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HOROSCOPES
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 6
The frantic pace continues today. All your insight is required if you're to manage the needs of all the crew. Take care of others first.
Today is a 6 direct path at work gets you nowhere now. Change your focus by five or ten degrees and a new direction emerges. Be patient.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 6.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6
Everyone's bouncing off the walls with radical ideas. How much change can you incorporate and still remain on schedule? Keep on task.
CANCER (June 22-July 22) Today is a 5 Everyone in your household joins together to resolve a persistent issue. In fact, no one leaves until an agreement's achieved. Peace reigns.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Wherever you find yourself today, dig deep and express your passions to others. You meet someone unusual who incites enthusiasm. Go with the flow.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
Today is a 7 Exchange of ideas and emotional energy makes today's work a lot more fun. Don't hold back. Even a silly idea is worth listening to.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 7
Exchange of ideas and emotional energy makes today's work a lot more fun. Don't hold back. Even a silly idea is worth listening to.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
Spread the work around by creating a priority list and allowing someone else to assign the tasks. That way, you play the good cop.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov.22-Dec.21)
Today is an 7
SAGITTARIUS
Dec 21
Today is an 7
By day's end, something does
get done. Early on, you wonder
if the ideas will end off flying
around and come to roost. Trust
the process.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 6
Today is a 6
You're in and out of your own workspace throughout the day.
You're preparing a surprise that's not ready to be revealed. Make sure it's well hidden.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 7
Imagination runs away with you today. Your passion places you on a South Sea island or some other exotic locale. Take notes for a future trip.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 7
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 7
Brighten everyone's day with
jokes that focus on human
foibles. People love to laugh out
loud. Choose unusual topics,
and find the humor there.
Conceptis SudoKu
By Dave Green
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Difficulty Level ★
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Answer to previous puzzle
Large movie studios focus on specialized story themes
MOVIES
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
lan Vern Tan
LOS ANGELES — Alcon Entertainment has been here before.
interest in comedies anchored by black casts is as fleeting as a soap bubble.
Over the years, studios and specialized film distributors have released any number of commercial hits led by black per-
Alcon isn't alone. Hollywood's
Seven years ago, the financier of "The Blind Side," "The Book of Eli" and "Insomnia" took a shot at an urban comedy. "Love Don't Cost a Thing," a black-themed remake of 1987's high school romance "Can't Buy Me Love," was a middling success, grossing about $22 million in domestic release. But the movie business is not driven by middling successes, and Alcon hasn't made another such movie until "Lottery Ticket."
the writer/director/producer/actor due next year: "We the Peepes," "Madea's Big Happy Family" and "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf"
As Perry's power has surged, some of the previous purveyors of movies aimed at black audiences have backed away.
These days, though, the genre nearly has become a one-studio monopoly: Lionsgate with its steady stream of popular Tyler Perry titles, with three films from
New Line Cinema, the studio behind "Friday" and its sequels and once a reliable maker of urban comedies, is now focused on chick flicks ("Sex and the City," "Valentine's Day," "The Time Traveler's Wife") and mainstream sequels (including follow-ups to "Final Destination," "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "Harold & Kumar Go to
formers, including 1995's "Friday," 1997's "Soul Food," 1999's "The Best Man," 2000's "Big Momma's House," and 2002's "Barbershop," "Drumline," 2005's "Are We There Yet?" and this April's "Death at a Funeral," to cite but a few.
"Even though the movie is very much of a popcorn movie, it has a moral center."
ANDREW KOSOVE Producer
White Castle ). After the unremarkable performance of its "Just Wright" and "Our Family Wedding." Fox Searchlight earlier this summer pulled the plug on
"Baggage Claim," a romantic comedy that was to star "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button's" Oscarnominated Taraji P. Henson.
The story about a recent high school graduate who wins a massive jackpot but can't immediately cash the ticket (thus creating more personal problems than any amount of money can solve) had been in
"Lottery Ticket" nearly was ripped up in the retrenchment.
development at Rogue Pictures, with rapper Chris Brown an early candidate to play the film's lead role before his arrest in connection with an assault. When Ryan Cavanaughs Relativity Media bought Rogue from Universal Studios in early 2009, "Lottery Ticket" was orphaned. "It just didn't fit into their plans," says Abdul Williams, "Lottery Ticket" screenwriter. "We thought it was dead."
But Alcon, the production company launched by Federal Express founder and Chairman Frederick Smith, had just refinanced its production deal, and was obligated to lower its slate's average budget, owing to the $82-million "Book of Eli."
Alcon's movies, which are released by Warner Bros., tend to have some positive social message and the company felt "lottery Ticket" fit with its mission. "Even though the movie is very much of a popcorn movie, it has a moral center," Andrew Kosove, producer, says. "And it's really a lot about economic anxiety. Broderick and I thought it was an interesting story in these times."
As written by Williams and directed by music video veteran Erik White ("Fabulous, T.I."), the film's Kevin Carson (now played by rapper Bow Wow) is an 18-year-old with entrepreneurial ambitions who wins a $370 million jackpot. Due to a holiday weekend, he has to sit on his ticket for several days, but everyone in the projects soon finds out about the coming windfall. Carson's platonic relationship with a girlfriend, his friendship with his best friend and his interactions with a mysterious neighbor are all transformed by his impending wealth.
Don's Auto Center
ACROSS
1 Potato
5 "Golly!"
8 Unkempt one
12 Gaelic language
13 E. Coast ocean
14 Spanish hors d'oeuvre
15 Cry
16 Subtract
18 Evergreen type
20 Marble cake patterns
21 Light-weight pith helmet
23 Before
24 Grasp
28 Break suddenly
31 Eggs
32 Wicker-work willow
34 Book-keeper (Abbr.)
35 Longings
37 Pay attention
39 "Krazy —"
41 Comic Carvey
42 9-Down's territory
45 Garden intruder
49 Assume control
51 Father (Fr.)
52 State with certainty
53 A Gersh-win brother
54 Ireland
55 Conks out
56 Water barrier
57 Require
DOWN
1 Stitches
2 Get ready, for short
3 Addict
4 Appoint as one's agent
5 Fence feature
6 Greek vowel
7 B.P.O.E. members
8 Flight between floors
9 Noted WWI British officer
10 October birth-stone
Solution time: 24 mins.
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D E M I S E N U R S E
11 Howls at the moon
17 Lamb's dam
19 Silver salmon
22 Homeric epic
24 Plaything
25 "Haill"
26 Illinois city
27 About 1/3 ounce
29 Mimic
30 Cushion
33 Former Attorney
General Janet
36 Tools for duels
38 Occur
40 Uncle (Sp.)
21 Slightly
43 Sitarist Shankar
4Eager
46 Present
47 A Great Lake
4Tear in two
50 Historic time
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MUSIC
Jay-Z grabs Forbes' 'Cash King'award
LOS ANGELES — All hail returning royalty. For the third time in the last four years, Jay-Z has been anointed hip-hop "Cash King" by Forbes; he is rap's highest-earning star with a bullet, according to the magazine's annual ranking.
Having taken in $63 million in the last 12 months, Vobi Baby easily bested a who's of hip hop raimmakers that includes Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Timbaland and Dr. Dre — not to mention the only person to have financially outperformed Jay-Z in recent memory, 50 Cent, who took the Forbes list's top spot in 2008 with a $150 million annual income. He was downgraded to No.14 this
year, though, having checked in with a comparatively paltry $8 million.
And the list's No. 2 wasn't even close. Just $30 million, Sean "Diddy" Combs?
But if there is a takeaway from this year's Cash King crop, it's that business as usual in the rap world means leveraging one's creativity into a mode of undisguised commerciality that's created an abiding business model for the music industry.
Hip-hop's heavy hitters seem to realize that to make it in today's troubled economy — marked by a tumble in the concert business and music sales — brand-building is as important as mic control.
AUDITION
UNIVERSITY DANCE COMPANY
Monday, August 23
7:00 pm
Studio 242
Robinson Center
no solo material
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785-864-4264
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