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Quigmans By buddy hickerson -0 S V V -X # o X “Y’know, Mom ... A preemptive, unilateral strike could only worsen the threat of terrorism.” CAPTAIN RlBMAN m The Devine Bovine by Sprengelmeyer &Davis __. -f-,T, - » ..... • .-^iS '• V . Heads and Tails By Jonathan Hughes/The Gamecock Columbus turns down chance to direct third ‘Potter’ movie BY CHRISTY LEMIRE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Chris Columbus’ kids are the ones who got him into the “Harry Potter” movies — and now they’re getting him out. After directing last year’s “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” and the second film in the series, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” Columbus will step aside for No. 3 to spend more time with his wife and their children, aged 13,10,8 and 5. “My daughter, Eleanor, was the person who forced me to read the books and told me it would make a great movie,” the 44-year-old film maker said. "And then I realized after two and a half years of not seeing them for dinner during the week that I wanted to take them to school in the morning and see them for dinner.” Columbus will serve as a pro ducer of “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” due in the aters in June 2004. But he concedes it’ll be harder to watch director Alfonso Cuaron take control of the third movie than it would have been to direct it himself. “To keep my mouth shut is a hard thing for me to do, but I’m gonna have to,” Columbus said. “I have to give Alfonso his space to make the film he needs to make.” The films’ young actors say they’re adjusting to the idea of having someone else in charge. “The most important filing to mention is that Chris is still going to be around,” said Daniel * Radcliffe, who stars’ as boy wizard Harry Potter. “With the new di rector it’s going to be exciting and it’s going to be a different, new ex perience.” “It’s gonna be strange without Chris but I think it'll be all right,” said Rupert Grint, who plays Harry’s best friend, Ron. The director of the Mexican hit “V Tn TV /T o vii o Tambien" — with its explicit teen sex — may seem an unlikely match for such family friendly material. But Cuaron also directed the 1995 fantasy “A Little Princess” and the 1998 version ol “Great ExDectations.” which starred Gwyneth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke. “There were certainly a lot of quotes like, ‘Sexually charged Potter,’ “ producer David Heyman quipped. “That’s not quite the di rection in which we were plan ning on going.” While Columbus recognizes that he’s best known now for adapting J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” book series, he’d already made his name directing the “Home Alone” movies. Before that, he wrote the scripts for “Gremlins” and “The Goonies.” “Hopefully you’re not known for the ‘Heaven’s Gates.’ So now it’s ‘Harry Potter’ — that’s cool,” he said. “One thing I really don’t have a lot of desire for — I just nev'ar have in terms of ambition “I realized that after two and a half years of not seeing them during the week that I wanted to take them to school.” CHRIS COLUMBUS DIRECTOR OF THE HARRY POTTER MOVIES ON DECLINING TO DIRECT THE THIRD INSTALLMENT BECAUSE OF HIS CHILDREN — is to be known as, I don’t know what, this auteur. I want to make films that audiences respond to.” But audiences and critics alike have responded with groans to some of Columbus’ movies, in cluding “Nine Months,” “Bicentennial Man,” and his first, “Adventures in Babysitting” — orunnloinivifT til o ♦ the movies are too sappy. Ever the op timist, Columbus said such bombs make a person stronger. “Unfortunately, you need those failures, desper ately,” he said. “You get them anyway because vnu will sort of pet comfortable in a sense with your success and something will hap pen that will trigger either a fail ure or a misstep, and then you need to bounce back from it/’ From here, Columbus plans to write another original screenplay, which he hasn’t done since 1991’s “Only the Lonely.” Based on his love of rock ‘n’ roll, he said he’d love to do a musicaL And he hasn’t ruled out the possibility of directing the fourth film in the series, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” “I have to sit down with a yel low pad and a pencil and say to myself, ‘OK, what am I going to write?”’ he said. “That’s actually probably more terrifying than walking onto a set with 350 people waiting for me to tell them what to do.” v CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Mexicali money 5 Sidekicks 9 Farm measures 14 Poetic tentmaker? 15 Landed 16 Puppeteer Lewis 17 Short, skirtwise 18 Farm building 19 Turning point 20 Most senior 22 Atmosphere 24 Relinquish 25 Genetic fingerprints 26 Honorable citations 28 Speak haltingly 31 Eighth mo. 32 Possesses 33 Compressible by sliding overlapping sections 39 Disapproving interjection w rine 41 King topper 42 Accountable 44 Small songbird 45 Participated in an 8K 46 Most uneasy 48 Reporter's coworker 53 Poetic contractior 54 Guinness or Baldwin 55 Throw easily 56 Thawed 59 Tasteless 61 Address for a Friend 63 Pedestal part 64 Host 65 Sleep fitfully 66 Mild expletive 67 Comments from Simba 68 Food scraps 69 Musical sample DOWN 1 Pear or quince 2 Actor Jannings 3 Indiana shore 4 Positions properly - I I I © 2002 Tribune Media Services. 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CALENDAR Wednesday, Nov. 20 “SEX AND LUCIA”: This erotic film follows a waiter named Lucia, played by Pax Vega, who gets a call leading her to think her lover, Lorenzo, played by Tristan Ulloa, has been killed in an accident. Lucia then goes to an island that Lorenzo often talked about and enters a guesthouse occupied by Elena, played by Najwa Nimri. Then the movie gets steamy. 3,7 and 9:30 p.m. Nickelodeon Theatre, 937 Main St. “YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU”: 8 p.m. Presented by USC Theatre South Carolina. $12 general public; $10 for USC faculty and staff, senior citizens and the military; $9 students. “BAREFOOT IN THE PARK”: 8 p.m. Workshop Theatre, 1136 BuU St. $13 adults; $11 seniors, students and the military. “NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS”: 8 p.m. Town Theatre. $13 adults; $11 seniors, the military and students. NONSTOP HIP-HOP LIVE: New Brookland Tavern, 122 State St. Thursday, Nov. 21 “YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU”: 8 p.m. Presented by USC Theatre South Carolina. $12 general public; $10 for USC faculty and staff, senior citizens and the military; $9 students. “BAREFOOT IN TNE PARK”: 8 ERDITION p.m. Workshop Theatre, $13 adults, $11 seniors, students and the military. “NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS”: 8 p.m. Town Theatre. $13 adults; $11 seniors, the military and students. SCOTTY PEEK: 8 p.m. Lettuce Lounge, 114 State St. Free. TIGER BURN: 7 p.m. Davis Field II. HARMONY GROVE WITH ONE WAY LEFT: New Brookland Tavern. “OTHELLO" AND “HAMLET”: 8 8 p.m. Wedneday and Thursday. Russell House Theater. Free. p.m. Presented by USC Theatre South Carolina Second Season. $5. “SEX AND LUCIA": 7 and 9:30 p.m. Nickelodeon Theatre. DR. DIDG WITH MOUNTAINS OF VENUS AND MILHOUSE: Senate Park, 931-B Senate St. f