the extent and intensity of sexual content and violence. They then sought to discern trends within ratings categories, and the migration of sexual and violent content into movies intended for the broadest circulation — P, PG and PG-13 movies.
system was instituted. It stabilized in the late 1970s and even declined after that. Since then, movies bearing PG and PG-13 ratings have not become more sexually explicit, the study found.
Michael Ward author of PLANET NARNIA, Oxford University Press, 2008. "The foremost C.S. Lewish scholar." N.T. Wright (The London Times)
a lecture by
TONIGHT at 7pm Woodruff Auditorium Kansan Union (5th floor)
Not so with violent content. It exploded across the PG-and-up ratings categories, cascading heavily into a new category introduced in 1984 - PG-13.
Brown-bag lunch and discussion for KU students and faculty TODAY from 12:00 to 1:00pm, Parlor ABC (5th floor), Kansan Union
The sexual content of PG and R movies accelerated in the late 1960s, when the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings
ACROSS
1 Often-dunked cookie
5 Away from NWN
8 Dog's feet
12 Not paraphrased
14 Last write-up
15 Hole
16 Depend (on)
17 Charged particle
18 "Shake, — and Roll"
20 Witch trial town
23 Trigonometric function
34 Spill the beans
35 Hum-dinger
36 Baby kanga-roos
37 Beverage of the gods
40 Prepared
41 Beige
42 Hunger
47 Stay away from
48 Strangled
49 Mary — Lincoln
50 TV Tarzan Ron
51 "A — home is his castle"
DOWN
1 Eggs
2 Agent, for short
3 Before
4 "Tonight Show" host, briefly
5 Dazzle
6 Knight's address
7 Retired
8 "Anything Goes" composer
9 Help in wrong-doing
10 Volition
11 Eyelid problem
13 Fermi's bit
19 Working without —
ACROSS
1 Often- dunked cookie
5 Away from NNW
8 Dog's feet
12 Not para- phrased
14 Last write-up
15 Hole
16 Depend (on)
17 Charged particle
18 "Shake, — and Roll"
20 Witch trial town
23 Trigo- nometric function
24 Persia, today
25 New Zealand bird, e.g.
28 Poorly lit
29 Poker table pronounce- ment
30 Joan of —
34 Spill the beans
35 Hum- dinger
36 Baby kanga- roos
37 Beverage of the gods
40 Prepared
41 Beige
42 Hunger
47 Stay away from
48 Strangled
49 Mary — Lincoln
50 TV Tarzan Ron
51 "A — home is his castle"
Solution tim S HE S W
Solution time: 24 mins.
20 Comedian Caesar
21 Operatic solo
22 Genie's home
23 Animal track
25 Electrical strength
26 Harvard rival
27 Picture of health?
29 New Rochelle college
31 Letterman's network
33 Plump
34 Under-surface
36 Scoff
37 Bird's home
38 Reverberate
39 Gunky stuff
40 Agile
43 Chum
44 Call — day
45 X rating?
46 Sullivan and McMahan
Saturday's answer 4-12
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CRYPTOQUIP
Q PP F E P S Q G X S K I Q G A S K . Saturday's Cryptoquip: NOVEL ABOUT A HUGE FOOD FIGHT WHICH INVOLVED FLINGING SPHERICAL VEGETABLES: "WAR AND PEAS."
Today's Cryptoquip Clue: E equals F
MOVIES
3-D films offer profit without movie stars
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Since the astounding grosses for "Avatar" started rolling in, Hollywood has been going gaga at 3-D. At a time when DVD revenues have been plummeting, who would've believed that 3-D would help save the studios' bacon?
According to Warners distribution chief Dan Fellman, roughly 52 percent of the studio's box-office take for last weekend's "Clash of the Titans" was from 3-D ticket sales. According to industry marketers, the 3-D ticket price premium gave a huge boost to "Clash's" $61.4-million box-office take, which would've been closer to $41.4 million if it was only playing in 2-D.
The film, which was retrofitted with 3-D at the last minute, inspired my colleague Kenny Turan to write that "Clash" could
be 'the first film to actually be made worse by being in 3-D.' The tech geeks seemed to agree.
But who will be the real haters of 3-D? Movie stars. If there was ever a new technology that made movie stars feel less indispensable and more outmoded than they already are, it would be 3-D. By definition, 3-D extravaganzas are genre films dominated by splashy computer-generated visual effects — exactly the kinds of movies that don't need a movie star in the first place.
Put yourself in the position or a studio executive, staring at your profit-and-loss statement, as you ponder what movies to greenlight for your 2012 slate. Most of the recent mega-hits (i.e., "Hangover,") had triumphed without any true movie stars while scads of movie-star vehicles had crashed and burned.