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Article: 'Greek Wedding' Shows Split Among Greeks
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- January 9, 2003
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Dateline: 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 Greek-Americans and the realities of modern
Greece. Greek ...