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...actor whose career spanned six decades and several continents; in Saint Tropez. His reel-life leading-man status translated to real-life heroism when he earned the Croix de Guerre for service in the French armed forces in 1944. An actor who performed on both the stage and silver screen--most notably as a randy swimming instructor in Lac aux Dames--Aumont was also a megastar with women. Although he married twice, he was more celebrated for his engagements to, among others, screen luminaries Hedy Lamarr and Grace Kelly...
...this case, the Westerners' ignorance can be a gift. Local viewers have to juggle jagged images of a personality who is the Japanese equivalent of Groucho Marx on the small screen and Humphrey Bogart on the big one. Westerners have no vision of Takeshi the TV clown to erase before they can accept him as an existential...
...public consciousness?as Beat most definitely has?you tamper with your projected reality at the risk of career suicide. Marilyn could never go brunette. Elvis didn't dare give up the pompadour. So how do we explain Beat's wildly contrasting images?the violent cool cat on the silver screen and the goofball on TV? And why does it somehow all cohere in the Japanese mind...
People will flock to the screen if they know they're gonna see great competition. While I still stand behind the old staples like the Super Bowl and March Madness, and almost never get off the couch during the Olympics, I admit I eagerly anticipate Temptation Island and Survivor because those shows provide better competition most days than your average NBA game...
...than the kind Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys, used to do to knock a gun out of the bad guy's hand - immaculate gunplay. Alas, I see that Roy's wife, Dale Evans, has died, having survived into an age of movies that by digital magic turn each screen death into the gaudiest, bloodiest horror...