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Avant-garde musicians are spooky types, as proven by the recent show at the Middle East featuring Plaid, Nobukazu Takemura and Mira Calix. Alien atmospherics were the theme of the night, with the downstairs lounge of the Middle East and clumps of equally weird onlookers basking in light tinged sickly green. Clouds of smoke were penetrated by sheets of cacophonic noise draped over the occasional sullen bass boom, sounding like a malevolent heartbeat. The stage was littered with mostly unidentifiable contraptions; only the distinctive white outline of an iBook served as a reminder that this was conceived by humans...
...It’s a go as far as we’re concerned,” said Mira Buttleman of DBMI, The Verve Pipe’s management company...
...role until Spike Lee wrote one for him for his movie "Mo' Better Blues." Lee provided Washington with another plum role when he cast him as the lead in "Malcolm X." Another one of Washington's best roles came in "Mississippi Masala," a movie directed by an Indian director, Mira Nair. "Training Day" was directed by a black filmmaker, Antoine Fuqua...
...rains and the relatives are arriving for a wedding the father can't afford, his daughter is dubious about (she has been having an affair with a slick TV host) and many of the guests and servants are distracted from as they pursue their own romantic interests. Though director Mira Nair and writer Sabrina Dhawan manage to pull a persuasively perverse thread through their canvas, their main line of business is frenzy. Anyone who has ever staged a big wedding on a tight budget will adore the many ways they work their central joke...
Directed by Mira Nair...