LAST weekend, China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and TV shelved the planned release of Columbia Tristar Pictures’ Memoirs of a Geisha. Once again, politics intervened to block popular entertainment deemed unsuitable for consumption.
Yet China’s censors had earlier cleared the film for release from this Thursday. Confusion confounded uncertainty, as officials in Beijing still away for the Chinese New Year holidays were unavailable to confirm or deny the cancellation.
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