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CALENDAR NA E5 LOSANGELESTIMES ACROSS 1 the singer 6 Poker 11 SAT takers 14 15 Slight push 16 Worked (up) 17 counterpart, with 19 Schnozz ending 20 London gallery 21 Take a load off 22 Not as many 24 clue 28 Went to say 30 1965 Arthur Hailey novel 31 La Scala offering 32 Price place 33 Whence the Magi 36 Film critic Reed 37 Con close-up 41 42 Course climax 44 Good name, briefly 45 Turn over 47 Well up 49 Puzzle direction 51 Leafy insect-eater 54 Like some saloons 55 Right-angled joint 56 Pin part 60 Penlight battery 61 sequel 65 Big sizes: Abbr. 66 Improve, as text 67 Otherworldly 68 Ran into 69 Gift recipient 70 Like a marsh DOWN 1 Goofy 2 solo 3 Plundered, to Chaucer 4 One is one 5 Math degree? 6 Refuse to budge 7 Some golf strokes 8 org. 9 Friday or Bilko: Abbr. 10 Deem appropriate 11 Properties on display 12 U.S. Grant adversary 13 Beatle name 18 eldest 23 Sword with a guarded tip 25 Rich soil 26 Deposed ruler 27 apple, for one 28 Top spot 29 Steakhouse bread offering 31 Bonanza find 32 Recipe amt.

34 Subject of some confessions 35 Minuscule amount 38 Sudden desire 39 actor 40 Change ways? 43 Gunk 46 Road headache 48 Like sonnets 49 Hint at, with 50 Hard to rattle 51 Old Testament poem 52 Likeness 53 Tubular pasta 57 Pennsylvania port 58 Breezed through 59 Contradict 62 Latin 101 verb 63 rank 64 Remote ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE Crossword 2005 Tribune Media Services, Inc By Nancy Salomon Gail Grabowski Edited By Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis By Holiday Mathis Aries (March 21-April 19): Boldly push forward with your plans. Blithely scoff at any obstacles in your way. Do not let anything distract you from seeing your project through to completion. A touch of tunnel vision is a good thing. Taurus (April 20-May 20): The universe whispers sweet nothings in your ear.

Do something kind for yourself, such as getting a massage, facial, manicure or pedicure. likely to run into a friend while out and about and get all the latest dish. Gemini (May 21-June 21): You feel more grounded and earthbound than usual, which could make an air sign like you believe your wings have been clipped. really a blessing in disguise, however. Think about what is, not about what could be.

Cancer (June 22-July 22): Your soft inner self, the part you normally hide beneath that crablike coat of armor, needs extra love. feeling vulnerable and may see slights. Meditate. Get your rest. Rent a hilarious movie.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Others take you seriously and see you in anew light, with deeper love and more respect. able to speak with authorityyet are not afraid to ask for assistance when necessary. Your sense of duty and responsibility prevails. Virgo (Aug.

23-Sept. 22): Your friends are pulling for you, helping you accomplish the basics. But why survive when you can thrive? Feeling overwhelmed is just a sign that you should add more responsibility to your plate. That way, you can prioritize. Libra (Sept.

23-Oct. 23): An unexpected deviation in your daily routine brings the factor anything from an unforeseen opportunity to enjoy a beautiful change of scenery to a chance encounter with the next big love of your life. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): An object of great emotional value to you something for your home or reminiscent of childhood was once out of reach but is now easily obtained.

Money flows a little too, so splurge. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A sibling or neighbor is looking out for you, making you feel nurtured and protected. Pay it forward with random acts of kindness for others.

Someone in your social circle would love to hear from you. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Sometimes, you just have to open your mouth and let out a long, loud, full-bodied scream. This is best done alone, in a closedcar on a sparsely traveled road.

rest sweetly tonight. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Flirtation spices up your day. You could meet someone sassy or indulge in harmless games with an attractive co-worker.

Keep it light this one is purely for fun. If in a committed relationship, expect extra zing and zip. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Taking a practical approach to your love life pays off in surprising ways. Keep your head on straight, and you could reap rewards through your friends and family.

An exciting travel opportunity is possible, too. birthday (Jan. 12): fearless maybe because you sense that positive change is in the air this year. Most exciting is a surprising twist in your love life, occurring around February. If looking for new romance, your best chances are while traveling, at sporting events or in places of study, such as schools or libraries.

Holiday Mathis writes her column for Creators Syndicate Inc. The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment. Astrological Forecast Prime-Time TV Rankings From Associated Press Buoyed by football and its suddenly potent Sunday lineup, ABC was the most popular network for the first time this season and had its best ratings week in four years. Agripping National Football League playoff game between the New York Jets and San Diego Chargers drew 25.8 million viewers Saturday, normally a night of light TV viewing. And though the game was a blowout, 55-19, the USC-Okla- homa national college football championship in the Orange Bowl Tuesday night was seen by 21.4 million, according to Nielsen Media Research.

(25.2 million) returned with an original episode and helped the shows before and after it. scored a series high with Candice addition to the cast, and Makeover: Home has blossomed into a top 10 show. The heavily promoted hit the top 20 with its season premiere, and drew 21.6 million viewers, Nielsen said. There were some mixed results for other midseason entries. supernatural did well, with 16.1 million viewers for its debut, while the comedy was far less impressive.

Normally sure CBS had two missteps. The search for a Martha on had only 9.4 million viewers, less than half of what usually drew in the same Thursday time slot. Another reality show, had a paltry 4.2 million viewers Saturday. Sunday night offered good news for Fox: had its biggest audience ever for its season opener. For the week, ABC averaged 15.9 million viewers (10 rating, 16 share), and easily won among viewers aged 18 to 49.

CBS had 12 million viewers (7.9, 12), NBC 10.4 million (6.9, 11), Fox 8.7 million (5.4, 8), UPN 3.2 million (2.2, 3), the WB 2.8 million (1.9, 3) and Pax TV 800,000 viewers (1.0, 2) won the evening news ratings race, averaging 12.1 million viewers (8.4, 15). News had 10.8 million viewers (7.6, 14) and the Evening 8.6 million (4.8, 10). Aratings point represents 1,096,000 households, or 1 percent of the estimated 109.6 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show. Football leads ABC to viewership touchdown Reuters HAPPY JETS: Kicker Doug Brien, center, is congratulated by New York teammates after his field goal beat the Chargers.

Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (Jan. 3-9) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates there are 277.93 million potential viewers in the U.S. ages 2 and older.

Viewership is listed in millions. Program Network View- ersProgram Network Viewers 1 CSICBS28.86 2 AFC-NFC Playoffs: NY-San Diego ABC25.76 3 Desperate HousewivesABC25.20 4 Without a TraceCBS23.76 5 --------------------------------------------6 LostABC21.59 7 Orange BowlABC21.42 8 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ABC19.97 9 Wildcard FOX19.45 10 Everybody Loves Raymond CBS18.84 --------------------------------------------11 CSI: MiamiCBS18.49 12 Orange Bowl 13 Two and a Half MenCBS18.03 14 MediumNBC16.09 15 Dateline: NBC --------------------------------------------16 AliasABC15.76 17 Cold CaseCBS15.57 18 24 (8 p.m.)FOX15.31 19 Crossing JordanNBC15.28 20 Boston LegalABC14.35 --------------------------------------------21 24 (9 p.m.)FOX14.34 22 Law OrderNBC14.28 23 Sugar BowlABC14.20 24 Law Order: Criminal Intent NBC13.23 25 Las VegasNBC13.10 --------------------------------------------26 JoeyNBC12.51 27 Sugar Bowl: 28 CSI: NYCBS12.15 29 60 MinutesCBS12.13 30 The West WingNBC11.74 --------------------------------------------31 Committed 32 Still StandingCBS11.37 33 Biggest LoserNBC11.34 34 Listen UpCBS11.18 35 Fear FactorNBC11.01 --------------------------------------------36 60 Minutes 37 Amazing Race: 6CBS10.66 38 JAGCBS10.58 39 King of QueensCBS10.23 40 Committed --------------------------------------------41 Will GraceNBC10.10 42 Cold Case 43 Funniest Home Videos ABC9.97 44 Choice 45 Medical InvestigationNBC9.67 --------------------------------------------46 Dateline: NBC 47 Wickedly PerfectCBS9.36 48 MediumNBC9.29 49 Third WatchNBC9.24 50 Will Grace (9:30 p.m.)NBC9.21 --------------------------------------------51 Nanny 911FOX9.17 52 Center of the UniverseCBS8.94 53 Hope FaithABC8.82 54 Primetime LiveABC8.72 55 48 Hours MysteryCBS8.70 --------------------------------------------56 Judging AmyCBS8.44 57 8 Simple Rules (8:30 p.m.) ABC8.39 58 Joan of ArcadiaCBS8.35 59 Carpet CBS8.15 60 Cops (8:30 p.m.)FOX7.90 --------------------------------------------61 8 Simple RulesABC7.82 62 Dateline: NBC 63 Most WantedFOX7.67 64 The O.C.FOX7.65 65 --------------------------------------------66 CopsFOX6.99 American DreamsNBC6.99 68 Less Than PerfectABC6.91 69 Sports Illustrated: Model Search NBC6.78 70 Your --------------------------------------------71 That ShowFOX6.24 72 Extreme MakeoverABC5.94 73 QuintupletsFOX5.78 74 WWE 75 HouseFOX5.45 --------------------------------------------76 48 Hours Mystery (9:30 p.m.) CBS4.88 77 78 79 The WillCBS4.24 80 Rebel BillionaireFOX4.20 --------------------------------------------81 Life As We Know ItABC4.15 82 That Show 83 North ShoreFOX4.13 84 RebaWB3.85 85 Gilmore GirlsWB3.82 --------------------------------------------86 GirlfriendsUPN3.74 87 Half and HalfUPN3.62 88 SmallvilleWB3.46 89 7th HeavenWB3.44 90 One on OneUPN3.36 --------------------------------------------91 Blue Collar TVWB3.23 92 EveUPN3.19 93 Second Time AroundUPN3.13 94 All of UsUPN3.06 95 Road to StardomUPN3.01 --------------------------------------------96 Something About WB2.90 97 98 Veronica MarsUPN2.84 99 What I Like About YouWB2.74 100 Grounded for LifeWB2.52 --------------------------------------------101 Kevin HillUPN2.32 102 EverwoodWB2.28 103 High School ReunionWB2.20 104 Steve Big TimeWB2.15 105 EnterpriseUPN1.57 --------------------------------------------106 BMOCWB1.45 107 Road to StardomUPN1.32 Network averages Here is the number of viewers (in millions) that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. Network Last week Season to date ABC15.9410.51 CBS12.0012.80 NBC10.379.89 FOX8.738.53 UPN3.203.47 WB2.843.53 NEW YORK Movie fans will be fascinated by Patrick McGilligan bio on one of the great auteurs of all time: Alfred Hitchcock A Life in Darkness and At 700-plus pages, this is a masterful and definitive work. The author debunks many Hitchcock myths while providing a wealth of amusing, and sometimes disturbing, anecdotes. Hitchcock seems not to have been the weirdo that some biographers have painted him, though he was strange.

But he have been the man who gave us so many classics had he not been on the odd side. Neurosis gives the greatest artists their edge. Good for immortality, hard on the artist and those in his orbit. Most interesting are the methods that Hitchcock used to bring his vision of a film to life. Indeed, a Hitchcock movie was a finished product in the head, frame by frame, camera angle by camera angle, before a foot of film had been shot.

His much-criticized attitude toward actors there is some dispute if he ever really referred to them as was more the common-sense idea of a director with a vision. The actors were there to fulfill his and the need. If they did that, they would be rewarded by his skill and care. He admired stars with great personas. He give much which drove some actors crazy.

Doris Day had a near breakdown during Man Who Knew Too until she confronted Hitch. He said if been doing anything wrong, he would have mentioned it. She calmed down and gave a terrific performance. He admired stars with great personas Cary Grant, Tallulah Bankhead, Ingrid Bergman and Marlene Dietrich. He hired them to provide that persona for his film.

And he dilute their glamour. He stars, too most famously Grace Kelly, who was never more provocative and appealing under guidance than in and Catch a Hitch attempted to re-create some of glamour with Tippi Hedren of and fame. Tippi and the director parted unhappily. She now disparages him, but in the McGilligan tome, there is more understanding of periodic obsessions with certain actresses and his mounting frustration when he realized that Hedren was not Grace Kelly. If interested in a man who created icons and became one himself read this book.

Liz Smith and brings Alfred Hitchcock into focus nominees for lead male actor in a theatrical motion picture are Don Cheadle for Johnny Depp for and Leonardo DiCaprio for Nominees for best female actor in a leading movierole are Annette Bening for Catalina Sandino Morenofor Full of Imelda Stauntonfor and Hilary Swank for Dollar Missing from contenders areGolden Globe nominees Javier Bardem for Sea Liam Neeson for and Clive Owen and Natalie Portman for as well as Kevin Bacon for Last year, three SAG Award winners went on to win the Oscar: best actress Charlize Theron for supporting actor Tim Robbins for and supporting actress Zellweger for In the TV categories, and Loves are among the shows with multiple nominations. Two randomly selected panels one for television and one for film each included 2,100 SAG members and selected this nominees.Approximately 98,000 members of the guild will vote on all acting categories. The 11th annual SAG Awards ceremony will be presented Feb. 5in Los Angeles in a two-hour ceremony televised on TNT. Other nominations announced Tuesday: Movies Male actor in a supporting role Thomas Haden Church, Jamie Foxx, Morgan Freeman, Dollar James Garner, Freddie Highmore, Never- Female actor in a supporting role Cate Blanchett, Cloris Leachman, Laura Linney, Virginia Madsen, Sophie Okonedo, Cast of a theatrical motion picture Dollar Television Male actor in a television movie or miniseries Jamie Foxx, William H.

Macy, Wool Barry Pepper, The Dale Earnhardt Geoffrey Rush, Life and Death of Peter Jon Voight, The Five People You Meet in Female actor in a TV movie or miniseries Glenn Close, Lion in Patricia Heaton, The Goodbye KekePalmer, Wool Hilary Swank, Jawed Charlize Theron, Life and Death of Peter Male actor in a drama series Hank Azaria, James Gandolfini, Anthony LaPa- glia, a Jerry Orbach, Kiefer Sutherland, Female actor in a drama series: Drea De Matteo, Edie Falco, Jennifer Garner, Allison Janney, West Christine Lahti, Male performance in a comedy series Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Ray Romano, Loves Tony Shalhoub, Charlie Sheen, and a Half Female actor in a comedy series Teri Hatcher, Patricia Heaton, Loves Megan Mullally, Sarah Jessica Parker, and the Doris Roberts, Loves Cast of a drama series Crime Scene Feet West Cast of a comedy series Loves and the Life Achievement Award: James Garner Jamie Foxx, lead Screen Actors Guild nominations SAG, from Page E1 Nicola Goode Universal Studios FROM STAND-UP TO STANDOUT: Jamie Foxx is up for best male actor in a leading movie role for his portrayal in.