Word: cesare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...Cesar Castillo, newly arrived from Cuba to make his fortune as a bandleader in New York City's thriving Latino music scene, has a prayer for success: "In the name of the mambo and the rumba and the cha-cha-cha." Arne Glimcher, director of the exuberant new movie The Mambo Kings, may have a prayer of his own: In the name of the Cubans and the moguls and the public's whim...
...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...
...past 30 years, the only Hispanic leader of national prominence has been United Farm Worker activist Cesar Chavez. But he never achieved, or attempted to achieve, a cross-issue national appeal...