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...hard was it to transition from SNL to your new show? -Megan Butterworth, Sandpoint, Idaho It was a great problem to have. I had spent 7½ seasons on SNL and was really looking forward to trying something new. I was lucky to be able to have such a great thing...
Will the recession result in a higher demand for comedy? -Yaara Tal, Herzliyya, Israel I tell you what'll be a great recession comedy: Crazy Grandma at the Wheel. The movie's only going to cost $5. That's my new thing. All my new films are going to cost $5, or $2 if you bring your own beer. Then we just do one a month, and you'll have Crazy Grandma at the Wheel No. 12 in theaters next July. That's the kind of stuff I'm going to be working on to fight this recession...
...much as he is for Watergate. And while it's conceivable that relations with the Communist country could have been normalized without a face-to-face meeting between Nixon and Chairman Mao Zedong, news photos of the two leaders shaking hands - not to mention images of Nixon walking the Great Wall and eating with chopsticks - helped convince Americans that Red China was not to be feared...
Varun Gandhi is the great-grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, the country's first Prime Minister. His grandmother was Nehru's only child, Indira Gandhi, whose two sons, in turn, left legacies at odds with each other. The older son Rajiv, succeeded his mother as prime minister shortly after she was assassinated in 1984. Rajiv was later murdered in a 1994 terrorist bombing and his Italian-born widow, Sonia, now leads the ruling Congress Party. Rajiv's younger brother, Sanjay, however, had been their mother Indira's favorite and had been viewed as her heir apparent until his sudden death...
Many Indians are appalled not only that a descendant of Nehru is espousing such a political perspective but that his name and actions besmirch that of the great Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who was assassinated by a Hindu extremist in 1948. While the Mahatma was not a blood relation of the Nehrus, a popular story has the philosopher of political non-violence, who was Indira's godfather, allowing her fiance, a young Zoroastrian lawyer originally called Feroze Shah Ghandy, to restyle his surname as Gandhi, thus attaching prestige to a mixed marriage many Hindus would not have approved of. Priyanka Gandhi...