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...Reliance, too, would one day be riven. Mukesh and Anil?who are together worth $6 billion and whose families live together in an exclusive downtown-Bombay residential tower called Sea Wind?appear to be opposites in temperament. Mukesh, the cerebral strategist, dodges the limelight, concentrating on passions such as vegetarian food, watching Hindi movies and raising a family. Anil, two years younger, married a former film actress, keeps fit by jogging in public and is often seen with socialites and politicians. Earlier this year, he became a member of India's upper house of Parliament...
...Portman is also incredibly smart (at Harvard, law professor Alan Dershowitz gave her his highest grade in two classes). She's elegant, unpretentious, unguarded and kind. She's an ethical vegetarian who has used her star status to talk to John McCain and Hillary Clinton about micro-financing for women in developing countries. So the men whose idealization is a little creepy have a lot to hide behind. Clive Owen, who plays opposite Portman's stripper character in Closer, seems to have the excuse down: "We had a scene, which is probably the longest in the movie...
...you’re in a hurry you have to eat vegetarian,” she said...
...characterization of Lenny in the context of the film is important here. He has a domineering, alpha-male father (naturally voiced by Robert De Niro), a moronic brother who behaves like a compulsive frat boy and eats anything that moves and in addition he identifies himself as a vegetarian, a lover of all things living, and as “different from other sharks.” Sharks in the world of Shark Tale are the patriarchal keepers of the sea, the top of the food chain. Lenny’s refusal to kill and be “like...
...texture of a seeping, seductive gouache. In his vision of moviemaking as essentially a basement activity--a controlled environment as unpolluted as possible by the egos and quirks of performers--Conran is a lot like George Lucas from Star Wars on. Actors are cattle, and he's a vegetarian...