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...Retreat, a smoky riverfront club on Decatur Street. Last year, when Sancton started playing at the Cajun, a Manhattan night spot, he discovered that his pianist occasionally filled in with Woody's group at Michael's Pub. The pianist later told Allen about Sancton's return to the bandstand. "I met him in 1971," the filmmaker responded. "Do you think he remembers...
...grew up with rock 'n' roll. He gawped at Elvis on the Ed Sullivan show. He thought Jerry Lee Lewis on Steve Allen's TV program was the wildest and altogether greatest thing he had ever set eyes on. When Chuck Berry showed up on American Bandstand, one young world got jolted into a different orbit. The music was that strong. All velocity and no drag...
Hijuelos, 37, author of 1985's Our House in the Last World, catches the rhythms and flavors of the streets, nightclubs and Latin family life. Castillo is all melody, by turns upbeat and melancholy. By age 60, his best performances on bandstand and bedstead behind him, he occupies a room in an East Harlem flop mockingly called the Hotel Splendour. There, his music out of style, his body failing, he thrives on memories of songs sung and women loved. Yet, as Hijuelos conveys with art and sympathy, the Mambo King is to be admired and envied...
...helps my running because it improves my posture, and running helps my dancing because I build stamina -- it takes a lot to get through a cha-cha." Other converts appreciate the discipline and challenge of an activity that cannot be faked. "Ballroom dancing cannot be learned by watching American Bandstand," says David Allmuth, a Sacramento construction worker. "The moves are articulate, not haphazard like rock-'n'-roll dancing...
Some advances are being made. Planned for next fall is a syndicated music- variety series called The Latin Connection, a Hispanic-flavored cross between American Bandstand and Entertainment Tonight. Bravo, a Philadelphia- based talk show 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...