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Decades before a white-faced Ziyi Zhang performed her electric dances in Hollywood's Memoirs of a Geisha-and years before the Arthur Golden novel of the same name ushered millions worldwide into the private corners of Kyoto's geisha quarter-an anthropologist from Stanford traveled to Japan's ancient capital to become the first foreigner to live and work along its narrow streets as a full-time geisha. Liza Dalby's experiences inspired several books, including her memorable and elegant Geisha, published in 1983, a book on kimono and a novel about Japan's first novelist, Lady Murasaki...
Nicole Richie's planned turn as camp counselor on The Simple Life (helping kids with, among other things, weight loss) got celebrity blog THE HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP musing that Heather Mills could soon be "showing poor women how to marry for money." That's unfair: it's more like Godzilla teaching urban planning. SCORE...
Your report on James Cameron's documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus and books that challenge the Resurrection referred to "a more speculative style of scholarship" [March 12]. This is not about Christianity bashing, by either those in Hollywood or anyone else. It is merely the presentation of evidence that invites enlightened discussion. Although the dogma of the physical Resurrection might be called into question, faith in Jesus and his teachings should not be threatened by new findings...
...textbooks, young Henry VIII lived a life that was positively high-def-TV-ready, one that could have spiced up 16th century newsstands, had tabloid editors been around instead of Erasmus. And now Henry is making up for centuries of being relegated to the Old Kings' club by becoming Hollywood's hunk du jour. The Tudors, the most expensive Showtime series ever, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as a svelte and sporty King, starts April 1. A film adaptation of Philippa Gregory's 2002 best-selling historical novel The Other Boleyn Girl, with Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn, Scarlett Johansson...
...which is featured prominently in the introduction to his next book. In that film, a traditional 1950s family hears a series of messages from God on the radio. The movie uses the messages from God to emphasize the power of mass media in American life, Hoberman said. The Hollywood producers during the Cold War were growing aware that their movies provided a social function, Hoberman said. Action and war films during the early 1940s had catered to an excited, militant public. In the 1950s, that action was replaced by the tranquility of the homestead amid fears of nuclear war. Only...