Ms Jayalalitha - a former film star - has already set up nearly 150 all-women police stations, intended to make it easier to solve crimes against women.
But neither of this state's most powerful politicians - the former film script writer Karunanidhi of the DMK, and the former actress Jayalalithaa of the AIADMK - is actually standing in this election.
The process was explained to me by Havens, a 42-year-old former New York City film and TV actor turned social-media maven who has gathered together some important people to support the project (though money is, of course, elusive).
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They include novelist Nick Hornby, film critic Barry Norman, Emma Noble, the ex-glamour model and former daughter-in-law of John Major, Sting, his film producer wife Trudie Styler and actress Julie Christie.
Mr Ramos's successor, President Joseph Estrada (a former tough-guy film actor) has shown far less patience.
The last film-maker to helm consecutive Bond movies was former editor John Glen, who directed five instalments in a row between 1981 to 1989.
Taylor, who is also former vice-president of the British Board of Film Classification and Chancellor of Bournemouth University, said it had been a common practice among peers to claim for fake journeys and enter expenses claims with a false address as a main residence, and he believed it was acceptable to do this provided there was a "family connection" with the property.
There were fears that the film may not be released in India because the Booker Prize-winning novel was critical of former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi.
Along with Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol and Jacques Rivette, all former film critics, he helped pioneer an informal film movement that turned traditional notions of narrative and style on their head.
Since 1991, film making and tourism have revived Port Douglas, a quaint former sugar and gold town, from near-death.
The newspaper suggests the film's inability to find a distributor may be because the Booker Prize-winning novel was critical of former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi.
His stint lasted for a year and a half, until his cousin engineered a sale of the company to Vivendi Universal (nyse: V - news - people ), a former water company that bought its way into the record and film business.
When I watched I detected not cruelty from the writer or director or cast but an observation of the price of power - Thatcher is far from the first former leader to decline rapidly once out of office - and a means of providing the film with its narrative thread.
The impact of the images of Muslim kids brandishing weapons, marching in goosestep and giving stiff-armed salutes in mass demonstrations underscores a point made in the film by the late Alfons Heck, a former Hitler Youth Group leader in Nazi Germany: Islamofascism is really just the latest in a series of totalitarian ideologies bent on the destruction of the Free World.
In his new film, he will play the disgraced former French finance minister and head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a man Depardieu has called "a little like all French people, a little arrogant".
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