DREAM HOUSE: Behrani (Kingsley) hopes the home will help restore his family's fortunes
He looked so familiar. but the two passersby who stopped a bald man last December on the steps of Rockefeller Center in New York City weren't sure who he was. That imperial nose, the batwing ears, those bore- into-your-soul eyes ... "You're a movie star, right?" they asked. Ben Kingsley smiled and quietly replied, "Yes." Their confusion didn't surprise Vadim Perelman, who directed Kingsley's new film,
House of Sand and Fog
, and was with him at the time. Over the past 40 years, the British actor has morphed into many larger-than-life figures Moses, Hamlet, Gandhi. "He embodies his characters," says...
