Word: actor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Actor Edward James Olmos, a familiar face to fans of Miami Vice and his recent movie Stand and Deliver, is an especially familiar face to pedestrians on Cheesbrough's Lane in East Los Angeles. For our special issue on Hispanic- American culture, TIME's art department came up with an ingenious way of portraying Olmos on the cover. In predominantly Hispanic East Los Angeles, Artist Joe Gonzalez has promoted a renaissance by painting uplifting murals on the sides of buildings. "So we asked ourselves," says Executive Art Director Nigel Holmes, " 'Why not have Gonzalez paint us a mural that depicted...
...lone Latino breakthrough on the networks for next season: Benjamin Bratt, the part-Hispanic actor who starred in Juarez, will play one of the leads in Knightwatch, a new ABC series about a community crime-fighting group. "It's absurd that we don't have one half-hour of Hispanic-themed programming on network television," complains Marin. "We can make stuff as bad as the stuff that's on." Says Rodriguez: "There is no lack of talent in our community, but we are waiting for gringos to toss us a crumb...
...focusing on Hispanic issues, is gearing up for nationwide syndication. The show will be taped, uniquely, in two versions: English and Spanish. By far the most ambitious upcoming project is El Pueblo/L.A., a 14- hour mini-series being planned by CBS for telecast in 1989. The series, produced by Actor Peter Strauss, will chronicle the interplay of cultures that helped shape the city of Los Angeles from 1840 to 1975. A Hispanic Roots? Maybe not. But if El Pueblo/L.A. scores big in the ratings, it could do what Roots did for blacks: turn Hispanics, belatedly, into TV's hottest minority...
...moviemakers. The industry sees its Hispanic films as good deeds with limited commercial prospects, and ! Hispanic directors worry about making films that are both exemplary and entertaining. The result is an impasse for which, as Casting Director Dan Guerrero notes, "everyone is blaming everyone else. The agent tells an actor, 'I'd submit you, but no one will see you.' The casting director says, 'I'd bring in Hispanics, but no one's submitting them.' The writer says, 'I don't write Hispanic scripts because there's no market.' And the producer says, 'I'd produce a Hispanic film...
...show's biggest attraction. "We now have the man who plays Lieut. Castillo on Miami Vice," he begins, and a few of the couple of hundred so-called wards, most of whom are in their teens and early 20s, start to applaud. As Edward James Olmos, award-winning actor and star of the film Stand and Deliver, walks down the aisle, some of the men reach out to shake his hand, while others stare stiffly ahead. Dressed casually in a black leather jacket and pleated pants, Olmos gazes out at the sea of mostly brown and black faces, appearing taller...