Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speak of none other than Irene S. Ng '97, who played the adolescent Lindo in "The Joy Luck Club...
Before "The Joy Luck Club," Ng played a small role in Oliver Stone's "Heaven and Earth," and sang in an opera cleverly titled "All My Children." She was discovered at a local beauty contest, and landed a commercial and the contract for "Heaven and Earth" shortly thereafter. These roles ultimately paved the way to "The Joy Luck Club...
...poignant detail the hard times of the five Mundy sisters in rural Ireland in 1937 and foreshadowed still worse things to befall them, the dominant memory it left was of the explosive eruption into revelry cited in the title. Amid reasons for sorrow, the Mundy women held onto joy. The three couples in Tennessee who come to the same lonely rural spot for a birthday outing seem defeated by ordinary travails. The one vital outburst, a passage from Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata played on the accordion, expresses rage as much as rapture and comes from a man who knows...
Loews Janus. 57 JFK St., Harvard Square. 661-3737. "The Joy Luck Club...
...given by Lily Tomlin as an aging and codependent waitress in a diner, and even her gritty spunk is ruined by the movie's banal pseudo-plot. Altman apparently interpreted Carver's point as something along the lines of: people lead day-to-day lives and experience moments of joy and moments of misery and are sometimes happy and sometimes sad. This might well have been Carver's point, in fact, but the film fails where the stories succeed because the latter are tinged with a feeling of bittersweet nostalgia that the former totally lacks. With unforgivable crassness, Altman hangs...