Q: How was it being with Mariane? Very emotional. I mean in Cannes there was a standing ovation and the audience was so moved, and of course the critics in Cannes are the hardest to please, and everybody got up and everybody clapped. Angie and Brad were there, you know, the hottest […]
Archie Panjabi interview, part 1
Archie Panjabi was in New York in anticipation of the release of A Mighty Heart, in which she plays Wall Street Journal-ist Asra Q. Nomani, who was both a friend and colleague to Daniel Pearl and who played a major role as a member of the team involved following the kidnapping in Karachi. […]
A Mighty Heart
O.k., let’s just tackle the most obvious thing head on: this is Angelina Jolie’s vehicle. If you happen to be touched – willingly or unwillingly – by the sea of pop culture and celebrity omnipresence around us nowadays, you can’t help but know who she is, and how famous she is, whether you were […]
Ondaatje in NYC
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, […]
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. […]