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Crowe will eventually be seen as the pre-eminent actor of his era--surpassing Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Sean Penn and the rest. With Crowe you see a conflicted cop, a sensitive gay plumber, a fragile genius; with others, you see an actor playing a role. I respect Crowe's tenacity in staying true to himself. Because he won't play the fame game, he has been assigned a persona: arrogant bad boy. Your story unfairly perpetuated that image, leaving out instances of Crowe's generosity, loyalty and zest for life. Crowe is rugged, rebellious and tender. His complexity makes...
...aggrieved by TIME's choice of cover story. Why feature a self-absorbed actor for an issue chock-full of stories about real heroes who have given so much for liberty and the sake of their fellow man? I hope our culture has the maturity to recognize the difference between those who are rewarded for how well they pretend and those who give everything with no thought of recognition. The fire fighters in California and the recovering wounded from Iraq deserved to be on your cover. MURRAY HILLS Auckland, New Zealand...
Your reporting that Crowe "is frequently perceived as one of the world's biggest jerks" was uncalled for. Most people believe that an actor owes the public nothing more than good performances, and Crowe always delivers them. Because he is world famous, has won an Oscar for Best Actor and is earning megabucks, must he suffer fools like gossip columnists? Give him a break already; he's a great actor and deserves to be his own person, not the person journalists believe he should be. He's only human and has his faults, just like all the rest...
...yaakoo [an amiable way of saying yakuza]," the 42-year-old publisher laughs. We are sitting at Little More's headquarters in Tokyo's trendy and chic Minami Aoyama neighborhood, not far from the cozy gallery he opened four years ago to exhibit the paintings of cutting-edge actor Tadanobu Asano. "I like this outfit, and I don't want to change for anyone. I realize it's unusual, but I like to break the rules," Takei says in his thick Osaka dialect...
...industry as "the heat detector," the man who launches hot writers and discovers new artists. He has turned the staid Japanese publishing business on its head by selling to the demographic previously written off by traditional publishers as the manga market. He published the poetry book Ejiki by singer-actor-writer Kou Machida seven years before the writer received the Akutagawa Award, one of Japan's highest literary honors, in 2000. In 1998 Takei released the art book Slash With a Knife by Yoshitomo Nara, long before Nara became one of Japan's top painters. The film Hush!, which Takei...