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Clash between romance & thriller!

The clash between romance [Barsaat] and thriller [My Wife`s Murder] has proved yet again that the overseas audience prefers mushy love stories to nail-biting crime stories. On the other hand, Mangal Pandey - The Rising has slipped in its second weekend, more so in U.K., but the 10-day total is an impressive [approximately] Rs. 6.90 crores from the two major markets -- U.S.A. and U.K. Weekend: August 12 - 14, 2005. U.K. BOX-OFFICE BARSAAT has debuted at No. 12 position. In its opening weekend, the film has collected £ 141,504 [approximately Rs. 1.11 crores] on 41 screens, with the per screen average

Hostage drama casts shadow over Cambodian tourism

More than a million tourists visited war-scarred Cambodia last year, most of them drawn by the ancient wonders of Angkor Wat. But this week's hostage drama, including the murder of a Canadian toddler, at an international school in Siem Reap, gateway to the famed 800-year-old temples, casts a shadow over the country's tourist boom, one of its few economic success stories. Masked gunmen held 29 infants hostage for eight hours before police and troops stormed the school, which catered to the offspring of the scores of expatriates working in the hotel industry in the sleepy town. One of the gunmen shot the

Love is the drug: Ralph Fiennes learns about Africa, romance, and evil pharmaceuticals

Ralph Fiennes hadn't read John Le Carre's controversial thriller The Constant Gardener when he was approached about the film version. So he visited his favourite London bookstore and bought the book. "I had heard very good things about it," he says now. By the time he finished Le Carre's savage indictment of the international pharmaceutical industry -- particularly its use of poor, unsuspecting Africans as human guinea pigs for new drugs with dreadful side effects -- he was incredulous. "My first reaction was: Does this sort of thing go on? Apparently it has gone on. I don't know whether it goes

Little White Romance

The pharmaceutical industry is about to get another pain in the neck. If the recent mega-million-dollar verdict against Merck and its Vioxx painkiller didn't do enough to further taint the reputation of Big Pharma, The Constant Gardener, a new morally conscious thriller for the left, should only confirm the public's distrust. Based on John Le Carre's 2001 novel, the film is a slick exposé of callous pharmaceutical giants and corrupt governments. But for all its laudable intentions, The Constant Gardener is the latest picture from "liberal Hollywood" (see also The Interpreter) to advance its agenda from a first-world, white perspective --

Next Week in the Bookstore: Romance, Beauty, and Alan Alda’s Stuffed Dog

Next Monday marks the start of a big surge in book publication. It happens every year about this time, books dropping like autumn leaves. So gather your nuts together, friends, it's time to go book shopping. Monday, Sept. 12: First out is Monday's release of Talking Back…To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels by Andrea Mitchell, published by Viking. Mitchell (the wife of Fed chairman Alan Greenspan) is a 30-year reporter for NBC on politics and related topics. "...a frank and revealing book by a respected journalist whose career spans three decades." —Vanessa Bush, American Library Association. The Diviners, by Rick Moody, also comes