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...Hollywood pulse; it moves with the fevered outrage of an Oliver Stone melodram--Natural Born Killers meets Heaven and Earth. Most Indian movies are either humid musical fables or languid art films in the Satyajit Ray mold. Bandit Queen is neither. It is an assaultive experience, blistering with ripe obscenities, the frontal nudity of its star and three stark scenes in which Phoolan is raped--enough to have the film banned 10 times over in a country where a bare shoulder can send the censors frothing...
...part Ma Barker, Phoolan Devi in the early 1980's became a folk hero as head of a band of outlaws preying on India's corrupt elite. Her movie bio, saysTIME's Richard Corliss, "has an Indian heart but a Hollywood pulse; an assaultive experience, blistering with ripe obscenities, the frontal nudity of its star and three stark scenes in which Phoolan is raped --- enough to have the film banned 10 times over in a country where a bare shoulder can send the censors frothing." "Bandit Queen" was indeed banned in India, but for what director Shekhar Kapur says...
...time was ripe a year ago, when an interagency review unanimously advised recognition. But it was a congressional election year, and National Security Adviser Tony Lake, who handles the emotional MIA issue, vetoed the idea. On this go-round, still well before the 1996 presidential primaries, Lake signed on. Clinton simply checked a box on a decision memo and the deal was made. A senior Administration official says, "I don't have a sense that the President agonized over this...
...Grant also told King, "I would rather be famous than notorious." These days you can't have one without the other. But an actor so ingratiating, and who has suffered so publicly, is ripe for absolution. The odds are that moviegoers will contribute to the Hugh Grant Defense Fund one movie ticket at a time. Their attitude may be that of the prostitute who will always be linked with him: to err is Hugh, man; to forgive, Divine...
...Alger stories, where young boys never rested, tried everything, excelled at much and took joy at each simple turn in a life on the land. He recalled the hot summer workdays near St. Paul, Minnesota, when he would cool off with a splash in the farm pond, then pick ripe, tender tomatoes, lick them so salt would stick and pop them full into his mouth. "There was no better treat on this earth," he claimed...