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...final year, a young director casting her first feature - a cinema verité take on slum life in Bombay - came to the school scouting for talent. "One of the things I'm slightly proud of is kind of discovering Irrfan," says Mira Nair, who cast Khan as a letter writer in Salaam Bombay! His role was edited down to a fleeting appearance, but Nair says that even then, Khan was different. "I was very, very struck by his being in the part rather than acting," she recalls. "He wasn't striving. His striving was invisible...
...m part of the generation that thinks privacy is passé. Send me a friend request? We're friends now. Poke my profile? I'll poke yours back. But using your profile to send you real things I have to pay for with Facebook's alternative currency? That might be the biggest leap of faith yet. (See the top 10 Facebook stories...
...still a Facebook neophyte, accepted her arrangement almost immediately, although I soon destroyed any goodwill by telling her I thought her flowers would have sat wilting in a warehouse for several months before she figured out how to get them. (She replied, "Why do you think I'm not intelligent enough to figure this out, Dan? That's a bit disconcerting.") Sorry...
...from Long Island with "tousled shepherd's curls." He's Robert Mapplethorpe, future famed photographer and shrewd reprobate who would die of AIDS in 1989. As Smith tells us, "I would someday hold his ashes in my hand." After his death, his matter-of-fact pictures of leather S&M, with their strange composure, would set off one of the most heated episodes of the culture wars. But the Mapplethorpe whom Smith remembers is still just a provocateur-in-training, a Botticelli imp who loves chocolate milk and makes her a tambourine. She calls her book Just Kids (Ecco...
...Warhol filmed Chelsea Girls. To Smith it's ideal, "a dolls house in The Twilight Zone." Does her absorption in her dream of art help to explain why she seems a bit naive about men? It's not just that she never fathoms Mapplethorpe's deepening fascination with S&M. She lives for a while with a member of the '70s arena band Blue Öyster Cult, until she discovers--surprise!--that he messes around on the road. She has an affair with the playwright Sam Shepard, who handles her with care but neglects at first to mention his wife...