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...would be, were this not the season in which the world of American entertainment became fascinated with Buddhism. Neither Seven Years nor Kundun is overtly about the faith. The first recounts the story of Pitt's character, Heinrich Harrer, a superstar mountain climber and Nazi poster boy who is humanized while tutoring the preteen Dalai Lama in Tibet in the 1940s and '50s. The second tells the remarkable tale of the Dalai Lama more or less through his own eyes, from his recognition as reincarnated Buddha of compassion at age two until his escape to India at 24. Each film...
...story follows the adventures of one Heinrich Harrer (Pitt), an Austrian mountain climber whose mountaineering expedition eventually takes him to the holy Tibetan city of Lhasa. The journey marks an emotional awakening for Harrer, one that culminates in his befriending the Dalai Lama, whose friendship and spiritual guidance emboldens him to return to and face tangled domestic issues at home. The relative lack of compelling ideas and characters to identify with before this enlightenment--basically, during Harrer's journey to Tibet--acts as a foil for the movie's latter, more fulfilling half...
...Neither Apple nor Pixar had any comment on the prospect, and the quest for a new CEO ? led by top headhunters Heinrich & Struggles ? officially continues. If Jobs does step up to the plate, their three-month search would seem a little quixotic. Which must leave Apple insiders wondering: is this the way Steve planned it all along...
...currently in New York City making Meet Joe Black) to suggestions that it's all a ploy designed to distract the press from what would have been the year's most ogled nuptials. Pitt already faced one unwelcome torrent of attention this month when it was revealed that Heinrich Harrer, the character he plays in Seven Years in Tibet, who is meant to be a good guy, went on to serve the Third Reich in real life. As for Duets, in which he was supposed to star with Paltrow and be directed by her dad Bruce--awkward as it sounds...
...group of protesters presented Mansfield with the "Heinrich Himmler Award For Faculty Excellence" and a massive bouquets of flowers. The protesters then held up signs reading "Keep Harvard Straight," "Keep Harvard White," "Keep Harvard Rich," "Keep Harvard Christian" and "Keep Harvard Male...