Mom! Janet! Its Robbie!

I am going to do this quick, because if I don't it will never get posted, and I have so many drafts that I really ought to post, and some of them are quite bad of me not to, this one is not one of those but oh well here goes...

So I decide to not wait for the $2 theater ($1 on tues) to see Memories of a Geisha. I wanted to see the architecture, the costumes, ect... I was curious about the movie because I read the book the only non Japanese Geisha wrote years ago. I understand William Golden wrote his story based on her book. I didn't read much about the movie, just a bit, and it was a pan, So I rented it this week for $3.50. I watched the film yesterday and tonight watch the extras.

I liked the film, my initial reaction was why all are the Geisha Chinese? Seriously almost every living great Chinese actress is in it except Joan Chen, I almost expected Anita Mui to appear but of course she can't as she is dead. Once I got over the Chinese actresses, it was fun to watch, a bit dark, and the ending is a schmaltzy.

Watching the extras tonight I kept looking at the director. His facial expressions looked familiar and so was his speech. I kept thinking Marshall as in Penny and Garry Marshall but his accent didn't seem right. Then I watch the filmette on him and he began talking about when he started in show business and his two Univ of P. professor parents... and I realized "It's Robbie!!!!!"

He and his sister went to the faculty children swim and gym thing I went to in the summers. It was a fairly small group. We did gym stuff 1/2 the time, I mainly liked to jump on the trampoline until I wheezed ;-) and the other half the time we swam, sometimes raced other teams and played old style water polo. The kind where you can do anything to the person holding onto the ball. I loved playing water polo.
Robbie and his sister also went to my brother's school, Falk, the lab school, which didn't have many students.

Anyway, I wanted to call my mom and my high school friend, Janet but its too late!

Okay I am posting this now. I will post the other things later.



Geoff made this comment,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_ Bacon
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Susan made this comment,
Hmmm. Only 2 degress to Chow Yun Fat! (and Andy Lau.)

I think I may have a quicker way to Kevin Bacon, a friend from college does sound in a lot of films.