Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a movie star who's here at Harvard, right among us. I saw this person on the big screen last weekend, and that was it. I don't want to mention the film or anything--well, okay, he or she is either in "The Age of Innocence," "The Joy Luck Club" or "The Good Son." How do I ask out a star? And what do I talk to him or her about? Does the line, "seen any good movies lately?" not work in this situation? Starstruck on Cowperthwaite Street...
Loews Janus. 57 JFK St., Harvard Square. 661-3737. "The Joy Luck Club...
...surprised that Allen C. Soong had such strong feelings about the portrayal of men in "The Joy Luck Club" that he felt compelled to write an editorial about it. While he refrains from making the outrageously venomous comments that author Frank Chin directed at Maxine Hong Kingston for supposedly maligning Chinese men, Soong similarly mistakes a focus on Asian female voices for the erasure of Asian men's diversity...
...counting. True, there are no main male characters in the movie. Nor are there any lesbian or gay characters. Perhaps if there had been, the movie could have been improved. Many all-male movies could certainly have been made more complex and realistic by including female characters. But "The Joy Luck Club" should not have the responsibility of representing all Asians, just as "Dragon" should not have been expected to focus on Asian women...
...this is beside the point, for part of the message of "The Joy Luck Club" is that men are not entirely at fault for women's hardship. Women must take an active role in their own lives, not by reducing men to stereotypes, but by asserting their own strength and vitality...