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In the first edition of the book, The Coen brothers seem to be obsessed with the published in 2000, Bergan chronicled the Coens’ dynamics of good versus evil, a central thematic filmography, and in its updated edition, he returns tension of all crime stories. However, if you were to account for their work in the new millennium. to point that out to them, the brothers would most likely refute the assertion. “When questioned Bergan offers a history of the Coen brothers’ about the content of their films rather than the work, detailing how the films came together, and technicalities behind the making of them, they who received what credit. The effect is rather dry, become reticent, evasive, facetious, or make at times provoking about as much excitement as like philistines,” observes Bergan. The Coens an extended Wikipedia article. resist interpretations that try to fix a meaning The fault is not entirely Bergan’s. “Ideally, to their films, and prefer to embrace ambiguity. what biographers want is to enter the minds Remarking on a dream sequence in Miller’s of their subjects,” Bergan writes, yet, Joel and Crossing, Joel quips, “It’s an image that pleased Ethan are subjects unwilling to be written about. us. You mustn’t look for any deep meaning.” To requests for cooperation, the Coens were In the second edition’s introduction, Bergan is unyielding: they told Bergan to contact dubious frank about his preference for the early films of figures, such as a Mr. Schoolcraft, whose “voice the Coens. “I cannot disguise the fact that I’ve sounded suspiciously like Joel’s,” as well as telling Bergan to simply swap the names Joel and been disappointed by some of the Coens’ films Ethan into his earlier biography on the classic since the last edition in 2000, and what I saw Hollywood comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. as a detrimental move into the mainstream,” he writes. His dismay is tempered, however, by No The most compelling parts of Bergan’s updated Country For Old Men, the 2007 film that won the book occur when he succeeds in gleaning moments Coens four Academy Awards. from the Coens’ filmography that parallel the brothers’ real lives, providing details about how “No Country For Old Men was the first straight they grew up and how they see the world. adaptation of a novel by the Coens,” Bergan writes. ensemble of recurring actors. Since their first film, the Coens have experimented The Coen brothers took a singular turn with form, so literary adaptation was a logical into the autobiographical in their 2009 film, Given the successful release of Blood Simple, progression. Their penchant for pastiche has A Serious Man. Set in 1967, the film finds the the Coens left a burgeoning impression upon led critics to describe their work as postmodern. Coens revisiting their Minnesota childhood in independent cinema. As Bergan makes clear, Bergan elaborates, “They distill the essence of the its opening scene. Sitting in his Hebrew class, the “self-effacing, geekish Coens” accepted the genre so that each film contains every element Danny Gopnik, son of protagonist Lawrence “hip mantle” as indie auteurs “with amusement, that we expect from a film noir, gangster movie, Gopnik, attempts to smuggle a $20-dollar bill in pleasure, and some irony.” detective thriller, or cons-on-the-run picture, the his cassette player to pay for some dope, without The Hudsucker Proxy — the Coen brothers’ fifth boundaries being pushed as far as they can go, the rabbi noticing. Danny, bored and blasting film and most expensive project, which starred deconstructing conventional narratives.” Jefferson Airplane’s “Somebody To Love” on his their first major Hollywood actor, Paul Newman earphones, has the cassette player taken away by One of the most effective aspects of the — was their least profitable endeavor, “a box- Rabbi Marshak, and the money with it. biography is the attention paid to the Coens’ office disaster.” With this loss behind them, the relation to Jewish identity. “Until they made Danny is a dork whose main hobbies include Coens returned to what they knew, which meant A Serious Man, there are few overtly Jewish smoking marijuana and watching F Troop on the downsizing their crew and going to their home characters in the Coen brothers’ films,” he notes, TV. It wouldn’t be a stretch to substitute either of state of Minnesota to film Fargo. In an introduction citing the “ineffectual writer” protagonist of 1991’s the Coen brothers for Danny, a professor’s son, to the screenplay, Ethan writes, “Fargo evokes the Barton Fink as one example. Fink, a playwright who celebrates his bar mitzvah during the movie. abstract landscape of our childhood — a bleak, turned Hollywood screenwriter, serves as Danny’s family life mimics that of the Coens, who windswept tundra, resembling Siberia except for were also born to academic parents, Edward and its Ford dealerships and Hardee’s restaurants.” The another possible stand-in for the brothers. Rena; in 1967, Joel had his bar mitzvah, as well. plot of Fargo says nothing explicitly biographical A Serious Man, a retelling of the story of Job, Although their own lives may figure about the Coen brothers, yet it’s in the frigid focuses on Lawrence Gopnik as he is struck by prominently in some of the Coens’ films, Bergan countryside and the distinct dialect of the region catastrophe after catastrophe, for no apparent suggests that the sparseness of the Midwest that the world of the Coens is found. reason, and is unable to escape tragedy. The compelled the brothers to look beyond their Fargo was nominated for seven Oscars in archetype of the “losers, who appear as ‘heroes’ immediate experience in search of dramatic 1997 and won two: McDormand for her role as of all their films,” comes to its end in A Serious material. “The Coens found themselves in St. the pregnant police chief Margie, and the Coen Man. Lawrence asks three different rabbis why Louis Park, a middle-class suburb of Minneapolis, brothers for the original screenplay. “In Marge, God continues to punish him. For this loser, the a rather staid and boring midwestern city,” writes the brothers had written possibly their best female fight of good versus evil collapses: “The absurdist Bergan, speaking of the Coen family’s move to part, and the warmest,” Bergan comments. “It and bleak conclusion is that if God exists, then Minnesota. “Maybe its very dullness pushed does help when the director is in love with the he inflicts suffering indiscriminately on both young Joel and Ethan toward a more imaginative star.” Unsurprisingly, the Coens’ best work often the good and the bad,” writes Bergan, “and the life and an escape into a more exciting world.” draws intimately from their personal lives. Coens, playing God, do exactly the same thing.” Their first film, Blood Simple, a convoluted Bergan notices that in Ethan’s own short An inquisitive reader who is looking for the story of marital revenge, had a low budget of stories, if they do not “have an autobiographical juiciest bits about the Coens’ lives will be sadly $1.5 million. Initially, the Coens looked to cast basis,” then they depict a criminal act. “Like the disappointed. Replete with the technical minutiae Holly Hunter for the film’s lead role. Hunter other movies,” Bergan writes, “[Fargo] manages involved in movie-making, Bergan’s biography was occupied with other work, so she suggested to move seamlessly back and forth between is most impressive when he moves beyond plot Frances McDormand. McDormand took the role, black humor, violent crime drama, and genial summary and works to decode the psychology later married Joel, and became part of the Coens’ comedy, while telling a good yarn.” Stylistically, behind the Coen brothers’ movies. 10

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or the international entertainment industry, The standard combines IP with over-the-air the National Association of Broadcasters broadcasting and can display up to 4K UHD F(NAB) Show, recently concluded in Las resolution, which will open up some issues with Vegas, is still the world’s grandest bazaar, MVPDs. A total of 21 sessions were devoted to the registering a record 103,443 attendees (of which subject. 26,714 came from 161 countries outside the U.S.). It’s followed by the IBC, which will take On the market’s opening day, NAB president place in Amsterdam in September, with 55,800 and CEO Gordon Smith delivered the annual State participants. of the Industry address, focusing on changes and the resilience of local broadcast television. “We At this year’s NAB Show, every aspect of the are witnessing the thrilling innovations taking industry was represented and, even though place in 4K UHD and Next Generation Television, hardware got the largest share, TV stations, regulators (such as commissioners of the FCC, along with new technologies bringing radio to the U.S.’s Federal communications regulatory every device.” agency), ad agencies, content producers and He continued: “John F. Kennedy said, ‘Change distributors, also took part in a prominent Christian Morsanutto, Slava Levin and Filomena Jolic of is the law of life.’ Comedian Steven Wright once Canada’s Nextologies and Ethnic Channels Group way under the unifying theme: “Media. noted, ‘Change is inevitable, except from vending Entertainment. Technology” and, for good reserved for conferences, the exhibition floor was machines,’ and [the late comedian] George Carlin measure, they added: “The M.E.T. Effect.” Then, open on April 24 through the 27. There were also said, ‘I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing to further stress the entertainment portion of the a total of 58 hospitality suites scattered among changed,’ [and] professor and author of the Seven show, the sub-theme was: “Where Content Comes four hotels. Free shuttle service was available Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey, Alive.” An important segment of the show was from 36 citywide hotels. [added] ‘there are three constants in life: change, represented by Internet giants such as Amazon, choice and principles.’ Microsoft, Facebook and Google, to the point that The latest technology was not only on display, some participants nicknamed the NAB “Nothing but also being used in practice. For example, “But there are some things technology will About Broadcasting.” pre-registered badges were once again available never change: Listeners and viewers will always for pick-up at 14 hotels. The highlights of new In terms of figures, there were 1,806 exhibitors want that local connection that broadcasters technology ranged from the new ATSC 3.0 (of which 750 came from outside the U.S.), 700 provide — with the weatherman who tells them broadcast TV standard that the FCC is hoping sessions and 150 trade publications represented if a storm is approaching, or their favorite DJ who to make into a voluntary adoption by the end by 1,518 reporters, all gathered in a one-kilometer warns them of the traffic building up ahead. of this year, to something so esoteric as the wide Convention Center complex. The exhibition possible changing habits of radio listeners during “Even in this era of unprecedented competition space was divided into three main areas: the autonomous driving. for eyeballs, broadcast TV airs 90 of the top 100 North Hall, the Central Hall and the South Hall, most-watched television shows every week. This which had a lower and an upper level. However, In terms of A-list speakers, on the podium stood brings us to the very exciting development of exhibitors were mostly scattered, which made it Steven Swartz, president and CEO of Hearst; Ajit Next Gen TV,” he said. “This is the world’s first difficult to locate content companies. Pai, FCC chairman; Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment; Craig Barry, EVP at broadcast standard that offers the advantages Clearly identifiable were exhibitors in the Drone Turner Sports; talk show personality Larry King; of broadcast and broadband. With Next Gen TV, Pavilion and Futures Park, featuring the new TV and Maria Elena Salinas, of Noticiero Univision. we see the seamless convergence of over-the- broadcast standard ATSC 3.0 — defined as the At the Television Luncheon, Salinas was inducted air and over-the-top. We are pleased that the Next Gen TV — which, among other elements, into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame. FCC is carefully considering our request that will provide interactive features. There were also broadcasters be permitted to voluntarily adopt Beijing, Bavaria, Belgium, France, Argentina, Slava Levin, of Canada’s Nextologies and Next Gen TV — just as the wireless industry Brazil, Canada and Israel pavilions. One pavilion Ethnic Channels Group, has been attending the that received lots of media attention was the NAB Show in Las Vegas for the past 20 years, and is permitted to move from 3G to 4G to 5G as Cybersecurity and Content Protection Pavilion, found the event important “to meet with lots of technology improves,” Smith concluded. especially geared toward the Hollywood studios. program partners [i.e., ethnic channels that his group distributes internationally] and small While April 22 and April 23 were exclusively TV channels looking for signal distribution.” However, he didn’t have a stand, and met people at hotels, on the convention floor and at restaurants instead. Nonetheless, his schedule was “jam-packed through the end of the show.” Since Levin also runs a technology company, he attended the show to look for “new forms of signal delivery for both linear and OTT.” In this respect, Levin emphasized that “for linear I mean ‘closed networks,’ like cable and satellite TV, while OTT is an open network. And please note that IPTV can be used for both a closed network and an open network.” At the Futures Park Pavilion, several companies The NAB Show’s theme displayed at the North side entrance featured the new broadcast TV standard ATSC of the one-kilometer long Las Vegas Convention Center 3.0, which received lots of media attention. The Futures Park Pavilion 12

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magine, there are 88 definitions of “HR.” to me the two best for me to decide.” To most people the initials mean Human Former MGM/UA TV distribution executive Resources, but for some people it could mean I Larry Gershman concurred, “Personal connection Human Remains caused by a Hit & Run incident was how business was done — especially among induced by an increased Heart Rate followed friends. As the business got bigger, and companies by Human Rights violations after receiving became more structured, it became harder for a Hypersensitive Response from a Human that simple connection to get the job. To a certain Resources department. degree that still works, but much less so, and Yes, it is funny and that’s why FOX came up with now, it often has to go through HR. Bigger is not Linda from HR, a pilot for a comedy series; in the always better, as we very well know,” he said. past there were similar TV shows, like Terrible HR (2015), and Human Resources (2014). Informally, however, some top-level executives say that for top-level positions they still rely on But who are these mysterious people — in a executive recruiters. department usually made up of three managers plus support personnel — who hide in some Howard R. Lipson, a veteran Los Angeles- poorly lit basement office, who no one sees at based ER, explained that “Personnel” became industry gatherings, yet strike fear in potential “Human Resources” because they are expected employees and current executives? to handle more functions beyond “instructions Nowadays, ask a top-level executive to Howard R. Lipson, veteran executive recruiter for new employees and administering vacations. recommend a contact in the company for someone They now deal with affirmative action, diversity looking for a job, and immediately you’re directed hiring, equal pay and sexual harassment.” to the HR department. Continued Lipson, “HR does get involved When the entertainment industry was run Nowadays with everyone, from an entry-level employee to by executives who were (mostly) showmen human resources the CEO. For example, if a CEO is terminated, themselves, the answer would have been, “Tell Human Resources can even escort them out your friend to call me next week,” or “Tell your departments are of the building. [At the same time] ERs recruit son/daughter to show up for work on Sunday!” most useful for executives at all levels. Of course, it is rarely cost A few years ago, author Bernard Marr wrote effective to use Executive Recruiters to fill lower about why people dislike HR, but at times of ﬁ ring people, level positions, where the fee can be as much as distress, the division can be essential. As reported protecting the salary of the person being hired.” to an Italian paper, Jaine Mehring, head of global Then Lipson expanded: “Executive Recruiters HR at the time of Lehman Brothers’s collapse, employees from are used when a Human Resources department said: “With thousands of employees around the possible lawsuits, encounters one or more of the following: Wants world, I had to be around throughout the final to conduct a confidential search, wants to expand week because I could track all our employees who and spotting red the pool of potential candidates, is entering a needed to be aware that their company’s credit new functional area that they are not familiar card would be canceled at midnight and their car ﬂ ags early on. with, and has insufficient time to undertake such leases or mortgages backed by Lehman would be a labor intensive process. terminated.” Lipson then concluded: “HR can be very Indeed, working in HR is not easy, since the after WWII, turned into HR. But before that, effective for the entertainment sector, [but] there division is often called on to fire employees for in 1960, a new element entered the picture: various reasons under the order of their bosses. are myriad reasons why an internal recruiter the Executive Recruiter. Today, the New York In the view of some former executives, nowadays approach may not be the most productive. City-based Association of Executive Search HR departments are most useful for firing people, Internal recruiters will rarely conceal [potential Consultants has a membership of 300 firms in 74 protecting employees from possible lawsuits, and employees] identities; and so senior executives countries. spotting red flags early on. Plus, recounted a will be very cautious about expressing their German HR executive, “we are always pestered Explained international TV content distribution potential level of interest to an internal recruiter. by headhunters,” (formerly called Executive pioneer Michael J. Solomon: “HR is important The entertainment world is small; everyone Recruiters, or ER, and informally, “job finders”). today with large corporations. There are legal talks to everyone; gossip is a common currency, The history of Human Resources Management forms that employees have to sign which protect whether truthful or not. did not begin when U.S. management consultant the company. Years ago we didn’t have this “Thus, regardless of their level of interest, a David Ulrich published his first book “Human problem. gainfully employed senior executive risks having Resource Champions” in 1995. The history of “In the beginning, at Telepictures, I didn’t have the word ‘get out’ if he/she tells a Human Resource Human Resources, as we know it, started with an HR department. I hired who I wanted. As we executive working for another company, that the British Industrial Revolution, when factories grew, I had to have an HR department. Also, if he/she might be interested in ‘such and such’ a hired thousands of workers. there was a position available and five people position. Executives will often not be willing to The second phase began in the ’70s when the applied, I would have the interviews done by HR put themselves, their livelihood, and thus their Personnel Management Department, developed which saved me a lot of time as they would send families, at risk,” he said. 14

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Those outlets don’t have to disclose their viewership, so it’s tough to know “Viewership is spreading out chronologically how they are paying for all the new shows they over time. Nearly all of the viewership of a TV show used to come on the first night. Now that is are creating.” spread out across the DVR, VoD and streaming” The glut of material means that people with that takes places anywhere from seven to 28 days high profiles in the industry can ask for more after premiere. “The ability to make revenue off money to do projects, commented Deggans. a television show is challenged. When you have a “There is so much competition for talents and large thriving portfolio of television as we do you executives need big names to stand out in that can manage your way through that,” he said. John Landgraf, FX’s president crowd. Cable executives are concerned that the While Landgraf had predicted that the bubble will eventually burst when these other number of original scripted series on television number. Rather, I think we are ballooning into a players have to admit the revenue they take in and streaming would peak in 2015 or 2016, at condition of oversupply which will at some point won’t pay for the shows they air and the industry a press tour in 2016, he acknowledged he had slowly deflate, perhaps from 500-plus shows to contracts. But so far, everybody still seems to be miscalculated. “It now seems clear that, at a 400 or a little less than that.” in expansion mode.” minimum, the peak will be in calendar 2017 — But not everyone shares Landgraf’s warning. Then, it’s no wonder why last year at a press and there is enough inertial momentum here that Mekeisha Madden Toby, TV critic for Essence tour, FOX TV Group chairman Dana Walden we could well see the growth trend carrying over magazine, among other publications, is excited by into the 2018 calendar year,” Landgraf explained. pointed to writer staffing as an area that has been the glut of TV shows and she gratefully adopted influenced by the number of original scripted “I will still stick by my prediction that we are the term “peak TV.” television series. “Peak TV is a challenge,” she going to hit a peak in the scripted series business “I look at peak TV as a win-win for viewers. said. “A lot of the creators are trying to staff with within the next two and a half years — and then Because of this phenomenon, the medium is more experienced writers, which can be difficult.” see a decline — by calendar [2019] at the latest,” diverse, inclusive, exciting and entertaining Landgraf stated. In the final analysis, this could mean that “peak than ever. A year ago, the only shows with black TV” will affect the creative process much more “While there is more great television than at protagonists on TV were Scandal, Black-ish, How than viewership. any time in history, audiences are having more To Get Away With Murder and Empire. Now, there trouble than ever distinguishing the great from are three times as many black shows with black the merely competent,” he said. “I do this for protagonists and none of these shows have to a living, I have a pretty good memory, and I represent all black people. To me, that is a sign “The audience is certainly can’t come close to keeping track of it that peak TV is working and working well.” all.” Added Toby: “From a social perspective, peak overwhelmed by He continued: “I’m not saying that I believe we TV has created masterfully thoughtful and the sheer volume are in a bubble which is going to pop, causing us inclusive options like Transparent, Queen Sugar, to go from 500-plus scripted series to half that Luke Cage, Jane the Virgin and Insecure. It’s truly of TV shows. It’s a great time to be a viewer.” impossible to get Broadcast network execs tend to be less worried. They are impacted on a whole other you to take another level by peak TV, noted Eric Deggans, television critic at National Public Radio. look at something “The networks already make lots of shows, you’ve already so they are less affected by the demand for new material. Cable executives, who provide rejected.” high quality shows, are concerned that they are spending lots of money, because they have to — John Landgraf TV critic Eric Deggans compete with Netflix, Amazon and Hulu and 16

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Uemura left Tohoku for Tokyo during World But in the international TV arena, Uemura Banjiro Uemura War II, when students were mobilized to work at is known, admired and respected since 1961 as factories. He was involved in production of parts the founder of Tohokushinsha Film Corporation One aspect of the American lifestyle he did for Zero Fighter planes. not acquire is the propensity for press coverage (TFC). Later on, when Uemura formed a new and, indeed, today very little can be found about Larry Gershman recalled: “I was very fortunate company in 1961 at age 32, it became the current him online. Like many Japanese, he possibly to have met Banjiro on my first trip to Japan Tohokushinsha by combining the words “Tohoku” followed the Asian proverb, “the stake that sticks [in 1976 as the head of Viacom International (East-North), “shin” (new) and “sha company.” out gets hammered down (deru kui wa utareru).” TV distribution]. Then, it was not easy to sell After meeting him for the first time at the L.A. TFC was originally created as a dubbing American productions to Japanese broadcasters, Screenings of 1990, the first interview that house for foreign TV series and feature films for but Banjiro had the unique ability to act as a Japanese TV, considering that during the ’60s creative ‘bridge’: a way to find common ground Uemura gave this writer was in the fall of the same year, and he even sent his driver to pick him and ’70s, 70 percent of TV shows on Japanese for specific productions that could perform well television were American. on Japanese television.” up at Tokyo’s Narita Airport. The report appeared in the January 1991 issue of VideoAge. Recalled Bruce Gordon, then at Desilu Studios Stern and reserved while in his Tokyo home This overdue Hall of Fame report was compiled in Sydney (before it was acquired by Paramount): office, Uemura would show a humorous flair and “When I first went to Tokyo to sell programs and informal manners while dealing with Western thanks in part to the efforts of TFC’s executives over a five-month period. needed a dubber, I inquired from each of the TV partners, suppliers and friends. Indeed, he took networks and Banjiro was the most reliable, so I pride in being called in the U.S.-style “Banji,” just Uemura doesn’t remember exactly when he made a deal for him to dub our pilots.” as an American named Robert would like to be first attended an international TV market, but “it called, “Rob.” was MIP-TV in the early 1970s,” he said, while the Today, 56 years later, TFC is a public company, quoted on the JASDAQ exchange since 2002, with most recent was the L.A. Screenings in 2004. “He’s a man with humor and he likes telling revenues in 2016 of 59.9 billion Yen (U.S.$510 jokes,” recalled Armando Nuñez Sr., who met million). TFC has 1,582 employees and operates Uemura in 1966 when he joined ITC and TFC was in advertising and content production (film representing ITC, Paramount and Four Stars in “Banjiro had the and television), post-production, media (11 Japan. unique ability to TV channels under nine brands), dubbing and Though proud of his Japanese heritage, “Banji” subtitling, TV content distribution, property and has always been attracted by Western culture, act as a creative retail business, all grouped under five divisions. especially American. He learned to speak English Since 1996, TFC also owns Kimura Brewery, with an American accent while managing a bar, ‘bridge’: a way which produces premium sake and is the pride a PX (a store operated by the U.S. Army) in Tokyo to ﬁ nd common of Tetsu Uemura, Banji’s son and now TFC’s and selling jewelry to U.S. soldiers, and took ground for speciﬁ c president and CEO. every opportunity to go to the movies to watch TFC’s expansion into the retail business offers American films. productions that another insight into Uemura’s vision. In 1972 From the Americans, he learned to smile and a Western-style supermarket in Tokyo got his tell jokes in public. But once back in Japan, could perform attention and he bought it because he saw in it, as “Banji” would immediately revert to Uemura- well on Japanese he recalled, “an atmosphere of American culture san. Looking at his photos taken in Japan and at that influenced me when I was PX manager.” It various international TV markets, the difference television.” also helped that “the supermarket was located in could not be more striking: very serious in the — Larry Gershman a super-prime piece of commercial real estate,” he former, jovial in the latter. added. (Continued on Page 36) 34

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aaa15 May_Issue_2_2017_Final.indd 36 5/10/17 9:19 AM Ads CC2015 270x360.indd 37 5/8/17 8:33 AM VIDEOAGE Int’l TV Distribution Hall of Fame May 2017 (Continued from Page 36) accomplishments with his American partners. TFC launched Japan’s first pay-TV service, Star Channel, as a joint venture with Paramount, Universal and MGM. He then explained the rationale behind the creation of Super! Drama TV. “As Japanese terrestrial networks lost enthusiasm for foreign dramas in the late ’80s, TFC started Super! Drama TV, a basic TV channel based on foreign series, in order to provide an alternate home for Banjiro in the early years of TFC foreign producers.” When in 1978 he became Banjiro (16.9 percent) and the rest are floating on the chairman of Japan Audio the market. Producers’ Association, Uemura established an Banjiro’s fondness for America brought him industry rule that the At Paramount’s stand during MIPCOM 1993: Bruce Gordon, Banjiro and Tetsu Uemura first to open an office in New York City in 1973 and ownership of dubbed tracks in 1983, in Los Angeles, where TFC still maintains resides with a producer of the its content acquisition base on Sunset Boulevard. show, not the station who paid Nuñez Sr. added, “Banji used to have an for the dubbing. apartment in New York City and every time He also served as chairman of Japan he visited the ITC office he’d go to a nearby Satellite Broadcasting Association for three restaurant on 57th Street and Park Avenue to have terms of two years each, starting in 2004, his favorite dish: littleneck clams.” The Uemuras and assisted the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications’ initiative to drive multi-channel broadcasting in the country. My father was a Of all his achievements, perhaps the biggest challenge for Uemura was presented novelist and my in 1978, when he co-produced Message From Space, a theatrical film which at the mother came from equivalent of U.S.$6 million, was the most expensive film of the era in Japan. With Twentieth Century Fox TV Distribution’s Mark Kaner last a merchant family. month in Tokyo. Uemura likes to say that “Tohokushinsha I inherited one- is involved in the business which cannot be mass-produced — whether it is dubbing, feature- half from each TV production or television commercials. Each group of companies 21 years ago. is handcrafted, a work of art.” Similarly, the parent — art and a younger Uemura would explain that the sake of Because of this sense of uniqueness, in 1995 “the Kimura family [which] is distantly related Uemura Sr. set up the Visual Techno-Academy business sense. to my family, is a small brewery with a history in Tokyo, a media education institution “where of 400 years that produces the premium sake by youth can study toward making their dreams of hand in a small quantity following the traditional creativity and passion come true.” sold the apartment when TFC closed its New York technique.” The brewery became part of the TFC He retired as TFC chairman and CEO in 2010. City offices in 1983. And, recalled Joe Lucas, “During the L.A. Screenings in 1991, we at Paramount organized a barbecue party at my house in Tarzana. Bruce Gordon bought some Australian sausages and, as a general surprise Banjiro went to the grill and started to cook and serve them.” Of all the U.S. television executives Uemura befriended, he considers Manny Reiner his mentor. The two met in the early ’70s when Reiner was running Four Stars’ international sales. He retained Manny’s widow, Elaine, as a consultant until her passing, and now Tetsu maintains both a personal and business relationship with their nephew, Gordon Rubenstein, managing partner of Raine Ventures. Tetsu Uemura and Armando Nuñez, Jr. Banjiro’s smile Uemura also fondly related some of his in 1993

aaaPAGE 38.indd 38 5/15/17 3:45 PM BANJIRO UEMURA I salute you my dear and valued friend

You played a major part in the early growth of the Television Industry in Japan.

Tohokushinsha became the most respected dubbing company: Your ingenuity in choosing dubbing voices with similar tones to their original actors meant that when dubbing each episode of The Lucy Show in Japanese the humour and pace remained.

You branched into TV and Feature Film productions with such success that your assistance with SHOGUN revealed your skill in bringing this classic story to the screen.

All your ventures have been successful You are and always will be my friend

DOMO ARIGATOU

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pilotsP41.indd 2 5/19/17 11:20 AM May 2017 My 2¢ Technology and research can tell us “how” and “when,” but philosophy will tell us “why,” “what,”and “where.” Perhaps the entertainment industry should call on both philosophers and scriptwriters to explain the future.

Nowadays, o anticipate trends it’s not just necessary to follow and a few days later, at MIP-TV. I remember we listen technological developments; the entertainment when Mary McLuhan was invited on to economists, Tindustry also should learn how to follow philosophical behalf of her father to Televisa’s second political scientists, arguments. Encuentro Mundial de la Comunicación in sociologists, technologists 1979 in Acapulco, Mexico. Technology can tell us “how” and “when,” but philosophy and futurists, but not will tell us “why,” “what,” and “where.” Even we at VideoAge lost our bearings philosophers. The international television industry learned a lot from when, in our October 2015 Issue about the Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper. I’d say even more future of television, we failed to include so than from Canadian philosopher Marshal McLuhan. any philosophical outlooks, like those of the Nonetheless, they both explained to all of us why media recently deceased (at 92 years old) Polish- is what it is, what it was becoming and where it was born Zygmunt Bauman’s “Liquid Modernity.” heading. Lately, however, the industry has lost touch with In his 2000 book, Bauman examined how philosophers and philosophy. the world has moved away from a “heavy” Nowadays, we listen to economists, political scientists, and “solid” hardware-focused modernity, to a sociologists, technologists and futurists, but not “light” and “liquid” software-based modernity. philosophers. Kevin Tsujihara, CEO of Warner Brothers, He wrote: “What was some time ago dubbed has been quoted as saying, “We need to anticipate where (erroneously) ‘post-modernity’ and what the market is going.” Similarly, I’ve chosen Alphabet (Google’s parent to call, more company) CEO Larry Page, in to the point, a “Fireside chat” with venture ‘late modernity,’ capitalist Vinod Khosla, discussed or ‘liquid modernity,’ is the need for business leaders to the growing conviction maintain a 20-year vision instead that change is the of a four-year vision. only permanence, and They certainly offer good uncertainty the only advice, but remain very techno- certainty.” centric. Today’s trend gurus all In Bauman’s view, tend to analyze the same indexes: the uncertain future is technology, past performances, characterized by a “fluid” demographics, and political world of globalization, outlooks. They all go to Davos deregulation and every January for the World individualization, which Economic Forum to talk amongst meant the free movement themselves, but more than to “I’m the boss ... I don’t have to think!” of capital and money. learn, I believe, it’s to be seen. According to Bauman, David Rodin, a philosopher “Modernity appears solid who teaches at Oxford University, recalled his Davos 2014 because of the rapid centralization of institutional power.” invitation in an article he wrote: “It is safe to say that I Now, the Bauman Institute at the University of Leeds, am a bit of an oddity here. Not that I dress in a beard and sandals. But my intellectual orientation is very different. My where he was a philosophy professor, cuts across various questions can be sharper-edged. My inclination is always to disciplines, including media and cultural studies. And, for seek for the roots and to ask: What lies behind? What lies one, Henry A. Giroux, the Global Television Network Chair beneath?” at McMaster University in Canada, is good at analyzing Bauman’s concepts. Technocrats don’t have a natural grasp of psychology and emotions; philosophers and scriptwriters do. Technocrats Nowadays, to explain the present, analysts call back the are good at warning about things that could generate antagonism between French philosopher Voltaire and Swiss surprises (menaces in the entertainment business), but Jean-Jacques Rousseau, like Indian political essayist Pankaj philosophy rarely enters into their crystal balls. Mishra did in his book subtitled “A History of the Present.” Perhaps, the entertainment industry should call on both I remember when Popper and McLuhan would attend TV philosophers and scriptwriters to explain the future. trade shows and get the TV executives’ attention, as was the case at Popper’s 1993 speech in London “Against Television,” Dom Serafini

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