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...every last detail" seems a tad superfluous; readers who haul this hefty novel onto their lap will already have guessed that they're in for a long trek. And for quite a while the journey seems enchanting indeed. Rai's account of his and Ormus' Bombay childhood becomes a pageant of Dickensian, subcontinent eccentrics, particularly the boys' diversely obsessed parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ganja Growing in the Tin | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

Easter weekend in the Mississippi town of Holly Springs. Old Cookie Orcutt (Patricia Neal) is fixin' to die--and does--while her niece Camille (Glenn Close) is staging a Salome pageant at the First Presbyterian Church. Complications, of the sort Altman has been perping for decades, ensue. And though Neal, Charles S. Dutton (as Neal's best friend) and Liv Tyler (as the town's wild child) have charm to burn, the film mostly simmers. Like Camille's theatricals, the Anne Rapp script dawdles through predictable Southern Gothic plot twists that a real writer like Beth Henley would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cookie's Fortune | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...Israel a nice pair of legs has triumphed where years of meaningful debate have failed. The Miss Israel pageant last week sparked a spirit of camaraderie between the country's Jews and Arabs when 21-year-old RANA RASLAN became the first Arab woman in the pageant's 49-year history to win the title. A Muslim, Raslan is one of the 1 million Israeli Arabs living in the country of 6 million. Stressing that her crowning had nothing to do with politics, Raslan declared, "The judges picked me because they thought I was the most beautiful." Others saw deeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 22, 1999 | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...Dallas Sunday for Snapple"--gives one a fairly vivid and unintentionally depressing sense of what the daily grind is like for a 16-year-old sports celebrity. On the other hand, she's had the opportunity to meet Brad Pitt twice and to judge the Miss Teen USA pageant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Second Acts | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...such is Kathryn Falk, 58, whose boundless love for romance novels has led her to produce conventions, magazines, newsletters and tours. Falk also sells chocolates and other items to women who share her passion. Her annual Romantic Times Booklovers' Convention draws some 5,000 and features a male beauty pageant and a costume ball. During a 1997 Romantic Times Convention in Baton Rouge, La., as hundreds of lady authors, would-be authors and romance-novel lovers milled about, Lady Barrow (she bought herself an English title) regally strolled the floor, greeting fans eager not just to meet her but also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy And In Charge | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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