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...Musical Banquet. Bruce Fithian, tenor and Olav Chris Henriksen, lute and theorbo, perform music of 17th-century Europe, including French airs de cour, English lute songs, Italian monodies and scherzi lute and theorbo solos. Sunday, October 3, 3 p.m. Somerville Museum, Central St. and Westwood Road, Somerville. $5 for students. Call 666-9810 for more information...
...They can also be about chasing the dragon tail of filial responsibility -- isn't that a form of everyday heroism? The Mexican hit Like Water for Chocolate proved that American audiences can respond to stories about love and marriage, food and family. The Joy Luck Club and The Wedding Banquet display this same wisdom: that we never stop being our parents' children, and they never stop being ours...
...same cause lured Reed back to politics. In January 1989, when they met for the first time at a Washington banquet, Robertson told Reed of his plans for a new organization. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority was about to collapse. George Bush's accession threatened a return of country-club Republicanism. Reed had supported Jack Kemp rather than Robertson in the 1988 primaries, but no matter. Robertson knew of Reed's religious conversion; Robertson's cable show, The 700 Club, had done a piece on it. He also knew Reed's reputation as a conservative organizer. Reed wrote a memorandum...
...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...
...exposing this wound, Tiana means to see it heal; she has established the Indochina Film Arts Commission as a friendship bridge between Vietnam and the U.S. Her film goes beyond Asian chic to Asian soul. It joins Joy Luck Club, The Wedding Banquet and Farewell My Concubine in offering a lesson that applies to all families, Asian and American: Never forget, only forgive...