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...practitioner, while Harrison Ford simply supports Tibetan freedom (his wife Melissa Mathison wrote Kundun's script). Composer Philip Glass, yes. REM singer Michael Stipe, maybe. And in one of the more peculiar occurrences along the Hollywood-Lhasa axis, action-film star and all-around surly guy Steven Seagal was recognized by the head of the venerable Nyingma Tibetan lineage as the reincarnation of a 15th century lama...
Tibet, as viewers of awards shows well know, has been the subject of some interest in the celebrity community, but Pitt says he received no phone calls from colleagues like Gere or Steven Seagal--recently revealed to be the reincarnation of a particularly revered lama--worrying about how his film would portray key moments in the Dalai Lama's life. Pitt himself is not a particularly spiritual person. "I've always paid attention to religion," he says, "because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there...
...honors for Radu Teodorescu. This year MADONNA is endorsing Ray Kybartas' Fitness Is Religion. "Whether we're doing wind sprints uphill or sun salutes in my living room, the goal has been much more about peace of mind than having a perfect body," she says. And noted muscleman STEVEN SPIELBERG is singing the praises of Jake Steinfeld's Power Living by Jake, which is more about getting a life than about getting a trim waist. (Chapter titles include "Flex Your Imagination" and "Go for the Goal.") The director, or "Wiels," as Steinfeld calls him, gushes on the cover, "Jake...
...success bodes well for other forthcoming black-themed, black-produced, modestly budgeted films, notably Eve's Bayou (produced by actor Samuel L. Jackson and due out Oct. 24). It also sets the table for two black-produced films with blockbuster potential: Amistad (produced by Debbie Allen and directed by Steven Spielberg) and Beloved (produced by Oprah Winfrey and directed by Jonathan Demme). And finally, it's a welcome little victory for cinematic wholesomeness. "Some of the black films today are not deep," says filmmaker George Tillman Jr., 28, who wrote and directed Soul Food, basing it on his own family...
Ashong's musical "Songs We Can't Sing" will be playing at the Lowell Lecture Hall on Jan. 9, 10 and 29.Courtesy of DreamworksSCREEN SHOT: DERRICK N. ASHONG (center) appears in a scene from Steven Spielberg's upcoming movie "Amistad...