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...publisher, Komichi Shobo Co., saying the book awakened him to reading. That connection led to a job at the small company. At 28, Takei went independent, publishing in 1989 the best-selling compilation Listen to My Story: The Blue Hearts, My Love, the authors of which included Banana Yoshimoto. Takei had yet to even rent office space...
...original Felix Unger in The Odd Couple) and earned distinction in Hollywood (an Oscar for 1974's Harry and Tonto). But as Ed Norton, the "underground sanitation expert" and upstairs neighbor of Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the primal sitcom The Honeymooners, Carney proved that a second banana could be the top. His booming voice was complemented by a genius for body English. Carney's every move was an eccentric dance. He walked in a springy slouch, his thin frame forming a question mark, his gut preceding his chest by a beat or two. His hands were ever aflutter...
...with SARS, terrorism and war in Iraq have destabilized luxury fashion, driving the business and its creative talent down-market. Designers like Isaac Mizrahi and Todd Oldham have taken refuge--and found success--at Target. And even brands like Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein are playing catch-up with Banana Republic and J. Crew, introducing new, inexpensive lines. As one industry insider put it, "None of the [Gucci brouhaha] matters because we'll all be wearing Target and Abercrombie & Fitch in two years...
...memoir, Living to Tell the Tale (Knopf; 484 pages), you'll be inclined to agree. In a warm but largely matter-of-fact style, he recalls the headless man who rode past one day on a donkey, killed by a machete in a settling of accounts on the nearby banana plantation. Then there was the fishing town full of men mutilated because they had been too slow to throw the sticks of dynamite they used to stun the fish. Or the first time he saw the ocean, full of dead chickens. He's still not sure...
...have to be bound for Florida, a cruise or a cabana to appreciate something from mauishirts.com Each print is identified by name (Banana Tree, Bird of Paradise), and most have matching sarongs...