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...This is not the first time the rinpoche (meaning "precious one," as reincarnate lamas are called) has broadened the scope of what he wryly terms his "usual sort of profession." In 1992, after meeting director Bernardo Bertolucci through friends in London, he served as an adviser on Bertolucci's Little Buddha, parts of which were shot in Bhutan. Then in 1998 he brought a small crew that included several of his longtime Western students to a Tibetan monastery in Bir, India, to shoot The Cup, a film based on the true story of the young resident monks' impious obsession with...
...producers) gave him his first lesson in photography. He later attended London's School of Oriental and African Studies, adopting the pseudonym "Larry Newcastle" there to avoid being mobbed by Tibetan and Bhutanese emigrants living in the capital. It was in London that Khyentse Norbu met Bertolucci and began to consider making films...
...Ecuador. DIED. LEVI CELERIO, 91, prolific Philippine lyricist and composer who in 1997 was commended by President Fidel Ramos as a national artist of music and literature; in Quezon City. DIED. TONINO CERVI, 72, Italian film producer, screenwriter and director who aided the careers of Federico Fellini and Bernardo Bertolucci and won top honors in 1964 at the Venice Film Festival for Michelangelo Antonioni's first color production, Il Deserto Rosso (Red Desert); in Rome. BORN. To ELIZABETH HURLEY, 36, actress and cleavage-proud model, a son, Damian Charles; in London. Hurley claims the father is former boyfriend and multimillionaire...
...date, this is not one of his more coherent efforts. He should either have explored the film-within-a-film theme more fully, or played for giggles; the two make discordant bedfellows. Characters drift from serious to incredibly silly. Sutherland shuffles around the Forbidden City, pontificating on Bernardo Bertolucci, on how to mix Western and Eastern cinematic culture and make the combination appeal to both audiences. Ge You delivers the movie's standout performance, full of shifting moods and emotions. But Rosamund Kwan, as Lucy, the go-between for Tyler and YoYo, is flatter than an airport runway...
Over the past decade, Newton has worked with one famous director after another: Bertolucci, Ivory, Neil Jordan (Interview with the Vampire) and Jonathan Demme (Beloved). Her co-stars have ranged from Nolte in Jefferson ("F______ funny. What a toilet mouth," she says, again citing a quality she obviously admires in her leading men) to the late rapper Tupac Shakur in Gridlock'd ("I was rude to him. 'What's that tattoo?' I'd ask. We had a flirty-rude relationship...