Word: braga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Minutes after the anniversary broadcast began in Braga (pop. 125,000), a mini-panic was on. Said Antonio Costa Guimares, one of the show's producers: "It was total chaos." While some residents fled, others rushed to the * spot where the fearsome extraterrestrials were said to have been sighted. In a show of strength that would have startled any alien bold enough to advance on Braga, a local fire chief sent two fire trucks roaring about in search of the outer-space cadets. The program, which had been announced well in advance, was intended as homage to Orson Welles...
...might expect Moon Over Parador to be a cross between Down and Out in Beverly Hills and Kiss of the Spider Woman. Parador director Paul Mazursky and star Richard Dreyfuss worked together in Beverly Hills, while Parador's other stars, Raul Julia and Sonia Braga, appeared together in Spider Woman. Also, Parador, like Beverly Hills, means to be a comedy of social and cultural clashes, while using the political instability of a Latin American dictatorship as a backdrop, like Spider Woman...
THIS is about as deep as the political satire gets. Noah falls under the spell of the dictator's mistress--now his mistress--Madonna Mendez (Braga), who appeals to his conscience and presses him to effect social reforms, which he does with remarkable ease and neatness. If Mazursky seems politically naive here, that is to be expected. His Moscow on the Hudson and Beverly Hills were similarly naive. They were also bittersweet comedies, in the same vein as Parador, and none of these movies aspires to anything much higher than that...
...Jack is not a Hollywood bubblehead. He is a serious New York thespian, meaning he sometimes thinks before he says his lines. Or anyway he thinks he thinks, which for an actor amounts to the same thing. In this enterprise he is encouraged by his inherited mistress (Sonia Braga) and by his dislike of the spokesman for the protofascist status quo (Raul Julia). The trio are game performers, but their energy cannot compensate for the lack of funny lines and well-constructed scenes. It may be that Mazursky was overcome by a sincerity attack and decided to send an earnest...
...Deliver, though no blockbuster, is already showing a profit. And Salsa, a cheap blend of West Side Story and Dirty Dancing, made some quick money. Next, Puerto Rican-born Raul Julia, one of the few Hispanics to work regularly and rewardingly on stage and screen, stars with Sonia Braga (Brazil) and Richard Dreyfuss (Brooklyn) in Moon over Parador, a satire about South America. Then Julia will play a Salvadoran archbishop in Romero. And Christmas brings The Old Gringo, from the Carlos Fuentes novel, with Jane Fonda and L.A. Law's Jimmy Smits. Fonda, who calls herself a "premature Latinian," spent...