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Some people complain about this weekend. Therooms are too crowded, introductions are tooawkward, and the event looks like a Phoeneciandrag race cheered on by drunken L.L. Bean models.But I would like to point out the upside of thiswhole dinghy derby: there are going to be largenumbers of people who have had too much to drinkand are in dire need of a place to crash. Readthat last sentence again. And this is one of thefew instances where your Harvard affiliation willelicit more than those lame "pahk ya cah" jokes...
Although Soong cites one bean-counting male character in the film as an example of a negative stereotype, he himself resorts to a similar kind of bean-counting. True, there are no main male characters in the movie. Nor are there any lesbian or gay characters. Perhaps if there had been, the movie could have been improved. Many all-male movies could certainly have been made more complex and realistic by including female characters. But "The Joy Luck Club" should not have the responsibility of representing all Asians, just as "Dragon" should not have been expected to focus on Asian...
...source of her food poisoning: Harvard food. I'll eat anything once but never again will I eat a bean tostada...
...then there's the bean-counting anal-retentive jerk who insists on splitting all expenses with his wife, even those that are exclusively his. He apparently hates warmth of any kind, since he enjoys nothing more than eating ice cream with the windows wide open, and treats his marriage like a business arrangement...
...obsession, perhaps because a lot of gear has vaguely military associations (guns, of course, are gear). A definition is elusive, but a wristwatch that just tells time is not gear. A wristwatch that also reads out altitude and barometric pressure is gear to make a grown man whimper. L.L. Bean sells one made by Casio...