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HOROSCOPES
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 9
Carve out time to spend by yourself to complete necessary projects. Work imaginative ideas provided by associates into the final presentation.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 6
Draw group members closer together. Each person needs support. You sense an opportunity just around the corner. Solidarity works magic now.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Today is a 7
Circumstances require you to spend time with friends. No problem! That's what you want to do anyway. Everyone has more fun than you thought possible.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 9
A surprise communication changes your direction today. Possibilities expand exponentially if you listen carefully. You couldn't have planned it.
Change is the only game that matters today. The status quo is not an option. Use all your resources to gain the necessary insight. Then move forward.
Create a working environment that suits everyone. Consider feelings as well as concrete goals. That way, everyone feels like part of the process.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 7
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a Z
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 8
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Your desire for change
benefits from letting you
imagination run free. Notice
where it takes you, and apply
your own native wisdom.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21)
Today is a 6
Today is a 6
Wow! You've been gathering
pieces together for some time,
and now it all fts together like
a charm. The entire household
sparkles with delight.
Today is a 8
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
You need to catch up on correspondence. Write sweet thank you notes, email friends, and make an important phone call to a female relative.
There's a mystical book you've wanted to read. There's a valuable lesson in the plight of the characters there. Plus it's fun.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Today is a 7
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 8
- The responsibility is on you now, and that's fine. You have great ideas and enthusiasm. So work alone and get it done. You can do it.
By Dave Green
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MCCLATCHEY-TRIBUNE
'Glee' stars take criticism for suggestive GQ photos
The photos feature Dianna Agron (Quinn), Lea Michele (Rachel) and Cory Monteith (Finn), kicking off with Monteith smiling his All-American smile while grabbing the scantily clad derrieres of two young women. So fresh. So daring.
A mildly pornographic slide-show of photos accompanying GQ's November cover story about "Glee" recently went up on the magazine's website, and the obligatory onslaught from parents groups has begun, with terms like "pedophilia" being thrown around along with renewed complaints that the show is too sexually explicit for the young teen and tween end of the audience it courts. In light of the show's rather self-congratulatory "some people want to do good" Team Project ads, the term "role model" — so bizarre when it is connected to celebrities of any sort — makes a tiny bit more sense than usual<sup>1</sup>
But the problem isn't so much the sex as the sexism. And the disappointing banality of it all.
Monteith is, of course, fully clothed and fresh-faced rather than come-hither. Not so his female co-stars, who bare their midriffs and decolletage, bras and panties, in thighs-spread, derriere-hoisted do-me poses made more than slightly unsettling by their school-girl ensembles. Michele, in particular, seems to be
women being asked to assume the position, this time complete with pom poms and lollipop. No doubt Agron and Michele did it to be sexy and playful, and were not at all manipulated by forces that have put genera
Of course, Agron and Michele are grown women who only play high school students, and there is some version of satire at work here — the story "gleefully" references all the complaints from those same uptight parental groups. But it's of the smug have your-cake-and-eat-it-too variety. The result is not so much saucy and in-your-face as it is predictable and depressing — oh look, more young
auditioning for a live-action version of lapanese anime porn.
much more aggressively suggestive than Agron', has said the poses were unlike any she had ever done. No one can blame a young actress for wanting to make it very clear that, the Broadway cred notwithstanding, she isn't a theater geek but a sexually attractive young woman who shouldn't be shoe-boxed into Rachel roles.
Agron has issued an apology of sorts on her blog, though she also deflects the blame onto parents, writing "if your 8-year-old has a copy of our GQ cover in hand, again I am sorry. But I would have to ask, how on Earth did it get there?" — as if GQ were indeed pornography from which parents would protect their children as
tions of young women in precisely the same poses for precisely the same reasons — to feed the fantasy, promote the show and sell magazines.
But honestly, does a woman still have to strip down to panties and thigh-highs and straddle a bench to accomplish this? That's
And that just makes it worse, doesn't it?
not titillat- ing or provocative or even retro. That's just sad.
Of course, Agron and Michele are grown women who only play high school students,and there is some version of satire at work here.
would protect their children as a matter of course and not a mainstream magazine available on newstands everywhere.
show itself, they do make one thing clear. "Glee," in case you were wondering after the CDs and the road show, is now a franchise, working its way into the American pop conscious and walls with the same intensity of the Disney machine it once seemed determined to send up.
The good news about the photos is that, as GQ editors have pointed out in their "get over it" response, unlike Miley Cyrus when she did those unfortunate Vanity Fair shots, these performers are all adults.
A l s o very telling. While the pictures do not affect the quality of the
Michele, whose poses are
The bad news is that the women decided to strip down anyway.
Darling,it's like peanut butter and chocolate, who would've thought cowboy boots and sundresses would make the perfect combination.
ACROSS
1 Height of fashion?
4 Author Stoker
8 Earthenware pot
12 “The Greatest”
13 Tiny bit
14 Tire (out)
15 Church VIP
17 Relaxation
18 Big bothers
19 Draw conclusions
20 The fifth element
22 Portend
24 First victim
25 Reeve role
29 Parcel of land
30 Paychec extra
31 Anger
32 Final courses
34 Fit of peevishness
35 Dregs
36 Lummoxes
37 Started
40 Close
41 Eager
42 Vitamins' partners
46 Longtime CNN interviewer
47 Cupid's alias
48 NAFTA member
49 Otherwise
50 Arrests
51 Carpet
DOWN
1 Overacto
2 Yale student
3 Mosque towers
4 Plain figure?
5 Deteriorates
6 Packed away
7 Scratch
8 First game
9 Goldbrick
10 Come in last
11 Mimic
16 Pedestal occupan
19 Mid-month date
20 Hairless
21 Reed instrument
22 Batter's tactics
23 Piece of work
25 Aching
26 Labyrinth beast
27 Desert-like
28 Profits
30 Existed
33 Gunk
34 Speak unclearly
36 Kasparov's game
37 Prepare a casserole
38 Satan's specialty
39 Traps
40 Uppity one
42 "Two and a Half —"
43 Play-wright Levin
44 Baton Rouge sch.
45 Droop
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Yesterday's Cryptoquip: BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ELKS WERE FORCIBLY TAKEN BY THE FELON, IWOULD SAY THEY WERE COMMAN-DEERED.
Todav's Crvptoquip Clue: F equals O
MOVIES
'Red' actor keeps mind on family and home
Koel Urban lives in two worlds
Karl Urban lives in two words. He's a citizen of Hollywood, thanks to appearances in films like "The Lord of the Rings" (playing a warrior) and the recent reboot of "Star Trek" (as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCovy).
MCCLATCHEY-TRIBUNE
But the 38-year-old actor is also a proud Kiwi, a resident of Auckland, New Zealand. And he doesn't want to forget it.
"Like it or not, I've become a global citizen," Urban said in a recent phone conversation, without a trace of a Down Under accent.
"The challenge is to maintain your cultural identity, especially back in your home country, where it's all too easy to be perceived as someone who ran off to Hollywood.
"So while I may work internationally, I live in New Zealand and plan to always do so."
Meanwhile, he's all over the place. Recent film shoots have seen
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In his action comedy "RED," he portrays a deadly government agent assigned to eliminate retired CIA spies played by Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich.
For an actor, Urban said, working with that bunch was like an extended master class.
"There was such a huge collective amount of experience going into this project. And it wasn't about anybody being the star. It's very much an ensemble piece. So it was a fantastic experience to collaborate with people of this caliber."
Though a secondary character, Urban's William Cooper may have the largest story arc of any in the film.
"That was one of the attractions," he said. "Cooper was very well-written, not just a two-dimensional man of action. When you first see him he's an efficient, emotionless killer — kind of a straight man. That was hard because the other actors got to do funny things. I was suffering from yuk envy.
"But you enter Cooper's story at one point and then go some place completely different. He's a killer with a family, and that may be his weakness."
Urban can identify.
"The worst part of what I do is spending so much time away from my own family."