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...KAYE, 95, author whose 1978 historical novel, The Far Pavilions, was sometimes likened to Gone With the Wind; in Lavenham, England. Born Mary Margaret Kaye to British parents in preindependence India, she dabbled in amateur theater, but her passion was writing. Her richly detailed tale of a British orphan who is raised as a Hindu and falls in love with an Indian princess became an international best seller and a high-profile hbo miniseries...
...eyes of an orphan too proud to plead, too desperate to reproach. She is poor, female and 12, and in mid-'90s Afghanistan, with the Taliban thug clerics in power, that means no schooling, employment or respect. Then her mother has an idea. Cut the girl's hair, dress her in robes and give her a boy's name--Osama--so she can find work as a "boy" and support the tattered family...
...wedding day of our orphan heroine Madhavi (Asha Parekh), known as Madhu; she is to marry a man she?s not seen. Receiving a plaintive note from her low-life lover Kailash (Prem Chopra), she flees the ceremony (?I threw all social norms to the wind... burning my boats?) and rushes to his arms. They happen to be wrapped around his real amour, tarty singer Shabu (Bindu). Flummoxed and furious, she flees back to her rich uncle to beg forgiveness, only to notice that he?s dead, probably of heartbreak. She flees yet again, to the train station. There...
.../look awa-a-ay/Limbaugh fans”), Howard Dean’s gay supporters serenade him with “Gay Dean Believer” (“Cheer up, Howard Dean/See how much it means/To a gay Dean believer and a homecoming queen”), and Little Orphan Annie is sure that “Saddam Will Come Out Tomorrow.” The presidential candidates get the long-awaited chance to go on Total Recall Live, where Senator John F. Kerry, D-Mass. finally shines (“You like what I said/With my giant head/Oh...
...those gaps?the spaces that separate souls?that concern Freudenberger. In The Orphan, as Alice watches her dissolving family, she "thinks of the incredible frustration of not knowing things, and of knowing that they can't be known?the incredible privacy of other people's experience." Thankfully, we have writers like Freudenberger to narrow the lonely spaces and reveal the possibility of connection...