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Article: My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a peek at the future.

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January 6, 2003
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Christmas may not be the best season to assess the Canadian Red Cross's allegedly criminal slaughter of hemophiliacs through tainted blood or how Alberta Premier Ralph Klein might cope with Ottawa's constitutional takeover of resources. These issues, alas, linger for months and years. But it's not every day that a chunky gal from Winnipeg finds fame and fortune--and gobs of cash--through filming funny tales about her loving family. The astonishing success of My Big Fat Greek Wedding augurs well for our cultural hodgepodge of a continent.

Nia Vardalos is Wedding's screenwriter and lead actress, drawing her portrayals from an ebulliently Greek-Canadian childhood in ...

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