Word: jose
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...world didn't exactly shake when Betsy Daly stopped going to Blockbuster a year ago, but the movie-rental giant would be smart to ask itself whether this 33-year-old San Jose, Calif., mom represents the future. Daly now pays $15 a month to order her DVDs online. They arrive in the mail in a day or two, she gets to keep two at once (for $5 more a month she could keep three), and she mails them back whenever she feels like it. "I love that the movie can sit on the counter for weeks, and it doesn...
Carmen, though sung in French (with English “supertitles” projected overhead in this production), is in many ways a quintessentially Spanish opera. The tale of the seductive, gypsy-girl Carmen, her hapless lover Jose, the bullfighter Escamillo and their love triangle is imbued with a richly Castilian flavor. But the Spanish component does not overwhelm the plot and only heightens, even justifies, the melodramatic exchanges between Carmen and her lovers...
...this modern adaptation, cigarette girl Carmen becomes a Quebecois protestor and smuggler, Jose a riot policeman and Escamillo “a Wall Street trader and well-meaning liberal working the proletariat agenda from within the corporate structure”—who, rather cleverly, takes on the “bull market...
...first act is highlighted by a duet between Jose (played by Vince Wolfsteiner) and Micaëla (played by Jane Lynch ’04)—the orphan girl Jose’s mother hopes he will wed—where the two extraordinary singers showcase their voices in a moving exchange...
...Jose Guzman did the right thing. On a chilly night in the rock-and-sand wasteland of Canon de la Marrana on the Mexican border, he gave up an easy run into the U.S.--the border patrol wasn't in sight--to stay with a woman who had twisted her ankle as she took off north toward California. What really angers Guzman, as he waits for a Mexican rescue patrol to shuttle him to the nearest town, is having to make this illegal crossing in the first place. After working in a Los Angeles lumberyard for five years...