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Kellogg and co-captain Francie Walton received assists on Alissi's goal. The Bears didn't let up the offensive pressure on Villiotte and with three minutes left in the second period Brown's junior left-wing Joy Woog scored the equalizer...
Loews Harvard Square. 10 Church St., Cambridge. 864-4580. On Thursday, Dec. 9. "Farewell My Concubine" at 12:15, 3:15, 6:45 and 10. "The Joy Luck club" at 12, 3, 6:10 and 9:15. "The Piano" at 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7:15, 10:15 and 12:30 a.m. "Remains of the Day" at 12:30, 3:50, 7, 9:45 and 12:15 a.m. "The Nightmare Before Christmas" at 11:45 a.m., 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30. "Rocky Horror" at 12:35 a.m. on weekends...
...Joy Luck Club, born as a best-selling book, leads a recent surge in popular new movies written or directed by Asians. They include M. Butterfly, written by David Henry Hwang, the U.S.-born son of Chinese immigrants; the comedy Combination Platter, directed by Chinese-American filmmaker Tony Chan; and The Wedding Banquet, a comedy directed by Ang Lee, who moved to the U.S. from Taiwan. Asian-style kickboxing movies have found an eager audience in the U.S. Recently one of Hong Kong's best filmmakers, John Woo, relocated to Los Angeles to direct the action movie Hard Target (which...
These Asian films are already spawning would-be imitators. "When something becomes a commercial success," says novelist Tan, "it automatically opens the door, or at least the possibility, for other similar ventures. Already, in Hollywood, I'm hearing about people saying, 'We think this will be another Joy Luck Club,' about films they want to get produced...
...reflected extremely well, especially those who have drawn from the wellsprings of the older civilizations of India, China, Japan and Korea. Though they make up just 2.9% of the country's population, Asians have produced outstanding success stories: cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinist Midori; writers Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club) and Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men); Sonny Mehta, editor of the distinguished Knopf book- publishing house; and filmmaker Wayne Wang (Dim Sum). Consider also: Chang- Lin Tien, the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley; Paul Terasaki, a UCLA professor of surgery who developed tissue typing for organ...