“Why would someone wax their own car? Aren’t there people to do that for you?”
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I can teach you how to wax a car, which actually helps a lot when you’re trying to –” “But you know, guys, if you want a lesson or two, I can show you a few tricks I picked up when I was young. “Well, that jacket thing doesn’t really work,” LaRusso offers softly.
“The Karate Kid!” the other one shouts over his brother, before adding, “Jaden Smith is so cool!” LaRusso comes back from the kitchen and instantly recognizes the move, his shoulders sagging. They run into the foyer, head straight for the coat rack, and start compulsively taking their jackets on and off, on and off. The front door opens to the two boys from the pictures-the older one a dead ringer for LaRusso. He heads back into the kitchen to throw our empty bottles in the recycling bin, shouting over his shoulder, “You should really meet them though! They’re great kids!”Īs if on cue, I hear a distant car door slam shut. He shows me pictures of the family when we walk through the living room, Mills still in all of them. We share custody, but you know, they’ve got a lot more stuff than I do. It seemed like overnight we were over and she was living in Beverly Hills.
“It was supposed to be a few classes, something to keep her mind active between driving the boys to soccer practice and orthodontist appointments,” LaRusso explains. She decided to go back to school, and it was there, in her intro to documentary filmmaking class, that she met her current husband, a documentarian who rode the world’s fascination with wheatgrass smoothies to an Academy Award. But after two kids and three years of doing triple duty as wife, mother, and horticulturalist, she needed something else. When Miyagi’s health began failing in 1999, it was Mills who stepped up and helped with the business. "I mean, bottom line is that I spent too much time paying attention to these little potted trees and not enough time on my family.” “I definitely take responsibility for what happened," LaRusso admits. LaRusso grows somber when discussing his former marriage to Ali Mills, the girl who stole his heart back during his days as a karate champ, but he seems unable to stop himself-waxing poetic about what a cute couple they were how for so long it was so good.
But the 18-hour days left little time for much of anything else, let alone two kids and a marriage. Since Miyagi died of natural causes in 2002, LaRusso has for the most part been managing the business on his own. “He’s gotta get that knee checked out though.” “He really took Miyagi’s ‘be humble’ thing to heart. I learn later from Johnny Lawrence, a close friend of LaRusso’s since the fateful tournament changed both their lives, that Miyagi & San is actually a multi-million dollar business that employs over three hundred people, all of whom share in the profits equally. He quickly changes the subject, and that’s the extent to which he’ll even mention his post-teen success for the rest of the day. Funny, right?"Īnd then, somewhat quietly, he adds, “We were the largest distributer of bonsai trees in the States for a while there.” We called ourselves ‘Miyagi & San.’ His idea. Miyagi and I went into business together. “After the karate thing died down a bit, it turned out that bonsai trees were in surprisingly high demand," he says.
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