Summary
For someone young in the business, Rob Marshall has already shown his poker-player cool: If a reputation can be made with one big film, as Marshall's was with his debut, "Chicago," the 2003 Oscar winner, then a reputation can decline quickly, too.
But for his second act, Marshall chose to move as far as possible from the world of Broadway musical comedy through which he came up. His new feature is "Memoirs of a Geisha," based on Arthur Golden's popular, lush novel of love and servitude in a mysterious, tradition- rich world of art and sensuality that even native Japanese don't know well.See the full content of this document
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Memoirs of a Director
It's a romantic tale, sumptuous and exotic; it's foreign; and its stars, some of whom had to learn English on the job, are largely unknown to Americans.
So inevitably the producers (an interlocking web of big names) are promoting the directo...See the full content of this document
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