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...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 was his strength...
DIED. INDRA DEVI, 102, early "yoga ambassador" to the West whose students included China's Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gloria Swanson and Greta Garbo; in Buenos Aires. After persuading globally renowned guru Sri Krishnamacharya to teach her (his first woman student), she traveled the world teaching her gentle brand of yoga, even prompting Russia to legalize the practice after she met with leaders...
...Award for his best-selling novel The Corrections, about the dysfunctional Lambert family in middle America; in New York City. Franzen came into the spotlight when he was disinvited to Oprah Winfrey's dinner after questioning the literary merit of her book-club endorsement. DIED. PRINCESS PREKSHYA RAJYA LAXMI DEVI SHAH, 49, of Nepal's royal family and younger sister of Queen Komal, in a helicopter crash at Rara Lake that killed four; in western Nepal. Princess Prekshya, separated from Prince Dhirendra (who was killed in the June royal family massacre), was cremated on the banks of the sacred Bagmati...
DIED. PHOOLAN DEVI, 38, India's rebellious "Bandit Queen," a vigilante turned lawmaker revered by the poor as a defender of the lower castes; when three masked men gunned her down as she stepped out of her car; in New Delhi. Devi's gun-slinging, horseback-riding Robin Hood antics drew many ardent fans and equally ardent foes. In 1996 the former voted her into Parliament...
...ASSASSINATED. PHOOLAN DEVI, 38, outlaw-turned-politician whose life was depicted in the 1994 film Bandit Queen; in New Delhi. The lower-caste Devi was sold into marriage at age 11, fled, and joined a gang of robbers. To avenge her rape by a group of upper-caste men, she allegedly led the massacre of 22 men and was jailed for 11 years. A hero to India's dispossessed, she was twice elected to parliament. BANNED. JAMES ARCHER, 27, for life from trading in London's financial district for his 1998 manipulation of the Swedish stock exchange while working...