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...easily walk through a door of memory into long-ago afternoons when I came home from school to find my father at his desk in my parents' bedroom. Sitting in front of a small atrium filled with ferns and tropical plants, he would be writing, soft green light falling around him. He wrote speeches on white note cards, letters on cream-colored stationery. He wrote letters that said more than he could say in person. It's odd to think that the man who has been called the Great Communicator was often shy with others, yet it's true...
...copy of Chungking Express and Wong's followup, Fallen Angels, landed on the desk of Hiroyoshi Koiwai, a producer for Fuji TV. Koiwai wanted to make a miniseries about a musician who falls in love with an HIV-positive high-school girl, but it was a controversial premise, and the lead part was seen as a potential career killer. "No Japanese musician would take the role," Koiwai says. He was going to give up on the idea?until he saw Kaneshiro, who was only too happy to sign on. "I wanted to use actors who were different," Koiwai recalls...
...most of the past few years, Michael Hill has had a rather unenviable task. As a salesman on the equity desk at Lehman Brothers investment bank in Tokyo, he's had to convince large U.S. and European investment companies to buy Japanese stocks. This spring, with the stock market hitting 20-year lows, it often seemed he couldn't give away Japan plays. Sometime over the summer, though, the clouds began to part. "Guys we haven't heard from in years are approaching us interested in Japan," he marvels. "I was in London last week, and everybody there wanted...
...Let’s have some fun,” Blackburn chuckled as he swiveled his desk chair over to the computer, no doubt making a mental note of the four steps that his personal pedometer had just missed...
...desk, among the papers of nutritional arcana are drawings of incarnations of the food pyramid. An unopened weight-loss shake sits on the side of the desk—for demonstration, not use. Plastic tomatoes, carrots and apples rest on the shelf behind him, next to a plastic bread loaf and an incongruous miniature lobster...