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Quick Looks
Friday January 26, 2001
HOROSCOPES
Today's Birthday (Jan. 26). You can win the respect you deserve and the money to go with it. Don't let a setback stop you in February. Come back with the facts in March and demand what you have coming. Sharpen your skills in April. Lie low in May and do homework. A lucky break and an intelligent friend help you scoot past the dangers in June. Pay a few more dues with your own hard work in July. Don't let a partner talk you out of your money in August. Share expenses equally, and you'll get more of what you're after in September. If you have the facts, and you paddle them wisely, you can get a big raise in November. Then, get rowdy with best friends in December.
Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7.
The confusion starts to get sorted out, but it's not going as you'd planned. That's OK. Use your imagination; you'll find something in this mess that helps you get where you're going. Faith is an important tool. Believe a miracle can happen.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7.
You and your buddies have a reason to party. When you've made it through a raging storm, just standing there and breathing counts as winning. You can afford the time to celebrate your victory.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 7.
You thought you'd get away with everything, but you might have to play by somebody else's rules. Be sensitive to an older person's wants, needs and authority. Don't ignore the person who's signing either your grade card or paycheck.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 5.
Your negotiations yesterday may have been more successful than you realized. More money's out there, waiting. You just don't have it all in your pocket, yet. Don't give up or get lazy. Your attention is required!
Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 7.
Yesterday you may have wondered if the clouds that surrounded you had a silver lining. A deal you were working on looked like it had gone sour. Today blue sky's in your heart. Your dreams are fulfilled in a way you never expected.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 5.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) — Today is a 6.
The work you've been doing has you just about worn out. Somebody wants to help, so let them. A person with a vision for the future is coming up with some great ideas. Make time to listen and offer your comments, of course.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is an 8.
Your planning and reorganizing has finally led you to take action. You may feel kind of inspired, and that's perfect. You don't have to follow your plans exactly. That was only an exercise. Now, you get into the real creativity.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7.
True love emerges from a recent upheaval.
Things at your house were hectic for a while.
Now, you're back to what's most important — a person who loves you very much. Make sure you let that person know how much you care, too.
Signatures (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 6.
You've had enough mental activity for a while. Tonight why don't you hide out at home and take a long bath?
You've done so much thinking lately, you may have blown a fluse. Let your brain have the night off.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 6.
*Happiness (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 6.* You've worried long enough. A loved one knows some great ways to help you relax. Let yourself be fussed over. If that's not going to happen, hire someone to do it. A professional massage is worth the money. Do something nice for yourself.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 6.
You may have figured everything out, but did you overlook the spiritual side of the equation? A hunch, or something that comes to you in a dream brings it all together.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 7.
You're emerging into a new understanding of yourself. You may have recently discovered some things you didn't know you knew. The confusion is clearing, and guess what? After that long, twisting free fall, you're landing buttered-side-up.
Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet
Note: Horoscopes have no basis in scientific fact and should be read for entertainment purposes only.
Despite failures Internet firms vie for Sundance hits
The Associated Press
PARK CITY, Utah — Internet companies swarmed the Sundance Film Festival last year, where they snapped up short movies and pitched the Web as the next big thing in film distribution.
This year, after many Internet firms folded or merged and Web investment dried up, some of the survivors are back at Sundance, still talking up the Web as an entertainment conduit, but in more realistic tones.
Too many companies leapt in too quickly, raising cash and setting up elaborate Web sites filled with short films and other entertainment, counting on advertising revenue that never materialized.
Some high-profile Web efforts never even got off the ground, such as Pop.com, whose partners included Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard. Pop.com's founders scrapped the entertainment Web site last September after nearly a year of planning.
"These companies came out of the woodwork and said, 'We'll put some short-form entertainment on the Web, sell ads and somehow we'll make money,'" said Jannat Gargi, vice president of acquisitions and development for AtomFilms, which distributes short movies on the Internet and such outlets as television and airlines.
AtomFilms, which recently merged with Shockwave.com, is trolling Sundance for new films and showing off movies already in its library.
Despite the Internet shakeout over the last year, filmmakers remain confident that the Web will help their movies reach wider audiences.
Jennifer Arnold said the exposure her short film The Mullet Chronicles receives as part of the Sundance online festival will draw attention to an hourlong version of the documentary she plans to complete this spring.
The online festival, which runs through late February, was started to broaden Sundance's audience via the Internet. About 20 short films can be viewed on the Web.
"There already is an ample market for us," said Jennifer Pesi-Kelly, marketing director for Sightsound.com, which rents and sells full-length movies over the Internet.
The company's films are especially popular on college campuses, where many dorms already are wired for high-speed Internet access.
"Students are definitely some of our early supporters," PesciKelly said. "They use their computers as entertainment centers in the dorms, and more and more people will do the same in their homes in the future."
Crossword
1 Got a jump on
8 Automobile
18 Aging vessel
19 Premier escape artist
1 Lemon drink
19 Slip up
19 Go toes
2 Casual contest
20 Beauty film
21 Health of soccer
23 Abyss
24 Chapel vow
24 Mel cartoons
27 China Sea
26 Negative prefix
25 Applies to a surface
33 Lobster eggs
34 Matured
36 Discharge
39 "Opheus in the Underworld" composer
41 Hitchback subunits?
42 Share a book project
48 Lennon's Yoko
49 Intro
51 Time period
52 Rose and Best
52 Make amends
54 Angler's float
57 Off one's feed
58 Court divider
59 Midler film, "Drowning"
60 Ducketeer
63 Majestic ride
64 Celebrate a birthday
67 Seatarer
69 Straggier
69 Negative conjunction
70 Help!
71 Canine holders
DOWN
DOWN
Enjoying jointly
French resort area
Bake
Poetic works
Brooch
Final one
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7 Fill with apprehension
8 Underground cemetery
9 Bother
10 Stays in the military
11 1964 U.S. Open winner
12 Exist
13 Taste
19 * Bravo"
12 Unfeeling
25 Falses confidence
26 Quantity of tots?
28 Also
29 Farm layer
32 B-complex component
3 Asian frying pan
3 Doughy pastry
3 That ship
4 Parker and Powell
4 Dandy
4 Washington's bill
4 Minute aquatic organism
Solutions to yesterday's puzzle
45 Old Testament horcine
46 Mesabi Range
output
47 Knights' tunics
50 You don't say!
53 Actor Wallay!
54 Tabs' targets
59 Riley and Ryan
59 Dougias' sie
in the past
49 Worldly West
59 Org. of Woods
Exhibition highlights artistic 'odd couple'
Bv William J. Kole
Associated Press Writer
HARTFORD, Conn. — They were colleagues, confidantes, the best of friends. But you'd never know it from Paul Gaugin's unflattering portraits of his painting buddy.
One depicts Meyer de Haan as a smirking devil clutching a writhing serpent. Another paints the Dutchman as a yellow-eyed fox pawing a naked young girl. Here's de Haun hunched demonically over a bowl of fruit. There's de Haan leering at two Tahitian beauties easily half his age.
through Sunday, April 29.
With friends like that, who needs enemies?
That's exactly the point of "Gauguin's Nirvana: Painters at Le Pouldu 1889-90," an astonishing new exhibition of works by the odd couple of the Post-Impressionist movement. It opens today at Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum and runs
More than 40 Gauguin and de Haan paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture — culled from collections around the world — capture perfectly the petty jealousies and rivalries that simmered below the surface of a mutually inspiring friendship.
Most Gauguin shows focus on his last days in French Polynesia, where he died in 1903 still seeking the meaning of life and the paradise he discovered there.
Gauguin was already well-established and mixed with people like Vincent van Gogh, who once confessed to Gauguin. "I find my own artistic ideas excessively commonplace in comparison with yours." Yet he didn't have much money to show for his fame.
De Haan's celebrity was mostly confined to his native Netherlands, but he was wealthy enough to drop what he was doing, become Gauguin's student
and pay their bills.
Master and pupil worked side by side on an eclectic jumble of portraits, still-lives and landscapes, experimenting with a bold new palette of colors. Often, they differed vastly in interpreting the identical scene. While each painted "The Valley of Kerzelle," de Haan zoomed in on the lavender vineyards; Gauguin took a more distant approach, placing a solitary figure in the foreground.
Nearly a dozen Gauguin works seem to portray de Haan as a pervert.
In "The Loss of Virginity," a jarring oil on canvas, a nude reclines on her back in a rolling coastal field done up in almost neon hues of red, green and blue. She holds a lily in one hand; the other pets the narrow-eyed fox pawing her bosom. The beast's slanted eyes and pointed ears are unmistakably de Haan's.
The show's title work, "Nirvana",
shows de Haan, his face a demonic
mask, gripping a golden snake whose coils spell out G, the first letter of Gauguin's signature. Two female nudes, representing life and death, stretch languidly in the background; in the foreground floats the word "Nirvana," as if to suggest that de Haan, no mere mortal, had achieved a Buddhist oneness with the universe.
Many critics disagree over whether Gauguin intended to pay homage to de Haan's wisdom or ridicule him for his sexual conquests. Probably, he meant to do both.
In any case, Gauguin exacted sweet revenge when he left France for Polynesia and the tropical burst of creativity that would immortalize him.
Among the many grand works he executed there was an oil-on-canvas of two voluptuous Tahitan nudes reclining on a beach. The title — or was it merely a taunt? — reads simply: "Are You Jealous?"
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