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Article: `GREEK WEDDING' PROJECTS IMMIGRATION, HOMELAND SPLIT.(ARTS & ENTERTA)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- January 13, 2003
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Byline: MIRON VAROUHAKIS Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece -- It's certainly big and fat: squashing big-budget competition at the box office and now gaining extra buzz as a possible Oscar nominee. But is it really ``Greek''?
To most fans of the smash movie ``My Big Fat Greek Wedding'' such a question would seem absurd. The film by comic-screenwriter Nia Vardalos practically drips ouzo.
Yet back in Vardalos' ancestral land, the movie carries another distinct -- but increasingly unfamiliar -- flavor: the world according to Greek-Americans.
To many Greeks, the film has exposed the widening gulf between the sentimental musings of ...