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...into meditation retreats so quickly that the Borscht Belt is being renamed the Buddhist Belt. And, as with any great American trend that finds its way onto the cover of TIME, many of these meditators are famous. To name just a few: Goldie Hawn, Shania Twain, Heather Graham, Richard Gere and Al Gore, if he still counts as famous...
...Lost Land (HarperCollins; 333 pages). Every year, hundreds of spirituality hunters?"flakes and fantasists," he writes, "running alongside dedicated altruists"?visit Dharamsala, where the Tibetan government-in-exile is based, and try earnestly to help the cause. Some of the more famous acolytes, such as actor Richard Gere, successfully raise the issue in any public forum they can. Others go local, offering free labor at the health or public-affairs offices and chanting at temples. A few go way too far: action hero Steven Seagal has claimed to be the incarnation of an important Tibetan monk...
Jack Nicholson and Daniel Day-Lewis are the two locks in the Best Actor category for their turns in About Schmidt and Gangs of New York, respectively; Chicago’s Richard Gere is also a solid bet for a nod. The final two slots will be split between four contenders: The Pianist’s Adrien Brody, Adaptation’s Nicolas Cage, The Quiet American’s Michael Caine and About a Boy’s Hugh Grant; the comparative prestige of Brody’s and Cage’s pictures give them the edge...
...ability to make famous subjects comfortable helped him capture and define the high-octane glamour and narcissism of the 1980s; of complications from pneumonia; in Los Angeles. A onetime furniture salesman who made his name with an impromptu late-1970s photo shoot of his not-yet-known friend Richard Gere, Ritts produced memorable photos of Elizabeth Taylor revealing her brain-surgery scar, Madonna grabbing her crotch, and singer k.d. lang, in drag, being shaved by Cindy Crawford...
...film has lots of terrific turns to support its leading ladies: from Richard Gere, as the sexy weasel lawyer; from Queen Latifah, exuding the wry sizzle of a star who doesn't mind that Hollywood has yet to figure out how to use her; and, we almost forgot, from John C. Reilly--another in his sad gallery of losers not even daring to hope for sympathy...