Word: tans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Luck Club," based on Amy Tan's novel, works like a photo album, presenting to the audience brief glimpses of the remarkable lives of four Chinese American women and their grown-up daughters. But it is not organized chronologically. Instead, each scene pivots on the emotional significance of the preceding...
...Luck Club," the new film based on the bestselling novel by Amy Tan, is a stirring film that celebrates the mother-daughter bond, and is a rarity among American films for its almost exclusively Asian cast. So why, then, after seeing this beautiful and emotionally potent film, did I feel so ashamed for being an Asian-American...
There is the Walking Dead category, people who seem to have been killed, then made over with rouge and lip gloss. Then there are the marginally luckier people who appear to have just returned from roasting under tanning lamps. Finally there are the hybrids, those who fall between categories, appearing both dead and tan...
Like the Amy Tan novel, Wayne Wang's film of The Joy Luck Club shuttles between imperial China and today's San Francisco. Four immigrant ladies, who meet for mah-jongg and call themselves the Joy Luck Club, have four American- born girls, now in their 30s. While the daughters follow the quiet ambition fed them at birth -- to be unostentatiously extraordinary -- the mothers fret and fuss. You're not a good enough pianist; you're too proud about your gift for playing chess. "I'd rather get rectal cancer" than have you marry that Caucasian. And look...
...David Henry Hwang play about a tryst between a French diplomat (Jeremy Irons) and a Chinese man (John Lone) whom he believes to be a woman; it opens commercially Oct. 1. This Wednesday, Wayne Wang's lovely The Joy Luck Club, a fourfold Terms of Endearment based on Amy Tan's best-selling novel about a quartet of Chinese-American families, premieres in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. "Maybe Asian is the flavor of the month," Wang says. "That taste keeps changing, but now it has coincided with the maturity of talent." Lee has a simpler explanation...