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...blowing up, by Sikh terrorists, of a jumbo jet, Flight AI-420 from Bombay to London, at 29,002 feet over the English Channel. Two passengers, cartwheeling and conversing, plummet earthward. One is Gibreel Farishta, India's most popular movie star, who is in disguise and fleeing his fame after suffering a life-threatening illness and discovering in the process that there is no God. The other is Saladin Chamcha, a prosperous performer of voice-overs for commercials on British television, returning to his adopted land after a melancholy visit to Bombay and the haunts of his childhood. Miraculously -- preposterously...
...Fame has never gone to her head," says Salenger's mother, Dottie Lewis, a Los Angeles interior decorator. "I told her I'd never let her act if she ever stopped being nice, but she is, she's really a nice girl. She deserves success--she's worked hard...
Free Enterprise Dept.: If you have been wondering about the mysterious banner hanging from Holworthy Hall that reads "The Giant Sloth--The Legend Continues," it is the brainchild of Winthrop House resident Randy K. Toth '90. The giant sloth, a now extinct species that gained fame in Darwin's Origin of Species, slept 22 hours per day and woke only to eat. Believing that the somnolent creature is an appropriate mascot for some Harvard students, Toth decided to launch a Giant Sloth Movement...
...dealt with the question Why should your fantasies matter? by insisting that he was such an extraterrestrial creature, so tuned to the zeitgeist through the trembling antennas of his waxed mustache, that he could not be ignored. Armored in paradox, he was a household word rivaling Picasso in fame, at least in the eyes of a mass public that knew him as an eccentric first and a painter second...
Porizkova occupies the same comfortable niche she always does, as well. Although she only makes one brief appearance in swim attire, the director clearly plays up her fame as a model in the film. When she sits down, she does not merely sit, as would most actresses; rather, she assumes a pose that allows the camera to take a slow-mo pan of her body for the audience's enjoyment...