Posted on 10/04/2010 10:38:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Saturday's opening night of the 19th annual Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival promises to be a big multicultural event in Cupertino.
Sumo champion Byamba will take on a couple of large opponents as the live opening act before the screening of the Israeli Film Academy Award-winning film "A Matter of Size."
The comedy is about overweight Israelis who decide to become sumo wrestlers, so festival organizers thought it would be fun to let the audience see the Japanese wrestling style up close.
In addition to the 7 p.m. sumo demonstration, Japanese appetizers will be served before the movie at 9 p.m. Sponsor Tesla will have one of its electric Roadsters outside the Visual and Performing Arts Center at De Anza College, but I wouldn't count on the sumo wrestlers to be posing for photos in the car.
The festival continues through Nov. 13 at four venues in San Jose, Campbell and Palo Alto. Get the full schedule and ticket information at www.svjff.org.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Oy! Lox on rice!
Three things I thought I’d never see in the same sentence.
Sumo Wrestlers
Jewish Festival
Silicon Valley
Ain’t life grand?
“In addition to the 7 p.m. sumo demonstration, Japanese appetizers will be served before the movie at 9 p.m.”
Choppped River.
Sorry, it’s 3am.
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