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...Melissa Mathison's script dares to tell an Asian tale with no Westerners, not even Brad Pitt. At two, Tenzin Gyatso is found in a remote village and proclaimed Buddha's incarnation. Schooled and coddled, he grows to manhood. He confronts Mao and his acquisitive legates, and he finally flees to India...
Then there are celebrities whose exact commitment to the faith is a guessing game. Oliver Stone publicly conscripts Tibetan "wrathful deities" to fend off his detractors; Courtney Love is said to be a practitioner, while Harrison Ford simply supports Tibetan freedom (his wife Melissa Mathison wrote Kundun's script). Composer Philip Glass, yes. REM singer Michael Stipe, maybe. And in one of the more peculiar occurrences along the Hollywood-Lhasa axis, action-film star and all-around surly guy Steven Seagal was recognized by the head of the venerable Nyingma Tibetan lineage as the reincarnation of a 15th century lama...
...According to a Tibetan advocacy group, such names as BRAD PITT, HARRISON FORD and Martin Scorsese are on a persona non grata list at the agency that handles visas for Chinese-occupied Tibet. Scorsese is directing Kundun, a movie about the Dalai Lama, written by Ford's wife Melissa Mathison. Pitt is currently making Seven Years in Tibet. Two sources told the International Campaign for Tibet that they saw the list on a wall at a Chinese Information Travel Service office in Lhasa. "It was in a back room, the office of the head honcho," says John Ackerly, spokesman...
Wednesday: Rising vibist Goodman makes his debut with a fine band: saxist Ole Mathison, pianist Sarah Cion, Bassist Ken Rich and Drummer Marty Richards. 9 p.m. Tickets...
Ford, 46, who is married to E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison, is one of the world's richest actors. But he could have told Connery he's no stranger to hard work: he supported himself in lean times as a carpenter to the stars. He's had lean dreams too. "George and Steven may be living out their childhood fantasies on film," he says, "but I didn't come from the same crate of oranges." Indeed not. "My first childhood ambition was to be the guy who carried the coal from our house to the coal chute in a wheelbarrow...