Word: lamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bring Suma Ching Hai into focus, imagine Martha Stewart as the Dalai Lama. The Supreme Master, 46, is an elegant hostess--and clever merchandiser. At a vegetarian dinner with a TIME correspondent last week in Alhambra, California, she wore a bright yellow dress that she designed herself--embroidered with the Supreme Master monogram (SM) and available to followers by catalog. When she gestured with her hands, she flashed gold and diamond rings with the SM design, part of her Celestial Jewelry collection--available by catalog as well. (Also for sale: Celestial purses, hats, gold dinnerware, chopsticks, inspirational videos, floor lamps...
...movies may be bad for your passport. According to a Tibetan advocacy group, such names as BRAD PITT, HARRISON FORD and Martin Scorsese are on a persona non grata list at the agency that handles visas for Chinese-occupied Tibet. Scorsese is directing Kundun, a movie about the Dalai Lama, written by Ford's wife Melissa Mathison. Pitt is currently making Seven Years in Tibet. Two sources told the International Campaign for Tibet that they saw the list on a wall at a Chinese Information Travel Service office in Lhasa. "It was in a back room, the office...
...Disney Co. is no stranger to protest. Now the company has incurred the wrath of a government. China's leaders hotly object to Disney's plans to distribute Kundun, a Martin Scorsese-directed film currently in production that tells the story of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. China's leaders get to play the villains, and they are not amused, to the point of making threatening noises about Disney's future in the great market of the future...
Some other coming attractions are bound to rankle the Chinese as well: Seven Years in Tibet, starring Brad Pitt as an Austrian adventurer who befriends the young Dalai Lama, and Red Corner, starring Richard Gere, a story about the Chinese judicial system. Gere, who is a longtime supporter of the Tibetan spiritual movement, applauded Disney's stance. He told TIME, "It's a bad precedent to be dictated to by a dictatorship. Disney made a good business decision. You have to play hardball with guys who only understand hardball...
...Danny Schechter, co-executive producer of "Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television," on Disney's announcement yesterday that it would distribute an animated feature about the Dalai Lama in China, whose Communist government opposes the film...