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...years ago, when Kapur left Bollywood for Hollywood, America still struck him as the center of the creative universe. With a virtual monopoly on budgets and technical skill, L.A. was clearly the place to be for a foreign director with a single art-house hit, Bandit Queen. He was an immediate success. In 1998, Kapur directed Blanchett in Elizabeth, about the life of England's 16th century monarch. The movie was nominated for seven Oscars, winning one. Its magic, says Blanchett, lay in Kapur's slightly demented reinvention of period drama. "Elizabeth could have been incredibly musty," she says...
...Feathers (2002) and helped produce Andrew Lloyd Webber's striking but lowbrow Bombay Dreams (2004). Naseeruddin Shah, star of Monsoon Wedding and Kapur's 1983 debut Masoom (The Innocent), acknowledges Kapur's gift, calling him "the only Indian filmmaker of international standard." But he prefers his earlier works, like Bandit Queen, about Indian outlaw Phoolan Devi, and wonders whether the riches that dazzled the accountant have also blinded the director. "He jumped from small budget to these monstrous commercial movies," says Shah, "and it bothered me that he began talking only money and not heart. I always felt heart...
DIED. KOOSE MUNISWAMY VEERAPPAN, 60, India's most-wanted bandit, in a jungle shootout with police; near Chennai, India. Regarded by the poor as a Robin Hood who fought the ruling classes on their behalf, he was accused of murdering 130 police officers, slaughtering elephants and smuggling illegal sandalwood and ivory. The outlaw, who lived in the forest, was reportedly lured to his death by his doctor, who talked him into an ambulance by telling him he needed eye surgery...
...DIED. KOOSE MUNISWAMY VEERAPPAN, 60, India's most wanted bandit; in a 20-minute jungle shootout with police; near Madras, India. Regarded by the country's poor as a Robin Hood who fought the rulers on their behalf, he was accused of murdering 130 forest officials and police officers, slaughtering 2,000 elephants, and smuggling millions of dollars' worth of illegal sandalwood and ivory. The outlaw, who lived in the forest, was ambushed after he was reportedly lured by disguised police into a makeshift ambulance, believing he was on his way to see a doctor for his ailing eyes...
...rank, to private; a forfeiture of pay; and a dishonorable discharge. Frederick, who pleaded guilty to five of eight charges, is one of seven charged in the scandal; his sentence is the longest of the three imposed thus far. DIED. KOOSE MUNISWAMY VEERAPPAN, 60, India's most-wanted bandit; in a jungle shootout with police; near Chennai, India. Regarded by the poor as a Robin Hood who fought the ruling classes on their behalf, he was accused of murdering 130 police officers, slaughtering elephants and smuggling millions of dollars of illegal sandalwood and ivory. The outlaw, who lived...