<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/39d447df-54e3-42a5-8170-c47799672d69/C7F33646-2AFD-4C20-9BF5-1743AB19CCE9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/business/media/21medium.html?fta=y" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/business/media/21medium.html?fta=y" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/business/media/21medium.html?fta=y"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"> Sony Has NBC Ask, 'Mom, What's a Geisha?' </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/business/media/21medium.html?fta=y"><P> By now, viewers are getting accustomed to seeing their favorite television characters talk about specific brands of jeans, cars and shampoo as advertisers pay to have their products featured in the plot. But last Monday's episode of NBC's "Medium" offered a new twist, with a story line woven around the upcoming <A title="Sony" href="http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=SNE">Sony</A> Pictures movie, "Memoirs of a Geisha." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/business/media/21medium.html?fta=y"><P> In the episode, Allison DuBois (played by Patricia Arquette) and her husband were getting out for an adults-only evening, and chose to see "Memoirs of a Geisha." That brought questions from one of their daughters, who wanted to know what a geisha was. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/business/media/21medium.html?fta=y"><P> But this was not, as some viewers may have thought, another example of corporate synergy run amok. The deal brought together three unrelated Hollywood companies: NBC Universal, Sony and the program's producer, Paramount Television, part of <A title="Viacom" href="http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=VIA">Viacom</A> (which owns CBS).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/business/media/21medium.html?fta=y">Sony, which does not have a network of its own and was looking for a novel way to</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C7F33646-2AFD-4C20-9BF5-1743AB19CCE9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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