Word: mambo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cesar Castillo, newly arrived from Cuba to make his fortune as a bandleader in New York City's thriving Latino music scene, has a prayer for success: "In the name of the mambo and the rumba and the cha-cha-cha." Arne Glimcher, director of the exuberant new movie The Mambo Kings, may have a prayer of his own: In the name of the Cubans and the moguls and the public's whim...
...public? Glimcher can only hope people take to his movie -- based on the first half of Oscar Hijuelos' Pulitzer-prizewinning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love -- as Cesar takes to America: with love at first sight...
...movie's Mambo Kings become famous in the mid-'50s for one hit album, some saucy nightclub gigs and a fleeting appearance on the I Love Lucy show (reconstructed here with artfully interpolated footage of the brothers, Lucille Ball and, standing in for his dad, Desi Arnaz Jr.). But theirs is a ^ story of wanting, not necessarily getting. In Cynthia Cidre's witty, synoptic screenplay, The Mambo Kings becomes a parable about the intoxication of dreaming of success; it's The Commitments with a Cuban accent...
...Desi Arnaz music video and album are out, featuring his performances on I Love Lucy. The Mambo Kings, featuring a Desi Arnaz character, is coming to the theaters. Look for a boom in bongo sales...
Although his movie career is taking off, Leguizamo is not about to stop ruffling ethnic sensitivities with his comedy. He is hard at work on a follow- up to Mambo Mouth, a one-man show in which he will play six members of a half-Dominican, half-Colombian family who are attending a wedding. "I think it could be controversial," he says with an innocent smile. Its title: Spic- o-rama