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...Magazine earlier this year), I posited Sony might "some day" use its cute little device as a kind of "Trojan Dog," selling all kinds of online goods and services to you once you'd become sentimentally attached to the blasted thing. This was based on conversations with Takeshi Yazawa, Sony's Vice President of Entertainment Robots, and an AIBO guru. Yazawa talked in very vague terms about his pup's long term future as an entertainment and information platform; you might take him in the car with you and ask for directions, he said, or have him take pictures...
...glory days of the nation's art film are gone, the export industry for filmed entertainment has never been more robust. Every kid cherishes Pokémon. Every lurker in specialized video stores knows the "violent pink" sex melodramas. Anime is everywhere. And actor-director "Beat" Takeshi Kitano is the tough guy du jour...
...latest movie, Brother, Takeshi comes to Los Angeles to teach the boyz in the hood some killer moves. Now if he could just drive over to Beverly Hills, he might become the new century's answer to Hayakawa - a Japanese guy who can call his own shots, kill anyone who blinks and, hell, if he wants to, get the girl...
...plot in the U.S.; in Algiers. Dahoumane is accused of helping make bombs intended to explode at various West Coast cities at midnight on New Year's Eve 1999. He had been indicted in absentia along with three alleged accomplices, who are currently on trial in Los Angeles. CLEARED. TAKESHI ABE, 84, former head of internal medicine and vice president of Teikyo University Hospital, of professional negligence for allowing a patient to be treated with HIV-infected untreated blood products in 1985; in Tokyo. The judge ruled that his actions could not be termed negligent because he may not have...
...gangsters in Shanghai, was reshot, recut and withheld for five years. Jia Zhangke shot Xiao Wu (Pickpocket, 1997) despite the censors' rejection of his script; he was banned from directing, but went ahead anyway. Jia got funds for his next film, Platform (2000), in part from Japanese star Takeshi Kitano...