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First there was Roots, then Shōgun, and now The Winds of War [Feb. 7]. It is great to see a major network willing to risk $40 million to produce quality programming. My hat goes off to ABC for bringing history into our living rooms...
BORN. To Toshiro Mifune, 62, ruggedly handsome film actor often referred to as the John Wayne of Japan (Rashomon, 1950; The Seven Samurai, 1954; and the TV movie Shōgun, 1980); and Mika Kitagawa, 33, his longtime girlfriend and sometime movie actress: his third child, her first (he is still married to his first wife); a girl; in Tokyo. Name: Mika...
...Khalil runs the Society of Ina'sh El-Usra in Al-Bireh, a combination kindergarten, secondary school, vocational training center, gift shop, museum, charity, folklore institute, and a general haven for Palestinian children that she built up with her own dogged will in the aftermath of the Six-Day War. She is called Urn Khalil by the children and staff, and she looks um?built low to the ground, unlikely to topple. She is about 60. Her voice is made for speeches; her hair tied back to promote the clear, essential face. When you tell her that she reminds...
...fanfare of trumpets, a 19-gun salute, a military guard in 1776 revolutionary raiment and the largest diplomatic dinner the Reagans have given in the White House. The 109 guests ranged from captains of industry to Cabinet members of both countries to James Clavell, author of the bestseller Shōgun, and Actor Richard Chamberlain, star of the TV miniseries based on Clavell's novel. The pomp had a point. Both Reagan and his guest were eager to underscore the importance of ties between their two countries, which share $56 billion in trade as well as strategic links. Moreover...
Biggest Sushi: NBC's Shōgun which ranked just behind Roots (1977) as the highest-rating mini-series of all time...