Too many movie tie-ins to a Geisha

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When a Star Wars movie comes out and Burger King slaps blow-up Darth Vaders on its rooftops, that makes sense to me. Teens want to watch such a movie and eat fast food, sure. But the elaborate tie-ins with Memoirs of a Geisha, which opens nationwide on Dec. 9, seem like much ado about a movie that might not make much of a splash during the holiday movie crush. Banana Republic has a limited edition Memoirs of a Geisha line (a

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