Day: 10 Agustus 2014
Tonight – Shimokitazawa Awaodori Festival
Tonight – if we can persuade the weather Gods to let up on the rain – will be the second evening of the grand Shimokitazawa Awaodori festival. I was there last night and it was as good as usual with all the teams doing their best. The coming rains made last night unseasonably cool so it was near perfect Awaodori weather. I saw Benkeiren (弁慶連), one of my favorites, which I also blogged about when they took part in the Koenji Awadori festival in 2012. Comparing the photos you can tell that some of their very talented (really) kid dancers have grown quite a bit!
If you are in Tokyo tonight – head over to Shimokitazawa.
How Prop Money From a Hollywood Blockbuster Ended Up Confiscated by Secret Service
In late 2000, the producers and crew for action flick Rush Hour 2 gathered at the now-defunct Desert Inn in Las Vegas and prepared to blow up a casino. The scene, which pitted policemen and Secret Service agents against a counterfeiter attempting to launder $100 million in superdollars, was to culminate with hundreds of thousands of fake bills floating through the air.
After several days of filming, the sequence was a success. Then, something incredibly odd happened. The bills, which had been supplied by a major Hollywood prop house, were picked up by movie extras and passersby and were attempted to be passed off as legal tender in various stores along the strip. The authorities weren’t too thrilled. Secret Service agents glided in, swiftly detained somewhere north of $100 million worth of prop money, then accused the prop maker — Independent Studio Services (ISS) — of counterfeiting, and ordered a…
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