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...primary method of support to residential computing users, including all on-campus undergraduates, will also see a shakedown. HASCS is reevaluating its student User Assistant (UA) needs as a result of changes in computing behavior at the school, Steen said...
...Fuji TV producer and Bayside creator Kameyama argues that Japanese viewers already get plenty of fantasy from Hollywood and are hungry for domestic productions in which they can see reflections of their own lives and experiences. That's why the whole Bayside Shakedown universe was designed as a metaphor for Japan, Inc. "We wanted to depict the daily struggles that average salarymen and office ladies face every day," he says. "We simply transferred it to a police setting." This approach also makes abundant financial sense, adds leading man Oda: "There is no way we can compete with Hollywood budgets...
...early to tell whether the sequel will outstrip the original, but the advance buzz is positive. Bayside Shakedown 2 is scheduled to open on 400 of the country's 2,600 movie-house screens. That's an unusually high number; Hayao Miyazaki's anim? film Spirited Away, the top Japanese movie ever, with $258 million in box-office gross, debuted on 320 screens. As of last week, advance ticket sales were three times Spirited Away's over the same period...
...course, the best of the breed, Bayside Shakedown. "We have learned a lot about viewer habits from our work in television," says Kameyama. "We give viewers what they want." This summer, he is gambling that what Japanese viewers really want is not Arnold Schwarzenegger or The One but a crime-fighting salaryman who, try as he might, just can't bring himself to litter...