Word: emilios
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TITLE: THE FOURTEEN SISTERS OF EMILIO MONTEZ O'BRIEN...
...York City during the 1950s, deservedly won the Pulitzer Prize three years ago, making him the first Latino novelist so honored. But this time out, Hijuelos has decided to tell his story through a woman's eyes. Make that 14 women's eyes. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien is the title of his latest novel, and the book oozes with femininity -- or at least with Hijuelos' version...
...marries the young and beautiful Mariela Montez. After the couple returns to the farm O'Brien owns in a small Pennsylvania town, he works as the local photographer and operates the community's movie theater, while she keeps busy bearing and rearing their 14 daughters and, finally, one son, Emilio Montez O'Brien...
...Commandante Gutierrez (Jonathan Fried) enters trailing a long tube of flickering lights behind him that conducts electrodes into his mechanical frame, operated by the real, unseen dictator in a far-off control room. His counterpart is Uyttersprot (Jack Willis), an embittered flunky who plots to bring down sainted Don Emilio Valverde (Alvin Epstein), the resident intellectual conscience. The means of his destruction will be the cheap and lovely Violet (Maggie Rush), an entertainer of sorts. It does not come as a surprise to learn that Violet, ungrateful and naive, was formerly employed in a fish factory before her rescue...
...CREW FROM IT HAPPENED LIKE THIS, A PROgram on the Telemundo Spanish- language network, was after a human-interest story. They got a horror show instead. In North Lauderdale, Florida, Emilio Nunez confronted his ex-wife Maritza at their daughter's gravesite, blaming her for the girl's suicide. As ! the camera rolled, Nunez pulled a pistol from his pocket and shot Maritza 12 times...