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...part of Americana. It's a part of the myth," he said...
...myth of college athletes who play hard and drink hard pervades American culture--movies, magazines and television all show alcohol flowing freely through college sports...
...Harvard, this myth has a basis in reality...
Most of the details the public knows about him have been provided by Beat himself. He blends fact and fiction freely and his flourishes have become part of his myth. According to his autobiography, which was turned into a television drama, Beat was the youngest of four children, born to a strong-willed woman who ran the household, and an underachieving house painter who drank too much and even failed at joining the yakuza. "My childhood was just a succession of nervousness and tension," he remembers. "We all froze the minute we heard my father come through the door...
...early comedy, of course, rather than the cinematic flourishes that installed the Beat Takeshi myth in the public consciousness. Before the designer suits and aviator glasses there was skit comedy and Beat's manic variety show persona. Beat loves to reminisce about the absurdity of some of his earlier sketches. "We put 40 or so talents in a bus and attached it to a crane above the water," Beat says. The passengers had to answer questions. If they answered correctly, the crane lifted them up. If they answered incorrectly, they were let down a notch closer to the water...