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...JAPANESE LOST WORLD WAR II, why are they able to buy real estate and corporations of the former Allies? Was victory hollow then? Given the atrocities, is justice being confounded now? Those familiar questions were posed anew but not answered in SHIMADA, an Australian hit that arrived on Broadway last week with a starry cast (Ben Gazzara, Ellen Burstyn, Estelle Parsons and Mako) and a gongs-and-samurai dreamscape production. The plot hinged on hints that a Japanese tycoon who bids on a clapped-out bicycle factory may also be the stockade guard who tortured its founder (as recalled...
...Guys and Dolls and Gregory Hines in Jelly's Last Jam, a portrait of composer Jelly Roll Morton. Next month Pulitzer prizewinner August Wilson's subtly tragic and robustly comic Two Trains Running will feature Larry Fishburne from the film Boyz N the Hood, while the Australian drama Shimada, about a Japanese-led corporate takeover, will offer Ellen Burstyn, Ben Gazzara and Estelle Parsons. Al Pacino opens in two one-act plays in late...
What accounts for the star stampede? The obvious answer is just such box- office magic. Impresarios often conclude, as did Roger Berlind of Death and the Maiden and Richard Seader of Shimada, that a new script by an unknown author absolutely requires star clout. Says Berlind: "The average straight play costs more than $1 million to produce. Doing one on Broadway without the protection of name recognizability is almost a lost business." Seader is even blunter: "We were originally considering off-Broadway. I don't think we would have done Shimada on Broadway without stars...
...When Disney conceived his California Disneyland, he strongly felt that before visitors got to Tomorrowland, Fantasyland and Frontier land, they should first pass through Main Street, which he described as "everyone's home town, the heartland of America." And so they will at Urayasu. Says Tokyo Psychologist Kazuo Shimada: "At this point, the Japanese are brimming with curiosity about America and the Americans...
...last week, for so long the also-ran in the networks' ratings race. NBC hit paydirt with the five-night, twelve-hour, $25 million production of James Clavell's bestselling novel Shōgun, set in 17th century Japan and starring Richard Chamberlain and Yoko Shimada. Despite long doses of uncaptioned Japanese dialogue, Shōgun's mix of arch politics, discreet sex and graphic beheadings started big on Monday night with 70 million watching, and was still going strong at week's end as newspapers alertly provided daily plot summaries. The total audience: some...