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Bad old days of cinema Every film industry creates its own culture, a world simultaneously real and make believe, weaving life as it is and fiction in to a fabric of varied designs. For the major...		Showbiz quotes Over the past ten years of Images’ existence, an incredible amount of column space has been devoted to recording the statements of those people associated with showbiz. Some are legends; others...
The theatrical side of life Trying to write about theatre in Pakistan, I decided to go on the Internet and look for some background information. Although, as expected, there was little to be found on theatre...		10 years of ‘Images’ Well, Images is now a decade old — 10 years and 24 days to be specific. During this period, we have seen it create its own niche in the world of...
A decade of views The first showbiz magazine section of a national newspaper, Images was introduced a decade ago much to the delight of unsuspecting readers and, for that matter, non-readers. For the first time,...		An evolution in motion Change, though at times a little difficult to digest, is nearly always good. More so when one is talking about the arts, music to be particular, and that too of Pakistan....
You’ve come a long way, baby! The Pakistani fashion industry has gone from its embryonic roots to a full-fledged thriving part of society in the past decade, and Images has been there every step of the way....		The impact of cable TV on viewers While cable television may have despatched the official censor for a six, exposing the administrative inadequacies of the enforcers, it has thrust the viewer into the hot seat of analysis and...
A touch of drama To jog one’s memory and think of plays that have stood out in the last ten years and made their mark in the ever-burgeoning world of show business is an arduous...		Are we seeing a revival of classical music? Karachi has given us painful moments in the past. There were times when one felt that the city would never be the same again and the damage done to its cultural...
Controversies of yore As the saying goes, you can’t win ‘em all. In the newspaper business, especially the showbiz section, that adage rings especially true. Somehow, somewhere, at some time, someone is going to...		The way we were While many have forgotten the way fashion was in the past decade, Images came up with the novel idea of recollecting such fashion trends in its anniversary issue. Dhoti shalwars and...
Into the great beyond Death is an oft glossed, dramatized and celebrated subject in showbiz and filmdom. On screen and in music, life is celebrated with joy and death is mourned with sweet paeans and poignancy....		Ten, not-such-dancing years An almost ten-year-old brochure titled A Celebration of Dance (by Sheema Kermani and her students), opens with an apology: ‘This programme was originally scheduled for December 15 and 16, 1994, but...
And they were there The year was 1994. Frank ‘Ol’ Blue Eyes’ Sinatra was still crooning. So was John Denver. At the same time, Stanley Kubrick was busy directing his next flick, while Walter Matthau...		The FM path to success Images has completed ten years of publication. Incidentally, this period has been quite eventful in Pakistan as far as the electronic media is concerned. After decades of deliberation and hesitation, it...