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...Wedding Banquet is slimmer, more anecdotal, but has the same theme: the sacrifices that old-fashioned parents and modern kids make for one another. Handsome, Taiwan-born Wai-tung (Winston Chao) is doing well in Manhattan real estate and has a loving lover, Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein). But his parents back home -- the General (Sihung Lung) and Mrs. Gao (Ah-leh Gua) -- urgently want a grandchild. How do you arrange a marriage if your son is gay? Not so hard, if he doesn't tell you. Easier still, if he arranges it himself, after Simon suggests that Wai-tung...
...Dream Lover come rescue...
...started as a film lover. When I first fell in love with film in the 60's, I was very, influenced by the French director Jean Pierre Melville. And also Francois Trouffaut, Sam Peckinpah, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese...
...national-fitness fixation has come off the hinge, that there are those among us who are guiltlessly, remorselessly, allowing themselves to kick off their Nikes, sink deep into a couch and stay there. "You used to be quite a dish," said a middle-aged wag upon meeting a former lover. "Now you're quite the tureen...
...first listen, the love songs sound lighter than the rest of the album, but beneath the sunny surfaces, Sweet's view of secular relationships is equally bleak. The brokenhearted narrator of Someone to Pull the Trigger implores his lover to take him back or "shoot." And on the mid-tempo Devil with the Green Eyes, Sweet laments, "You were never meant to be mine/ 'Cause I came up from a dark world/ And every love I've ever known is dead." At such moments, backed by Quine's corrosive electric guitar, Sweet takes sentiments that could have been morbid...