Danny Boyle won the Best Director Golden Globe award for Slumdog Millionaire. As Boyle was delivering his acceptance speech, Bollywood film star Anil Kapoor (who plays the quiz show host in Slumdog Millionaire) was jumping like a monkey. Also seen were Dev Patel and Freida Pinto, other stars from the movie.
Well, it was inevitable. The clown princes on Wall Street got it. Then the auto bozos in Detroit got it. Now the porn stars are demanding it. Yes, the porn industry is crying out for a piece of the bailout pie that we’ve been so lavishly spreading around lately. They want all of $5 billion. God Bless America. […]
Predictions are boring. So 2008-ish. Since we are no Nostradamus or Sahadeva, we’ll instead talk about what we’d like to see. The following are some of the items on our Wish List for 2009: * LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran surrender to Indian security forces and plead to be hanged for his crimes against humanity. * Desi […]
Strange is the world. Denizens in the badlands of Bihar are forever worried to death about kidnapping of family and close relatives while their counterparts in the canyons of Manhattan are presently in a tizzy about dognapping (kidnapping of their dogs). As we were poring over our copy of the latest issue (Jan 5, 2009) […]
Of the many tragedies that form the narrative of India today, few are as heartrending as that of Kousetti Swapnika. A 22-year enginering student from Warangal in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Swapnika was the unfortunate victim of some demented youths who hurled acid at her. After suffering serious injuries to her face, neck, […]