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...with both Hispanic and indie film audiences, earning $2.6 million, the highest opening weekend ever for a Spanish-language film in the U.S. Studios have long known Hispanic crowds will show up for their comedies and animated films. But the success of Under the Same Moon suggests the growing Latino moviegoing audience is under-served when it comes to films that tell their own stories...
...Hollywood has good reason to court the Hispanic audience. Latinos buy more movie tickets per person than any other segment of the U.S. population. The median age of Hispanics in the U.S. is 27.4, nearly 10 years younger than the U.S as a whole, putting them squarely in the date-night demographic. "Studios are becoming more open to listening," says Ivette Rodriguez, president of American Entertainment Marketing, a firm specializing in marketing to the U.S. Latino consumer...
...hardly unusual for Bill Clinton to spend Sunday mornings making the rounds at black churches in primary states. But the Sunday before Hillary Clinton's squeaker victory in Texas found her husband ensconced with daughter Chelsea at Joel Osteen's Houston megachurch, which is white, black and Latino. Why the change in venues? Polls by the progressive group Faith in Public Life show that Hillary has support among white Evangelical Democrats, winning them 57% to 35% over Barack Obama in Ohio, for example. The former President didn't address Osteen's congregation, but the preacher acknowledged him from the pulpit...
...Papers into the public record in 1971, is just thrilled that his candidacy has given his idea so much attention - and by "so much," he means any at all. Just being a big party candidate and getting in the debates imparts a certain amount of fame. At the National Latino Congreso in L.A. back in October, he got to speak to 200 people right before the mayor, since they invited all the candidates and only he and Dennis Kucinich showed up - and Kucinich was late. "The day I filed for office I got more attention on the initiative than...
...what he describes as a "lethal dose of musical theater" while acting in shows at his New York City grade school (the short Puerto Rican sixth-grader played Conrad Birdie in Bye Bye Birdie). He started writing In the Heights when he was living in the Latino house at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., incorporating the hip-hop that he had grown up listening to as well as the Latin styles of favorite artists like Rubén Blades, Gilberto Santa Rosa and Juan Luis Guerra. "I wanted to write music that told stories as well as those songwriters tell stories...