Word: lamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Richard Gere has it easy fighting China: just hanging out with the Dalai Lama and leading protests in front of the White House. You want hard? Try being Alec Baldwin, head of the Creative Coalition, balled up on a bus for a three-hour predawn ride from New York to Massachusetts to collect signatures for state-campaign-finance reform. The coffee's awful, and his cell phone doesn't work. "We should have a working phone, even if you have to FedEx one," the actor growls as he tosses the offending cellular to an aide. Maybe...
...with all his energy, he looked puzzled but nonetheless shrugged, "It's somewhere in China, isn't it?" We continued, "Yeah, but where exactly is it and when did it first become, like, a country?" "I don't have to know that, but all I know is that Mr. Lama has personally...
Excuse us, sir, the Dalai Lama is not a name but a title. Thus, the intellectual dimension and self-justification of the protest end right there. Tell us, seriously, what do you know about Tibet? (You are not thinking that all Tibetans are monks, are you?) Or, for that matter, China. (You are not thinking that all Chinese are red communists...
...semi-successful epic that's gorgeous to look at and gives some much-needed high-profile visibility to the tragic modern history of Tibeet--but opts for glossy formulaic packaging over genuine emotional resonance, even in the central relationship between Brad Pitt's Austrain mountainer and the young Dalai Lama. The latter succeeds in blending wide-eyed winsomeness with a dignity that's at once childlike and mature. Pitt, alas, never frees us from the sensation that he's something incongruous in this setting-a Hollywood heartrhuob trying to look spiritual. In fact, the film actually becomes more dramatically compelling...
...Panchen Lama is six years old and now lives in Beijing, where the Tibetan community claims he is being detained...