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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...
...Cubans, it appears, are already in Glimcher's pocket. On opening night of the Miami Film Festival last month, they virtually adopted the director, a nice Jewish boy from Duluth, Minn., as an honorary Cuban. "They were so in the movie," Glimcher says, still beaming. "They moved in their seats like a wave. When the music played, there was not a still lap." The moguls are no problem either. As the Bel Air screening circuit has spread the good word, studio bosses have pummeled this novice director with dozens of scripts. (Thanks, but he prefers to develop his own projects...
...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...
...difficult it must be to make 'em like they used to! Reinventing movie innocence was the task facing Glimcher, 53, an art dealer who is breaking in as a director after three decades of running Manhattan's powerful Pace Gallery. He knows that the temptations on the brothers' via dolorosa will be as familiar to a late-show viewer as those that befell Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel. So there's something heroic about treating two men's love for each other as if it still could appear honest and profound. "For me," Glimcher says, "life is a series...
...Glimcher, a Children's Hospital and Medical Center orthopedist, stressed the same point. "None of the senior people are involved [in the strike]. I doubt that there are a significant number who are participating within the University system," he said...