My experience was that the child who died in the tragic auto accident was named
Astor Boynton III, and I thought the name was indicative of his particular
ancestry (yeah, flip the o and r and it becomes Astro, I know).
I
KNOW he's really Japanese, but he wasn't
presented that way to us back in the 60's, and there's still a part of me that feels like
"no-no! His story happened here! And he's directly related to an old, wealthy American family (even boasting a last-name-as-first-name and a numeral!)" So a part of me feels a little disappointed that
couldn't be the truth -- it would have been sooo cool to think Chelsea Clinton is getting married at the swanky former estate of Astro Boy's great-great-great uncle or something. Did anyone else out there grow up thinking Astro was American? Can you understand the frustration? (kinda like learning Luke and Leia were brother and sister -- not "bad" but
not what you thought!)
-- Hey, yeah! I wouldn't mind being one of the Astors! Beats being the grandson of a horseradish farmer!
-- !! Tobio!! How could you say that!
-- no, no! It's ASTOR! And notice his New Yawk accent, too!
- I'm tempted to see if I can see anything from the other side of the Hudson River tomorrow (I live about an hour from Rhinebeck). Could be fun -- you know Barbra dancing the table top . . . Speilberg and Oprah partyin' -- cool stuff for our area.
they understand. 
