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Tuesday, July 1986 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Lake at the Continued from Page B-l know those things make a lot of difference." But personally, Morita says, "I don't think it's affected me as me; I rather enjoy this hype of success. It's rather dizzying sometimes but I like to be able to Ro home and Just groove it with my kids. The down side is that that time gets smaller and smaller." So right now, Pat Morita Is facing a new antagonist: success. "You have to develop with success a high professional standard and I'm trying to oversee that right now it's new to me. I don't want to Just Jump at everything and take all kinds of roles." For example, he says, he's been offered a role in an expensive, British-backed sequel to David Lean's "Bridge on the River Kwai." "They wanted me to play a real hard-butt Japanese colonel.

I said. 'I can't do Maybe five or eight years from now; when I'm ready to go. The Miyagi-csque persona is too precious to break the imagery of." Miyagi is so important to Morita that in celebration of his own Japanese heritage, he took the credit in the film as "No-riyukl 'Pat' Morita," his own original name. "I guess I've been doing research all my life. Miyagi was an amalgam of people I grew up with.

He kind of talks like my father and my uncle. They were immigrants, too. His voice Just kind of came as we were reading. His mannerisms and things happen organically with the actor or they don't happen at all. For Miyagi and Morita, it was entirely organic.

"Many of the parts of Pat Morita are inherent characteristics of Miyagi, one of them being making one's way through life. Having spent nine years in the hospital (with spinal tuberculosis when he was a child), then being thrust into the world with parents with all these foreign-sounding voices around them in an internment camp. I did what Miyagi had to do when he came to America. So I knew that place. The various ways that the war affected our people I couldn't put myself in Miya-gi's shoes, but I certainly knew the circumstances, we had a commonality there.

I can't quite explain it; things happened. In terms of those things. Miyagi wasn't a stranger. 1 really knew that guy." Curiously, there's one thing Morita doesn't know: karate. "I don't want to know karate," he said.

"I figure get a gun, get a bodyguard, throw a orick. I want my hands in shape to hold a script and count money. "I happen to be a very unath-letic person, outside of poker -and snooting pool, and all the things we weren't supposed to do. I was never built to be a swimmer or a tap dancer or a linebacker, any kind of athlete. I think where I got lucky, because I look like my lineage, that when I assume a martial-arts stance, it looks believable.

I believe it. I sit there and watch it on screen and say, 'Wow, boy, Pops looks Bowman Continued from Page B-l dozens of strange kids in the yard. We sat there, almost literally trembling to the music vibrating through the floor, and knew it was time for a contingency plan: We'd have to take the kids and get out, away from all the inner city wickedness. We'd go to the country, to a lakeside cabin, and wouldn't that be a wonderful, all-American, Fourth of July treat? We knew just the spot: My wife's family cabin, in the birch-woods up north some 200 miles. We hurried downstairs and pitched the idea.

Grandma was curiously tranquil; she'd found the vodka behind the shoeshine kit. Cheryl flat out refused to go anywhere. She said she'd stay home with Grandma. The rest of the kids said a cabin sounded neat. We set out the next morning in Mary and Bill's enormous station wagon with the five kids, our kid, and Taffy.

At the traditional half-way point on. the northward Jaunt, we stopped at Toby's re-knowned for its coffee and doughnuts. The kids swarmed through the place. As I was playing the bill, I noticed Bob filling the pockets of his army Jacket with candy bars from the cashier's stand. I collared him outside, very tricity.

How could she set her hair and how could she watch television? She declared that she would not get out of the car once we got there. Finally, of course, we arrived. Roberta was true to her word. The rest of the kids, alas, were out of the car in a flash. Before we got the cabin unlocked, Bob had little Lorl and the dog in a tippy aluminum boat in the middle of the lake.

Almost as fast, Kenney disassembled the lawn chair and barbecue. Nancy blissfully sank into studying her Spanish vocabulary and little Lori, once back on dry land, had merely wet her pants. The dog behaved perfectly. By evening, the mosquitoes were out in full force, and it seemed like a modicum of poetic justice. It would be nice to say that the tranquility of nature worked its magic, but it wasn't true.

Nobody pulled together, nobody caught a fish, nobody picked a wild strawberry. Instead there were a lot of trampled ferns and forest flowers and carved-up birch trees. Eventually, we got the kids back to Minneapolis. Eventually, Mary and Bill came home. They'd had a wonderful time.

How had it been with the kids? they asked. "Perfect," replied the kids on Third, in rehearsed unison. Nobody ever said otherwise. times I think I could go back to a script of 10 years ago, change the names and the story would still stand. After 20 years of doing the same thing day in and day out, some of the old excitement is gone there's no question.

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from the rest of "Put the said. candy back, Bob," I "Do I have to?" he replied. "Did you pay for it?" He shook his head. 'Then you have to." I said. "Whv do I have to put it back if Kenhev doesn't have to?" Kenney had candy and comic books in his jacket.

He put them back. too. As the trip dragged on. the kids began demanding details about the cabin. Roberta let out a wail when she learned there was no elec But we landed on an April night at the old terminal, and the smell of ginger and plume-ria was the first thing I noticed when we got off the plane.

Right then I thought, 'We might be here a long time." Sevey was with the station for two years, then with an advertising agency for two years followed by two years as KGMB-TV station manager. "I was on a real two-year kick. Then Elizabeth Farrington who owned the station fired me and just about everybody else. So I went to Channel 4 and got into news fulltime." From there, after six months back in advertising, Sevey joined KGMB-TV as news anchor. And that's where he has been for 20 years.

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Reservations Requested Phone 922-1941 or 922-0020 Farm Fair Continued from Page B-l simpler, I did a lot of the news-writing. "For the last couple of years, I have been script editor for the 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts. The reporters write their own stories and the producer writes the hand copy the stories with no video that come off the news wire or from telephone calls. I begin to see the copy at about 3:30, the individual stories.

The whole script comes in about 5 with blanks for breaking news or late news not yet written." Radio and television have always been Sevey's career but if things were different, he'd be a professional golfer. What would have to be radically different, Sevey says, is his ability with a golf club. "I'm an avid golf nut, but in the bottom 10 worldwide. I could play every day and not get tired of it, but I 7 a.m. to 10 a.m.

All American Bacon Two Eggs, any style Vi Peach -Toast Served through Jul) 31 only at all five of ii i Mckinley high school fairgrounds couldn't find anybody to play with me every day, I'm that bad." So he has stuck with what he does best, with time out as an Army sergeant between 1945 and 1947. "I tell people I was born in a 19-inch Sony, but actually it was Minneapolis (in 1927). We moved in my mid-teens to Iowa. When I got out of the army, I thought of radio. "I went to the radio station owned by the state of Iowa in Ames, my home town.

I was going to talk to somebody about a job, and I fell in love with the receptionist. Nothing at all came of this, although I hung around the station trying to hustle her for a date. "One day a guy came tearing out of the studio waving papers, and I was the only one in the reception room. He said to me very seriously, 'Can you and I admitted that I could. The next thing I knew I was playing the Tin Woodman in 'The Wizard of After that I did Little John in 'Robin Finally I got around to auditioning for Mon.

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