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...Khan talks easily about movies - he loves them with the ardor of a lifelong fan - and almost as freely about his struggle to become an actor. He grew up in Jaipur, a city of crumbling palaces in the north Indian desert, as the eldest son of a conservative, aristocratic Muslim family. The popular movies he watched in the 1960s, such as Mughal-E-Azam and Guide, were pure escape - gorgeous fantasies of epic love and tragedy. By the time he was a teenager in the 1970s, the socially conscious new wave of the 1960s - so-called parallel cinema - began...
...rollin' at Joel Stein's "Calling All Guidos" [Feb. 1]. Like Joel, I grew up going to many shore towns, including Seaside Heights, N.J. Though it didn't have the moniker Sleazeside Heights in the '70s, we did have our share of guys showing off their abs. I still get giddy every time I get off the plane at Newark, and I know I am really home when I get that first slice from Palumbo's Pizza on Route 9 in Old Bridge. The Midwest has grown on me these past 30 years, but it can be a bit staid...
Devotion does not provide a template for finding your own personal Jesus (or whoever). It's a history of Shapiro's quest to explore her own faithlessness. She grew up in an Orthodox household but cast aside her Hebrew religious study as a teenager. As an adult, her sense of God was that if he existed, he was not a micromanager. ("As far as I knew, he had never gotten me a parking space.") She wants to believe in something but doesn't know what...
...have competed for Bahrain, and American baseball players for Italy. But the tie between country and competitor is especially loose in the Winter Games, since warm-weather places like Mexico and Jamaica can't even claim a speck of snow or ice. Errol Kerr, the Jamaican ski cross athlete, grew up in the Lake Tahoe area. Ruben Gonzalez, a luger with Argentina's team, lives in Katy, Texas; he moved to the U.S. when he was six. (See 25 Winter Olympic athletes to watch...
...English). "The Spanish were the ones who came to Mexico in the end, so I do feel Mexican. Naturally I have more ties to Spain, but I'm more of a Latin person. Although our name is very German, and we're a German aristocratic family, we really grew up in more of a Mediterranean way. My look is not very German. People think I'm from Argentina, or, I don't know, Italy. But they don't think I'm from Germany and Austria...