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SATURDAY 5 APRIL 2003 DELHI TIMES, THE TIMES OF INDIA ENTERTAINMENT 7

band. The stunning actress privileged street kids . The pre Jen ignores thrilled her pal, who was in In hope Hope run party was hosted by Priyanka’s actor husband Los Angeles for a hen party be- eaknesses and handi- Anu Yusuf, Mathew Spacie, fore her wedding, by telling Wcaps are all a state of the Nirja Shah and Prahlad aredevil and Alias star her that she was to be her guest mind and if one wishes, they Kakkar. Pooja Bedi, Milind andaaz! DJennifer Garner made at the Academy Awards. can be overcome. This was the Soman, Anish Trivedi, he verdict is in. The her longtime best pal’s dreams Garner’s actor husband Scott message at a recently organ- Anand Mahindra, Tara Tbest way to get into come true by taking her to the Foley says, ‘‘It was like her ised ‘The Hope Run’, a mini Sharma and Sabina Chopra Bollywood is with a Oscars instead of her hus- dream to go. I’ll go next year.’’ marathon to sponsor under- participated in ‘The Hope Run’. beauty pageant title in the bag. Forget all those for whom the title didn’t work in the past (barring Zeenat Aman perhaps). Think about Sushmita Sen and Ash. And how about Diya Mirza who’s had four films released after her Miss Asia Pacific title in 2002. But this is not about her. It’s about Pr- iyanka Chopra who won Miss World ti- tle the same year. The next two months will see a lot of her. She was supposed to make her debut with two fil- ms, Andaaz and The Hero. However, it ap- pears highly un- likely now as the films will not be re- leased simultaneously. But that has not damp- ened the spirit of the chirpy actress, ‘‘I love both the films. Let’s see how people react to them. Beckinsale finds love ne month after Kate OBeckinsale an- nounced the break-up of her nine-year relation- ship with actor Mic- hael Sheen, it has been revealed that the Pearl Harbour star is dating the direc- tor of her upcom- ing film. Kate’s new beau, Len Wiseman, is the mind behind Underworld, the vampire flick in which both she and her ex-boyfriend

have roles. A source WORLD said that the first- time filmmaker, who spent last au- tumn with the

cast in Budapest RAP making the movie, ended his own marriage around Christmas.

Anger over Dillon’s film ollywood hunk Matt fronted Dillon at a question- HDillon’s directorial de- and-answer session follow- but City Of Ghosts has cau- ing the film, and says, ‘‘He sed anger amongst Asians — completely freaked out. He because of its portrayal of called me a ‘paratrooper of Cambodian women. Arizona political correctness.’ He State Un- kept ye- iversity lling, Profess- ‘This is or Melin- the truth da De Je- about Ca- ss says, mbodi- ‘‘We th- ans!’ ‘’ ought it Dillon co- was very unters, racist ‘‘They and prob- saw the lematic. film and Cambodia is a backdrop said they didn’t like the way here for a story of white the women were portrayed masculinity. There are al- — the characters who were most no other representa- prostitutes. They offered me tions of Cambodian women some books to read. Women’s except as prostitutes in this studies or something. I think film.’’ they were being a little too Drugstore Cowboy star politically correct.’’ Dillon wrote and directed the movie, and also plays a con-man who travels to Cambodia to collect a share of an insurance scam. The professor con-

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