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...learn now how to pronounce the kid's name (it's Shy-yuh La-Buff) because it looks as if he's going to be around for a while. The son of a mime and a ballerina, he first got noticed as the star of the Disney Channel's Even Stevens and the big-screen adaptation of the teen-lit hit Holes. But he's growing up; he had a nude LSD-trip scene in Bobby, and his new thriller, Disturbia, just beat Halle Berry and Bruce Willis' Perfect Stranger at the box office...
...rest of you, maybe it’s time for a road-trip: If you’re pissed because your inner- indie snob is offended, head over to Brown. Performers there include The Roots, The Flaming Lips, Mission of Burma and Yo La Tengo. “A band that less people have heard, but that the people who do know are really excited about, is extremely important,” says Joe R. Posner, who runs the Brown Concert Agency, adding “That said, at Brown, I’m pretty sure everyone knows...
...consider this scene at the start of the 1949 La Mujer que yo perdí (The Woman I Lost). A pretty young woman (Silvia Pinal, Buñuel's Viridiana), on an evening's stroll with her mother, is accosted by a young man she has rebuffed before. As he persists in his advances, her fiance (Infante) comes by and insists the man apologize. The man, identifying himself as the son of the attorney general, draws a gun. Infante knocks him down, the man's head hits the curb and blood gushes out. A newspaper headline screams: "Pedro Monta...
...stoked, I'd like to catch up with Dos tipos de cuidado (The Troublesome Two), his only film co-starring Jorge Negrete, and the 1956 Tizoc, his last big movie and the only one he made with Maria Felix. There's also "Los tres huastecos (Three Guys from La Huasteca), in which Pedro plays three roles: a stalwart Army captain, a violin-playing priest and a lumpen atheist. In one film planned at the time of his death, Infante was to play seven different characters...
...Elvis lives, and Pedro didn't perish. Watching some of Infante's movies may not make you cultists, but when it comes to Mexico's La Época de Oro del Cine, you'll be a believer...