Currently on tour promoting his long awaited new novel (Divisadero), Michael Ondaatje made an appearance at a Manhattan Barnes & Noble to do a reading, book-signing and some Q & A. Joel Grey, the actor, was in the audience and chatted with him briefly. Earlier in the day, he was interviewed on WNYC, […]
Month: June 2007
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
Two summers ago on a humid, thick, hot Sunday afternoon, I nipped into my local for a reduced price matinee of Bunty aur Babli. While my skin cooled in the frosty theater, my heart raced watching the colorful clothes and capers of Abhi and Rani as they skirted, then ditched, UP for Bombay. […]
You gotta LOVE the irony
I guess only so much of Mariane Pearl rubbed off on La Jolie. Yesterday was the premiere of A Mighty Heart, her and Brad’s biopic about the Daniel Pearl kidnapping and onscreen slaughter, and the time that the six-months pregnant Mariane spent in Karachi waiting and trying to piece together the reason for Danny’s disappearance. […]
Coming soon: A Mighty Heart
This is a first for me tonight: a screening where they were turning people away. A lot of interest already in the Angelina Jolie, Irrfan Khan starrer A Mighty Heart. Review and more coming soon…