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[inspirational
instrumental music]

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[Pat]
Okay, then,

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let's look way inside your heart and your spirit and see,

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if God gave you
one wish in your lifetime

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to do for the rest of your life,

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what would it be?

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Pat Morita,
a bright and witty young man,

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was born in San Francisco
of Japanese parents.

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He tells me
he's never been to Japan,

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but his comedy certainly is
well oriented. [chuckles]

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-Well, uh,
here he is, Pat Morita.
-[crowd laughs and claps]

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Mr. Pat Morita.

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-[crowd cheers and claps]
-Oh, yes.

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Pat Morita,
ladies and gentlemen!

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[crowd cheers and claps]

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[with Japanese accent]
It's a great pleasure

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to be back on Hollywood Palace.

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[crowd laughs]

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[without accent]
Why am I talking like that for?

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-I don't talk like that.
-[crowd laughs]

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[Ralph]
Lenny Bruce's mother
named him "The Hip Nip,"

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but he hung on because now
all of a sudden he had an angle.

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Stand-up comedians are
the hardest job in the world.

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He would tend to do
the same show over again,

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and then he couldn't figure out
why he wasn't getting laughs.

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I don't think he paid
much attention

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to the rules of the game.

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You know, he kind of did
what he wanted to do.

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His comedy was his, you know,

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his defense, you know,
in a beautiful way.

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He has a funny sense of humor

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because you don't know
when he's serious,

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you don't know when he is
setting you up for a joke.

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He opened for Vic Damone,
Connie Stevens, and, uh,

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Redd Foxx,
who put him on his show.

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One thing I learned with comics
is they are, actually,

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some of the most unhappy,
tortured people,

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and their comedy
comes from pain.

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[Robert]
Pat was a very soulful guy.

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He had a lot of inner demons.

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He struggled a lot
with depression,

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and he was drinking too much,

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and he was doing too much drugs.

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And he hid a lot of that
with the jokes and the humor.

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[Karen]
He told me he'd never
stop drinking.

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And one of the reasons he said,
he didn't think he'd be funny.

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[James]
The first day
Pat Morita came on the set,

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I can tell by his sense of humor

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that he was going
to become somebody.

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Everybody fell in love with Pat.

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Kind of soft-spoken.

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Then, when he would get on
and be the character,

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he turned
into this totally other guy

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and he was hysterical, you know,

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everything
out of his mouth was funny.

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Just his innate brilliance
at comedy was incredible.

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I mean, just-- and he,
he added so much to script
and to character and--

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[Henry]
He was just a lovely,
lovely man.

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I-- He seemed to be
very grateful.

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He really chose
to make fun of the stereotype.

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He really embraced the things
that many of us run away from.

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[chuckles] He ran to it.

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Pat went on
and became a huge star,

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left us all in the dust.

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Really, that's what happened.

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It was an incredible
accomplishment for Pat

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to get nominated for an Oscar.

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What I envisioned
when I wrote it,

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he became
the embodiment of that.

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And he created

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one of the iconic characters
in American Cinema.

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[gentle jazz music]

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[Felicia]
Good morning, everyone,
and welcome to Table for 5

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with Felicia and Annette.
We are live.

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I want to introduce our guest,
Evelyn Guerrero-Morita.

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Evelyn is an actor and producer,

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and she's here to tell us
about a love project.

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My first question
out of the gate

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is how did you meet Pat Morita?

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-[Evelyn] You have an hour?
-Yeah.

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[all laugh]

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[Evelyn]
I was about 12 years old

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when I first met him.
My aunt, Sally Marr,

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was managing not only her son,

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Lenny Bruce, but she was
also managing my mother.

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At the same time,
she was mentoring Pat,

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who was just beginning
to get into stand-up comedy.

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-[Felicia] Oh, wow.
-[Evelyn] And so, I met him

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through my mom
and my aunt Sally.

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But, you know, what's funny is,

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if somebody had told me then

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that I would marry him
years later,

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-I'd say, "Are you crazy?
Uncle Pat?"
-[Annette] Right?

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-[laughs]
-He was always,
like, my uncle Pat.

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[Annette]
You know, right?

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[shoes clicking]

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[sighs]

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[whispers]
Okay, here it is.

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This is a manuscript that,
uh, Pat started writing in '96.

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Unfortunately, he wasn't
able to, to complete it.

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And so his,
his wish on his deathbed was

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that I complete it, and get
it done, and get it out there.

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This was Pat's
little office nook.

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Pat was so cute, he never wanted
to do anything in his office.

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I guess he wanted to be close
to me and the cats and--

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yeah, he was always
on the phone, you know,

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and tha-- that was his spot.

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Hey, George, it's Pat.

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Um, I received your,
uh, fax letter.

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Uh, thanks for your concern and, uh, good luck.

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Hope to talk to you. Bye.

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[phone hangs up]

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[Evelyn]
He'd have piles
and piles of scripts,

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and treatments, and letters,
and, and communications,
and press and--

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I said, "Honey, we got--
we have to do something
with this mess."

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Pat, what's on that shit pile
of papers on that counter?

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[Pat]
I don't know. [mumbles]

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[sharp thuds]

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[Evelyn]
Are they all important?

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[Pat]
Um, for the most part,

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but they just need
to be sorted and correlated.

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[Evelyn]
But are they really important?

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[Pat]
Huh?

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[with Japanese accent]
How are you? Look.

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Chime in.

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[Evelyn]
I'm doing a documentary

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about celebrity psychosis.

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[gentle music]

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[keyboard clicking]

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[Pat]
Long story short...

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my name at birth was
Noriyuki Morita.

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That entire chapter of my life
changed me forever.

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When I was two years old, I was diagnosed with spinal TB.

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And my parents were too poor

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to get regular
medical attention.

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In fact, the,
the mentality then was

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people were afraid
to go see a doctor

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because the doctor
might find out something.

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And my parents were told,
"This kid ain't
going to make it.

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And if he does by some miracle,

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he'll never walk again
for the rest of his life."

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I spent, uh,
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from ages two to 11.

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And, uh, for the most part
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uh, for seven
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with a cast
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So I was either on gurneys
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And if you're flat on your back

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and you can't walk,
and you're prone and,

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and life goes on around you,
there's--

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there's not too much sense
you can make out of all of that.

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Uh, hey, there were kids
in my ward that died.

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So at least I made it
through something.

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[Felicia]
So how was
he finally able to walk?

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Well, the Shriners took over
his case in 1939

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and they performed, uh,
an experimental surgery
on his spine.

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I think they fused
a couple of discs.

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I mean, it was very, very risky.

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And it was successful,
and he was able to walk again.

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And then, two years later,
the war started.

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[man on radio]
Flash, Washington.

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The White House announces Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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-[airplane engine rumbles]
-[loud explosion]

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[Pat]
Uh, long story short,

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I was escorted from the hospital by an FBI guy

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to join my parents
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in the middle of Arizona.

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They were
all behind barbed wire,

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I didn't know the difference,
you know,

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I was just happy to be walking.

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But I could feel,
and sense, and hear

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all the colors and horrors
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the sadness, the hopelessness.

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And I'll never forget,
I got there and for the--

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for four days straight, I cried.

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I was homesick for the hospital

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and the nurses.
Well, you know, I spent

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all my time up there
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and my, uh,
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So there was
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which my parents, of course,
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And they kept insisting
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talking to me in Japanese, which I was so far removed from,

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so it made me feel more lost.

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[Japanese melancholic music]

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Uncle Sam and we Americans,

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we like to use euphemistic words

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or invent words, uh, if we think

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certain other words
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So they called them
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They were America's versions
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[Felicia]
Where did they go after that?
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come back to California?

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[Evelyn]
They moved to Sacramento

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and they opened up
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[interviewer]
But why a Chinese restaurant?

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Because Japanese food
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-[both laugh]
-Guess not.

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And Japanese people were

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still being
discriminated against.

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And, in fact,
a lot of Japanese people

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-claimed
they were Chinese. Yeah.
-[Annette] Wow.

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[Pat]
Racism comes in many,
many forms.

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It all happens a lot
behind the camera,

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not so much today
in my time, thankfully,

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but that's also a barometer
of how far we've progressed.

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[melancholic music]

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So, did he always dream of being
in th-- in show business?

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No, actually,
he wanted to be a doctor.

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-A doctor? Wow.
-Really?

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He wanted to go
to medical school.

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-[Annette] Oh, wow.
-Yeah. [softly chuckles]

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[Pat]
Two weeks before I was to go

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start my school year,

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my mother comes at big tears
and, and she says, uh,

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"Papa don't know
how to tell you,

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but you can't go to college."

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"What do you mean,
I can't go to college?

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I'm going to college."

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"No, no, you--
we really need you here."

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Oh, I wanted to shoot myself,
you know,

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and then, of course,
there's a big tug of war
in a Japanese family.

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I don't know about now. You have to do what your parents say.

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You have to. So I went to work
in my father's restaurant

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and I didn't enjoy it,
but I had this loyalty

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to my parents,
who were struggling.

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[Annette]
I heard he was married
a few times.

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Mm-hmm. Yeah, he was married
twice before.

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Uh, his first wife was Kay...

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-[Annette] Okay.
-...and they had a daughter,
Erin.

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And his second wife was Yuki,
and they had two children,

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uh, Ali and Tia.

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-[Annette] All girls.
-[Evelyn] He was a great father.

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-[Annette] Oh.
-[Evelyn] Yeah,
he really loved his kids.

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[Annette]
That's awesome.

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[Pat]
Between experiencing

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the first family, and raising
a child, and working
at the restaurant,

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I wanted
a so-called regular job,

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a real job that paid real money.

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And I found my way into working

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for what would become a giant
in the aerospace industry.

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And in the meantime,
I was 190 pounds and frustrated.

245
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And I didn't know
where I was going in life.

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And, like, we all have a little
Jiminy Cricket on our shoulder,

247
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mine kept saying,
"Show business."

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I just made up my mind
at age 30, that was it.

249
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I said, "If I don't do it now,
I'll never do it,

250
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and for the rest of my life

251
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I'll kick myself
in the you-know-what."

252
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And I told myself,
"If I have anything at this,

253
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I'm going to do
a five-year plan."

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And if I could make
the Ed Sullivan Show,

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number one top variety show
in the country at the time,

256
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in five years, that would be an indicator to me

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that I got something enough
to keep going on.

258
00:12:27.964 --> 00:12:31.925
Well, I made the Hollywood
Palace in four years.

259
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And they were number two
in the country.

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Next we have a talented
young man, very unusual,

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a Japanese comedian.
I know you like him,

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especially all you people
who understand Japanese.

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[crowd laughs]

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Here he is, in his first
television appearance,

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Pat Morita. Pat!

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[crowd claps]

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[upbeat music]

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Okay, so much for the Japanese
portion of my act.

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[crowd laughs]

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He would steal jokes
out of the Reader's Digest.

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That's how he got started.

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-Imagine it.
-I didn't know how to write,

273
00:13:06.916 --> 00:13:08.918
and when I first began,
I'd make something

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from Benjamin Franklin
sound like I said it.

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[all laugh]

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[Pat]
I'm working

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the Ginza West,
in San Francisco.

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I notice, notice this fella
sitting at the end of the bar.

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He says, "You know,
you got a lot of promise.

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You ought to come down to LA,
Hollywood,

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where I live
and meet my manager."

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"Who's your manager?"

283
00:13:31.332 --> 00:13:33.116
"Oh, uh, her name is Sally Marr.

284
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She's Lenny Bruce's mother."

285
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I go down, I meet her.

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We just hit it from the--
right from the get-go.

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I said, "And you have to be
very aware, very sharp,

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and above the average."

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[Pat]
And the next thing I know,

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I'm working all over the place,

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"The Hip Nip,"
that was my billing.

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[loudly laughs]

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Working at a club isn't, like,
working. My-- I don't have
what we call an act,

294
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-you know, I-- I figured, uh,
"My people lost a war, why act?"
-[crowd laughs]

295
00:14:02.406 --> 00:14:06.019
[Anson]
One of his first professional
gigs as a comedian,

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he didn't really know
who he's performing for
until he got there.

297
00:14:09.370 --> 00:14:12.199
Well, it was a union
of Pearl Harbor Survivors.

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[laughs]

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And there's Pat.

300
00:14:17.160 --> 00:14:19.771
So he was, "Oh, how the hell
do you make jokes in front--"

301
00:14:19.902 --> 00:14:22.078
So, so he goes on,
he goes, "Before I start,

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I just want to apologize
for messing up your harbor."

303
00:14:24.211 --> 00:14:26.430
And then there was,
like, slow laughter
from the back room, they go...

304
00:14:26.561 --> 00:14:28.302
[mimics laughter]
"Oh!"

305
00:14:28.432 --> 00:14:29.781
They started laughing, so, so,

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00:14:29.912 --> 00:14:31.696
so he had to make
these self-effacing jokes.

307
00:14:31.827 --> 00:14:36.571
I haven't felt this good since,
uh, December 8th, 1941.

308
00:14:36.701 --> 00:14:38.921
[crowd laughs]

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00:14:39.052 --> 00:14:43.143
[Pat] I come into a time where a comic

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had the opportunity
to work these little shows

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not to do his spot so much.

312
00:14:49.192 --> 00:14:52.935
But came the emergence
of things likeLaugh'in.

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-[woman] ...who else?
-[opening theme]

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[crowd laughs]

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00:14:56.547 --> 00:14:58.854
Give me sake, give me sake,
give me sake, give me sake.

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00:14:59.724 --> 00:15:01.204
-[sharp thud]
-[crowd laughs]

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00:15:01.335 --> 00:15:03.946
[in accent] Not me, her,
you wrong-eye idiot.

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00:15:04.077 --> 00:15:05.252
[crowd laughs]

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[Pat]
I didn't feel uncomfortable.

320
00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:11.345
I had no, no camera shyness,
you know, uh...

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00:15:11.475 --> 00:15:14.783
I realized
that I was merely transposing

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telling a joke
to a live audience

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to acting out the jokes
for an "out there" audience.

324
00:15:21.790 --> 00:15:26.055
So that made a foundation
for later on

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getting into the acting genre.

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00:15:29.145 --> 00:15:30.755
[speaking Japanese]

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-Hat.
-[crowd laughs]

328
00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:33.802
[speaking Japanese]

329
00:15:33.933 --> 00:15:34.890
Love will...

330
00:15:35.021 --> 00:15:36.718
[speaking Japanese]

331
00:15:36.848 --> 00:15:37.980
...keep us together.

332
00:15:38.111 --> 00:15:39.242
[crowd laughs]

333
00:15:39.373 --> 00:15:41.418
Good, uh? Uh?

334
00:15:41.549 --> 00:15:44.378
Well, oh, Pat, I--
I really have to be honest.

335
00:15:44.508 --> 00:15:45.553
It was the pits, Pat.

336
00:15:45.683 --> 00:15:48.077
-[crowd laughs]
-The pits, Pat.

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00:15:48.208 --> 00:15:50.514
[Pat]
The colonel Pak,
uh, onMá*AáSá*H,

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00:15:50.645 --> 00:15:53.126
was really my first serious role

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00:15:53.256 --> 00:15:58.435
within the spectrum
of a so-called comedy show.

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00:15:58.566 --> 00:16:00.089
-Good news.
-I'll take it.

341
00:16:01.003 --> 00:16:02.396
I had a long,
reasonable talk with the farmer

342
00:16:02.526 --> 00:16:04.354
-and everything's cool.
-Great.

343
00:16:04.485 --> 00:16:06.008
You got three days
to get the hell out of here.

344
00:16:06.139 --> 00:16:07.227
[crowd laughs]

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00:16:07.357 --> 00:16:09.403
[Pat]
The Bob Newhart Show, uh,

346
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I think I was a bartender.

347
00:16:11.100 --> 00:16:12.884
I just can't think
of the name of it.

348
00:16:13.015 --> 00:16:14.103
Harvey Wallbanger.

349
00:16:14.234 --> 00:16:16.105
-[crowd laughs]
-Oh, Howard Borden.

350
00:16:16.236 --> 00:16:18.629
[crowd loudly laughs]

351
00:16:18.760 --> 00:16:20.631
Aren't you ever going
to get married again?

352
00:16:20.762 --> 00:16:22.764
-Why should I?
-I need a mother.

353
00:16:22.894 --> 00:16:23.852
You can have mine.

354
00:16:23.983 --> 00:16:25.114
[calm Hawaiian music]

355
00:16:25.245 --> 00:16:27.247
That'll be all, Charlie,
Thank you.

356
00:16:28.857 --> 00:16:31.120
I'll let you sit down
and chitchat for a while.

357
00:16:31.251 --> 00:16:33.557
I mean, how's your mother?
Is she Chinese too?

358
00:16:33.688 --> 00:16:35.646
[crowd laughs]

359
00:16:35.777 --> 00:16:37.561
Yeah, she was,
after Pearl Harbor.

360
00:16:37.692 --> 00:16:39.607
-[loudly laughs]
-[crowd laughs]

361
00:16:39.737 --> 00:16:41.652
That's Deputy Captain.

362
00:16:41.783 --> 00:16:43.306
You painted the wrong cabin.

363
00:16:44.090 --> 00:16:46.918
Oh. Deputy Captain.

364
00:16:47.745 --> 00:16:49.617
[both]
You painted the wrong room.

365
00:16:50.139 --> 00:16:51.010
Cabin.

366
00:16:51.575 --> 00:16:53.360
I am now silent partner.

367
00:16:54.056 --> 00:16:55.492
Oh, don't be a bad bird.

368
00:16:55.623 --> 00:16:56.798
[crowd laughs]

369
00:16:56.928 --> 00:16:59.235
If, as they say,
we are what we eat,

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00:16:59.366 --> 00:17:01.585
then your friend is a meatball.

371
00:17:01.716 --> 00:17:02.543
[crowd laughs]

372
00:17:02.673 --> 00:17:03.544
See, Mr. Sanford,

373
00:17:03.674 --> 00:17:05.111
I've had dinner here so often

374
00:17:05.241 --> 00:17:07.809
that I just figured it'd be nice
if I cooked for you once.

375
00:17:07.939 --> 00:17:10.159
The way to a man's heart is
through his stomach, right?

376
00:17:10.290 --> 00:17:12.379
Yeah, and the way
to the street is use your feet.

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00:17:12.509 --> 00:17:13.989
[crowd laughs]

378
00:17:14.120 --> 00:17:15.860
[Pat]
I go way back
with Redd Foxx.

379
00:17:15.991 --> 00:17:19.386
When I was beginning
my career as a stand-up comic,

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00:17:19.516 --> 00:17:24.304
he was just probably the most
naturally funniest human being

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00:17:24.434 --> 00:17:26.088
I've ever known in my lifetime.

382
00:17:26.219 --> 00:17:29.309
Way down deep inside,
we're both exactly the same.

383
00:17:29.439 --> 00:17:30.919
Yeah, deep down.

384
00:17:31.050 --> 00:17:32.616
As we get closer to the surface,

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00:17:32.747 --> 00:17:35.184
-I turn black
and you turn yellow.
-[crowd laughs]

386
00:17:35.315 --> 00:17:37.230
[Felicia]
So, another great story
that I stumbled upon,

387
00:17:37.360 --> 00:17:39.797
uh, was the relationship
that he had with Redd Foxx.

388
00:17:39.928 --> 00:17:42.539
Oh, yeah, no,
they were very tight friends.

389
00:17:42.670 --> 00:17:45.064
-[Felicia] Yeah.
-In fact, uh,
Redd Foxx had a little club

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00:17:45.194 --> 00:17:47.631
called Foxx's
on La Cienega, in LA.

391
00:17:47.762 --> 00:17:51.244
-Okay.
-And Pat used to get up
all the time and, and perform.

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00:17:51.374 --> 00:17:53.333
[whimsical music]

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00:17:59.861 --> 00:18:02.777
[Pat]
Several years down the line,
Gary, I remember seeing him

394
00:18:02.907 --> 00:18:05.301
in the commissary at Paramount, the old commissary.

395
00:18:06.041 --> 00:18:08.130
I walked by, just to say hi,
and he says,

396
00:18:08.739 --> 00:18:11.351
"Oh, Pat," he says,
"gee, perfect.

397
00:18:11.481 --> 00:18:14.093
I'm doing a pilot and, uh,
and I think you'd be wonderful

398
00:18:14.223 --> 00:18:17.313
for a certain scene and,
and a part I have in mind."

399
00:18:17.444 --> 00:18:18.749
It was calledWives,

400
00:18:19.272 --> 00:18:22.710
and starring in it
was his sister, Penny...

401
00:18:22.840 --> 00:18:27.541
[laughs] and we made the pilot,
and, uh, it didn't make it.

402
00:18:28.194 --> 00:18:30.761
However, a few years later,

403
00:18:30.892 --> 00:18:32.067
I get a call out of the blue...

404
00:18:33.068 --> 00:18:34.635
and it's Gary, and he says,

405
00:18:35.201 --> 00:18:38.291
"Pat, we're doing this show
calledHappy Days,

406
00:18:38.421 --> 00:18:41.076
and I wanted to tell you,
I really want you

407
00:18:41.207 --> 00:18:42.730
for this part of Arnold."

408
00:18:43.252 --> 00:18:46.821
He says, "You don't have to read for the part or nothing.

409
00:18:46.951 --> 00:18:50.303
You just come in and you're perfect for Arnold."

410
00:18:50.999 --> 00:18:53.741
[theme music]

411
00:18:53.871 --> 00:18:58.702
And, and actually,
I joined them the third year
of their existence.

412
00:19:00.051 --> 00:19:01.749
[Don]
Our show was a pretty,

413
00:19:01.879 --> 00:19:04.534
pretty decent success
in the first season.

414
00:19:04.665 --> 00:19:07.102
But in the second season,
when we were still on camera,

415
00:19:07.233 --> 00:19:08.669
the ratings were going down.

416
00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:10.279
And there was
even some question

417
00:19:10.410 --> 00:19:13.413
whether we'd be renewed for--
uh, by ABC.

418
00:19:13.543 --> 00:19:15.937
We were almost
kicked off the air.

419
00:19:16.067 --> 00:19:19.419
There were only three networks
when Happy Daysstarted.

420
00:19:19.549 --> 00:19:21.682
We were down
to 48th place in the ratings.

421
00:19:22.291 --> 00:19:25.686
And Fred Silverman had, uh,
come into power at ABC.

422
00:19:26.687 --> 00:19:30.038
And between our director,
Jerry Paris,

423
00:19:30.778 --> 00:19:32.780
uh, and Garry Marshall
and Fred Silverman,

424
00:19:33.259 --> 00:19:35.261
they all decided
to give us one more shot.

425
00:19:35.391 --> 00:19:40.222
[Pat]
ABC had set down
a template of criteria

426
00:19:40.831 --> 00:19:43.530
for Gary to answer to

427
00:19:43.660 --> 00:19:45.923
for them to pick up the show
for the third year.

428
00:19:46.750 --> 00:19:48.491
And the criteria were,
number one...

429
00:19:49.362 --> 00:19:51.364
get Fonzie into the house,

430
00:19:51.494 --> 00:19:54.454
that was easy, they build an,
an apartment above the garage,

431
00:19:55.194 --> 00:19:57.196
three camera tape,
live audience.

432
00:19:58.153 --> 00:20:01.156
And we physically
have to see Arnold.

433
00:20:01.287 --> 00:20:04.203
You know, there were waitresses
and people that work for him

434
00:20:04.333 --> 00:20:06.770
and they would refer to Arnold,

435
00:20:06.901 --> 00:20:08.642
they would refer to him,
but you'd never see him.

436
00:20:08.772 --> 00:20:10.296
That's why you think they go,
"We got to,

437
00:20:10.426 --> 00:20:12.646
now, introduce Arnold."

438
00:20:12.776 --> 00:20:13.864
Are we going to stand for that?

439
00:20:13.995 --> 00:20:15.692
-[all] No!
-No! Get Arnold out here!

440
00:20:15.823 --> 00:20:16.780
Yeah, we want Arnold.

441
00:20:16.911 --> 00:20:18.782
-Do what? Do what?
-We want Arnold.

442
00:20:18.913 --> 00:20:20.871
-What do we want?
-We want Arnold.

443
00:20:21.002 --> 00:20:22.438
-What do we want?
-We want Arnold.

444
00:20:22.569 --> 00:20:24.919
-What--
-[crowd laughs and claps]

445
00:20:26.442 --> 00:20:27.400
What is it?

446
00:20:28.923 --> 00:20:30.577
[Don]
And, from the time he came on,

447
00:20:30.707 --> 00:20:32.405
everybody fell in love with Pat,

448
00:20:32.535 --> 00:20:35.538
he was just-- he was
a real sweetheart of a guy.

449
00:20:35.669 --> 00:20:40.151
I was astounded
by how funny he could be,

450
00:20:40.630 --> 00:20:43.242
uh, with no words at all.

451
00:20:44.504 --> 00:20:49.683
[Pat]
Third episode into the season
that they're shooting,

452
00:20:49.813 --> 00:20:53.077
Garry Marshall picks his head
over Jerry's shoulder
and he says,

453
00:20:53.208 --> 00:20:55.341
"Pick an accent.
We're going to, uh,

454
00:20:55.471 --> 00:20:57.473
start taping in 20 minutes."

455
00:20:57.604 --> 00:21:00.737
I had been doing the whole week as I talk to you.

456
00:21:01.434 --> 00:21:04.175
So, naturally, you know,

457
00:21:04.306 --> 00:21:07.440
going back to the old Chinese
restaurant days,

458
00:21:07.570 --> 00:21:10.573
one of the fun things I used to do was mimic our cook.

459
00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:13.054
[Asian accent]
So, the next thing you know,

460
00:21:13.184 --> 00:21:16.231
the Arnold, he talk
like the old Chinese cook,

461
00:21:16.362 --> 00:21:19.626
and he laugh like the old
Chinese...[mimics laugh]

462
00:21:19.756 --> 00:21:22.193
[normal accent] And it made the character work, you know, so...

463
00:21:22.324 --> 00:21:24.021
This check, it's too much.

464
00:21:24.152 --> 00:21:26.459
Why are you so cheap?
This joint's always packed.

465
00:21:26.589 --> 00:21:28.374
Packed, sure, but no money.

466
00:21:28.504 --> 00:21:30.985
You kids take up space
with small soda

467
00:21:31.115 --> 00:21:34.249
and big doo-wops,
there's no money in doo-wops!

468
00:21:34.815 --> 00:21:37.600
[Don]
And then I remember
our director, Jerry Paris,

469
00:21:38.253 --> 00:21:39.646
he was the one who said,

470
00:21:39.776 --> 00:21:41.256
"I think we should turn this

471
00:21:41.387 --> 00:21:43.519
into a three camera show."

472
00:21:43.650 --> 00:21:46.392
We had to go live
because in order--

473
00:21:46.522 --> 00:21:49.395
in order to compete
because owing the family.

474
00:21:49.525 --> 00:21:51.875
[theme music]

475
00:21:52.006 --> 00:21:54.313
[man]
Happy Days is filmed
before a live audience.

476
00:21:54.443 --> 00:21:57.620
[theme music continues]

477
00:21:57.751 --> 00:22:00.188
[Don]
A lot of people were saying,
"Well, you're going to lose

478
00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:01.842
the feeling of the '50s,"

479
00:22:01.972 --> 00:22:06.020
because we, we were able
to do the outdoor drive in

480
00:22:06.150 --> 00:22:08.065
with the cars and, you know, y--

481
00:22:08.196 --> 00:22:10.285
like a graffiti kind of feel,
you know, a graffiti,

482
00:22:10.416 --> 00:22:11.808
and we were going
to lose that if you go

483
00:22:11.939 --> 00:22:14.071
inside with an audience.

484
00:22:14.202 --> 00:22:16.639
But he said, "I really think
this cast can do it."

485
00:22:16.770 --> 00:22:18.989
And most of us
were stage actors.

486
00:22:19.120 --> 00:22:20.774
So we, we looked forward to it.

487
00:22:20.904 --> 00:22:23.254
And see, Pat was used
to working with an audience.

488
00:22:23.385 --> 00:22:26.214
So he, when that audience
would be cheering and laughing,

489
00:22:26.345 --> 00:22:28.477
I mean, he would just get
hotter and hotter,

490
00:22:28.608 --> 00:22:31.437
and better,
and better, and better.
And we'v-- we lift off that.

491
00:22:31.567 --> 00:22:33.787
[Pat]
Five, six weeks
into the shooting process,

492
00:22:33.917 --> 00:22:36.659
and we're doing good.
The numbers are climbing
and we're going,

493
00:22:37.181 --> 00:22:40.359
you know, through the top,
and there comes Jerry again.

494
00:22:40.924 --> 00:22:42.056
"You can't play Arnold."

495
00:22:42.535 --> 00:22:43.927
"I c--[stutters] I can't--

496
00:22:44.058 --> 00:22:45.625
I can't play Arn-- I am Arnold.

497
00:22:45.755 --> 00:22:48.671
I'm the only Arnold
that the world has ever seen."

498
00:22:48.802 --> 00:22:52.458
"Well, um, you're Japanese
and Arnold is Chinese."

499
00:22:52.588 --> 00:22:55.591
"You guys were the ones
that said 'Pick an accent'!"

500
00:22:55.722 --> 00:22:57.637
"Standards and Practices says,

501
00:22:58.551 --> 00:23:01.336
because Arnold is Chinese
and you're Japanese,

502
00:23:01.467 --> 00:23:05.862
you can't play him." The actors survival syndrome kicks in

503
00:23:05.993 --> 00:23:08.082
and, and I'm like,
"Wait a minute, wait a minute.

504
00:23:08.212 --> 00:23:10.127
Arnold doesn't have
a last name."

505
00:23:10.258 --> 00:23:13.653
"So?" "I have-- uh,
it's Arnold Takahashi.

506
00:23:13.783 --> 00:23:16.351
Okay, how about that?
Just get behind it?"
"Why does he talks Chinese?"

507
00:23:16.482 --> 00:23:20.399
I said, "Ah, because,
you see, during World War II,

508
00:23:20.529 --> 00:23:23.184
he was in French Indochina.

509
00:23:23.314 --> 00:23:25.447
Uh, he have a Chinese mother...

510
00:23:25.578 --> 00:23:30.583
...who got knocked up
by a Japanese soldier
in Manchuria somewhere

511
00:23:30.713 --> 00:23:36.240
and never saw him again,
and raised her only son
to talk English

512
00:23:36.371 --> 00:23:39.287
and this is the way
she learned him for how to talk.

513
00:23:39.853 --> 00:23:41.245
And they went, "I buy it."

514
00:23:41.376 --> 00:23:43.857
[laughs] And they walked out--

515
00:23:43.987 --> 00:23:46.294
Oh, boy...[chuckles]
This business.

516
00:23:46.425 --> 00:23:47.991
So I got an ad in the mail!
There's a guy named

517
00:23:48.122 --> 00:23:50.167
Mitsumo Takahashi
giving jiu-jitsu lessons.

518
00:23:50.298 --> 00:23:52.474
-Where, Tokyo?
-[crowd laughs]

519
00:23:52.605 --> 00:23:54.868
No, he gives them right here
at Arnold's, on Sunday night.

520
00:23:55.390 --> 00:23:56.739
-No kidding.
-Yeah!

521
00:23:57.436 --> 00:24:00.569
[Pat]
They had written
an episode about karate.

522
00:24:00.700 --> 00:24:02.310
And I said, "Wait a minute."

523
00:24:02.441 --> 00:24:04.747
In those days,
they didn't do karate.

524
00:24:04.878 --> 00:24:09.273
The most popular Asian martial art form was judo.

525
00:24:09.839 --> 00:24:13.626
And what happens is
Ralph Malf and Potsie,

526
00:24:13.756 --> 00:24:16.324
they're going to, you know,
learn to protect ourselves

527
00:24:16.455 --> 00:24:18.935
and we're going to go
to this judo school.

528
00:24:19.066 --> 00:24:24.027
And it turns out the judo school is at Arnold's, in the restaurant.

529
00:24:24.158 --> 00:24:28.162
Wait a minute, Arnold.
The paper said Mitsumo Takahashi
is giving the class.

530
00:24:28.292 --> 00:24:30.164
I am Mitsumo Takahashi.

531
00:24:30.294 --> 00:24:31.644
Is this the face of a Arnold?

532
00:24:31.774 --> 00:24:34.168
The joy I got out of it
is I choreographed

533
00:24:34.298 --> 00:24:35.778
all the throw scenes.

534
00:24:35.909 --> 00:24:37.258
Hey, Arnold,
that was a little quick.

535
00:24:37.388 --> 00:24:38.564
Could you show it to us again?

536
00:24:38.694 --> 00:24:40.261
I don't think I got it. [laughs]

537
00:24:40.391 --> 00:24:41.305
-[gasps]
-[both yell]

538
00:24:41.436 --> 00:24:42.219
[sharp thud]

539
00:24:42.350 --> 00:24:43.438
I got it.

540
00:24:43.569 --> 00:24:44.961
[Don]
Well, that was a--

541
00:24:45.092 --> 00:24:46.572
a precursor of things to come.

542
00:24:46.702 --> 00:24:50.489
Okay. I'm looking
for another loudmouth volunteer.

543
00:24:50.619 --> 00:24:51.620
[crowd laughs]

544
00:24:51.751 --> 00:24:52.839
One of my favorites was

545
00:24:52.969 --> 00:24:54.493
when he was married,

546
00:24:54.623 --> 00:24:56.712
and I got to write
the corny song.

547
00:24:56.843 --> 00:24:59.933
♪ A Japanese wedding song
from Potsie to you ♪

548
00:25:00.542 --> 00:25:03.458
♪ One set of chopsticks
made just for two ♪

549
00:25:03.589 --> 00:25:05.504
[Pat]
That episode, for me,

550
00:25:05.634 --> 00:25:09.290
was one of the first,
maybe the first time that,

551
00:25:09.420 --> 00:25:12.293
that--
on a national program scale,

552
00:25:12.423 --> 00:25:15.949
that I got to be
the centerpiece of something.

553
00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:19.213
And it just gave me great,
great courage.

554
00:25:20.170 --> 00:25:23.173
And we were often running
and then, uh, became number one.

555
00:25:23.304 --> 00:25:26.699
I got to run now.
I got to get back and,
uh, rip off my tongue.

556
00:25:26.829 --> 00:25:28.396
-[vocalizes]
-[crowd laughs]

557
00:25:28.527 --> 00:25:29.440
Bye!

558
00:25:31.268 --> 00:25:33.532
[Pat]
People asked me, "Why did
you leaveHappy Days?"

559
00:25:33.662 --> 00:25:36.186
I really didn't
leaveHappy Days.

560
00:25:36.317 --> 00:25:39.538
They offered him,
it was like, his own show,

561
00:25:39.668 --> 00:25:43.280
as opposed to being
just a supporting character.

562
00:25:43.759 --> 00:25:47.197
[Anson]
Fred Silverman
became head of ABC.

563
00:25:48.198 --> 00:25:50.244
He wanted Pat in the show.

564
00:25:51.593 --> 00:25:55.510
You know, it's-- I guess
that's a hard thing to,
to, uh, turn down.

565
00:25:55.641 --> 00:25:56.729
I mean, yes, yo-- on one hand,

566
00:25:56.859 --> 00:25:58.600
you're on the number one show.

567
00:25:59.645 --> 00:26:02.256
But you're not the star. So...

568
00:26:02.386 --> 00:26:04.563
He, uh, was a, a father

569
00:26:04.693 --> 00:26:07.261
who had hired, um,
an American governess

570
00:26:07.957 --> 00:26:09.132
to watch his two kids

571
00:26:09.263 --> 00:26:11.047
because he, he was a widower.

572
00:26:11.178 --> 00:26:13.267
And, uh, I was his daughter,

573
00:26:13.397 --> 00:26:17.097
and it was just how she was
a bungling type of, uh, nanny.

574
00:26:17.227 --> 00:26:18.707
I think she really
didn't know anything.

575
00:26:19.360 --> 00:26:21.928
[Pat]
My exposure on, uh,

576
00:26:22.058 --> 00:26:26.541
Welcome Back, Kotter,
was the test run for--

577
00:26:26.672 --> 00:26:28.804
to see if this kind
of a guy would work.

578
00:26:29.631 --> 00:26:32.721
This is your next career day
speaker, Mr. Takahashi, uh,

579
00:26:32.852 --> 00:26:35.115
from Bonyari Industries, Tokyo.
He's an inventor.

580
00:26:35.245 --> 00:26:37.421
-Oh, nice to meet you.
-And, uh, you too.

581
00:26:37.900 --> 00:26:41.817
[Don]
Nobody that I know faulted
Pat for making that decision.

582
00:26:41.948 --> 00:26:45.299
We all supported him,
wanted only the best for him.

583
00:26:45.429 --> 00:26:48.694
He was really, uh,
the first Asian

584
00:26:48.824 --> 00:26:50.739
to ever star in a sitcom.

585
00:26:50.870 --> 00:26:52.436
I mean, the guy,
in a lot of ways,

586
00:26:52.567 --> 00:26:54.134
was a real pioneer.

587
00:26:54.264 --> 00:26:59.530
He was playing this really
eccentric, kind of wacky guy.

588
00:26:59.661 --> 00:27:03.186
And especially as a kid, I felt
like I was kind of wacky too,

589
00:27:03.317 --> 00:27:05.188
and it was great seeing
this Japanese-American

590
00:27:05.319 --> 00:27:09.149
who is known
not as straight-laced and quiet,

591
00:27:09.279 --> 00:27:10.411
but really out there.

592
00:27:10.541 --> 00:27:12.195
And so,
that was really exciting.

593
00:27:12.326 --> 00:27:13.544
It was ahead of its time,

594
00:27:15.068 --> 00:27:17.244
but people didn't accept,
from what I believe, anyway,

595
00:27:17.374 --> 00:27:20.421
uh, a man in a lead
who was Asian,

596
00:27:20.551 --> 00:27:23.642
who had a normal kind of family.
They weren't ready for it.

597
00:27:23.772 --> 00:27:26.122
[man]
Saturday is the premiere
ofMr. T and Tina.

598
00:27:26.253 --> 00:27:27.776
Tina is cool.

599
00:27:27.907 --> 00:27:30.649
I don't care about the body
temperature of governess.

600
00:27:30.779 --> 00:27:33.434
No matter how talented you are,
you need the right vehicle.

601
00:27:33.564 --> 00:27:34.914
It was the wrong vehicle.

602
00:27:35.044 --> 00:27:38.569
Pat knew it,
but he went with it.

603
00:27:38.700 --> 00:27:41.660
[Pat]
They paid me for 13 episodes.

604
00:27:42.312 --> 00:27:45.533
We, uh, shot ten,
they showed four,

605
00:27:46.142 --> 00:27:47.622
and we were off the air.

606
00:27:47.753 --> 00:27:49.668
[crowd laughs]

607
00:27:51.191 --> 00:27:52.061
[sharp click]

608
00:27:52.192 --> 00:27:54.150
[calm Hawaiian music]

609
00:28:02.811 --> 00:28:06.206
[Pat]
I was living in Hawaii.
I was down in the dumps again.

610
00:28:06.336 --> 00:28:08.295
The career was
on a slide and I'm...

611
00:28:08.904 --> 00:28:11.951
working in Hawaii, taking what work I can find, you know,

612
00:28:12.081 --> 00:28:16.085
nightclub comic work,
writing copy for commercials,
doing whatever.

613
00:28:16.607 --> 00:28:21.090
Came back to the mainland,
re-signed with my then agent,

614
00:28:21.221 --> 00:28:23.353
uh, for another three years
and whatever,

615
00:28:23.484 --> 00:28:27.096
and was literally
on my way back to Hawaii, um,

616
00:28:27.227 --> 00:28:28.881
because there was
nothing else to do here.

617
00:28:29.011 --> 00:28:31.797
There were no parts,
no offers that I knew of.

618
00:28:31.927 --> 00:28:36.105
Walking out the door of the agents office and I hear...

619
00:28:36.715 --> 00:28:38.891
[in old man's voice]
"Pat Morita,
where the heck is Pat Morita?

620
00:28:39.021 --> 00:28:39.979
I got to find--"

621
00:28:41.371 --> 00:28:42.285
[in normal voice] And the secretary, Sarah, says,

622
00:28:43.939 --> 00:28:44.723
[in woman's voice]
"He just walked
out the door, sir."

623
00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:47.377
[in old man's voice] "Pat,
get your butt back in here,
you got to read this script.

624
00:28:48.552 --> 00:28:49.728
I think it's perfect
for you, right?"

625
00:28:49.858 --> 00:28:52.034
[in normal voice]
So I do. I like the part.

626
00:28:52.165 --> 00:28:54.123
[suspenseful music]

627
00:28:56.517 --> 00:28:59.825
[Ralph]
There was humor
in Robert Kamen's script and,

628
00:28:59.955 --> 00:29:03.306
and Mr. Miyagi, but it was
lightly, lightly peppered,

629
00:29:03.437 --> 00:29:05.395
and he was-- you know,
they always spoke

630
00:29:05.526 --> 00:29:08.703
about this majestic
Toshiro Mifune,

631
00:29:08.834 --> 00:29:12.751
this Akira Kurosawa
kind of Japanese sensei

632
00:29:12.881 --> 00:29:14.622
who teaches the boy
how to fight.

633
00:29:14.753 --> 00:29:17.233
That now has a, you know,
a soft chewy center,

634
00:29:17.364 --> 00:29:19.409
you know what I mean?
I think the big question

635
00:29:19.540 --> 00:29:21.934
for Avildsen at the time,
if memory serves,

636
00:29:22.064 --> 00:29:24.937
is he doesn't
really speak English.

637
00:29:25.546 --> 00:29:27.069
[speaks Japanese]

638
00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:29.768
[Robert]
And Toshiro Mifune
came in and did a read,

639
00:29:29.898 --> 00:29:32.553
they put him on tape,
and he was a samurai,

640
00:29:32.683 --> 00:29:34.511
he was sensei, alright?

641
00:29:34.642 --> 00:29:36.949
Caro Jones, who is the casting
director at the time,

642
00:29:37.863 --> 00:29:41.910
said, "What about Pat Morita?
I think he-- you know, let's,
let's bring him in to read."

643
00:29:42.041 --> 00:29:46.088
Jerry Weintraub,
when he heard Pat Morita...

644
00:29:47.046 --> 00:29:49.526
he said, "I'm not
hiring Arnold from Happy Days."

645
00:29:49.657 --> 00:29:51.659
[Don]
We all know what that's like,

646
00:29:51.790 --> 00:29:53.922
facing that,
you get so associated with it

647
00:29:54.053 --> 00:29:56.882
that you get typecast.
It's hard to break away.

648
00:29:57.012 --> 00:30:00.189
The producer couldn't
get past that and didn't
even want to consider it.

649
00:30:00.842 --> 00:30:04.498
"Can't have a Catskill
Comic playing Mr. Miyagi."

650
00:30:04.628 --> 00:30:06.456
You know,
"He was build as 'The Hip Nip,'

651
00:30:06.587 --> 00:30:08.676
I'm not getting--
this guy is, you know--"

652
00:30:08.807 --> 00:30:11.374
And I was more, like-- I'm
listening, I'm thinking of...

653
00:30:11.505 --> 00:30:13.812
[mimics laugh]
the Arnold from Happy Days.

654
00:30:13.942 --> 00:30:16.640
I said, "Give me
a chance to train him.

655
00:30:17.641 --> 00:30:21.907
You pick a scene that you like
and have him do it."

656
00:30:22.037 --> 00:30:24.910
And we did th--
the one scene that he did with,

657
00:30:25.040 --> 00:30:26.476
uh, Martin Kove,

658
00:30:26.607 --> 00:30:29.001
where he put Martin Kove
on his knees

659
00:30:29.131 --> 00:30:32.787
and he was just, uh,
"Mercy is for the weak.

660
00:30:32.918 --> 00:30:34.658
We don't train
to be merciful here."

661
00:30:34.789 --> 00:30:38.575
And then he starts to make
this move in Martin Kove,

662
00:30:38.706 --> 00:30:41.578
and he goes, "Honk!"
And pulls and tweaks his nose.

663
00:30:41.709 --> 00:30:46.105
So we, uh,
we used his skill as a comedian

664
00:30:46.670 --> 00:30:48.629
to do some of those parts.

665
00:30:49.717 --> 00:30:52.328
[Pat]
They're gathered
in a pre-production meeting

666
00:30:52.459 --> 00:30:53.721
a few days later and...

667
00:30:54.635 --> 00:30:57.029
and during the process,
John reaches over

668
00:30:57.159 --> 00:30:58.813
and clicks on the monitor.

669
00:30:58.944 --> 00:31:03.296
And in mid-sentence, Jerry goes,
"Wait a minute, who's that?

670
00:31:03.426 --> 00:31:06.473
That's a Miyagi.
Who the hell is that actor?"

671
00:31:06.603 --> 00:31:12.087
And John says,
"That's the Pat Morita you refused to read for this part."

672
00:31:12.958 --> 00:31:14.394
The rest is history.

673
00:31:14.524 --> 00:31:16.439
They bring me in five times.

674
00:31:16.962 --> 00:31:18.572
They want to see
if I can do it again.

675
00:31:18.702 --> 00:31:20.617
[man]
Mr. Miyagi, wha-- what,
what belt do you have?

676
00:31:21.096 --> 00:31:24.404
Oh! [chuckles] Canvas. You like?

677
00:31:25.492 --> 00:31:26.754
Yeah, it's very nice.

678
00:31:26.885 --> 00:31:28.756
Uh, J.C. Penney, 3,98.

679
00:31:28.887 --> 00:31:29.844
[chuckles]

680
00:31:30.976 --> 00:31:32.499
[Pat]
Then they bring Ralphie in.

681
00:31:34.414 --> 00:31:34.936
Fly him in from New York,
they want to see
if there's chemistry.

682
00:31:36.416 --> 00:31:38.113
We do it, they did make me--
make us do it again,

683
00:31:38.244 --> 00:31:42.901
this time in costume,
in front of the studio heads.

684
00:31:43.031 --> 00:31:47.166
The fifth time they bring me in, we are on a cold, blank,

685
00:31:47.296 --> 00:31:50.604
outline stage, no sets,
nothing, but in costume,

686
00:31:50.734 --> 00:31:52.301
uh, but they shoot it.

687
00:31:52.432 --> 00:31:54.695
Not everything is as it seems.

688
00:31:56.349 --> 00:31:57.959
Bullshit, man!

689
00:31:58.481 --> 00:32:03.008
[Pat]
And, to Jerry's credit,
he's-- gets on the horn

690
00:32:03.530 --> 00:32:07.316
and says, "Pat, I almost made
the worst mistake of my life.

691
00:32:07.447 --> 00:32:09.710
I just want to be the first
to congratulate you.

692
00:32:09.840 --> 00:32:11.146
You got the part of Miyagi."

693
00:32:11.799 --> 00:32:14.454
What Pat Morita had
from the get-go

694
00:32:15.194 --> 00:32:18.937
is he had all the beats,
all the dramatic beats.

695
00:32:19.067 --> 00:32:23.245
He had-- he was a comic,
so he knew where the humor was.

696
00:32:23.376 --> 00:32:26.988
[Robert]
He really got to a place at--
where he was playing a character

697
00:32:28.033 --> 00:32:30.557
that he knew, that it wasn't
something he made up.

698
00:32:30.687 --> 00:32:33.516
When I finally read the script,
by page three,

699
00:32:34.430 --> 00:32:36.215
-I know this guy.
-Yeah.

700
00:32:36.345 --> 00:32:38.739
I, I, I had his walk.

701
00:32:38.869 --> 00:32:41.133
I had his sound,
I had his voice level,

702
00:32:41.263 --> 00:32:42.786
I had his pattern of speech.

703
00:32:42.917 --> 00:32:44.788
[Ralph]
And had felt

704
00:32:44.919 --> 00:32:47.313
such a responsibility
to that character

705
00:32:48.314 --> 00:32:50.403
that there's no one
on the planet that,

706
00:32:50.533 --> 00:32:53.623
that could've played that role
at the level that he did.

707
00:32:53.754 --> 00:32:56.017
When you watch
him play Mr. Miyagi,

708
00:32:56.148 --> 00:32:59.151
he inhabits that character soul,

709
00:32:59.281 --> 00:33:01.414
completely forget
it's Pat Morita.

710
00:33:01.544 --> 00:33:03.372
He became wise and kind

711
00:33:03.503 --> 00:33:07.246
and open and big-hearted,
and at the same time,

712
00:33:07.376 --> 00:33:09.422
you knew he was bearing
some sort of pain.

713
00:33:10.075 --> 00:33:13.252
Fighting always
last answer to problem.

714
00:33:13.382 --> 00:33:15.863
[Robert]
And that's what made the movie,
his relationship with Daniel,

715
00:33:15.994 --> 00:33:19.214
it wasn't my story, I mean,
you know, that story's
been told a hundred times.

716
00:33:19.736 --> 00:33:21.695
It was his relationship with,
with Ralph,

717
00:33:21.825 --> 00:33:24.176
that perfect chemistry
with these two people that,

718
00:33:24.306 --> 00:33:26.352
that really made
that movie magic.

719
00:33:26.482 --> 00:33:29.181
What's the matter? You're
some kind of girl or something?

720
00:33:30.008 --> 00:33:31.835
Punch, drive up punch!

721
00:33:31.966 --> 00:33:33.924
Not just arm, whole body!

722
00:33:34.055 --> 00:33:37.450
[Ralph]
I knew very little of karate
before the film started.

723
00:33:37.580 --> 00:33:40.235
I think when I was,
you know, maybe ten years old,

724
00:33:40.366 --> 00:33:44.152
I took, like, four lessons
at the dojo down the street,

725
00:33:44.283 --> 00:33:47.286
until I realized, "Wow,
that hurts. Let me try piano."

726
00:33:47.416 --> 00:33:48.504
[chuckles]

727
00:33:48.635 --> 00:33:50.071
And Ralph had
no interest in learning,

728
00:33:50.202 --> 00:33:51.942
which was perfect
because he was not supposed

729
00:33:52.073 --> 00:33:53.205
to know how to do anything.

730
00:33:53.335 --> 00:33:55.337
[man] Hi Pat. Uh, I wanted to ask you

731
00:33:55.468 --> 00:33:58.471
if you were involved in any
martial arts in real life.

732
00:33:59.298 --> 00:34:00.951
In terms of martial arts,

733
00:34:01.082 --> 00:34:04.216
the only martial arts
I was involved in

734
00:34:04.346 --> 00:34:09.177
was, uh, Garry Marshall,
um, Penny Marshall

735
00:34:09.308 --> 00:34:12.615
and maybe Marshall Field's
a little bit. Uh, no.

736
00:34:12.746 --> 00:34:14.269
So I knew very little.

737
00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:18.273
And Pat knew very little,
less than that.

738
00:34:18.882 --> 00:34:22.625
Um, uh, the two of us together,
it's the magic of movies.

739
00:34:22.756 --> 00:34:26.020
Hey, look eye. Always look eye.

740
00:34:27.369 --> 00:34:29.806
[William]
Pat Johnson was
a ninth degree black belt,

741
00:34:29.937 --> 00:34:32.418
uh, world champion fighter
on the US Karate team.

742
00:34:32.548 --> 00:34:33.941
He was Chuck Norris' guy.

743
00:34:34.072 --> 00:34:35.247
They were partners
back in the day,

744
00:34:35.377 --> 00:34:37.901
and, um, he was, uh,

745
00:34:38.032 --> 00:34:39.642
he's the heart and soul
of the karate in the film.

746
00:34:39.773 --> 00:34:41.731
When I trained Pat Morita,

747
00:34:41.862 --> 00:34:44.691
I got he and Ralph together
and I trained them

748
00:34:44.821 --> 00:34:46.562
and I pushed them really hard,

749
00:34:46.693 --> 00:34:50.088
and I let them bitch
and moan to-- together,

750
00:34:50.218 --> 00:34:52.220
in, "Oh, I'm so exhausted,"

751
00:34:52.351 --> 00:34:55.049
just so they would dev--
develop a relationship.

752
00:34:55.180 --> 00:34:57.921
[Robert]
And they had that one scene
where they're learning together,

753
00:34:58.052 --> 00:34:59.488
and I guess it was
Karate Kid III.

754
00:35:00.141 --> 00:35:03.753
And so I tried to get them to,
"Just scoop sand...

755
00:35:04.493 --> 00:35:06.278
bring it down, scoop sand,

756
00:35:06.408 --> 00:35:08.106
-bring it down."
They couldn't get it.
-[laughter]

757
00:35:08.236 --> 00:35:10.499
Okay, did he do all his own
stunts on Karate Kid?

758
00:35:10.630 --> 00:35:13.937
The studio always said,
"If you're ever asked if you're
doing your own stunts..."

759
00:35:14.068 --> 00:35:15.678
-Yeah.
-...they wanted him
to lie and say,

760
00:35:15.809 --> 00:35:17.289
-"Yeah, I'm doing
my own stunts."
-Oh!

761
00:35:17.419 --> 00:35:20.857
But in actuality,
it was a karate master,

762
00:35:20.988 --> 00:35:22.555
-Fumio Demura, that did all...
-[Felicia] Really?

763
00:35:22.685 --> 00:35:24.687
...doubled for him in all
The Karate Kidmovies.

764
00:35:24.818 --> 00:35:26.515
-[Annette] Oh, interesting.
-Yeah.

765
00:35:26.646 --> 00:35:29.301
It's harder for general people

766
00:35:29.431 --> 00:35:32.042
that d-- doesn't know
anything about karate.

767
00:35:32.565 --> 00:35:34.958
I was, uh,
Pat Morita's stunt double,

768
00:35:35.437 --> 00:35:38.919
and my job is,
I had to make him look good.

769
00:35:39.049 --> 00:35:41.008
[grunting]

770
00:35:41.139 --> 00:35:42.009
[moaning]

771
00:35:42.140 --> 00:35:43.097
[sharp thuds]

772
00:35:43.228 --> 00:35:45.143
[upbeat music]

773
00:35:45.795 --> 00:35:47.014
[sharp yells]

774
00:35:49.843 --> 00:35:52.715
The Karate Kidmovie
resonated with so many people...

775
00:35:53.847 --> 00:35:56.284
because it actually touched
on something...

776
00:35:57.416 --> 00:36:00.419
so many years ago,
that today is in the forefront,

777
00:36:00.549 --> 00:36:02.812
but it wasn't before,
which is bullies.

778
00:36:03.291 --> 00:36:05.163
I think every person
can relate to it

779
00:36:05.293 --> 00:36:08.253
because we all have had
that feeling of not fitting in,

780
00:36:08.383 --> 00:36:12.170
of, of perhaps wanting
to be part of a larger group,

781
00:36:12.300 --> 00:36:14.737
but you're not admitted
because you're not smart enough,

782
00:36:14.868 --> 00:36:16.304
or funny enough,
or strong enough.

783
00:36:16.435 --> 00:36:18.828
It was really great
to see a film

784
00:36:19.351 --> 00:36:21.527
where the kid
who was being bullied

785
00:36:21.657 --> 00:36:23.877
came out on top,
that really resonated with me.

786
00:36:24.007 --> 00:36:25.748
Or they identified with the film

787
00:36:25.879 --> 00:36:27.924
because they were
a fish out of water situation,

788
00:36:28.621 --> 00:36:32.494
or because they had a romance
that didn't work out, you know.

789
00:36:32.625 --> 00:36:35.410
And most of the time
in the Asian community,

790
00:36:35.541 --> 00:36:37.369
it is only a one-way monologue

791
00:36:37.499 --> 00:36:40.198
that the parents talk
to the kids, talk at the kids,

792
00:36:40.328 --> 00:36:41.938
it's never a conversation.

793
00:36:42.069 --> 00:36:43.897
And that's why I see, now,

794
00:36:44.027 --> 00:36:46.204
looking back at, um,
The Karate Kid,

795
00:36:46.334 --> 00:36:51.339
it's such a beautiful story
because it's a story
about two, uh, people

796
00:36:51.861 --> 00:36:53.472
who've lost
something important in life,

797
00:36:53.602 --> 00:36:56.257
and finding renewed friendship
and believe in hope.

798
00:36:56.388 --> 00:36:58.477
In an era where everything was,
you know,

799
00:36:58.607 --> 00:37:00.914
He-Man and, you know,

800
00:37:01.044 --> 00:37:03.308
Stallone, Schwarzenegger model,

801
00:37:03.438 --> 00:37:06.659
you know, big, tough,
strong guys beating up people,

802
00:37:06.789 --> 00:37:08.835
or shooting people,
or killing people,

803
00:37:08.965 --> 00:37:10.402
especially people
of color, you know.

804
00:37:11.185 --> 00:37:13.013
And then there was Mr. Miyagi,

805
00:37:13.143 --> 00:37:17.844
who had wisdom and who could,
you know, catch a fly. [laughs]

806
00:37:17.974 --> 00:37:20.586
You know, it--
it just let-- it reminded you

807
00:37:20.716 --> 00:37:23.284
that it's not
all on the outside,

808
00:37:23.415 --> 00:37:25.765
that there's something
deep within that you can develop

809
00:37:25.895 --> 00:37:27.767
that can be the great equalizer.

810
00:37:28.376 --> 00:37:32.162
And he was, uh,
everybody's fantasy

811
00:37:32.293 --> 00:37:33.729
of what they would want,

812
00:37:33.860 --> 00:37:36.689
a father
who was kind and gentle,

813
00:37:36.819 --> 00:37:38.473
and would mentor,

814
00:37:38.995 --> 00:37:41.215
and could beat the living crap
out of everybody.

815
00:37:41.346 --> 00:37:42.695
[shouting and grunting]

816
00:37:43.565 --> 00:37:45.219
-[sharp shattering]
-[moaning]

817
00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:47.787
[panting]

818
00:37:50.137 --> 00:37:50.964
[vocalizing]

819
00:37:52.357 --> 00:37:53.488
[vocalizing]

820
00:37:53.619 --> 00:37:55.708
And he, he used to call me "BZ,"

821
00:37:55.838 --> 00:37:58.276
and I used to call him
"Uncle Pat," he kind
of became all our uncle,

822
00:37:58.406 --> 00:38:00.365
he was like the warm, funny
uncle on the set, you know.

823
00:38:00.495 --> 00:38:02.454
And then he turned into
Miyagi and disappeared.

824
00:38:02.584 --> 00:38:04.020
But for the most part,
he was the funny,

825
00:38:04.151 --> 00:38:06.371
warm Pat, and he'd go, "BZ, BZ!"

826
00:38:06.501 --> 00:38:09.374
And I'm-- you know,
I'm in my skeleton outfits, it's
two in the morning, you know,

827
00:38:09.504 --> 00:38:12.028
and he pulls me
aside and he goes,
"Listen, man, listen, man."

828
00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:13.987
He goes, "When, uh, when you're
doing rehearsals, brother,"

829
00:38:14.117 --> 00:38:15.728
he goes,
"you got to give 110%,

830
00:38:15.858 --> 00:38:17.295
got to give 110%."

831
00:38:17.425 --> 00:38:18.687
He goes, "That way,
when the cameras are rolling,

832
00:38:18.818 --> 00:38:19.819
it's bread and butter, baby.

833
00:38:19.949 --> 00:38:21.081
It's bread and butter."

834
00:38:21.211 --> 00:38:23.170
I was a young actor,
I was macho.

835
00:38:23.301 --> 00:38:25.303
I wasn't, like,
into my emotions,

836
00:38:25.433 --> 00:38:26.956
and crying scenes were maybe

837
00:38:27.087 --> 00:38:28.915
the most challenging
thing for me.

838
00:38:29.045 --> 00:38:31.787
And, uh, I remember
Pat just saying, "Don't blink."

839
00:38:33.398 --> 00:38:34.268
I'm like, "What?"

840
00:38:34.790 --> 00:38:36.836
He said, "Just don't blink,

841
00:38:36.966 --> 00:38:38.272
your eyes will start to water."

842
00:38:38.403 --> 00:38:39.360
[laughs]

843
00:38:39.491 --> 00:38:40.927
Pat, to me,

844
00:38:41.057 --> 00:38:43.233
he was sort of like Mr. Miyagi.

845
00:38:43.364 --> 00:38:46.236
He was this kind of magical guy.

846
00:38:46.367 --> 00:38:49.239
I remember one time he was
at the show and I had an injury.

847
00:38:49.370 --> 00:38:52.547
I had--
I had a tear in my tendon.

848
00:38:52.678 --> 00:38:55.333
And he reaches over
and he grabs my arm,

849
00:38:55.463 --> 00:38:57.117
and he just squeezes it.

850
00:38:57.247 --> 00:38:58.640
And he's like, "Yeah, you know,

851
00:38:58.771 --> 00:39:00.555
you-- you should do
like this every now and then."

852
00:39:00.686 --> 00:39:03.079
And he's-- and he
just squeezes my arm, and I'm--

853
00:39:03.210 --> 00:39:05.125
And I go,
"Pat, that's kind of hurting."
And he goes, "Yeah, yeah,

854
00:39:05.255 --> 00:39:06.866
but wait, it'll feel
better when I'm done."

855
00:39:06.996 --> 00:39:10.565
I was going to go to jail
for selling bongs.

856
00:39:10.696 --> 00:39:12.219
And this is in '03.

857
00:39:12.915 --> 00:39:16.615
And so, I was feeling really,
really low,

858
00:39:16.745 --> 00:39:19.357
because my family,
uh, my daughters,

859
00:39:19.487 --> 00:39:21.489
you know, they're all sad.

860
00:39:21.620 --> 00:39:23.361
But when you go to jail,

861
00:39:23.491 --> 00:39:25.754
you really find out
who your real friends are.

862
00:39:26.929 --> 00:39:29.497
And only one guy called me...

863
00:39:30.759 --> 00:39:32.848
and gave me a, a heads up

864
00:39:32.979 --> 00:39:34.763
and give me a, a talk.

865
00:39:34.894 --> 00:39:36.330
And that was Pat Morita.

866
00:39:36.461 --> 00:39:38.071
He does a mean barnacle.

867
00:39:38.201 --> 00:39:39.855
I let him paint
some barnacles on, uh,

868
00:39:39.986 --> 00:39:43.381
the Whaling Wall mural
that I did in, uh, Waikiki, and,

869
00:39:43.511 --> 00:39:44.817
and at each wall,

870
00:39:44.947 --> 00:39:48.255
you know, I have a--
a person of significance,

871
00:39:48.386 --> 00:39:50.910
uh, dedicated, you know,
that particular mural.

872
00:39:51.040 --> 00:39:52.041
And for Hawaii,

873
00:39:52.651 --> 00:39:54.043
it had to be Pat Morita.

874
00:39:54.566 --> 00:39:58.439
Not only was Pat
my neighbor in Tarzana,

875
00:39:58.570 --> 00:40:02.356
then down the street,
little more into the hills,

876
00:40:02.487 --> 00:40:04.053
Pat lived down there.

877
00:40:04.184 --> 00:40:07.796
Well, there's a big rain
that year, huge, big rain.

878
00:40:07.927 --> 00:40:10.320
Mud came down, his whole house--

879
00:40:10.451 --> 00:40:12.453
the mud went
right through his house,

880
00:40:12.584 --> 00:40:14.107
filled up the whole house
with mud.

881
00:40:15.935 --> 00:40:17.850
Uh, being a neighbor,
so we're all down there
trying to help him.

882
00:40:17.980 --> 00:40:21.114
In other words,
another tragic thing

883
00:40:21.244 --> 00:40:22.898
happens to this sweetheart.

884
00:40:23.029 --> 00:40:25.423
I had to really get
pumped up for some of that.

885
00:40:25.553 --> 00:40:28.077
Pat is great,
you know, to work with.

886
00:40:28.208 --> 00:40:31.385
He'd say, he says, "I want you
to hate me with all your guts.

887
00:40:31.951 --> 00:40:33.343
You want to rip my lung out.

888
00:40:34.127 --> 00:40:37.086
You know, you want to tear
my heart out and eat it."

889
00:40:37.217 --> 00:40:38.653
That's what he used to say.

890
00:40:38.784 --> 00:40:41.264
Kind of felt like he was
the father that I never had,

891
00:40:41.395 --> 00:40:43.745
and the son that he never had,

892
00:40:43.876 --> 00:40:47.619
and, uh, I always said
I was his, his Ralph Macchio.

893
00:40:47.749 --> 00:40:50.099
"I'm the one
that cleans the garage,

894
00:40:50.230 --> 00:40:52.841
and, and waxes his cars,"
and, you know,

895
00:40:52.972 --> 00:40:55.453
he always had me wash
the cars and stuff like that.

896
00:40:56.541 --> 00:41:00.022
But one of my favorite
moments in the film,

897
00:41:00.153 --> 00:41:02.938
it's when I turn to him after he
gives me the car for my birthday

898
00:41:03.069 --> 00:41:05.071
and I say, "You're
the best friend I ever had."

899
00:41:05.201 --> 00:41:07.029
And it's such a big thing,
it's, you know,

900
00:41:07.160 --> 00:41:10.816
a son getting his first car
from his father.

901
00:41:10.946 --> 00:41:13.949
And here's a boy who really
has nothing and now he has,

902
00:41:14.080 --> 00:41:16.865
especially here in California,
has some sense of identity

903
00:41:16.996 --> 00:41:18.737
and empowerment

904
00:41:18.867 --> 00:41:20.347
and independence.

905
00:41:20.478 --> 00:41:22.610
And it's this really cool car.

906
00:41:22.741 --> 00:41:25.221
I could get emotional
about it like right now

907
00:41:25.352 --> 00:41:27.833
just based on the fact
of being a parent and,

908
00:41:27.963 --> 00:41:29.182
and how much that meant,

909
00:41:29.312 --> 00:41:31.053
and what kind of kid
would say that.

910
00:41:31.184 --> 00:41:32.968
In that scene, is how much

911
00:41:33.099 --> 00:41:37.233
that father figure meant
to this boy at the time.

912
00:41:37.756 --> 00:41:42.674
And his reaction was
equally as poignant with,

913
00:41:43.326 --> 00:41:44.806
"You pretty okay too."

914
00:41:45.459 --> 00:41:50.203
For me, the scene
when Daniel has been working,

915
00:41:50.333 --> 00:41:53.641
doing what he deems to be
all these menial jobs

916
00:41:53.772 --> 00:41:55.556
around Mr. Miyagi's home,

917
00:41:55.687 --> 00:41:58.385
uh, waxing the cars,
painting the fence,

918
00:41:58.516 --> 00:42:00.387
uh, you know, sanding the floor.

919
00:42:00.996 --> 00:42:01.997
And he's had it.

920
00:42:02.694 --> 00:42:04.217
And in one instant,

921
00:42:04.347 --> 00:42:07.220
Mr. Miyagi asks him to show him,

922
00:42:07.350 --> 00:42:10.702
you know, paint the fence,
you know, wax the floor,

923
00:42:10.832 --> 00:42:13.313
you know, and, and the kid
realizes, he has the epiphany

924
00:42:13.443 --> 00:42:14.880
that he's been taught
karate all along.

925
00:42:15.620 --> 00:42:17.360
Show me "sand the floor."

926
00:42:18.100 --> 00:42:19.014
-[yells]
-[sharp thud]

927
00:42:19.145 --> 00:42:20.842
[continues to yell]

928
00:42:22.540 --> 00:42:23.671
Yes.

929
00:42:28.633 --> 00:42:31.940
[William] The place went crazy
the first time we saw that
in Westwood at a screening.

930
00:42:32.071 --> 00:42:33.855
You know, that moment.
Because you don't know,
the first time,

931
00:42:33.986 --> 00:42:35.814
you don't see The Karate Kid,
you don't know what's coming.

932
00:42:35.944 --> 00:42:37.729
So, why is he painting?
Why is he waxing?

933
00:42:37.859 --> 00:42:40.209
When that epiphany happens
for the first time,

934
00:42:40.340 --> 00:42:41.863
it just, like,
sends chills, you know,

935
00:42:41.994 --> 00:42:44.083
and it just sets up
the ending so great.

936
00:42:44.213 --> 00:42:47.042
Initially, there was
discussion of cutting

937
00:42:47.173 --> 00:42:49.654
the drunk scene from the movie.

938
00:42:49.784 --> 00:42:51.656
[Robert]
Where, where Mr. Miyagi
is drunk,

939
00:42:51.786 --> 00:42:53.571
talking about his wife and--

940
00:42:53.701 --> 00:42:55.529
I lobbied very hard
for that scene

941
00:42:55.660 --> 00:42:57.879
because I felt that was
the emotional heart
of the picture

942
00:42:58.010 --> 00:43:01.579
and it, it, um, it humanized
Mr. Miyagi for Daniel.

943
00:43:02.057 --> 00:43:05.887
I think you got an idea
that this was a fully
fleshed character,

944
00:43:06.018 --> 00:43:09.674
and it presented to us
a side of history

945
00:43:09.804 --> 00:43:13.808
that the Japanese had,
um, persevered and,

946
00:43:13.939 --> 00:43:17.943
and fought for, and, and shown
that they had such honor

947
00:43:18.073 --> 00:43:19.422
and integrity in America.

948
00:43:19.553 --> 00:43:20.685
[Ralph]
It's saying,

949
00:43:20.815 --> 00:43:23.209
this scene just stops the story.

950
00:43:23.688 --> 00:43:26.212
You are driving forward,
you have the protagonist,

951
00:43:26.342 --> 00:43:28.954
the antagonist,
the mentor, the student,

952
00:43:29.084 --> 00:43:30.608
the drama, the setup,

953
00:43:30.738 --> 00:43:33.001
the leading to the climax,
the tournament,

954
00:43:33.132 --> 00:43:35.525
the clock is ticking,
it's going to strike midnight.

955
00:43:35.656 --> 00:43:36.744
And then we stop.

956
00:43:36.875 --> 00:43:38.703
And we talk about some guy

957
00:43:38.833 --> 00:43:40.182
and his World War II connection

958
00:43:40.313 --> 00:43:43.621
for five, seven minutes
or whatever it is.

959
00:43:43.751 --> 00:43:45.710
[paper softly rustling]

960
00:43:49.235 --> 00:43:51.585
[Guy]
That scene is about the fact

961
00:43:51.716 --> 00:43:54.632
that we faced prejudice,
we suffered.

962
00:43:55.633 --> 00:43:58.592
And it's like, what a lot
of Japanese-Americans
went through,

963
00:43:58.723 --> 00:43:59.593
we don't talk about it.

964
00:44:00.812 --> 00:44:02.988
We persevered,
we went on with our lives.

965
00:44:03.118 --> 00:44:04.554
But for this guy to fight...

966
00:44:05.425 --> 00:44:08.123
for our country in Germany
against the Nazis,

967
00:44:08.254 --> 00:44:10.560
and back home in prison,

968
00:44:10.691 --> 00:44:15.087
his wife, their son die
because no doctor came to help.

969
00:44:15.827 --> 00:44:19.439
I mean, that was just
an amazing scene, you know.

970
00:44:19.569 --> 00:44:21.223
[slurred speech]
Regret to inform...

971
00:44:21.876 --> 00:44:23.356
wife has...

972
00:44:24.313 --> 00:44:26.228
[mumbling]

973
00:44:32.670 --> 00:44:33.888
[grunting loudly]

974
00:44:34.019 --> 00:44:36.412
[cries]

975
00:44:36.891 --> 00:44:38.414
[William]
Without that scene,
I don't think you know

976
00:44:38.545 --> 00:44:40.503
who Miyagi is in a--
in a way that--

977
00:44:40.982 --> 00:44:43.724
I-- I think so much
of the soul of the film

978
00:44:43.855 --> 00:44:44.986
is in that one moment.

979
00:44:45.683 --> 00:44:47.467
It's not easy
to play drunk either.

980
00:44:47.597 --> 00:44:50.775
Uh, most actors go overboard

981
00:44:50.905 --> 00:44:53.168
and ham it up and,
you know, act really sloppy.

982
00:44:53.299 --> 00:44:56.781
I remember his performance
seem to be believably drunk

983
00:44:56.911 --> 00:44:58.217
and a little bit scary.

984
00:44:58.347 --> 00:45:00.872
And arguably, Pat Morita
would be the first one

985
00:45:01.002 --> 00:45:04.310
to call that his Academy Award
nomination scene.

986
00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:08.575
Because it's the vulnerability
and the drama that speaks
to Academy members,

987
00:45:08.706 --> 00:45:10.098
and there were
so many moments there

988
00:45:10.795 --> 00:45:13.232
where it wasn't
about the karate.

989
00:45:13.754 --> 00:45:17.845
See, any time...
you do any project

990
00:45:18.411 --> 00:45:20.021
that touches you in the heart,

991
00:45:20.152 --> 00:45:22.284
touches the viewer in the heart,

992
00:45:22.415 --> 00:45:26.332
that's the kind of performance
that wraps the, the Awards.

993
00:45:26.462 --> 00:45:28.943
[man] Well, The Karate Kid
has a couple of nice
performances in it,

994
00:45:29.074 --> 00:45:31.685
-marginal thumbs up for me.
-It gets a big thumbs up for me,

995
00:45:31.816 --> 00:45:34.862
and especially
because of Pat Morita,
that Japanese-American janitor

996
00:45:34.993 --> 00:45:37.256
who's going to teach him all
the moves. Pat Morita, I think,

997
00:45:37.386 --> 00:45:39.737
a possible for an Oscar
nomination, if the movie does it

998
00:45:39.867 --> 00:45:41.086
-at the Box Office.
-No way.

999
00:45:41.216 --> 00:45:43.349
Okay. I'll see you
in a couple of months.

1000
00:45:43.479 --> 00:45:46.221
I was surprised
he was nominated.

1001
00:45:46.352 --> 00:45:49.355
Not because the performance
didn't deserve it.

1002
00:45:49.485 --> 00:45:50.878
I just couldn't believe
I was in a movie

1003
00:45:51.009 --> 00:45:53.402
with someone who got
an Academy Award nomination.

1004
00:45:53.533 --> 00:45:55.622
Winning the nomination is

1005
00:45:55.753 --> 00:45:59.017
probably as close as you can get
to the ultimate achievement.

1006
00:45:59.147 --> 00:46:01.976
[Robert]
I was very happy for him. He had
spent a whole life being--

1007
00:46:02.107 --> 00:46:05.763
trying to be something
that not very many
Japanese-Americans were,

1008
00:46:05.893 --> 00:46:07.199
which is an actor

1009
00:46:07.329 --> 00:46:08.766
and a comedian and a stand-up.

1010
00:46:08.896 --> 00:46:11.029
People in the community
were very proud of him.

1011
00:46:11.159 --> 00:46:12.508
Um, I think it was
the first time they,

1012
00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:14.336
they said that, you know,
somebody was actual--

1013
00:46:14.467 --> 00:46:17.731
uh, of Asian ancestry was
actually recognized.

1014
00:46:17.862 --> 00:46:22.649
The best performance by an actor
in a supporting role,

1015
00:46:22.780 --> 00:46:25.521
Pat Morita in The Karate Kid.

1016
00:46:25.652 --> 00:46:27.436
[crowd clapping]

1017
00:46:27.567 --> 00:46:29.351
[Ralph]
If I were to turn back time,

1018
00:46:29.482 --> 00:46:32.833
I would have been more involved.

1019
00:46:32.964 --> 00:46:35.053
I would like
to have had the experience

1020
00:46:35.575 --> 00:46:39.797
of being at the Oscars,
uh, for him.

1021
00:46:40.406 --> 00:46:44.410
And that's, that's the one,
that's the one I, I missed.

1022
00:46:44.540 --> 00:46:46.804
[woman]
What's your level
of excitement like now?

1023
00:46:46.934 --> 00:46:48.936
Right now it's,
on a scale of ten,

1024
00:46:49.067 --> 00:46:53.332
about 17. And outside
of that, I'm very calm.

1025
00:46:53.462 --> 00:46:54.812
[Robert]
And this was a big deal,

1026
00:46:54.942 --> 00:46:58.119
The Karate Kid
became an iconic movie.

1027
00:46:58.685 --> 00:47:01.340
Uh, and it's played
for three generations now.

1028
00:47:01.470 --> 00:47:03.864
And also represented
the Japanese culture, you know,

1029
00:47:03.995 --> 00:47:05.387
in a way that was Americanized.

1030
00:47:05.518 --> 00:47:07.694
It brought karate
and the whole martial arts

1031
00:47:07.825 --> 00:47:10.610
into the United States, it was
the first film that did that.

1032
00:47:10.740 --> 00:47:12.655
And dojos benefited from it,
you know,

1033
00:47:12.786 --> 00:47:15.006
when that--
after that movie came out,

1034
00:47:15.136 --> 00:47:17.704
in a moment, went up
for a lot of people.

1035
00:47:17.835 --> 00:47:20.141
Even today that's going on.
I talked to karate schools

1036
00:47:20.272 --> 00:47:22.448
and there's a thousand
different schools represented

1037
00:47:22.578 --> 00:47:23.753
with all the different senseis,

1038
00:47:23.884 --> 00:47:24.972
and every one of them were a kid

1039
00:47:25.103 --> 00:47:26.060
that was doing a crane kick

1040
00:47:26.191 --> 00:47:27.235
when they were 12, you know.

1041
00:47:28.062 --> 00:47:29.194
[all shouting]

1042
00:47:29.324 --> 00:47:30.673
My manager,

1043
00:47:30.804 --> 00:47:33.198
my personal manager at the time,

1044
00:47:33.328 --> 00:47:35.156
said, "You know, it's great
that you're doing this movie,

1045
00:47:35.287 --> 00:47:36.854
but you know there's
no audience for it."

1046
00:47:38.029 --> 00:47:40.770
[Martin]
Nobody had an idea.
Nobody liked the title.

1047
00:47:40.901 --> 00:47:42.511
It was a Bruce Lee title,

1048
00:47:42.642 --> 00:47:45.253
you know, it was like,
we all had the same feelings,

1049
00:47:45.384 --> 00:47:46.646
but nobody versed it.

1050
00:47:46.776 --> 00:47:48.996
You know, nobody was--
talked about it.

1051
00:47:49.127 --> 00:47:50.955
"Hey, Jerry,
what kind of title is this?"

1052
00:47:51.607 --> 00:47:53.000
You know,
I mean, nobody did that.

1053
00:47:53.522 --> 00:47:55.873
We felt we were making
something good,

1054
00:47:56.003 --> 00:47:58.005
even, I mean, John Avildsen
was one of the first

1055
00:47:58.136 --> 00:47:59.833
to always say that,
"I didn't have a clue."

1056
00:48:00.355 --> 00:48:02.009
[Martin]
I've never been on a set

1057
00:48:02.531 --> 00:48:06.535
where everything was
just so right...

1058
00:48:07.536 --> 00:48:08.537
by accident.

1059
00:48:09.756 --> 00:48:11.279
It just, like,
God was watching over you,

1060
00:48:11.410 --> 00:48:12.977
"Bam! Bam!"

1061
00:48:13.107 --> 00:48:14.630
[Ralph]
Did he believe 30 years later,

1062
00:48:14.761 --> 00:48:16.632
or did I, or did Pat Morita,

1063
00:48:16.763 --> 00:48:18.721
or anyone believe that people--

1064
00:48:18.852 --> 00:48:21.594
that this film would be
relevant today?

1065
00:48:21.724 --> 00:48:24.292
Um, that's a--
that's a gazillion to one.

1066
00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:27.034
It changed all our lives.
It changed my life,

1067
00:48:27.165 --> 00:48:29.689
it changed Pat's life.
Changed everybody's life.

1068
00:48:30.820 --> 00:48:34.085
Pat Morita handmade us
these photo albums

1069
00:48:34.215 --> 00:48:36.914
at-- when we wrapped,
and he gave them to us, uh,

1070
00:48:37.044 --> 00:48:38.959
I think maybe
just prior to wrapping,

1071
00:48:39.090 --> 00:48:41.831
like, around the Christmas time,
because if you read this,

1072
00:48:41.962 --> 00:48:43.877
he wrote it out, it says,
"Happy holidays,

1073
00:48:44.008 --> 00:48:46.575
you and family for whole life.

1074
00:48:47.359 --> 00:48:49.187
Miyagi, 1983."

1075
00:48:49.839 --> 00:48:52.886
And then, of course,
he put some photos of himself,

1076
00:48:53.017 --> 00:48:56.455
signed autographs, and he
and Ralph with the bonsai trees,

1077
00:48:56.585 --> 00:49:00.459
and then he left,
you know, pretty much the rest
of it opened for us to fill in

1078
00:49:00.589 --> 00:49:03.375
with our own
newspaper articles and,

1079
00:49:03.505 --> 00:49:04.942
and our photos about...

1080
00:49:05.855 --> 00:49:08.293
You know, even just regular
snapshots of the trailers

1081
00:49:08.423 --> 00:49:10.991
and, and just stuff,
memorabilia from The Karate Kid,

1082
00:49:11.122 --> 00:49:12.514
and just us hanging out and,

1083
00:49:13.211 --> 00:49:16.518
and, uh, obviously
I'll cherish this forever.

1084
00:49:17.606 --> 00:49:18.912
That's the Medal of Honor.

1085
00:49:19.957 --> 00:49:22.220
The highest honor awarded
by the US military.

1086
00:49:22.742 --> 00:49:26.528
[Ralph]
We are, um, in production
on the Cobra Kairight now.

1087
00:49:26.659 --> 00:49:29.575
It's important to me,
from day one,

1088
00:49:29.705 --> 00:49:32.970
that the essence
and spirit of Miyagi lives

1089
00:49:33.709 --> 00:49:36.886
through Daniel LaRusso,
even 30 years later.

1090
00:49:37.017 --> 00:49:40.890
And without it, not a complete
character or complete story.

1091
00:49:41.413 --> 00:49:45.069
We do our best
in honoring the legacy

1092
00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:48.986
of which this new series
has been born from.

1093
00:49:49.116 --> 00:49:51.640
And you can't have that without,

1094
00:49:51.771 --> 00:49:55.993
uh, Mr. Miyagi's infusion
into Daniel's life

1095
00:49:56.123 --> 00:49:58.082
and how he leads his life.

1096
00:49:59.344 --> 00:50:01.259
I really wish you could be
here right now.

1097
00:50:01.389 --> 00:50:03.348
[light somber music]

1098
00:50:09.615 --> 00:50:11.747
[Felicia]
So, did he have
any identity issues

1099
00:50:11.878 --> 00:50:15.055
with being Japanese-American
and having to play these roles,

1100
00:50:15.186 --> 00:50:18.711
these Japanese roles
and having the accent
when he was very American?

1101
00:50:19.190 --> 00:50:20.669
[Evelyn]
Oh, God. Yes.

1102
00:50:22.497 --> 00:50:24.760
-You know, it's funny,
he spoke very little Japanese.
-It's crazy.

1103
00:50:24.891 --> 00:50:27.154
[Evelyn]
I didn't even know that
after we got married.

1104
00:50:27.285 --> 00:50:30.984
The family was all together
and they were all talking
Japanese and everything,

1105
00:50:31.115 --> 00:50:33.508
and he was in the corner,
like, really quiet, and I said,

1106
00:50:33.639 --> 00:50:35.380
"Honey, wow,
why don't you join in?"

1107
00:50:37.338 --> 00:50:38.470
-He goes, "Because I don't know
what the hell they're saying."
-[laughs]

1108
00:50:38.600 --> 00:50:40.341
-What?
-[Annette] Wow!
That's fascinating.

1109
00:50:40.472 --> 00:50:43.214
So, I-- I'm a polite,
friendly kind of a guy.

1110
00:50:43.344 --> 00:50:45.868
I go up to this Japanese guy,
and I know that, uh,

1111
00:50:45.999 --> 00:50:47.957
"ohio" meant
"good morning" in Jap--

1112
00:50:48.088 --> 00:50:50.090
So I go up to this Japanese
guy and said, "Ohio."

1113
00:50:51.135 --> 00:50:53.006
He looked at me and said,
"Cleveland."

1114
00:50:53.137 --> 00:50:56.053
[crowd laughs]

1115
00:50:56.183 --> 00:50:59.969
[Pat]
There's a, a-- what I call
a pigeonholing status

1116
00:51:00.100 --> 00:51:04.278
that goes on within the casting side of the business.

1117
00:51:04.887 --> 00:51:08.500
My very, very firs-- first movie wasThoroughly Modern Millie.

1118
00:51:08.630 --> 00:51:12.547
There is me and Jack Soo playing Chinese laundrymen with,

1119
00:51:13.157 --> 00:51:15.072
with the queue, you know,
the pigtail and...

1120
00:51:15.202 --> 00:51:18.858
If you've watch that scene
where they both appear, um,

1121
00:51:19.380 --> 00:51:23.167
it's just very caricatured and,

1122
00:51:23.776 --> 00:51:27.084
you know, emasculating,
they look ridiculous and--

1123
00:51:27.649 --> 00:51:29.651
maybe they could say,
"Well, it's comedy,

1124
00:51:29.782 --> 00:51:32.089
uh, they're supposed
to be." But, you know,

1125
00:51:32.219 --> 00:51:35.788
it just played on a lot
of the old racist tropes

1126
00:51:35.918 --> 00:51:38.182
that existed at that time and--

1127
00:51:38.312 --> 00:51:40.880
[James]
Louise Rainer,
I believe her name was,

1128
00:51:41.446 --> 00:51:44.275
played the main role

1129
00:51:44.405 --> 00:51:46.190
as an Asian lady.

1130
00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:48.366
And she would put on the makeup,
you know,

1131
00:51:48.496 --> 00:51:51.412
and, uh, so forth.
And the leading man

1132
00:51:51.543 --> 00:51:53.675
was another prominent
White actor.

1133
00:51:54.241 --> 00:51:56.852
Did the whole role
with these makeup and the...

1134
00:51:56.983 --> 00:52:01.118
[mimics speech]

1135
00:52:01.248 --> 00:52:03.207
You know,
it was sickening to see,

1136
00:52:03.337 --> 00:52:06.645
it turned my stomach
to see people do those roles.

1137
00:52:06.775 --> 00:52:07.646
[light mysterious music]

1138
00:52:07.776 --> 00:52:09.691
[loudly laughing]

1139
00:52:09.822 --> 00:52:11.867
This is the day!

1140
00:52:11.998 --> 00:52:14.348
You know, guys like
Mickey Rooney would act

1141
00:52:14.479 --> 00:52:17.221
like a Japanese guy,
like he did in, uh,

1142
00:52:17.351 --> 00:52:19.701
in Ti-- Breakfast at Tiffany's,
you know.

1143
00:52:19.832 --> 00:52:21.877
They'd always have actors,
they didn't care

1144
00:52:22.443 --> 00:52:25.490
what nationality they were,
but they never hired,

1145
00:52:25.620 --> 00:52:27.405
uh, you know, Asians.

1146
00:52:27.535 --> 00:52:29.189
And he's got
the coke bottle glasses,

1147
00:52:29.320 --> 00:52:31.496
and he's got the fake
buck teeth and he's talking...

1148
00:52:31.626 --> 00:52:33.150
[mimics Japanese yelling]

1149
00:52:33.280 --> 00:52:34.803
He's ranting, and raving, and--

1150
00:52:34.934 --> 00:52:36.457
[shouting with Asian accent]
But that was two weeks ago!

1151
00:52:36.588 --> 00:52:39.547
You cannot go under
and keep ringing my bell!

1152
00:52:39.678 --> 00:52:41.854
[Guy]
That came to symbolize,

1153
00:52:42.376 --> 00:52:43.943
"This is what you think
we're like."

1154
00:52:44.422 --> 00:52:46.424
Now if you saw this part, you--

1155
00:52:46.989 --> 00:52:48.817
you might say, "Geez!"

1156
00:52:48.948 --> 00:52:50.602
[chuckles]

1157
00:52:51.777 --> 00:52:53.909
Th-- the volume was up
a little high

1158
00:52:54.040 --> 00:52:55.563
on some of the mannerisms.

1159
00:52:55.694 --> 00:52:56.912
But remember, this is...

1160
00:52:57.565 --> 00:52:59.785
the same thing. In 1960,

1161
00:52:59.915 --> 00:53:03.876
that's what...
an actor might do.

1162
00:53:04.006 --> 00:53:06.879
The big producers,
the Samuel Goldmans and, uh,

1163
00:53:07.009 --> 00:53:10.578
you know, the-- the big, uh,
20th Century Fox and whatnot,

1164
00:53:10.709 --> 00:53:12.711
were throwing us little tidbit,

1165
00:53:12.841 --> 00:53:14.191
and the people were satisfied,

1166
00:53:14.321 --> 00:53:15.583
but I wasn't satisfied

1167
00:53:15.714 --> 00:53:18.107
because I wasn't
that kind of a person.

1168
00:53:18.238 --> 00:53:20.240
And even
the great Marlon Brando,

1169
00:53:20.849 --> 00:53:22.373
uh, doing the yellow face,

1170
00:53:22.503 --> 00:53:25.245
uh, playing this character
named Sakini.

1171
00:53:25.376 --> 00:53:27.334
[in Asian accent]
Pleased to introduce myself.

1172
00:53:28.379 --> 00:53:31.730
Sakini by name,
interpreter by profession.

1173
00:53:31.860 --> 00:53:33.471
John Wayne played Genghis Khan.

1174
00:53:34.123 --> 00:53:35.429
"And you still talk like this.

1175
00:53:35.560 --> 00:53:37.518
We're going to go
and take over the westerners,

1176
00:53:37.649 --> 00:53:38.737
pilgrim."

1177
00:53:38.867 --> 00:53:40.869
I feel this tartar woman
is for me.

1178
00:53:42.044 --> 00:53:43.655
My blood says, "Take her!"

1179
00:53:43.785 --> 00:53:46.223
[George]
That was totally acceptable
at the time.

1180
00:53:46.353 --> 00:53:49.226
But here we are
in the present day,

1181
00:53:49.356 --> 00:53:53.186
and you still have movies
like Ghost in the Shell

1182
00:53:53.317 --> 00:53:55.188
and Doctor Strange,

1183
00:53:55.319 --> 00:54:00.106
in which these characters
which should be Asian are not.

1184
00:54:00.585 --> 00:54:02.891
I think they need to change
the belief that

1185
00:54:03.022 --> 00:54:06.330
Asian-Americans
or Asian Pacific, uh, actors

1186
00:54:06.460 --> 00:54:08.636
in leading roles are not,
uh, bankable.

1187
00:54:09.246 --> 00:54:10.247
That is a myth.

1188
00:54:10.377 --> 00:54:11.639
[intense dramatic music]

1189
00:54:11.770 --> 00:54:12.771
-[sharp thuds]
-[grunts]

1190
00:54:12.901 --> 00:54:13.728
[gunshots]

1191
00:54:16.078 --> 00:54:17.515
-[woman] Fine banana.
-No, no, no.

1192
00:54:17.645 --> 00:54:18.907
That-- those are for your feet.

1193
00:54:19.691 --> 00:54:21.997
-[sharp thuds]
-[sharp yells]

1194
00:54:23.782 --> 00:54:25.958
Audience has actually embraced

1195
00:54:26.088 --> 00:54:28.265
a Mr. Miyagi and Pat Morita.

1196
00:54:28.395 --> 00:54:30.179
They embrace a Bruce Lee,

1197
00:54:30.310 --> 00:54:31.572
when you get the real thing.

1198
00:54:31.703 --> 00:54:33.574
[Pat]
And history will,

1199
00:54:33.705 --> 00:54:37.274
in our industry,
will always, uh,
if it's honest with itself,

1200
00:54:37.404 --> 00:54:39.928
will always have
to talk about these facets,

1201
00:54:40.059 --> 00:54:42.148
but the pigeonholing process
still goes on.

1202
00:54:42.279 --> 00:54:45.847
Everybody wants me to do some
variation of a sensei and...

1203
00:54:46.370 --> 00:54:48.328
[mimicking Asian accent]
Chan, you have offended
my family.

1204
00:54:48.459 --> 00:54:50.722
[crowd laughs]

1205
00:54:50.852 --> 00:54:53.638
Now I must avenge
my brother's death.

1206
00:54:53.768 --> 00:54:54.943
[crowd laughs]

1207
00:54:55.074 --> 00:54:55.988
Having fun?

1208
00:54:57.642 --> 00:55:00.297
It's kind of funny to me
that Hollywood is so
kind of narrow,

1209
00:55:00.427 --> 00:55:03.430
narrow sided sometimes
to not see past the charac--

1210
00:55:03.561 --> 00:55:05.650
when you play a character
so well that you remember
forever and go,

1211
00:55:05.780 --> 00:55:07.826
"Ah, that's what he does."
It's the silliest thing,

1212
00:55:07.956 --> 00:55:09.044
like, Pat had so many colors.

1213
00:55:09.175 --> 00:55:10.655
He could play any character.

1214
00:55:11.220 --> 00:55:12.657
He could do any dialect,
almost, you know,

1215
00:55:12.787 --> 00:55:14.267
he could've played anything.

1216
00:55:14.398 --> 00:55:17.009
He, he was always slot
into a gimmick.

1217
00:55:17.139 --> 00:55:19.620
Even Karate Kid,
you have to admit that was a,

1218
00:55:19.751 --> 00:55:24.625
a gimmick role of a so-called
karate master, you know.

1219
00:55:24.756 --> 00:55:26.714
You're lucky to have
a character tha--

1220
00:55:26.845 --> 00:55:28.412
that people remember forever

1221
00:55:28.542 --> 00:55:30.457
because you did a good job,
you know,

1222
00:55:30.588 --> 00:55:33.765
so I don't necessarily think
it's a bad thing to be typecast.

1223
00:55:33.895 --> 00:55:36.985
One, it's not bad
because you're working.

1224
00:55:37.116 --> 00:55:40.598
Two, it's bad because people
think that's all you can do.

1225
00:55:41.599 --> 00:55:45.777
And you have to fight
as hard as you possibly can

1226
00:55:46.517 --> 00:55:49.824
in order not to be
completely pigeonholed.

1227
00:55:50.434 --> 00:55:52.653
So, what were some of the other
films that he was proud of?

1228
00:55:52.784 --> 00:55:54.351
You know, it's funny,
a lot of people don't know this,

1229
00:55:54.481 --> 00:55:57.484
but he was nominated for
a Golden Globe and an Emmy...

1230
00:55:57.615 --> 00:55:59.356
-[Felicia] Wow.
-...for Amos,the TV movie.

1231
00:55:59.878 --> 00:56:02.663
[Pat]
I think every actor wishes

1232
00:56:02.794 --> 00:56:05.884
in their lifetime they could
work with a superstar.

1233
00:56:06.014 --> 00:56:07.625
Little did I ever know

1234
00:56:07.755 --> 00:56:10.367
that I would work with a fellow named Kirk Douglas.

1235
00:56:10.497 --> 00:56:12.151
I mean, we're talking
of a legend here.

1236
00:56:12.847 --> 00:56:15.502
It was just one of the thrills
of my life and, uh,

1237
00:56:16.242 --> 00:56:19.027
as it turned out,
I got an Emmy nomination

1238
00:56:19.158 --> 00:56:20.768
for the Best Supporting
that year.

1239
00:56:21.378 --> 00:56:23.031
And aside from being
a wonderful,

1240
00:56:23.162 --> 00:56:24.381
wonderful performer,

1241
00:56:24.511 --> 00:56:27.253
Pat Morita is
a great human being,

1242
00:56:27.993 --> 00:56:30.996
and I love him
and I look forward
to working with him again.

1243
00:56:31.126 --> 00:56:34.521
Didn't he start another TV
series in the late '80s?

1244
00:56:34.652 --> 00:56:38.090
Yes. In '87, I believe he played

1245
00:56:38.220 --> 00:56:42.224
an unconventional
Japanese-American,
Lieutenant Ohara.

1246
00:56:42.834 --> 00:56:44.879
I know how the human mind works.

1247
00:56:45.706 --> 00:56:47.665
How the criminal will react.

1248
00:56:48.927 --> 00:56:50.015
This is my gift.

1249
00:56:50.581 --> 00:56:53.018
[voiceover]
Pat Morita is Ohara.

1250
00:56:53.627 --> 00:56:55.412
The name is Ohara.

1251
00:56:55.542 --> 00:56:56.717
[high-pitched bell]

1252
00:56:56.848 --> 00:56:58.589
[voiceover]
Premiering Saturday.

1253
00:56:58.719 --> 00:57:01.461
And did he ever go back
to visit the internment camps?

1254
00:57:02.070 --> 00:57:04.812
Yeah, actually,
he did a film in '76,

1255
00:57:04.943 --> 00:57:06.814
I believe,
Farewell to Manzanar...

1256
00:57:06.945 --> 00:57:09.338
-Oh.
-...where he played
a photographer

1257
00:57:09.469 --> 00:57:11.689
that was, uh,
taking pictures of everything

1258
00:57:11.819 --> 00:57:13.430
-that went on in the camps.
-[Felicia] Wow.

1259
00:57:13.995 --> 00:57:17.259
[Pat]
It was a fairly
spooky experience

1260
00:57:17.390 --> 00:57:20.654
because they shot on location

1261
00:57:20.785 --> 00:57:22.439
up in Tule Lake,

1262
00:57:22.569 --> 00:57:25.877
which is where my family was.

1263
00:57:26.443 --> 00:57:30.534
Spooky in the sense that it still rings in my ears,

1264
00:57:30.664 --> 00:57:33.624
I remember leaving and saying,

1265
00:57:34.407 --> 00:57:37.932
"Thank God, boy, I'll never have to come back to here again."

1266
00:57:38.803 --> 00:57:42.502
And, uh, 40 years later,
30 years later, I forget,

1267
00:57:42.633 --> 00:57:44.939
there I am on another bus,

1268
00:57:45.070 --> 00:57:47.333
[chuckles]
going back to this place.

1269
00:57:48.421 --> 00:57:51.032
Under much better circumstances, of course, but--

1270
00:57:51.163 --> 00:57:54.949
There was Castle Rock Mountain
and Abalone Hill,

1271
00:57:55.080 --> 00:57:57.996
and still
some graveyard places and,

1272
00:57:58.126 --> 00:58:00.912
and, and patches
of where barracks used to be.

1273
00:58:01.042 --> 00:58:02.870
[Evelyn]
And we also visited

1274
00:58:03.480 --> 00:58:05.786
one of the internment camps
where he was at,

1275
00:58:05.917 --> 00:58:08.920
-uh, Gila River in Arizona.
-[Annette] Oh.

1276
00:58:09.050 --> 00:58:10.182
How was that for him?

1277
00:58:10.748 --> 00:58:12.489
Very, very hard for him.

1278
00:58:12.619 --> 00:58:14.491
It was, it was hard.
It was rough.

1279
00:58:14.621 --> 00:58:17.276
And we're walking the grounds,
you know, you could still see

1280
00:58:17.406 --> 00:58:21.280
remains of some of the China's,
some of the dishes.

1281
00:58:21.410 --> 00:58:22.803
-Oh, my God!
-That people were using.

1282
00:58:22.934 --> 00:58:24.152
All broken, you know, and, um...

1283
00:58:25.110 --> 00:58:26.764
and, uh, he just broke down.

1284
00:58:27.373 --> 00:58:29.331
He broke down,
you know, it was--

1285
00:58:30.245 --> 00:58:31.072
um...

1286
00:58:32.117 --> 00:58:32.944
I'm sorry.

1287
00:58:34.162 --> 00:58:34.989
[Felicia]
It's okay.

1288
00:58:35.120 --> 00:58:35.990
[exhales]

1289
00:58:38.906 --> 00:58:41.126
He said, "You know,
a day didn't go by that,

1290
00:58:41.256 --> 00:58:43.084
uh, you didn't hear
about a suicide...

1291
00:58:43.215 --> 00:58:44.956
-[Felicia and Annette] Oh.
-...or stillborn,

1292
00:58:45.565 --> 00:58:47.349
or somebody dying from, uh,

1293
00:58:47.915 --> 00:58:51.223
an illness they couldn't
treat or malnutrition."

1294
00:58:51.353 --> 00:58:54.531
-[Felicia] Mm-hmm.
-I mean, the conditions
were just horrible,

1295
00:58:54.661 --> 00:58:55.793
they were just horrendous.

1296
00:58:57.621 --> 00:59:00.580
[dramatic Asian themed music]

1297
00:59:08.762 --> 00:59:11.896
[Karen]
After only spending
two years here

1298
00:59:12.026 --> 00:59:15.116
and working for him
for close to 13 years...

1299
00:59:16.727 --> 00:59:18.990
it's about the time
during the riots, I think,

1300
00:59:19.120 --> 00:59:22.733
Pat gave me a call and said,
"Get me out of here."

1301
00:59:23.603 --> 00:59:25.387
And I figured he would be away.

1302
00:59:25.953 --> 00:59:27.520
That's where he wanted to go.

1303
00:59:28.216 --> 00:59:31.176
And he said, "I'm out of money
and I want to move."

1304
00:59:31.306 --> 00:59:33.265
And I was broken-hearted.

1305
00:59:34.440 --> 00:59:36.660
But, going to have
to leave this spot, so...

1306
00:59:38.313 --> 00:59:42.404
What happened was the divorce
ate up all of his money.

1307
00:59:42.535 --> 00:59:44.406
The alimony payments...

1308
00:59:45.407 --> 00:59:47.932
at the beginning,
it was $30,000 a month.

1309
00:59:48.541 --> 00:59:51.022
If I'm correct. And then
it went to $20,000, and...

1310
00:59:53.328 --> 00:59:54.634
that's where all his money went,

1311
00:59:55.417 --> 00:59:56.593
to the divorce.

1312
00:59:56.723 --> 00:59:57.550
So...

1313
00:59:58.246 --> 01:00:00.814
[gentle piano music]

1314
01:00:00.945 --> 01:00:02.903
[water softly lapping]

1315
01:00:09.910 --> 01:00:13.305
[Pat]
I think-- I think the best
things in life begin from...

1316
01:00:14.262 --> 01:00:17.614
sometimes,
the worst things in life.

1317
01:00:18.310 --> 01:00:19.528
But not without effort.

1318
01:00:20.704 --> 01:00:22.619
Not without hopes and dreams.

1319
01:00:22.749 --> 01:00:25.012
[inspirational music]

1320
01:00:32.890 --> 01:00:34.935
[Annette]
So, when did you guys
get married?

1321
01:00:35.066 --> 01:00:37.024
-We got married in 1994...
-[Annette] Wow.

1322
01:00:37.155 --> 01:00:40.941
...in Vegas, at the old
Elvis Presley mansion.

1323
01:00:41.072 --> 01:00:44.597
-[Annette] Oh, my gosh!
-And then we had
a big wedding reception

1324
01:00:44.728 --> 01:00:47.426
-in Hawaii for--
it was a lot of friends.
-[Felicia] Oh, nice.

1325
01:00:47.556 --> 01:00:50.124
-[Felicia and Annette] Nice.
-He wanted this big,
lavish wedding.

1326
01:00:50.255 --> 01:00:51.517
-[Evelyn laughs]
-[Annette] How fun!

1327
01:00:51.648 --> 01:00:52.692
[Felicia]
Nice!

1328
01:00:53.998 --> 01:00:55.652
-[Pat] On this day...
-[Evelyn] On this day...

1329
01:00:55.782 --> 01:00:58.916
-...I marry my best friend...
-...I marry my best friend...

1330
01:00:59.046 --> 01:01:01.309
-...the one I love...
-...the one I love...

1331
01:01:01.440 --> 01:01:03.355
-...the one I live for...
-...the one I live for...

1332
01:01:03.485 --> 01:01:05.574
-...the one I dream of...
-...the one I dream of...

1333
01:01:05.705 --> 01:01:07.576
-...the one I laugh with...
-...the one I laugh with...

1334
01:01:07.707 --> 01:01:08.839
-...from this day forward...

1335
01:01:08.969 --> 01:01:10.449
-...from this day forward...

1336
01:01:10.579 --> 01:01:11.711
[both together]
...until the end of time.

1337
01:01:11.842 --> 01:01:13.191
[Felicia]
Did you maintain your career

1338
01:01:13.321 --> 01:01:14.975
during that time
that you were married to him

1339
01:01:15.106 --> 01:01:16.629
-or did you dedicate
yourself to just--
-[Evelyn] No,

1340
01:01:16.760 --> 01:01:18.631
-I pretty much gave it up.
-[Felicia and Annette] Mm.

1341
01:01:18.762 --> 01:01:20.285
He, he didn't want me to work.

1342
01:01:20.415 --> 01:01:21.242
-Oh.
-Oh, wow.

1343
01:01:21.373 --> 01:01:22.679
He never said it,

1344
01:01:22.809 --> 01:01:24.724
-but I kind of knew it.
-[Felicia] Um. Yeah.

1345
01:01:24.855 --> 01:01:26.813
[light suspenseful music]

1346
01:01:27.901 --> 01:01:28.902
[Evelyn]
Oh, my God.

1347
01:01:31.600 --> 01:01:33.037
Oh, my God!

1348
01:01:34.299 --> 01:01:36.910
Oh, my God, I can't believe
it's been so long

1349
01:01:37.041 --> 01:01:38.433
since I've seen the star!

1350
01:01:39.826 --> 01:01:42.611
Oh, it's just bringing back
a flood of memories.

1351
01:01:44.309 --> 01:01:47.704
This whole area
was just flooded with people,

1352
01:01:47.834 --> 01:01:50.228
there had to be
about 300 people.

1353
01:01:50.968 --> 01:01:52.709
They were blocking traffic.

1354
01:01:54.014 --> 01:01:56.364
Jerry Weintraub was here,

1355
01:01:56.495 --> 01:01:58.105
he kind of put
the thing together

1356
01:01:58.236 --> 01:02:00.368
because they were
promoting the, um...

1357
01:02:01.587 --> 01:02:04.329
uh, The Next Karate Kid,
with Hilary Swank.

1358
01:02:05.069 --> 01:02:07.811
And Hilary Swank came out
and she spoke,

1359
01:02:07.941 --> 01:02:11.423
and I got up and spoke,
and my whole family flew out.

1360
01:02:12.206 --> 01:02:16.733
Uh, oh, my God, this brings
back so many memories,
it's so beautiful.

1361
01:02:16.863 --> 01:02:19.474
And her legs are prettier
than Ralph's.

1362
01:02:19.605 --> 01:02:21.738
[crowd laughs and claps]

1363
01:02:21.868 --> 01:02:24.088
Well, I just want to say,
congratulations, Pat,

1364
01:02:24.218 --> 01:02:25.567
this was very well deserved,

1365
01:02:25.698 --> 01:02:28.527
I feel very lucky
to have worked with Pat,

1366
01:02:28.657 --> 01:02:30.224
and very honored to know him.

1367
01:02:31.704 --> 01:02:34.228
Of all the people who've
helped me drink longer

1368
01:02:34.359 --> 01:02:35.882
and be where I am today,

1369
01:02:36.013 --> 01:02:38.842
my new bride, Mrs. Evie Morita.

1370
01:02:38.972 --> 01:02:40.757
[crowd clapping and cheering]

1371
01:02:59.906 --> 01:03:00.994
That was great.

1372
01:03:02.517 --> 01:03:03.649
It's hard to get that.

1373
01:03:05.477 --> 01:03:07.087
It's hard, you know,
you pay money for it.
He didn't pay for it.

1374
01:03:07.218 --> 01:03:08.393
I mean,
he didn't give the money,

1375
01:03:08.523 --> 01:03:09.611
but it...

1376
01:03:10.221 --> 01:03:12.571
it was-- it was
a great day, I mean...

1377
01:03:14.225 --> 01:03:18.316
that movie was so important
to so many people.

1378
01:03:19.752 --> 01:03:23.364
I got a call
from Jerry Weintraub saying,

1379
01:03:23.495 --> 01:03:26.106
"Pat, I think we're going
to do another one."

1380
01:03:26.237 --> 01:03:27.194
I went, "Why?"

1381
01:03:27.325 --> 01:03:29.718
-[laughs]
-[man] How?

1382
01:03:29.849 --> 01:03:31.633
Jerry Weintraub,
who produced all of them...

1383
01:03:32.983 --> 01:03:36.551
I think he just decided
that it had run its course

1384
01:03:36.682 --> 01:03:38.031
with the original cast.

1385
01:03:39.206 --> 01:03:40.904
I don't know
where he came up with the idea,

1386
01:03:41.034 --> 01:03:42.949
but he says, "We're going
to do one with a girl."

1387
01:03:43.907 --> 01:03:45.822
And I went, "Okay."

1388
01:03:45.952 --> 01:03:46.910
[chuckles]

1389
01:03:47.519 --> 01:03:51.828
[Hilary]
Wax on, wax off.

1390
01:03:51.958 --> 01:03:53.960
-Wax on--
-Very good, Judy san.

1391
01:03:54.091 --> 01:03:55.614
[Martin]
You know, it just--

1392
01:03:56.528 --> 01:03:58.835
you couldn't bring
a girl in there.

1393
01:03:58.965 --> 01:04:02.142
It just-- and Hilary Swank
is a good actress, but it--

1394
01:04:03.404 --> 01:04:05.102
It's k-- you know,
it's a different game.

1395
01:04:05.624 --> 01:04:07.931
[Robert]
I didn't want
to do Karate Kid III,

1396
01:04:08.061 --> 01:04:09.584
let alone Karate Kid IV.

1397
01:04:10.150 --> 01:04:12.805
I wanted to take
Mr. Miyagi and a girl

1398
01:04:13.327 --> 01:04:15.982
back to China
in the 16th century,

1399
01:04:16.113 --> 01:04:17.462
the original Mr. Miyagi,

1400
01:04:17.592 --> 01:04:19.986
who went to China
and came back with karate.

1401
01:04:20.117 --> 01:04:22.032
And Columbia wouldn't do it.

1402
01:04:22.554 --> 01:04:23.990
And then, they were going
to do a fourth one,

1403
01:04:24.121 --> 01:04:25.252
and I said, "I'm out.

1404
01:04:25.383 --> 01:04:27.167
I will never do.
I'm over Karate Kid.

1405
01:04:27.298 --> 01:04:28.386
I will never do another one.
If you--

1406
01:04:28.516 --> 01:04:30.562
if you do
my flying people movie,

1407
01:04:30.692 --> 01:04:33.347
I'll come back. If you don't do
my flying people movie,

1408
01:04:33.478 --> 01:04:34.783
I will not come back."

1409
01:04:34.914 --> 01:04:36.350
And they didn't do
my flying people movie.

1410
01:04:36.481 --> 01:04:37.308
So I didn't.

1411
01:04:38.352 --> 01:04:39.440
And so we brought in
three girls,

1412
01:04:39.571 --> 01:04:40.354
tested them.

1413
01:04:41.616 --> 01:04:44.489
Uh, two of them were not
very good actresses.

1414
01:04:44.968 --> 01:04:46.883
Hilary was a terrific actress.

1415
01:04:47.013 --> 01:04:48.710
I never really felt she was...

1416
01:04:49.973 --> 01:04:51.104
perfect for the role.

1417
01:04:52.105 --> 01:04:53.367
We got down to the point

1418
01:04:53.498 --> 01:04:55.108
to where Jerry said,
"You're right.

1419
01:04:55.239 --> 01:04:57.328
The other two can't act.
Let's go with Hilary."

1420
01:04:57.850 --> 01:04:59.896
I said, "Jerry, I'm not sure
we found a girl yet.

1421
01:05:00.026 --> 01:05:01.636
I'm not totally convinced.

1422
01:05:02.115 --> 01:05:04.248
Maybe we should keep looking."
He said, "Tell you what,

1423
01:05:04.378 --> 01:05:05.292
we'll flip a coin.

1424
01:05:06.728 --> 01:05:09.949
If you win, we keep looking.
If I win, she gets it."

1425
01:05:10.645 --> 01:05:12.647
I said, "Okay."
So he flipped a coin.

1426
01:05:12.778 --> 01:05:16.086
I won. He looked at me
and said, "Two out of three."

1427
01:05:16.216 --> 01:05:17.391
So...

1428
01:05:17.522 --> 01:05:18.958
[woman]
A newcomer, Hilary Swank,

1429
01:05:19.089 --> 01:05:21.178
kicks into Ralph Macchio's
old territory

1430
01:05:21.308 --> 01:05:23.223
asThe Next Karate Kid ,

1431
01:05:23.354 --> 01:05:25.965
who is once again
under Pat Morita's guidance.

1432
01:05:26.096 --> 01:05:28.315
[Christopher]
He'd come up to me at the end
of every day when we were done.

1433
01:05:28.446 --> 01:05:29.926
He says, "Is that it for me?"

1434
01:05:30.056 --> 01:05:32.406
I say, "Yep." He says,
"That's a wrap for the Jap."

1435
01:05:33.407 --> 01:05:34.234
And walk off.

1436
01:05:35.322 --> 01:05:37.716
He poked a lot of fun
at himself.

1437
01:05:39.022 --> 01:05:42.373
People enjoy watching people
pick on themselves.

1438
01:05:42.503 --> 01:05:43.940
[Ciro]
When everybody used to say,

1439
01:05:44.505 --> 01:05:46.812
"Wax on, wax off,"
he always remembered to say,

1440
01:05:46.943 --> 01:05:47.987
"No, now I'm
a little old for that,

1441
01:05:48.118 --> 01:05:50.816
wax on, wax off,
wax on, whack off."

1442
01:05:50.947 --> 01:05:53.862
[Martin]
He loved to poke fun
at Jerry Weintraub.

1443
01:05:54.428 --> 01:05:56.561
[mimicking Pat]
You always do the ou--
you know, this--

1444
01:05:56.691 --> 01:05:59.085
He went out of his way
to make you laugh.

1445
01:05:59.216 --> 01:06:01.131
He went out of his way
to make you comfortable.

1446
01:06:02.001 --> 01:06:05.135
And never seemed to take
himself too seriously.

1447
01:06:05.831 --> 01:06:08.660
But then you can
catch him at times,
and you look over and...

1448
01:06:08.790 --> 01:06:09.966
and you could see that,
you know,

1449
01:06:10.096 --> 01:06:11.663
he was lost in thought.

1450
01:06:11.793 --> 01:06:13.317
I think Pat was
a complicated guy.

1451
01:06:13.970 --> 01:06:15.319
He would try
to get people to laugh...

1452
01:06:16.146 --> 01:06:19.236
and, uh, you know, be a comic.

1453
01:06:19.366 --> 01:06:21.368
[Pat]
Comedian? I don't know,

1454
01:06:21.499 --> 01:06:22.891
do you remember the old days?

1455
01:06:23.022 --> 01:06:24.415
We were the bad guys.

1456
01:06:26.330 --> 01:06:27.374
Fire one!

1457
01:06:27.505 --> 01:06:29.463
-[sharp thud]
-[people laugh]

1458
01:06:31.813 --> 01:06:34.816
But I think underneath,
there was a lot of complication,

1459
01:06:34.947 --> 01:06:36.209
a lot of complicated feelings.

1460
01:06:36.731 --> 01:06:37.994
Came out when he drank.

1461
01:06:39.256 --> 01:06:40.779
Pat had a drinking problem.

1462
01:06:40.909 --> 01:06:42.128
[somber music]

1463
01:06:42.259 --> 01:06:43.869
And he drank too much,

1464
01:06:44.000 --> 01:06:47.003
and his liver reacted.
He had to go in.

1465
01:06:47.133 --> 01:06:48.743
[Pat]
You're all so short in talent.

1466
01:06:48.874 --> 01:06:50.702
[people laughing]

1467
01:06:51.703 --> 01:06:54.184
Alright,
I'll do this the hard way,

1468
01:06:54.314 --> 01:06:56.142
you want to see an Eskimo pee?

1469
01:06:56.969 --> 01:06:58.971
[people laughing]

1470
01:07:00.190 --> 01:07:02.105
Did that go over
their heads too?

1471
01:07:02.235 --> 01:07:03.367
[people laughing]

1472
01:07:03.497 --> 01:07:05.369
One day, he wasn't feeling good,

1473
01:07:05.499 --> 01:07:08.111
and, um, he had to go
to the hospital.

1474
01:07:08.241 --> 01:07:09.547
He was there for about a week.

1475
01:07:10.156 --> 01:07:11.766
They had to shoot around him.

1476
01:07:11.897 --> 01:07:13.638
It left him really weak,
you know,

1477
01:07:13.768 --> 01:07:15.640
he couldn't do much action.

1478
01:07:15.770 --> 01:07:17.729
He could do a lot
of arm movements

1479
01:07:17.859 --> 01:07:18.904
and st-- in the fight scenes,

1480
01:07:19.035 --> 01:07:20.514
but, you know, Fumio Demura,

1481
01:07:20.645 --> 01:07:21.428
God bless him,

1482
01:07:21.994 --> 01:07:23.517
he had to cover for him.

1483
01:07:23.648 --> 01:07:26.085
Time put your lights out.

1484
01:07:26.216 --> 01:07:28.000
[tense music]

1485
01:07:29.393 --> 01:07:30.437
[blows sharply]

1486
01:07:30.568 --> 01:07:31.482
-[sharp thud]
-[groans]

1487
01:07:33.005 --> 01:07:34.354
[Evelyn]
Okay, you have to understand,
he was drinking

1488
01:07:34.485 --> 01:07:36.530
-since the age of 12.
-[Felicia and Annette] Wow.

1489
01:07:36.661 --> 01:07:38.402
Uh, his father was an alcoholic,

1490
01:07:38.532 --> 01:07:39.968
his grandfather
was an alcoholic,

1491
01:07:40.099 --> 01:07:42.014
as a matter of fact,
his grandfather

1492
01:07:42.145 --> 01:07:43.798
was making bootleg sake...

1493
01:07:43.929 --> 01:07:45.409
-[Annette] Oh, my gosh!
-...in the internment camp

1494
01:07:45.539 --> 01:07:47.019
and keeping everybody wasted.

1495
01:07:47.150 --> 01:07:48.499
-[laughs]
-[Felicia] Oh, wow.

1496
01:07:48.629 --> 01:07:50.109
And, of course,
the children, you know,

1497
01:07:50.240 --> 01:07:51.980
-they had nothing better to do.
-[Felicia] Well, yeah.

1498
01:07:52.111 --> 01:07:53.112
[Karen]
He drank every day.

1499
01:07:54.157 --> 01:07:55.071
He-- every day.

1500
01:07:56.289 --> 01:07:57.986
He put it in his coffee, vodka.

1501
01:07:58.552 --> 01:07:59.727
Pat was a...

1502
01:08:00.641 --> 01:08:02.904
a unique drunk,
he used to call himself.

1503
01:08:04.515 --> 01:08:07.300
He said,
"I can be drunk every day

1504
01:08:07.431 --> 01:08:08.823
and nobody will ever know it."

1505
01:08:10.042 --> 01:08:11.261
And apparently he was.

1506
01:08:13.089 --> 01:08:15.047
[Karen]
They always said, "What does
Mr. Morita want in his trailer?"

1507
01:08:15.178 --> 01:08:16.701
And I'd say, "Nothing, water."

1508
01:08:18.920 --> 01:08:21.140
And then,
he'd get somebody to go

1509
01:08:21.662 --> 01:08:23.664
buy him some vodka or whatever.

1510
01:08:24.491 --> 01:08:26.232
So, basically,
I would go out there

1511
01:08:26.363 --> 01:08:28.321
and make sure he didn't drink
too much, keep talking to him.

1512
01:08:28.452 --> 01:08:30.541
I never had to go
over his lines.

1513
01:08:30.671 --> 01:08:32.891
He knew his lines perfectly.

1514
01:08:33.021 --> 01:08:34.458
[Christopher]
He could always hit his spot,

1515
01:08:34.588 --> 01:08:36.112
he'd doe--
in the physical stuff.

1516
01:08:36.938 --> 01:08:38.288
And I'm sure he'd been drinking.

1517
01:08:38.418 --> 01:08:41.291
Never smelled it on him.
He'd do a lot of cover up,

1518
01:08:41.421 --> 01:08:42.640
you never saw him drink.

1519
01:08:43.162 --> 01:08:45.033
But he confided in me, he said,

1520
01:08:45.730 --> 01:08:47.514
"Chris, I'm drunk
almost every day."

1521
01:08:47.645 --> 01:08:49.777
[tense music]

1522
01:08:50.343 --> 01:08:52.215
I'd see him, you know,
in the lobby, drinking.

1523
01:08:52.345 --> 01:08:55.000
He would invite me,
but I don't drink that,

1524
01:08:55.131 --> 01:08:58.395
you know, except for the screen,
you know, for a role.

1525
01:08:58.960 --> 01:09:03.791
Uh, so, I was wondering
if he was hiding a past or...

1526
01:09:04.444 --> 01:09:08.100
You know, sometimes we like
to get away from the real world.

1527
01:09:09.623 --> 01:09:13.714
He was an abandoned child.
He had a lot of
abandonment issues...

1528
01:09:13.845 --> 01:09:15.760
-[Annette] Oh.
-...because he was
an unwanted child.

1529
01:09:15.890 --> 01:09:18.763
-[Felicia and Annette] Oh.
-The mother he thought
raised him

1530
01:09:18.893 --> 01:09:20.634
-was really his aunt.
-[Felicia] Oh, wow.

1531
01:09:21.157 --> 01:09:23.289
[Evelyn]
It was his aunt's sister

1532
01:09:23.420 --> 01:09:25.248
that was really
his biological mother.

1533
01:09:25.378 --> 01:09:27.032
-[Felicia and Annette] Mm.
-And...

1534
01:09:27.163 --> 01:09:30.166
how convenient was it

1535
01:09:30.296 --> 01:09:34.257
-that he happened to get sick
at the age of two.
-[Felicia and Annette] Mm.

1536
01:09:34.387 --> 01:09:36.998
-[Evelyn] Now,
they just sent him away.
-Mm-hmm.

1537
01:09:37.129 --> 01:09:39.305
[Evelyn] So it's like,
"Let's get rid of the problem."

1538
01:09:39.436 --> 01:09:41.612
-So he had to deal
with a lot of that.
-[Felicia] Yeah.

1539
01:09:41.742 --> 01:09:44.223
He was telling me, "You have
to keep with this image...

1540
01:09:45.268 --> 01:09:47.183
as an actor,
you have to keep this image

1541
01:09:47.313 --> 01:09:48.706
when you talk to people."

1542
01:09:49.489 --> 01:09:51.535
You have-- And it is hard to do,

1543
01:09:51.665 --> 01:09:54.233
and then the drinking...
kind of hid that.

1544
01:09:54.364 --> 01:09:56.322
[melancholic music]

1545
01:10:00.239 --> 01:10:03.155
I, I think
he always seemed so...

1546
01:10:03.938 --> 01:10:06.245
sure of himself
in this and that,

1547
01:10:06.376 --> 01:10:09.509
but I was thinking,
maybe deep down inside,

1548
01:10:09.640 --> 01:10:13.557
he had his demons and he wasn't
so sure of himself, you know.

1549
01:10:13.687 --> 01:10:16.212
Whenever I would
go down to see him,

1550
01:10:16.342 --> 01:10:17.517
and I would be there...

1551
01:10:18.301 --> 01:10:21.913
it was, it was never
just socializing.

1552
01:10:22.043 --> 01:10:24.220
Always people there
drinking and,

1553
01:10:24.872 --> 01:10:26.222
uh, and I couldn't handle that,

1554
01:10:26.352 --> 01:10:27.875
I just always thought,

1555
01:10:28.006 --> 01:10:29.921
"I just want to be--
have a quiet night with him."

1556
01:10:30.487 --> 01:10:31.879
When he drank,
he woke up on his floor,

1557
01:10:32.010 --> 01:10:34.665
he was not a smile
and happy face man.

1558
01:10:34.795 --> 01:10:36.754
He was, he was mean.

1559
01:10:36.884 --> 01:10:37.885
[chuckles]

1560
01:10:38.930 --> 01:10:41.062
He started to get smaller parts

1561
01:10:41.193 --> 01:10:44.936
because there weren't
a lot of big parts available

1562
01:10:45.066 --> 01:10:49.157
for an aging Asian actor.

1563
01:10:50.115 --> 01:10:52.030
Secondly, he needed
the money, you know,

1564
01:10:52.160 --> 01:10:53.423
he needed to keep working.

1565
01:10:53.553 --> 01:10:55.555
So he would take
little cameo parts

1566
01:10:55.686 --> 01:10:57.165
just to stay busy.

1567
01:10:57.296 --> 01:10:58.950
It was a movie that we did,

1568
01:10:59.080 --> 01:11:00.256
I can't remember the title.

1569
01:11:00.821 --> 01:11:02.301
It was a funny little movie.

1570
01:11:03.998 --> 01:11:04.738
-You know--
-[man] China Girl
or Rise China?

1571
01:11:04.869 --> 01:11:06.827
Yeah. Oh, yeah. That-- oh.

1572
01:11:06.958 --> 01:11:08.873
God, it was pretty bad.

1573
01:11:09.003 --> 01:11:12.093
I mean, I-- I,
I remember that, whoa!

1574
01:11:12.659 --> 01:11:14.095
[Captain Ron]
These women are hookers.

1575
01:11:14.226 --> 01:11:15.880
Don't you fall in love
with any hookers.

1576
01:11:16.010 --> 01:11:17.577
[in accent]
"Flied lice."

1577
01:11:17.708 --> 01:11:20.493
It's fried rice, you plick!

1578
01:11:20.624 --> 01:11:22.365
[William]
We were talking
about Karate Kidand,

1579
01:11:22.495 --> 01:11:24.454
you know, doing another one,
and he said,

1580
01:11:24.584 --> 01:11:26.456
"Man, I always wanted
to do one more,

1581
01:11:26.586 --> 01:11:28.109
one more, where, you know,

1582
01:11:28.240 --> 01:11:30.024
I'm thinking, you know,
Johnny is like a doctor,

1583
01:11:30.155 --> 01:11:31.330
and Miyagi gets sick,

1584
01:11:31.461 --> 01:11:33.680
and, uh, you know, and Daniel--"

1585
01:11:33.811 --> 01:11:35.987
I forgot what he said
Daniel was doing because
I didn't play Daniel,

1586
01:11:36.117 --> 01:11:37.815
so I didn't key in on it.
No. [chuckles]

1587
01:11:37.945 --> 01:11:40.992
But he says,
"But I want at the--
at the end for Miyagi to die

1588
01:11:41.122 --> 01:11:43.647
and to have a proper
Okinawan burial for him."

1589
01:11:43.777 --> 01:11:46.911
You know, and so he said,
"I want to-- I'm not ready,
I'm not done with Miyagi yet.

1590
01:11:47.041 --> 01:11:49.043
Like, I-- I want
to send him off to pasture and,

1591
01:11:49.174 --> 01:11:51.176
and with respect and hon--
and full honors, you know."

1592
01:11:51.307 --> 01:11:54.614
He came to me with an idea
about doing Mr. Miyagi's story.

1593
01:11:55.180 --> 01:11:56.660
And, um...

1594
01:11:56.790 --> 01:11:59.097
[light melancholic music]

1595
01:11:59.227 --> 01:12:00.533
...you know,
it was kind of like...

1596
01:12:01.882 --> 01:12:03.536
a little bit
of a desperation thing,

1597
01:12:03.667 --> 01:12:06.234
uh, he didn't quite know where
to put himself after a while.

1598
01:12:07.148 --> 01:12:09.499
When the drinking started
to get really bad,

1599
01:12:09.629 --> 01:12:12.110
uh, it was starting
to show in his performance.

1600
01:12:12.589 --> 01:12:14.460
The few jobs that he got,

1601
01:12:14.591 --> 01:12:15.766
he was showing up late.

1602
01:12:15.896 --> 01:12:18.508
He, he,
he clearly looked intoxicated.

1603
01:12:19.247 --> 01:12:20.858
Uh, he was difficult.

1604
01:12:20.988 --> 01:12:24.340
And Arnie, his, his manager,
Arnold Soloway,

1605
01:12:24.470 --> 01:12:26.559
he said,
"Pat, you're unemployable."

1606
01:12:26.690 --> 01:12:28.648
[tense music]

1607
01:12:29.997 --> 01:12:34.524
When his father died,
it was, it was, um,
it really affected him.

1608
01:12:34.654 --> 01:12:36.961
-He was hit
by a pick-up truck and the...
-[Annette] Oh, my God.

1609
01:12:37.091 --> 01:12:38.789
the guy that was driving
didn't even know.

1610
01:12:40.834 --> 01:12:41.922
-He was dragging him for blocks
and blocks and blocks.
-[Annette] Oh, my God.

1611
01:12:43.576 --> 01:12:45.883
I think his pant leg
or something got caught
in the wheel.

1612
01:12:46.013 --> 01:12:49.539
He suffered a long,
long, slow death.

1613
01:12:49.669 --> 01:12:52.324
So, he had all these demons
he had to deal with...

1614
01:12:52.455 --> 01:12:54.065
-[Felicia] Mm-hmm.
-...so it's no wonder
he drank...

1615
01:12:54.195 --> 01:12:55.849
-[Felicia] Yeah. Yeah.
-...all his life.

1616
01:12:55.980 --> 01:12:59.723
-He never recovered
from those wounds.
-[Annette] Wow.

1617
01:12:59.853 --> 01:13:00.811
-[Felicia] Yeah.
-[Evelyn] You know.

1618
01:13:00.941 --> 01:13:02.682
[Felicia]
Then how does someone,

1619
01:13:02.813 --> 01:13:06.425
um, that has such a broken
experience find comedy?

1620
01:13:06.556 --> 01:13:08.296
Tha-- that's their way
of dealing with it,

1621
01:13:08.427 --> 01:13:10.342
-you know, through humor.
-[Annette] Right.

1622
01:13:10.473 --> 01:13:11.865
[Evelyn]
I mean, look at Richard Pryor,

1623
01:13:11.996 --> 01:13:13.301
Lenny Bruce,

1624
01:13:13.432 --> 01:13:15.478
-uh, Robin Williams.
-[Annette] Yeah.

1625
01:13:15.608 --> 01:13:18.002
-[Felicia] Mm-hmm.
-[Evelyn] If you look
into their past,

1626
01:13:18.132 --> 01:13:20.396
you'll see that there's
a history there of depression,

1627
01:13:20.526 --> 01:13:22.702
-or, you know, some issues.
-[Felicia] Yeah.

1628
01:13:22.833 --> 01:13:25.488
I think his reputation
started to, uh,

1629
01:13:25.618 --> 01:13:28.273
you know, get known
about the drinking and--

1630
01:13:28.404 --> 01:13:31.363
and at one-- and some point,
he knew about it,

1631
01:13:31.494 --> 01:13:32.495
he was well aware of it,

1632
01:13:33.104 --> 01:13:34.366
but I think,
you know, the illness

1633
01:13:34.497 --> 01:13:35.498
kind of just took over.

1634
01:13:37.238 --> 01:13:39.763
The real topper was--
Happy Dayswas having--

1635
01:13:39.893 --> 01:13:42.809
I believe it was
the 30th anniversary,

1636
01:13:42.940 --> 01:13:44.898
and Henry Winkler invited us

1637
01:13:45.029 --> 01:13:47.684
to participate in that.

1638
01:13:47.814 --> 01:13:51.252
And it was being shot
in Pepperdine University,
in Malibu.

1639
01:13:51.383 --> 01:13:52.906
So it was a two-day affair.

1640
01:13:53.037 --> 01:13:55.953
And we stayed at the Miramar
Hotel, in Santa Monica.

1641
01:13:56.083 --> 01:13:57.737
Uh, we had, like,
an eight o'clock call

1642
01:13:57.868 --> 01:14:00.261
where we had to be, uh, on set.

1643
01:14:00.914 --> 01:14:03.700
I was up early, ready as usual.

1644
01:14:03.830 --> 01:14:05.658
Pat still passed out on the bed.

1645
01:14:06.529 --> 01:14:08.444
And I woke him up and I said,
"Honey, come on.

1646
01:14:08.574 --> 01:14:09.749
You got to get ready, you know,

1647
01:14:09.880 --> 01:14:11.359
the car is going
to be here any minute.

1648
01:14:11.490 --> 01:14:12.709
We have
an eight o'clock pick up."

1649
01:14:13.536 --> 01:14:16.016
"Tell him I overslept
and I'll take a cab."

1650
01:14:16.147 --> 01:14:19.455
And Henry Winkler greeted me
when we got there,

1651
01:14:19.585 --> 01:14:20.673
and he says, "Where is Pat?"

1652
01:14:22.327 --> 01:14:25.591
"He overslept, and he's going
to take a cab and, you know."

1653
01:14:26.549 --> 01:14:28.507
An hour goes by, and he goes...

1654
01:14:29.595 --> 01:14:31.554
"Why isn't Pat here?" You know.

1655
01:14:31.684 --> 01:14:32.946
So he asked the driver,

1656
01:14:33.077 --> 01:14:34.034
"Go back and get him."

1657
01:14:35.296 --> 01:14:37.168
Now the driver comes back
and he says,

1658
01:14:37.298 --> 01:14:38.517
"I still can't find him.

1659
01:14:38.648 --> 01:14:40.519
I've looked everywhere
and I've asked."

1660
01:14:40.650 --> 01:14:42.216
So I said,
"Let me go back with you."

1661
01:14:42.913 --> 01:14:44.871
And, you know, we wen--
we went to all the bars,

1662
01:14:45.002 --> 01:14:47.787
little local bars around there.
We couldn't find him.

1663
01:14:47.918 --> 01:14:50.311
Finally, I-- I said, I thought,

1664
01:14:50.442 --> 01:14:52.313
"Well, maybe he's up--
he went back upstairs,

1665
01:14:52.444 --> 01:14:54.272
and he went back
to bed or something,

1666
01:14:54.402 --> 01:14:55.447
or he's still in bed."

1667
01:14:56.709 --> 01:14:59.364
And, um, when we went
back to the hotel...

1668
01:15:01.801 --> 01:15:03.629
Oh, my God, it was so...

1669
01:15:04.151 --> 01:15:05.413
[deeply inhales]

1670
01:15:05.544 --> 01:15:08.242
He was slumped over
on the front steps,

1671
01:15:09.417 --> 01:15:10.375
dead drunk.

1672
01:15:11.985 --> 01:15:13.509
He looked like
a homeless person.

1673
01:15:15.249 --> 01:15:16.337
[sighs]

1674
01:15:17.469 --> 01:15:19.471
[tense music]

1675
01:15:20.733 --> 01:15:22.909
I said to the driver,
"Let's get him in the car."

1676
01:15:23.997 --> 01:15:27.523
And so, we did
and, uh, took him back.

1677
01:15:28.741 --> 01:15:32.092
And the whole time he was
passed out in the backseat.

1678
01:15:32.223 --> 01:15:35.269
And then we got there,
Henry Winkler came
to the car and...

1679
01:15:36.009 --> 01:15:37.402
he said, "Come on, Pat,"
he says,

1680
01:15:37.533 --> 01:15:39.143
"I'm going to put you
in a room."

1681
01:15:40.318 --> 01:15:43.539
He never judged him,
wasn't pissed at him, nothing,

1682
01:15:43.669 --> 01:15:46.106
you know, he'd--
I love Henry for that.

1683
01:15:46.237 --> 01:15:49.283
And he had me work
with him with the lines

1684
01:15:49.414 --> 01:15:52.156
because he had a little skit,
it was a disaster.

1685
01:15:52.809 --> 01:15:54.462
It was so-- this little skit,

1686
01:15:54.593 --> 01:15:58.292
and he couldn't--
he couldn't get one... line out.

1687
01:15:59.163 --> 01:16:02.296
And he was acting silly
and falling down and--

1688
01:16:02.427 --> 01:16:04.821
oh, my God,
it was just a mockery.

1689
01:16:04.951 --> 01:16:06.953
Henry said, "You know,"
he whispered to me and he says,

1690
01:16:07.084 --> 01:16:09.260
"Well, we're not going to be
able to use any of this, so--

1691
01:16:09.390 --> 01:16:11.218
it's a shame, but go home,

1692
01:16:11.349 --> 01:16:13.612
get some rest because
tomorrow we have a panel."

1693
01:16:13.743 --> 01:16:16.615
This is one
of the families in my lifetime

1694
01:16:16.746 --> 01:16:19.313
that I treasure very, very much.

1695
01:16:19.444 --> 01:16:21.707
The cast of Happy Days,
ladies and gentlemen.

1696
01:16:21.838 --> 01:16:23.535
-[crowd cheering and clapping]
-Hey!

1697
01:16:26.146 --> 01:16:29.106
[Evelyn]
They have all those chairs
lined up with everybody's name,

1698
01:16:29.236 --> 01:16:33.284
and Pat notices, there's not
a chair for him with his name.

1699
01:16:33.850 --> 01:16:36.026
And then an AD came in,
and he asked him,

1700
01:16:36.156 --> 01:16:38.289
and the AD said, "Really?

1701
01:16:38.898 --> 01:16:41.118
After what you did yesterday?

1702
01:16:41.248 --> 01:16:43.947
You expect to be on the panel?"

1703
01:16:44.600 --> 01:16:45.426
[chuckles]

1704
01:16:46.297 --> 01:16:48.386
And Pat looked at him, like,

1705
01:16:48.516 --> 01:16:50.780
"How dare you
speak to me like that?"

1706
01:16:50.910 --> 01:16:53.086
And I said, "He's right.

1707
01:16:55.219 --> 01:16:56.960
He's absolutely right,
and I'm surprised

1708
01:16:57.090 --> 01:16:58.135
that you're surprised."

1709
01:16:59.527 --> 01:17:02.095
That was when it really,
really hit home,

1710
01:17:02.226 --> 01:17:04.532
and he realized,
"I've got a big problem."

1711
01:17:04.663 --> 01:17:06.622
[light tense music]

1712
01:17:07.361 --> 01:17:08.972
I've always known that

1713
01:17:09.102 --> 01:17:10.756
-alcoholism was a disease...
-[Felicia] Mm-hmm.

1714
01:17:10.887 --> 01:17:12.410
-[Annette] Yes.
-...and I never stopped
loving him.

1715
01:17:12.540 --> 01:17:13.759
You don't stop loving someone

1716
01:17:13.890 --> 01:17:15.369
-if they have cancer.
-[Annette] Right.

1717
01:17:15.500 --> 01:17:16.806
[Evelyn]
It's the same thing, you know,

1718
01:17:16.936 --> 01:17:18.677
if you have the disease
of alcoholism...

1719
01:17:18.808 --> 01:17:20.548
-[Felicia] Yeah.
-...it's the same thing.
You're not--

1720
01:17:20.679 --> 01:17:22.681
-they're not the same person.
-[Felicia] Yeah.

1721
01:17:22.812 --> 01:17:25.641
[Annette]
When the alcohol started
manifesting itself

1722
01:17:25.771 --> 01:17:27.773
in that way,
that people were like,

1723
01:17:27.904 --> 01:17:29.732
"We can't employ him."

1724
01:17:29.862 --> 01:17:32.038
The-- that didn't
make him go, "Hmm...

1725
01:17:32.169 --> 01:17:34.911
maybe I should consider
how far gone I am"?

1726
01:17:35.955 --> 01:17:38.654
[Evelyn]
Um, well, he tried to sober up.

1727
01:17:38.784 --> 01:17:40.481
-[Felicia] Mm.
-[Evelyn] He went to rehab.

1728
01:17:40.612 --> 01:17:42.962
-[Annette] Oh.
-[Evelyn] Um,
but the problem was,

1729
01:17:43.093 --> 01:17:45.008
-he did it
for the wrong reasons.
-[Annette] Mm.

1730
01:17:46.183 --> 01:17:48.620
So, he wrote Henry Winkler

1731
01:17:49.099 --> 01:17:50.927
this long, beautiful...

1732
01:17:51.841 --> 01:17:53.320
letter of forgiveness.

1733
01:17:55.192 --> 01:17:59.065
And, uh, I don't know
if Henry ever read it, but...

1734
01:18:00.458 --> 01:18:03.635
it really,
really hit home for him then.

1735
01:18:04.680 --> 01:18:05.506
You know,

1736
01:18:06.682 --> 01:18:08.074
that's when he had
to make that choice.

1737
01:18:09.946 --> 01:18:11.774
[interviewer]
Did you ever received
this apology letter from Pat?

1738
01:18:13.297 --> 01:18:15.299
[light melancholic music]

1739
01:18:18.563 --> 01:18:19.390
Right.

1740
01:18:20.043 --> 01:18:21.958
You know, I have to tell you,

1741
01:18:22.088 --> 01:18:26.484
uh, I, I think
that I receive this,

1742
01:18:27.006 --> 01:18:29.617
uh, this letter,
and I thought to myself,

1743
01:18:29.748 --> 01:18:33.099
uh, I possibly, uh,
called or wrote him,

1744
01:18:33.796 --> 01:18:37.538
um, that he did not need
to apologize.

1745
01:18:38.539 --> 01:18:39.889
We are fragile.

1746
01:18:40.019 --> 01:18:41.107
Pat Morita was fragile.

1747
01:18:41.804 --> 01:18:44.545
And I think that the producers

1748
01:18:44.676 --> 01:18:46.939
and the cast understood that.

1749
01:18:47.070 --> 01:18:51.074
We were just happy
that he was there,

1750
01:18:51.988 --> 01:18:54.686
so that the photograph
at the end,

1751
01:18:55.252 --> 01:18:57.341
um, could include everybody.

1752
01:18:58.516 --> 01:18:59.778
[Nemo]
To see him, uh...

1753
01:19:00.997 --> 01:19:01.911
just give up.

1754
01:19:02.607 --> 01:19:04.217
He ju-- he couldn't beat it,

1755
01:19:04.348 --> 01:19:07.220
you know, it-- it had
a hold of him and, uh...

1756
01:19:07.830 --> 01:19:10.920
he chose to give up
everything that he loved,

1757
01:19:11.572 --> 01:19:13.444
uh, in order to, uh...

1758
01:19:14.793 --> 01:19:15.925
continue drinking.

1759
01:19:17.448 --> 01:19:19.493
[Evelyn]
When you start examining
where he came from...

1760
01:19:19.624 --> 01:19:21.844
-[Annette] Mm-hmm. Right.
-...it's nothing short
of a miracle that he--

1761
01:19:21.974 --> 01:19:24.324
that he achieved what he did.

1762
01:19:24.847 --> 01:19:27.675
He told me, he said, "I want you
to be candid, and honest,

1763
01:19:27.806 --> 01:19:30.069
and talk about all the good,
the bad, and the ugly..."

1764
01:19:30.200 --> 01:19:32.768
-[Annette] Yeah.
-...he says, "Because
if I can save one poor soul

1765
01:19:32.898 --> 01:19:34.160
-from this disease...
-[Annette] Mm.

1766
01:19:34.291 --> 01:19:36.075
...then I would've felt
I've done something good

1767
01:19:36.206 --> 01:19:37.729
-for the world."
-[Felicia] Yeah. Yeah.

1768
01:19:38.251 --> 01:19:40.253
When Pat went to rehab...

1769
01:19:41.428 --> 01:19:43.430
uh, I was going to Al-Anon.

1770
01:19:44.214 --> 01:19:46.477
And it was suggested,

1771
01:19:46.999 --> 01:19:49.697
uh, that I do, like, a collage

1772
01:19:49.828 --> 01:19:52.222
of a before and after,
of the good times,

1773
01:19:52.352 --> 01:19:53.745
you know, the better times and,

1774
01:19:54.267 --> 01:19:59.403
and a collage of, you know,
not such good times.

1775
01:19:59.533 --> 01:20:01.100
So I did this, um...

1776
01:20:02.058 --> 01:20:04.147
of the good times...

1777
01:20:05.278 --> 01:20:07.063
you know, our wedding,

1778
01:20:07.803 --> 01:20:09.630
star on the Walk of Fame,

1779
01:20:10.109 --> 01:20:12.633
our babies,
you know, our family,

1780
01:20:13.199 --> 01:20:14.461
friends...

1781
01:20:15.549 --> 01:20:18.683
you know, Great Wall of China,
the President.

1782
01:20:19.902 --> 01:20:22.730
An-- I just wanted
to show him...

1783
01:20:25.124 --> 01:20:26.822
the difference, you know,
th-- you know,

1784
01:20:26.952 --> 01:20:29.694
the changes that,
that has transpired

1785
01:20:29.825 --> 01:20:31.957
because of his drinking,
because of his alcohol--

1786
01:20:32.871 --> 01:20:35.918
uh, abuse and because of t--
the disease.

1787
01:20:36.048 --> 01:20:38.442
And I wanted to show him

1788
01:20:38.572 --> 01:20:39.965
the face of that disease,

1789
01:20:40.705 --> 01:20:41.662
and what it does.

1790
01:20:43.055 --> 01:20:45.449
Because I know he doesn't
remember any of this.

1791
01:20:45.579 --> 01:20:48.887
And so, I started to keep a log,
and I started to take pictures

1792
01:20:49.018 --> 01:20:50.323
because he didn't believe me.

1793
01:20:51.324 --> 01:20:52.848
This is in the garage.

1794
01:20:53.544 --> 01:20:55.763
Uh, I found him
collapsed in the garage,

1795
01:20:55.894 --> 01:20:57.853
he had just gotten out
of his car

1796
01:20:57.983 --> 01:21:00.551
and couldn't make it
into the house and...

1797
01:21:01.291 --> 01:21:03.859
Uh, another time,
when h-- it was so sad,

1798
01:21:03.989 --> 01:21:05.861
it's really hard for me. Um...

1799
01:21:07.558 --> 01:21:08.689
[deeply exhales]

1800
01:21:10.387 --> 01:21:11.736
[melancholic music]

1801
01:21:11.867 --> 01:21:13.607
You know,
how do you save someone?

1802
01:21:15.087 --> 01:21:16.175
How do you save them...

1803
01:21:17.437 --> 01:21:19.309
if they don't want
to save themselves?

1804
01:21:21.311 --> 01:21:22.225
How do you do that?

1805
01:21:25.532 --> 01:21:27.099
Because I never-- I never...

1806
01:21:28.492 --> 01:21:31.321
never for one--
for one minute did I hate him.

1807
01:21:32.975 --> 01:21:34.019
I knew addiction

1808
01:21:34.150 --> 01:21:35.716
because I went
through it myself.

1809
01:21:36.195 --> 01:21:39.155
Not to that degree,
but I understood it,

1810
01:21:39.285 --> 01:21:40.678
and it ran in my family.

1811
01:21:42.462 --> 01:21:44.464
But nothing I tried worked.

1812
01:21:45.161 --> 01:21:46.031
You know, uh,

1813
01:21:46.727 --> 01:21:48.077
threatening to leave him,

1814
01:21:48.599 --> 01:21:51.080
showing him how he's
hurting other people,

1815
01:21:51.210 --> 01:21:52.211
his loved ones.

1816
01:21:52.342 --> 01:21:53.909
Nothing, nothing, nothing.

1817
01:21:54.039 --> 01:21:54.953
Nothing worked.

1818
01:21:56.085 --> 01:21:57.825
He told me one day, he said,

1819
01:21:58.304 --> 01:22:00.306
"I'm just going
to go off to die."

1820
01:22:02.091 --> 01:22:03.440
"I'm not going to stand by

1821
01:22:03.570 --> 01:22:04.920
and watch
you kill yourself here.

1822
01:22:05.050 --> 01:22:06.617
You better do it
somewhere else."

1823
01:22:07.270 --> 01:22:09.707
[softly sobs]
And that's what he did,
basically,

1824
01:22:09.837 --> 01:22:11.709
he just left to, to die.

1825
01:22:16.627 --> 01:22:18.934
I know in my heart
I did everything I could...

1826
01:22:20.152 --> 01:22:21.762
[softly sobs] you know.

1827
01:22:21.893 --> 01:22:24.069
[melancholic music]

1828
01:22:27.551 --> 01:22:28.726
[softly cries]

1829
01:22:35.037 --> 01:22:36.081
I really miss him.

1830
01:22:40.825 --> 01:22:42.131
[deeply inhales]

1831
01:22:42.261 --> 01:22:43.436
He was a great man.

1832
01:22:44.046 --> 01:22:44.960
Uh...

1833
01:22:47.745 --> 01:22:51.662
it was, uh, really hard
to see him go down like that,

1834
01:22:52.228 --> 01:22:54.012
after everything
that he fought through,

1835
01:22:54.143 --> 01:22:55.927
and everything
that he did in his life,

1836
01:22:56.058 --> 01:22:59.757
and accomplished, and,
and overcame. Um...

1837
01:23:02.716 --> 01:23:07.330
it was just hard to see someone
that you love give up on life.

1838
01:23:11.812 --> 01:23:13.162
[man]
Sadness and praise tonight

1839
01:23:13.292 --> 01:23:15.251
fromThe Karate Kid,
Ralph Macchio,

1840
01:23:15.381 --> 01:23:17.644
for the man who played
his mentor in the movie.

1841
01:23:17.775 --> 01:23:20.734
Actor Pat Morita, who earned
an Academy Award nomination

1842
01:23:20.865 --> 01:23:22.954
for his role
in the originalKarate Kid

1843
01:23:23.085 --> 01:23:24.173
has died.

1844
01:23:24.303 --> 01:23:26.044
Pat Morita was 74 years old.

1845
01:23:27.567 --> 01:23:30.266
[Pat singing in Japanese]

1846
01:23:44.454 --> 01:23:45.324
[man]
Yes!

1847
01:23:47.022 --> 01:23:48.023
English.

1848
01:23:48.153 --> 01:23:50.068
[crowd cheers and claps]

1849
01:23:53.854 --> 01:23:58.250
♪ Storming winds of life

1850
01:23:58.381 --> 01:24:00.948
♪ May blow

1851
01:24:01.558 --> 01:24:06.345
♪ Even rain may fall

1852
01:24:07.694 --> 01:24:13.265
♪ Though paths above are dark

1853
01:24:14.658 --> 01:24:19.489
♪ Life will be bright on me

1854
01:24:20.794 --> 01:24:26.757
♪ Please say
you will never leave me ♪

1855
01:24:27.975 --> 01:24:34.678
♪ For if you did I would die

1856
01:24:34.808 --> 01:24:38.769
[singing in Japanese]

1857
01:24:40.118 --> 01:24:44.688
♪ Means here
with you is happiness ♪

1858
01:24:47.473 --> 01:24:52.522
[singing in Japanese]

1859
01:24:53.305 --> 01:24:56.917
♪ Oh!

1860
01:24:57.048 --> 01:25:00.747
-[Pat singing crazily]
-[crowd laughs]

1861
01:25:05.709 --> 01:25:07.102
I love you, Evelyn.

1862
01:25:07.232 --> 01:25:08.886
[crowd cheering]

1863
01:25:09.669 --> 01:25:11.106
[unintelligible]

1864
01:25:14.196 --> 01:25:17.851
[Pat]
How would Pat Morita
like to be remembered?

1865
01:25:21.116 --> 01:25:23.683
I guess I'd like
to be remembered...

1866
01:25:25.032 --> 01:25:28.645
for having touched
a lot of lives in happy ways,

1867
01:25:29.211 --> 01:25:30.299
positive ways.

1868
01:25:31.735 --> 01:25:33.563
I'd like to be remembered as a,

1869
01:25:34.303 --> 01:25:37.610
a guy who might've been
a failure as a husband,

1870
01:25:37.741 --> 01:25:39.134
but he was a hell of a daddy.

1871
01:25:41.701 --> 01:25:42.528
I don't know.

1872
01:25:44.051 --> 01:25:47.577
I'd like, uh, if I make it
to the Pearly Gates,

1873
01:25:47.707 --> 01:25:50.057
I would like God to say,
"Where the heck you been, man?

1874
01:25:50.188 --> 01:25:51.972
We've been waiting for you.
Let's party."

1875
01:25:52.103 --> 01:25:53.235
[laughs]

1876
01:25:53.365 --> 01:25:54.627
You know how many guys--
your friends

1877
01:25:54.758 --> 01:25:56.151
are up here
waiting for you, man."

1878
01:25:56.281 --> 01:25:57.152
[softly chuckles]

1879
01:25:57.282 --> 01:25:59.110
[cheerful music]

1880
01:26:38.280 --> 01:26:40.760
-[sharp beep]
-I would thank him
for the many gifts.

1881
01:26:41.718 --> 01:26:44.460
Uh, for including me
in his journey.

1882
01:26:45.852 --> 01:26:48.812
And for allowing me to be
the steward of his legacy.

1883
01:26:50.292 --> 01:26:51.162
And...

1884
01:26:52.642 --> 01:26:56.211
I hope that I fulfill
the promise that he held me to.

1885
01:26:57.299 --> 01:26:58.735
I brought this picture today,

1886
01:26:58.865 --> 01:27:01.085
because this is how
I remember Pat on the set,

1887
01:27:01.999 --> 01:27:04.175
and if he could see
the Cobra Kais with, uh--

1888
01:27:04.958 --> 01:27:07.309
with our popsicles, uh,
Cobra Kais with their popsicles

1889
01:27:07.439 --> 01:27:09.398
and you can see
Pat's face there...

1890
01:27:09.963 --> 01:27:11.313
that's pretty much
Pat every day,

1891
01:27:11.443 --> 01:27:13.445
you know,
you can kind of see the fun.

1892
01:27:13.576 --> 01:27:15.969
That's a special shot
right there, moments, so...

1893
01:27:16.100 --> 01:27:16.927
Pat...

1894
01:27:17.580 --> 01:27:19.799
I liked you the day we met.

1895
01:27:21.845 --> 01:27:25.240
And I liked you every day
we worked together.

1896
01:27:27.024 --> 01:27:31.246
And I liked being in the shows
we've made and put on.

1897
01:27:31.855 --> 01:27:34.466
He was one of the nicest men
I've ever knew.

1898
01:27:34.597 --> 01:27:36.903
He was a kind gentleman

1899
01:27:37.513 --> 01:27:40.603
to me, to the producers,

1900
01:27:40.733 --> 01:27:43.562
to other actors, to the crew,

1901
01:27:43.693 --> 01:27:46.913
to the extras, to the guy
that walked by the set

1902
01:27:47.044 --> 01:27:48.741
and wondered what was going on.

1903
01:27:48.872 --> 01:27:51.440
He was always open
and a gentleman.

1904
01:27:51.570 --> 01:27:53.093
We need more people like that.

1905
01:27:53.224 --> 01:27:54.399
He was better than me

1906
01:27:54.530 --> 01:27:56.619
at staying in touch
over the years.

1907
01:27:56.749 --> 01:27:58.751
I'd get those phone calls,
"Hey, Ralphie,

1908
01:27:58.882 --> 01:28:00.753
it's Uncle Popsie and,

1909
01:28:00.884 --> 01:28:03.408
how you doing? Love your ass,
baby, love your ass."

1910
01:28:03.539 --> 01:28:05.497
He'd always end the phone--
my kids would listen...
[chuckles]

1911
01:28:05.628 --> 01:28:07.020
"Love your ass, baby."

1912
01:28:07.151 --> 01:28:08.283
When I were little kids,
they loved that,

1913
01:28:08.413 --> 01:28:09.588
the fact that Mr. Miyagi
would say,

1914
01:28:09.719 --> 01:28:10.981
"Love your ass, baby."

1915
01:28:11.547 --> 01:28:13.244
There's a certain kindness

1916
01:28:13.375 --> 01:28:14.158
in people...

1917
01:28:15.594 --> 01:28:18.815
that make you at ease
immediately.

1918
01:28:19.903 --> 01:28:21.296
And he exhibited that.

1919
01:28:21.426 --> 01:28:23.907
Pat was a big pot smoker too.

1920
01:28:24.037 --> 01:28:25.822
Had he just stayed with the pot,

1921
01:28:25.952 --> 01:28:28.955
he'd be like me, he'd still
be alive and he'd still be, uh,

1922
01:28:29.608 --> 01:28:32.263
doing interviews,
talking about me, probably.

1923
01:28:32.394 --> 01:28:34.265
[interviewer chuckles]

1924
01:28:34.396 --> 01:28:37.529
My uncle,
his philosophy in life was,

1925
01:28:37.660 --> 01:28:38.922
you know,
"We're all going to die.

1926
01:28:39.401 --> 01:28:40.837
It's very important
to leave behind

1927
01:28:40.967 --> 01:28:42.360
something positive
that doesn't."

1928
01:28:42.969 --> 01:28:46.625
And Pat Morita left
a lot behind that's positive...

1929
01:28:47.234 --> 01:28:51.500
that enlightens and inspires
life every single day.

1930
01:28:52.065 --> 01:28:54.241
I met Pat back in 1983.

1931
01:28:54.372 --> 01:28:55.721
I never realized
I would be making

1932
01:28:55.852 --> 01:28:57.288
a documentary on his life.

1933
01:28:57.897 --> 01:29:00.291
Um, I hope you guys enjoyed
watching this

1934
01:29:00.422 --> 01:29:02.075
as much as I enjoyed making it.

1935
01:29:02.206 --> 01:29:02.989
[sharp beep]