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...players to give up three summers to prepare for this year's Worlds, next year's Olympic qualifiers, if needed, and the 2008 Games in Beijing. This group includes, arguably, the three best players on the globe: Miami's Dwyane Wade, Cleveland's LeBron James, and L.A.'s Kobe Bryant (though knee surgery will keep Bryant on the sidelines for Japan), plus respected role players, like defensive stoppers Bruce Bowen and Shane Battier...
...DIED. Mako, 72, actor who, as co-founder of East West Players?the first Asian-American drama troupe?was hailed as "the godfather of Asian-American theater"; of esophageal cancer; in Somis, California. Born Makoto Iwamatsu in Kobe, Japan, he went to the U.S. as a teen and discovered acting. Roles for Asians then were demeaningly comic, written almost exclusively in pidgin English. But Mako's portrayal of the Chinese coolie Po-han in 1966's The Sand Pebbles, although in broken English, rose above stereotype and won him an Oscar nomination...
DIED. Mako, 72, Oscar-nominated actor who, as co-founder of East West Players--the first Asian-American drama troupe--was hailed as "the godfather of Asian-American theater"; of esophageal cancer; in Somis, Calif. Born Makoto Iwamatsu in Kobe, Japan, he came to the U.S. as a teen and discovered acting. Roles for Asians then were demeaningly comic, written almost exclusively in pidgin English. But Mako's portrayal of Chinese coolie Po-han in 1966's The Sand Pebbles, although in broken English, rose above stereotype and won him an Oscar nomination...
...gallery buff. "We are our best users," he says. "We don't pretend to know anything about art. We just enjoy going to shows." Baron extends his beat to the Kansai region later this year, with an edition of the site dedicated to art happenings in Osaka, Kobe and other major centers...
...gallery buff. "We are our best users," he says. "We don't pretend to know anything about art. We just enjoy going to shows." Baron extends his beat to the Kansai region later this year, with an edition of the site dedicated to art happenings in Osaka, Kobe and other major centers...