Update: Broadway Strike ended on November 28, 2007 As the strike by the stagehands continues this busy holiday season, the lights remain off on much of Broadway, New York’s busy theater district near Times Square. Stagehands, the folks who work behind the scenes to create all those magnificent Broadway shows, are at war with the […]
It’s an American tragedy. If there is one constant in American society, it’s the growing prison population. With the highest incarceration rate in the world, America’s prison population still keeps growing at a distressingly high rate primarily because of tough sentencing guidelines and lack of support systems to integrate released prisoners into society. The U.S. […]
As expected, Indian-American Rachel Paulose, the embattled U.S. Attorney for Minnesota has stepped down from her post. Our Kerala immigrant will take up a new position at the Justice Department in Washington as an adviser on legal policy issues in January. After the New York Times hatchet job on Rachel Paulose last week, we never had any […]
In one of the ironies of life, Saawariya – the better movie of this Diwali -has collapsed in its second week at the U.S. Box office while that crass, crude Shahrukh Khan film Om Shanti Om continues to rule in the U.S. For the November 16-18 weekend, Saawariya’s gross collection came in at $150,208, down 72.3% from last week. […]
Vel featuring Surya, Asin and Vadivelu is a little better than Azhagiya Tamil Magan but that’s small consolation for Tamil movie fans. Vel’s biggest weakness is its pedestrian, beaten to death simplistic story of two brothers separated when young and growing up separately. Repeated in Hindi, Tamil and other Indian language films ad nauseum ad infinitum […]
Even those leaders like Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Che Guevara who were at the vanguard of a real revolution did not have a fancy title like Tamil movie star Vishal Reddy. After his appearance in just half-a-dozen Tamil films, Vishal Reddy has now taken on the title of Puratchi Thalapathi or Revolutionary Commander. Wow, in […]