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P OSTS

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L O C A L LY

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CURRENTS

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COVER STORY A&E

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S TA G E , A R T & EVENTS

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EPICURE

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ASTR OLOGY

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I ACCEPT ACCEPT the the b back-handed ack-handed compliment compliment of of T im B ustos ((â&#x20AC;&#x153;Predetermined â&#x20AC;&#x153;Predetermined C onclusions,â&#x20AC;?

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U C ssystem ystem are are being being increased increased 32 32 p ercent, UC percent, aand nd for for the the S tate system system b 1,000 p er year, year, State byy $ $1,000 per aand nd student student enrollment enrollment will will d rop b 0,000. drop byy 4 40,000.

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This would not not seem seem to to me me to to be be a great great combination. comb nat on When When will w w now would wee k know if there there is is a detrimental detrimental effect effect on on human human health hea th from rom synthetic synthet c turf tur ? if Unfortunately, the the jury jury is is out out and and wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t won t report report back back for or years years to to come. come Unfortunately, Just call call our our kids kids guinea guinea kids. kids.

Just Our children children trust trust that that we we are are providing prov d ng them them with w th a safe sa e place p ace to to Our play. Our Our challenge challenge is is to to live live up up to to that that trust trust amid am d all a of o the the m arket ng play. marketing hoopla aabout bout ssynthetic ynthetic tturf. urf. Itt is is easy easy to to be be fooled oo ed by by tthe he aalluring ur ng hoopla language of of this this supposed supposed â&#x20AC;&#x153;greenâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;greenâ&#x20AC;? product. product language San a Cruz Cruz native na ve Ken Ken Foster Fos er iss a certified cer ed permaculture permacu ure designer des gner and and owner owner Santa o Terra Terra Nova Nova Ecological Eco og ca Landscaping Landscap ng (www.terranovalandscaping.com). (www erranova andscap ng com) of

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Company. driver â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not not a lot lot to to do do at at night. night. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Th hatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why why the the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Downtown Association Association wants wants us us down down here. here.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Downtown about 5pm 5pm and and the the shops shops are are all all lit lit up up and and the the about sidewalks are are crowded. crowded. People People turn turn to to stare stare as as the the sidewalks huge draft draft horses horses clip-clop clip-clop down down the the street. street. huge

Clayton, a whiskery whiskery man man in in a top top hat, hat, imbues imbues the the Clayton, sscene cene w ith a ccharming harming w intriness, eeven ven tthough hough iitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a with wintriness, b almy 6 0d egrees. A ccar ar p asses h im o n tthe he lleft eft b lasting balmy 60 degrees. passes him on blasting â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Back Back Th hat A ss U pâ&#x20AC;? aass tthe he p assengers ggawk awk o ut tthe he That Ass Upâ&#x20AC;? passengers out w indows. windows. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not not like like Central Central Park Park or or Disneyland, Disneyland,â&#x20AC;? says says â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s C layton, w ho llearned earned h ow tto ow ork h orses iin na Clayton, who how work horses ccommune ommune iin nO regon iin n tthe he llate ate 11970s.

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At the the crosswalk crosswalk on on the the corner corner of of Pacific Pacif ic and and At Cathcart, Clayton Clayton tightens tightens his his hands hands on on the the reins reins Cathcart, as an an oblivious oblivious pedestrian pedestrian speed-walks speed-walks in in front front of of as the enormous enormous animalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; animalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hooves. hooves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You â&#x20AC;&#x153;You really really gotta gotta the pay attention, attention,â&#x20AC;? he he says. says. And And he he knows knows all all the the horsesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; horsesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pay triggersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Greta doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like like Harley-Davidsons.

Harley-Davidsons. triggersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Greta Another horse, horse, Ricky, Ricky, is is spooked spooked by by air air brakes. brakes.

Another As Clayton Clayton guides guides the the horses horses up up to to the the Hat Hat As Company, where where a little little line line of of moms, moms, dads dads and and kids kids Company, are waiting waiting their their turn, turn, his his wife, wife, Chris, Chris, is is ready ready with with a are bucket of of water. water. The The horses horses dip dip their their noses noses and and spill spill bucket water on on the the street street as as they they drink, drink, and and then then itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one one water more time time around around the the block. block. more â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jessica â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jessica LLussenhop ussenhop

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About two years n ationally re nowned b icycle d esigner nationally renowned bicycle designer aand nd S anta C ruz C ounty n ative C raig Santa Cruz County native Craig C alfee ta ught h im h ow tto ob uild Calfee taught him how build b icycle fframes rames ffrom rrom llocally o cally ggrown rrown bicycle b amb oo. T oday, Ny ampong eearns arns bamboo.

Today, Nyampong aabout b out $ 150 fo very fframe rame h uilds, $150 forr eevery hee b builds, sshipping hipping tthe he ccompleted ompleted fframesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;some ramesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;some am ilky ccaramel aramel ccolor, olor, o thers a d eep milky others deep m o chaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to C alfeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s La L S elva B each mochaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to Calfeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Selva Beach m anufacturing sshop, hop, w here tthe he w ir y manufacturing where wiry b ike d esigner aand nd h is tteam eam sslap lap w heels bike designer his wheels aand nd h ardware o n tthem, hem, b urn tthe he n ame hardware on burn name â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bambooseroâ&#x20AC;?

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sell tthem sell hem tto od distributors, istributors, w where here they they eeventually ventually fetch fetch about ab out $ 950 aapiece. piece. T he $950 The o p eration makes makes Ny ampong and and h is operation Nyampong his tw o eemployees mployees w ealthy b Ghanaian two wealthy byy Ghanaian sstandards. tandards. It It also also supports supp orts Calfeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Calfeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basic basic m antra that that w hen it it ccomes omes tto oh elping mantra when helping p eople iin n developing developing ccountries, ountries, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trade â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trade people iiss b etter tthan han aid.â&#x20AC;? aid.â&#x20AC;? better â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been b een going going to to Africa Africa for for years years â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d ssince ince tthe he eearly arly â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, 80s, aand nd w hat people p eople what re ally want want aand nd need need over over there there iiss jjobs, obs, really iitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s n ot h andouts,â&#x20AC;? ssays ays Calfee Calfee as as he he not handouts,â&#x20AC;? aadjusts djusts tthe he ffront ro r nt fork fork on on w hat will will b what bee a special sp ecial â&#x20AC;&#x153;art â&#x20AC;&#x153;art bikeâ&#x20AC;? bikeâ&#x20AC;? made made from frrom bamboo bamb o o aand nd ssteer teer horns. horns. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;So So b asically I went went basically aand nd ttrained rained Ibrahim Ibrahim to to m ake the the bikes. bikes. make No wh eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got got a llittle ittle shop shop aand nd a couple couple Now heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eemployees mployees and and an an apprentice, apprentice, and and he he d oes really really w ell. The The iidea dea tthen hen would would does well.

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Most Most people p eople know know Calfee Calfee Design Design bicycles not forr ttheir bamboo b icycles n ot fo heir b amboo lline ine but forr ttheir ultra-high-end b ut fo heir u ltra-high- end ccarbon arb on bikes, which forr m more ffiber ib er b ikes, w hich ccan an ggo o fo ore $8,000 byy tthan han $ 8,000 aand nd aare re rridden idden b folks Tour dee F France fo lks llike ike tthree-time hree-time T our d rance winner Greg LeMond.

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For For Nyampong, Nyampong, Bamboosero Bamboosero represents opportunity few re presents aan no pp ortunity tthat hat fe w Africans one hee tthinks will A fricans gget et aand nd o ne h hinks w ill only better on. o nly gget et b etter aass ttime ime ggoes o es o n. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ever yb ody likes likes the the bikes bikes in in Accra,â&#x20AC;?

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SSanta anta C ruz W eekly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;They They aall ll tthink hink tthat hat Bamboosero bee b big B amb o osero iiss ggoing oing tto ob ig iin n tthe he near Accra bee n ear ffuture uture aand nd Ac ccra iiss ggoing oing tto ob biggest distributor forr b bamboo tthe he b iggest d istributor fo amb o o bikes whole world.â&#x20AC;? b ikes iin n tthe he w hole w orld.â&#x20AC;?

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BUXOM aspiring female Santa Claus in a quilted down jacket swaggers out of room C1 in the Civic Center where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m next in line for my â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rent-A-Santaâ&#x20AC;? interview.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ho ho ho,â&#x20AC;? she says over her shoulder, giving me an unnerving sidelong glance, a sort of knowing sneer tinged with Christmas spirit. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s warring with me for the job of Santa Claus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ho ho ho yourself,â&#x20AC;? I answer, wondering what I, at age 6, would have made of a big-breasted female Santa. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are you Santa Claus?â&#x20AC;? I might have asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Ms. Santa Claus. Mr. Santa Claus is home making dinner.â&#x20AC;?

My own children will be away this Christmas visiting relatives. I want to be Santa because I know how much Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be missing them.

I want to be Santa so I can give love and gifts to other children. If I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t personally give these things to my own children, I can at least try to give them to other peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children. The truth is, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the loneliest man in town and I want to be Santa Claus so I can distract myself, so I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel so much pain.

I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t practiced my â&#x20AC;&#x153;ho-ho-hos,â&#x20AC;? but plan to wing it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ho ho hoâ&#x20AC;? from the diaphragm, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ho ho hoâ&#x20AC;? from the heart.

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1 =D 3 @ A B = @ G j A C 1 1 3 3 2 7 < 5 /B A / < B/ My qualifications? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Jewish. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a teacher, Fulbright scholar, Guggenheim fellow and the author of 14 books. I have a beard. But mostly, for 53 years I have wanted to participate not as an envious Christmas outsider but as a wholehearted insider. What better way than to become the plump, whitebearded, old man himself ?

My shortcomings? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m tall and skinny.

I am a neurotic ectomorph. I have a lean, hungry look about me, sad hazel eyes and a slightly hooked nose.

But I do have a white beard of my ownâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;though tinged with wiry black hairs. I like children. That is, most children. Not all. The little boy down the street who applied red enamel paint to my friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Boston terrier puppy will be lucky to get a lump of coal this Christmas.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re wondering if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a child molester or a drug addict.

They obviously donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want a Santa Claus whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to arrive at some party too ripped to climb out of the sleigh.

Reindeer Games The door to room C-1 at the Civic Center opens and the Santa Claus personnel officer invites me inside. We shake hands. She introduces me to her assistant. The two interviewers sit at one end of a mahogany conference table and I sit at the other. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What wonderful weather weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having,â&#x20AC;? volunteers the female interviewer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not at all like Christmas. This is going to be my first Christmas in five years without snow,â&#x20AC;? I stammer,

violating my promise to myself not to ramble. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Robert, to start off, would you give us a sample of your â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ho ho ho?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

I take a deep breath and summon up all the jolliness I can muster. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ho ho ho!â&#x20AC;? I roar.

They nod approvingly and make notes on their lined yellow pads. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m feeling more at ease. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What are the names of Santaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reindeer?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Comet. Dancer. Prancer. Blitzen.

Rudolph. . . . Hmmm.â&#x20AC;? An un-Santalike expletive follows.

I get only four out of eight correct. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m failing. What the hell am I doing here?

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know the names of eight stinking reindeer.

Again, they make notes on their lined yellow pads. This reminds me of visits to my therapist. I begin to sweat. I want the job and they know I want the job and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not going to get it and they know theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to give it to me. The humiliation of it all. I passed my orals for an MA degree, I taught at Cornell University, but I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get hired as Santa Claus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Comet, Vixen, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen,â&#x20AC;? the woman says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rudolph doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really count. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a latecomer.â&#x20AC;?

Next question. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What would you say if you had a kid sitting in your lap and he pulled off your beard?â&#x20AC;? asks the assistant Santa Claus personnel officer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d try to control myself. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say something like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;See, I have a real beard, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s white and black because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m young. And I wear an all white beard over my own beard so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll look older than I really am. People expect Santa Claus to have an all-white beard. But now you know the truth. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m younger than people think.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? What a ridiculous answer.

To my surprise, the two nod approvingly. Again, they make notes on their pads. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why do you want to be Santa Claus?â&#x20AC;? the assistant asks.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re wondering if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a child molester or a drug addict. They obviously donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want a Santa Claus whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to arrive at some holiday office party too ripped to climb out of the sleigh. But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just a straight, conventional citizen. A writer. A professor. Solid and stuffy.

I tell them about my children and how much I miss them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What will you say if children ask how come they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get what they wanted last Christmas?â&#x20AC;? ¨ '

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1 =D 3 @ A B = @ G j A C 1 1 3 3 2 7 < 5 /B A / < B/ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say that Santa Claus loves them and that he gives children what he thinks they need most. That he has many children to give things toâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; children in all parts of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and that some years he runs out of presents before heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finished. But that he tries to make up for it the next year.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;OK, but remember Santa Claus never makes promises,â&#x20AC;? says the male Santa Claus recruiter, hiding behind his hand. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Also you may be asked to appear in some unusual ways.â&#x20AC;?

Like a Rent-A-Santa-Stripper who must drag along a bag of toys while somehow jumping naked out of a cake?

To my relief, he explains: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last year our Santa Claus was met at the end of a deserted mountain road with a horsedrawn wagon filled with hay. You want to be prepared for anything.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;And Santa Claus does not use drugs and he does not accept drinks,â&#x20AC;? the female personnel officer warns. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No liquor. No drugs.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;What if Santa is invited to stay for dinner?â&#x20AC;? I ask, hoping at some point along the way the old guy will be asked to sit down with some generous family to feast in style. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa Claus does not accept dinner invitations.â&#x20AC;?

Right. I should have known. He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t accept anything. But how in Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name is Santa going to fatten himself up if you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feed him?

Feeling depressed, I cross my arms and look down at my skinny legs.

The interview ends with them asking me to make up a story. My imagination fails me. I can think of nothing to say. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve written a novel, poems, short stories, magazine articles and I sit at the mahogany conference table with nothing to say. I bomb. I need a drink. â&#x20AC;&#x153;OK, well, thank you, Robert. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t call us. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll call you Thursday or Friday of next week.â&#x20AC;?

Both Thursday and Friday pass with no call from Santaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personnel officers.

So this would-be St. Nick sweats it out over the weekend. On Monday he can stand it no longer. Can he subject himself to further mortification? He must know whether or not heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made it.

He does what they asked him not to do. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Robert Sward?â&#x20AC;? says the voice at the other end of the line, â&#x20AC;&#x153;youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Santa Claus!â&#x20AC;?

A Pretty Good Goy Hired as a Rent-A-Santa Claus, I immediately begin wondering if there hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been some mistake. Me? Santa Claus? Surely there must be 100 aspiring

Santaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out there better qualified than I. Oversize professional actors with droll little mouths and noses like cherries.

Accomplished, 300-pound right jolly old elves. Reindeer ranchers whose round bellies shook when they laughed like bowlfuls of jelly.

What would my parents think? A nice Jewish boy, bar mitzvahed, educated, the worksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s he doing, our son, in a red suit trimmed with rabbit fur promising Barbie and Ken and GI Joe to gentiles?

The truth is, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m scared. Having gotten the job, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m up to it.

Think of the responsibility. Sinterklaas, Saint Nicholas, Father Christmasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Santa Claus is a supernatural being who brings happiness and knows the names, addresses and dreams of every child on earth. Who knows the good ones from the bad and who loves both equally. Who has unconditional love for everyone, even noisy, runny-nosed, sneezy children who whine and cry and pull his beard.

Yes, this Santa Claus worries about being too thin and believes there is nothing more obscene than the sight of some undernourished Father ¨

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My girlfriendâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;delighted, by the way, to be dating Santa Clausâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;tells me that, if everything goes well, I will not merely put on the cheap suit and fake white beard and â&#x20AC;&#x153;playâ&#x20AC;? Santa, but I will become Santa, just as good method actors and actresses become the parts they play. She promises to help me with the logistics of costume and makeup.

Maybe thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something kind of sexy about Santa after all.

Still, I ask myself, what would my parents think? A nice Jewish boy, bar mitzvahed, educated, the worksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s he doing, our son, the crazy teacher, age 53, in a red suit trimmed with rabbit fur promising Barbie and Ken and GI Joe to gentiles? Flying through the air like a peddler in a magic sleigh, a bundle of toys he had flung on his back, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s giving them away, Gertrude. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s giving them away.

And worse, what if, even after boning up on their names, I confuse or forget some of my reindeer? Cutie, Blitzen, Bagel and Vixen. Donder, Dasher, Schwartzkopf and Prancer. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like some New York law firm.

I buy a copy of Clement C. Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Night Before Christmas, a facsimile of the original 1848 edition, and write down reindeer names in my Day Timer appointment book for reference and study. I go to the downtown library and read everything I can on Christmas.

I begin to notice that when I talk to myself, I address myself as Santa. I try not to let it bother me.

Santaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friend tells him heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make a great Santa. They say that Santaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ho ho hoâ&#x20AC;? is just bravado. That thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the real Santa Claus. That Santa is a private, loving, soft-spoken actually fairly sexy guy, who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go to parties very muchâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;only at New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and that, when he does, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stay very long because heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always working on his next novel.

With that encouragement, Santa goes to the Rent-A office to pick up his new suit and beard and his instructions. He also has to sign a contract. Of course there is a set of rules, some already made clear, to learn: 1. No alcohol, drugs, no smoking.

Santa Claus does not smoke cigarettes because his uniform is flammable and he wants to set a good example for children and not go up in flames or die an agonizing death from cancer.

2. Santa Claus does not accept cookies

or cake to put into his big red velour bag â&#x20AC;&#x153;for the reindeer.â&#x20AC;?

3. Santa is not a surrealist. He tells stories about sharing. He tells stories that have an appropriate moral message.

Santa, in short, follows tradition. More Charles Dickens than Richard Brautigan.

4. Santa arrives at his gigs on time and already in uniform. He does not need to first go to the bathroom to â&#x20AC;&#x153;changeâ&#x20AC;? where he may be seen by children.

Nick of Time Santa spends a sleepless night and, at dawn, takes a shower and trims his beard.

Two hours before he is due at the community center, Santa does some yoga exercises: the Sun Salutation, the pose of the holly wreath. Then he meditates. Next, Santa lays out his clothes and begins to dress. He imagines himself a toreador preparing for what Hemingway calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;the moment of truth.â&#x20AC;?

Santa puts on his blue fleece-lined sweat pants and shirt, to which his girlfriend pins four pillowsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;front, back, both sides. Then he pulls on his red velour pants and socks. He borrows a pair of Girlfriend Clausâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; red socks (one size fits all) to pull on over his own. He pulls on his high rubber boots with the white fur. She sews jingle bells onto his boots.

When he is at last ready, Girlfriend Claus begins to weep. She has helped create Santa, a fantasy from her childhood, and has done so in the privacy of her own home. Here he is, as real as any Santa she has known. Only this is her own Santa, seated on her sofa.

He is as moved as Girlfriend Claus. He feels himself to be transformed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am the happiest man in the world,â&#x20AC;?

Santa says, seated in GFCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car on his way to the local community center.

Suddenly he hears children screaming and yelling, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa! Look, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Santa Claus.â&#x20AC;? A mother stops in the middle of the street, risking her own life and the life of her child to gasp, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Santa!

Mickey, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Santa!â&#x20AC;?

Traffic-Stopping Santa waves and waves and shouts over and over, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.â&#x20AC;?

Impulsively, he improvises. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Happy Chanukah, too!â&#x20AC;?

Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert Sward is the author of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;God Is in the Cracks.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; He wrote this autobiographical piece in 1987, shortly after his arrival in Santa Cruz. He hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worn red and white together since.

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N A YEAR weighed down by corporate greed, celebrity sluts and politics shallower than a drainage ditch, a beautifully told love story sort of helps wash off some of the accumulated cultural slime. The Young Victoria, starring a luminous Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) as Queen Victoria and a dashing Rupert Friend as her much-adored Albert, is not only vibrant with behind-the-scenes revelation, it is a deeply affecting account of true love that lasted a lifetime. Forget about all of those frothy, costume-driven BBC productions.

The Young Victoria (co-produced by Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York) unzips the ornate veneer and gives us plenty of backstory shock to match the saga of royal soulmates.

Julian Fellowesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; script smartly serves up a slice of life just before and just after Victoria came to the throne in 1837 at the age of 18. An act of Parliament has decreed that Victoriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, the duchess of Kent (Miranda Richardson), should serve as regent if the current monarch William IV (Jim Broadbent) dies before Victoria comes of age. But the young woman who gave her name to an age is having none of it. Her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conniving secretary Sir John Conroy (Mark Strong) battles to have Victoria sign that regency document while the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne (Paul Bettany) struggles to gain her trust. Everybody wants a piece of the inexperienced teenager who will soon command a vast empire. Yet much of this filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backbone comes from its refusal to paint the likely suspectsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;cabinet ministers, impoverished royals, snubbed suitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as psychological stereotypes.

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glides up polished stairways and into satin-draped private chambers, exposing fascinating, little-known details of Victoriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s repressive upbringing. Raised under virtual house arrest, she isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allowed to walk down a staircase unattended. Destined for a life of duty, Vickie blossoms when she first sees Albert. It is love at first sightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we know it and they know it. But the filmmakers let the inevitable take its slow, sweet time.

Thanks to dialogue drawn from actual diaries and letters, the film believably captures the tenderness of their longdistance courtship.

For sheer visual allure and texture, The Young Victoria can match any Merchant Ivory production youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d care to name.

Yet it avoids reduction to cheap bodiceripping, thanks partly to brisk editing.

Even quiet moments, as the lovers stroll the palace gardens, for example, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bog down. The crosscutting between the roiling political innuendo and the coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deepening love keeps the tension at just the right pitch.

That said, go ahead and wallow in the glorious opulence of it all. Only a communist could fail to love such extravagance. Emily Blunt manages to display the young monarchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uncertainty and fear as well as her willful independence. And thanks to the sheer physical radiance of Rupert Friend,

we know exactly why she fell for her German cousin. A ringer for the real Albert, Friend isâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in a wordâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;gorgeous.

With his romantic locks, ruffled shirts and riding boots, he is every inch the prince charming. Their first waltz captures not only the ornament of the periodâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the ribbons, roses and Viennese waltzesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it also conveys that breathless perfection of a first embrace. But the visuals are matched by an irresistible cast, from malevolent Strong as the bitter power-seeker to a splendid Harriet Walker as the young queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aunt and wise confidante.

This film is delicious enough to chew, from the stupendous costuming to the authentic great house interiors and seamless acting. Oh, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bettanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wickedly sexy Lord Melbourne in the bargain. The Young Victoria is a thoroughly engaging romantic history about the longest-reigning English monarch, before she became the stout symbol of empire.

Bring Kleenex.

THE YOUNG VICTORIA (PG; 100 min.), directed by Jean-Marc Vallee, written by Julian Fellowes and starring Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany and Miranda Richardson, opens Friday at the Nickelodeon in Santa Cruz.

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HERE ARE moments during Sherlock Holmes when you wish you could hit director Guy Ritchie with his own storyboard; there are bone-crushing fights that you feel like applauding just to celebrate the fact that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re over at last.

Yet all in all, Sherlock Holmes is ripping fun.

Robert Downey Jr.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance seems to be based a little on Nicol Williamsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nervous-breakdown sufferer in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s less of Olivier in Downeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance than there was in Williamsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, less raising of the voice to let it ring off the proscenium arch.

Downeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s schizoid man arouses a note of pity for his own solitude and, at the same time, admiration of his infernal speed. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a note of a scandalous Bohemian in Holmes when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cleaned up, something of the Pre-Raphaelite decadent in him. He is certainly gratifying to look at. When on his game, Downeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Holmes is a dandy in high Victorian regalia, ascots and the kind of slanted hats worn in Oscar Wildeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s circle. But we also see another side of Holmesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a hermit crab in a dank flat, huddled under a silk dressing gown so raveled it looks as shaggy as a bear skin.

(The detectiveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recreations are finessed nicely. Watsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comment on the matter is, like all good drug humor, an inside joke: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know that what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re drinking is meant for eye surgery?â&#x20AC;?)

Mark Strongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staring and broad-faced Lord Blackwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a Victorian Aleister Crowleyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is apprehended by Holmes in midâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;black mass and ushered in to a well-deserved hanging. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You and I are

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bound together,â&#x20AC;? Blackwood promises Holmes before he takes the last drop.

Naturally, Inspector Lestrade (a beautifully cast Eddie Marsan, looking more like a bull terrier than ever) decides that the case is closed. But it seems the grave cannot hold Blackwood: we cut to a family tomb that looks as if it had been blown apart from the inside. In the meantime, Holmes is approached by two different clients: the ever-troublesome Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams, decorative but dull) and the head of a Masons-like group, who are troubled by the specter of Blackwood.

Ritchieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now-traditional fastforward and fast-rewind techniques are used cleverly to revisit crime scenes.

The stopping points include horror laboratories, a steam-powered abattoir, deadly copper bathtubs and spontaneous immolation. The look has more to do with David Fincher than Basil Rathbone.

And yet the muddy streets and bad teeth arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t an unviable idea: Ritchieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cockneyfying of the adventure gives it some fresh texture. The movie keeps coming back to a serene partnershipâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; when Holmes says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The gameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s afoot,â&#x20AC;?

Jude Lawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s formidable Watson picks up the rest of the Henry V quote.

People seeking a degree from the Internet School of Pop Psychology can suggest that Sherlock Holmes implies that

Holmes is closeted. I remember what a far smaller scandal that suggestion was when Billy Wilder implied the same thing in 1970â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Either way, it should be clearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; to go back to Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that man delights Holmes not, nor woman either.

Sherlock Holmesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; CGI animation is sometimes impressive; one Thames-front scene seems to go back into the frame for miles. Too bad the backdrop in the final fight scene is far more indifferent. Ritchie struggles with the usual problem of trying to illustrate the kind of public panic that would occur if the Antichrist were to rise and stalk London. Compare the aimless hubbub to the thrifty effectiveness of Fritz Lang establishing the same sense of civic emergency in M and Ministry of Fear.

Sherlock Holmes rattles our cages with superstitious craziness, then turns into a celebration of pure reason, unique in a season of movies meant to leave your brain in a molten puddle of crypto-religious awe.

SHERLOCK HOLMES (PG-13; 128 min.), directed by Guy Ritchie, written by Michael Robert Johnson et al., photographed by Philippe Rousselot and starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams, opens Friday countywide.

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SLEEK, twisty mystery, illuminated by the stunning PenĂŠlope Cruz, the new Pedro AlmodĂłvar is also a sprawler. The James M. Cainâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;style plot of Broken Embraces involves a blind film director from Madrid, most active in the 1990s (the balding but virile LluĂ­s Homar). After losing his sight, the filmmaker took the ballsy new name â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harry Caineâ&#x20AC;? and became a writer.

Caine is doted on by Judit (Blanca Portillo), a mannish female assistant with whom he has some kind of past. News of the death of a corrupt tycoon sends Caine back to confront unfinished businessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to retrieve the moment 16 years previously where he lost both love and sight.

Broken Embracesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; well-engineered reveries over classic film are heightened

by AlmodĂłvarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seriocomic additions.

The dead tycoon in question, a cuckolded millionaire named Ernesto Martel ( JosĂŠ Luis GĂłmez) is apparently modeled on Everett Sloaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character in The Lady From Shanghai. This dangerous man collects pop art, and so his dining room is full of giant Warholesque canvases of rif les and guns. In a joke The Simpsons should steal for Mr. Burns, he keeps a framed portrait of one of his pet Dobermans on the window behind his desk.

Martel was also the producer of the last film Caine made, and the wealthy man unwillingly shared the love of Caineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. Lena, known as Magdalena, was an actress, secretary and part-time prostitute who took as her working-girl name Severine (a nod to Belle de Jour).

She, of course, is played by Cruz.

No one but AlmodĂłvar knows how to make Cruz really fascinating. She

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acts out a regular scene we used to see in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s movies, an auditioning actress trying on wigs. We see this womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s modes of glamour. Here are the curves of Sophia Loren, the frailty of Audrey Hepburn; in a turned-headed reveal, like that famous moment in Gilda, Cruz blazes the too-incandescent smile of Rita Hayworth. Capped with a tousled platinum wig, Cruz evinces something of Lana Turner in her mankiller parts.

The spirits summoned up here arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t travestied; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re worshipped. Do we feel for Lena? The film is all a bit too stylized for that. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such an imago itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to think of her as a character, despite the moments of love, anger and regret that Cruz acts out.

In the press notes, AlmodĂłvar comments about the last shot before Broken Embracesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; coda. In it, a viewer reaches into the blurred, scrambled pixels of a video screen, trying to touch the untouchable past. Having just hit age 60, the Spanish director

seems to have gone valedictorian.

Something comes along like Avatar or Transformers 2, and the world trumpets it as a new stage of cinema.

If cinema meansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in your estimationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;something 90 minutes long with three-point lighting, starring a couple of actors hugging and kissing and with a gold-wreathed lion roaring at the beginning, all that inescapable hype about the new is depressing.

Imagine how depressed youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be if you were one dedicated classicist of a film directorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;then AlmodĂłvarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s act of raving cinephilia makes all the more sense.

BROKEN EMBRACES (R; 127 min.), directed and written by Pedro AlmodĂłvar, photographed

by Rodrigo Prieto and starring PenĂŠlope Cruz, opens Friday at the Del Mar in Santa Cruz.

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118 min.) Meryl Streep stars as a divorcee who becomes the mistress of her remarried husband, Alec Baldwin. Baldwin reportedly used a butt double for his nude scene. Everything was going fine until the butt demanded its own trailer and some speaking lines.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brilliant! A Capraesque classic in the making!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C;The N.Y. Times

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nonfiction bestseller, writer-director John Lee Hancock eliminated the most controversial aspects of Oherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case: the Tuohysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; motivation for adopting him. Would they have taken him in if he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t athletically gifted and a potential football star at left tackle? Hancock refuses to see or acknowledge any ambiguity, instead leaving moviegoers with a simple, simplistic answer: They did what they did first out of compassion and later out of unqualified love. (MV)

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Cameronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s terrible script for this putative end-ofthe-decade experience really overworks the principle. The politics play it both ways; letting us swoon over the military hardware and still lament for the plundered forests. After an hour, the drugs wear off, and the appeal of synthespianism starts to drag; motion capture isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly motion release (compare the synthetic Weaver to the real thing), and the cobbled-together story of eco-rebellion isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be eclipsed by the visuals. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to see it anyway, see it in 3-D. (RvB)

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min.) Jim Sheridanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dud remake of a 2004 Danish original. Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal) is just out of the joint after three years for bank robbery; his brother, Sam (Tobey Maguire), is a captain in the Marines, about to head back for another stint. Grace (Natalie Portman), Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife, and the mother of his two children, settles down to wait for his return. But Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s helicopter is shot down by the Taliban, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken prisoner and brutalized. In stress mode, wielding a gun and screaming to the heavens, Maguire showboats with all smokestacks belching.

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(PG; 96 min.) Robert Zemeckis, the guy who brought us 2004â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Polar Express, vies with CVS for earliest seasonal statement with this prepreseason release of the animated classic. Scrooge is voiced by Jim Carrey; also features the voices of Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Robin Wright Penn. (TH) /< 32C1/B7=<

(PG-13; 103 min.) Lone Scherfigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s British comingof-age film has its good points. Twickenhamraised Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is studying for Oxford when she gets picked up by David (Peter Sarsgaard), a slightly older rotter; his slightly cruel eyes and flat smile forecast trouble to come. Until then, Jenny gets to see London highlife and nightclubs, and voyages to Paris.

Smelling class, and wanting to make their hard-working daughter happy, Jennyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents (Cara Seymour, Alfred Molina) relax the leash.

Mulligan is charming, the meet-cute is deft and Olivia Williams bears all the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spine as a deliberately drabbed-down English teacher. Nick Hornbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s screenplay, from Lynn Barberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memoir, might have meant he had input on the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excellent preâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Swinging London soundtrack. Singer Beth Rowley steals the show as the breathy canary at one nightspot. (RvB)

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(PG-13; 95 min.) Minor but honorable remake of the Giuseppi Tornatore movie. Robert De Niro expertly downplays the lead role of an upstate New York widower named Frank, trying to investigate what became of his family (Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell and Drew Barrymore) British director Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine) is a little myopic when it comes to class in America, but one cuts holiday movies slack. (RvB) 4/<B/AB71 ;@ 4=F (PG; 87 min.) In

switching gears entirely from live action to stop-action animation, director Wes Anderson has created his most consistently enjoyable film. Based on a Roald Dahl childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, Fantastic Mr. Fox is a fairy tale, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a realistic, slightly bleak one. Fox (voiced by George Clooney) is living a straight life with his wife (Meryl Streep). A midlife crisis rouses the beast; he decides to turn hunter once again. Retaliation comes fast and hard: the Fox is robbed of his tail by a shotgun blast. In the war that follows, Fox and his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and, soon, all the creatures in the woodsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;become refugees.

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(R; 131 min.) The soldiers of Bravo Company are stationed in Baghdad for the 2004 fighting.

Central to the film is the mystery of Staff Sgt. James (Jeremy Renner) who comes in to replace a slaughtered demolition expert. Jamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; risk-taking amazes and angers his subordinate, Sgt. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie). The suspenseful, grimly funny script is by co-producer Mark Boal.

Renner is outstanding as the inhumanly brave demolition expert.

Director Kathryn Bigelow does what Howard Hawks would do: she finds the cooperation between men of great competence in a killing trade, rather than pumping up rivalry.

Bigelow breaks through the sense of anonymity that characterizes most Iraq war movies, where helmeted men move

alike and talk the same terse slang. However, The Hurt Locker takes an essentially knightly view of the war, of men suiting up and closing their visors. Thus this is the first Iraq film an American audience can feel good about. Boalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s script does discover the hollow inside the brave James: the missing part that made him never stop to realize why he did his job. (RvB) 7<D71BCA (PG-13; 143 min.) Based on John Carlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book Playing the Enemy, Clint Eastwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film tells of South African president Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) exhorting the South African Springboks to greatness in the Rugby world cup as a publicrelations move to heal the racial divisions. Team captain Francois Pienaar is not much of a role, but Matt Damon makes it a model of recessive, intelligent interpretation.

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min.) Zac Efronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Richard is a high school student who literally wanders into a small part in Orson Wellesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; late-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;30s production of Julius Caesar at the Mercury Theater. Dealing with the moods of the already notorious Welles, Richard is drawn by two women: one is Wellesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; assistant Sonja (Claire Danes); the other is a yearning wouldbe writer (Zoe Kazan) who longs to get into The New Yorker. Shooting at a restored old theater in Douglas, on the Isle of Man, director Richard Linklater re-creates Wellesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; New York staging of Julius Caesar in fascist blackshirt costumes.

The stage scenes are the most compelling.

Welles played Brutus, and in Welles fashion he bent the heavily edited text around the noble assassin. Linklater sensibly concentrates on the graphic fist of this Caesar. Christian McKayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of Welles is routinely delightful and unpredictable. Efron isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t nearly as compelling, and Kazan, button-cute as she is, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hold up her end of Richardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s triangle, particularly when we see her muttering â&#x20AC;&#x153;Truth is beauty, beauty

truthâ&#x20AC;? to an actual Grecian urn. Linklaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unforced handling of the cast is a plusâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as Wellesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; expression has it, Linklater doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t push the river. (RvB) B63 ;3< E6= AB/@3 /B 5=/BA (R; 100

min.) George Clooney war comedy about Army experiments with psychic powers in Iraq. >7@/B3 @/27= (R; 135 min.) Director/writer Richard Curtisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pirate Radio wastes a roster of first-rate actors, including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost and January Jones. Curtis also rubbishes a fascinating story, the history of how ship-to-shore radio shortcircuited the BBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ban on rock music during the 1960s. (RvB) >:/<3B # (PG; 91

min.) (PG) An animated kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; film. When an earth astronaut (voiced by Dwayne Johnson) arrives on an alien planet, he causes a panic among the cozy suburban inhabitants. >@317=CA 0/A32 =< B63 <=D3: >CA6 0G A/>>67@3 (R; 110 min.)

Much lauded, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bulldozer. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1987, during some of Harlemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most suffering years. A girl of immense girth, 16-yearold Claireece (Gabourey â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gabbyâ&#x20AC;? Sidibe) makes her way through life. She has intelligence, but she canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t focus, and we learn why in flashback; she was serially raped by her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boyfriend. Her scathing, angry mother, Mary (Moâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Nique), blames Precious for this and her resulting pregnancy), urging her to stop this foolishness about school and go on welfare.

Moâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Nique is great, but Precious has a judgmental streak that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quit.

And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been essential to a success worthy of its sensationalism. (RvB) B63 >@7<13AA /<2 B63 4@=5 (G; 97 min.)

In New Orleans of the 1920s, a hard-working African-American girl, Tiana (Noni Rose), falls for the myth that a princessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kiss can turn a frog back to a prince, but the curse turns out to work both ways, and soon the coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;now both frogsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are running for their lives from a voodoo conjurer (voiced

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their favorite priest has been waxed.

by Keith David, reprising the malevolent silkiness of his Cat in Coraline).

The attempt to make a multiculti story is suitably enchanting. The full-length cartoon is a tribute to a centurylong history of cellular animation. Here, in the villainous Shadow Man (whom I adored) is a tribute to Cab Callowayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ghostly gambler in Betty Boop; the blindness of Mr. Magoo is seen in a benign swamp witch; there are paintbrush traces of both Michigan J. Frog and Pepe Le Pew in the fleeing amphibians, and a spot of Tex Averyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Red in the physique and crinolines of Tianaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friend and foil Lotte. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m rapt by the lambency, smoothness and stained-glass colors of this supposedly dead medium, restored to life.

(RvB) B63 @=/2 (R; 119 min.) Two figures, halfstarved on a perilous road to the sea, are the survivors of some thorough but indefinite holocaust. All civilization has broken down utterly; long-pig consumption is on the rise. The film offers a serious vision of a world without warmth, humor or sex, and only a lightweight, one thinks, would flee from it. The Roadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s postapocalyptic center is a moral struggle: even as his strength wanes, Vigo Mortensenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Man tries pass on the spirit of â&#x20AC;&#x153;the good guysâ&#x20AC;? to his son. The son is called, as in Tarzan movies, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boyâ&#x20AC;? (Kodi SmitMcPhee). The film has its moments. Mortensenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real-to-the-pith suffering is unimpeachable, and a sightless Robert Duvallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tales of apocalypse have some genuine weight to them. (RvB) / A3@7=CA ;/<

(R; 113 min.) All the themes in the Coen brothersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; previous films blend harmoniously in this terrific tale of comedic woe and horror.

Minneapolis, 1967: a meek professor Larry Gopnik (stage actor Michael Stuhlbarg, looking like a dispirited Harold Lloyd) teaches physics at a small college.

Gopnik is tantalized with the possibility of tenure, betrayed by his wife with their neighbor

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Gopnikâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son Danny (Aaron Wolff) has a cowlike indifference to his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plight. And Larry must take charge of his unemployable brother Arthur (Richard Kind), an obese holy fool. The postmodern moments give A Serious Man a vaudeville kick. (RvB) A97< (PG-13; 116 min.) The absurd but inexorable logic of apartheid is laid out with considerable emotional impact in Skin. Based on a true story, the film follows the difficult life of Sandra Laing, born in the mid-1950s with skin color and features that would make her black in the eyes of the law, except that her parents are both white. As a genetic researcher later admits in front of an embarrassed courtroom, most Afrikaner settlers have African blood.

The law makes clumsy attempts to cope with the situationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sandra is at first termed white because of her parentage, then â&#x20AC;&#x153;coloredâ&#x20AC;? by her appearance, then white again. The whiplash affects her whole life, tearing at the fabric of

her family, poisoning her relationships and thrusting her into poverty. This is a grim chronicle leavened by some fine acting. Young Sandra is played by the very appealing, wide-eyed young first-timer Ella Ramangwane. Sophie Okonedo (last seen in The Secret Life of Bees) takes over as the grown-up Sandra, valiantly trying to find a way to cope with personal and societal upheaval. Alice Krige is touching as Sandraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, but the real surprise is Sam Neill, who gives a subtle, woundup performance as her father. Abraham Laingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love for his daughter is deep and strong; in the early scenes, he sticks up for her with admirable courage. But eventually, tragically, he too is driven to near madness by the artificially enforced divisions that ruled South Africa for so many decades. At times, director Anthony Fabian is guilty of laying on the blows of apartheid with too heavy a hand, but the film earns its tearful, haltingly hopeful conclusion.

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min.) As the predatory Ryan Bingham, George

Clooney delivers a startlingly good performance. Sadly, the film is compromised by director Jason Reitman, who shows signs of morphing into Cameron Crowe. Bingham is a hired terminatorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a man brought in to fire people; he tolerates this job with benefits of an executive life with plenty of travel.

Enter a young, seemingly equally callous rival (Anna Kendrick). Having this inexperienced girl along interrupts Ryanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regularly scheduled nostrings flings with a fellow constant business traveler, Alex (Vera Farmiga).

The acrid first half is the best partâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Clooney makes us admire Ryanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gamesmanship. The film wants us to equate two different kinds of toxicitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to draw a line between the corporate bloodletting that juices up stock portfolios and the wrongness of the present-tense sex life that Ryan and Alex enjoy.

Too bad that Farmiga and Clooney are such a scintillating pair that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to see them pay the piper.

And as a critique of corporate culture, Up in the Air is about as bold as Connecticut salsa. (RvB)

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AST-MINUTE cheapo champers shoppers, we know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re out there. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been there, too: lurching down the liquor store aisle at 11pm, cruising the bottom shelf for any old bubbly and calling it champagne. All you require is that it goes â&#x20AC;&#x153;popâ&#x20AC;? (after being shaken up in direct contradiction to the idiot warning on the label that is only supplied with sparkling wine of this caliber). Half of it will douse a person in front of you whom you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know, and the whole point anyway is to smooch someone in your immediate vicinityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;maybe even that wet, sticky person in front of you.

Or perhaps you just want an economical glass of celebration after an energetic evening of Scrabble while watching the ball drop on TVâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;oh, yes, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been there too. But when spending $7 or less, why not get, you know, the good stuffâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or at least as good as you can get?

Who knows what sparks may fly after midnight; it wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be the first time that a great love, however fleeting, was found at the bottom of a bottle of Cookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

So I gathered seven experts in the field

of social drinking to assess a selection of usual suspects from the bottom shelf.

Wines were blind-tasted and scored and a ringer was thrown in as a sort of control.

Prices are approximate, and the results were surprising.

1. 1`WabOZW\] 0`cb 1OdO ($6.49) One of two samples produced mĂŠthode champenoise, the Cristalino prompted one wag to question whether Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d sneaked a good French champagne into the mixâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;ha ha. Noted for musky cologne or yeasty aroma, it had good bubbles, a dry, citrusy palate, and was praised for its â&#x20AC;&#x153;drinkability,â&#x20AC;? also an attribute of a nationally distributed beer.

2. 1]]Y¸a 0`cb 1OZWT]`\WO 1VO[^OU\S ($6.59) Cookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has come a long way. While the most-often noted flavor was berrylike, this off-dry sparkler, with aromas of dusted bowl, honey and tropical fruit, was called a crowd-pleaser and one taster guessed it to be Prosecco. But hey: Didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t this used to cost $2.99?

3. ;]~b 1VO\R]\ 7[^S`WOZ ($34.99) Yup, the ringer. A midpriced (or entry-level, depending on your perspective) authentic French champagne, and the successor to

MoĂŤt & Chandonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s popular but abruptly discontinued White Star, this placed third.

After Cookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. The popular take on it was that it was â&#x20AC;&#x153;like the last one [Cristalino], but fartier,â&#x20AC;? with opinions improving a few minutes out. Honeysuckle aromas and papaya-pineapple flavors took this import a little too far on the sweet side for most, although its creamy, nutty finish was judged . . . â&#x20AC;&#x153;champagnelike.â&#x20AC;?

4. /\R`{ 0`cb 1OZWT]`\WO 1VO[^OU\S ($3.29) Clean, peachy and sweet with a hint of kiwi, the AndrĂŠ was nowhere nearly as roundly dismissed as it might have been had it been announced as such.

5. 0O`ST]]b 0cPPZg 0`cb 1cd{S ($6.99) Coming in close after the AndrĂŠ, the Barefoot was nice and dry, with aggressive effervescence and a palate of dry apple ciderâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Strongbow, anyone? Some thought the finish a bit hot.

6. 8 @]U{b 0`cb 1OZWT]`\WO 1VO[^OU\S ($2.99) No surprise here.

Not horrible: flavors of apple fritter and Fresca, but cloying, and the bubbles spent themselves fast. You, um, might want to skip this one.

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Dinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guide

Our selective list of area restaurants includes those that have been favorably reviewed in print by Santa Cruz Weekly food critics and others that have been sampled but not reviewed in print. All visits by our writers are made anonymously, and all expenses are paid by Metro Santa Cruz.

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Indian. Authentic Indian dishes and specialties served in a comfortable dining room. Lunch buffet daily 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner daily 5pm to close. www.ambrosiaib.com American and specialty dishes from the British and Emerald Isles. Full bar. Children welcome. Happy hour Mon-Fri 2-6pm.

Open daily 11am to 2am.

Italian. Ambience reminiscent of a small trattoria in the streets of Italy, serving handmade lasagna, pasta dishes, gnocchi and fresh fish. Wed-Sun, Lunch 11am-2pm, Dinner 5-9pm.

Continental California cuisine. Breakfast all week 6:30-11am, lunch all week 11am-2pm; dinner Fri-Sat 5-10pm, Sun-Thu 5-9pm. www.seacliffinn.com.

H/;33< ;327B3@@/<3/< Middle Eastern/Mediterranean. Fresh, fast, flavorful. Gourmet

7528 Soquel Dr, 831.688.4465

meat and vegetarian kebabs, gyros, falafel, healthy salads and Mediterranean flatbread pizzas. Beer and wine. Dine in or take out. Tue-Sun 11am-8pm.

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All day breakfast. Burgers, gyros, sandwiches and 45 flavors of Marianneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Polar Bear ice cream. Open 8am daily.

>/@/27A3 ACA67 Japanese. This pretty and welcoming sushi bar serves 200 Monterey Ave, 831.464.3328 superfresh fish in unusual but well-executed sushi combinations. Wed-Mon 11:30am-9pm.

California Continental. Swordfish and other seafood specials.

Dinner Mon-Thu 5:30-9:30pm; Fri 5-10pm; Sat 4-10:30pm; Sun 4-9pm.

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international wine list and outdoor dining with terrific views in the heart of Capitola Village. Open daily.

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California cuisine. Nightly specials include baby back ribs, prime rib, lobster and mahi mahi. Daily 7am-2am.

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Virginia Applewood Smoked Pork Chops $13.99 All you can eat! Texas BBQ Beef Back Ribs $15.99 1/2 Rack Chicago Baby Back Ribs plus 1/4 Smoked Free-Range Chicken $14.99 Alderwood Smoked Prime Rib $16.99 Our Famous Hickory Smoked Chicago Baby Back Ribs Half Rack $13.99 Full Rack $19.99

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221 Cathcart St, 831.426.4852

Mexican/Seafood/American. Traditional Mexican favorites. Best fajitas, chicken mole, coconut prawns, blackened prime rib!

Fresh seafood. Over 50 premium tequilas, daily happy hour w/ half-price appetizers. Sun-Thu 11am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11am-11pm.

American, California-style. With a great bar scene, casually glamorous setting and attentive waitstaff. Full bar. Mon-Sat 11:30am-10pm, Sun 1-10pm.

Crepes and more. Featuring the spinach crepe and Tunisian donut. Full bar. Mon-Thu 11am-midnight, Fri 11am-1am, Sat 10am-1am, Sun 10am-midnight.

Seafood. Fresh seafood, shellfish, Midwestern aged beef, pasta specialties, abundant salad bar. Kids menu and nightly entertainment. Harbor and Bay views. Lunch and dinner daily.

Mexican. Serving breakfast all day. Popular for our street tacos and handmade Salvadorian pupusas. Vegetarian options made w/ local fresh vegetables & organic tofu. Daily 9: 30am-9:30pm.

Americana. Ribs, steaks and burgers are definitely the stars.

Full bar. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner Sun-Thu 5:30-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 5:30-10pm.

California/full-service bakery. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Eggs Benedict in Town.â&#x20AC;? Happy Hour Mon-Fri 5-6pm. Halfprice appetizers; wines by the glass. Daily 8am-9pm. â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s Vegas meets â&#x20AC;&#x2122;50s Waikiki. Amazing dining experience in kitchy yet swanky tropical setting. Fresh fish, great steaks, vegetarian. Full-service tiki bar. Happy-hour tiki drinks. Aloha Fri, Sat lunch 11:30am-5pm. Dinner nightly 5pm-close.

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Seafood/California. Fresh catch made your way! Plus many other wonderful menu items. Great view. Full bar. Happy hour Mon-Fri. Brunch Sat-Sun 10am-2pm. Open daily.

Italian. La Posta serves Italian food made in the old styleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; simple and delicious. Wed-Thu 5-9pm, Fri-Sat 5-9:30pm and Sun 5-8pm.

Fine Mexican cuisine. Opening daily at noon.

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Japanese Fusion. Sushi bar, sake bar, vegetarian, seafood, steak in fun atmosphere; kids play area; karaoke every night. Open seven days 5-10pm; Mon-Fri 11:30am-2:30pm.

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Thai. Individually prepared with the freshest ingredients, plus ambrosia bubble teas, shakes. Mon-Thu 11:30am-9:30pm, Fri 11:30am-10pm, Sat noon-10pm, Sun noon-9:30pm.

Italian-American. Mouthwatering, generous portions, friendly service and the best patio in town. Full bar. Lunch Mon-Fri 11:30am, dinner nightly at 5pm.

Irish pub and restaurant. Informal pub fare with reliable execution. Lunch and dinner all day, open Mon-Fri 11:30ammidnight, Sat-Sun 11:30am-1:30am.

Wine bar with menu. Flawless plates of great character and flavor; sexy menu listings and wines to match. Lunch Wed-Sat noon2pm; dinner Mon-Thu 5-10pm, Fri-Sat 5-11pm, Sun 4-10pm; retail shop Mon 5pm-close, Tue-Sat noon-close, Sun 4pm-close.

Pizza. Specializing in authentic Sicilian and square pizza.

Homemade pasta, fresh sandwiches, soups, salads and more. Hot slices always ready. Sun-Thu 10am-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 10am-11pm.

Pizza. Pizza, fresh salads, sandwiches, wings, desserts, beers on tap. Patio dining, sports on HDTV and free WiFi. Large groups and catering. Open and delivering Fri-Sat 11am-2am, Mon-Thu 11am-1am, Sun 11am-midnight.

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Organic Pizza. Everything organic: pizza, lasagna, soup, salad, beer and local wine. Always organic, local produce. Party room seats 32. Weeknights 4-9pm (closed Tue), Fri 4-10pm, Sat 1-10pm, Sun 1-9pm. See menu at www.redwoodpizza.com.

A1=BBA D/::3G $ 63/D3<:G 1/43 American. Serving breakfast and lunch daily. Large parties Scotts Valley 1210 Mt. Hermon Rd, 831.335.7311 welcome. Mon-Fri 6:30am-2:15pm, Sat-Sun 7am-2:45pm. $ 87/ B3::/¸A Scotts Valley 5600 #D Scotts Valley Dr, 831.438.5005

Cambodian. Fresh kebabs, seafood dishes, soups and noodle bowls with a unique Southeast Asian flair. Beer and wine available. Patio dining. Sun-Thu 11am-9pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm.

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For the week of December 23 /@73A (March 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19): What influences do you really, really need to say goodbye to? The next six months will provide you with ample motivation and opportunity to finally bid those farewells. What long-term cycle really, really needs to be drawn to a close, no more hemming and hawing, all loose ends tied up and all mixed signals clarified? Again, the time between now and the middle of June will bring you the necessary inspiration to make it happen. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take deep thought and sustained work and an expanded sense of humor, so get started soon.

B/C@CA (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20): According to astronomer Mark Whittle, the Big Bang began in silence. Soon it crescendoed into a majestic major third chord 50 octaves below middle A. Then it transformed, over the course of a million years, into a wistful minor third chord. In my vision of the first two-thirds of 2010, the music of your life will have a similar pattern: It begins with silence. Next, it progresses into a lush major feel, with spirited and complex contrapuntal themes. Then in June, it evolves into a dreamy, contemplative phase. By late September, howeverâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;unlike the Big Bangâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you will move into a third act, in which the music of your life returns to the lively mood it had at the start, only now with the gravitas that the reflective phase has instilled.

53;7<7 (May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20): I have good astrological reasons to suspect that a year from now, your empire will be bigger. The resources you have at your disposal will be more substantial, the influence you wield will be more meaningful, and the responsibilities you oversee will be more demanding. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, however, just sit back passively and expect fate to make it all happen for you. You will have to work your assets off: get better organized, clarify your game plan, and commit to taking better care of yourself. None of that is mandatory, of course. Being a lazy wanderer with no mission statement is definitely an option. If you do go in that direction, though, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t complain to me next December about how you feel like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re made of cookie dough.

1/<13@ (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): You will need to learn a lot in 2010, Cancerian. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be in a phase of your long-term cycle when it will be wise to enhance your problem-solving skills and increase the knowledge you have at your disposal. So let me ask you: What can you do to gently shock yourself into prying open your mind? What is it that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know but need to know? By the way, the coming year will also be a good time for you to offer yourself up as a teacher.

In fact, sharing your knowledge and problem-solving skills will make you more receptive to what you need to learn. :3= (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): Do you know any world travelers, shamanic healers or visionary entrepreneurs?

If not, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good chance youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll meet some in 2010, possibly even forge alliances with them. Crafty activists, brilliant artists, and deep thinkers may come your way, as well. Another possibility is that cohorts and comrades youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been linked to for some time will embark on mind-expanding quests that blow your mind as well as theirs. One way or another, Leo, the coming year will bring you more than the usual benefits and challenges that come from being in relationships.

D7@5= (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): I was in my first rock band in North Carolina in the 1970s. We did a mix of cover tunes by David Bowie, Lou Reed and Patti Smith, plus original hippie-punk songs and my poetry rants. Controversy arose virtually every time we performed, especially in places like the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh (where we competed with the cacophony of mooing cows) and frat parties (where we endured the shouted insults of drunken jocks). It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until I moved to California that I synced up with an audience that appreciated my idiosyncratic musical sensibilities. According to my reading of the omens, Virgo, 2010 could bring you a comparable transition: finding listeners or hooking up with collaborators who are a better fit for your unique qualities. :70@/ (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always befuddled by astrologers who preach the gospel of doom and gloom when they talk about the influence of Saturn.

My experience is that the ringed planet provides the greatest gift imaginable: motivation to become the person you were born to be. It steers you away from pursuing goals that arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in alignment with your

soulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s code. It pressures you to give up vain fantasies that even if fulfilled wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make you happy. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m happy to report to you the following good news: As Saturn travels through your sign for much of the time between now and October 2012, I expect that you will be prompted and prodded to cut away the irrelevancies that distract you from claiming your birthright.

A1=@>7= (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): Comedian Chris Rock has a joke that plays on the stereotypes about your sign: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most Scorpios die while theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re making love!â&#x20AC;?

(Only he uses the f-word instead of â&#x20AC;&#x153;making love.â&#x20AC;?) I understand the source of his satire. There are more than a few grains of truth in the notion that Scorpios revel in the enigmas of eros and death. On the other hand, I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reduce your mystique to such a simple formula. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d prefer to say something like this: Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sexy when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re letting go of your staunch self-control. Or: Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re an expert at transcending humdrum modes of awareness by stimulating intense pleasure. Or: If fully harnessed, your orgasmic power could kill off any destructive compulsions you might be harboring. And by the way, 2010 will be one of the best years ever for you to cash in on these capacities.

A/57BB/@7CA (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): According to my analysis of your astrological omens, 2010 isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a year to get your head in the clouds, but rather to grow deeper roots. Your job, as I see it, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so much to explore the heights, but the depths. I think you should focus on getting to the bottom of things, not the top.

Your instrument of choice should be a microscope, not a telescope. Your specialty wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be playing spectacular guitar solos but rather groovalicious bass lines.

1/>@71=@< (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m happy to announce that 2010 could be the year when you become a more expert communicator. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that you do a bad job now; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just that there is always room for improvement, and this will be an excellent time to attend to that. Life will be bringing you an abundance of experiences that will help you learn to listen better, cultivate more tact, read peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body language like a pro, and consistently speak about the elusive truth with language thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s both kind and effective.

/?C/@7CA (Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve known some practical, sensible, well-grounded Aquarians in my life. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re outnumbered, though, by the dominant subtype of your tribe: the imaginative, idiosyncratic irmprovisers with lightning reflexes and high-flying notions. But even if you belong to the latter group, in 2010 youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be gaining the capacities of the former.

In fact, I think this will be the year you get more things done than you ever have before. Attention to detail will be your specialty. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re likely to excel in mastering the part of genius thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comprised of 98 percent perspiration.

>7A13A (Feb. 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20): The pop star Pink is a successful singer. Not only does she have a great voice; she has also sold 32 million records and won two Grammys. Recently she added what I think is an extraneous element to her live performances: a trapeze act. At the MTV Video Music Awards last September, she delivered her song â&#x20AC;&#x153;Soberâ&#x20AC;? while swinging through the air and hanging upside down 60 feet off the ground. I was perplexed as I watched her, thinking to myself, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t she have confidence that her song and her singing can stand alone?â&#x20AC;? In 2010, Pisces, I urge you not to follow her lead. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no need for you to go way overboard as you try too hard to give too much. Just sing your songs.

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