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...That explains the contorted strategy of marketing the film solely as a love story. Japanese billboards for Pearl Harbor insist it is just like Titanic, a colossal hit that raked in $225 million in Japan, whose film fans tend to love action-packed adventures with romantic leads. The trailer shown in Japan is vague about who the enemy actually is, cutting out close-ups of grim-faced Japanese soldiers heading off to bomb Hawaii that are shown in trailers elsewhere. A 14-page spread on the movie in the fan magazine Pia never even mentions Japan's involvement...
Civilizations tend to start talking with the dead when they become mature products--that is, when they have realized whatever dreams formed them in the first place and start to plateau. First, they begin to live in the past. Then, as Satchel Paige warned, whatever was behind them is suddenly in front of them, and a rookie competing civilization (see Goths, Vandals or Americans) takes over. This may be what is happening to us, though it is odd to think of a civilization based in a perpetual future turning around and shifting gears. Maybe we are looking backward because...
...Bello Nock a "clown's clown"? That's a hard one, because--this little essay notwithstanding--clowns tend not really to talk about one another too much. But if you get past the unanswerable questions like, Who's the best? or Who's the funniest? or Whose gig would you most like to have? and you just ask, Whom do you like to go see? then it gets easier. There are only a few clowns I love to see again and again, and Bello Nock is one of them. He's really, really good, and he has a really good...
...Washington, the successful ex-children tend to come unmoored from reality, and to lead a "preponderantly virtual life-simulated life, fabricated life" in which concern about image engulfs everything else...
...terribly old I had become, and how little I had accomplished. Twenty already! I'd done nothing. On further reflection, I thought that entering my twenties meant I had begun something irrevocably serious at last-gone through a sea-change, crossed a Rubicon. All birthdays with zeroes will tend to make you feel that way. Wait til you get a load of sixty...