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...chance, both Yasunari Kawabata, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great Zen scholar, D.T. Suzuki; and a little afterward he found himself on a set where Akira Kurosawa was directing Toshiro Mifune in Drunken Angel. Very soon, every foreigner who landed in Tokyo?Somerset Maugham, Tom Wolfe, Richard Avedon, Philip Johnson?was calling on him to be shown around. Richie's shrewd, but forgiving, fascination with human quirks there gives us Truman Capote buying an "imitation geisha wig" and Kurosawa taking in a Fellini film without subtitles ("Gets in the way of the picture," the master...
...Kabukicho. "Life here means never taking life for granted," he writes, "never not noticing"; to some extent beauty lies in the eye of the outsider. A whole group of travelers, often sexual outlaws, has trenchantly mapped the exile's world: Paul Bowles in Morocco, Christopher Isherwood in California, Maugham in the south of France. Donald Richie in Asia goes even further in arguing that expatriation is not just an escape, "it is an embracing, a reaching out, a moving into as well as a moving away from." The pursuit of that embrace is what has made Richie modern Asia...
...Americans traversing Europe in July wore Bermuda shorts. ANNETTE BENING smoldered through the continent's record heat wave in a fur stole and long gloves. She was in Budapest and London to film Being Julia, an adaptation of a W. Somerset Maugham novel. The American Beauty star says she plays "a theater actress in London in 1938 who falls apart and finds herself" while cheating on her husband, played by Jeremy Irons. Bening says she was concentrating too hard to mind "a few hot moments." Perhaps when you're married to Warren Beatty, you're always cool...
ABOVE BOARD In the slowpoke, Somerset Maugham-era before long-haul flights became commonplace, travel in what was then known as the Far East was only possible by commercial ships. Today there are about half a dozen freight lines operating in Asia that accept paying passengers, which charge $70-$130 per day per person. Voyages range in duration from a 10-day short hop to an epic 114 days (the latter being Houston to Houston on the Egon Oldendorff line, via the Suez Canal, with Jakarta the easternmost port). All the lines have age limits for passengers, ranging from...
Paulin is the recipient of several awards, including the Somerset Maugham award...