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...Things are exciting onscreen too ?though in these three-hour extravaganzas there's not much violence, no nudity, hardly even any kissing. Forced to sublimate, Bollywood taught itself to revel in full-blooded, full-throated drama. "The formula is essentially a family epic," says Mehta. "A family that breaks apart and then comes together. It's also the story of Partition." The partition of India and Pakistan, that is?but with vagrant, fragrant hope of union within diversity. A father denounces, then tearfully embraces his son (Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham). A group of 19th century peasants battle their Brit overlords...
...Dozens of chorus boys in leather and houris in saris frolic while the stars risk dislocating their shoulders and display '60s-style legwork not seen in the West since the Peppermint Lounge closed. The stars dance, but they don't sing. That's the job of "playback singers," unseen onscreen but famous on CDs. One playback diva, Lata Mangeshkar, has recorded some 50,000 songs in a 60-year career. (Sinatra, you slouch...
...first legal slap at movie studios in an emotional struggle between deaf activists and the film industry, claims that by failing to provide enough captioned screenings, distributors and theaters are violating the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. Studios should supply theaters with open-captioned films, in which dialogue appears onscreen, Todd's attorneys say. The studios' complaint against open captioning has been that it will annoy hearing customers. But advocates say open-captioned screenings, which occur sporadically around the country, haven't drawn complaints. And viewers have grown used to captions on TVs at gyms and airports, advocates say, which...
...negative emotions that tend to plague mere mortals. And it is playing mere mortals that seems to give him the hardest time. In Eyes Wide Shut, where Stanley Kubrick put a camera on his face to capture inner turmoil, Cruise appears uneasy rather than tormented. He seems most comfortable, onscreen and off, when he is taking action. He describes himself as a pragmatist. He is, above all, organized. "I've always admired the guys who schedule their lives," says Cameron Crowe, who directed him in Jerry Maguire and Vanilla Sky. "To a person who's not that...
...Jiang Wen's a man's man," counters a stout, high school swimming coach craning his neck to see his virile idol ambling down a narrow Beijing alleyway. Onscreen, Jiang's toughness is best when it's paired with vulnerability. In the role that made him famous across China, as a fresh-off-the-boat newlywed in the 1993 TV series A Beijing Man in New York, Jiang played an out-of-work cellist who battles bitchy bosses, sticky-fingered factory managers and an immigrant's ennui. In Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum, he makes passionate love to Gong...