Word: khans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie is a unlikely comedy set in an early '80s London of racial tension and random sexuality. Sammy (Ayub Khan Din) and Rosie (Frances Barber) live in a neighborhood that is the site of race riots and police brutality. They find no contradiction in basing their marriage on both "freedom and commitment." They do "get laid," but not together...
...guests of honor are three odd couples: Sammy (Ayub Khan Din), a Pakistani-born accountant, and his American photographer client Anna (Wendy Gazelle); Rosie (Frances Barber), Sammy's wife, a "downwardly mobile" English social worker, and her beau of the evening Danny (Roland Gift), a young black; and Rafi (Shashi Kapoor), Sammy's father, and his old flame Alice (Claire Bloom), a romantic Englishwoman. Is that all clear? No? Don't worry; these lives are not meant to be sorted out. Like real relationships, they are messy, incendiary, lingering past the pleasure point. Kureishi's women can be doctrinaire...
This repertoire consists entirely of "very danceable cover tunes," Heiberger says, dropping such names as Prince, Luther Vandross, Chaka Khan, Anita Baker, Atlantic Starr, and the Time. "It's funk/dance of the serious variety," Ramaswami says. "The key word is groove," agree the Hammonds...
...organizers said the war in Afghanistan is severly harming the civilian population there. "How many Afghanis have to be killed for the American public to wake up?" asked Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Studies Richard N. Frye, a member of the alliance's board of advisors...
...parents scoured Europe for bluer blood. Cassini is best known for being couturier to Jackie Kennedy ("I want all ((my outfits)) to be original and no fat little women hopping around in the same dress"), and his memoir of Camelot is lively. He also offers good gossip, recounting Aly Khan's sexual techniques or a little joke Zsa Zsa Gabor played on a lover. But the book's main charm is the author's portrait of himself as Playboy, Second Class -- a man who had to hustle his own pleasures and did so with gusto...