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...following year Blades launched his film career with Crossover Dreams, in which he starred as Rudy Veloz, a Latin boxer and aspiring singer who makes it big in English-speaking America. The role proved uncannily prescient. The one- two punch of good reviews for Crossover Dreams and a growing chorus of critical acclaim for Buscando America attracted ever larger numbers of English-speaking fans. Blades acknowledges his bilingual audience by making sure the lyrics to his songs are always printed on the jackets in Spanish and English...
...survival that restore dimension to the century's signature satanic event, the Nazi extermination of European Jewry. What is unusual is that in this holiday season, no fewer than three Hollywood films deal with the Holocaust. Triumph of the Spirit tells the true tale of a Greek-Jewish boxer, Salamo Arouch, who literally fights for his life at Auschwitz. Music Box fictionalizes the 1988 trial of John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian immigrant to the U.S. who was convicted of war crimes. And Enemies, a Love Story adapts Isaac Bashevis Singer's 1966 novel about Holocaust survivors sorting out their guilt...
Raging Bull (1980). Realism so intense it transcends and transforms the ugly banalities of boxer Jake La Motta's life. The talents of Robert De Niro and director Martin Scorsese turn the film into a crazy-angry vision of the American Lower Depths...
Staub is more effective as the gangster-type, right-hand man than as the boxer whom Lanx later becomes. Lanx burns with the desire to control people, but Staub gives the stereotypical shady character amusing mannerisms which reveal his true weaknesses...
...Harvard" per se, but only its use in reference to the University. The town of Harvard, Mass., Harvard Square, the Harvard Shop and the Harvard House of Pizza will not need to pay royalties to the University, but the makers of such items as t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, bookends, boxer shorts, ties and turtlenecks will...