/ ENTERTAINMENT / WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 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 5
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
Today is a 5
Tensions between you and associates muddle a dynamic where awareness can be achieved. State your positions clearly using basic facts.
if you depend on luck, you actually get great results in the romance department. Take it all in stride. You've earned the good fortune.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6
today is a 6
Stress in the workplace is compounded by differences in opinion between males and females. Diffuse the situation by listening for what's missing.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 5
At least you are aware today of what others believe they want. You may not agree, but try to fulfill their desires anyway. You learn something by day's end.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 5
Today is 5 to conquer the world today. If you can manage your own mind, you've made progress. Cleaning up your household environment also helps.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 6
Today is a 6 People pair up to accomplish diverse tasks. The cleanup crew needs extra help in the form of supplies and manpower. Make order a priority
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 5
Who's that masked man who just walked in? You need to know in order to make a quick decision. Ask pointed questions before taking action.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 5
SAGITTARIUS (Nov.22-Dec.21)
Today is a 7
today is a
One group member is firing on all cylinders. Keeping up may require more effort than you're willing to expend. Speak up if you get tired.
Today is 7
Whatever happens in a social setting returns home with you. Then you see the good fortune attached to what seemed quite unpleasant.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 5
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 7
today is you already knew deep inside gets confirmed now with documented fact. Try not to lord it over skeptics. You know who they are.
**today is a 7**
There's trouble with a public appearance when the star fails to arrive on time. There's not much you can do about that. Start without them.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 5
You feel especially lucky when your partner falls in step with longtime friends and their plans. Personal conversation inspires a new start.
TELEVISION
New documentary on trash airs today
LOS ANGELES — Whether it's banana peels or bald tires, frozen food containers or soda cans, Americans make 250 million tons of garbage each year. What happens to all our castoffs after we haul them out to the curb is the subject of "Trash Inc.: The Secret Life of Garbage," a one-hour documentary airing today on CNBC.
"I can't tell you how many pairs of pants and shoes I've gone through, traipsing through these dumps and land-fills," said Carl Quintanilla, the Emmy award-winning CNBC reporter who spent his summer wading through trash.
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BEYOND THE GRAVE
"It feels like — and again, this is just the way my mind works, which is why I go to therapy twice
'The Social Network' actor struggles with difficult role
that I didn't get the age-recognized Given that the 26-year-old's portrayal of an aloof, socially awkward Zuckerberg during the founding years of Facebook has already sparked some award buzz, Eisenberg's self-critique may sound like typical false Hollywood modesty. Yet Eisenberg genuinely seems more panicked than excited by any acclaim.
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — When Jesse Eisenberg arrived at his West Hollywood hotel last week, only an hour off a plane and with a bulky duffel bag slung over his shoulder, he seemed irritated.
And he was, because the night before he had accidentally caught the last 30 seconds of "The Social Network," in which he stars as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, before a question-and-answer session about the movie in Chicago. He had been trying to avoid it because he does not like to watch his own performances.
his own performance.
"I've been so furious this whole morning about what I did in that scene," he said almost immediately after sitting down at the Sunset Marquis' restaurant. "It's just uncomfortable to watch me. Not in the same way that it's uncomfortable to listen to your voice on an answering machine. I just felt that I didn't get the scene right."
a week — I immediately think that there could be nothing worse than getting that kind of attention," he said, removing his smudged glasses and digging his hands into the pockets of his sweatshirt. "Because, how can you maintain that kind of level of interest and attention?
And I really have worked hard and done well in other things that have gotten no attention. So it makes you feel like those kind of things are inconsistent."
"The Social Network" is
Network" is clearly Eisenberg's most highprofile film to date. After attracting notice five years ago in Noah Baumbach's Oscar-nominated family drama "The Squid and the Whale," he has starred in a variety of quirky projects, including the action-adventure-comedy "Zombieland" opposite Woody Harrelson and "Holy Rollers," about Eestasy-smuggling Hasidic Jews that grossed just over $300,000 at the box office.
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When Eisenberg first read Aaron Sorkin's script for "The Social Network," he knew nothing about Facebook. He didn't have a Facebook profile. He didn't know who Zuckerberg was. So after he was cast, he immediately tried to meet the CEO, who comes off
in the movie as a power-hungry, terse tech whiz who steals the idea for Facebook from some fellow Harvard students.
"I've been so furious this whole morning about what I did in that scene."
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"I was hoping to meet him. To me, that was the first thing to do, playing somebody who's not only alive, but contemporary."
JESSE EISENBERG "The Social Network" actor
Eisenberg said. "And that was an impossibility." (Facebook has said it did not cooperate with Sony or the filmmakers and Zuckerberg has said he will not see the film, which he
describes as "fiction."
With only a month to prepare, Eisenberg went to Plan B: He cured images and videos of Zuckerberg. He made an audio file with excerpts of Zuckerberg's interviews and speeches and put them on his iPod, listening constantly to get into the character's mind-set. He knew Zuckerberg was an expert fencer with "unnaturally straight" posture, so he took lessons to work on isolating the upper half of his body.
Sorkin and director David Fincher insisted they didn't want the actors to do perfect impressions of their real-life counterparts.
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"It wasn't important to us that Jesse do an impersonation of Mark Zuckerberg," Sorkin said in an e-mail. "Jesse came to work knowing the scene he had to do that day, and how he prepared — whether it was listening to Mark's voice, fencing or standing on his head — was entirely up to him."
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TELEVISION
Stamos trying to shake'Jesse'
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — It's just another day on the set of "Glee" and Lea Michele, who plays spirited songstress Rachel Berry, is in her schoolgirl attire, roaming around with a salad in hand and a female companion by her side
Then John Stamos walks by. Michele plays it cool, greeting him casually. But as Stamos passes, the reaction that has shaded him throughout his career reveals itself.
"Oh, my God. That's Uncle Jesse." Michele's friend says in a muffled voice.
Actually, it's John Stamos. But the character he's best known for is never too far behind.
The dark-haired star achieved hearthrob status while developing his comedy chops on the decidedly lowbrow "Full House," a hit sitcom that ran for eight seasons in the late '80s and early '90s — and continues its wholesome influence in syndication. Stamos has been trying to shake this alter ego ever since.
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been several highlights in his wide-ranging career: performing with the Beach Boys; stints on Broadway; a role as a doctor on "ER"; and a self-deprecating turn on the just-completed season of "Entourage."
But there have been more than a few low points in his work and personal life: Several series developed around him that came and went quickly; a high-profile divorce from Rebecca Romijn; an embarrassing, slurred TV appearance in Australia; and an extortion scandal involving people who said they had incriminating pictures that never materialized.
materiized.
The highs and lows have positioned Stamos, 47, in what he calls "the middle."
calls the intruders.
"For all intents and purposes I should have been long gone by now; a lot of my contemporaries are," he said days before at his Beverly Hills home, where the actor sporadically wavered from his answers to ask his own questions — "Do you cook?" "Where did you grow up?" "Do you love Facebook?" "How old are you?" — while also keeping watch over a boiling pot of water. (He was making ravioli.)
"I've been comfortably at the low part of the middle for a long time. I'd like to say that it's strategy, but ... it's just good timing."
The clock is on his side these days.