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CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 “Pygmalion” playwright 5 Indian title of respect 10 Travel document 14 Elephantine 15 Dodge 16 Nice girlfriend? 17 Skip 18 Sing Sing quarters 19 Involved in 20 NYC financial district 22 Wide smile 23 Deceitful person 24 Draws off, as liquid 26 Peachy keen! 30 Wander about 31 Very dry 34 Plant anchor 36 Release a catch 39 Moving truck 40 Diva's room 42 Shoe part 43 Profoundly uisiuiuiny 45 Split apart 46 Frank Herbert sci-fi classic 47 Freshly 49 Furlough 51 Unidentified woman 54 Samms and Lazarus 58 Washington Sq. Theater 59 Sun too long 63 BTU part 64 Navy SEAL, e.g. 65 Setting 66 Cairo’s river 67 Take the wheel 68 _the Red 69 Young adult 70 Sites for some sales 71 Yearnings DOWN 1 Exhibits 2 Mortal 3 Quick on one’s feet 4 Marsh 5 Offshoot group © 2004 Tribune Media Services, Inc. 09/17/04 All rights reserved. 6 Maintain 7 Hearty mate? 8 Marks time 9 Rouse to action 10 Singer Sarah 11 Off the cuff 12 Passive protest 13 Geological periods 21 Word before boot or jump 25 Officiate at tea 27 To and_ 28 _de force 29 Alpine warble 31 Gardner of “Mogambo” 32 Unrefined 33 Childish 35 Sound properly 37 Charged particle 38 Born in France 40 Ran in the wash 41 Nev. neighbor 44 Left on the plate 46 Jack or Patrick Solutions 48 Full of trees 50 Irritate 51 Outing 52 Comic-strip orphan 53 Madonna role 55 Watered fabric 56 Sean of “The Lord of the Rings” 57 Searches for 60 For all time 61 Woodwind 62 Blunders HOROSCOPES ARIES Figure out what you really need and when. This is quite important. You can’t afford to get everything now, b.ut you do need to get some of it. Prepare for your big shopping trip. TAURUS You’re quite attractive now, and you’re not the only one. The heat’s turned up, especially in a committed relationship. Turn down the night on the town with friends. You’re better off staying at home. GEMINI Your workload’s increasing, just when you were about to lie back and relax. You might as well catch a nap if you can; it promises to be a long night. Postpone traveling. CANCER You always do best when you’re safely inside a committed relationship. The best relationship for you is passionate but also quite interesting. It’s probably nearby. LEO Domestic- responsibilities interfere with your hobby time. Use some of yoilr resources to improve your surroundings. Make things more secure. VIRGO Your ability to focus on one thing increases for the next two days. This is welcome because you have had scattered moments lately. Revisit an old lesson. LIBRA A check you’ve been waiting for is finally in the mail. Don’t tell all your friends and neighbors; just use it to pay off i bills. SCORPIO The next few days you’ll find it gets easier to see what needs to be done. You may wonder why it took you so long, but everything in its time. Sagittarius Deadlines that seemed far away have begun catching up with you. You can’t outrun them; better turn and face them. And ask them for a gift. It’s an old aboriginal trick. CAPRICORN Let your friends give you a boost. That isn’t cheating. You’ve done a lot of things on your own, but this job requires assistance. AQUARIUS When you expand your influence, or the box in which you’re playing, you always, encounter new obstacles. That’s just part of the challenge. PISCES Even if it’s hard to arrive at a compromise, don’t simply give up the effort. Hammer out an agreement that lasts. CALENDAR Enable Kain TODAY “Spider-man 2”: Russell House Theater, 8 p.m. Baumer CD Release Party with Sleeping at Last, 1984 and David Adedokun: 5 p.m. New Brookland Tavern, 122 State St. $7. “Nicotina”: 7 and 9 p.m. Nickelodeon Theatre, 931 Main St. Black Bottom Biscuits: 9 p.m. Jammin’ Java, 1540 Main St. Pay-what-you-war,' show. The Muffs with The Visqueens (formerly The Fastbacks), The ArgumintS: 10 p.m. New Brookland Tavern. $8. Floydian Slip (Pink Floyd Tribute Band): Headliners, 700 Gervais St. SATURDAY “Spider-man 2”: Russell House Theater, 8 p.m. f “Ballad of a Soldier”: 1 and 11 p.m. Nickelodeon Theatre. Sunday Night Movies: 8 p.m.: Lord of the Rings. 11 p.m.: Harry Potter. New Brookland Tavern. Free. “Nicotina”: 3, 7 and 9 p.m. Nickelodeon Theatre, 931 I Main St. Red Perspective with Niel Brooks: Trustus Theatre. $12 students, $13.50 general. Enable Kain with 88 MPH, By the Sins fell Angels, Last Breath: 9 p.m. New Brookland Tavern. $5 21+, $7 under 21. 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Don Willis, a reserve offensive lineman for the Kansas City Chiefs, doesn’t seem to mind the revelation. It’s the same story for Willis’ still-sealed copies of “Master and Commander,” “Blade,” “Lord of the Rings,” “Ali” and at least 30 other unwatched titles in his 400 plus DVD collection — including five four-disc volumes of the TV series “Friends” that have yet to be removed from their see-through wrappers. A copy of “Starship Troopers 2” is open, but... “I was going to watch it,” Willis says. Becky Willis can only snigger. “He can buy six of them at a time, and he may not watch any of them,” she says. The DVD man of the house flashes a crafty grin and then makes a half-serious confession. “I have a problem,” he says. If so, he’s hardly alone. According to consumer surveys for Universal Studios Home Video, the average DVD buyer has not watched up to 10 percent of the JOHN SLEEZER/KRT CAMPUS Don and Becky Willis sit in front of their DVD collection at their home. The DVDs in the foreground have not been opened. titles in his collection. That includes Willis’ unopened copy of the 1983 nuclear holocaust TV movie, “The Day After.” “I bought this because I remember I was in the fourth grade when I watched it with my dad,” Willis says, cradling the DVD case in his hands. “It helps me hold on to my youth.” Whether Willis ever watches the film doesn’t matter to the studios that put out the DVDs, says Scott Hettrick, home entertainment editor of Variety and editor in chief of Video Business and DVD Exclusive in Los Angeles. “All they care about is whether people buy them or not,” Hettrick says. “The fact is that people are collectors. The average consumer just likes to own stuff. And whether they watch it or not is irrelevant, as long as they know they have it there on the shelf. It’s a strange phenomenon.” And one increasingly based on impulse triggered by convenience, Hettrick says. “It’s become a situation where you walk into a store and think, 'I know that movie and I kind of liked it. It’s so ridiculously cheap now, I’ll just buy it,”’ he says. “Absolutely, the studios and marketers are preying on our completist nature and our got-to have-it, £ot-to-own-it, don’t-have to-watch-it side.” » Look for The Gamecock’s own ‘Heads & Tails’ every Wednesday *|Sh ? V