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Movies have had way too much fun with Italian-American stereotyping, but Lee plays it dead serious, unendurably shrill--and for an endless 2 hrs. 20 min. Still, we can't pin all the blame for ethnic defamation on Lee; his screenwriters are Victor Colicchio and Michael Imperioli. To them, we cry, like a stern Italian grandma, "Vergogna!" That's how you say "Shame on you" in Italian...
...plot unfolds in 1988 in the picture-perfect suburbs of Madison, Wisconsin, where the Cappadoras lead an idyllic middle class life. Beth (Michelle Pfeiffer) is happily married to an Italian-American restaurant owner, Pat (Treat Williams), and together they have two toddler boys and a baby girl. Their picture-perfect life is shattered abruptly when Beth attends her Chicago high school reunion with the three kids. Caught up in the hubbub of the reunion, she turns away for just a few seconds and suddenly discovers that three-year old Ben is gone. Search efforts are futile, except for forging...
Joseph P. Kennedy II stepped down from hisEighth District seat this fall, leaving Rep.Michael A. Capuano (D-Somerville), to fill theposition. Boston's City Hall, which between 1930and 1993 was filled by mayors with Irish roots,now has Italian-American Thomas M. Menino asmayor...
Still, "Campaign", the creation of two Dunster House roommates Benjamin R. Kaplan '99 and Gregory G. Lau '99, is impressive. The two seniors create a varied cast of stereotyped characters, from the Italian-American barber/womanizer, Donatello Mywife (Michael Roiff), to the not-so-innocent Washington intern, Stella Virgin (Robert Schlesinger); and the script and lyrics they cowrote are often very clever. On the whole, the show never loses a beat...
...reminds us that we live in a melting pot (because you never know whom you will end up marrying) and features statistics on how many Hmong are living in Wisconsin as well as a cultural-IQ quiz that begins, "Abdul, a young man from Egypt, fell in love with Italian-American Gina...