Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bopper") Richardson died in 1959. His music is surely worth remembering; his life is hardly worth dramatizing. So Writer-Director Luis Valdez shapes facts into fable. Valens' family is a chicano caricature; death forever stalks our shooting star; chunky Ritchie is made over into winsome Lou Diamond Phillips. Even the music (by Los Lobos) sounds thin next to the originals, with their booming bass lines. Only at a concert with Jackie Wilson and Eddie Cochran does La Bamba come alive as a sharp tribute to '50s rock from some sons of the pioneers. The rest of the movie plays like...
...only reasonable explanation is that the increasing appeal of violent intimidation that has been creeping into professional sports since the 1970s has finally found its way to the baseball diamond...
Chronicling the life of 1950s teen-idol Ritchie Valens (Lou Diamond Phillips), La Bamba is an ode to the American middle-class dream. The film opens with the Valenzuela family, a group of Mexican immigrants, working as California migrant workers...
Currently serving a two-year term in the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., Levine detailed for the court a spending spree that lasted from 1980 until his arrest last year. He paid $450,000 to renovate his eight-room Park Avenue apartment and bought his wife a $15,750 diamond necklace. What about the money unaccounted for? Levine says he lost part of it, about $200,000, while gambling during 27 vacations in the Bahamas. His luck, it seems, began to run out long before investigators caught up with...
...wears a diamond stud in one ear, loves to pub-crawl with his hometown "yobbos" (rowdy pals), dotes on heavy-metal rock and has even been known ) to play a lick or two. So it figures that last week Pat Cash would find a most untraditional way to celebrate when he became the first Australian in 16 years to win the men's singles crown at Wimbledon. After routing Ivan Lendl 7-6, 6-2, 7-5, Cash, 22, threw a ball into the crowd and then clambered up the packed grandstand to embrace his father Pat Cash Sr. Remarked...