Word: om
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...know, I love having fans and I love the support, but it's hard. I totally understand what Ricky Martin means when he says he needs his "alone time." Every day, I need that hour of silence where I do Ashtanga Yoga in my Maharishi pants and I chant "Om" into the silence of my darkened dorm room. When I'm doing promotional tours and junkets in Asia, it really gets out of control. The States aren't such a zoo, but I get no privacy here either. The other day, this woman comes running up to me and thrusts...
...wonderful actor named Om Puri--a pockmarked, middle-age Pakistani. A year ago, in My Son, the Fanatic, he was a taxi driver in a grim industrial town in the north of England. Now he's back in a similar hardscrabble environment, this time as George, the proprietor of a fish-and-chips shop in a working-class London suburb in the '70s. He long ago married an Englishwoman (Linda Bassett, in a splendidly grounded performance). But he is determined that his numerous progeny embrace tradition--especially when it comes to love. As East Is East opens...