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...good spot to hide from the authorities, if you have reason to be on the run--which may be how Omar al-Faruq, a 31-year-old drifter from Kuwait, ended up living there, in a concrete house that belonged to the family of his Indonesian wife Mira Agustina, 24. After moving to Cijeruk last year, al-Faruq tried to fit in with locals, getting by with functional Indonesian-language skills and an ID card that said he was from the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon. His wife says he read and taught the Koran and stayed close to home...
...believed, Mira, like the rest of the world, is only beginning to discover the truth about her husband. On June 5 government agents arrested al-Faruq at a mosque in nearby Bogor. Three days later, Indonesian authorities deported al-Faruq to the U.S.-held air base in Bagram, Afghanistan, where CIA investigators have been interrogating suspected members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist organization. But al-Faruq was no ordinary operative...
...thick Joisey accent but Mom (Gena Rowlands) does not, that there's a neat pop-psych explanation (Dad abandoned the family) for her low self-esteem and bouts of stress-induced blindness, and that the Garden State really is the stereotyped, Camaros-and-Bruce milieu offered here by director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding). In which case, I've got a turnpike I would like to sell you. --By James Poniewozik
...sometimes be an irritant to stimulate debate." Debate is at the heart of French filmmaker Alain Brigand's latest project, 11'09'01. He asked 11 directors to film self-contained segments lasting precisely 11 min. 9 sec. each plus one frame (a restriction that one participant, Indian director Mira Nair, called "French conceptual bulls__t"). Brigand describes the project - which also includes segments by Sean Penn and Ken Loach - as "an open dialogue. We have people from different cultures sharing the different implications they draw from the event." It is to be released in Paris on Sept...
When contemplating the future, Mira finds herself going back to a familiar well—the advice of her father. “He always said, give yourself the license to fail. Go in there, take your best swing at it, and just say, ---- ‘em. You can’t worry about whether you’re going to fail. What’s the worst that could happen? You could get fired. Every actor’s been fired once in their life, so it’s not the end of the world. Don?...