4A / ENTERTAINMENT / TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
HOROSCOPES
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
Your challenge involves appropriate use of emotional power. Think before criticizing others. The process and the end result are equally important, as are those around you.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Ideas abound in your immediate environment. To make the most of them establish a bridge of communication. Others may resist this at first but will get it eventually.
Today's a good day for building bridges. Use them to bring diverse factions together for productive discussion. This will lead to brilliant new discoveries.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 5.
An associate applies pressure now. To achieve balance and proportion, gather more data and analyze it logically. Clarity allows people to relax.
LEO (July 23-Aug.22)
Don't hurt yourself by working so hard. Use circumstances to your advantage, and shift focus from one project to another. Less effort equals better results.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 6
You don't need more information to complete a creative project. Weave your skills and wisdom together, and you get beautiful results. You surprise yourself.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
End the month on a high note. You've worked hard and have earned it. You may not have shifted the universe, but you've discovered your own potential.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Your desire for perfection may not be satisfied today. Children or others want to go on to the next fun thing. There's a certain degree of chaos.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Group members see the wisdom in addressing a specific challenge. Unification results in more power going where it's needed. Your optimism grows.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is a 7
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Clear up concerns with a distant associate. Ask another member of the group for suggestions and possible mediation. Things can turn out better than expected.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 6
Take action out of the personal realm. Distant friends and a possible social engagement consume your energy. Get ready for tons of fun ahead.
MOVIES
Franco, Hathaway to host 2011 Oscars
LOS ANGELES - Looks as if Oscar is going for younger eyes in the new year: James Franco and Anne Hathaway will host the 83rd Academy Awards, the show's producers said Monday.
"James Franco and Anne Hathaway personify the next generation of Hollywood icons — fresh, exciting and multitalented. We hope to create an Oscar broadcast that will both showcase their incredible talents and entertain the world on Feb. 27," said producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer. "We are completely thrilled."
The "Love and Other Drugs" actress, 28, was nominated for a 2009 Oscar and has appeared on the show five times. Golden Globe winner Franco, 32, recently lauded for "127 Hours," hasn't yet earned an Oscar nod, but has been on the show twice.
The Academy Awards will be held once again at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles.
-McClatchy-Tribune
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TELEVISION
Clothes provide quirkiness for sitcom 'Raising Hope'
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
For Robin Kennedy, clothes mean character.
Kennedy is the costume designer for Fox's "Raising Hope," which stars Lucas Neff as Jimmy Chance, a young man living with his parents while raising his infant daughter, who is the happy result of a one-night stand with a serial killer. Critics have praised the show for its heart and quirkiness, and the ratings have been solid enough that Fox recently ordered a full season of episodes.
"(Creator and executive producer) Greg Garcia loves T-shirts with logos on them, so we are always looking for something fun and out of the ordinary to use on Jimmy," Kennedy said.
Count us among faithful viewers. And what has caught our eye about recent episodes (among many other things) are Jimmy's T-shirts. Bigfoot fights Abraham Lincoln on one. R. Crumb's Mr. Natural appears on another. Our favorite: a shirt with a picture of pancakes on it with the word "Pancakes."
Kennedy says the characters often re-wear their clothes "like
Kennedy also worked on Garcia's previous series, "My Name Is Earl." She said it wasn't her plan to become a TV series costume designer. Originally from New York, she took a job at a Hollywood costume shop after graduating from design school in Los Angeles "out of necessity."
"We also provide all the duplicates for the many stunt people on our show," she said, "and we work with two sets of twins and a stand-in doll."
normal people do," but with an average of 10 costume changes per actor, per episode, she likes to keep it fresh.
We contacted Kennedy to see if she'd tell us a little about how she goes about her job. She filled us in on the work that goes into Halloween episodes, flashbacks and Jimmy's awesome T-shirts.
"I wound up meeting and working with many costume designers that brought their movies, television shows and variety shows into the shop," she said. "I just got hooked."
"In the pilot, we established that Jimmy has some artistic talents and would be drawn to more quirky images. Greg initially found the Abraham Lincoln boxing with bigfoot T-shirt on the website www.Glarkware.com, so I contacted the owner, and he gave us permission to use his design on our show.
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"The script said, 'Maw Maw
walks out the front door in a bra and pants? I thought, 'What can I do to instantly make the audience see her as fun and eccentric?' I had the idea to put her in an old-fashioned white bra, brightly colored vintage polyester pants and over-sized vintage costume jewelry.
"From our first meeting, Cloris (Leachman) was on board in a big way — she laughed through the entire fitting. It's so rewarding to collaborate with an actor and help them realize who their characters are in both subtle and not so subtle ways.
"The pancake T-shirt has its own story. Liam Harty, our postproduction assistant, is a bit like Jimmy — young, artistic, not wanting to spend too much money on clothes. During the making of the pilot, we were desperate to find some additional T-shirt designs.
"Every day Liam would come to work with a different quirky T-shirt on. When I asked him where he got them, he said he makes them. He gets blank T-shirts, iron-on transfers, finds images on the Internet and cranks them out.
"So I grabbed Liam in his pancake shirt and brought him into Greg's office. Greg liked it so much we used it in the pilot, and he wrote it into a scene that Jimmy should be ironing the pancake artwork onto the T-shirt while saying his dialogue." (See more of Liam's designs at www.zazzle.com/whaleegg.)
A new episode of "Raising Hope" airs at 9 p.m. EST Tuesday on Fox. Past episodes can be found online at Fox.com and Hulu.com.
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17 Hardly colorful
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19 Figures of speech
21 Speak (out) impulsively
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25 Old Italian money
26 Reinvested money
30 "I — Camera"
31 One of Donald Duck's nephews
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35 On the briny
36 Smell
37 Angry dog's sound
38 Group of fish
41 Summer mo.
42 Tackled weeds
43 Triangular pastry
48 So-prano's solo
49 Salamander
50 Easter flower
51 Hospital section
52 Two, in Tijuar
53 Staffer
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3 "Help!"
4 Off the boat
5 Peace symbol
6 Female deer
7 Michael Jackson classic
8 Deep reddish blue
9 Infamous lyre player
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11 Spheres
11 Can. prov.
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21 Mediocre
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37 Pistol
38 "Pygma-lion" writer
39 Cat of "Iron Chef"
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MOVIES
Director sets sights on reviving genre
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
"It's a great genre with a wonderful tradition. Those of us who were weaned on 'Shampoo' and 'Broadcast News' and films all the way back to Billy Wilder know it's a genre that can be provocative and insightful about men and woman and have ideas and context," says Zwick during a promotional barnstorming stop. "That's why I wanted to do this movie: to see if I could show the genre was not dead."
SAN FRANCISCO Hollywood's recent poor track record with romantic comedies moved writer/director/ producer Ed Zwick to make "Love and Other Drugs."
His latest film features Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal as head-strong people who, because they aren't looking for love, spend as much energy fighting their feelings as falling for each other.
Zwick has watched as the romantic comedy genre spiraled down into a predictable formula — two actors placed in implausible situations and then put through obligatory paces that end up being neither romantic or comedic.
These failures are surprising, Zwick says, since the key to success is so simple: Audiences relate to falling in love.
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"You remember a moment
in your life when there was that kind of passion,that attachment, that connection," Zwick says.
"It could be a variety of reasons why the audience doesn't like an actor. When they use the word casting, I think about how die is cast," Zwick says. "Part of my job is to be mindful of who those actors are out there in the universe and to meet them and to get to be enchanted by them.
But past success is no guarantee of the future. Experience has taught Zwick that there's one unpredictable element when it comes to romantic comedies. Casting — and how the audience feels about the actors — can make or break a film.
As a producer, Zwick is responsible for some of television's finest shows about relationships; "Family," "thirty-something," "Once and Again" and "My So-Called Life."
He's even instilled a human element in action and suspense movies he's directed, like "The Last Samurai," "Blood Diamond" and "Defiance."
"Then I hope that will transition into the audience caring about them."
He said watching Gyllenhaal and Hathaway made him only wish he was a better writer.