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Monsoon Wedding: raining on tradition - Film As Text
IN MONSOON WEDDING (2001), director Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala 1998, Salaam Bombay! 1991) successfully entertains us with an over-the-top Indian wedding. She also presents some serious issues th...(Continue Reading) Games of love; film tours to enjoy of India, Texas, Mexico. . - Movies - Monsoon Wedding/Y Tu Mama Tambien - movie review
The most colorful and entertaining movie invitation in recent months is to New Delhi to attend Monsoon Wedding. The marriage at the center of its story ......(Continue Reading)Altar Music. - Review - book review
Alter Music. By Christin Lore Weber. Scribner, 249 pp., $23.00. I TRY TO FOLLOW the old adage about not judging a book by its cover, but the blurbs ......(Continue Reading)How Queen Mary collected Queen Charlotte: an exhibition currently at the Queen's Gallery, London, celebrates the collecting and patronage of Queen Charlotte
On 8 September 1761 the seventeen-year-old Princess Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz arrived in London after a stormy voyage. (1) That evening ......(Continue Reading)No regrets: Anita Baker let go of fame to raise her sons, save her marriage, and hold her dying mother in her arms. Now the Grammy-winning songstress is
THERE WAS A TIME WHEN YOU COULDN'T BE IN LOVE AND NOT HEAR ANITA BAKER'S SMOKY contralto whispering into your soul to go for it. She preached a biblical ......(Continue Reading)
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