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HOROSCOPES
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 5
Romantic thoughts must adapt to practical considerations. Use that delightful fantasy to inspire ever one to move in the right direction.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
It's a good thing you're not seeking precision. Your mission is to create a bridge between diverse elements of your situation.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6
Passion creates problems for you now. Take care of even the smallest injury immediately. That way, you reduce difficulties later on.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 5
Reading a romance novel will not achieve the relaxation you like. It requires action to bring imaginative possibilities into reality.
While you seek comfort, an associate seems to be grasping for power Don't let laziness prevent you from protecting your position. Inject humor.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 6
Today is a day
You perceive a problem with accomplishing your task with available resources. Figure out a way around this problem today. Consult a professional.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 8
Today is an 8
The last thing you want is for someone to interfere with fulfilling your desires. Laugh at requests that take you off track.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
Emotions flare when group members disagree. You need to get the practical issues on the table quickly, and allow each person to suggest solutions.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 7
Planning a party at your house takes more effort than you thought Take care of practical matters (like grocery shopping), while others clean up.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Today is a 5
Take care of practical details for someone far from home.
Reschedule an appointment, or refill a prescription and send it by overnight mail.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 5
Emotional purchases fail to satisfy later. Extending limits helps everyone today. Think about big expenditures for 24 hours before buying.
MUSIC
Fans: Weezer is a sellout band now
Weezer raised a lot of questions by naming its upcoming album "Hurley" and its cover featuring only a picture of actor Jorge Garcia.
"We struggled super hard trying to come up with an album title, trying to find some kind of phrase that summed up the whole aesthetic behind the album — 'Heavy Mental,' 'Smaller Than Life,'" singer Rivers Cuomo told Spinner.com.
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Emmy ratings fall for 18-49 group
TELEVISION
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES - A slew of new winners and an energized performance by host Jimmy Fallon was enough to boost the audience slightly for the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards on NBC Sunday night.
About 13.5 million people tuned in to watch AMC's "Mad Men" and ABC's "Modern Family" walk off with the top honors in the drama and comedy category, respectively, according to Nielsen. That's a tiny improvement over the 13.47 million that caught the 2009 Emmys on CBS. But among the coveted 18-to-49 demographic, ratings were down, with last night's program averaging a 4.1, compared with 4.2 for last year's program. Each ratings point in that demographic equals about 1.3 million
That the Emmys managed to stay relatively flat with last year's numbers is impressive given that this year's show ran at the end of August, a time when many families are grabbing their last chance at a summer vacation and television viewing is typically lower than in September, when the show usually runs. NBC moved the show because it carries NFL football on Sunday nights in the fall.
viewers.
However, because the Emmy Awards ran in late August, a case can also be made that the competition was lighter than it would be in September, thus the numbers should have reflected that. Last year, for example, the CBS telecast of the Emmy Awards went head-to-head against NBC's coverage of a New York Giants-Dallas Cowboys football game. Sunday night's viewership was down 16 percent compared with NBC's 2006 telecast of the show, which also took place in late August.
Even though it's late August, none of NBC's rivals threw up a test pattern. Fox ran a preseason
football game featuring the Denver Broncos and Pittsburgh Steelers, and CBS carried its popular show "Big Brother. Cable also didn't take the night off, with AMC's "Mad Men" and "Entourage" and HBO's "True Blood" airing new episodes.
That so many new shows were nominated and in the running for top prizes may have helped keep Emmy viewers glued to their TV sets. Aside from "Modern Family," Fox's "Glee" took home a couple of Emmys in the comedy category, including a trophy for Jane Lynch in the best supporting actress category. Jim Parsons of the CBS hit "The Big Bang Theory" was also a newcomer to Emmy glory with a win in the best acting in a comedy category. Those three managed to shut down NBC's "30 Rock," which had dominated the comedy category for the last few years.
On the drama front it was the same old story for the most part as "Mad Men" won for the third year in a row, as did Bryan Cranston, the star of AMC's other big series, "Breaking Bad."
With the Emmys over, the next priority for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is reaching a new television deal. The current deal, which was signed eight years ago, ended Sunday night, and talks for a new contract between the broadcast networks and the Academy are dragging.
At issue are the fees for the show. In the last deal, Fox, CBS, NBC and ABC agreed to share the awards and paid a high price for those rights. The annual cost has gone from $3 million a year in 2002 to more than twice that this year.
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21 Hidden supply
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40 Slender
42 Type measures
43 Soft cheese
48 Biblical verb suffix
49 MGM mascot
50 Mid-month date
51 Actress Myrna
52 Ova
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Idol winner talks attempted suicide
MUSIC
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.
- August was supposed to be Fantasia Barrino's comeback month. For three years, the "American Idol" winner and Broadway star had been working on her third album, and selecting tracks that spoke to how far sheed come in her troubled life.
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To outsiders, everything seemed to be on target for a successful late-August launch of her album, "Back to Me." But behind the scenes, the 26-year-old singer, overloaded personally and professionally, said she felt like she wanted to "sleep forever." In a lengthy interview, Fantasia opened up about her suicide attempt earlier this month and also talked about her first halting and painful steps toward recovery.
"I always covered up everything so well," Fantasia said, sipping a glass of Malbec at a Beverly Hills hotel after taping "Lopez Tonight" last week. "I'm always the bubbly life of the party. And for so long, I pushed and pushed and pushed. And, this day, I had no push in me."
Before her overdose on Aug. 9 grabbed headlines and lighted up the blogosphere, Fantasia barricaded herself inside a guest room in her Charlotte, N.C., house for three days — refusing to eat, drink or talk to anyone, even
her mother, best friend and manager. The single mother couldn't even face her 9-year-old daughter, Zion, who was being looked after by a cousin.
For months, Fantasia had denied rumors she was having an affair with a married man, Antwaun Cook, a T-Mobile salesman. But soon photos of the couple surfaced on gossip pages and Cook's wife, Paula, filed for divorce, saying her husband had made a sex tape with Fantasia.
The news didn't go over well in the culturally conservative Southern city. Strangers drove by her house at all hours. Her mother expressed her pain and disappointment. Fantasia feared another round of cruel judgments from the media.
"At the time, I wasn't thinking about anybody," she said, tears welling in her eyes. "I was so numb. I was so out of it. I've never been to that place before. It was so scary. It was the darkest place that anybody would want to be."
It took a team of lawyers, trailed by cameras for the second season of her reality show "Fantasia for Real" — which premieres Sept. 19 — to wrest her from her hiding place. Because of the ongoing litigation, Fantasia would say little about her relationship with Cook, but she acknowledged that the two had had an on-again, off-again relationship for 11 months.