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...story of Wai-Tung, a Taiwanese businessperson who wants to hide his relationship with his gay partner and thus decides to marry a woman from Shanghai in need of a green card. Wai-Tung’s parents, overjoyed by the news, immediately fly to New York. Cultural clash ensues, and Lee’s deft treatment of the comedy and madness in the situation drew him international attention. Mandarin/English with English subtitles. 9 p.m. Tickets $8; $6 students. Harvard Film Archive...
...album by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, it is a ramshackle, raucous trip through Strummer’s wires. Alas, it is the last of its kind: at the end of 2002, several months before the album’s release, Joe Strummer, former frontman of punk originators The Clash, died of a heart attack. See what I mean about history...
Strummer was born the song of a diplomat and spent his early childhood in Algeria, giving Strummer an enduring taste for internationally-tinged music. Rather than take up the sitar, though, Strummer founded The Clash, the greatest punk band to ever rule the earth. Because all good things must come to an end, The Clash broke up, but Strummer returned a few years ago with the Mescaleros, a band that allowed him to stretch his world music muscles a little more. So the thing about falling in love with a Strummer album is that it reminds you exactly...
Having completed five games and facing a long layoff before a pre-Thanksgiving clash against BU, the Harvard men’s hockey team has not yet hit its stride. For a team that was ranked in the top 10 nationally and was predicted to win the ECAC, the stumbles the Crimson has taken thus far against Brown and Princeton have raised concerns and questions about the team’s ability...
Illusions to Strummer’s past abound. “Arms Aloft in Aberdeen” recalls his days with The Clash when he asks, “May I remind you of that scene?” “Midnight Jam” features vocal samples echoing the words “this is London calling.” “Burnin’ Streets” poignantly chants “London is burning,” but trades the raucous and youthful frustration of “London’s Burning?...