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...with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 12:40 p.m. This is a dreamily realistic fable, based on a novel by Francine Prose. Set in New York's Little Italy in the years following World War II, this film examines the changing American culture through three different generations of Italian-American women and each woman's unique relationship to faith and family tradition. A freak heat wave causes a father to wager his only daughter against a blast of cool air in a pinochle game; a deal of cards begins a relationship that will produce a child obsessed with miracles...
Some Cambridge residents are resisting the more somber version of the holiday promoted by critics. Former Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, who now serves as a governor of the Dante Alighieri Society of Italian Culture, says the Genoese explorer is an important figure for many Italian-American young people...
...equally captivating in her more blatantly personal essays. "Women and Blacks and Bensonhurst" meditates on Harrison's hometown, the New York suburb where Yusuf Hawkins, a Black sixteen-year-old, was shot to death in 1989 by a group of Italian-Americans who thought he was dating a local girl. Resisting what she calls the "mandolin and macaroni" depiction of Italian-American uraban life, she recalls grimly the casual racism and violence of life in Bensonhurst, and the stifling nature of community life there. "What you don't want known in Bensonhurst you don't do," she writes...
...Cousin Vinny may not be the world's most auspicious title for a film that seeks to transcend the simplistic implications those three words suggest. Indeed, the casual moviegoer merely expecting Italian-American stereotypes would find that assumption only half accurate...
...Italy family -- his parents' brothers and sisters and their kids, 30 or 40 in all, gathered for holiday festas on Elizabeth Street. It was a neighborhood where the "good" people and the "bad" mingled a lot more easily than the Bowdens do with Max. "Some directors," Scorsese says, "romanticize Italian-American gangsters. First of all, where we lived there were no gangs, no Jets and Sharks; that was beneath us. Second, there + was no big difference between people who went into 'certain circles' and the rest of us. There were the guys who went off to college, the blue-collar...