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...baby of an employee's son, and puts him in an orphanage, taking on the responsibility for the boy's upkeep. Meanwhile, Nirmal, Amulya's younger son, legitimately fathers a daughter, Bakul, whose mother dies during childbirth. Mukunda is later brought home from the orphanage to work as a houseboy, and he and Bakul become close childhood companions. The family naturally disapproves and separates them at adolescence, but they reunite in adulthood and become lovers. By that time, everybody's lives have changed irreversibly...
Then, however, tension turns into genocide. And Rusesabagina turns from glorified houseboy into antiheroic hero. His hotel can offer hundreds of terrified Tutsi food, beds and the protection of a thin, blue-helmeted line of U.N. peacekeepers, commanded by Colonel Oliver (Nick Nolte). The big question is, Can the volatile local militia, eager to stamp out "cockroaches" (its name for the Tutsi), be kept...
...alienate today's been-there, smoked-that elders, so the Rude Boys aim straight at the squishy heart of baby-boom values. On the simplest level, this means offending boomer tolerance: there's Eminem; there's Mr. Wong, the animated series at Icebox.com about an elderly Chinese houseboy, which, depending on whom you ask, cleverly subverts or shamelessly perpetuates an ethnic stereotype. But these insurgents also attack the cult of self-esteem, the notion, advanced in the protest and therapy movements, that everyone has dignity, that positive self-image is the key to success, happiness and perhaps world peace. Rude...
...Hollywood producer. 'You mean...that the great lover of our time is a civic booster who recently served on the Los Angeles Park Commission?...No blue suede shoes, no moldy sweatshirts. He doesn't walk down Sunset Boulevard with an ocelot. He doesn't even have a Filipino houseboy. This is a movie star? He goes to P.T.A. meetings. He has been married to the same woman for 15 years. His swimming pool is not in the shape of a grand piano or a thyroid gland. And have you heard? He wears the tops and bottoms of his pajamas, both...
...According to an agent quoted by Hoover's biographer Richard Gid Powers, during the early '60s "in about 90% of the situations in which bureau personnel referred to Negroes, the word 'nigger' was used." Until 1962 there were only five black FBI agents: Hoover's chauffeurs, houseboy and messenger. During the period dealt with in Burning, Hoover's bureau was indeed engaged in a lawless campaign against an enemy. But its target was Martin Luther King Jr. It began with wiretaps and buggings, approved by then Attorney General Robert Kennedy, aimed at digging up proof that King was under...