CA>Goodbye, Mr. Miyagi

CA>Pat Morita owed his fame to kids, he once said. "You know why?
CA>I'm the same height."

CA>Morita, who played the iconic martial-arts guru in four Karate
CA>Kid movies, and earned an Academy Award nomination for his
CA>uncommonly profound car-waxing tips, died Thursday in a Las
CA>Vegas hospital. He was 73.

 And as a side note he rose form the Ashes of his younger years. Born in
 1932 the son of migrant fruit pickers ha spent most of his yuonger
 years in the Hospital with spinal tuberculosis. He later recovered only
 to be sent5 to a Japanese-Amercial internement camp in Arizona. during
 WWII. He once remarked i nan Interview "One day I was a nInvilid, The
 Next day I was Public Enemy #1 being excorted to an Internment Camp by
 an FBI agent wearing a piece". He rwally wanted to be a Stand up Comic
 but becasue the Prospects of a Japanese-Amercia Stand up Comic in those
 ways seemed poor he found steady work  at Aerojet General in computers.
 He entwered Show Business full time at age 30. Fro years he played
 demeaning roles in films as "Thoroughly Modern Millie", and TV
 seriessuch as "the Odd Couple" and "Green Acres". His First
 breakthrought came with "Happy Days".
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