Hindustan Times
I don
’t know how many people mourned the passing of Michael Crichton at the beginning of November. For most of this century, Crichton was known for two things. One was his importance as a climate change denier (his fiction destroyed the argument for global warming, leading to protests from environmentalists who said that he had misrepresented facts). And the other was his role as the creator of Jurassic Park, the novel that Steven Spielberg turned into a massively profitable Hollywood franchise.
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Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, November 21, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Filed under pursuits · Tagged Al Gore, Crichton, Demi Moore, Frankenstein, Jurassic Park, Michael, Michael Douglas, Sean Connery, Steven Spielberg
If y
ou’ve seen Never Say Never Again, the 1980s movie that marked the return of Sean Connery to the role of James Bond, then you’ll remember the sequence where Bond gets sent to a health farm. The film opens with Bond failing a training exercise and being told by the new M (Edward Fox) that he must seek a naturopathic cure (this M is a health nut).
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(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, October 10, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Hua Hin, James Bond, Jindal Naturecure institute, Sean Connery, The Oriental
The suggestions in this column, a couple of weeks ago, that I could easily imagine Danny Denzongpa playing Gabbar Singh or that Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi would have been a better movie had Naseeruddin Shah, and not Ben Kingsley, played the title role, have caused some consternation among my friends. They are, of course, entitled to disagree with me but what their responses tell me is this: All too often, an actor becomes so closely identified with a role that we refuse to accept anybody else in his or her place.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, October 3, 2008 at 12:42 am
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Agatha christie, Danny Denzongpa, Edgar Rice Burroughs, James Bond, Naseeruddin shah, Rambo, Rice Burroughs, Richard Burton, Sean Connery
