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...American starlet, stranded in India, who works in a Bombay movie to get airfare home and falls for her Indian leading man. Bollywood is not the genre here; it's just the backdrop for a fish-out-of-water plot. Says Steve Gilula of Fox Searchlight, which distributed the breakout hit Bend It Like Beckham: "American popular culture is good at absorbing influences from around the world. But we embrace the elements, not the complete form. We have borrowed from parts of the culture and integrated it into ours...
...will not play in the season’s final tournament next weekend, finished his breakout season on an up note...
...seduce Alec Baldwin's movie star in 2000's State And Main, another Mamet script. It looks a natural, but Stiles says it's anything but. "You have to really work to find the humanity of characters in films," she says, "because they're removed from the audience." Her breakout performance came the following year in the critically acclaimed (if commercially unspectacular) The Business of Strangers, playing a businesswoman who sets out to revenge herself on all men by - shades of Oleanna - accusing one of rape. Her malevolent turn earned Stiles comparisons with Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Stiles, raved...
...year Sy left China for the Philippines to join his father, the proprietor of a tiny grocery store in Manila. In the 1950s Sy opened his own shop, selling shoes. He branched into department stores in the late 1950s and supermarkets in the 1970s. But his big breakout came in 1985, when he opened his first supermall in the Quezon City district of greater Manila, which was then practically undeveloped. The business community expected Sy to lose his (Hawaiian) shirt. Instead, his clean, air-conditioned venue introduced modern shopping to a nation. "We changed the lifestyles of the people here...
...Crimson tallies came from a Yellott free-position shot and an unassisted effort from Hines. Yesterday’s game was a breakout performance for the freshman, with a goal and two assists...