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Char told me that my grandmother Mama Ann was going to fall and break something. And that my mom should get herself checked for cancer. And that my co-worker Romesh Ratnesar had "success around him," which I think just meant she followed our Iraq coverage. Char told me, three times, that despite the fact that neither Cassandra nor I ski, "I see you two on a ski trip." And Char said that if my friend Adam Sachs has any premonitions about a terrorist attack to get the hell out of New York City. I foresee Adam spending much...
...pretty happy with Char's predictions, which sounded like a pretty good deal for me, though not so much for Mom, Mama Ann and the greater New York City area. Still, I'm thinking either Vail or Whistler...
...remake an action franchise that he admits he "did not particularly" like? The answer is simple: because he was ordered to do so by a 76-year-old strip-club owner and former nude dancer named Chieko Saito, known to her family, friends and everyone else around her as Mama...
...cable TV has since learned: even the dullest entertainment can be made palatable with toplessness. In the postwar years, the Rokku-za was a popular hangout for rebel intellectuals; now the club entertains sottish salarymen with nice Japanese girls and sultry Russians gyrating to pop ballads. This is, literally, Mama's house...
...There's a reason why everyone calls Chieko Saito "Mama." To know her, it seems, is to be loved by her, or at least adopted. Her dancers "are like my children," she says. "Sometimes they would get sick, so I would dance for them." The last time she did that she was 58. Saito met Kitano in 1999 when she brought her girls on his TV program, and they quickly grew close. "When we met," she says, "it was like we'd known each other for 30 years." When Kitano's mother died that year, Saito decided he needed...