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...Nair has ignored life's rougher edges. Her early cinéma vérité work was all about outsiders, from Indian immigrants in America to strippers in Bombay, and her Oscar-nominated first feature, 1988's Salaam Bombay!, had a city street orphan for its hero. Nair enjoyed an art-house hit in 1992 with Mississippi Masala, starring Denzel Washington. It was an exuberant, surprising interracial romance about the American South, motels and the Asian expulsion from Uganda. (Got that?) She met her second husband, Ugandan political scientist Mahmood Mamdani, while researching that film and spent nine years...
...upset when we went to the meetings," Susan says. "She said, 'It's not really about you. It's about the widows and children.' And I said, 'I want more information.' You can't compare grief, because nobody can get inside you. But I feel like an orphan. When they did this formula, why didn't they consider the parents? My daughter-in-law was married for five years. We had Jonathan for 33 years...
...upset when we went to the meetings," Susan says. "She said, 'It's not really about you. It's about the widows and children.' And I said, 'I want more information.' You can't compare grief, because nobody can get inside you. But I feel like an orphan. When they did this formula, why didn't they consider the parents? My daughter-in-law was married for five years. We had Jonathan for 33 years...
...GHOST WORLD An Amelie with attitude, teen Enid (the frighteningly assured Thora Birch) adopts orphan things and people in order to make fun of them. This daringly undarling comedy, from director Terry Zwigoff and comix writer Daniel Clowes, shows just how furtive and morose an ordeal growing up can be. It's a Heathers for the 9/11 Generation...
...Ghost World An Amélie with attitude, teen Enid (the frighteningly assured Thora Birch) adopts orphan things and people in order to make fun of them. This daringly undarling comedy, from director Terry Zwigoff and comix writer Daniel Clowes, shows just how furtive and morose an ordeal growing up can be. It's a Heathers for the 9/11 Generation...