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...next day some of us sneaked over toward Pearl Harbor to see the damage. The long concrete pier along the shore was piled with stacks of bodies. The dead were later interred in a temporary cemetery nearby. National Guard soldiers soon took over and ordered every home to be blacked out at night. They shot at any light showing through the cracks. In our darkened, humid rooms, we huddled in dismay at the way our ancestral Japan had put a curse on all Japanese living in Hawaii. Other ethnic groups looked upon us as the enemy, not to be trusted...
Gibson has few kind words for previous Passion films. Mention Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew (which, like Gibson's location shots, was filmed in the Italian town of Matera), and he fakes a big yawn. On Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ: "You've got Harvey Keitel as Judas saying"--and here Gibson shifts into a Brooklyn accent--"'Hey, you ovah dere...
...children took refuge under its graceful domes. Today the Jagmandir remains a retreat, if from nothing more threatening than the bustle of a sweltering Udaipur afternoon. A motorboat from the City Palace jetty ($3 a person for the round trip) will take you to the island's small pier, which is guarded by eight life-size marble elephants. The newly opened Darikhana Restaurant serves alfresco Indian and continental feasts for about $8 per head. Or just take a seat beside the low, carved balustrade and, cocktail in hand, watch the light fade over one of India's finest panoramas...
...Ressner tells us where to go in SANTA MONICA for BREAKFAST: The Broadway Deli, at Broadway and Third St., where De Niro and Pacino faced off in the movie Heat. A ONE-HOUR WALK: Along Ocean Ave. at sunset, past Palisades Park, the amusement-park rides on Santa Monica Pier and the bike path with hordes of Roller Bladers. A CULTURAL FIX: Bergamot Station, a former railway terminal that's now a hip arts center filled with galleries showing world-class artists and area favorites. A LOCAL TASTE: Chez Jay's, a funky beachside shack that has been serving seafood...
...Provence with his partner, Nicoletta Peyran, and their two children, who speak French with a Provençal twang. He feels right at home in Europe where, he says, gifted people aren't pigeonholed. America has experts, says Malkovich, but Europe can yield magisterial figures like the late Pier Paolo Pasolini, a political thinker, novelist and film director. Another inspiration: Jean-François Revel, whose bestselling book, The Anti-American Obsession, is only the latest reflection of the author's catholic interests from Proust to political philosophy. "Here there is more apt to be infiltration from one form...