Re: [OT] Tom "Kenshin" Cruise

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 15:55:08 -0500, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Freezer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I liked it better twenty years ago when they called it "Shogun."
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> (Richard Chamberlain > Tom Cruise)
>
>Not from the clip I saw on Leno. The premise of Shogun was that 
>Chamberlain's character couldn't begin to hold his own against a 
>Japanese swordsman, wheras Cruise apparently becomes one.

As mentioned before, you do not become a 'Samurai'. You're born one or
you aren't.  Otherwise you're just a kickass guy with a sword who's in
bushido.