Fifth Avenue between 41 and 42nd street, looking uptown.Memoirs of a Geisha Today's Times got a review on this period piece fronted by a ethnic Chinese cast playing Japanese Geishas speaking English and directed by an English speaking director, Rob Marshall. The movie is based on the same name novel penned by Arthur Golden, a member of the Sulzberger family, owners of the New York Times. The review goes on to say it gives new meaning to a "period movie" as the Asian actors utter their English lines in a haulting way so much so that it sounds like every single word ends with a period or full stop. Ouch, that hurts. Gong Li got the reviewer's thumbs-up. If it earns more than $100 million on the opening weekend, then the critics can go to hell. The public speaks by opening their wallet.
Brokeback Mountain, another period piece, starring pretty boys Heath Ledger and Jack Gyllenhaal, and an English speaking cast directed by Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon fame's Ang Lee, also appears on today's Times review. The Times gives a all around thumbs-up to the movie and the performance by the two male leads. Ang Lee is the man.
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