4A / ENTERTAINMENT / TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
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HOROSCOPES
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 5
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Take advantage of the love in the air today. Plan a special escape just for two, and enjoy every moment. There's time for everyone else later.
Emotional balance enters the scene at work today. Earlier questions get resolved with ease. Then the group moves forward in harmony.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6
Use your imagination to create an unusual venue for romantic interaction. You want to share your feelings, and today's the perfect time.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 7
Everyone's pursuing independent projects today. You help by staying out of the way and offering concrete suggestions as needed. Take time for yourself.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 6.
Everyone seems willing to communicate their desires now, using clear words and without fluff. Make sure that each person gets time to speak, and then listen.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
Enjoy a social activity with coworkers and associates arriving from afar. It's okay to party before you get to business. They have new ideas to share.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 9
Ebula (Sep. 25 - Oct. 12)
Today is a 9
Finally! Today you get all kinds of work done, clearing your desk for the holiday weekend. What seemed insurmountable turned out to be insignificant.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
Someone close to you seeks a comfortable spot to stay in indefinitely. Ask them to pick up their feet when you vacuum. Let them just be, for now.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 9
You get a lot done today when you use imagination as an ally. Think big, and communicate your ideas clearly. Great results follow almost automatically.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.19) Today is an 8
Today is year's efforts pay off, and you see the light at the end of the tunnel. The guest list shapes up for a delightful party. Shop for key ingredients.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 9
You get into a holiday spirit today Take an associate to lunch to celebrate recent gains. Then contact a family member to smooth any wrinkles.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 6
A little nudge from a family member brings it all into balance. You not only see the goal, but the path to achieve it. Dramatic change could be result.
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Answer to previous puzzle
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LITTLE SCOTTIE
COOLTHING
Todd Pickrell and Scott A. Winer
MONKEYZILLA
Kevin Cook
MOVIES
'Love & Other Drugs' revives genre of romantic comedy
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
For the past few years, fans of romantic comedy have had bitter pills to swallow.
From J-Lo's "The Back-Up Plan" to nearly anything with Jennifer Aniston in it, the once-buyant genre has become limp and boring, hamstrum by an assemblyline mentality toward filmmaking that regards originality as if it were Nancy Pelosi at a Sarah Palin pep rally.
So let's give thanks for, and bestow a big smooch on, the risk-taking ways of "Love & Other Drugs." The passionate dramedy about the combustible relationship between pharmaceutical salesman Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) and artist/care worker Maggie Murdock (Anne Hathaway) is just the antidote the romantic comedy has desperately needed.
It's sexy, it's funny, its sexy, it's sad,
and, oh my, it is over sexy.
It's also imperfect, and at its best whenever director and co-screenwriter Edward Zwick keeps the focus on his flawed lovebirds' tumultuous relationship and shows
Zwick has proved time and again he's a master at dealing with characters who are a hot mess, from TV's "thirtysomething" to 1986's "About Last Night" with Rob Lowe and Demi Moore. In fact, elements from the very good "Night" echo throughout "Love & Other Drugs," including the love-to-love theme and the rampant nudity of its luscious leads.
us how it evolves from dynamite sex to real love.
Yet Zwick's ambition is bigger here. Although you couldn't tell it from the chirpy trailer, the drama boldly tackles the drug industry and touchingly depicts a person — and then a couple — dealing with the early stages of Parkinson's disease. Not that it completely works. Zwick's film occasionally suffers from ADD and scampers off into too many directions for its own good. More often than not, though, he mixes the comedy with the drama and the emotion effectively. Most certainly his two leads do.
Zwick, along with co-screenwriters Charles Randolph and Marshall Herskovitz, have loosely adapted Jamie Reidy's tell-all book "Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman," retaining the stinging commentary on the pharmaceutical business and expanding on it by creating the character of Maggie.
who's luminous and touchy as an acerbic woman whose affliction has made her emotionally wall out everyone around her. The fiery Maggie meets a formidable match in Jamie, a bedroom-eyed charmer who can woo anyone into a tumble. But it's Maggie, not Jamie, who initiates the canoodling after they meet in a doctor's office.
Darling, my idea of cramming is eating two double burgers at The Wheel the day before a final.
Like Hathaway, Gyllenhaal is a perfect fit for his part. His character Jamie might exude confidence and the promise of great sex, but underneath the tailored suit and slicked-back hair lies a decent guy who doesn't have a clue about who he is. Gyllenhaal is a natural at playing this carefree boy-man, his smile always in full bloom, masking the fears that hide inside.
It's a juicy part for Hathaway,
Interspersed in this romance, Zwick skewers the pharmaceutical industry, capturing the outlandishness of a Vegas-style boot camp for new sales recruits, while showing us the addictive and highly sexual nature of being part of the biz.
On the downside, the writers overexert themselves trying to reveal so many aspects of Big Pharm, by creating secondary characters such as Hank Azaria's unscrupulous doc who takes freebies in exchange for sexual hookups, and Gabriel Macht as Jamie's Prozac-touting nemesis. Both come off like props, and make you aware that the movie's a bit of a soapbox.
But ultimately it's the chemistry — that old-fashioned key ingredient in any successful love story — that fires up "Love & Other Drugs" and reduces minor quibbles to ash.
ACROSS
1 Baseball headgear
5 Flaccid
9 That woman
12 Sandwich cookie
13 Declare
14 Massachusetts cape
15 Football interplay
17 Carpet
18 Horse of another color?
19 At that point
21 Bewildered
24 Cat call
25 Spiked club
26 Not rigid
30 Blunder
31 French seaport
32 Atmosphere
33 Brownish songbirds
35 Dog bane?
36 Squad
37 Decorates unneces-
40 — St. Vincent Millay
42 "This tastes awful"
43 Acquired however possible
48 Sheltered side
49 Grand tale
50 Give a darn
51 1960s hallucinogen
52 Cold and clammy
53 Paradise
2 Curved line
3 Apiece
4 Evening get-together
5 Dalai —
6 Terrible guy?
7 "Family Guy" daughter
8 Alleged purpose
9 Nut
10 Session with a shrink
11 Advantage
16 Extinct kin of the kiwi
20 — polloi
21 Iowa city
22 Bank ballout acronym
Solution time: 21 mins.
23 Relieved an itch
24 Disarray
26 Gift-tag preposition
27 Kareem, long ago
28 Told a whopper
29 Geological periods
31 Cooked slowly in a closed pot
34 On pension (Abbr.)
35 Husband-to-be
37 Wildebeest
38 Select from a group
39 Census statistics
40 Ireland
41 Wharf structure
44 Book-keeper (Abbr.)
45 Wander about
46 Before
47 Lair
Yesterday's answer 11-23
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Yesterday's Cryptoquip: IF SEVERAL REALLY MEAN MUTTS HAVE TO BE HOME BY A CERTAIN TIME, ARE THOSE A FEW CURS' CURFEWS?
Today's Cryptoquip Clue: B equals O
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MOVIES
"We're going for the best picture win. We wanted to have the best movie and the reviews have clearly said that and it's the No. 1 box-office hit of the year, so I'm not sure why we would not go for it all."
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
'Toy Story 3'lobbies for best picture win
Who is this guy and what movie is he talking about? Christopher Nolan, on his much-hyped blockbust
"We're going for the best picture win ... It's the No. 1 box-office hit of the year."
like "The Godfather: Part II" (with the chubby bear Lotso doing Al Pacino) and "Forrest Gump" (featuring Woody, who is voiced by Tom Hanks).
Don't underestimate Disney-Pixar, a partnership of two high-achieving studios. Both have received special Oscars
RICH ROSS Walt Disney Studios chairman
er "Inception"? David Fincher, on his rapturiously reviewed drama "The Social Network"?
Nope, it's Walt Disney Studios chairman Rich Ross discussing Disney-Pixar's "Toy Story 3" on the entertainment website Deadline. He's talking pretty big, considering that no animated film has ever won best picture.
And yet, it could happen.
And yet, it could happen.
According to Deadline, Disney is launching a bona fide campaign, creating ads that will associate "Toy Story 3" characters with Oscar winners
for animated films: Disney's 1937 "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," and Pixar's 1995 "Toy Story." They also produced the only animated films to be
nominated for best picture:
Disney's 1991 "Beauty and
the Beast," and Pixar's "Up,
released last year.
"Up" didn't stand a chance against the eventual winner, the heavyweight war drama "The Hurt Locker." The competition this year, however, seems slimmer, with few obvious Oscar gorillas. That just might leave room for a bunch of animated toys.
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