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Another simple yet effective menu for New Year’s Day included: Fried Fish, Rasam, Rice, Green Peas-Red Beets-Blue Cheese-Asian Slaw Salad, Blackeyed Peas Subzi, Garlic Bread, and Sparkling Grape Juice. Dessert was Sooji Kesari Halwa. This menu was rivaled only by the company around the table!
Updated January 1, 2012, 1:28 pm
On Jan. 2, 1905, Japanese Gen. Nogi received from Russian Gen. Stoessel at 9 o’clock P.M. a letter formally offering to surrender, ending the Russo-Japanese War.
On Jan. 2, 1920, Isaac Asimov, the immensely popular science fiction writer, was born. Following his death on April 6, 1992, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
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1492 The leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain surrendered to Spanish forces loyal to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I. 1788 Georgia became the fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1900 Secretary of State John Hay announced the Open Door Policy to prompt trade with China. 1935 Bruno Hauptmann went on trial in Flemington, N.J., on charges of kidnapping and murdering the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (He was found guilty and executed.) 1965 The New York Jets signed University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath for a reported $400,000. 1974 President Richard Nixon signed legislation requiring states to limit highway speeds to 55 mph. 1981 Police in Sheffield, England, arrested Peter Sutcliffe, who confessed to being the “Yorkshire Ripper,” the serial killer of 13 women. 1991 Sharon Pratt Dixon was sworn in as mayor of Washington, D.C., becoming the first African-American woman to head a city of Washington’s size and prominence. 2006 A methane gas explosion at the Sago Mine in West Virginia trapped 13 miners underground for more than 40 hours; only one survived. 2008 Oil prices soared to $100 a barrel for the first time. Current Birthdays
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Actress Kate Bosworth turns 29 years old today.
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Actor Dax Shepard turns 37 years old today.
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1940 Jim Bakker, Former TV evangelist, turns 72 1942 Dennis Hastert, Former House speaker, turns 70 1947 Jack Hanna, TV host, turns 65 1967 Tia Carrere, Actress, turns 45 1968 Cuba Gooding Jr., Actor, turns 44 1969 Christy Turlington, Model, turns 43 1971 Taye Diggs, Actor, turns 41 1976 Paz Vega, Actress, turns 36
Historic Birthdays
Isaac Asimov 1/2/1920 – 4/6/1992 American science fiction author.Go to obituary »
32 James Wolfe 1/2/1727 – 9/13/1759
English general who captured Quebec67 Johann Daniel Titius 1/2/1729 – 12/11/1796
Prussian astronomer and physicist66 Rudolf Clausius 1/2/1822 – 8/24/1888
German mathematical physicist66 Justin Winsor 1/2/1831 – 10/22/1897
American librarian and historian68 Ernst Barlach 1/2/1870 – 10/24/1938
German sculpture and playwright58/59 Tex Rickard 1/2/1870/71 – 1/6/1929
American fight promoter and gambler79 Albert Coombs Barnes 1/2/1872 – 7/24/1951
American inventor and art collector24 Saint Theresa of Lisieux 1/2/1873 – 9/30/1897
French Carmelite nun53 Count Folke Bernadotte 1/2/1895 – 9/17/1948
Swedish diplomat, humanitarian75 Sally Rand 1/2/1904 – 8/31/1979
American actress and fan dancer
A boat, beneath a sunny sky
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July —
Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear
Pleased a simple tale to hear —
Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.
Still she haunts me, phantomwise
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.
Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.
In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream —
Lingering in the golden gleam —
Life, what is it but a dream?
To everyone who complained soon after it was released in late October about Ra.One being a disappointment and a let-down, I say to them all: why? what exactly were you expecting? Because if you ask me– and I’m glad you are– I thought it was swimmingly entertaining! Seriously, I mean that without tongue in any portion of my cheek.
After all, what’s not to love when you have Ironman and the Terminator– not to mention a half-dozen other Hollywood blockbuster heroes and concepts– rolled up into Shahrukh Khan’s character. With all the digital effects and sophisticated gaming technologies featured both within a room and in the great metropolises of London and Mumbai, it is nothing short of fun and fantastical to see good triumph over evil, a superhero battle the fiercest of the bad-guys, a pretty girl who is as devoted a wife as she is a loving mom, and a kid whose love for digital gaming is rivaled only by his father’s love of giving him just what he wants and then some.
And so, the props come out in full force: curly wigs for Mr. Khan, skimpy outfits including sari ensembles for Ms. Kapoor– who looks positively ravishing and can really drive that SUV around town, by the way– and as for the bad guy, Mr. Rampal’s six-pack abs must definitely set the standard for all future villains in Bollywood. Plus, the musical score is catchy what with the clubby Chammak Challo and my personal favorite, Dildaara which is truly a masterpiece.
So, watch it with gay abandon, my friend, and forget about the integrity of the script and the storytelling. In true Bollywood-style, this is one masala movie with the works, and like our superhero says, let’s all try to be “a hero with a heart.”
The Dildaara song is here for your viewing pleasure, courtesy of YouTube:
