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...event, designed to raise money to bring human rights activist Cesar Chavez to campus, is jointly sponsored by RAZA, the Black Students Association, the Asian American Association and La Organization Estudiantil Boriqua...
...Cesar (Armand Assante), America is a gorgeous woman; he wants to make crazy, expert love to it all night long, as he does to the gloriously trashy Lanna Lake (Cathy Moriarty). For his brother Nestor (Antonio Banderas), who composes romantic ballads and mopes soulfully, Cuba is the woman he left behind -- the "beautiful Maria" he sings of and pines...
...public? Glimcher can only hope people take to his movie -- based on the first half of Oscar Hijuelos' Pulitzer-prizewinning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love -- as Cesar takes to America: with love at first sight...
While waiting for their big break, the brothers are discouraged by nothing -- not by the long hours in a meat-packing plant, not by the bridge-and-tunnel bar mitzvahs and Legionnaire birthday parties they must play. The cheerfulness of Cesar's servitude is a big part of his and the movie's charm. As brought to impossibly glamorous life in Assante's performance, Cesar has fun doing almost anything; he can dance a sinfully erotic tango with Nestor's wife-to-be (Maruschka Detmers) and not consider it a promise or a poach. He sees life, in its painful...
Since modern art helped form Glimcher's famous taste, he can be expected to daub some of it on his screen. A poignant scene of Cesar and Nestor in a Times Square photo booth was influenced by Andy Warhol; it replicates a visit Glimcher and his family made to have their snaps taken for a Warhol portrait. Close watchers of The Mambo Kings will also discern the phantom signatures of a few revered auteurs. "I like Bob Fosse's films very much," Glimcher says. "So the strip joint in my film and the close-up of a decrepit stripper...