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...recent headline on a story about Sir Ben Kingsley's appearance in The Wackness, a genial coming-of-age film in which Kingsley plays a shrink who trades therapy for dope and eventually joins his young patient Luke in dealing drugs. "For me, the pot was just a device," says Kingsley. "Through it we tell the lovely story of a fatherless child and childless father. And because I become his assistant in dealing with the stuff he's selling, I'm revealed to be the child...
...goofy innocent who loves potty humor but has a generous heart. He's not far from Adam Sandler's Zohan, another sweet soul with a few personality defects. A North American kid raised in India, Maurice at 13 came under the tutelage of a cross-eyed swami (Ben Kingsley, giving the goose to his Oscar-winning Gandhi). "I want to become a guru so people will like me," young Maurice tells his master, "so I will love myself." I find such self-knowledge, not to mention self-absorption, appealing in the nakedness of its need...
...Adrienne Rich is an icon of poetry,” said Cambridge resident Anne Kingsley, while waiting in line. “I started reading her in college, and she’s one of the ones I always return...
...dream job because it was both kind of molded into one.” Although Sturgess expresses an equal amount of commitment to singing, “21” draws him heavily toward drama. His young acting career has already placed him alongside experienced actors such as Ben Kingsley in the upcoming film “Fifty Dead Men Walking.” Working with big-name stars is a highlight for the young actor. Of his experiences with Spacey on “21,” Sturgess said, “He was cool, an amazing actor...
...central puzzle of A Writer's People, in the end, is the unimportance of people to the author of it. The pages are littered with names (Kingsley Amis drinking in London's Fleet Street, or Aldous Huxley watching Gandhi make a speech in India, or Naipaul discussing the Greek playwright Menander with former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan) but names are all that most of them remain - two-dimensional also-rans in Naipaul's literary one-upmanship. The laughing, exuberant and fleshed-out characters that were such a feature of his earlier work have got up from the table...