Word: moulins
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...beer, cars or Italian parliamentary candidates, skin sells. Just ask the betel-nut girls of Taipei. For years, scantily clad women have been used as fleshy sign-boards to attract customers to roadside stalls selling betel nuts, aka "Taiwanese chewing gum," from shops with names like "Erotic Bitches" and "Moulin Rouge." But on October 15, the county government, embarrassed by the display of public erotica, began enforcing laws prohibiting 1,600 hawkers from unduly exposing certain parts of the female anatomy, specifically breasts, bellies and buttocks. Vendors, of course, claim the restrictions will shrink demand for betel nuts...
...surprise success of My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Either way, half the directors in town are set on making movies about the storied hero of the big fat Macedonian empire, ALEXANDER THE GREAT. The man most likely to roll out an Alexander movie first appears to be Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann, who has producer Dino De Laurentiis on his side and a green light from Fox and Universal. But Martin Scorsese wants to direct Leonardo DiCaprio, hero of his upcoming Gangs of New York, in his own Alexander epic. An Oliver Stone-directed version of the tale is also...
...Bollywood has eyes to conquer the firangis--Hindi for "foreigners." U.S. viewers know Bollywood secondhand from Moulin Rouge (the production number with the elephant), Ghost World (that goofy disco clip, from the 1965 film Gumnaam) and the art-house hit Monsoon Wedding (the dance that brings a fractious family together). Bombay Dreams, the Bollywood-themed West End musical with an irresistible crossover score by top Indian composer A R Rahman, is headed to Broadway. But can the real thing make it here? Can Americans open up to the baroque beatitudes of Bollywood cinema...
...Bollywood has eyes to conquer the firangis?Hindi for "foreigners." U.S. viewers know Bollywood secondhand from Moulin Rouge (the production number with the elephant), Ghost World (that goofy disco clip, from the 1965 film Gumnaam) and the art-house hit Monsoon Wedding (the dance that brings a fractious family together). Bombay Dreams, the Bollywood-themed West End musical with an irresistible crossover score by top Indian composer A R Rahman, is headed to Broadway. But can the real thing make it here? Can Americans open up to the baroque beatitudes of Bollywood cinema...
...Moulin completed her hat trick, though, to double the Crimson up at 8-4 and, with 7:45 to go, added a fourth on Frazier’s second assist of the game...