Word: ismail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blanket and breathing through it. "For four or five hours afterward, I had trouble breathing," he says. "My friends carried me to the bomb shelter, and I lay there spitting up black fluid." In such a conflict, justice can be harsh for captured invaders. Said a young guerrilla named Ismail: "We won't shoot them. Bullets are too expensive. Maybe we will stone them to death, or cut their throats, or throw them off a cliff." Despite heavy Soviet pressure, the resistance fighters remain confident. "The mujahedin are better organized than before, better unified than before, with better morale than...
...Shoot, Jim! Shoot!" For 25 years that insistent cry--half command, half appeal--has been heard around the world, or wherever cameras have been set up for a Merchant-Ivory production. From India (Heat and Dust) to Boston (The Bostonians) to Florence (A Room with a View), Ismail Merchant, the producer part of the team, has been pleading with James Ivory, his directing partner, please, please to hurry up: time is short and money is shorter. So constant was the refrain on the English sets of their newest picture, Maurice, that when filming ended last month the cast...
...expected to gross $50 million and is a strong contender for Oscar nominations. Maurice, which is also an adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, will cost even less, $2.5 million, and feature two relatively unknown actors, James Wilby as Maurice and Hugh Grant as Clive, his first romance. "Ismail has tremendous charm and substitutes it for the lack of money," explains Helena Bonham Carter, 20, one of the stars of A Room with a View. "You might not get paid very much, but you tend to believe in what you're making. And he feeds you very well...
Produced by Ismail Merchant...
...emotions unleashed by the painful first love of a young boy and girl in Edwardian England. A Room with a View is that exploration, Forster's sketch of love and anguish sparked on the Tuscan hills and resolved in the English countryside. In the new screen version by the Ismail Merchant-James Ivory team (Heat and Dust, The Bostonians), we are treated to a respectful and intimate adaptation of Forster's touching novel...