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Tuesday, December 6, 2005 12:00 AM

More ways to live like a geisha!

First cosmetics, now kimono sleeves: Sony hopes "Geisha" tie-ins will sell movie tickets.
Hillary Frey

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  • Wednesday, December 7, 2005 06:42 AM

    Here's the thing.

    1. Zhang Ziyi is beautiful (to some) and a good dancer. The artists who busted ass to make her costumes and do her makeup did good work. Why not be inspired by that?

    2. Everyone already knows that Hollywood doesn't contain enough non-white stars to faithfully render ethnicity in movies about non-white people. (Lou Diamond Phillips, anyone?) Why pretend it's something new?

    —Gwen Read Gwen's other letters

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