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Thus far French imports have dominated Japan's small but growing market for foreign wine. Fujisankei's offerings, moderately priced at between $10 and $17 a bottle, have been blended "with the Japanese palate in mind," says a company spokesman, meaning that they are slightly sweet and fruity. Who knows, maybe mint juleps will be next. But Fujisankei can think about that tomorrow...
...Hollywood Cemetery, where a sea of tombstones gives way to a grassy hillside. A dainty marble cherub, its head severed at the neck by vandals, guards the spot. Surrounding the lifeless angel are scores of infants' graves, most with modest plaques, one raising a silent protest: SO SMALL, SO SWEET, SO SOON...
...major events (among the newest additions: the Mobil Cotton Bowl and the Federal Express Orange Bowl). "It used to be that sport was sport, and business was business," says Norman Chad, who writes about media for the sports daily the National. "Now sports is business. Something that was once sweet and in some ways idyllic now is in the mud with everything else...
...bore. Only brave souls would dare contemplate it as a movie subject. Only clever (and compassionate) ones could bring it off as well as have screenwriter Mike Binder, adapting a tale out of his own family's mythology, and director Joe Roth, keeping the retelling simple but not too sweet. True to its original material, Coupe de Ville retains the air of a beloved anecdote polished by many spinnings around a family table...
ADMINISTRATION: Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Martha Clark, Helga Halaki, Tosca LaBoy, Katharine K. McNevin, Barbara Milberg, Teresa D. Sedlak, Deborah R. Slater, Rafael Soto...