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...addition, just a few months ago Nair founded a new production company in addition to Mirabai Films, which she started in 1989. Called the International Bhenji Brigade—which means ‘uncool sister’ in Hindi—this production company aims to discover and produce the films of South Asian talent...
...Thursday morning, he met with seven kids ranging in age from 6 to 16 at Children's Hospital in Oakland, Calif. Clad in multicolored hospital gowns and fuzzy slippers, the children were bashful about answering direct questions at first. But Phillips was undeterred. After making jokes about his own "uncool" haircut and lobbing out a couple of easy questions like "What's four plus three?" and "Do you like to draw?", he finally got his audience warmed up and eased them on to the heavier topic of truth, lies and secrets. "When is it not better to tell the truth...
...sports and boys, and we slowly took our places in the appropriate social groups. I levied the standard junior high school injustices on her, even though my strain of adolescent girl bitch syndrome tended towards selective inattention to—rather than vigorous persecution of—the decidedly uncool. I cut and dyed my hair, she kept her long, perfectly straight mane. And just thinking of her voice, which was always strangely deep with rich, wavering cadences, brings a chill up my spine...
...could be rock standards with a little promotional effort on his part, but he hates the thought of being imprisoned by popularity so much that he scolded Elton John for boosting him. "I was becoming a catch phrase," says Adams. "There's nothing worse than being the thing that uncool people buy because it makes them feel cool...
...didn't even win!" Humility aside, Aiken, 24, doesn't mind being doubted because he believes in his bones that his detractors are wrong. "There are many people at the record label who are afraid of me," he says. "They don't understand the reasons that someone as uncool as me is here. In a way--and this is a horrible word to say, and once I say it you're going to print it--it's a revolution...