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...award—which was inaugurated with its presentation to actor Jack Lemmon ’47 in 1995—has previously been awarded to such luminaries as Yo-Yo Ma ’76, John Updike ’54, and Mira Nair...
...struts her way, in sequins and top hat, through some vigorous choreography set to Puttin ' on the Ritz, while an emcee, in her best beauty-pageant voice, announces, "Andrea is five years old, and she's looking forward--[pause]--to entering kindergarten." A little later, Carol, leader of the Mira Costa drill team, starts gnawing at the half-inch nails on each of her eight ringed fingers. "I'm so nervous my stomach hurts," she confides. "But if you become nervous," she tells her charges between hugs, "I'll shoot...
Then, in 1988, she attended a campus screening of Mira Nair ’79’s 1988 film Salaam, Bombay. As Mallozzi watched a Harvard graduate receive the honor of introducing her own film on campus, she recalls thinking “‘Wow, that’s really cool! You can make films at Harvard!’” Mallozzi ended up joint-concentrating in English and VES, and now, close to 17 years later, film dominates her life...
...taken to introducing herself this way: "I'm Mira Nair. Rhymes with fire." The director of acclaimed independent films like Salaam Bombay, Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Wedding offers the mnemonic to help people pronounce her name. But it could also be a warning. Nair is fiercely passionate about everything, especially the way she makes her movies...
...have to like Becky, and thanks to Reese Witherspoon's perky performance we do, not least because we have all been in her position, desperate to impress our betters. Moreover, director Mira Nair has created a pretty panorama--populated with solid actors like Bob Hoskins and Gabriel Byrne--of English life in the Georgian era for Becky to master. It is more exotic than Thackeray's, more laden with the booty of a burgeoning colonial empire, but Nair, Indian by birth, is entitled to her opinions about the exploitations on which England's wealth was based...