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...reach those kinds of milestones, a movie has to have something special going for it. For Bayside Shakedown, it was its tongue-in-cheek take on crime fighters caught in a web of bureaucratic and cultural red tape that struck a chord with Japanese and made the movie an instant social phenomenon. After its release, police academies across the nation reported an increase in applications; some tourists arriving in Tokyo to this day are disappointed to discover that the film's mythical Wangan Police Station doesn't exist. "People collected Bayside-related goods," recalls Kawasaki City housewife Yoshimi Yamakawa...
Halpern discovered that Carol-Ann, a single mother, ate her dinner each evening in a soup kitchen with her three children. After tape-recording her story, he has gone on to interview approximately 35 workers to date...
...admit patients who don't have adequate funds and harasses lawmakers to change legislation. "In Thailand we have ministries for social services and welfare, but they do not work well," says program manager Yanyong Sangpow. "The people need us to get things done, to cut through the red tape...
...points: unlike DB, which still controls more than 90% of the freight market, Rail4Chem guarantees arrival times. Raith says his trains have been late just three or four times since 2001. Living up to the guarantee is no small achievement. Getting permits to cross borders involves kilometers of red tape; Raith calls it "an unbelievable adventure." For historical reasons, each E.U. nation has different safety requirements, permits, electrical and signaling systems and procedures for licensing drivers. Unlike aviation, international rail does not even have a universal language. The result: "At every border you need to change engines and personnel," Raith...
...sound. This is how the songs came naturally, there was no master plan." No wonder So Much for the City has the sunny, chiming sound of lucky breaks and happy coincidences. Like the time last year when, after three years of being ignored by record companies, the Thrills' demo tape suddenly sparked a bidding frenzy that led them to Virgin Records. Or the time that same demo landed in the lap of Mancunian gloom-rocker Morrissey, who invited them to play their first London show - opening for him at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall last September. Although Deasy insists...