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After luring Jada Pinkett Smith to campus to accept its award for Artist of the Year, the Harvard Foundation has attracted another Hollywood honoree to Harvard...
...scale of The Four Feathers, Water is budgeted at a slim $20 million-despite an all-star team that includes writer Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show), designer John Myhre (Chicago) and, for the score, Bollywood maestro A.R. Rahman and Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics. "The same film in Hollywood would cost $100 million," says Kapur. "But here it isn't corporate. Here I can keep control...
...After a journey of 30 years that has taken him twice to the West and twice back to Bombay, from accountancy to commercials, Hollywood comedies to Broadway musicals, Kapur thinks he's finally ready for "the film I've wanted to make all my life." At 59, he adds, "I've come to the conclusion that I'm unable to live anywhere but India. I need the chaos, to see that people can live in abject poverty with more dignity than even the richest in Bel Air. I need to draw strength and creativity from the courage of a people...
...DIED. TERESA WRIGHT, 86, Hollywood actress who achieved the never-duplicated feat of winning an Oscar nomination for each of her first three films; in New Haven, Connecticut. After debuting as Bette Davis' daughter in 1941's The Little Foxes, she played Lou Gehrig's wife in The Pride of the Yankees and won an Oscar for her role as Greer Garson's daughter-in-law in Mrs. Miniver. Her wholesome but refined screen presence graced some of the '40s best movies, including Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt and William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives...