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...mother after his parents divorced when he was eight. His father was a singer and ukulele player for the Mahina Stars, a group that plays Hawaiian pop and is well known in Japan. It was while studying in art school that he started a kitsch pop band called Flipper's Guitar with former junior-high buddy Kenji Ozawa (nephew of conductor Seiji Ozawa). A demo tape of theirs found its way to Polystar Records (where Oyamada is still based) and the duo were immediately signed...
...What's impressive about Oyamada is for the amount of creative risks he takes, his records still end up selling," says Kazuo Suzuki, a professor at the Tokyo School of Music, who directed Flipper's Guitar's radio shows in the late 1980s. "Like those free headphones he included in the initial pressing of Fantasma. He's certainly no businessman?more like a record company's worst nightmare." Actually, he could become a music mogul's dream: the guy has moved 300,000 units worldwide and looks ready to break...
...first quarter of this year, job downtime - the amount of time it takes for a laid-off person to find another job - was the shortest in 15 years. And for workers 50 and over - the ones most likely to be looking for jobs in management, not the prototypical hamburger-flipper - the downtime was even shorter. That's incredible...
DOLPHINS Not as cuddly as we thought. New study says they eat their young. Say it ain't so, Flipper...
POSTHUMOUSLY PARDONED. HENRY O. FLIPPER, the Army's first black commissioned officer; for an 1882 military conviction for conduct unbecoming an officer; by President Clinton; in Washington...