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HOROSCOPES
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 6
Use your willpower to create an umbrella protecting everyone in your circle. Rely on logic to resolve emotional distress. Move forward with creative projects.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Today is a 7
If everyone works in teams of two, a lot more gets accomplished. One pair may go off in some wild, imaginative direction, but that's all right.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Today is a 7
Today is a 7
Activities move forward like a well-oiled machine. Maintain control over the wheel, and you stay on track and get plenty accomplished.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 7
Yesterday's accomplishments put you and a close person in a really good mood. You jump into the week's activities with great ideas and strong emotional support.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 7
Today is a 7
Today is a 7 — Someone needs to take the lead. It doesn't have to be you. Balance between criticism and optimism may not be as simple as you'd think. Consider all possibilities.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
To take in all the action today
would require a very wide-angle
lens. Ask someone to record part
of it for review, to savor it later.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an B
May 15, 2018
Choose a direction early and follow it. You get a lot more done if you don't switch gears every time someone opens their mouth Keep your eyes on the prize.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 7
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.19) Today is a 6
Best results come from concentrated, logical thought. Plan each detail to allow for flexibility along the way. Each person contributes to success.
Today is a 6
As long as you remain in charge,
you meet all your goals (and
more). To create a livelier mood
for others, tell stupid jokes and
laugh at them.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Todav is a 9
Today is a 9 You have all your ducks in a row regarding your personal task. You discover that others have also done their work to move a joint project forward.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Todav is a 6
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 6
Yould like to stay on the intellectual side of any argument. Let others wax emotional while you keep your head. Group consensus evolves late today.
Conceptis SudoKu
By Dave Green
1 7 8 5
4 1 2
8 9 5 1 3
1 3 4
9 5 1
2 1 7
2 5 7 3 1
1 3 7
6 9 4
©2010 Concepts Puzzles, Disc. by King Features Syndicate, Inc
Difficulty Level ★
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MOVIES
Film featuring celebrity's downfall said to be a hoax
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Judging from the early reaction inside Hollywood. Casey Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix will have a lot of explaining to do in the coming days. It turns out that Affleck's "I'm Still Here," which purported to be a documentary, depicting an out-of-control Phoenix self-destructing before our very eyes, was actually a hoax. Virtually all of the footage, notably the scenes of Phoenix doing drugs, consorting with hookers and berating his personal assistants, was fake.
Affleck's embarrassingly weak defense? "I never intended to trick anybody," he told the New York Times. "The idea of quote, hoax, unquote, never entered my mind." He said he wanted viewers to experience the film's narrative, about the disintegration of celebrity, without being clouded by preconceived notions. "We wanted to create a space. You believe what is happening is real," adding that
he considered what Phoenix did on screen "a terrific performance, it's the performance of his career"
While it's a performance, it's also undeniably a trick. In fact, Affleck had clearly hoped to trick as many people as possible, at least in the sense of making audiences wonder if what they were seeing was real or staged — or some strange new hybrid art form. He failed in the most obvious way. Even though the film has attracted a mountain of press attention — there's nothing the media loves more than the prospect of eyeballing a celebrity in a steep career tailspin — very few people have bothered to see the film, which has been in limited release in selected cities around the country. And while some critics, such as Roger Ebert, were upset by Phoenix's behavior, others, like my colleague Kenneth Turan and the New York Times' Manohla Dargis, seemed to immediately suspect the film was a put-on.
Dargis described the movie as
"a deadpan satire or a deeply sincere folly (my money is on the first option)," adding that the film was being "unpersuasively sold as a documentary."
So what was Affleck really up to? I suspect that he (and Phoenix) thought it would be a real kick to see how many people they could embarrass and fool into taking the whole spectacle seriously, especially the supposed rubes in the media whom they clearly despise.
It was especially telling that the first two showbiz insiders I spoke to after the news broke had similar reactions — as in, big frigg'n' deal. To hear them tell it, the film was an eccentric, not to mention self-important, exercise in foolishness, concocted by two knuckleheads who seemed peeved either because they didn't have successful A-list careers or because they thought the industry was too dull and mindless to allow them to take the kind of bold risks that real artists take.
As one industry agent put it, clearly looking ahead to Phoenix's appearance Sept. 22 on David Letterman's late-night show, "Boy, if Letterman wasn't in on the joke, he is really going to take that poor guy to the cleaners."
ACROSS
1 Ocho-cinco of the NFL
5 Half a score
8 Slam-dance
12 Tax
13 "— Little Teapot"
14 Busy with 15 Ugandan despot
16 One of the Caesars
18 Render weaponless
20 Broken-bone support
21 Tsp. or tbsp.
23 [With errors unchanged]
24 Monarch with limitless power
28 Pinches
31 Eisen-hower
32 Forest trees
34 Rd.
35 Reps.' rivals
37 Group of spectators
39 Energy
41 "Grease" actress Conn
42 Showed off the muscles
45 Country
49 Viennese, for instance
51 Base runner's goal
52 Assess
53 Needle hole
54 Rams' mates
55 Has to
56 Aachen article
57 Carry on
DOWN
1 Dressed (in)
2 Half (Pref.)
3 Bird, to Brutus
4 Forceful person
5 Jamaican coffee liqueur
6 Ostrich's cousin
7 Complains constantly
8 Curtain fabric
9 One with a lot of contacts?
10 Dazzle
11 Emcee
17 Boom times
Solution time: 24 mins.
D O T E D S P A R K S H E A R E S O R I N E T A C R O S S R O D N E Y M O S T C R E W E W E H A R E L A G W D S M I C A S A N D H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y O G R E E P E E E Y E Y I N K E T N A A P T R U S H I S L E G I Z M O S U L S T E R O C E A N S S S A L U T E G A N R E N E A M E N S
19 LP's and CD's (Abbr.)
22 Health (Sp.)
24 Help
25 43-Down music-maker
26 Storms
27 Swanson product
29 Insulation material, for short
30 Witness
33 Verdl opera
36 Two trios
38 This or that, it doesn't matter which
40 Apiece
42 Mac-Donald's place
43 Waikiki winging
44 Conked out
46 "The Music Man" setting
47 Portent
48 Bird's home
50 Nay operator
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Today's Cryptoquip Clue: E equals T
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TELEVISION
Stewart and Colbert will rally fans in D.C.
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Let the march madness begin. Comedy Central cohorts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will
rally their respective troops on Oct. 30 in a battle of the marches in Washington.
Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity (whose message is): Take it down a notch, America) will meet Colbert'
"A million moderate march where we take to the streets and send a message to our leaders and our national media."
"It is happening, people," Stewart said during his show Thursday. "A million moderate march where we take to the streets
JON STEWART Talk show host
Fear Alive on the National Mall.
meet Colbert's March to Keep
to send a message to our leaders and our national media that says, 'We are here ... we're only here, though, until 6 because we have a sitter!'
And, hey,
Stewart
already has
signs made!
Stewart admitted that it was a twist of fate, since he would already be in Washington, with "The Daily Show" taping there Oct. 25-28
Not to be outdone, Colbert followed up with an announcement on his own show, urging his viewers to also assemble "because now is not the time to take it down a notch. Now is the time for all good men to freak out for freedom."
Both announcements come on the heels of Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally that took place this year on the anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic speech at the same monument.