Presenting Persis Khambatta: From Miss India to Star Trek--The Motion Picture and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781476681955 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 237 str.

Sherilyn Connelly

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Acknowledgments vi
Introduction 1
Prologue: The Minneapolis Panic 5
The Early Years
 1946–1965 9
Today Bombay, Tomorrow (Miss) Universe 9
 1966–1969 14
From Bheegi Raat to Bambai Raat Ki Bahon Mein 14
The Seventies
 1970–1973 19
From Beloved India to Frozen England 19; Her First Flight 24
 1974–1977 26
Khambatta in Kenya 26; Khambatta in Kohl 29; Siri, the ­­Power-Adjacent Princess 30; The Eternal August, Part I: The Screening of Persis 32
 1978 34
The Eternal August, Part II: The Shave of Singularity 34; The Eternal August, Part III: Ilia Is Introduced 41; The Eternal August, Part IV: Rush Hour on the Event Horizon 47
 1979 60
The Eternal August, Part V: The Blinding of Persis 60; The Eternal August, Part VI: Persis Is Presented 62
The Eighties
 1980 67
Studio 54 on Parallel 42 67; The Trouble with Exotic Angels 71; Lovin' that cali lifestyle!! 75
 1981 79
Denny, Khambatta, and Oui 79; Release the Nighthawks 82; The Esquireman Weekend 85; Birds of a Feather Cannot Always Cohabitate Together 89; The (Mega)force of (Tri)illusion 92
 1982 95
Persis vs. Soup 95; Hunter vs. Khan 97; The Megafudging of Major Zara 103; The Whitewashing of Octopussy 109; The Prime Minister of India Meets the Pride of India 112
 1983 115
Devi, Coelho, and Khambatta 115; I Visited the Lost World and All I Got Was This Lousy Hairline Fracture 118; The Perils of Persis on the Idiot Box 119
 1984 122
The Saints of Imperfection 122; The Battle of the Bandit Queens 124; First Strikes and Last Resorts 128
 1985 132
The Pride of India's Perils in the Lost World 132; Waiting for Gandhi 136; Back to Bombay, for Now 140
 1986–1988 142
MacGyver vs. Hunter 142; The Blinking Eye 143; The Flameout of the Phoenix 145; This Is a Lowe 150
 1989–1990 154
The Triillusion Dissolution 154; Exile on Main Street: Des Moines 155
The Nineties
 1991–1993 159
Exile on Main Street: Los Angeles 159; The New Old School 160; Persis Reaches Out 162
 1994–1995 164
Persis Punches Back 164; Her Journey Through the Past 166; Another Dream Deferred 168
 1996–1997 170
Pride of India Is Begun 170; India's Pride Is Serenaded 173; Pride of India Is Published 174
 1998 177
So Long, It Has Not Been Nice to Know You 177; The ­­Pre-Mortem 179; Persis in the Tower, When the Birds Came 181
Chapter Notes 185
Bibliography 205
Index 219