Word: angeli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imagine a combination of the storylines of "La Cage Aux Folles" and the 1991 hit "Greencard", you have the basic plot of "The Wedding Banquet". What the movie lacks in originality, however, is quickly forgotten as this touching love story unfolds. Director and co-writer Ang Lee manages to throw enough spin into the storyline to make "The Wedding Banquet" a sweet, funny and refreshing love story...
...Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet is slimmer, more anecdotal, but has the same theme: the sacrifices that old-fashioned parents and modern kids make for one another. Handsome, Taiwan-born Wai-tung (Winston Chao) is doing well in Manhattan real estate and has a loving lover, Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein). But his parents back home -- the General (Sihung Lung) and Mrs. Gao (Ah-leh Gua) -- urgently want a grandchild. How do you arrange a marriage if your son is gay? Not so hard, if he doesn't tell you. Easier still, if he arranges it himself, after Simon suggests that...
...there are two, three, many Asian-style films. Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet -- an ingratiating comedy-drama about a gay Taiwanese man in New York City who gets married to please his parents -- has grossed $1 million in its first month of specialized release. This week the Toronto Film Festival opens with M. Butterfly, David Cronenberg's film of the David Henry Hwang play about a tryst between a French diplomat (Jeremy Irons) and a Chinese man (John Lone) whom he believes to be a woman; it opens commercially Oct. 1. This Wednesday, Wayne Wang's lovely...
Same Texts, Different Contexts: Japanese Uses of the K'ang-hsi Emperor's Teachings, 1721-1943--by De-Min Tao, postdoctoral fellow, Reischauer Institute. Coolidge Hall, room 2, 4 p.m. Come and gain the secrets of Japanese economic dominance...
Reischauer's contributions to his field include his most recent books: The Japanese Today: Change and Community (1988) and My Life Between Japan and America: Memoirs (1986). He also wrote a history of Japan and two detailed studies of the T'ang Dynasty in China. He has authored several books on U.S. policy including Toward the Twenty-First Century: Education for a Changing World (1973); Beyond Vietnam: The United States and Asia (1967) and Wanted: An Asian Policy...