From: dave@appi.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (David Wuertele)
Newsgroups: fj.misc
Subject: Re: Dave Spector (was Re: Tokyo Journal, Heroes, Fukushima Mizuho)
Date: 12 Sep 92 19:17:13 GMT
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In-reply-to: mtachiba@rkna50.riken.go.jp's message of 12 Sep 92 02:32:30 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.023230.26528@rkna50.riken.go.jp> mtachiba@rkna50.riken.go.jp (Masahiko Tachibana) writes:
> In article <SANTOS.92Sep10164219@melon.mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp> santos@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp (Rafael &) writes:
> > Uh, sorry, Dave, but who is Dave Specter (the name is familiar) and
> > which "contribution" he made to belong to the anti-hero list ?
> 
> In my knowledge, he appeared in TV as Henna Gaijin, speaking Japanese very
> fast and joking terrible jokes (as Mr. Ishikawa and Mr. Wuertele says in
> other articles) that derives silence to the audiences.  This I think is 
> the case that too much adaption to Japan are not always welcomed.

I don't think it's a case of too much adaptation to Japan.  I find that
the more I'm able to emulate my Japanese friends, the more comfortable
most Japanese around me are.  Specter's problem is not that he's learned
how to be Japanese.  It's that he's learned how to be an asshole in
Japanese.

>  At that 
> time of his first appearance several years ago, he was introduced as 'ABC 
> (maybe one of the three major in USA, not Asahi Ho^so^) Producer'.  

A friend of mine told me that Dave Specter tried to become a producer in
the States, but totally failed.  Then he came to Japan and tried to pass
himself off as an important American producer, and even claimed that he
was a member of the Academy Awards comittee or some other lie like that.

> I neither like him nor dislike him.  But I think at least he has wider 
> insight if compared with another guy from US who is believed to be 
> Matomona Gaijin, Kent Gilbert.

Yeah, and he probably gets laid more than Kent does, too.

It used to get me that there were only three representatives of the USA on
Japanese TV.  How representative can two Mormons and a Hollywood drop-out
be?  Now I just feel sorry for them.  They're typecast into the Japanese
media's Gajin Pigeonholes.  They're Japan's Pet Gaijin.  Actors and
singers have their talent keeping the limelight trained on them, but Kent
Kent and Dave have only the fact that they're Gaijin.

Does anybody know the names of the other G talents?  One is a small guy
who wears black and critiques film.  I think he does a 60 Minutes
commentary after midnight sometimes.  He also did a Kuro-Raberu commercial
last year.  Another guy lives in Osaka or something and studied martial
arts or something.  Now he shows up once in a while on that
Nayandeiru-Newlywed show as a consultant, where Newlyweds complain about
each other and three consultants tell them what to do.

Dave
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