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...lives in Ea Brieng, a dusty Dak Lak village. In the hope of finding a better future, he followed government orders to abandon communal living 10 years ago and began growing coffee. Within a few years he was able to buy a television and Vietnam's ultimate status symbol?a Honda motorbike. But these days his extended family of 14 is struggling. Still, he doesn't blame the Kinh settlers to whom he sells his crop and even credits them with bringing development to the region. "Without the Kinh," he says, "we could do nothing...
...1990s saw an extraordinary revival of interest in the great untouchable leader. India's 160 million former untouchables (who now call themselves Dalits, or "the oppressed") have become more politically aware and assertive thanks to education and government jobs, and Ambedkar has been resurrected as their rallying symbol. Patel's film on Ambedkar is drawing large Dalit audiences, and the screenings are like political carnivals. The audience identifies completely with the hero, cheers him wildly at every opportunity and hurls insults at his opponents?especially Gandhi. Many watch the film with tears in their eyes...
...Broadway in Patrick Marber's love-and-sex play Closer, and the stage seemed set for her emergence as a bona fide star. And Lulu, the tale of a woman who manipulates and is finally destroyed by men - the selfsame saga that made Louise Brooks a sex symbol in the 1929 film version - seems perfect for Friel's stage and screen persona...
...Cruz's physical assets and flirty, spitfire, confident acting in the 1992 Spanish sex comedy Jamón Jamón made her a star and a sex symbol. "That was an explosion in my country," says Cruz, who was 17 when the film was released. "My life became totally different." But some things never change. Even after Belle Epoque and All About My Mother (both won Oscars in the Best Foreign Film category) brought American producers and directors courting, she always knew that "I wasn't done with Spain." With Vanilla Sky completed, she'll return to her birthplace...
...five-story building offers a telling symbol for what has happened to the man who used to be known as the Bad Boy of Modern Dance. Openly gay and utterly frank, he wore his hair in a messy mop, tossed off unprintable remarks about his colleagues in a braying class-clown voice, and made startlingly fresh dances whose loose-limbed, heavy-gaited steps (Morris' wonderful dancers can look like James Thurber cartoons come to life) did nothing to conceal his passionately inspired response to music of all kinds (Baroque, Balinese, even country...