/ ENTERTAINMENT / TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
HOROSCOPES
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 6
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Romantic ideas concerning travel occupy you. If you plan a trip, allow for adjustments in the tinerary. Something lucky happens along the way.
Seemingly minor changes transform your personal work as if by magic. Greater harmony persuades others effectively. Allow time to receive and send communications.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
A close associate points out the need for intense focus. Everyone has done their research. Now sort out the salient facts and create your action plan.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Apply mental effort to your work. Others are creative, but you need to keep your eye on theoretical parameters. A partner offers solid advice.
LEO (July 23-Aug.22)
Today is a 6
Harness your enthusiasm and apply it to a creative task. This makes the work go quickly and easily. Family and coworkers appreciate the focus, if not the noise.
VIRGO (Aug.23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 6
Apply physical energy to household activities. Your mind's go three directions at once, but keep your hands and feet busy organizing and doing cleanup tasks.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Communicate with neighbors, friends and distant relatives. Opportunities today may not be completely smooth sailing, but there is power in building toward goals.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Plan for more folks around the dinner table than usual. It's better to have leftovers than fall short. Choose your best recipe.
Paying attention to the task at hand may be difficult now. Fresh opportunities distract from a priority. For best results, stay in the moment.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.19)
Stick to basics as you discuss important issues in private. Group members are ready for a change. Effective direction is necessary.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Today is a 6.
Pay close attention to another team member's enthusiastic presentation. You find practical information that affects your side of the equation. Take notes.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is a 5.
If you find yourself in the spotlight today, you may squirm a bit. You're more ready than you thought to take on personal transformation. Try something new.
Concept is SudoKu
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Difficulty Level ★★
Answer to previous puzzle
LITTLE SCOTTIE
COOL THING
Todd Pickrell and Scott A. Winer
MONKEYZILLA
Kevin Cook
ACROSS
1 Bridge
5 Depressed
8 Break suddenly
12 Greek vowel
13 Overseas agreement?
14 Story
15 "USA Today" graphic, often
17 React to yeast
18 Scenery chewer
19 His work is fitting
21 Remained upright
24 Ailing
25 Cook-ware
26 2003 Celine Dion
36 For fear that
37 Rosters
38 Open out, as a flag
41 Depilation method
42 Protein source
43 Priced separately
48 Mercedez—
49 Bottom line
50 Blue hue
51 Wild revelry
52 Preschooler
53 Nervous
DOWN
1 Taste the tea
2 Luau bowful
3 Dined on
4 Chips served with salsa
5 Clayey soil
6 Lord's Prayer start
7 Most likely to make a pun
8 Hit
9 Hammer's target
10 As well
11 Equal
Solution time: 21 mins.
E RA J A S O N B RA
L I D A G O R A E E L
16 Possessed
20 Rue the run
21 Lovers' quarrel
22 Mexican entree
23 Aware of
24 Quick drink
26 Tilted
27 Experts
28 Little one
29 Change for a C-note
31 Mimic
34 Hardly agile
35 Concentrate (on)
37 Fond du WI
38 Knob on a shield
39 — do-well
40 Venom spout
16 Possessed
20 Rue the run
21 Lovers' quarrel
22 Mexican entree
23 Aware of
24 Quick drink
26 Tilted
27 Experts
28 Little one
29 Change for a C-note
31 Mimic
34 Hardly agile
35 Concentrate (on)
37 Fond du —, WI
38 Knob on a shield
39 — -do-well
40 Venom spout
41 Power measure
44 Writer Buscaglia
45 Crimson
46 Play-ground game
47 Actor Ron
Viewers faint during new film's amputation scene
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — Two at the Telluride Film Festival, three at the Toronto International Film Festival and one at the Mill Valley Film Festival.
If that were a list of trophies for the new movie "127 Hours," which opens Friday, the filmmakers would be overjoyed. In fact, it's a partial tally of people who have collapsed during early screenings of the movie about a real-life hiker who amputated his forearm after a falling boulder pinned his hand in a remote canyon.
"I started to feel like I was going to throw up," said Courtney Phelps, who was watching "127 Hours" at a recent Producers Guild of America screening in Hollywood and grew
Phelps fainted on the restroom floor, and was treated by paramedics who had been called when another moviegoer suffered an apparent seizure. "I have never had, even remotely, an experience like this," she said. "I'm a television producer. I know this stuff is not real."
ill just as the amputation scene ended. "So I went to the bathroom, and then I started feeling dizzy and my heart started racing."
Filmmakers always hope their work will affect audiences in powerful ways. But the strong physical and emotional responses generated by "127 Hours" have not only surprised director Danny Boyle and his creative team — they've also presented a delicate marketing challenge for Fox Searchlight, which co-financed and is distributing the $20 million movie.
Evidently, that doesn't matter.
"I would prefer that people not pass out — it's not a plus," said Stephen Gilula, the studio's copresident. "We don't see a particular publicity value in it."
Still, Gilula said the swoons besides the incidents in Telluride, Toronto and Mill Valley, there have been at least eight more at other preview screenings — prove the film's artistic power. "It's the most empathetic experience I've ever seen," he said. The movie opens Friday in limited release, with more cities set to be added in the coming weeks.
"127 Hours" stars James Franco as Ralston, who in 2003 was trapped by a falling chockstone in an isolated gully in Utah's wilderness. Having told no one where he was headed and hiking with scant supplies, Ralston knew that if he didn't free himself he would perish from starvation, dehydration or exposure. Five days into his ordeal, Ralston figured out that if he broke the two bones in his right forearm, he would be able to use a dull multi-tool to saw through the flesh, muscles and tendons that bound him to a certain death.
The storyline revolved around the planned theft of a Super Bowl ring that belonged to Bears Hall of Famer Mike Singletary. In another episode, after punching a villainous character from Detroit, Morelli derides the downed man for the Red Wings' "stealing Chelios from the Blackhawks."
TELEVISION
'The Defenders' popular despite critics' bad reviews
The Second City alum and kid brother to John "Joliet lake" Belushi wasn't coy about injecting his love of all things Chicago into the story.
In a recent episode of "The Defenders," local viewers got a chance to see Belushi's Chicago-raised character, Nick Morelli, belt out "Bear Down, Chicago Bears."
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
CHICAGO — Leave it to hometown boy Jim Belushi to find a way to work the Chicago Bears fight song into a legal dramedy set in Las Vegas.
"You know, I have an influence," Belushi joked during a recent break from filming of the show he called a "courtroom drama on steroids."
Chicago, Belushi said, is "where I'm connected, and it's where my sense of humor is rooted. When you draw back on experiences and things, you go back to what you're connected to."
The Wheaton, Ill., native's extended return to network television after his eight-year run playing lovable lout Jim Orenthal
on ABC's "According to Jim" was uncertain until CBS executives ordered additional episodes of the popular yet critically maligned series. "The Defenders" is averaging about 11 million viewers each week in its 9 p.m. time slot, besting NBC's "Law and Order: Los Angeles," according to the latest Nielsen ratings.
JIM BELUSHI Star of "The Defenders"
While the show has received some bad press, criticizing it as contrived or uninteresting, Belushi is upfront that he'd much rather be popular than critically acclaimed.
"When you draw back on experiences and things, you go back to what you're connected to."
"In TV, when you get great reviews, it's a ... death knell," Belushi said, quickly pointing to Fox's critical darling "Lone Star," canceled after only two airings.
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Belushi's character is a shark with a velvet touch; a wry-smiling, smoothoperating defense attorney who wears his blue-collar background and simple values as well as he wears his fine Italian suits.
Belushi's Morelli co-heads a flashy, if slightly bottom-feeding, Vegas law firm with brash, young partner Pete Kaczmarek, played by Jerry O'Connell.
"To have 11 million people watch your show when there's 85 critics writing about you. It's like, 'Guys, sorry. I love you. I love how hard you work, but it doesn't matter,' he said. "I'm not looking for you guys' approval."
Attorney Michael Cristalli, half of the real-life Las Vegas defense team the show is based on, and the model for Belushi's character, said he was excited with Belushi's portrayal. He and law partner Marc Saggese are frequently on the show set, giving advice to producers and actors. "He's done such an incredible job and I'm thrilled," Cristalli said o'
"The guy I'm playing has got great bedside manners and is very charming." Belushi
Belushi. "He is the leading force behind the success of the show"
said. "From his point of view, your whole job is to win the jury. So everything is a performance."
Belushi said the transition from a family sitcom to a drama wasn't difficult."
"I've always considered myself an actor, and as an actor, I look at it as a plumber," he said. "I can go in a small house and fix the sink, or I can go in a massive commercial site and lay all kinds of pipes. To me, it's just a different venue, that's all."