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ACROSS
1 Contain
6 Japanese peak
10 Conceits
14 Start of a bet?
15 Render
speechless
16 Bog down
17 Indian
instrument
18 Labels
19 Concoct
20 Make light of
22 Informed against
24 Droop
25 Noah of “E.R."
26 Persian Gulf
island
30 Bungler
34 Life-and-death
situations
36 Spanish river
37 Liability
38 Very long time
39 Pay figure
40 Wildebeest
41 Realizes
45 Tallinn man
47 Defeated side
48 List-shortening
abbr.
49 _voyage!
OU L-JCUCUCS
53 Chronologically
measurable
58 Homemade knife
59 Follow
61 Ten-armed
mollusk
62 John or Deborah
63 Checkup
64 Highway turn
65 Vendor’s goal
66 Depend
67 Like Cheerios
DOWN
1 Hinged fastener
2 Hodgepodge
3 As far as
4 Former ruler of
Iran
5 Noise
suppressor
6 Lens setting
7 Beehive State
8 Quantity of
moonshine
9 Fashionable
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10 Logo
11 Surround
12 Sandwich cooki
13 Stitched
21 Slimy stuff
23 Corrida shouts
25 High-pitched
hum
26 Steeplechase
barrier
27 Portents
28 Attempt to
disprove
29 A-Team guy
30 Ridicule
31 Furious
32 “The _
Sanction”
33 Fertile loam
35 Himalayan
kingdom
39 Used to be
41 Feed the pot
42 Egyptian coin
43 Coagulate
44 “The Bald
Soprano”
playwright
.
Solutions
46 Lifework of an
artist
49 Slightly daffy
50 Questions
51 Saturn satellite
52 Young lady
53 Pushbutton
forerunner
54 Marine color?
55 Bacharach or
Young
56 In-person
57 Idyllic spot
60 Tin Man’s tool
HOROSCOPES
ARIES There are times when it’s
appropriate to lodge your
comments and complaints.
Although others may be doing
that now, don’t join in unless
you’re invited. Instead, take
notes.
TAURUS A person who loves you
and has your best interests at
heart would like to reorganize
your life. You’d be wise to accept
the offer.
GEMINI You might as well go
along with a perfectionist’s
suggestions. He or she will not be
dissuaded, and besides, the
irritatingly nitpicky person is
probably right.
CANCER You’re intelligent now.
You’re curious, and you
remember just about everything
you see, hear or do. It’s a
fabulous learning phase.
LEO You want just about
everything you can imagine, but
only if it’s the highest quality.
Keep your eye out for really good
deals.
VIRGO You’ve spent a great deal
of your time thinking only of
others. For the next day or two,
set aside extra time to think only
of yourself.
LIBRA There’s a sense of urgency,
no more procrastination. Make
sure the numbers add up.
Technical assistance is
recommended.
SCORPIO Go along with what the
others want for the next two
days. Or at least let them think
you are. Your guifance will be
solicited, so have a good plan in
mind.
SAGITTARIUS Stand up straight,
and click your heels with military
precision. Look like you know
what you’re talking about, and be
ready to prove it. If you don’t
know the answer, just tell the
truth, and you’ll still command
respect.
CAPRICORN Travel and adventure
look excellent right now. If you
can’t get away, at least go buy
your ticket.
AQUARIUS The urge to get your
finances straightened out could
be overwhelming. Even the
otherwise tedious check
balancing chores are fun. Take
advantage of this opportunity.
PISCES You may be feeling kind
of jittery and somewhat unsure of
which direction you should head
off in next. Let a wise partner
decide.
CALENDAR
‘Riding Giants’
Today. 8 p.m. Russell House
Theater. Free.
TODAY
Tony Roebuck DMA Trumpet
Recital: 7:30 p.m. School of
Music Recital Hall, Rm. 206.
Free.
“The Triplets of Belleville”: 8
p.m. Russell House Theater.
Free.
“Riding Giants": 7 and 9:15
p.m. Nickelodeon
Theatre, 931 Main St.
Build a Bridge CD release
party with Upon a Tragic
Ending, Chasing August: 7 p.m.
New Brookland Tavern, 122
State St. $7.
TUESDAY
“The Triplets of Belleville”: 8 p.m.
Russell House Theater. Free.
“Lost Boys of Sudan”: 7 and 9
p.m. Nickelodeon Theatre.
Poetry & Prose Night featuring
Signal, The Sinators and Fling: 9
p.m. New Brookland Tavern. $3.
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will eventually cycle around.
Family sitcoms will have theii
heyday again.”
Nobody in the house has more at
stake than Flava Flav. Still wearing
the gold teeth, still donning the
oversized clock around his neck,
but now sporting streaks of white
hair through his malleable Afro,
Flav has been out of sight for a
while, but he wants to be back in a
big way.
“I see myself transitioning into
the next Flavzel Washington,” he
declared boldly.
Although he still hints that one
of these days he’ll release the solo
album he’s been teasing for more
than a decade, Flav wants to act.
“I didn’t really know what the
show was about, but my main
motive of moving to California was
to cross over from music into
television and movies so when they
asked me to do this show, I said to
myself, ‘Hey, well, this is what I
came out here for, so why not give
it a whirl?’” he cackled.
“The Surreal Life” airs Sunday at
10 p.m. EDT on VH1.
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Right-leaning celebrities garnering attention
By PAT CRAIG
KRT CAMPUS
Take it back to that generations
old rock tune, or to Jimi Hendrix
making the National Anthem cry at
Woodstock, or even to Roseanne
Barr’s crotch-grabbing version of
“The Star Spangled Banner”: Politics
has danced its way around arts and
entertainment for years.
Lately, however, that gentle
political minuet has turned into a
full-tilt, frontal assault, marching
toward the left and leaving those
with more conservative viewpoints
without much of a tune to whistle.
Plays with titles like “Laura’s
Bush,” movies like “Fahrenheit
9/11” and anti-Bush rock tours like
“Vote For Change,” are getting the
attention, while more conservative
efforts, where they exist, are more
moderate and lower in profile — for
now, anyway.
Some in Hollywood’s under-30
crowd, inspired by the success of
Arnold Schwarzennegger, are
proudly beginning to wave their
conservative colors, according to
Democrat and documentary
filmmaker Jesse Moss, whose
“Rated R: Republicans in
Hollywood” airs on AMC at 10
p.m. EDT Sept. 14.
“It’s a growing voice in the
entertainment community,” he
said. “Arnold has opened the door
for young Republicans in
Hollywood by proving they can be
proud of their views and still
succeed in the entertainment
business.”
The entertainment industry’s
conservative A-list doesn’t sparkle as
brightly as that of the liberal side.
Those who have come out solidly
for re-electing George Bush include
Ben Stein, Jessica Simpson, Ted
Nugent, Gene Simmons and Greg
Kihn.
But more names are coming to
the front in the areas of production
and writing, along with performers
such as Patricia Heaton, Pat Sajak,
Chuck Norris and Drew Carey, who
styles himself a libertarian,
“someone who can support the war
and get high,” is how he puts it in
Moss’ film.
What’s an artistic young
conservative to do? Conservatives
— who, in Moss’ documentary,
sound much more like moderates in
the Schwarzennegger mold — used
the term “closeted” to describe
their feeling about working in the
arts.
Essentially, you keep quiet about
your political beliefs if you want to
work, they said.
Screenwriter and longtime
conservative Lionel Chetwynd
describes the process as being
“whitelisted,” the opposite of being
on the old Hollywood Blacklist of
the ‘50s. If you are whitelisted, you
have a better chance to be involved
with projects.
In the film, Sajak said work goes
to those best able to do it, liberal or
conservative. The problem is more
social — much of the networking in
Hollywood is done at parties, which
typically don’t include many
conservatives. Now, however, the
Hollywood conservative element is
large and public enough to begin its
own networking.
Country singer Toby Keith, a
strong supporter of the Iraq war and
many of the current Bush
Administration policies, discussed
the idea of forming assessment of
people based entirely on their
politics in an interview with the
Boston Globe in July.
“I just laugh at those people and I
wear that as a badge of honor,” he
said. “I’m thinking, 'Where do you
draw the line on that?’ If your kid
gets his toe cut off with a lawn
mower and you rush him to the
hospital and you get in there and
find out the surgeon is a
Republican, do you delay the
friggin’ surgery? You know what I
mean? Where do you pick and
choose on my right to be an
American? What cracks them up is
the look on their faces when they
find out that I’m a registered
Democrat. That kills them.”
Like media outlets grasping for
the “right demographic,” political
parties have started touting the
personalities supporting their
causes. For example, the Republican
Party has attracted the support of
several major Christian musical
groups, including the Grammy
winning Third Day, which appeared
at the Republican national
convention last week, in the same
session as Vice President Dick
Cheney.