While researching The Fractured Mirror I stumbled across My Geisha, a movie about the film business I’d never seen or heard of with Shirley MacLaine as an American actress who pretends to be a Japanese geisha in order to land the lead role in Madame Butterfly that is Loqueesha-level racist and offensive.
Read MoreChoreographer turned auteur Bob Fosse only made a handful of movies, but they all mattered, including his spectacular debut Sweet Charity and punishingly intense final film, Star 80.
Read MoreA buttoned-up, uncharacteristically restrained Nicolas Cage has wonderful comic chemistry with a characteristically terrific Shirley MacLaine in 1994’s Guarding Tess, a comedy-drama about the relationship between a prickly former first lady and the uptight Secret Service agent cursed with protecting her that’s terrific and surprising until a disastrous third-act shift into generic thriller territory.
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