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Weather: Warm all day, cold at night -- almost Indian Summer-like.
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In The Community: The Media Department here at Flathead Valley Community College was tagged by our local newspaper to help put on the Taste of Home Cooking Show -- a huge 1000 person cooking school/demonstration at the county fairgrounds. It was a HOOT! I ran two data projectors onto two 6 foot screens, fed by a camera suspended over the cook's table, plus I was shanghaied into running the sound board. I never would have gone to an event like this on my own, but it was tremendously fun -- all the more so for the surprise of it.
Media Watch: (Excerpted from Yahoo! News) A Bollywood love story based on a rural Indian folk tale, starring top actor Shah Rukh Khan, will represent India at the Oscars next year ..."Paheli" (Riddle), in which Khan plays the role of a lover who is actually a ghost, has been selected by the Film Federation of India to represent the country at the Oscars in the foreign films category.
This is the film we saw at that Indian movie theater in the mall in Toronto!
More than a dozen films were in the race for Oscar representation, including two others starring Khan: "Veer-Zaara", a love story involving a Pakistani girl and an Indian air force pilot, and "Swadesh" (Homeland).
We also have a tape of that movie -- EXCELLENT!
Other movies that had been short-listed included popular actor Aamir Khan's "The Rising", Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan's "Black" and "Iqbal", a story of a deaf and dumb boy who goes on to become a cricketer. "Paheli" ... tells the story of a woman abandoned by her money-mad fiance on their wedding day. A ghost who has fallen in love with her takes on the husband's appearance and romances the unknowing bride, played by popular Rani Mukherjee, but the husband returns five years later ...
No Indian movie has ever won an Oscar. In 2001's "Lagaan" was among the final five nominees in the foreign films category but lost out to "No Man's Land".
Oh the things that wash back on the tide! My friends and I published two isssues of a small undergrount portfolio/comic magazine called Aardvark in 1970-71. I got a call from my friend David Faggioli, who'd put up the money back then, about a man named Dan Fogel who wanted some scans of Aardvark's covers for his Underground Comix Price Guide. I happened to have those 35 year old mags stored nearby, so I scanned them and got 'em into Fogel's hands in time. I also wrote a blurb about Aardvark's contributing artists, including myself. It will come out in two versions -- a limited edition with Dan O'Neill's Odds Bodkins on the cover, and a slightly cheaper version sporting a photo cover of adult entertainer Teri Weigel. Yep, a whole lot of underground comix were X-rated, but my wife would kick my ass if I bought the latter edition of this catalogue.
Dan O'Neill's Odds Bodkins "covers" Ms. Weigel
Order from Dan Fogel, Hippy Comix, Inc. 4516 Gregory Way
Richmond, CA 94803-2428 hippycomix@comcast.net
$39.95 or $29.95
Even more strangely, it turned out that SOME information about Aardvark was online, and there was even a database about small press publications which needed updating. My friend Jerry Bails is approaching the end of his astoundingly productive life, but he took time to key-in our info.
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