Word: bonding
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...best-loved film series, and which opened last Saturday in Japan, Kitano is facing the biggest challenge of his moviemaking life: stepping into the shoes of an actor who is every inch the celluloid icon that Kitano is. Imagine replacing Sean Connery if he'd been in every Bond film, and you have some idea of what faces Kitano in taking on the mantle of the late Shintaro Katsu, the actor who played Zatoichi, the blind swordsman, from 1962 to 1989. To succeed, Kitano must make audiences forget Katsu?and Beat Takeshi. "Zatoichi and Katsu are mentioned in the same...
...Saito's bond to Shintaro Katsu goes back a long way, equal parts cents and sentiment. Those who knew him say Katsu's ability as an actor was matched only by his oversized generosity offscreen?and his terrible business sense. "He was known as someone who liked to play around," says Yukichi Shinada, a veteran Tokyo film critic. "Say he went to a club, he would always buy really expensive cognac and then buy drinks for other people." Saito's son, Tsunehisa Saito, who worked with Katsu for more than 20 years, says, "He was a really caring, very generous...
NAACP Board Chair Julian Bond was watched with rapt attention when he spoke to a packed audience over dinner...
...Eddy, also 31, a management consultant in New York City, have been friends since Eddy was assigned to the desk behind hers at study hall in high school. The two didn't become close until they attended Brown University together, but at that point they forged a lasting bond. "People usually think of a spark between people in terms of romantic relationships, but I think there are friend sparks as well, where you suddenly feel this intense connection," says Augenblick. "R.P. and I had that in college. I really wanted to spend time with...
...want to be an overnight sensation in classical music these days, you'd best look the part. You can be moodily romantic like long-haired Argentinian guitarist Dominic Miller (signed up by BBC Worldwide to launch their Inversion label), sulkily sexy like the all-girl string quartet Bond (2 million albums sold and counting). Skittishly sexy is also fine, a la Myleene Klass, the English Popstars siren turned classical pianist (also signed by Universal, reportedly for €1.4 million-plus). Smoldering sulkiness is equally bankable, as bad-boy Croatian pianist Maksim is finding out (EMI has signed him for five...