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[Anonymous]

There is a movie being broadcast on channel 5 KTLA today (Fri 5/19 - sorry for the short notice but I saw the commercial in the morning) at 8pm called 'Bend It Like Beckham'. It's about an Indian girl whose family has settled down in England - the parents are still hanging on to traditional Indian values and they expect their girl to learn cooking and take care of the household after she will get married. Their daughter, who is growing up in a western culture, is more interested in being a soccer superstar and idolizes Beckham (British soccer star).
The film nicely portrays the conflicts that immigrant youngsters normally go through while growing up in a 'foreign' surrounding, all the while having to bear the pressures from tradition bound parents who expect their kids to adopt traditional Indian (immigrant) culture. Just as a post script - the film has a happy ending!!
If you miss this on the TV channel, the movie is easily available for rent from video stores.
-Vimal Gairola

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Greetings all,
>
>Please join us as Los Angeles Filmforum co-presents a TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE AND ART OF
>NAM JUNE PAIK AT LACMA. This will be a very special event as we honor and celebrate the
>renowned artist.
>
>TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE AND ART OF NAM JUNE PAIK AT LACMA
>AN EVENING OF REMEMBRANCES, PERFORMANCES, PROJECTED VIDEO WORKS, AND
>RARELY SEEN CLIPS
>
>Thursday June 1, 2006, 7:30 pm
>Tickets are free - see information below.
>
>The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles Filmforum, and teh Korean
>Cultural Center, Los Angeles present a memorial tribute to the life and career of composer
>and video and performance artist Nam June Paik at the museum's Bing Theater on
>Thursday, June 1 at 7:30 pm. Video art pioneer Nam June Paik died of natural causes at his
>home in Miami, Florida, on January 29, 2006; he was seventy-three. Memorial services for
>Paik have been held worldwide and this tribute will recognize his contribution to the
>culture of Los Angeles. The early seventies brought video art to Southern California,
>notably at the Long Beach Museum of Art where David A. Ross organized an exhibition of
>Nam June Paik's work in 1974, and California Institute of the Arts School of Film and Video
>where Nam June Paik taught, and personally introduced the Paik-Abe video synthesizer in
>1970. Today, Paik's influence resonates in the acceptance of video art as a collectible art
>form, with his work in the collections of many museums in California, including LACMA.
>
>Michael Govan, LACMA's new CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director, and Byung Hyo Choi, the
>Korean Consul General, will begin the evening with an introduction to the program, which
>includes a variety of experts and devotees, such as speaker Mary Livingstone Beebe,
>Director of the Stuart Collection at the University of California, San Diego; David A. Ross,
>President of the Artist Pension Trust and former Director of the San Francisco Museum of
>Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the first curator to organize a
>museum exhibition of Paik's work in the United States; renowned video artist Bill Viola;
>and Kathy Rae Huffman, Director of Visual Arts at Cornerhouse, Manchester, England, who
>was Curator at the Long Beach Museum of Art, and director of its regional media art
>center. Ms. Huffman will be presenting rare archival footage of Picturephone, Paik's
>interactive satellite performance between Los Angeles and New York.
>
>Other highlights include the presentation of Paik's Zen for Film (1964–65) by independent
>producer and curator Julie Lazar, who organized the last large-scale composition/
>exhibition by John Cage, Rolywholyover A Circus, which included Zen for Film.
>Additionally, Los Angeles visual and sound artist Steve Roden will perform an early work,
>Primitive Music, and seminal dancer and choreographer Simone Forti will present a new
>performance based on her diary entry about Paik from her Handbook in Motion—An
>Account of an Ongoing Personal Discourse and its Manifestations in Dance (1974, the
>Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design). Archival video and rare footage,
>courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, will also be screened. Technical support is
>provided by The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS),
>a group that serves as a catalyst for the creation, presentation, and recognition of
>experimental art and sound practices in the Greater Los Angeles area.
>
>A Tribute to Nam June Paik is organized by Carole Ann Klonarides and presented by the
>Film and Contemporary Art departments of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in
>association with Los Angeles Filmforum, and the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
>
>Admission is free but tickets are required and may be picked up at the box office starting
>at noon on the day of the event. Tickets must be presented at the door of the Bing Theater
>by 7:20 pm, after which time entrance to the theater is on a first come, first serve basis.
>
>About LACMA: In April 2006, Michael Govan became CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director of
>the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He is the seventh person to hold the
>position of Director in the museum's 41-year history. Established as an independent
>institution in 1965, LACMA has assembled a permanent collection that includes
>approximately 100,000 works of art spanning the history of art from ancient times to the
>present, making it the premier encyclopedic visual arts museum in the western United
>States. Located in the heart of one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world, the
>museum uses its collection and resources to provide a variety of educational and cultural
>experiences for the people who live in, work in, and visit Los Angeles. LACMA offers an
>outstanding schedule of special exhibitions, as well as lectures, classes, family activities,
>film programs and world-class musical events.
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>About the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles: The Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles
>works under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to promote mutual cultural
>understanding between the United States and Korea. For more information about the
>Cultural Center and its programs, please visit http://www.kccla.org .
>
>LACMA is located at 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles CA, 90036. For more
>information about LACMA and its programming, log on to http://www.lacma.org.
>
>Museum Hours: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, noon–8 pm; Friday, noon–9 pm;
>Saturday and Sunday, 11 am–8 pm; closed Wednesday, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Call
>323 857-6000, or http://www.lacma.org for more information.
>
>General LACMA Admission: Adults $9; students 18+ with ID and senior citizens 62+ $5.
>Admission (except to specially ticketed exhibitions) is free every evening after 5 pm, the
>second Tuesday of every month, and for children 17 and under.
>
>Please note: LACMA is free every evening after 5 pm.
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[Anonymous]

On seeing excerpts from Eat Drink Man Woman at the San Fernando Valley presentation by Prof. Yang Ye on March 1st, I was struck by how familiar the dinner scene with the chef's family and the mother, daughter and grandmother felt.

I did some checking on another movie I've seen, Tortilla Soup, with Raquel Welch as the grandmother. The latter film was released several years more recently than Eat Drink Man Woman. The dinner scene was remarkably similar, both as to family composition and the unexpected announcement by the chef. I won't say more, to avoid spoiling either film for those who haven't seen them. Both films are worth seeing.

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