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...tours, which have been personally tested by McCall Smith, started two years ago, but are expected to get a boost when director Anthony Minghella's television series based on the fictional detective eventually airs. On the first tour, travelers visit the traditional village of Mochudi, Ramotswe's ancestral home. A school-turned-museum provides local history and background to Ramotswe's childhood world. Then, after lunch?chicken or beef, rice, maize pap and salads?at a local restaurant, it's on to the spot where McCall Smith met the woman who inspired his feisty heroine. Back in Gaborone, fans...
...Ladies' Detective Agency series of books by Zimbabwe-born Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith, and are run by local safari company Africa Insight (www.africainsight.com). The tours, which have been personally tested by McCall Smith, started two years ago, but are expected to get a boost when director Anthony Minghella's television series based on the fictional detective eventually airs. On the first tour, travelers visit the traditional village of Mochudi, Ramotswe's ancestral home. A school-turned-museum provides local history and background to Ramotswe's childhood world. Then, after lunch - chicken or beef, rice, maize pap and salads...
...book is already finished. How does he manage it all? "I'm very lucky," he says. "I don't have to make a great effort." He estimates his writing speed at an astonishing 1,000 words an hour. That leaves him plenty of time to meet with director Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, Cold Mountain) about a film adaptation of the Ramotswe books, fulfill his duties as a member of UNESCO's International Bioethics Commission and practice the bassoon with his group, the Really Terrible Orchestra...
WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO DIRECT YOUR OWN FILM? Pretty soon, probably the fall. The script is done. Anthony Minghella and Martin Scorsese are going to produce it, and they've said when they see my first three-hour cut, they're gonna gladly cut it down to a 10-minute short...
...Cold Mountain, say, might earn with nominations in the flashier categories is factored into the projected gross and thus, working backward, the size of the budget. The film cadged seven nominations last week, but its sponsor, Miramax, has to be disappointed that star Nicole Kidman and writer-director Anthony Minghella, both previous Oscar winners, were stiffed--not to mention the film itself, denying Miramax a Best Picture finalist for the first time in 12 years. The company's co-chairman Harvey Weinstein is still determined to find the pony in the manure. "With Cold Mountain, City of God [which...