Posted on 08/29/2004 4:50:34 PM PDT by CaptainK
Your new film, ''Vanity Fair,'' is based not on the magazine but on the great English novel. Reese Witherspoon plays Becky Sharp, one of the most conniving heroines in literature. As someone once said of Becky, she is not just a social climber; she's a mountaineer.
Are you personally beset by a sense of ''Vanity Fair''-style striving?
No. I only do what I want to do.
But you pay taxes.
I pay taxes. It offends me to pay taxes to support a war.
As an Indian citizen living in New York, do you see the U.S. as a force for good?
No. Islamophobia has completely raged in the Western world since 9/11. Americans are only given one very biased point of view about the Islamic faith.
You seem to be suggesting that Americans view all Muslims as terrorists.
Living in New York, we never felt foreign. After 9/11, we felt foreign.
Have you been mistaken for a Muslim on the streets?
Last time I checked, Muslims looked like every other human being. My parents are Hindu, and I married into a Muslim family. I would be happy to be mistaken for a Muslim.
You live part of the year in Uganda.
Yes, with my husband, Mahmood Mamdani, a political scientist who teaches at Columbia University, and my son, Zohran. I'm setting up a film lab based on the model of Sundance to teach screenwriting and directing to young people in East Africa.
Do you find Americans to be well informed about events in Africa?
Once when I was working in Hollywood and making a big movie, every time I said I was living in Uganda, they would look at me and say, ''Is that upstate?''
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Don't put money into the hands of the director Mira Nair.
How interesting.
Accusing the US citizenry of being very biased..
The writer and the interviewee seem to forget the biased world view of such great world shaping thinkers [not!] as France and Germany..
I will find it very easy to boycott this movie, as I haven't seen anything other than a kid's movie (no kids, but lots of nieces and nephews) in about 10 years. It's easy, you just don't go. And it hasn't ever bothered me that I wasn't part of the water cooler conversation about the hottest movie of the moment.
I know that all Muslims are not terrorists, and certainly am not a racist, but I do not trust them. They want to kill us.
I pay taxes. It offends me to pay taxes to support a war.
Deal with it, toots. I pay taxes to support illegal aliens, welfare bums, and gun-grabbing lawyers. So shove it where the sun don't shine, sweetheart.
As an Indian citizen living in New York, do you see the U.S. as a force for good?
No. Islamophobia has completely raged in the Western world since 9/11. Americans are only given one very biased point of view about the Islamic faith.
Gee...and not one word of condemnation for all those Islamofascists who refer to the entire U.S. as the "Great Satan" and wish death on all American men, women & children. Nice going, you bleeding Useful Idiot.
Enjoy the boycott that's heading your way, you stupid little tart.
LOL!
Yeah, gotta love the sneering tone the interviewee took towards everyone with his broad-brush statement there.
I'm still laughing about it, it's hysterical in a way.
I really doubt anyone ever said this to her, at least not in Hollywood. Californians don't use this term, though NYers do.
"I pay taxes. It offends me to pay taxes to support a war."
Last I checked, the left sneered at us for being disgusted that our taxes were paying for UN propaganda in Africa and much worse ills.
And here's a lefty whining about what his taxes are going for.
It's so pathetic that it's funny.
Thanks for posting this.
She also never answered the question, "have you ever been mistaken for a Muslim?".
Boycott all Hollywierd movies.
Is this the same girl who did Mississippi Masala....a sort of dumb film in and of itself.
Sorry homegirl Reese is in this shite.
I was thinking about seeing this as I saw the A&E version and liked it, but I saw Reese Witherspoon in an interview saying only good things about Becky Sharp?? Either she doesn't really get it or they've changed things a lot.
One gem that she pulled out of her ample rear was a segment from a vile piece of anti American propaganda called 11'09''01 - September 11/. A bunch of foreigners got together to film vignettes basically blaming the US for the attack i.e. we brought it upon ourselves. Her cinematic thank you, to the country that has made her a rich women, was about a Muslim women who thinks her son might have been in one of the towers. She looks for her son within a city that is hostile and bigoted, shunning her and suspecting that her son is a terrorist.
You see 9/11 is really all about the plight of the poor Muslim. Americans aren't as understanding and enlightened as Hindus and Muslims. Now hand over your $8.50 for a ticket.
consider it boycotted.
It goes against my innermost nature to boycott ANYTHING that has Reese Witherspoon in it. However, in this case, I will make an exception.
Yes, the DAZZLING psychosis of both sides is probably too confusing for her.
But then, she doesn't really answer any of the questions.
Both sides being mid-east and hollyweird.
(just noticed I forgot to specify for the nit-pickers who'll jump all over that!)
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