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Boyle could have cast the slum kids with English speakers, but he realized he'd get more natural performances from the real thing. "They don't have any inhibitions about acting," he says. "We'd been working in the slums, and we'd ask local people, 'Would you play this part?' 'No problem,' they'd say. 'Do you want me to do my Amitabh look or my Shah Rukh Khan look?' I'd say, 'No, do your own look.'" Having slum children play two of the three 6-year-olds meant shooting their scenes in Hindi. But as Boyle says...
...plays the Millionaire host in the film. (The actual Indian show's original host was Bachchan, followed by Khan.) The protesters held banners reading I AM NOT A DOG--as in slumdog--and POVERTY FOR SALE. Two days earlier, a slum leader in Patna took the film's Indian cast and crew to court for offending slum dwellers with the allegedly pejorative title (as if they'd chosen it). He said he didn't expect any better of the Brits who made the film, because their ancestors had called Indians "dogs," but that the Indians should have known better...
...world's worst humanitarian crisis--or in totalitarian states like Burma? Doss insists there are limits to what he proposes. "We assist the national process. We do not replace it," he says. "We're not an army of occupation." But introducing a foreign combat force into Congo would cast doubt on whether such declarations are sincere...
...seen this figure on countless reality shows, smiling, un-put-downable, oblivious to his flaws. (He dared investigators to tape him--so far, so Gary Hart--then raved on tape like a reality cast member who forgets the cameras are rolling.) He's the obnoxious dating-show contestant certain he can charm his way into viewers' hearts at the reunion special. He's the Big Brother housemate who cheats on his girlfriend on camera but hopes that she, and America, will see it was just the editing. He's bumbling Michael Scott, of the reality-show-in-a-sitcom...
...evidence to counter the sworn statements under oath," said Bill Haine, state senator from Alton, explaining his vote to toss the governor. He was the first senator to go on record after Blagojevich spoke, and the fact that he's a fellow Democrat indicated that the die was cast. "I wish him luck on his new Hollywood career," added Republican Kirk Dillard of Hinsdale. (See the top 10 scandals...