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Post by galacticchick on Jan 13, 2005 16:23:23 GMT -5
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Post by Lucy on Jan 13, 2005 18:46:54 GMT -5
Thank you very much, galacticchick! Bae Yong-joon is a cutie, isn't he? even though that's not such a good picture of him.  |
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Post by galacticchick on Jan 14, 2005 13:28:53 GMT -5
Yes he is one good lookin' fella. You know, I didn't really pay too much attention to the picture since I was in such a hurry, but he kinda looks like a duffus (sp?) in the first picture.
I wonder if he gets part of the money for when they release it in different markets, if he does then the must be sitting on a pretty big pile of cash. That was nice of him though.
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Post by Lucy on Jan 14, 2005 14:03:55 GMT -5
Yeah, he looks tired and kinda old in that picture. Maybe the NYT was right when they called him "over the hill"! (and I say this as someone who's older than he is.) But he's sweet.
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Post by TheBlackMamba21 on May 9, 2005 12:24:04 GMT -5
What was Bae Yong-joon's character on "Winter Love Song"?
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Post by Lucy on May 9, 2005 13:10:18 GMT -5
He was the male lead, Joonsang/Minhyung.
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Post by galacticchick on May 9, 2005 14:30:04 GMT -5
Seeing that photo of him made me crack up again. I think that's a really bad photo, they should have picked a better one.
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Post by TheBo on May 11, 2005 14:29:09 GMT -5
Seeing that photo of him made me crack up again. I think that's a really bad photo, they should have picked a better one. Tee, hee, it is pretty bad. But $481,000 -- what a nice guy. I'll take him, bad pics and all. Bo |
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Post by kathleen34 on May 11, 2005 15:32:41 GMT -5
Winter Sonata in the MidEast! That's no small accomplishment. Now that I've ordered all 3 volumes of DJG, WS will be my next Korean investment.
Bae Yong-Joon seems to track with his character. Generous, humble... and always extraordinarily attractive. ... that little picture reminds me of Harry Potter... go figure.
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Post by eun on May 16, 2005 6:35:24 GMT -5
Bae yong joon's Canadian fan.. Wow, look at the T-shirts    joon in his new movie.. [ftp]http://ucc.media.daum.net/uccmix/news/entertain/broadcast/200504/25/newsen/v8925426.html?u_b1.valuecate=4&u_b1.svcid=02y&u_b1.objid1=16602&u_b1.targetcate=4&u_b1.targetkey1=17142&u_b1.targetkey2=8925426&_right_topic=R9[/ftp] He looks really sad.. |
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Post by hachiue on May 18, 2005 18:00:29 GMT -5
Hey all - There was a fun article in the Trib's tempo section today that mentioned WLS. It's actually about Japanese and their television viewing habits, but any mention of fun dramas in the U.S. deserves recognition. clicky for article |
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Post by galacticchick on May 19, 2005 9:31:49 GMT -5
There was a fun article in the Trib's tempo section today that mentioned WLS. It's actually about Japanese and their television viewing habits, but any mention of fun dramas in the U.S. deserves recognition. The link makes me register and I get enough junk email as it is, can you just copy and paste the article? Pleeazeee! |
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Post by BAE on May 19, 2005 15:19:26 GMT -5
does anyone know if april snow will come to the us? i mean, this movie sounds really gooood and he looks so great when he's crying.... don't wanna miss that. ;-)
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Post by hachiue on May 19, 2005 19:36:20 GMT -5
Yes, sir, galacticchick, ma'am!
Sushi & TV
A survey says Japan is the leading TV nation.
We order out and tune in to see what Tokyo sees.
By Michael A. Lev
Tribune foreign correspondent
Published May 18, 2005
TOKYO -- According to an article in the Hollywood Reporter, the Japanese watch the most television -- an average of five hours a day, which far outpaces Americans, in second place at a paltry 4 hours and 19 minutes.
Is this the first sign of a spirited come-back by Japan, that once-mighty economic juggernaut? Or conversely, is it another indicator of Japan's intractable malaise?
Of greater intrigue, what exactly do the Japanese watch all day?
This being spring and the time of flowering cherry trees, I seek inspiration from the Japanese tradition of cherry-blossom viewing, in which friends gather in parks to sit, eat, drink and admire the scenery.
Therefore, a friend and I will sit on her couch, outfit ourselves with snacks and beer, order in some sushi and admire five hours of television.
3 p.m.: A staple of Japanese television is the chat show, known here as a "wide show" for the wide variety of topics they cover. However, these consist almost exclusively of sensationalistic crime stories and recipes.
Hosts and panelists convene informally to talk, interview special guests and per-form silly stunts. To accentuate that homey feeling, a tall glass of iced tea is placed in front of each guest. But it's not cool to really take a sip. That would be rude.
The granddaddy of these programs is "The Wide." It's my favorite because I was once interviewed for a segment on a horrific school murder. But I was videotaped at my office. I didn't get a glass of tea.
3:20: Tatsuya Nakadai, a gray-bearded leading man who appeared in Akira Kurosawa movies such as "Ran," is a rough, womanizing cop -- OK, I suppose he's a sheriff -- in 17th Century Tokyo in the samurai serial drama "Spring Has Come."
As we tune in, a band of ninjas attacks Nakadai's wagon train. They're quickly fended off, naturally. There is no blood, but since we're watching on high-definition television, the slicing of knives into flesh and thwack of blows to the head drive us back in our seats.
Then a gong sounds, and a samurai wearing pink cherry-blossom-season robes strolls magnificently through a grove of trees. No one teases him about his girlish outfit; he carries an enormous sword. He surprises a young girl at her house and, for reasons not fully explained, dramatically pulls a daggerlike hair clip from behind his ear and throws it in her direction. It sticks with a high-definition thwack in a wood post near her head. She wisely doesn't tease him for wielding a barrette. He leaves.
It's several dull minutes before an-other ninja attacks. This one gets knifed in the head. Nakadai bends over the body and asks the girl: "Is he the one who followed you?"
"Yes," she replies coquettishly.
"I see. I cannot leave this situation."
Tune in again next week.
3:45: Munch some dried squid.
3:57: Documentary with swirling violin music about renovating an ancient thatched-roof house. Thirty seconds of this is enough.
4:05: Another wide show, called "Click," features delicious egg recipes and introduces a special guest -- Pink Lady. The singing duo was once so famous in Japan that it went to Hollywood, where its 1980 sitcom/variety show, "Pink Lady and Jeff," lasted about 12 minutes on NBC (actually, six episodes) and is remembered to this day as one of the greatest abominations in American television history. As far as I can tell, no one on "Click" asks about this humiliation.
4:23: First surprise appearance by an American movie star in a Japanese commercial. It's Kiefer Sutherland playing an American commando in a 15-second ad for a diet supplement called Calorie Mate.
There is a long history of American movie stars appearing as pitchmen in Japanese commercials. Many of them wouldn't be caught dead doing this on American television, but don't mind secretly raking in the big bucks offered by the Japanese. Nicolas Cage (pachinko game machines), Harrison Ford (beer) and Leonardo DiCaprio (credit card) have done it. It's what Bill Murray's character was doing in "Lost in Translation."
4:30: Eat plate of okara (looks like potato salad but made with soybean fiber).
4:50: Cartoon: "Princess Minky Momo." She's an American-looking girl in Japan, with enormous manga-comic-book-style eyes, who can transform herself into a superhero. What kind? She could be a robot or a roller derby queen. Hard to tell. She's definitely wearing a helmet and kneepads. Not as entertaining as "Draemon," the blue robotlike cat (or is he a catlike robot?)
5:30: News shows, then another cartoon (robots that turn into cars and vice versa). On Channel 44, it's experts playing mahjong, with lots of close-ups of the tiles. At other times, Channel 44 presents "Beautiful Girls Gravure," in which half-naked models prance around. How they expect that to match the ratings of "Professional League Mahjong" is anyone's guess.
5:55: Eat edamame (boiled soybeans that come in a pod). Drink a beer.
6:10: Choice of viewing. First, there's "Anpanman," the cartoon superhero. He is an anthropomorphic bean cake, you see, who flies around the world fighting injustice. And when he meets a starving person, he lets that person take a bite out of his face. But don't worry! He perpetually regenerates.
Never mind. Let's watch baseball.
Softbank Hawks vs. Orix Buffaloes. Americans on the field include a pitcher named "Kevin." That's the name on the back of his jersey because "Beirne" apparently is unpronounceable in Japanese. Beirne, by the way, once pitched for the Chicago White Sox.
The sound of Japanese baseball on television is unmistakable: Impenetrable Japanese interspersed with baseball phrases in accented English ("baru" and "stri-ku," for example). The crowd bangs drums and blows horns. We place our order for sushi.
7: National news. The anchorman bows to the audience.
7:10: A young guy on a motorbike arrives at the house with sushi.
The platter is made from fake lacquer.
The delivery boy hands over the tray. We pay. There's no tipping in Japan. He doffs his cap, bows and drives off. When we are finished, we leave the tray outside for another delivery boy to fetch in the morning.
7:30: Game show: Two athletes -- a small, former pro soccer player and a big guy we don't recognize -- answer trivia questions. Or rather, the small guy answers questions. The big guy runs on a treadmill. The show is dumb and tame. Years ago there was a trend in violent, pain-filled game shows in which contestants would sit in frigid water or take smacks on the head. "Our game shows are a little different from yours," the animated Japanese emcee once explained on "The Simpsons" episode in which the family visited Japan.
"Your shows reward knowledge. We punish ignorance."
8: This marks the end of our Japanese television marathon.
You know, the word for television in Japanese is terebi. Fitting. But then again, the Japanese watch a lot of American television on cable or satellite TV. What can they possibly make of "The Simple Life"?
There's one show I wanted to catch, but it is shown on a different night. Too bad -- The prime-time drama "Winter Sonata," from South Korea, is a TV phenomenon starring the dreamy Bae Yong-Joon.
When he visited Japan last year, there was Beatles-like pandemonium at the airport, with several thousand screaming middle-age women hoping for a glimpse of the Seoul man.
You can bet the wide shows covered the event live.
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Post by galacticchick on May 20, 2005 10:04:55 GMT -5
Thanks, hachiue!
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