Bill’s Partyline November 5th, 2009
PEOPLE F1 Drivers Party in Tokyo. This was the third year in a row that Ceremony Corp. president Tsukasa Shiga sponsored several…
Bill’s Partyline October 4th, 2009
PEOPLE In keeping with our special issue on Germany, I’d like to talk a bit about the beautiful country, the great people,…
Bill’s Partyline September 18th, 2009
PEOPLE Last month in Roppongi the family of one of Japan’s best-known actors, the late Toshiro Mifune, opened a fashionable new Japanesestyle…
Bill’s Partyline August 5th, 2009
PEOPLE I was driving through Roppongi one evening recently and saw that the lights in the International Clinic were all on. It…
Bill’s Partyline July 4th, 2009
PEOPLE Thanks to retired business leader Koichi Yoshikoshi and his wife Daniele, we have had a strong reminder, actually several, of how…
Bill’s Partyline June 6th, 2009
PEOPLE After a swim at Hilton Tokyo, I ran into Chris and Fumiko McDonald with the hotel’s general manager, Christian Baudat, in…
Bill’s Partyline May 5th, 2009
PEOPLE I first heard Sarah Brightman sing at her concert in London about twenty years ago, and I instantly became a devoted…
Bill’s Partyline April 4th, 2009
PEOPLE Highlights for me included setting up a birthday party for Paris Hilton at the New Lex and another party a week…
Bill’s Partyline March 6th, 2009
PEOPLE I met many people last month. First, there was Guy Laliberte, the founding president of the now world-famous Cirque du Soleil….
Bill’s Partyline February 6th, 2009
PEOPLE I’ve had the privilege of knowing Yasuyuki Nambu for many years and the super-successful business tycoon really hasn’t changed much at…
Bill’s Partyline January 9th, 2009
PEOPLE Writing Partyline over the years (many!) has given me the opportunity to get to know a lot of truly special people….
Bill’s Partyline December 4th, 2008
I really enjoyed meeting and spending time with British actress Jacqueline Bisset during several of her visits here. Jacqueline was born in…
Bill’s Partyline November 7th, 2008
PEOPLE I first met one of the world’s top ballet dancers, the legendary Rudolf Nureyev, when he was here in the seventies…
Bill’s Partyline October 4th, 2008
PEOPLE Superstar Christian Bale was back in town again for Warner Brothers and kept very busy promoting the record-breaking new Batman film,…
Bill’s Partyline September 5th, 2008
PEOPLE I first got to know Mark in the late seventies when he came here as Luke Skywalker to promote the first…
Bill’s Partyline August 1st, 2008
PEOPLE Congratulations To construction and development tycoon Minoru Mori, who celebrated his birthday on July 14th. I saw Minoru and his wife…
Bill’s Partyline July 4th, 2008
PEOPLE Stallone is in his sixties and the man, who was one of the biggest stars in the world in the 80s…
Bill’s Partyline June 4th, 2008
PEOPLE Jack is Back! I’m taking about superstar Jack Nicholson who was here for Warner Brothers to promote his box office hit…
Bill’s Partyline May 2nd, 2008
PEOPLE Oscar-winner Javier Barden made a quick trip to promote the film No Country for Old Men for Paramount. Javier won his…
Bill’s Partyline April 4th, 2008
PEOPLE As most of you know the multi-talented Hilary Duff was in Japan to do a series of commercials for Softbank’s Disney…
Bill’s Partyline March 4th, 2008
PEOPLE Gaga Communcations Tom Yoda has taken over as director of the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), which is scheduled for October…