Pop group Dreams Come True performed along with top foreign acts including Jamiroquai and Ashanti at yesterday's "MTV Asahi Super Dry Live" event. The show was held at the Yoyogi No.1 Gymnasium in Tokyo. The theme of the event was making dreams come true and DCT vocalist Yoshida Miwa (photo, 40) helped one young couple do just that. After the band's performance, she took part in a marriage ceremony on stage.
• Pop diva Mariah Carey (35) arrived in town yesterday for the MTV Video Music Awards show tomorrow. It's only been two months since her last visit, which was to promote her latest album, "Mimi," which has sold over 2 million copies in the US and about 300,000 here. About 1,000 fans turned out to greet her at Narita Airport. Dressed in her trademark low-cut dress, she told her fans "Aishitemasu!" (I love you!). She appeared last night on the live "SmaStation-4" TV Asahi show, talking to SMAP member Katori Shingo.
• Oscar winners Morgan Freeman (67) and Hilary Swank (30) seem to be enjoying their visit to Japan. Both appeared at the Japan premier of "Million Dollar Baby" and Freeman joked that he's planning to stay in Japan to master the language. When asked in an interview what he thought of Watanabe Ken (45), Freeman replied that he sees him becoming the next Mifune Toshiro, who in his day was the Japanese actor best known outside the country. Swank said she spent her day off yesterday getting a foot massage and shopping in Harajuku. Saying she's a big Yomiuri Giants fan, she said she had to get a baseball cap before she left. She could always get one in the Japan Zone Store of course...
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Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 1:32 pm Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
• Oscar winners Morgan Freeman (67) and Hilary Swank (30) seem to be enjoying their visit to Japan. Both appeared at the Japan premier of "Million Dollar Baby" and Freeman joked that he's planning to stay in Japan to master the language. When asked in an interview what he thought of Watanabe Ken (45), Freeman replied that he sees him becoming the next Mifune Toshiro, who in his day was the Japanese actor best known outside the country. Swank said she spent her day off yesterday getting a foot massage and shopping in Harajuku. Saying she's a big Yomiuri Giants fan, she said she had to get a baseball cap before she left. She could always get one in the Japan Zone Store of course...
Cool...American celebs that don't act like asses in Japan. I think a Freeman/Watanabe team-up other than Batman would be cool .
I wonder how Hillary Swank has kept up on Yomiuri Giants progress...or was she just saying that while under the spell of a foot massage? _________________
Talento Yamaguchi Moe (27) spoke yesterday for the first time about her romantic relationship with Ozeki Shigeo (30) founder of the IT company Zeel. She told fellow showbiz types on the Wada Akiko TBS show "Akko ni O-makase!" that her boyfriend has "living expenses" of over \1 million a month and is interested in reading books on philosophy. This prompted a surprised reaction, as Moe-chan is generally regarded as either pretty dim or a better actress than she is given credit for.
• The MTV Video Music Awards were held last night at the Tokyo Bay NK Hall. Taking three prizes, including the Best Video award, were the Okinawan sensation hip hop group Orange Range, Japan's best selling artists in 2004. Amuro Namie (photo, 27) became the first artist to pick up an award four years running, getting the nod as the Best Asian Performing Artist and for the Best R&B Video. Visiting special guest Mariah Carey (35) picked up the International Video Icon award.
• English actor Gerald Butler (35) arrived at Narita Airport on a PR trip yesterday. His first trip to Japan was to promote "The Phantom of the Opera" in January, when he was relatively unknown, and he slipped through the airport almost unnoticed. This time around 2,000 screaming fans ensured a suitably chaotic welcome in the terminal building. Butler's in town to plug another movie from 2004, "Dear Frankie," which opens here June 25.
Hollywood actor Watanabe Ken (45) was one of a glittering group of stars who appeared at a PR event yesterday for the new movie "Batman Begins." The event was held at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Tokyo's trendy Roppongi district and a huge number of press from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan turned up to see the new Batman, Christian Bale (31), director Christopher Nolan (34), Tom Cruise's new love Katie Holmes (26), Oscar winner Morgan Freeman (67) and Irish star Liam Neeson (52). Unlike many Japanese actors, Watanabe seemed quite at home with the Hollywood stars, joking around and playing "host."
• Tired British rockers Oasis have finally got to No.1 in the charts. Though they've been hugely popular here in Japan for years, "Don't Believe the Truth" is their first album to reach the top of the local Oricon chart. It is the first original album by a British band to reach No.1 since the Bay City Rollers did it in 1977. Meanwhile, at No.2 is the eponymous album by indies duo Def Tech, made up of Shen (24), born in China and raised in Hawaii, and Tokyo boy Micro (24). It's taken a while since the January 22 release, but they are only the second independent group to put out a million-selling album, after Mongol 8000. It's also the first original million seller this year.
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 1:58 pm Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
• English actor Gerald Butler (35) arrived at Narita Airport on a PR trip yesterday. His first trip to Japan was to promote "The Phantom of the Opera" in January, when he was relatively unknown, and he slipped through the airport almost unnoticed. This time around 2,000 screaming fans ensured a suitably chaotic welcome in the terminal building. Butler's in town to plug another movie from 2004, "Dear Frankie," which opens here June 25.
Make that 2,000 screaming female fans. A lot of housewives seem extremely devoted to foreign celebrities. Note to self: become celebrity...or at least try to pass myself off as one. _________________
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:14 pm Post subject:
kitakaze wrote:
Make that 2,000 screaming female fans. A lot of housewives seem extremely devoted to foreign celebrities. Note to self: become celebrity...or at least try to pass myself off as one.
Did you ever see news coverage of the Japanese premiere of "Ocean's Twelve?" The massive throng of Japanese women gathered in Roppongi Hills to see Brad Pitt was friekin' nuts...I daresay it easily eclipsed 2000....it was probably upwards of 7 or 8 thousand....George Clooney, ever the clown, even took a sign from an adoring female fan and followed Brad Pitt around holding up the sign which said "Brad We Love You" as he was one of his fans....it was quite funny.
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:54 am Post subject:
Tu_triky wrote:
...George Clooney, ever the clown, even took a sign from an adoring female fan and followed Brad Pitt around holding up the sign which said "Brad We Love You" as he was one of his fans....it was quite funny.
George Clooney, ever the clown, even took a sign from an adoring female fan and followed Brad Pitt around holding up the sign which said "Brad We Love You" as he was one of his fans....it was quite funny.
George is laugh riot... He's gotta be one of the most likeable actors around...
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:03 am Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
George is laugh riot... He's gotta be one of the most likeable actors around...
yeah he's supposed to be the prankster....i also heard while shooting ocean's twelve he stuck a bumper sticker on brad pitt's car that said "honk i'm gay"
yeah he's supposed to be the prankster....i also heard while shooting ocean's twelve he stuck a bumper sticker on brad pitt's car that said "honk i'm gay"
Sumo elder Futagoyama Oyakata died of cancer on Monday at the age of 55. The father of two of the most popular sumo wrestlers of modern times, Takanohana (photo) and his elder brother Wakanohana, died of oral cancer after a long period at a Tokyo hospital. His funeral will be held tomorrow and the Japan Sumo Association will hold a memorial service at the Kokugikan in Ryogoku, where all Tokyo tournaments are held. A popular ozeki (champion) in his heyday, he fought under the name Takanohana, and had a stellar career record despite being small for a rikishi (wrestler). He was perhaps even more successful as a coach, as both his sons reached Yokozuna (Grand Champion), the highest rank in sumo. Wakanohana, a sports commentator since his retirement several years ago, spoke of his father's love, often expressed as strictness and anger as he taught the "gentler" of his two sons the fighting art. Takanohana, the better wrestler who won 22 tournaments to become the dominant wrestler of the 1990s, said he was having rtrouble accepting his father's death. The first time he saw his father's tears was when he became a sumo pro at the age of 15. He promised never to cry himself until his father's death. He took over as stablemaster from his father following his retirement in 2003.
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