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4 Commandment verb
9 Unborn fish
12 Gentle — lamb
13 Synagogue scroll
14 Sample of 9-Across
15 Light yellow color
17 Historic time
18 One’s years
19 Cajoled
21 “Das Lied von der Erde” compose
24 Humor writer Bombeck
25 Cassius Clay, nov
26 Used a shovel
28 Mideast nation
31 Disarray
33 Gist
35 Faction
36 “— World Turns”
38 1773 jetsam
40 Little louse
41 Has a bug
43 Winter weather forecasts
45 Obligate
47 Conger, for one
48 Sapporo sash
49 Find out
54 Tri-umphed
55 Legislate
56 Zodiac feline
57 Appomattox also-ran
58 Former frosh
59 Barbie’s companion
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2 Work with
3 Petrcl
4 Put on a show
5 Four-bagger
6 “Entourage” agent
7 Jousting weapon
8 Speculation
9 Double-check
10 Shrek is one
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11 "Zounds!"
16 Bando of baseball
20 Iowa city
21 "I Remember —"
22 Pub orders
23 Zyrtec target
27 Eviscerate
29 Tend texts
30 Profits
32 Thin wedge of wood
34 Implore
37 Drops a sound
39 Warnings
42 Office worker
44 Shade tree
45 Batman's hood
46 Reed instrument
50 Noisy dance style
51 Sort
52 Born
53 A billion years
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Saturday's Cryptoquip: NICKNAME FOR A GUY WHO ALWAYS SEEMS TO LOSE HIS GRIP ON SHORT GOLF STROKES: PUTTER-FINGERS.
Today's Cryptoquip Clue: E equals H
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DMX charged with violating probation
Rapper DMX appeared in court in Phoenix on Wednesday on charges that he violated his probation by using cocaine and OxyContin.
Court documents allege the 39-year-old performer, whose real name is Earl Simmons, failed to submit to drug testing, and drove on a suspended license.
Maricopa County court commissioner Christine Mulleneaux has set Simmons' next hearing for Dec. 9.
He was arrested last Thursday and was being held without bond in the Maricopa County jail. He denied violating his probation Wednesday.
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Despite regard, Potter films still lack Oscar recognition
MOVIES
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Is the prize the unattainable Horcrux, or can Harry and Co. conquer the academy?
By many measures, the "Harry Potter" series is the ultimate winner: It's the most successful film franchise in box-office history, selling in more than $5.8 billion in tickets worldwide. Audiences love it, returning seven times over the last 10 years to theaters to see the latest installment. But now, with the penultimate movie released last week and the final installment due next summer, the pressure is on the boy wizard to snare the one accolade that has eluded the series: an Oscar.
That battle for Oscar recognition may be as epic as Harry's quest to defeat Voldemort. Over the years, the Warner Bros. series has occasionally received nominations for categories such as art direction, costume design and visual effects, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has never rewarded the series with a win.
Some Oscar consultants say it's unlikely the academy will look seriously at this year's film, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1" after snubbing the series for so long — and knowing that they have another chance next year.
But if director David Yates delivers a tour de force with "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows _ Part 2" in July, the academy might take a closer look next season, essentially honoring the eight-picture series for its overall achievement.
It wouldn't be the first time that a poplist film with a literary history gets rewarded by the academy in its incarnation. "The Lord of the
Rings: Return of the King" took home 11 Oscars in 2004 — including best picture and director — when voters acknowledged director Peter Jackson and
sive campaign in Los Angeles, New York and London next fall for the final film, bringing out for the media and the voters all the characters that have been killed
But unlike Harry Potter, the early installments in the "Lord of the Rings" series did win Academy Awards in categories including cinematography, makeup, original score, sound editing and visual effects. And all three were nominated for best picture.
New Line Cinema for the extraordinary wager they took by financing and filming the three films in the trilogy at once.
lars you've made."
Warner Bros. declined to comment, saying that they do not reveal the details of their Oscar campaigns.
"With 'Lord of the Rings', there was a huge risk involved, and it was the risk people rewarded," said one veteran Oscar marketer who asked not to be identified. "With 'Harry Potter', it would be the consistency of so many movies well done that would be rewarded. [The academy would be saying] here's your cherry to go on top of the guillions of dol-
But the studio has yet to run any "For Your Consideration" ads for "Deathly Hallows: Part 1," a telling fact considering some movies that have yet to open in theaters have already initiated full-fledged award campaigns.
off — a campaign that would essentially remind voters of the scope of the "Potter" series.
A number of top Oscar consultants say they have heard that Warner Bros. is planning a mas-
It wouldn't be the first time that a populist film with a literary history gets rewarded by the academy in its final incarnation.
HOROSCOPES
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
Getting back into the swing of work involves talking to an absent team member. You get more accomplished by yourself, and this benefits everyone.
How to get motivated? Allow someone else to share their vision, and then support it. Wisdom emerges as people express their feelings and lighten up.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is on 8
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 5.
LEO (July 23-Aug.22) Today is a 6
Associates provide the energy you need to move an idea into action. Their questions keep it all within prescribed boundaries. Everyone appreciates the outcome.
Today your ideas gel into the pursuit of an expansive plan. Don't worry too much about the financial details. Expenses may fall into line as you refine goals.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 5
Test your practical skills as you implement your brilliant insight. At first it seems like grasping at straws. Later everything weaves together naturally.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 8
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 9
Other egos get in the way of forward movement. First figure out what they're thinking, then decide carefully what to do about it.
Everything gets accomplished that you need to do today. Oddly, your enthusiasm isn't as important as consistent effort. Tease others into compliance.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Todav is a 7
An educational puzzle demands thoughtful attention. Review details to unlock clues. Then apply logical reasoning, hopefully without interruption.
Today's a good time to balance the checkbook and review spending. You find yourself further ahead than you thought. Revise your list accordingly.
Differences of opinion become obvious early. An associate wants to pick the details apart. You'd rather consider the big picture. Allow for both viewpoints.
You're more aware than ever of a multitude of blessings. Share them with others, which will increase your appreciation.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 5
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Today is a 6
MUSIC
A clean, lighter start for My Chemical Romance
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — High in his ridgeline home, sitting on a porch that feels like a ledge, Gerard Way peered through cigarette smoke and the late-afternoon Pasadena haze as he searched his memory for the moment when his band, My Chemical Romance, shed its skin. "I think," he said with a world-weary chuckle, "the liberating moment is when we decided that we were allowed to make a dance record."
These are strange seasons for Way and his band, who deliver their fourth studio album, "Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys," today and have just announced a world tour that
Darling, Yes, one time I did have the urge to study, but I took a nap and quickly got over it.
finds them back from the brink of despair and bitter breakup. What was their salvation? Comic books, old sci-fi films and drum machines, it turns out, as well as the healing exercise of recording an entire "safe" rock album, scrapping it and starting from scratch.
"It's strange how we got to this place, but I think there was no other way to do it," said Way, who spent nearly a year with his bandmates recording a straightforward proto-punk album with producer Brendan O'Brien (known for earnest-searcher sessions with Pearl Jam and Bruce Springsteen) only to jettison it all and starting over with Jon Cavallo (best known for his Green Day work and as the newly minted chairman of Warner Bros. Records) to create a wild-eyed concept album that feels like "Mad Max" reimagined with guitars and the trickster wink of OutKast.
"Danger Days" is getting some strong early reviews (Dan Martin in NME gushed that it's the "best rock record of the year by such a margin that you actually feel rather embarrassed for everybody else") but much of the reaction is pure surprise — this is not where My Chemical Romance was supposed
don't say it in arrogance, but it might reposition rock, because rock is getting slaughtered out there ..."
Way, an art-school soul with real-world bruises and a croaky New Jersey voice, actually dares to hope that the shout-along choruses and pop-epic aspirations of "Danger Days" could be genre-saving. "I
to end up, not after all those years of marching through the pop-punk scene in eyeliner and delivering glammed-up melodrama for smart kids.
That savior language is startling for people close to Way because, over the last few years, his
"It's strange how we got to this place, but I think there was no other way to do it."
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance Singer
is part of the unfolding saga of the Killjoys, the future-world personas played by the band that are battling against the Draculoids and an insidious corporate behemoth
The weapons, characters, logos, back story, vehicles — all of it sprang from the mind of Way, who attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and interned
band looked like it was the one that was sinking down into the murky depths.
A few days earlier, on a slate-gray Saturday morning in downtown Los Angeles, the band members gathered to shoot a music video for the "Danger Days" track "Sing" and, instead of guitars, they were hefting laser guns. The video
at DC Comics'
Vértigo
imprint before
he took a detour into rock stardom.
It was during his time at Vertigo that Way met Grant Morrison, now one of the most celeb-
ed comic-book writers in the world and the man who recently killed off (temporarily) Batman's alter ego, Bruce Wayne.
On this morning, Morrison has a different target — he's playing Korse and is eager for the moment when the script calls for him to put a gun beneath Way's chin and pull the trigger.
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