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...passion. Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis) is a bleach-blond tough with a National Front past. His boyhood pal Omar (Gordon Warnecke) is the son of an impoverished Pakistani writer (Roshan Seth) and the nephew of a gaudy entrepreneur (Saeed Jaffrey). Uncle is a sharp businessman but unlucky with women: his daughter is a rebellious flirt, his aging mistress carries herself like the ghost of swinging London, and his wife hexes the mistress with an evil spell concocted of mice and berries. When Uncle puts Omar in charge of a run-down Laundromat -- laundrette, in Britspeak -- the lad nicks a couple...
Efforts by the U.S. and France to find Baby Doc a new home continued to be unavailing. The latest country to reject a feeler: tiny Monaco. When the west African nation of Gabon was sounded out, the response from President Omar Bongo was curt: "We are not a garbage can." Baby Doc would love to stay in France, but the French summarily reject the idea. Stung by his rough treatment, Duvalier declared, "If I had known the only country I feel close to wouldn't welcome me, I would never have given up power...
...Omar Anwari is Cabinet minister to the last Afghan King, who was deposed in 1973. The three Anwari children are refractions of Omar's bitterness and fanatical loyalty. Mangal, a journalist, becomes a revolutionary. Saira, at once the most sophisticated and confused, shuttles uneasily between her own nation and the U.S., where she has been a Radcliffe student. Tor, the youngest, is a volatile, seething youth who receives his education in Moscow. This sibling rivalry is no mere mix in the Freudian crucible. Saira takes a Russian lover, Mangal is a lethal conniver, Tor is a black marketeer. Each child...
...outset of seven months of filming in the Soviet Union. Problems cropped up almost immediately. First the production's entire supply of wigs was lost for 3 1/2 weeks. The crew found Soviet accommodations to be spartan, transportation unreliable and toilet paper rough. "I had a miserable time," says Omar Sharif, who plays one of Peter's advisers. Bored with meals of beet-root salads, chicken and potatoes, Sharif took a trip to Paris and brought back cans of tuna, which he ate at night alone in his room...
...managed to follow all of this, you will no doubt be able to understand why Joan Wilder, romance author extraordinaire, would want to help our hapless holy man escape from Omar's clutches, and walk all the way across the desert and up several steep cliffs just so she, Al, Jack and Ralph (Danny DeVito), whom they've managed to pick up somewhere along the way, can crash Omar's laser show and present the real jewel to his adoring public...