Word: goddess
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...WHAT'S TINA GOT TO DO WITH IT? Filmmakers Ismail Merchant and James Ivory have set many of their films in India. But the duo's The Goddess, still in preproduction, has Hindus up in arms over Tina Turner's being cast in the title role as the goddess Shakti: the singer's sex appeal is "improper" for the divinity, according to one anti-Tina petition...
...else that will see her through. As the brainy foil to Ben Lee's hippie wildchild in last year's The Rage in Placid Lake, she wisecracked like Doris Day on Benzedrine. Her ego won't get in the way, either. Director Clara Law, who cast Byrne in The Goddess of 1967 (2000), calls her "shy and very humble. She's got this thing about herself, that she doesn't think she's good. She needs a lot of encouragement...
Note to Rose: whenever you're in doubt of your abilities, just take out a copy of Goddess. Nowhere else is her loopy sadness and extraterrestrial beauty put to better effect. In Law's underrated art-house flick, Byrne plays a damaged blind girl who lures a young Tokyo man across the Outback; her hair squirrel red, the color of the DS-model Citro?n he has journeyed to Australia to buy. Even before the cameras rolled, Byrne surprised her director by coming into rehearsals "not learning to be blind, but already like a blind person," Law recalls. With downcast eyes...
...festival of short plays at a grungy inner-Sydney theater. For the actress, Moscow remains a few years off - in a much hoped for stage debut on Broadway or the West End. "Opening night is terrifying. So scary. It's like a car crash," she says. For this goddess of 2004, it's crash and Byrne time...
...made for about $6 million, earned $32.5 million in North American theaters and an additional $44 million abroad. It has also given Chadha a chance to try making the first crossover Bollywood-style musical: Bride and Prejudice, with Jane Austen's Bennet family transformed into Anglo-Indians and Bollywood goddess Aishwarya Rai in the lead. "It's got the love story, it's got the songs, it's fun--like a Grease," rhapsodizes Rick Sands, COO of Miramax Films, which will distribute Bride in the U.S. "It's a Bollywood musical, but it's not going...