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...Memoirs of a Geisha...
...This adaptation of Arthur Golden?s best-seller baby-stepped onscreen with high hopes and big hype (including a cover story I wrote for TIME Asia). On opening day, the smarter critics slapped Geisha out of its reverie, and no one knows if the Motion Picture Academy members, for whom it was made, will ignore the reviews and give it lots of Oscar nominations. But as one of the movie?s admirers, I?m sticking to my story: that this far-East fairy tale, about the geisha Cinderella (Zhang Ziyi), her wicked stepsister (Gong Li), her fairy godmother (Michelle Yeoh...
...House of Flying Daggers”) has now added fan dancing and pouring tea to her list of accomplishments—both of which she performs gracefully in Rob Marshall’s (“Chicago”) production of “Memoirs of a Geisha.” “Memoirs of a Geisha” boasts an acting team of international superstars like Zhang, Michelle Yeoh (“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”), and Gong Li (“The Emperor and the Assassin”), talented big-name producers like Steven Spielberg...
...report on Memoirs of a Geisha, the first big-budget Hollywood movie with an all-Asian cast, prompted readers to discuss the repression of women and the merits of Chinese and Japanese actors...
...Memoirs of a Geisha may be a good film [Nov. 21], but any culture that uses women in a patronizing way deserves to be criticized. Societies that respect women will progress; the rest will degenerate. Krishna Raman Chennai, India...