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...seen him once before that summer of 1999, several months earlier. He had stood 12 feet tall, on a movie screen in San Francisco, taking his unlikely star turn as himself in Wim Wender's documentary about the Buena Vista Social Club, the band that a year earlier had won Segundo a Grammy and generally elevated him and a handful of his compatriots from obscure relics of Cuba's golden age to international superstars, icons of the newly rediscovered grace and warmth behind the iron veil of the Cuban embargo...
...radiated upon its neighbors. Inside, attractive women dressed in leather miniskirts and high heels showcased the latest in video cell phone and mobile e-mail technology now used in Japan. When I had a question they could not answer, I was walked over to a wall with a large screen labeled “videophone,” which promptly linked me to an engineer in Tokyo who, despite his distinctly tired appearance, eagerly answered my inquiry. Twenty-four hours later, the entire booth would be packed up or trashed and designers would be planning for next year...
...gerontocracies of government ministries, this theme has a particularly powerful resonance. "You can replace the police force with the government," says actor Kotaro Koizumi?whose father swept to power two years ago on a reform agenda and has battled the same demons in reality that his son faces on screen. "The movie shows all the things that Japanese know need to change about the way things are done but how complicated it can get even when the answer is so simple," he says. "It's a commentary about how you cannot change without wanting to change...
...compete with Hollywood's expensive special-effects extravaganzas, traditional Japanese film studios have fallen by the wayside. In their place, the TV networks have become the nation's major film-production companies, churning out fast and cheap entertainment with actors, plot devices and production values borrowed from the small screen. Much of this is niche oriented, but the formula has also produced some widely popular hits, such as the schoolroom drama GTO and the offbeat hospital comedy Leave it to the Nurses...
...Instant Is a Millennium, the opening gala performance of the recent Singapore Arts Festival. The project took Tan two years to develop, during which he directed musicians, set designers, seamstresses and interpreters. During the show, a montage of Tan's vibrantly colorful paintings was projected onto a video screen while a narrator recited Tan's poetry to musical accompaniment by the Singapore Chinese Orchestra...