Word: ganglander
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...former prime minister of Nepal. Hrithik, Govinda, veteran actor Amrish Puri and top director Karan Johar (Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham) were assigned armed police protection after receiving death threats. And earlier this year the Mob plotted to kill actor-superstar Aamir Khan and director Ashutosh Gowariker when they rejected gangland overtures after the huge success of their Oscar-nominated Lagaan...
...state where nearly 2,000 people, mostly Muslim, died in sectarian rioting in February and March. The Indian army sent 3,000 troops to Gujarat to keep the peace. Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishnan Advani visited the temple and blamed Pakistan for the attack. PAKISTAN Grudge Match? In a gangland-style execution, gunmen killed seven Pakistani Christians and left one man injured at the offices of a charity in the commercial capital Karachi. The unidentified men entered the Institute for Peace and Justice, tied and gagged their victims, and then shot them in the head. "I don't believe this...
...listen to retro soundtracks or play games that create their own unique music. Eleven artists have been commissioned to produce related works. With such a wide brief, some areas, such as cinema, seem rather squeezed, but many go into fascinating depth. Making and marketing includes a storyboard for the gangland adventure Grand Theft Auto taken straight from from the studio wall, which leads to a consideration of story-telling. "Narrative in video games is very non-linear," says curator Conrad Bodman. "There are subplots that may not lead to anything, but you have to work them all out" to find...
...Sheldon Mopes (Edward Norton). Naturally, the axed ex-host wants to off his sweet-souled successor. There's probably a tight, funny comedy lurking in that premise. But DeVito has turned the film into an expressionistic epic in murderously bad taste, all frenzy and feckless subplots, mostly involving ghastly gangland figures. A lot of good actors (among them the divine Catherine Keener) are wasted--in both senses of the word--in this spectacularly miscalculated movie...
...down along with two others Saturday in the lobby of the Belgrade Intercontinental hotel, had a long and brutal criminal history that included time as the leader of the infamous Tiger militia that terrorized civilians in Bosnia and Croatia. So the questions begin: Was the attack some bit of gangland retribution from one of Arkan's many shady associates? Or was the hit ordered by someone in Slobodan Milosevic's government who didn't want Arkan testifying before the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal...