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...SUMMIT CONQUERED. By Keegan Reilly, 22, American paraplegic, who reached the top of Mount Fuji using a hand-powered quadricycle; in Japan. Paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident seven years ago, the amateur mountaineer subsequently scaled two other peaks. After starting his Fuji ascent, Reilly was delayed for eight hours by Japanese trail rangers who said bikes weren't allowed. His next goal: Mount Rainier, in Washington, and then Aconcagua, the highest peak in South America...
...most traditions, there are patterns at work here. At the beginning of the season, the Tigers win a game or two, and their famously demented fans predict total victory. Then, very soon, their outfielders start dropping flies, their infielders fling routine ground balls in the general direction of Mount Fuji and three Tigers runners simultaneously arrive, bewildered, at the same base. Their home-run hitter goes off to join the Detroit Tigers. Their arch-rivals, the Yomiuri Giants of Tokyo, claim the pennant. And the Tigers fans, like Japan's perennially beleaguered politicians and CEOs, promise domination next year...
...precisely because it's so charming and modest. But are charm and modesty the stuff of a box-office blockbuster? Chihiro Kameyama, producer of some of Japan's most memorable TV and film hits over the past 15 years, is banking on it. In a conference room high atop Fuji TV's futuristic Tokyo office building, he seems positively serene just days before the highest-profile movie release of his career. Kameyama predicts that Bayside Shakedown 2 will be one of Japan's biggest films of the year, perhaps one of the biggest of all time. Does he really think...
...Fuji TV producer and Bayside creator Kameyama argues that Japanese viewers already get plenty of fantasy from Hollywood and are hungry for domestic productions in which they can see reflections of their own lives and experiences. That's why the whole Bayside Shakedown universe was designed as a metaphor for Japan, Inc. "We wanted to depict the daily struggles that average salarymen and office ladies face every day," he says. "We simply transferred it to a police setting." This approach also makes abundant financial sense, adds leading man Oda: "There is no way we can compete with Hollywood budgets...
...nipples, cocks his eyebrow in bafflement. The dance seems connected to the little Ib-Ubs, tiny four-legged creatures who begin erecting small towers on the floor using the bricks that shoot out of their snout. Thus ensconced in his living-room kingdom, King Shrimpy-Ub demands a Mt. Fuji on his head (with gift shop) and it is done. Forced from his home, Paul must take up arms against King Shrimpy-Ub, who morphs into a Mennonite and declares a "new age of relaxation." All parties then get into the tub of gravy and "chill...