Tag: alec guinness (last 300)
Tharoor praises ‘Slumdog’
(HuffPo·L) In ‘Slumdog,’ ‘Ram Mohammed Thomas’ — Swarup’s Amar-Akbar-Anthony — becomes ‘Jamal Malik’... ‘A Passage to India’ had Alec Guinness in brownface and dhoti, warbling away as Prof. Godbole.
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(New Yorker) Alec Guinness performed ‘the worst caricature of a Jew ever in an English film’ as Fagin in ‘Oliver Twist.’ 40 years later, he played Professor Godbole in ‘A Passage to India’ in brownface.