Word: leguizamo
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...these cutting Hispanic stereotypes are the inventions of a writer- comedian-actor who is, perhaps surprisingly, Hispanic himself. They are characters in the play Mambo Mouth, a one-man tour de force created and performed by Colombian-born John Leguizamo, 27. Kaleidoscopic, hilarious and politically very incorrect, Mambo Mouth had a successful 35-week run off- Broadway earlier this year and won a 1991 Obie and Outer Critics Circle Award. Now a one-hour TV special based on the show will get the first of six airings on HBO this Saturday...
...seven sketches in Mambo Mouth (Leguizamo makes the transition from one to another by frenetically changing costumes behind a backlit scrim while loudspeakers pump out a salsa beat) grew from improvisations that Leguizamo based on his family and friends and on images culled from TV and films. "I drew on everything that was around me and put it together," he says. "I can only write something that touches me and amuses me, that I feel something about...
...chairman Harvey Weinstein, whose company has produced such fare as the NC-17-rated "Kids," a chic portrayal of teen depravity. (At Weinstein's the vice president did not criticize Hollywood.) Then came a starry concert at Radio City Music Hall that featured raunchy jokes by comedic actor John Leguizamo (where Gore did criticize Hollywood). This week Gore and his party are expected to collect an additional $4 million on the West Coast, again largely from the industry...