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ENTERTAINMENT / FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 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
Today you manage best by following your outline. Don't deviate. Willpower is the single most valuable quality in your toolkit.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 5
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 5
Other people's comments are not as straightforward as they first appeared. Utilize research tools to clarify questionable points.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 5
Take your happiness out and show it off at a social event.
Reveal an engagement or other steps towards personal commitment.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 6
To make this the best day so far this week, spend time in an exotic location, even if it's just around the corner. Your partner helps you discover balance.
LEO (July 23-Aug.22) Today is a 7
Today's luck comes in the form of awareness. Balanced between magic and logic, you choose whichever satisfies your heartsong. Then do the practical work.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
Your personal sense of responsibility seems to interfere with the desires of others. Reconsider your intentions before filing a line in the sand.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
ELBRA (Sept. 23- Oct. 12)
Today is a 7
Use all your intellectual talents and skills to manage a power struggle at work. Avoid getting in the middle between two emotional volcanoes.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
As you learn secrets, bring them into the open and request others to explain. That way each person presents their side and gets heard. Listen.
Today is a 5
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21)
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 6
To finish work on time, follow your intuition. A shortcut saves everyone a lot of energy. Spend a little extra to save days of work.
Today is a 6
Today you arrive at a point where your responsibilities overtake your optimism. Don't lose faith. You'll get through this just fine.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 6
Take time to contemplate your next action, even if it means closing the door to prevent interruption. This way you meet your own needs.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 7
Let someone else take charge of everything you can possibly delegate. This leaves you time to handle unexpected surprises. You may have a few.
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COOL THING
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MOVIES
Nick Sambaluk
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Documentary hopes for educational reform
This time, he really grabbing something hot, education gorm.
LOS ANGELES — In his previous Oscar-winning documentary, filmmaker Davis Guggenheim handled Al Gore, manmade climate change and imminent global peril.
In "Waiting for Superman," Guggenheim vies to do for education reform what "An Inconvenient Truth" did for global warming; raise awareness, make people care and push toward a solution. But this latest docu-editorial will divide some of his biggest fans.
With the global-warming film, carbon dioxide and its producers made convenient, relatively noncontroversial targets for the film's core audience and among the director's Democratic Party friends. This time, the pervasive, harmful force he depicts is teacher unions, which have driven Democratic education policy for decades.
"It's very, very important to hold two contradictory ideas in your head at the same time," Alter says in the film. "Teachers are great, a national treasure. Teachers' unions are, generally speaking, a menace and an impediment to reform."
The quality of public education has become a charged topic of late and, in various iterations, Alter's point is sounded in other education documentaries released this year, including "The Cartel," written and directed by Bob Bowdon, and "The Lottery," by director Madeleine Sackler and cinematographer Wolfgang Held.
This idea is succinctly expressed in the movie by Newsweek commentator Jonathan Alter.
minority students seeking to flee or avoid lousy, traditional, urban public schools; one white girl wants to escape a mediocre suburban high school that isn't adequately preparing her for college.
Paramount Pictures "Waiting for Superman" portrays five students from around the country, and their parents' efforts to gain admission into a charter school: Four are
"I'm tough on the Democratic Party," he said. "I'm tough on the centralized system of bureaucrats. And the lip service you get from all politicians. And I'm tough on the unions."
He also concedes: "The union thing ... screams the loudest in the movie"
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With solid writing, strong storytelling, persuasive graphics and clever animation, Guggenheim portrays how difficult it is to fire a bad teacher, how resistant unions are to reforms and how the "dance of the lemons" allows ineffective teachers to move from school to school.
He portrays Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, as a bulwark against reform, an interesting choice given that some union stalwarts worry that Weingarten has given away the store to anti-union reformers.
"Teachers are great, a national treasure. Teachers' unions are generally speaking, a menace and an impediment to reform."
tuna salads at a downtown L.A. cafe, an earnest Guggenheim said his goal is to spread responsibility among "all the adults" for pervasive problems in education. He includes himself, a parent who drives past three public schools on the way to his children's private school.
JONATHAN ALTER
Newsweek commentator
Weingarten has worked with both Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg in New York City and the Obama administration. She's also encouraged her locals to make standardized test scores part of teacher evaluations.
something unthinkable for a union leader not long ago.
In public forums, Weingarten has characterized the film as a powerful, well-intentioned narrative that ultimately misleads in myriad ways. For one thing, she said, it overlooks research suggesting that charters, some of which have substantial philanthropic support, are performing no better than traditional schools overall.
All the players in the education reform wars tend to cite research that aligns with their views.
In an interview, Weingarten said she wonders why every desirable school in the film is a charter school. Charters are publicly funded free schools but privately owned and independently operated. Most are nonunion.
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26 Author Deighton
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51 "Kid-tested, mother-approved" cereal
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27 Play-wright William
28 Paradise
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38 Count counter-part
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MOVIES
Facebook movie may hurt image
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
PALO ALTO, Calif. — The company Mark Zuckerberg founded in his Harvard dorm room six years ago was built on the idea that people would want to share personal information — even very personal information — on the Web.
Yet the 26-year-old self-made billionaire has managed to keep a low public profile even as Facebook Inc. shot to stardom in Silicon Valley, catapulting Zuckerberg past Apple's Steve Jobs to become the world's 35thrichest American on the latest Forbes list.
That is about to change. "The Social Network," from director David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin, about the messy and contentious founding of Facebook, is making its debut at the New York Film Festival on Friday, and the will soon know a lot more about Zuckerberg — or at least Hollywood's version of him.
— often criticized for being too cavalier with the intimate details of other people's lives — is bracing for a movie that casts its chief executive as a scheming backstabber accused of stealing the idea for Facebook.
The movie, with the provocative tagline "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies," is an unflattering portrait focusing on the legal clashes between Zuckerberg and Harvard classmates over who should get credit for the social networking phenomenon.
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Worried that the film could damage Zuckerberg's image, Facebook executives pressed the filmmakers for changes they did not get. Now the company
"If this movie becomes big, a lot of people will be exposed to a side of Mark Zuckerberg that won't reflect positively on privacy issues on Facebook," said senior analyst Augie Ray, who follows social networking companies for Forrester Research.
"The film is at its most fictional in its portrayal of Mark," Facebook investor and board member Peter Thiel said. "It's a pretty good portrayal of how business gets done in Hollywood, but not how business gets done in Silicon Valley."
Neither Zuckerberg nor his close associates cooperated with the Sony Pictures film set for wide release Oct. 1. That has raised thorny questions about how much artistic license filmmakers should take in telling the story of an ambitious entrepreneur who gave birth to an Internet sensation while still a teenager.
The filmmakers say they set out to capture a generation-defining moment, weaving a story from several different points of view over the founding of Facebook.
"I would not want a movie made when I am 26 years old about decisions I made when I was a 19-year-old kid. I am very sympathetic," producer Scott Rudin said.