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...starred in were among the most popular in Latin America; and one, the 1948 Nosotros los pobres...! (We the Poor) is the biggest hit in Mexican film history. He anchored cowboy comedies, historical-political epics and dozens of vein-popping romantic melodramas. He played virginal student-priests (in El Seminarista -The Seminarian) and rogues who at the crack of dawn rose from a lady's bed and jumped out the window (in Dicen que soy mujeriego -They Call Me a Ladies' Man). The good-hearted heroes he played fought, they cried and, always, they sang...
...between William Holden with a mustache and the young Eli Wallace in Baby Doll, was a man's man: a carpenter by trade and an amateur boxer for pleasure. (A grueling fight, as bloody and intense as anything in Raging Bull, serves as the climax to his 1953 Pepe el Toro.) He was a fanatic about his workout regimen. In a time when Hollywood movies rarely revealed much of their male stars below the collar, Pedro went topless in nearly every film, displaying the bulky muscularity he was so proud of. You could count on a scene where...
...Latin Americans like Ricardo Montalban, Carmen Miranda, José Iturbi and Fernando Lamas, Mexican beauty Dolores del Rio left Hollywood and returned home to join such new stars as Cantinflas, Pedro Armend?riz, Mar?a Félix and Infante's friendly rival in the singing hunk sweepstakes, Jorge Negrete. Emilio "El Indio" Fern?ndez was directing movies that won international prizes, like the Cannes Palme d'Or. A renegade from Franco's Spain, the surrealist master Luis Buñuel, came to Mexico and made a string of startling social melodramas: Los Olvidados, Nazarin, The Exterminating Angel, Simon of the Desert. Among...
...many of his films, a Pedro smile or tear or grimace? make the wildest plot twist plausible (almost). A great spirit must endure great suffering. His silent soldiering-on here is no less heroic than the dreadful beating he takes, and then dishes out, during the Pepe el Toro boxing match. As the ringside announcer says with awe in that movie, "His heart is so big, his chest can't contain...
...less generous.) When the novel is at its best, it seems like a brilliant and beautiful short story begins every five or ten pages. The countless particular narratives weave together to create a wonderful tapestry that transcends its many gorgeous parts. Perhaps this is why Spain’s El País called this “the kind of novel Borges would have written.”The novel ambles along, and each character’s story slowly unfolds as though time were no object. But, as in real life, you look at the date and without...