A / ENTERTAINMENT / FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 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 6
Stick to details as you try to complete an artistic project today. You don't have time to reinvent, so tweak what you have. Use practiced technique.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 6
It's all about love today, and also about privacy. Make plans for intimate moments after work. Remain flexible, as others need special attention.
Carry your list of household tasks. That way, you can pick up necessary items when you're out. Good advice comes in along the way.
You hear things today that could be taken multiple ways. You're happier if you choose an optimistic perspec tion.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
LEO (July 23-Aug.22)
Today is a 7
As soon as you turn your attention towards the weekend, optimism increases exponentially. Don't forget to lock the office door on the way out.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
today is 15 a.m.
An older person points out the logic of borrowing instead of spending your own money. Do this only if you can comfortably pay back the loan.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Others tell you to clean up your attitude. You can do this by focusing on more optimistic possibilities while remaining grounded in reality.
SCORPIO (Oct.23-Nov.21)
Today is an 8
Your typical work style meets with both appreciation and opposition today Oh, well ... you can't please everyone. Do what you have to do.
You wish it were Saturday. All you want to do today is play, so have fun with whatever work or recreation you've got scheduled. It's about the attitude.
Your website or email service has a breakdown. To fix it, apply all your resources. You're happier with the results if you manage the work yourself.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 5
Use all your creative effort to complete an important piece of work. Your writing skills may be rusty, so allow time to edit or revise.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 6
Everyone beats around the bush today, avoiding the central point. You need to find a way to ground wild assumptions. Just say it.
Conceptis Sudoku
Bv Dave Green
6 7
9 1 5
4 1 8
2 9 8
5 6
8 1 4
8 7
1 5 9
9 2
Difficulty Level ★★★★
4 9 8 7 3 6 5 2 1
2 7 5 8 4 1 6 9 3
1 3 6 2 9 5 8 4 7
9 8 2 6 1 3 4 7 5
3 5 1 4 7 9 2 6 8
6 4 7 5 8 2 1 3 9
7 1 4 3 6 8 9 5 2
5 6 9 1 2 7 3 8 4
8 2 3 9 5 4 7 1 6
Answer to previous puzzle
8/27
Difficulty Level ★★★
THE NEXT PANEL
Nicholas Sambaluk
BEYOND THE GRAVE
NO.056 - "TRUE P8RIL"
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Ian Vern Tan
MOVIES
Docu-horror genre booms
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
It might be called "The Last Exorcism," but it's just the latest in what has become a kind of horror-movie juggernaut, the movie-within-the-movie that proves the adage that less is more — even when produced by a filmmaker who's always believed that more is, in fact, not enough.
Presented by Eli Roth — creator of the "Hostel" franchise and a prime mover in what's frequently referred to as "torture porn"
— "The Last Exorcism," which opens today, is part of an emerging genre of docu-horror. The trend started in 1999 with "The Blair Witch Project," but more recent
ly has included "Quarantine," "Cloverfield" and "Paranormal Activity"
Eschewing eviscerations, amputations, decapitations and free-flowing corpuscles, "The Last Exorcism" features breakout performances by Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Louis Herthum and Caleb Landry Jones. Set in a neo-Gothic shishonest preacher named Cotton Marcus (Fabian), who decides to come clean about his sham exorcisms for the benefit of a documentary — which gets made while we watch. The conceit of "The Last Exorcism," therefore, is that we see only what the documentary camera sees, a technique that generates immediacy, urgency, a certain amount of claustrophobia.
Limiting what an audience can see "makes it even scarier," said director Daniel Stamm, "because the audience is aware that there's a whole world outside the frame and that they could be under attack at any moment. You take away the fourth wall, and it makes the audience much more vulnerable."
While suggestion and implication are large guns in the "Exorcism" arsenal, Roth's name carries considerable marketing weight: The director of "Hostel," "Hostel 2," and "Cabin Fever"; producer of "2001 Maniacs" and "Grindhouse," and the portrayer of the homicidal lunatic Sgt. Donny Donowitz in "Inglourious Basterds", Roth is synonymous with excess. So he's eager to disabuse horror fans of the notion that "The Last Exorcism" is going to be "Hostel 3" (which, by the way, is currently production).
you don't get when you're making a straight narrative."
"It's not about power tools," Roth said of "Exorcism." "It's about possession. It's a psychological horror film, and when you go in knowing that's what it is, I think you're more than satisfied." He still likes gore, Roth said, "but I'm attracted to material not just because it's really violent or rated R. I just want to make good, smart, scary, fun genre movies."
Roth agrees. "When you shoot this, you feel like you're in the room with these people in a way
Such deliberately unpolished filmmaking can pack a big payoff: "Paranormal Activity" was made for less than $15,000 and has earned back about $108 million.
ACROSS
1 Angry bunch
35 Nevada city
35 Relaxed
36 Egret's cousin
37 Hatred
40 "La Vie en Rose" chan-teuse
41 Monopoly payment
42 Chris Martin's band
46 Fill fully
47 Reed instrument
48 Raw rock
49 Blood-hound's clue
50 Auction actions
Solution time: 25 mins.
1 Angry bunch
35 Relaxed
36 Egret's cousin
37 Hatred
40 "La Vie en Rose" chan-teuse
41 Monopoly payment
42 Chris Martin's band
46 Fill fully
47 Reed instrument
48 Raw rock
49 Blood-hound's clue
50 Auction actions
DOWN
1 Chart
2 Lubricate
3 Fresh
4 West-minster, e.g.
5 Eurasia's —
Mountains
6 Sinbad's bird
7 Request
8 Passionate, as an argument
9 — Major
10 Target
11 Catch sight of
16 Egg part
19 Cartoonist's needs
20 Roe provider
21 Car
22 Charlie Brown's sister
23 On the rocks
25 Greets the villain
26 Go beyond the limits
27 Drunkard maybe
28 Night light
30 Con game
33 Like "it"
34 Harvest
36 Stashes
37 Approximately
Trig function
DAHL RAF WALLL
ASEA AIL OBEY MILLS BRO MADE PAPAYA PLAN
GETUPANDGDO MOANS TEX OAR ALBBA BUD ANTE LIID ORR ASSES TOUCHHANDGO
CAMI RECTOR EATTS LLIU IOWA BLOT LOG AMEN BARE ENNS LEEST
24 Sample of beetcake
Withdraw
GETUPANDGDO MOANS TEX OAR ALBBA BUD ANTE LIID ORR ASSES TOUCHHANDGO
CAMI RECTOR EATTS LLIU IOWA BLOT LOG AMEN BARE ENNS LEEST
25 Corroded
ALBBA BUD ANTE LIID ORR ASSES TOUCHHANDGO
CAMI RECTOR EATTS LLIU IOWA BLOT LOG AMEN BARE ENNS LEEST
26 Shoe-repair supply
CAMI RECTOR EATTS LLIU IOWA BLOT LOG AMEN BARE ENNS LEEST
27 Sapporo sash
Exist
44 Still
28 Out of bounds
Busy with
40 Trudge along
42 Corn holder
43 Sapporo sash
Exist
44 Still
Yesterday's answer 8-27
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CRYPTOQUIP
“T K K M J X X W D K I V A. ” Yesterday's Cryptoquip: WHEN A CHICKEN FARMER NEEDS TOURGE FOLKS TO TAKE ACTION, IWOULD ASSUME HE EGGS THEM ON. Today's Cryptoquip Clue: a equals S
Today's Cryptoquip Clue: A equals S
MUSIC
The Boss to release 'Darkness' CD, DVD
"The Promise:The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story" includes audio and film footage shot in the recording studio, a live performance in Houston during the Darkness tour and his
Bruce Springsteen's 1978 album, "Darkness on the Edge of Town," is the focal point of an expansive reissue package coming Nov. 16, containing audio and video recorded during and shortly after making the album.
2009 performance of the entire album in New Jersey. There's also a 90-minute documentary on the creation of the album Springsteen made in the wake of his breakthrough success with 1975's "Born to Run."
"Darkness' was my 'samurai' record, stripped to the frame and ready to rumble," the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer writes in materials that will accompany the set. "But the music that got left behind was substantial."
-McClatchy-Tribune
The University of Kansas University Theatre
Presents
A restaging in Greek and English of the KU Summer Theatre in Greece production performed this summer for the Oniades Summer Theatre Festival.
Greek Study Abroad Showcase
7:30 p.m.
August 27----28,2010
2:30 p.m.
August 29,2010
Inge Theatre/Murphy Hall
General admission tickets are on sale in the KU ticket offices: University Theatre, 864-3982; Lied Center, 864-AARTS, and online at www.kutheatre.com. Seating is limited. Tickets are $15 for the public, $14 for senior citizens and KU faculty and staff, and $10 for all students. All major credit cards are accepted for phone and online orders. The University Theatre is partially funded by the KU Student Senate Active Fee; funding is also provided by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a national agency. The University Theatre season is sponsored by the KU Credit Union.
Kansas Arts
Consortium
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SENATE
KU
UNIVERSITY THEATRE
The University of Kansas
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A DIVISION OF INTEGRAL CREDIT UNION
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