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...point. Instead, as the preparations for an arranged marriage between two wealthy New Delhi families unfold, we engage in the heady rush towards the cosmopolitanism which India’s burgeoning middle classes have so eagerly embraced. Mira Nair ’79 of Salaam Bombay and Mississipi Masala fame has often been criticized for selling Indian poverty in documentary form to the West. Monsoon Wedding represents a stark departure from these previous features. Making little or no attempt to represent income disparities, it instead celebrates the joys of excess and consumption, perfectly illustrated through the analogy of a wedding...
Since the release of their album which included a surprise contribution from Ibrahim Ferrer of Buena Vista Social Club fame on “Que Pasa Contigo,” (“We get in monthly bridge tournaments with him, and we asked him over one time and were like, ‘Would you sing?’ and he was like, ‘No,’ but we won a bunch of money from him, and he was like, ‘Well, I’ll sing,’” says...
...return to the normalcy of home in such a perverse and threatening world? Rushdie’s ironic response: Dorothy’s (of The Wizard of Oz fame) ruby slippers. “At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers” is a nightmarishly portentous satire that reflects Rushdie’s vision of the current state of the West. In The Grand Saleroom of the Auctioneers, the narrator finds himself amid the religious fundamentalists, orphans, untouchables and even imaginary beings like E.T., who have come to bid for the slippers as an “affirmation...
...Road” and the Pogues’ “Sayonara.” The disc also features songs by Lord’s longtime friends Nick Saloman (of the Bevis Frond) and Grammy-winning mainstream breakout Shawn Colvin (of “Sunny Came Home” fame...
...close. And I fucked it up. I did everything I could do to fuck it up. I think that there was a part of me that just knew that it just wasn’t for me.” Lord’s discomfort with the prospect of fame can be found in a verse from her song, “Some Jingle Jangle Morning,” which was written in the early ’90s and eerily foreshadows the turmoil she would later experience...