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HOROSCOPES
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 5
You want clear communications today, and you get them. Someone who lives far away offers a business opportunity. Discuss options freely and choose tomorrow.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Today is a 6
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 6
If you get off on the right foot with an older coworker, you build your confidence. Work through questions with a sympathetic colleague.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 7
GEMINI (May 21-25)
Today is a 5
Don't expect huge productivity.
Plan to invest every conversation with creative use of available data.
Keep smiling, and results will come later.
Today is a 7 Remember your core convictions. They might help when discussions at work on which direction to go become challenging. Consider care fully, and then choose.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 7
Today is a 7
The tide has turned in favor of love.
You express your feelings from a spiritual place. Others reciprocate in more logical terms. Have a camera on hand. You will want the memory.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 6
Development in your career field attracts your attention. For great insights, discuss ramifications of these new possibilities with family members.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 6
Imagine yourself as a butterfly,
flitting from flower to flower, tasting
near algae on the way. Share this
concept of freedom with others
around you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
Young people capture your attention, and help you deliver the creative goods. Your imagination stimulates their action, achieving success.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 6
You and a partner are on the same page, regarding a group plan. Others are uncertain at first, but you convince them with cool options and by agreeing to pay.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.19) Today is a 5
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Today is a 6
Today is a 5 Spread your joy around today, as you plan for the next week. Communicate so others can prepare. Get your work tasks done early, for greater ease.
Mobilize your talents to communicate your message clearly and elegantly. Others may argue tiny points. Provide thoughtful replies and compromise.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 6
Dive into your work but keep communicating with family members. They supply needed info for your shopping list. Take a different route home after.
TELEVISION
Carol Burnett to appear on 'Glee'
Carol Burnett guests on Tuesday's "Glee" (8 p.m. EST, Fox) playing — in what's certainly a bit of inspired casting
— the mother of cheerleading coach/tracksuit aficionado Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch). In her long career, the comedy legend has made numerous guest appearances on sitcoms and dramas.
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MUSIC
John Lennon's legacy continues with two films
But despite our never-ending fascination with the legend, he remains about as hard to decipher as the lyrics to "I Am the Waltrus," as evidenced by two wildly different TV projects, "Lennon Naked"
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
The Beatles are still here, there and everywhere. News last week that the band's catalog finally would be available on iTunes made the front page of the New York Times. The "Glee" kids are making a whole new generation swoon over "I Want to Hold Your Hand." Paul McCartney will be lauded next month during the Kennedy Center Honors. Fans are stealing bricks from Ringo Starr's soon-to-be demolished boyhood home.
But none of the boys is causing as much of a stir as John Lennon, who would have turned 70 last month and was shot to death on Dec.8,1980.
A new 11-CD box set of his solo albums should be a holiday favorite. A coin with his iconic image was recently issued by the UK Royal Mint, beating out such luminaries as Jane Austen and Sir Walter Raleigh. The indie film "Nowhere Boy," which focused on his unorthodox relationship with his mother, received melodic reviews on the art-house circuit. In August, his former toilet went for $14,740 at an auction.
and "LENNONYC."
"Naked," an installment of "Masterpiece Contemporary," primarily deals with Lennon's daddy issues and the fact that he felt abandoned as a child. Christopher Eccelston ("Doctor Who") plays the title character with both a trumped-up accent and attitude, slicing up everyone who stands in his way. He belittles wife Cynthia, tried-and-true manager
Brian Epstein,
long-lost
father Freddie
(a very good
Christopher
Fairbank), an
unseen Brigitte
Bardot and his
bandmates, who
come across as
so cuddly they
could have been
Michael Epstein's lens, Lennon comes across as a martyr in his home country who finally got the freedom and respect from fans that he deserved when he moved to the States — even as the U.S. government tried to have him deported. Marquee names, including Elton John and Dick Cavett, speak lovingly of their friend and offer insights into his personal and professional life. (One tidbit:
Even his budding relationship with Yoko Ono (Naoko Mori) can't melt the brittle Beatle. Could it be that writer Robert Jones and director Edmund Coulhard prefer Paul's silly love songs?
The "American Masters" documentary "LENNONYC," which picks up where "Naked" leaves us — the couple's move to New York City — is a much more sympathetic piece. No surprise there, since Ono cooperated with the production.
John Lennon is causing a stir with his 11-CD box set and UK Royal Mint iconic coin release, two films on the horizon, and his toilet selling at $14,740.
portrayed by the Muppets.
"Mind Games"
was originally called "Make
Love Not
War."
That's not to say the film is a whitewash. Ono and Lennon's temporary lover May
Through director/writer
Pang speak openly about his "lost weekend" in Los Angeles in the mid-'70s, when he succumbed to drugs, drink and eventually heartbreak over cheating on his wife. It also doesn't hesitate to suggest that Lennon's last works bordered on mediocrity.
It's not the most revealing or even-handed of portraits — for that, I would recommend Philip Norman's book "John Lennon: The Life" — but it comes across as more honest and heartfelt than "Naked."
Diehard fans, however, may be better off skipping all these biopics, and getting lost in Lennon's music instead. Maybe that's the only Lennon we need to know — or will get to know.
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5 Mandible
8 Jog
12 Take extra precautions
14 Inauguration recitation
15 Used by all
16 “Do — others ...”
17 Tokyo’s old name
18 Abductor
20 Thread recommended by dentists
23 Dullard
24 Allergic reaction
25 Remark
28 Lubricant
29 Fugard’s “A Lessor From —”
30 Aah’s partner
32 Order
34 FDR is pictured on it
35 Roof overhang
36 Bowler hat
4 Become inter-
woven
5 2007 Ellen Page
movie
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7 Greeted
8 Hairpiece
9 Carry on
10 "Beetle Bailey"
dog
11 Norse thunder
god
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lack
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city
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23 Frontiers-
man Daniel
25 Collar-
bone
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29 "— for
All Seasons"
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getter
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show-
stopper
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room
sample
37 He loves
(Lat.)
38 Jeans
pioneer
Strauss
39 Second-hand
40 Actress
Thompson
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ramparts
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44 April 15
payment
45 Netherlands
city
46 Fun and
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Saturday's CONTAINER FLAVORING ENFLOPE?
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Cryptoquip: AFTER A LETTER
GETS DIPPED IN A CERTAIN
EXTRACT, IS IT A VANILLA
Today's Cryptoquip Clue: O equals R
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MUSIC
Miles Davis' jazz style blends bop and rock
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
ST LOUIS - If Miles Davis had stopped making music in the 1950s, he would be remembered as one of the most eloquent and influential trumpeters in jazz. But Davis, who grew up in East St. Louis, was also a visionary who wasn't afraid to shake things up and didn't believe in looking back. Beginning in the late 1960s, that meant venturing beyond acoustic post-bop jazz to explore the improvisational possibilities of rock.
Considering his admiration for the music of Jimi Hendrix, it wasn't surprising that Davis' new musical strategy involved the guitar. With its gift for rocking out, the instrument was invaluable in bridging the gap between his aging jazz base and his emerging youthful audience.
Boldly experimental, the double studio album was a jazz-fusion milestone, selling more than 500,000 copies and earning Davis his first gold record. Jazz purists balked at the electric instrumentation and rock-influenced rhythms, and dismissed "Bitches Brew" as a commercial move. The trumpeter's 1969 fusion album, "In a Silent Way," had been similarly criticized.
tar on the trumpeter's groundbreaking 1970 recording "Bitches Brew." McLaughlin, whose latest group, 4th Dimension, includes keyboardist Gary Husband, bass guitarist Etienne M'Bappe and drummer Mark Mondesir, said Davis "was so loose, but cryptic. He was like a Zen master."
In recent decades, acoustic improvisation in the style of Davis' classic 1959 album "Kind of Blue" has largely retaken the jazz spotlight.
John McLaughlin played gui-
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