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...news: the show was Chico and the Man, part of a reel of highlights from NBC's history. By and large, major Hispanic TV characters are still just that, history--Freddie Prinze's Chico, Desi Arnaz's Ricky Ricardo--even though Latinos are America's fastest-growing minority, now roughly equal in number to African Americans. The disparity is not new, but it has never been so embarrassingly glaring. According to the 2000 Census, Hispanic Americans number 35 million, or 12.5% of the population, a nearly 58% jump since 1990. But on TV? A report by the advocacy group Children...
...times, Calle 54 has the feel of a music video sampler-brilliantly performed but somewhat contrived-but in the music's margins, when father and son Bebo and Chucho Valdes play a piano duet or when Chico O'Farril wanders aimlessly in the New York City night, the film becomes intensely real and touchingly personal. Calle 54 may indeed be Trueba's "way of repaying a debt of gratitude to Latin jazz," but for novices and the well-versed alike, it also serves to educate and foster a love of the music. Trueba has succeeded, for all the spectacle...
...tried, I'm sure the phrase "trying to look busy" would be used. But I know why I did it: to give back to the children. Last Tuesday, as Gore was guided through the halls of Columbia on his first day, I walked around California State University, Chico, looking for the journalism department, where I had agreed to serve as a distinguished visiting professor for two days. I took the gig because after three years at TIME, I felt it was my duty to give back some of the deep journalism knowledge I've acquired. I also figured...
...that I noticed, owing to my distinguishedness, but the students at Chico are very good-looking, as evidenced by the fact that the school was once rated the top party school in the nation by Playboy. This may explain why Bob Dole fell off a podium when he spoke here...
...Limp Bizkit, no Eminem. Instead there was a huge section of MPB that featured such younger artists as Marisa Monte (a fine young vocalist who is a bit like Dido or Beth Orton with some samba thrown in), the ska-pop-reggae band LS Jack, and such veterans as Chico Buarque, Ivan Lins and Gal Costa...