Word: gandhis
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...horror at what a god-man has to endure to save all men. The Passion may be unique in movie history in devoting most of its length to the torture of one man who doesn't fight back. He takes a flaying and keeps on praying. This is Gandhi as Rocky. It's Bloodheart...
...Kingsley smiled and quietly replied, "Yes." Their confusion didn't surprise Vadim Perelman, who directed Kingsley's new film, House of Sand and Fog, and was with him at the time. Over the past 40 years, the British actor has morphed into many larger-than-life figures - Moses, Hamlet, Gandhi. "He embodies his characters," says Perelman. Ben Kingsley disappears, and another man comes to life. "He's a chameleon." Kingsley's latest guise, as exiled Iranian Colonel Massoud Behrani in House of Sand and Fog, adapted from Andre Dubus III's 1999 novel, has earned him a Best Actor nomination...
...they still don't trust the BJP. Nevertheless, plenty of them have come to see Vajpayee as a friendly figure?and perhaps as India's only viable Prime Minister. Lucknow journalist Alvi says that although many Muslims would support the Congress over the BJP, they feel that Sonia Gandhi is "immature"?leaving them with no option but Vajpayee. When asked if he wouldn't prefer someone other than Vajpayee to lead India, Mohammed Ayub, the repairer of sewing machines, smiles and says: "Who else is there...
TRANSGRESSION Speaking at a fund raiser, the Senator joked that Mahatma Gandhi used to run a gas station in St. Louis...
...CONTRITE? Nauseatingly so. "I have admired the work and life of Mahatma Gandhi," she said. "I truly regret if a lame attempt at humor suggested otherwise...