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...remake of the 1976 John Carpenter thriller, Assault on Precinct 13, comedian John Leguizamo plays a small-time criminal with a very big mouth...
...real growth industry in the past few years, however, has been the puffed-up comedy monologue, from the traditional stand-up of comics like Jackie Mason, Bill Maher and Rob Becker (Defending the Caveman) to the more crafted, character-driven monologues of such performers as Lily Tomlin and John Leguizamo...
Empire, the new film starring John Leguizamo as a drug dealer in the South Bronx, plays like a combination of The Godfather trilogy and Bonfire of the Vanities...
...Leguizamo plays Vic Rosa, an ambitious man who is “young, Latino and good-looking,” and has money on his mind. A two-faced character, he ruthlessly defends his territory and kills anyone who gets in his way, while also tenderly looking after his girlfriend Carmen. Vic’s identity as a Latino quickly comes into play as the film draws a very defined line between the Hispanic Bronx and White Manhattan. Although the film portrays the Bronx as indelibly linked to the illegal drug trade that takes place there, Manhattan, as represented...
...John Leguizamo, he of the acid rants about his family relations, is a dad now. Has diaper duty mellowed him into Cosby Jr.? Relax. He faces a comic's worst nightmare--love and happiness--by taking fatherhood as occasion for a hilarious, moving look at his bumpy love-life past, with a little Latino History 101 thrown in. His riot of voices and song is unsparing of parents, ex-lovers and himself. When he met his live-in girlfriend, he tells us, "My therapist said, 'Congratulations, John! You are now emotionally 12 years old!'" Here's hoping he never grows...