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...Bollywood has eyes to conquer the firangis?Hindi for "foreigners." U.S. viewers know Bollywood secondhand from Moulin Rouge (the production number with the elephant), Ghost World (that goofy disco clip, from the 1965 film Gumnaam) and the art-house hit Monsoon Wedding (the dance that brings a fractious family together). Bombay Dreams, the Bollywood-themed West End musical with an irresistible crossover score by top Indian composer A R Rahman, is headed to Broadway. But can the real thing make it here? Can Americans open up to the baroque beatitudes of Bollywood cinema...
...celebrities arguing that it is not anti-Europe to be anti-euro, drew the wrath of commentators and Jewish groups, who called it offensive and predicted it would backfire by painting the campaign in xenophobic colors. But George Eustice, the campaign's director, insisted that "anyone who sees the clip in its context is not going to take any offense." He may be right - nearly. Before the launch, focus groups said they didn't find the Hitler gag offensive. Meanwhile, the protests gave the ad enough free publicity to achieve its goal of lining up popular figures against a currency...
...video, which opened with a clip of him singing “I’m a toll-man” to the tune of the Blues Brothers’ “Soul Man,” focused on a Back To the Future theme, using clips from the 1985 sci-fi thriller to “travel” through the course of his life, from his early days as a child in Brighton housing projects to his career in the state senate...
...SoHo district, sales reps use handheld devices to scan garment tags that are fitted with Texas Instruments' R.F.I.D. (radio frequency identification) technology--the kind embedded in the electronic passes commuters use to zip past tollbooths. A tag scan at Prada accesses details about fabric, size, availability--even a film clip of the garment worn by a model--all of which are displayed on one of the store's ubiquitous flat plasma video screens. At the Brooks Brothers store near New York's Grand Central Terminal, attendants scan the customers. Brooks' Digital Tailoring system, above--manufactured by Textile/Clothing Technology Corp...
...there, doing "Makin' Whoopie" ("no one's makin' money / On Greg the Bunny!") and most bombastic, "Law and Order"'s Jesse L. Martin (a former star of "Rent") singing "Seasons of Love," backed by a choir of children, to a montage of NBC footage that started with a clip of the World Trade Center ruins...