billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
HARDIN - When the famed heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey died in Houston last month, his death was noted around the world. In Hardin, retired Dr. Robert Whiting marked DeBakey's passing with personal memories of the renowned medical pioneer. Whiting, ...
Animated News (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
GhibliWorld brings an English summary of an interview with Hayao Miyazaki by Robert Whiting, a sport journalist who has been living in Japan for a long time. Miyazaki talks about his childhood life during wartime, Studio Ghibli, and more. In addition, the site also reports that the Japanese box-office collections for Hayao Miyazaki’s latest feature Ponyo [...]
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
As much as it sounds like Tokyo Underworld might be a sequel to Ninja Assassin, it is something entirely different. This project is an adaptation of a book written by Robert Whiting fully titled "Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan." That title alone should hopefully be enough to interest you, as I'm already grinning thinking about cinematic...
Entertainment Base! Fun! Daily! (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to Robert Whiting’s Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan. Frank Baldwin, the screnwriter of Phillip Noyce’s upcoming film The Art of Making Money, will make his feature film debut. Published in September 2000, Tokyo Underworld is an “unorthodox chronicle of the [...]
/Film (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to Robert Whiting’s Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan. Frank Baldwin, the screnwriter of Phillip Noyce’s upcoming film The Art of Making Money, will make his feature film debut. Published in September 2000, Tokyo Underworld is an “unorthodox chronicle of the [...]
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Inglorious Bastards casting calms down... Paul Schrader's latest speculative script The Dying of the Light gets bought... Barry Levinson is set to direct the noir-esque Pete Dexter novel adaptation Train... Robert Whiting's novel Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan is being filmed......Visit Filmstalker for the full story. Restricted feeds to...
ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to Robert Whiting's "Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan" and has...
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to Robert Whiting's "Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan" and has hired Frank Baldwin to adapt the true-life crime novel.
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
... the larger Americans touched off a pro wrestling craze. Healing the woundsAs renowned author Robert Whiting wrote in his non-fiction work Tokyo Underworld, watching Americans and other foreigners lose to Japanese wrestlers helped “resuscitate the wounded national psyche, still smarting from the defeat in war and stung by the ongoing unofficial occupation of their country by the Americans.”...
