Word: holidaying
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...answer Iguchi's question. (Letters was co-produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, a subsidiary of Time Warner, which also owns TIME.) Through last weekend, the Oscar-nominated Letters had grossed just under $40 million, earning it the top spot during the Japanese cinema industry's all-important New Year holiday season. Not bad for a downbeat movie that chronicles one of Japan's bitterest defeats - one that has rarely been the subject of a Japanese film...
...movie world's first clear view of Audrey Hepburn was in a newsreel: the beginning of Roman Holiday showed the young actress, as the ruritanian Princess Ann, on a state tour of Europe. The world's final view of Hepburn was in 1992 TV newscasts of her visit to Africa last October - three months before her death at 63 - as she bestowed first her compassion on starving children and then her modulated anger at the causes of their condition...
...kind, inimitable and irreplaceable, as is proved by the actresses who tried to replace her. A TV remake of "Roman Holiday" starred Catherine Oxenberg, a Yugoslav princess, and lineal descendant of Catherine the Great of Russia. Julia Ormond had Audrey's role in a "Sabrina" remake; Thandie Newton took her part in "The Trouble With Charlie", a very distant approximation of "Charade". And Jessica Love Hewitt starred seven years ago in "The Audrey Hepburn Story". All were put in the shade by Audrey's ghost. Who'd dare? Why bother...
...article “Scrapped Holiday Shuttles Stir Talks” (Dec. 15, news) discusses the Undergraduate Council’s decision to cease operating airport shuttles, and suggestions by some students that the UC should reenter this business. The UC quit shuttles (and other services, such as UC Boxes) for a good reason: The Council is very bad at providing them. The Council would be unwise to return to a former arena of its failure...
...event in question was the shinnenkai for Dentsu, the biggest independent advertising agency in Japan - and the world. Shinnenkai are parties that celebrate the New Year, the most important holiday on the Japanese calendar. They can be intimate affairs for family and friends, or, as in the case of Dentsu, they can be massive events involving the personnel, budget and planning required for a minor military campaign. Every significant corporation in Japan throws a shinnenkai for workers, clients and peers, but Dentsu's is beyond compare. Simply accommodating the more than 4,000 guests required that they attend in four...