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September 6th, 2008
I’m a writer, freelancing my way through my bills and the owner of Seattle Freelance.
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I have read several of your articles which I found useful and entertaining. In one, you mentioned the top websites in 1997 and 2007. I believe they were top US sites. I am giving a speech and wanted to know if you knew where I could get top worldwide websites in 1998 (any month will do). I can find top worldwide sites in 2008 using Alexa, but not in 1998. Many thanks. Robin Pearl
Thanks for reading and commenting. It’s always good to hear people are enjoying the posts. For that particular article, I used the Way Back Machine over Archive.org to look at the best thing actually around back then for ranking top sites (there was no impartial third parties really – just a mess of sites jockeying for position). Here’s a link to one from 1998: http://web.archive.org/web/19980129041726/http://hot100.com/home.chtml
Anthony,
I ran across your 2007 article about Japanese actors in American film. It struck a chord. I have just finished polishing a screenplay that I am ready to shop. Ideally, the movie would be produced by an American company and a Japanese company and open simultaneously in both countries. (stick with me; I’m getting there) I am just beginning to identify production companies in both countries that are interested in movies that cross cultures. I am also trying to identify a likely young Japanese-American actor who could play the role of my 20-year old lead. He has to be Japanese-American (not Chinese-American or Vietnamese-American or Korean-American, etc.) since he must speak Japanese with an American accent. Actually, he doesn’t speak any Japanese until he goes to Japan for the first time at age 20. I’m just beginning the promotion process.
I hope you have kept up your interest in Japanese actors in American film. If you have any suggestions or leads for companies or actor, I would be most grateful to hear them. In fact, I would like to get a good, promising actor on board early. If I can interest an actor in the story and the part, this would be enormously useful in attracting a production company.
The screenplay is titled “Butterfly’s Child”. The premise: Whatever happened to the child of Madame Butterfly and Lt. Pinkerton. The movie begins where Puccini’s opera ends.
Harlan