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Maybe because four of them (Penn, Robbins, Bacon and Fishburne) have directed films. Penn, in fact, has long thought of himself as a writer-director--he has made three impressive features (The Indian Runner, The Crossing Guard and The Pledge) as well as a poignant short film on 9/11--who finances his projects with acting gigs. "I was doing Super-8 movies in high school, and I loved that," he says. "But the idea that somebody was going to put 5 or 10 million dollars in a kid's pocket to direct a movie was ridiculous. 'Where are the adults...
After a decade as a working actor, he got to make The Indian Runner. Even now, he says, "I pretty much have some version of a great time whenever I'm directing. Acting I have a little more trouble with. An actor for hire is dependent on the ability of others. And when you dedicate yourself to something, and it starts bursting leaks all over the place, you find yourself--chastened. You've spent the better part of three months away from family. And then you're stuck. It's happened several times...
...LISTED. DAWOOD IBRAHIM, 47, billionaire Bombay crime boss; as a specially designated global terrorist; by the U.S. Treasury Department; in Washington, D.C. The U.S. said Ibrahim has links to al-Qaeda and helped finance attacks by Islamic militants in the western Indian state of Gujarat in revenge for anti-Muslim riots there in February and March...
...India's nationalist government finally losing patience with its Hindu extremist allies? Last Friday, Hindu hardliners staging a protest in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya found themselves under fire from an unexpected quarter: state and federal police wielding wooden lathes and batons and firing rubber bullets and tear gas. By day's end more than 1,000 Hindu activists were in custody and another 15,000 had been loaded on to buses and trains and sent away. An outraged Ashok Singhal, leader of the rally's organizer, the militant Hindu group Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), was moved to declare...
...last week, thousands of poverty-stricken Bolivians protested in the capital, La Paz, and around the country, railing at President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. Sánchez - or Goni, as he is called - sent the army to restore order. As Bolivian soldiers fired on demonstrators, impoverished Indian mine workers used crude slingshots to hurl lighted sticks of dynamite back at them. But they were no match for the army's tear gas and bullets, and the clashes left as many as 80 people dead. The people around Goni had had enough. First, Vice President Carlos Mesa renounced...