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/ ENTERTAINMENT / FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
Conceptis Sudoku
Bv Dave Green
8 6 3
6 5 2 9 4
6 1 9 5
8 3 7 2
9 3 5 6
3 7 8 4
©2010 Conceptis Prazles, Dist by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Difficulty Level ★★★★
Answer to previous puzzle
1 7 9 4 2 3 8 6 5
5 3 2 7 8 6 9 4 1
8 6 4 1 9 5 3 7 2
2 4 6 8 7 9 5 1 3
7 9 1 5 3 2 4 8 6
3 8 5 6 4 1 7 2 9
9 5 7 2 6 8 1 3 4
6 1 8 3 5 4 2 9 7
4 2 3 9 1 7 6 5 8
CHICKEN STRIP: 2010
SKETCHBOOK
LITTLE SCOTTIE
Nicholas Sambaluk
HOROSCOPES
THE NEXT PANEL
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is 7
Flavor your activities with some element from a dream. Get creative early and leave adjustments for later in the day.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Today is an 8
If you have a big weekend planned, start early and take care of arrangements. Check details as something changes in a good way!
GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Today is a 6
Remain open to all offers that come your way today. Can't say yes to everything? Ask for rain checks. Adapt wisely when others change their minds.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Begin a new day with renewed energy. Take an early walk to get the juices flowing. Remain flexible. New ideas tip the scales your way.
LEO (July 23-Aug.22)
Today is a 6.
Exaggerate if you must just to get it out of your system. Then devise a practical way of achieving the desired result. Planning saves time in the end.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
You tend to take off in all directions at once. Not helpful Focus on yourself first, then have a private conversation. Share responsibility for a key decision.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 8
Never think that the project is complete. Someone can always make changes. The question is, do these little adjustments really help?
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 5
Plan on more sorting and organizing. Another person may need your assistance here. Yes, you are better at it! And helping actually gets you out the door faster.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 7
If you weren't so busy today, you'd have more time to hang out with friends. As it is, you need to focus to keep from getting scattered.
CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19)
Today is an 8
Busy doesn't begin to describe it. A few major changes occur early on, and you shift gears to accommodate an associate's ego. It had to happen sooner or later.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Todav is an 8
You've passed a milestone. Associates pose a question that you answer easily. Your position in the workplace moves forward.
Go there. Do that. Come back.
Leave again. Today is all about movement in and out of your space.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 5
ACROSS
1 Expire
6 Homer's outcry
9 Ashen
12 Reef around a lagoon
13 Where, to Caesar
14 Rhyming tribute
15 Brit's service discharge
16 Cheer-leader's pair
18 Celeb-laden magazine
20 Sun's output
21 Sticky stuff
23 Infinitesi-mal
24 Podiatry
41 Fun and games
43 Hosp. procedure
44 Beige
45 "Forget it!"
47 Victim of Vesuvius
49 Missouri River feeder
52 Brewery product
53 Regis and Kelly's airer
54 Discussion group
55 Cover
56 — Today
57 Dalma-tian's pattern
DOWN
1 Young fellow
2 Consumed
3 Arrogant
4 Black-thorn fruit
5 Knee counter-part
6 Two-family house
7 Reed instrument
8 That guy
9 Suitor
10 Clio nominee, maybe
11 Fits insid snugly
17 Snap-shots
ACROSS
1 Expire
6 Homer's outcry
9 Ashen
12 Reef around a lagoon
13 Where, to Caesar
14 Rhyming tribute
15 Brit's service discharge
16 Cheer-leader's pair
18 Celeb-laden magazine
20 Sun's output
21 Sticky stuff
23 Infinitesi-mal
24 Podiatry cases
25 Responsibility
27 Banished one
29 Wall hanging
31 Takes as one's own
35 Beginning
37 Drench
38 Some tide
Solution time: 25 mins.
19 Jurors, in theory
21 Red-staters' org.
22 Yoko of music
24 Scoundrel
26 Clog
28 Tops of heads
30 Em halves
32 — Beach, Fla.
33 Pitch
34 Tackle moguls
36 Beethoven's Third
38 Himalayan land
39 Meat contaminant
40 Ready for battle
42 Hens' pens
45 Penpoints
46 Now, on a memo
48 Water (Fr.)
50 Preprehend
51 Golfer Ernie
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CRYPTOQUIP
P IGGBGH LEGPDGN FPZGN
FPNUTGH MK PKH RGWWGH
DJ TML LDOHGKD "M TPBG
P ZKMD DJ IMUZ EMDT RJO! Yesterday's Cryptoquip: WHEN SINGER DELLA PENNED HER OWN MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS, 1 GUESS THOSE WERE REESE'S PIECES.
Today's Cryptoquip Clue: R equals Y
CELEBRITY
Reality star Jesse James tweeting red carpet experiences
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
the bad-boy attitude and mucho macho swagger youd expect from a celebrity chopper mechanic and star of such reality TV shows as "jesse lames Is a Dead Man" and
LOS ANGELES — On Twitter, Jesse James has never been one to mince words. He tweets with all
"Monster Garage."
But lately, James' tweets have served a different agenda: chronicling the vagaries of Hollywood's awards season. The heavily tattooed and frequently scowling outlaw biker happens to be lead actress nominee Sandra Bullock's husband. And when he hasn't been holding her purse on some event's red carpet, James has been
tweeting about the experience.
"So proud & lucky today ... Loving Life, ..." James tweeted on Jan. 18, a day after the missus won a Golden Globe and gave him a gushy shout-out from the stage.
"WoW! I'm wearing a suit for the 2nd time in One Week. I think it's a new record." James wrote a few hours before Bullock would claim her lead actress trophy at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 23. A little later that day, James gave a tart appraisal of Tinseltown on his way to the ceremony: "How come the whole city of Hollywood smells like piss?"
Hollywood has been fairly
Hollywood obsessed in recent months by the Twitter Effect: the social phenomenon that seemingly holds movies' box-office performance in its thrall. Viewers send
have been proved to variouly inflame or extinguish films' prospects in disproportionate measure to their haiku-size appearance on iPhones.
far-reaching impact, oftentimes just minutes after leaving the theater. And such 140-character reviews
But at an awards season moment when the
In an era when even 64-year-old Helen Mirren is known to tweet, people in the Oscar spotlight are
"WoW! I'm wearing a suit for the 2nd time in One Week. I think it's a new record."
JESSE JAMES "Monster Garage" star
this social networking platform du jour has become a crucial tool
JESSE JAMES "Monster Garage" star
"How come the whole city of Hollywood smells like piss?"
F
out snap judgments to their Internet constituencies, rendering critical verdicts with
in "word of mouth" marketing and almost everyone with a strong opinion and access to broadband has a Twitter account, this Information Age predica-
using their ambient online presences to communicate with more immediacy, greater candor and without the filter of publicists than ever would have been imaginable before the
ment begs the question: Has the Twitter Effect exerted any noticeable impact on this year's Oscars?
Information Age enabled mass communication via people's smart phones. That said, the nominees in marquee categories have yet to blatantly use Twitter to lobby Oscar voters or virally goose their chances of winning an Academy Award.
Almost everyone in the 2010 Oscars class has taken the time to set up a Twitter account, even if few of them reliably tweet. Some, like supporting actress nominees Maggie Gyllenhaal and Penelope Cruz, may be inveterate twitterers, for all the public knows.
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