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...moves in with Nino, a childhood friend who, like Angelo, is gay. But tell their parents? Fugghedaboutit. Mambo Italiano is a mess. Where sexual orientation, ethnic and family issues should be addressed seriously, another joke is made to relieve the tension. The idea of a gay Italian-French-Canadian has a lot of comic potential; in the end, unfortunately, the director is too overwhelmed to stop making jokes and tell what could have been a winning story...
...form Iceland. Our family name is rather difficult to pronounce,” he says, attempting to phonetically spell the Icelandic Heidman (his best attempt: hayth-man). Young John Heidman was given the middle name Harvard by his mother, who was partial to the Harvard training aircraft that the Canadian military flew at noisy intervals over their Winnipeg home. But when he entered broadcast journalism in 1959, he shed the unpronounceable trappings of his Icelandic heritage and went simply by John Harvard...
...that remain, profits from after-sales - representing more than half a typical dealer's gain - may be hard hit. The new laws allow independent repairers to gain "authorized" status from manufacturers, giving them access to technical specifications previously off-limits. A spanner in the works for carmakers. Forging Ahead Canadian aluminum maker Alcan won European and U.S. regulatory approval for its 34 billion bid for French rival Pechiney after agreeing to spin off assets to satisfy the authorities' concerns. The go-ahead clears the way for the creation of the world's largest aluminum company...
Mambo Italiano is a mess. So much time is spent making gay, Italian, and Canadian—not even regular Canadian, FRENCH-Canadian—jokes in order to remind the audience of the movie’s irreverence that we’re all about ready to skip the cannoli and go home. Where sexual orientation, ethnic and family issues should be addressed seriously, another joke is made to relieve the tension. The idea of a gay Italian-French-Canadian has a lot of comic potential; in the end, unfortunately, the director is too overwhelmed to stop making jokes...
...very romantic people. Our literature and art have always reflected our love for the female form,” says Adrian N. Gaty ’07, a Canadian of strong Hungarian roots...