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...English-women who move to India, one in the second decade of this century and the other in 1982. Based on Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's novel of the same title, the film beautifully transcends limitations of time as it alternates between the lives of its two heroines, Olivia in 1923 and the contemporary Anne. Unlike Gandhi, which presented a sprawling panorama of Indian landscape and culture from the perspective of the great leader, Heat and Dust is an essentially private affair. It shows us India through the eyes of two women struggling to come to terms with Indian culture...
Prawer Jhabvala's adaptation of her novel rings true throughout the film. Before they can understand the society they have chosen to enter. Anne and Olivia must learn to live with the tedious Indian climate and landscape. As an Englishwoman who married an Indian, Jhabvala understands better than anyone the difficulty of living between cultures, neither Indian nor fully British. She endows the relationships between Anne and Olivia and their Indian lovers with a passion and tension which could only derive from common experience...
...sassy pertness that marks the style of many young, contemporary female vocalists has obviously impressed Seiko Matsuda, 21. She might well be the Olivia Newton-John of Japan. Seiko has what her countrymen describe as the girl-next-door look (if you happen to live in a suburban Osaka apartment complex) and, to be polite, a less than major lyrical talent. But since 1980, her twelve albums and 13 singles have brought in more than $125 million, boosting her own income from records to half a million dollars a year. Pressing on while her pressings are hot, she has starred...
...star in front of another word and making it a story: star's pets, star's cars, star's hairdressers. Linking the main stories are short takes like a celebrity birthday register or a "Paparazzi" section in which stills are flashed on the screen of, say, Olivia De Havilland out for Sunday brunch in Beverly Hills...
When the inevitable casting calls for Grease 2 went out, the two lovebirds from the original, John Travolta, 28, and Olivia Newton-John, 34, were wisely out buying groceries or getting body work done on their Mercedes. But they had to pick up their phones some time, and the result is a film now being shot in New York City that borrows heavily from the 1978 thriller The Silent Partner. In this movie, which doesn't even have a title yet-how about Greed 2?-Newton-John plays a bank teller, and Travolta is a two-bit robber...