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...unlikely places that you leave the theater with your heart humming happily. He has his dark--well, darkish--side under control. Which is to say that he is an Englishman, well practiced in masking pain and absurdity and descents into sheer goofiness with mannerly behavior, sly irony and stiff upper lips. Don't get me wrong: Love Actually is not a black or even a particularly bleak comedy. But it does remind us--sometimes with a winning, unpolished awkwardness--that the pursuit of love is a game that is as dangerous as it is exhilarating. --By Richard Schickel
...Already a member of India's upper house of Parliament, he's also a new and improbable leader of the Janata Party, a socialist outfit famous for its commitment to farmers and the downtrodden. Mallya is campaigning hard to establish himself as a political force in his home state of Karnataka. He's already spent time and money stumping for candidates from an affiliated party in a recent election for the state assembly, and he says he plans to field candidates of his own in future elections. Emulating his heroes-American tycoon-turned-politician Ross Perot and Italian media magnate...
...celebrates his wealth, and with his wife and two daughters in America and a son at school in England, his connection to India sometimes seems tenuous. Nonetheless, Mallya ran for an indirect election (in which votes are cast only by members of state legislatures) to India's largely ceremonial upper house of Parliament in 2000. And although he lost his first time around...
...shows. And some gay media critics chafe as well. "It's not an insulting stereotype, to be told that I'm extra-fabulous, extra-witty and extra-attractive. It's just not accurate," says Gamson at the University of San Francisco. "The idea that we're all experts in upper-middle-class mores and consumption habits ... produces a lot of invisibilities by celebrating certain kinds of people within the population and not others." But Andy Medhurst, a lecturer in media studies at the University of Sussex, argues that gay-themed shows and channels are an improvement over the limp-wristed...
...wouldn’t say one versus the other has had an upper hand in training camp, and just being fair, you go with the kid who has been your No. 1 in years past,” Mazzoleni said of his decision to start Grumet-Morris in the opener. “We’re going to find out if we have two kids that are capable of being No. 1s, or if one versus the other is going to take control of the situation...