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...Hollywood musical is upon us with Chicago—for better or worse. Ignoring its politicized ramifications as a genre revival, Chicago on its own is a pretty wild ride, showcasing once and for all that the new school of glitzy film stars can sing better than Jennifer Lopez. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, and especially John C. Reilly are surprisingly watchable in this furiously edited, expensive adaptation of the murderous Broadway classic. Winner of this year’s Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Editing and Best Sound. Chicago...
Still, it was more than a decade before he got a call from a producer--Jonathon Komack Martin, the son of Chico's creator. Komack Martin and his partner, actress Sandra Bullock, wanted to do a Latino Beverly Hillbillies, an idea they mercifully dropped after seeing Lopez's act. "You can see he fought to get where he is, yet he is hilarious," says Bullock. "He has a way of hiding his pain, but you can also...
...Lopez is the first major-network sitcom in years to feature a Latino family, even as Hispanics have grown to about an eighth of the U.S. population. The show subtly represents the variety of Latin culture--for instance, George is Mexican and his wife Angie (Constance Marie) is Cuban. But it also brings a different kind of diversity to TV. Few sitcoms since Roseanne have taken a raw, personal look at a working-class family and its psychological baggage. Most family comedies today avoid dark themes or sublimate them, as in Everybody Loves Raymond's passive-aggressive squabbles. Lopez...
...George Lopez is not as good as Roseanne--the characters usually reach too neat little epiphanies as each episode ends--but is far better than when it started last spring as a bland family comedy with a dash of salsa. As the show explored George's learning about his father and dealing with the emotions that discovery dredged up, it came alive. It has held its own against reality juggernaut American Idol and got an early go-ahead for a third season...
...Lopez's success in the ratings and in therapy, memories of his youth are never far away. "I think of that little boy now," he says, "and I pretend he is with me when things are good and show him things are going to be all right." If that boy can keep reminding the man of when things weren't all right, George Lopez has a bright dark future. --Reported by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles