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...have so many people responded to the tragedy with an unabashed victory dance on her figurative grave? Answering the second question requires understanding the Hamptons, a grand but tortured resort area just 100 miles outside New York City that attracts a flashy spectrum of celebrities, from Alec Baldwin to Tommy Hilfiger to Martha Stewart. It's a place where the beaches are wide and lovely, where it's considered normal to have a summer home with a service-entrance driveway, and where almost no one looks happy to be there...
...Megahistory and personal history never integrate. Even the assault on Pearl has a curiously abstract air about it. Authentic figures such as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Jon Voight), Doolittle (Alec Baldwin) and heroic black mess attendant Doris "Dorie" Miller (Cuba Gooding Jr.) appear in supporting roles, and the backdrop reaches for historical accuracy?at least until it gets in the way of the main story...
...Other changes were more about cultural sensitivities. In the U.S. version, Alec Baldwin, playing Lieut. Colonel James Doolittle, declares that if he's shot down during a retaliatory air raid on Tokyo, he plans to crash his plane in such a way as to "kill as many of those bastards as possible." In the Japanese subtitles, the line is almost laughably stilted: "I myself would choose a tasty target." In the closing voice-over of the original version, Kate Beckinsale, playing a nurse, says: "Before Doolittle's raid, Americans knew nothing but defeat; after it, nothing but victory." For Japan...
...film, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese commander, rips a page off a calendar to show Dec. 7; in Japan the shot will reveal Dec. 8, which is when the attack occurred Tokyo time. But other changes were made for those reasons of cultural sensitivity. In the U.S. version, Alec Baldwin, playing Lieut. Colonel James Doolittle, declares that if he's shot down during a retaliatory air raid on Tokyo, he plans to crash his plane in such a way as to "kill as many of those bastards as possible." In Japanese subtitles, that line is vague: "I myself would choose...
...Overseers replace outgoing Overseers John C. Baldwin ’71, Peter C. B. Bynoe ’72, Jack R. Harrison ’55, Lisa Henson ’82 and outgoing Board President Sharon E. Gagnon...