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Forget about i-mode, the walkman or even karaoke. Japan's real genius, Ian Buruma explains in Inventing Japan: 1853-1964, has been inventing?and reinventing?itself with a speed that has astonished, amused and terrified the world. For example, he writes, just a generation after topknotted samurai pleaded with U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry to take his "black ships of evil" back where they came from, Japanese statesmen in tailcoats were cheerfully entertaining Western diplomats with rounds of whisky and whist...
...going from waking up at 11 a.m. every day to waking up at 4 or 5 a.m.,” he said as he tossed books into one of the various boxes that cluttered his Lowell House room last night. “Planning on taking Heroes or Samurai?” he joked, as he packed the sourcebooks for those classes...
Jackson is also hoping his facilities will entice other Hollywood filmmakers to pour money into the New Zealand economy. Some of Tom Cruise's next movie, The Last Samurai, will be shot there. Jackson's empire is just a short drive down a winding mountain road from the house where he and Walsh live. They are a curious couple; she is as thin as he is round, and they amuse each other endlessly. Besides co-writing the screenplay, Walsh directed bits of the trilogy. "We have very similar tastes, and that leads to an enormous amount of trust," says Jackson...
DIED. JAMES COBURN, 74, rugged and rakish Academy Award-winning actor whose menacing screen presence defined a new type of tough guy in classics such as The Magnificent Seven (1960), an American version of Akira Kurosawa's Japanese epic The Seven Samurai, and The Great Escape (1963); in Los Angeles. Coburn, who rose to fame as the secret agent in the James Bond spoof Our Man Flint, was largely confined to minor roles during his career. While battling debilitating arthritis, however, Coburn won an Oscar in 1998 for his powerful performance as the abusive alcoholic "Pop" Whitehouse in Affliction...
...punched me in the kidney and left.” Ruminated a chagrined Friedkin: “I guess it’s OK. I mean, I only have to see her for, hmmm, four hours a week in tutorial, two hours in lecture for Samurai, two hours in lecture for War and Politics and one hour for War and Politics section.” He paused. “Kill me now?...