Word: flicks
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...breakthrough was Monsoon Wedding - an intimate family flick, a love song to my Delhi and an ode to masti, the Punjabi intoxication with life. I wanted to capture my India, a place that has always lived in several centuries at once, an India of cell phones and peacocks, where housewives play the stock market, Cuban cigars are savored, and a marigold-eating tent-man reinvents himself as an event manager only to be undone by love. Little did I know then that people from Iceland to Hungary to Southern California would claim the Vermas as their family, and our wedding...
This isn’t the first ostensibly wacky claim Kimata has made—in a 2001 study, Kimata claimed to have found that laughter also alleviates allergic reactions. Allergy patients who were told to watch the Charlie Chaplin flick “Modern Times” saw a decrease in the size of skin welts while those who watched a video on weather experienced no change...
...Labor leader Kim Beazley will have a difficult job convincing Middle Australia that the government has abandoned them and that his party of the workers is also the champion of the upward mobility. Perhaps he'll flick the switch to envy, like his predecessor Mark Latham. At the very least, Beazley must be hoping the new workplace regime makes life less comfortable for working families by the time the election is called...
...friend?Major studios are collectively releasing $1 billion worth of movies over the next few months. Variety reports that since the summer of 2002, the number of movie tickets sold has slowly declined. Distributors are in need of a spike in sales, and with one huge popcorn flick coming out every weekend between now and July 4, this summer is expected to be one of the biggest of the decade.Most Harvard students, however, could care less. “I’m completely out of the loop. I guess I’m trapped inside the Harvard bubble...
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld Columbia Pictures 2 stars Barry Sonnenfeld’s (“Men in Black II”) family-adventure flick “R.V.” suggests that two things will happen to relatives who vacation in a motor home: they will bond in unforeseen ways, and they will constantly face complications involving fecal matter. “R.V.” depends largely on potty humor to elicit laughs, which is disappointing in light of its sharp comic cast featuring Robin Williams and Cheryl Hine (of “Curb Your Enthusiasm?...