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Boyle could have cast the slum kids with English speakers, but he realized he'd get more natural performances from the real thing. "They don't have any inhibitions about acting," he says. "We'd been working in the slums, and we'd ask local people, 'Would you play this part?' 'No problem,' they'd say. 'Do you want me to do my Amitabh look or my Shah Rukh Khan look?' I'd say, 'No, do your own look.'" Having slum children play two of the three 6-year-olds meant shooting their scenes in Hindi. But as Boyle says...
Being a hit in North America doesn't guarantee the same reaction in India. Slumdog opened in 350 theaters Jan. 23 and did fairly well--the third largest non-Bollywood debut, after Spider-Man 3 and Casino Royale. But India is one of the few nations to prefer local product to Hollywood blockbusters, and so far it has proved a tougher sell to the mass public than to U.S. audiences...
...left Congo with the memory of one more sign. At MONUC headquarters I found a display of the achievements of Indian peacekeepers. Pictures of the soldiers with refugees were captioned GUARDIANS OF THE LOCAL POPULACE and DO NOT WORRY, WE ARE THERE. In pride of place was a display of pictures and letters detailing how the Indians extracted the body of a Chinese climber from the crater of the nearby Nyiragongo volcano. Above these was a proud banner reading BEYOND MANDATE. Retrieving a dead Chinese tourist from an uninhabited, uncontested mountain may be noble work. But the responsibility to protect...
...Tracer between two yoked churches near the White Earth Indian Reservation. His answer to the pastor shortage is simply to commit to the countryside (he grew up in rural Iowa). "I was like, 'Why wouldn't you go to a rural area?'" he says. Baker-Trinity is an indefatigable local booster. "They're talking about making my whole town wireless!" he says enthusiastically. Equally smitten are his parishioners, like Howard Steinmetz. After decades working his farm--most of them minus a hand lost to a field chopper in 1959--Steinmetz is finally auctioning off the land. Selling, he says...
...void of loss people feel makes them want to fill it up with something," says Keltner--and often that means spending a little more for a luxury item. This doesn't mean you should take on a second mortgage, 2006-style, but it wouldn't hurt you or your local coffee roaster to splurge on a cappuccino now and then...