4A / ENTERTAINMENT / THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
HOROSCOPES
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Todav is an 8
Get private time with an associate with a bright idea. This could change your entire future, so consider it carefully before you act.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 7
With each encounter you discover alternatives that get your work done. In the process, you find ways to enjoy yourself and support others.
You're flooded with insights to today. How will you express them? You may need assistance in getting your thoughts on paper. Accept help from others.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 6
Your imagination carries you away, and that's all right. Today you hatch new plans and wait until later to put them into action. Enjoy the process.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Todav is a 6
You learn today about the dynamics involving feelings and concrete action. Sensitivity prevents breakage. As much as you'd like something done, take time for care.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
Make sure to use all your talents as you talk about necessary changes. Provide visual cues and language that appeals to emotions.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Todav is a 6
You begin to wonder what you were thinking when you started out. Don't be disheartened: just re-examine the logic to get back on track.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
Masculine and feminine elements combine to produce a new attitude or look. This could involve androgynous styling or a cooperative spirit.
Today is a 9
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today you need to understand a financial issue. Research leads to unusual insights concerning forces and uses for money. Think on it overnight.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Todav is an 8
Co-workers share your desire to move a project forward. Try a variety of ideas and work them into one focused effort. Then measure the results.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18) Today is a 7
Gather everyone's suggestions in a hat. As you pull out each one, apply the spirit or mood (if not the content). This ensures progress.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 5
Prepare to top off your week with an important meeting. Powerful people consider your work and suggest additional creative changes.
By Dave Green
Conceptis SudoKu
3 9 5 2 6
8 7 9 1
2 6 4
1 9 7
6 2 8
4 7
6 2 8
4 7 9 3
©2010 Concepts Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate.
5 1 3 4 2 8 6 7 9
8 4 7 6 9 3 2 1 5
2 6 9 5 7 1 4 8 3
4 8 5 2 6 7 3 9 1
3 9 1 8 5 4 7 2 6
6 7 2 1 3 9 5 4 8
9 3 4 7 8 6 1 5 2
1 2 6 9 4 5 8 3 7
7 5 8 3 1 2 9 6 4
Difficulty Level ★★★
Answer to previous puzzle
COOL THING
Kevin Cook
Blaise Marcoux
LITTLE SCOTTIE
Todd Pickrell and Scott A. Winer
DOWN
1 Weeps loudly
2 Abbott's second baseman
3 Verdi opera
4 Monotoneous drumbeat
5 Comic strip penguin
6 Pendulum site
7 Ordinal suffix
8 Societal level
9 Bitterness
10 Loosen
11 Feline, to Francisco
Solution time: 25 mins.
Yesterdav's answer 9-16
16 "— Town"
20 Hearty brew
22 Fear, and then some
23 Toil
24 Mischievous tyke
25 Bill's partner
26 Oaths
27 Life-guard's place
29 Kvetch
30 Pigpen
35 Trinity member
37 Ingratiate
39 Picture puzzle
40 Round Table address
41 Ethereal
42 Genealogy chart
43 Ski lift type
44 Infant
45 "— have to do"
46 He and she
49 Jungfrau, e.g.
50 "CSI" evidence
CRYPTOQUIP
YJTTNST: "OI EHPJ YHZI."
Yesterday's Cryptoquip: WHEN SOMEONE SIMPLY CAN'T DECIDE WHICH COAL PIT HE PREFERS, COULD YOU SAY HE'S OF TWO MINES?
Today's Cryptoquip Clue: I equals Y
TELEVISION
Oprah's 25th and final season kicks off with big giveaway
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Oprah Winfrey is getting out of daytime TV at just the right moment, before her self-titled program crosses over completely into game-show territory. Monday's kickoff episode to Winfrey's 25th and final season offered more of what has become her signature move, the big-ticket giveaway to audience members gushing tears of
This time, her studio audience — stocked with "ultimate" fans the way George W. Bush used to stock his speeches with partisans — got not just Paul Simon and John Travolta singing and dancing for them.
They also received a free trip to Australia, the host announced in that kind of low-register Oprah growl she does when excited: "We're going to Australia!" she repeated
KU FOOTBALL WATCH PARTY WITH KU HOCKEY CLUB TEAM
Date: September 17
Time: 6:30pm
Location: 23rd Street Brewery
Come catch the KU vs. Southern Mississippi football game with the KU Hockey Club team. Meet the players and learn more about the squad.
KU HOCKEY CLUB HOME OPENED
Road trip to Overland Park to witness the team's first home game against Nebraska at 8 p.m. Fan bus leaves the Kansas Union at 6:30 p.m. and will return after the game. Packages are available for $15 including the ticket cost
Date: September 18
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Pepsi Ice Midwest
to the game and the round-trip bus fare.
Tuesday, March 10
$1.50 off for purchasing in advance with ID
Season tickets; $40 to all 10 home games
available at kukuchi.com or office 5928
KUHOCKEY.COM
JOHN TRAVOLTA
Actor
several times.
The eight-day vacation will come in December, with Winfrey accompanying her followers to tape a couple of shows Down Under.
cell phones,
too — the new
Motorola Defy.
Also given away
was lots of free
publicity:
to Motorola,
to Australian airline Qantas and
to the nation's tourism board,
and to Chevy,
which provided
vehicles for a group of hardcore Oprah fans to roadtrip to Chicago for Monday's show.
But that's not all! They got free
It was like "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," but without all those nettlesome questions separating people from their prizes. By now, it's got to the point where an audience that doesn't score any booty goes home crestfallen.
"Oprah, there's only one of you, and there'll never be another one."
Viewed charitably, the car and technology and pajama handouts
amount to an immodestly rich and successful woman letting some of the wealth trickle down. But a skeptic might classify them as almost a form of bribery: Keep loving me, baby, and I might buy you that diamond necklace.
And the shows' nakedly avariciousnature audience members were virtually quaking with excitement as Winfrey teased out the prize announcement Monday threatens to
overshadow some of the good, and serious, work Winfrey does.
mental, the nostalgic and the celebratory of Winfrey and her place in the culture.
Later this week, before announcing her new book club pick Friday, she'll interview the Washington state woman who was scarred in an acid attack this summer, and she'll return to a West Virginia town where she did a powerful show about AIDS in 1987. Winfrey, for all the celebration bunkum she's helped promote, has also run a fairly high-minded show for most of her tenure.
And the hardcore fans probably don't see any tension between Oprah as saint and Oprah as Santa Claus. Winfrey brought into the audience Monday not only the six roadripping women from Boston, but a guy who loves NASCAR and Oprah, and a schoolteacher who, as a 9-year-old, had been on the show in 1993 because she was a precocious Oprah devotee.
They, along with most everyone else on hand, seemed to lap up the first shaw's mixture of the senti-
Travolta, voted the show's all-time favorite guest after 11 previous appearances, danced Winfrey onto the stage in the kind of faux-flatty act they developed. Later, he would don his Qantas pilot uniform (true fact, though he may not be the airline's busiest captain) to help give the trip away and plug the airline.
"Oprah, there's only one of you, and there'll never be another one," Travolta told the Chicago-based talk-show host, who will move on next year to the West Coast to host a new, less frequent, evening show on her own cable channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network.
A rabid fan from Alberta, Canada — she estimated she has watched 5,500 hours of "Oprab" through the years — was shown on tape calling Travolta's 50th-birthday salute to Winfrey her favorite on-show moment. The not-exactly-understated toast? "You represent the best of our country, and what's possible in our country," Travolta said in the 2004 episode, "but more importantly you are a citizen of the world, and you are a hero to mankind."
Well.
The plan, producers have said, is for the final season to provide one big "moment" after another.
But it's hard to imagine keeping pace with an initial episode that served up a free, expensive vacation and a virtual Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
Fasten your seat belts, viewers. It's going to be a bumpy final ride.