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...hero is Harry Niles, a classic noir name if ever there was one, and Harry is an antihero par excellence. The son of American missionaries, he grew up on the streets of Tokyo and now runs a hip expatriate jazz bar there (think Rick's Cafe in Casablanca with calligraphy...
...pedigree for the baddest of Bad Boys. His father is Canto-popinjay Patrick Tse-yin, prime dude of '60s cinema, who vaulted from "himbo"?male bimbo?roles in comedies and musicals to the haunted hero of the classic Story of a Discharged Prisoner (remade as A Better Tomorrow , with Chow Yun-fat in the Tse role). Nic's mother is Deborah Li, an actress in '70s soft-core sex films (Hong Kong Emmanuelle). They sent Nic to Canada to learn English when he was seven; he then attended a prep school in Arizona. His parents divorced...
...hero is Harry Niles, a classic noir name if ever there was one, and Harry is an antihero par excellence. The son of American missionaries, he grew up on the streets of Tokyo and now runs a hip expatriate jazz bar there (think Rick's Caf? in Casablanca with calligraphy...
...their well-hyped guest the Rock, a World Wrestling Federation (WWF) hero, never showed...
Even so, Leavy has hit it out of the park. Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy (HarperCollins; 282 pages) is a lot more than a biography. It's a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero's self-perception distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living memory. But it's also a remarkably rich portrait of an intentionally elusive man. (Joe DiMaggio, notes Leavy, "marketed his privacy; Koufax cherishes his.") Leavy doesn't give us intimate details about her subject's life--his two marriages rate just three sentences--but still makes...