Word: geishas
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...come to terms with the fact that a burnt-out heavy metal band now occupied the spotlight that only a few years earlier had shown on Trey Anastasio of Phish. I spent a portion of one day following around the most eccentric characters. A large man in heavy geisha-style make-up, a dress, and an inexplicable shiny circular target on his back forced me to unmask the falsity of this entire spectacle. I don’t care how weird you are, no one walks around wearing an outfit like that in 100-degree weather. I followed...
...camera-shy. As the gap widens between the aging members of the Wu-Tang Clan and the hyperbolic stage personas of their earlier careers, the group’s visual presentation has shifted toward the timeless appeal of guns, drugs, and money. The video opens with a geisha twirling onstage under fake snowfall, playing a slow acoustic intro while singing new words to Harrison’s melody. She spins her fan, and the video cuts to a spinning tape recorder. Raekwon gets the first verse as stacks of cash change hands in an anonymous smoke-filled backroom. Everyone knows...
...company's CEO, launched an retrospective exhibition that consisted mostly of shoes and handbags, some of which had been worn by Taylor, Monroe and Mary Pickford. He was flanked by movie stars Tony Leung (In The Mood For Love) and Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha), whose presence drew hordes of passersby to gawk from just outside the VIP enclosure, holding phones aloft in an attempt to capture a grainy souvenir. Ferruccio talked about how Shanghai was chosen for the exhibition's premiere partly because the city represented 'the future.' Let's hope they do something...
...Pleshette was more than an actress; she was an icon. As Emily Hartley, the wife of Bob Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show, the throaty Brooklynite upped the ante for sitcom spouses. Though Pleshette never became a blockbuster star, she often outshone weaker material in film (Jerry Lewis' 1958 Geisha Boy) and onstage (she met future husband Tom Poston in 1959's Golden Fleecing). Pleshette gained millions of fans on TV shows ranging from Dr. Kildare in the '60s to the more recent Will & Grace, where she had guest appearances. She said being a megastar was overrated...
Heading for Hollywood to hone his skills, he found himself filling the archetypal role of the understudy who becomes a star. The head makeup artist on the film My Geisha wasn't available and Uemura had to step in and do Shirley MacLaine's face for the movie, transforming her Caucasian features into those of a Japanese courtesan. He soon became a favorite makeup artist among Hollywood stars, including such male celebrities as Frank Sinatra and Edward G. Robinson...