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...comic to stack up one-liners, she manages, over two rambling hours, to take aim at the standard fodder--politicians, pets, audience members--in the same slightly exasperated and self-mocking tone that made her such a success in the 1990s when she played large auditoriums and had two HBO specials and (briefly) her own talk show...
...topping the foreign-film box office in the U.S. and taking $30 million worldwide?the most ever for an Indian film. "Monsoon Wedding was so rich with emotion and color," says Juliette Lewis, describing why she signed to star with Uma Thurman in Nair's 2002 HBO production Hysterical Blindness. "I'm always looking for the freshest filmmakers out there, and there this was, almost an epic, with the universal human appeal of a family drama and with Mira's distinct visual style." Hysterical Blindness, about the loves and loneliness of three women in 1980s New Jersey, picked up three...
FAMILY BONDS, HBO, debuts Sept. 19; set in Queens...
Nair is currently developing an adaptation of The Namesake, the Jhumpa Lahiri best seller about a family's move from Calcutta to Boston, and she will direct Homebody/Kabul, Tony Kushner's play about a woman who goes to Taliban-era Afghanistan seeking her mother, for HBO...
...trip to the Olympics for NBC--where he is serving as prime-time co-host (with Katie Couric) of his fourth Summer Games--has special significance for Bob Costas, whose family came from Greece. The Renaissance man of TV sports coverage, and HBO talk-show host, spoke with TIME's Josh Tyrangiel about Athens, athletes and Omar Bongo...