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Diane LaneGeorgia Nicols horoscopes for Jan. 22ALL SIGNS MOON ALERT: We have the all-clear today to shop and make important decisions. The moon is in Pisces. ARIES (March 21-April 19): This week starts off with a few surprises. Although you might feel some tension or disappointment with a friend, you're also excited and pleased to be enlightened about something completely new regarding publishing, other religions and philosophies, or people from different cultures and foreign lands. Who knew? TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Pleasant news from bosses or parents or people in authority could surprise you today. You might learn that your assets are better than you thought. Whee! Unexpected help or assistance from others is likely. In fact, money, cash, gifts and goodies can come your way. (Great!) GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Surprise opportunities to travel or to study or take a course are quite possible today. Similarly, opportunities related to publishing, the media, medicine and the law are also looking swell. Ironically, although goodies exist here, these same areas might hold a tiny disappointment. Oh well. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Good news about shared property, or perhaps some gifts and goodies, or an increase in some of your assets are likely today. Keep your eyes sharp and your pockets open. Nevertheless, in a different way, someone is sitting on something or holding it back from you now. (You can't win 'em all.) LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In one way today, conversations with partners and close friends could disappoint you. You might feel shut down or excluded. However, this is short-lived. Sudden news about vacations, romance, parties or fun stuff related to children, or the arts will pick up your spirits. Yeehaw! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There's good and bad news related to work today. The bad news is that someone might disappoint you, or you feel that your earnings are threatened. Eeek! However, in the next breath, you suddenly see ways to improve your job through travel or further training. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Even though romance might be temporarily in the toilet, suddenly, invitations to have fun plus new flirtations make you feel like a million dollars. It's a mixed day. Since all this positive stuff is definitely there, ignore whatever is disappointing. Phfft! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Even though conversations with family members might be strained today, you can definitely make improvements to where you live or even in to your family dynamics. It's a bit of a contradiction, but it's true. Your real estate assets can improve, as well. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Conversations with siblings and neighbors can be discouraging. Yet in the next breath, someone entirely new pops into your life, making you forget anything that caused you any irritation. Exciting and hopeful news will expand your world in some way. Just what the doctor ordered. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): This is an up-and-down day financially speaking or related to your cash flow. In one way, you feel financially strapped or disappointed. Yet in another area, money offers or job offers and ways to boost your income are suddenly at hand. Stay on the high road. Think positive! Ka-ching! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Even though relationships and close friendships are a bit cool today, other friends or members of groups can really turn your crank and get you excited about something. New frontiers and travel opportunities look so promising! Ditto for publishing, the media, medicine and the law. We like! PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don't let negative thinking get you down today. Instead, be on the lookout for ways to promote your career and your good name with your peers. They definitely exist now. These opportunities will surprise you by coming out of the blue. IF JAN. 22 IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: Actress Diane Lane (1965) shares your birthday today. You're very intense about whatever you do. You don't take halfway measures. You express your emotions quite freely and dramatically, although some of you like to appear more conservative in public. You pay great attention to detail. Whatever you do is creative and original. A major change might take place this year, perhaps as significant as in 1998. Love Actually - NotIf the current state of romantic comedy films could be summed up by a self-help book, here's a suggested title: "We're Just Not That Into Watching You Anymore." Moviegoers are experiencing a kind of cinematic bed death when it comes to meet-cute flicks and affairs to remember. Hoping to spice things up is "Catch and Release," which opened Friday, starring Jennifer Garner as a woman trying to date again after her fiancé dies just prior to their wedding (he may just be using that as an excuse, to use a Groucho Marx line). Around Valentine's Day, Hugh Grant goes once more into the breach with "Music and Lyrics," writing tunes with, and wooing, Drew Barrymore, and the indies "Daddy's Little Girls" and "Starter for 10" will also be aiming their arrows next month. But audiences and romantic comedies are going through a bad patch, and it'll take more than a pint of Haagen-Dazs and a crying jag to forget "The Wedding Date" (Debra Messing falls for rent-a-guy), "Must Love Dogs" (John Cusack neuters Diane Lane), "Just Like Heaven" (Reese Witherspoon's ghost badgers Mark Ruffalo), "Failure to Launch" (Sarah Jessica Parker nudges slacker Matthew McConaughey from home) or "Scoop" (Scarlett Johansson and Hugh Jackman get late-era Woody Allenized). There were others too soul-killing to mention - but, just to be cruel: "Maid in Manhattan," "The Wedding Planner," "40 Days and 40 Nights," "Someone Like You." While "Launch" and "Maid" were legitimate hits (as were "The Break-Up," "Hitch" and "50 First Dates"), one problem may be that this classic genre seems to have fallen out of step with modern life. "In movie plots, there's a charm that comes from men and women being separated by distance," says Paul Levinson, professor of communications at Fordham University. "Yet now, because of cell phones, the Web and BlackBerrys, people are constantly in touch with each other, and the issues that used to be enjoyable are no longer relevant. So Hollywood has to up the ante to make romance fun - 'He's dead but she's not,' 'she has short-term memory loss,' or something like that." "Date movies have gone off-track," says Robert Bucksbaum, president of the box-office tracking firm Exhibitor Relations, who acknowledges that if there's real-life heat involved (as with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston in "The Break-Up") or an extra element (Kevin James' shtick in "Hitch," the buddy shenanigans in "Wedding Crashers"), audiences get re-engaged. "The genre's hokey now, which is why 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Wedding Crashers' felt new," says Bucksbaum. "And '40-Year-Old-Virgin' was a movie made for men that women also wanted to see. That may be the way of the future: Unless these films have got another attraction, they're going to be a tough sell." But like someone coming off an online dating binge, viewers may be more selective than ever. "Dating is different than it was 15 years ago, and it takes pop culture some time to catch up," says Levinson. "People always fall in love, but in movies, like life, something has to keep you coming back." Things We LikeWhat's good out there? What have you read, heard or seen in the last month that really moved and
Yes, She Has a Sweet Tooth, but She’s a Major CarnivoreInterspecies mating is always a challenge, particularly when one species likes to eat the other. In the lupine love triangle “Blood & Chocolate,” a reluctant Romanian werewolf named Vivian (Agnes Bruckner) spends her days making chocolates in a Bucharest candy store. If her customers could see how she celebrates the full moon, they would think twice before letting her handle their macaroons. Diane Lane | Diane Lane 1 | Diane Lane 2 | Diane Lane 4 | Diane Lane 5 | Diane Lane 6 | Diane Lane 7 | Diane Lane 8
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