Word: schamus
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Dates: during 1997-1997
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...Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman) to Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm. His characters' failure to achieve an artificial ideal makes the films both comedies of manners and bourgeois tragedies. Especially this one, thanks to a superb script by Lee's frequent collaborator James Schamus. When Janey joins Elena in her kitchen to help with the dishes, the hostess whispers a steely, "Don't touch them!" It is Elena's amusingly fierce marking of her turf; it is also a socially acceptable way for her to bark at her husband's mistress and uncork...