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...delicious script-flipping, Lisa K. Chen ’04 plans to smoke up with her House security guard before the year is out. “I’ve got a package for him,” says Chen?...
...admitted that he has started using a stunt double. "I will use stunt doubles if you ask me to ride an F-16 jet fighter, or jump over a series of hurdles with a crazy horse, or perform two 720-degree somersaults," Chan said. But, he added, "[if the script calls for] one somersault, I'll do it myself." It seems that after years of sustaining broken bones, his body isn't as elastic as it used to be. It's nice to know that getting old in Hollywood isn't just a problem for women age 40 and older...
...says. "And that made it relatively easy to do what I wanted." He consulted mo, an ancient divination system involving dice and beads, to make decisions about casting and shooting schedules and was careful to assure his lay Tibetan actors that they wouldn't suffer karmic retribution if the script called for them to rough up a monk for making too much noise during France vs. Brazil. The Cup picked up awards at the Pusan, Munich and Toronto film festivals and, according to the New York Times, established Khyentse Norbu as "a born filmmaker...
...Norbu's status as a beloved spiritual leader opens doors, it is also a potential obstacle. When he began selecting the all-Bhutanese cast last summer, several of those chosen to audition were so awed to be in his presence that they became speechless. Khyentse Norbu worried that his script, which includes several fairly racy romantic bits, might be impossible to execute if he were the one in the director's chair. But these worries were mostly unfounded. The cast he ultimately assembled includes a folklore scholar who plays a monk, a monk trained in pure mathematics who plays...
...Khyentse Norbu's script, like the process of shooting it, confronts questions of what it means for Bhutan to modernize. The movie opens with a traditional archery tournament in which Dondup, a self-absorbed young village official who wears white high-top sneakers and an I LOVE NEW YORK T shirt under his traditional Bhutanese dress, scoffs at the simplicity of his hamlet and dreams of quitting Bhutan for America where he has heard he can get rich from picking grapes. When he receives a letter offering him a chance to leave Bhutan if he can make...