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...onto UrbanDictionary.com. Not unexpectedly, the definitions are polarized. One insult by a user called Funkmaster is followed by an ardent defense from Funkmasterisretarded: “Harvard: Where turds like Funkmaster wish they could go so that they don’t have to clean shum for a living.” Shum, the dictionary reports, is “a mixture of shit...

Author: By Rena Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: De Fizzle Your Wizzle | 2/12/2004 | See Source »

Director Mina Shum will be present at both screenings...

Author: By Coventry Edwards-pitt, | Title: 'Happiness' Doubly Troubling For Viewers | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

Animated wonton soup and flying chopsticks dance around the screen in the cartoon-like opening credits of "Double Happiness," writer/director Mina Shum's debut feature. Strangely, the tone of cutely-stylized disorder established in this stir-fry beginning sets the mood for the remainder of the film...

Author: By Coventry Edwards-pitt, | Title: 'Happiness' Doubly Troubling For Viewers | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

Another distraction is Shum's bizarre use of lighting and slow motion. The slow motion effect pops up at the most curious times, such as when Jade stands in front of the mirror with a "Connie Chung" hairstyle, having been primped by her mother for her arranged date with Andrew. The scene in which Jade and Mark meet is awash in a deep blue light. This seems a strange mesh of lighting effects and emotion...

Author: By Coventry Edwards-pitt, | Title: 'Happiness' Doubly Troubling For Viewers | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

...their own goals. "Double Happiness" remains most successful when it stay within this genre (familiar from films like "The Joy Luck Club" and "The Wedding Banquet"). When it attempts to step outside of this boundary, the intrigue of Jade's romance loses its force to the distracting strangeness of Shum's style...

Author: By Coventry Edwards-pitt, | Title: 'Happiness' Doubly Troubling For Viewers | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

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