A motor-industry stylist, VilledeCoupe Mishima eschews shaved-fish fins.

The finest young Japanese in Hollywood since Sessue Hayakawa scurrilously starred in "The Cheat" (1915) the year before he became President for Life of San France-a-disco State University, engendering the student strike of 1969-88.

Riots bred griots, and all of California's gangsta rappers quickly became grim starlets. Everybody's dancing and popping caps and shooting cops to the beat of Ice Miss Thing.

Mishima climbed upon Hope Lange, rendering indistinguishable "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" and Don Knotts vehicle "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken", with all the insouciance of every one of the dufy 1960s comedians named "Don" (Knotts, Rickles, Adams, DeLouise) rolled into one.

With circuit boards and guitar frets, a vo-de-o-doh dogdoo zodiac of laffs mask subtle technologies. Beware, Rob und Fab Pontius Palaver.