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The Wedding Banquet is a 1993 romantic comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Ang Lee. The story concerns a gay Taiwanese immigrant man (played by Winston Chao, in his film debut) who marries a mainland Chinese woman (May Chin) to placate his parents (Gua Ah-leh and Lung Sihung) and get her a green card. His plan backfires when his parents arrive in the United States to plan his wedding banquet and he has to hide the truth of his gay partner (Mitchell Lichtenstein). It was a co-production of Lee's Good Machine production company, and the Taiwanese Central Motion Picture Corporation.

Lee's second feature film and his first to get a theatrical release in the United States, The Wedding Banquet premiered at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Bear. It was both a critical and commercial success, becoming the most profitable film of 1993 and won five Golden Horse Awards, including Best Film and Best Director. It received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Foreign-Language Film, as well as six Independent Spirit Award nominations.

Together with Pushing Hands (1991) and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), all showing the Confucian family at risk, and all starring the Taiwanese actor Lung Sihung, The Wedding Banquet forms what has been called Lee's "Father Knows Best" trilogy.

Plot
Gao Wai-Tung is a gay Taiwanese immigrant in Manhattan, happily living with his partner Simon. He has not come out to his traditionally-minded parents who live back in Taiwan, and as he's in his late-20s, they've become eager to see him get married and have a child in order to continue the family line. When his parents hire a dating service, Wai-Tung and Simon stall for time by inventing numerous impossible demands. They demand an opera singer and add that she must be 5'9", have two PhDs, and speak five languages. To their shock, the service actually locates a 5'8" Chinese woman who meets all but one of their qualifiers (having only a single PhD instead of two). She is very gracious when Wai-Tung explains his dilemma, as she too is hiding a relationship (with a white man).

At Simon's insistence, Wai-Tung decides to marry one of his tenants, Wei-Wei, a penniless artist from mainland China in need of a green card. Besides helping Wei-Wei, the couple hope that this will placate Wai-Tung's parents. To complicate matters, Mr. and Mrs. Gao announce they will visit. Before the parents arrive, Simon tells Wei-Wei everything she needs to know about Wai-Tung's habits, body, and lifestyle; and the three hastily take down all gay-related content from their house and replace it with traditional Chinese scrolls.

Mr. and Mrs. Gao arrive bringing gifts and US$30,000 to hold an extravagant wedding for their son; believing he is involved with a wealthy woman. Wai-Tung dares not tell his parents the truth, because his father (a retired army officer) has just recovered from a stroke. As a part of the lie, Wai-Tung introduces Simon as his landlord.

A day after his parents arrive, Wai-Tung announces that he and Wei-Wei plan to get their marriage certificate at city hall. However, the heartbreak his mother experiences at the courthouse wedding (both at the arrangement and at the discovery of her son's relation with an underclass woman) prepares the story for a shift to drama. The only way to atone for the 'disgraceful' wedding is a magnificent wedding banquet, offered by Mr. Gao's former batman, who now owns a restaurant and reception hall. After the banquet, several relatives come up to their hotel room for an unsolicited after-party and they demand that the newlyweds get in bed naked before they all leave. This leads to a drunken tryst between the unwilling couple that ends in Wei-Wei's pregnancy. Simon is extremely upset when he finds out and his relationship with Wai-Tung begins to deteriorate.

Shortly after, Mr. Gao suffers another stroke, and in a moment of anger, after a fight with both Simon and Wei-Wei, Wai-Tung admits the truth to his mother. She is shocked and insists that he not tell his father. However, the perceptive Mr. Gao has seen more than he is letting on; he secretly tells Simon that he knows about their relationships and, appreciating the considerable sacrifices he made for his biological son, takes Simon as his son as well. Simon accepts the hongbao from Wai-Tung's father, a symbolic admission of their relationship. Mr. Gao seeks and receives Simon's promise not to tell his secret for (as he points out) without the sham marriage, he'd never have a grandchild.

While en route to an appointment for an abortion, Wei-Wei decides to keep the baby, and asks Simon to stay together with Wai-Tung and be the baby's second father.

In the final parting scene, as Wai-Tung's parents prepare to fly home, Mrs. Gao has forged an emotional bond to daughter-in-law Wei-Wei. Mr. Gao accepts Simon and warmly shakes his hand. In the end, both derive some happiness from the situation, and they walk off to board the aircraft, leaving the unconventional family to figure themselves out.

Cast

Analysis
Elisabetta Marino, author of "When East Meets West: A Sweet and Sour Encounter in Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet", wrote that the film suggests that there can be a reconciliation between Eastern and western cultures, unlike Amy Tan's novels where the cultural differences are portrayed as irreconcilable.

About 60% of the film is in Mandarin Chinese. Elisabetta Marino, author of "When East Meets West: A Sweet and Sour Encounter in Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet", wrote that "after striving to read the subtitles for the first ten or fifteen minutes, one finds oneself so completely absorbed in the flow of the story, in the tones of the several voices, in the gestures and the facial expressions of the actors, that one simply forgets to read and reaches an understanding beyond languages, beyond words, following a plot and, most of all, a set of characters who do not conform to the stereotypical portrayals an American audience would expect." Marino argued that "Lee's creative process and his final choice of two languages, Mandarin Chinese and English, for the movie are in themselves symptomatic of his wish to reach a peaceful coexistence between apparently irreconcilable cultures, without conferring the leading role on either of them."

Production

Development and writing
Neil Peng approached director Ang Lee with the idea behind The Wedding Banquet in 1986 by revealing to Lee that one of their mutual friends had moved to the United States and was in a same-sex relationship without the knowledge of the man's parents. Lee and Peng began writing the screenplay two years later and were soon joined by James Schamus. In the published screenplay version of the film, Schamus wrote that the film was "first drafted in Chinese, then translated into English, re-written in English, translated back into Chinese, and eventually subtitled in Chinese and English and a dozen other languages." The script won a Taiwan state film competition in 1990.

Casting
The Wedding Banquet was the debut film of Winston Chao, whom Ang Lee met on an airline where he was working as a flight attendant. Chao, who had no formal acting training, was reticent to take the part, until Lee agreed to coach him with an acting instructor of his choosing. Chao spent three-to-four hours each day before and during filming in in-depth rehearsals.

Filming
Filming took place entirely on-location in New York City. To keep the budget low, the production utilized free or public locations, including JFK International Airport, the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting, Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, and cast and crew members' homes. The titular banquet scene was shot in the ballroom of a Sheraton Hotel near LaGuardia Airport.

Reception
The Wedding Banquet received mostly positive reviews; on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 96% approval rating based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Ang Lee's funny and ultimately poignant comedy of manners reveals the filmmaker's skill across genres." Alan Jones of the Radio Times said, "Sharply observed and never once striking a false note, this sweet-and-sour rib-tickler is a real treat." Roger Ebert wrote, "What makes the film work is the underlying validity of the story, the way the filmmakers don't simply go for melodrama and laughs, but pay these characters their due. At the end of the film, I was a little surprised how much I cared for them."

The worldwide gross of The Wedding Banquet was $23.6 million. The New York Times reported a budget of $750,000. Considering the $1 million budget reported by Variety, the film was also the most financially profitable movie of 1993, when considered in terms of ratios of return, while overall top grosser Jurassic Park only earned a ratio of 13.8 ($914 million earnings on a $60 million budget).

Accolades

Stage adaptations
In December 1993, a novelization of the film, titled  and published in Japan, was written by . ()

In 2003, the Village Theatre presented a musical staging of the story. It was directed by John Tillinger, choreographed by Sergio Trujillo, with music by Woody Pak and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey. Yorkey, Village's associate artistic director, said this of the production, "The film succeeds because of Ang Lee's delicate poetry, and there is no way we can replicate that or translate that into a musical. So we took the story a step further. Whereas the film ends very ambiguously, our musical goes on past where the film ends". The show starred Welly Yang as Wai Tung.

See also
 Mixed-orientation marriage
 Lavender marriage
 List of submissions to the 66th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
 List of Taiwanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

Further reading

External links

 Literature, Arts and Medicine Database, NYU

1993 films
1993 romantic comedy films
1993 LGBT-related films
1993 independent films
American LGBT-related films
American romantic comedy films
American independent films
Central Motion Picture Corporation films
Chinese-language American films
English-language Taiwanese films
Films about interracial romance
Films about weddings
Films directed by Ang Lee
Films produced by James Schamus
Films with screenplays by Ang Lee
Films with screenplays by James Schamus
Films about race and ethnicity
Films set in New York City
Films shot in New York City
Films whose director won the Best Director Golden Horse Award
Films about anti-LGBT sentiment
Gay-related films
Golden Bear winners
Homophobia in fiction
Taiwanese LGBT-related films
Taiwanese romantic comedy films
The Samuel Goldwyn Company films
1990s American films
1990s Mandarin-language films
1990s English-language films
Taiwanese multilingual films
American multilingual films


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WYCE honors late Dirk Koning at Jammies XVIII
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Dirk Koning's vision for providing media access to everyone has empowered multitudes of people in West Michigan. The intriguing leader of Grand Rapids Community Media Center who passed away 12 years ago was recognized for his vision and integrity at a recent awards event.
Jammies XVIII 2017 - Dirk Koning Tribute from GRTV on Vimeo.
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WYCE is Community Media Center's volunteer-powered radio station at 88.1 on the FM dial
"WYCE has been, and will always be, a voice for this community. It stands alone on the dial, so filled with Corporate Stations of top-40 hits and talk-shows. This station was created by the people in this community, for this community. This is our voice and our platform. The Community Media Center is a way for anyone who wishes to exercise their rights in their beliefs and their speech to be heard, and this is what our country has always been about."
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Kelly Koning-Ramic at Jammies XVIII /John Rothwell
Dirk Koning, during his time at CMC
Kelly Koning-Ramic, Shaun Koning and Quinn Mathews at The Jammies /John Rothwell
It's fitting that the reverb from a local band was still fading into the crowded venue when Kelly Koning-Ramic and Shaun Koning took the stage of the WYCE Jammies on a recent Friday evening to honor their late father. Kelly and Shaun weren't even born yet when Dirk Koning was hired to lead the organization now known as Grand Rapids Community Media Center in 1981. But Dirk's vision to maximize the use of media to empower others and to build community in West Michigan still reverberates today.
Dirk's children honored his memory on February 10, on the twelfth anniversary of his death, and just a few days after he would have turned 60. Dirk joined CMC as its first Executive Director, at the age of 23. He left it unexpectedly at the age of 47, to the shock of all who knew him, due to a routine medical procedure that went horribly wrong. This video assembled soon after his death, has stood the test of time, and helps demonstrate a small part of the great impact that Dirk Koning had on this community.
Dirk served as the Executive Director of Community Media Center and was instrumental in bringing community radio station WYCE 88.1 FM and Wealthy Theatre into the CMC fold. This community's public access television station, GRTV was the initial catalyst for the concept of a "community media center," which was first conceived of and established here in Grand Rapids. This publication, The Rapidian, is the newest member of the CMC family. CMC also provides educational and IT services to individuals and nonprofit organizations.
Kelly and Shaun's memorial, delivered to a respectful crowd at The Intersection Lounge, amid the full swing of WYCE's 2017 version of The Jammies reminded those who knew their father of his humanity, shared with those who never knew him what Dirk accomplished, and how his work has made a lasting difference in our community and others around the world.
"As our father, Dirk, said many times, 'the airwaves belong to the people,' and that could not be any more true today. His vision was media, radio and television, being a voice for the people, for all people. Bringing people together and letting their voices be heard, is the keystone of democracy," Kelly said.
Tim Goodwin was president of the foundational board of directors of CMC. He attended Jammies XVIII to join in honoring Dirk, whom he first met in 1979 at WGVU Channel 35. They shared a common interest in and a reverence for The First Amendment. Tim shared some memories in a phone call last week. "Dirk was a wonderful story teller. He had a way of bridging gaps with people." He was also a visionary who embraced emerging technology. According to Tim, "Early on, in the 80's, Dirk saw the convergence of voice, data and video. He knew those things had to be used together to be able to use media to build community. He saw early on that media's power wasn't just community TV; it wasn't just radio or platforms alone. It was all of those things working together."
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Firefox Gestures
Marcel Gagné May 14, 2012	 Uncategorized
Firefox is default Web browser in many Linux distributions and one of the most popular browsers around. Firefox is an excellent browser on many counts, but one if its coolest features is its ability to add features and capabilities through a system of extensions. A good thing too, at least from the perspective of this discussion. You see, gestures aren't built in to Firefox, so we need to get them elsewhere and we do that by installing an extension. Extensions are program enhancements that can dramatically change how you work with your browser. This framework of extensions makes Firefox not just a great browser, but a superior browser; extension support is another idea that has legs. But I digress . . .
To experience Firefox gestures, we're going to find a suitable add-on (or extension) for gestures — yes, there's more than just one. Click Tools on the menu bar and select Add-ons. A new tab will appear with a list of categories running down the left side from which you can manage your extensions, change the browser's appearance, and more. To see a list of the extensions already in your system, cilck Extensions. On a fresh install, there is usually only a handful of things here. To find ourselves an extension that does gestures, click on "Get Add-ons" then type the word "gestures" in the search bar. You'll see FireGestures listed there; to find out more about the extension, click the More link which is to the right of the Install button. You'll get a defailed description about the extension you're looking to install (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: The Firefox Add-on window lets also lets you search for extensions, like FireGestures.
Click "Install now" to finish the installation. And no, I won't repeat the joke about the user who is asked whether he read the End User License Agreement (his answer is, "Sure, it said click OK to continue") That's it. You must now restart Firefox to activate FireGestures; there's a link telling you to restart so go to it.
Using this extension, you can use your mouse to move forward or back in your history, open or close a new tab, and pretty much do anything you would with keystroke or by manually navigating the menu. There are many gestures pre-configured allowing you to work with FireGestures as is. Gestures are typically entered by clicking and holding the right mouse button and tracing out a path which is highlighted in green. The mouse trail color is of course configurable via the extensions preferences dialog which you can access with its own gesture (see Figure 2). Click and hold the right mouse button and trace left, then down, then right, then up, then left again (LDRUL) or click Tools, Add-ons, then select preferences from there.
Figure 2 : Open the FireGestures preferences with gestures; left, down, right, up, and left.
Once the preferences dialog appears, it provides you with three main sections via a top icon bar. These icons are labeled "Main", "Mapping", and "Advanced. (see Figure 3).
Figure 3 : FireGestures has a gesture activated preferences dialog.
Under the Main section, you may want to change the color of the mouse trails, change its size, or turn it off altogether. This is also where you can select the mouse button to use should you decide that the right mouse button doesn't work for you. One I find particularly useful is the gesture timeout. The idea here is that if you start a gesture and don't complete it in some defined period (a few seconds), the gesture is ignored.
To find out, change, or add to the list of gestures, click the Mapping button at the top. You'll see a huge list of common browser functions and the mouse movements needed to achieve them (see Figure 4). Each gesture is mapped using single letters to indicate direction. It's pretty easy to figure remember; up is "U" and down is "D", left is "L", and right is "R". Move forward with a right motion and back with left flick of your mouse. Zoom into the text by moving left, right, then up. Left, right, then down zooms out. It doesn't take long to get the hang of this and after a while, it all seems perfectly natural.
Figure 4 : Each gesture is mapped using single letters to indicate directions.
Down at the bottom of the mapping options, and on every tab, and on every tab actually, there's a blue link that says "Get Scripts". On the FireGestures site, there are a number of gesture sequences (or scripts) that do things not included in the extension's main package. Adding these scripts is pretty easy; make sure the mapping options are open, visit the site, then drag the script that interests you into the mapping window. It's that easy. If you'd rather create your own gesture, click the "Add Script" button.
I'll let you explore the advanced tab which gets into things like mapping the buttons, and using features like mouse wheels with left/right rocker buttons and so on. But for now, that's it. That is how you enable gestures in Firefox.
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Pitching Depth On Full Display For Tigers Early On
To this point in Monte Lee's tenure at Clemson, the biggest issue has been in reference to his pitching staff, mostly the depth. Lee came into this season with high hopes for this years pitching staff, and raved about the depth.
Just two weeks into the season, the Clemson pitchers have lived up to the hype. This staff has carried the Tigers to a 7-0 start, one that really could have otherwise been disastrous, due to very little offense. The Tigers are coming off a three-game sweep of Stony Brook in which they scored just six runs.
Clemson enters Tuesday's game with East Tennessee State on a current streak of 35 innings without allowing an earned run. They had a stretch of 33 innings without surrendering any type of run snapped in the seventh inning of Sunday's 3-1 win over Stony Brook.
Since Clemson too season-opening 5-3 win over Liberty, this staff hasn't allowed more than two runs in any game. They have only given up three earned runs over the past 54 innings. Teams are batting just 3-for-57 with runners in scoring position (.053). This Tigers pitching staff has also been very efficient in getting out of trouble with little to no damage done. This has been remarkable feat, compared to recent seasons.
For example, freshman Nick Clayton took the mound in the eighth inning of the second game of the season with two on, no outs, and a 1-0 lead against Liberty. Clayton escaped a bases loaded, one out situation. That showing in his college debut was a hint of what was to come for the staff as far as exiting jams unscathed goes.
This staff ranks second nationally with a 0.70 ERA (only five earned runs allowed) and is tied for second with three shutouts. They are ranked fifth with 13.1 strikeouts per nine innings, and are allowing only 5.06 hits per game, ranking eighth nationally. Clemson pitchers have struck out 93 batters while giving up only 30 walks.
To put this into perspective, the Tigers registered only three shutouts total the past two seasons combined. Seven games in, and they have already matched that number.
Sam Weatherly has been the Friday starter. He has 22 strikeouts to 7 walks, has allowed just one run, and only four hits in only 10 innings. He has a 0.90 era to this point.
Spencer Strider, who is returning from Tommy John surgery that caused him to miss last year, is being held to a strict 50-pitch limit so far. He still has nine strikeouts to one walk, has given up no runs, and has allowed only three hits in his two starts (5.2 innings pitched)
🗣 @SpencerSTRIDer: "I go back to this time last year and think about how far I've come and how much I've learned, and how easy that made pitching today. I have to thank my teammates and everyone else who helped me." 💯 pic.twitter.com/21MGEijVc8
— Clemson Baseball (@ClemsonBaseball) February 16, 2020
Mat Clark has relieved Strider in both of his starts, while Keyshawn Askew has relieved Davis Sharpe (a two-way player) midway through games. This has been done in part, to help keep Sharpe's pitch count down. Sharpe has yet to give up any runs in his two starts (11.0 innings pitched), has 12 strikeouts to just one walk, and has allowed 8 hits.
Carson Spiers was arguably the only "guarantee" coming into the season. He was seen as a proven closer and he has yet to the team down this season. Spiers already has three saves, while allowing only two hits and no earned runs over eight innings, in five appearances.
Is this just a matter of early success that doesn't last or has Monte finally gotten the rotation and bullpen that he's needed to get this baseball program back on track and out of a regional? Only time, will tell but most fans would tell you that this pitching staff has been really exciting to watch and hopefully that continues.
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