Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Heinrich (Pitt), glamour boy of an empire mad for mountain climbing, joins an expedition to scale Nanga Parbat in eastern India. The troupe is led by Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis), but Heinrich will say sir to no man. He pays no attention to his own severe pain, little more to the safety of his comrades. Failing to reach the summit, they are taken as prisoners of war by His Majesty's Government in India. Four times Heinrich tries to escape; each time security is increased. When Peter determines to get out, Heinrich thumbs a ride on the jail break...
...Annaud film, remember, must be an adventure. "We had to helicopter the entire crew and gear up every day," says Pitt of the mountain scenes. "It was a limited crew because it was so precarious; we could have been snowed in for 30 days. If the safety guys told us we had to evacuate, we'd do it like that." But like the last U.S. officer in Saigon, Annaud would be the last to leave. "He would assemble the crew," Pitt says, "and it was women and children first. He'd get the entire crew off and then take...
...much about the country's predominant religion. He picked up a copy of Sogyal Rinpoche's The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, an introduction to the subject, but never cracked it, preferring in the end to enter the project as ignorant as was the character he plays, Austrian mountain climber Heinrich Harrer, when he stumbled across the Tibetan border in 1944. But on a movie set stocked with actual monks working as extras, the actor picked up a thing or two. "Their idea of a civilization that rejects violence on principle--I mean, what?" he ejaculates with Jackie Gleasonesque...
Here's the plot so far: three years ago, Melrose Place fanatic Ken Hart, a regular guy (though he claims he was reared by mountain goats at the Bronx Zoo), was living in Boston, when a co-worker and co-fan moaned that she had missed the previous night's episode. Faster than you can say "Courtney Thorne-Smith," Hart whipped off an E-mail recap of the episode, which he "spiced up a little" with his own wry commentary. His first recap was so well received that he did it again the next week and the week after that...
...then Denver was never really hip. The multimillion-selling career that began with his penning of "Leaving on a Jet Plane" for Peter, Paul and Mary and crested with "Rocky Mountain High," "Sunshine on My Shoulders" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" was never the messianic scamper of a rock star. His fans were many but silent; Denver was a star in the way that "Walker, Texas Ranger" is a top-20 hit these days: through the power of the uncool masses...