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...years ago, when Kapur left Bollywood for Hollywood, America still struck him as the center of the creative universe. With a virtual monopoly on budgets and technical skill, L.A. was clearly the place to be for a foreign director with a single art-house hit, Bandit Queen. He was an immediate success. In 1998, Kapur directed Blanchett in Elizabeth, about the life of England's 16th century monarch. The movie was nominated for seven Oscars, winning one. Its magic, says Blanchett, lay in Kapur's slightly demented reinvention of period drama. "Elizabeth could have been incredibly musty," she says...
...helped produce Andrew Lloyd Webber's striking but lowbrow Bombay Dreams (2004). Naseeruddin Shah, star of Monsoon Wedding and Kapur's 1983 debut Masoom (The Innocent), acknowledges Kapur's gift, calling him "the only Indian filmmaker of international standard." But he prefers his earlier works, like Bandit Queen, about Indian outlaw Phoolan Devi, and wonders whether the riches that dazzled the accountant have also blinded the director. "He jumped from small budget to these monstrous commercial movies," says Shah, "and it bothered me that he began talking only money and not heart. I always felt heart was his strength...
...should be. How nice that once in a while a man actually chooses a woman his own age instead of a fetching, young knockout! Karin Judkins Turin, Italy I do hope that the island kingdom of Britain will maintain its royals forever. After all, stories of kings and queens have fired the imagination of generations of young children whose loving parents call them princes and princesses. What will happen to the bedtime fairy tales that send them to sleep and generate sweet dreams? With no kings and queens, princes and princesses, fairy tales will die. Lokendra Nath Roychoudhury Calcutta, India...
Frentz is not negative by nature. Six years ago, she was queen of the prom, valedictorian and the student voted most likely to succeed at Wakulla County High School outside Tallahassee, Fla. At the University of Florida, she signed up for ROTC and discovered she enjoyed the regimen of the military. She joined the Air Force after graduation...
Recently returning from the Philadelphia’s Enchantment Theatre Company’s The Snow Queen national tour, Cozzens brings experience to the LHO Harvard stage despite being a relative newcomer to opera. However, Cozzens has quickly warmed up to his new non-touring environment, and praises the openness inherent to opera...