Word: mako
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...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...
...events such as concerts, art exhibitions, farmers' markets and picnics. The season draws to a close in March, with Hooked on Seafood, held in Nelson on March 13, and the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival - celebrating Maori cuisine - scheduled for the same day. On the Wildfoods menu are seagull egg, cricket, mako shark, muttonbird and manuka pork. Not a chunk of flavorless cheddar in sight...
...movie business. In the U.S. version, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese commander, rips a page off a calendar to show the date of the bomb attack, Dec. 7. In Japan, the calendar flips to Dec. 8, which was the date of the attack, Tokyo time. Scenes involving Mako, the Japanese-American actor who plays Yamamoto, were rerecorded for Japan. "No one in the States would notice he spoke Japanese with an American accent," says Sano, "but they would here...