Word: mambo
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...throw in a little West Side Story, like the Mambo theme...
...movie sound track (Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor) and appeared on the cover of TIME. After the breakup of Talking Heads in 1988, he immersed himself in the sensuality of tropical salsa, releasing two solo albums that hitched his quirky vision to the locomotion of the mambo...
Armand Assante, who starred in "Mambo Kings," plays the role of Ned Ravine, the dull-witted lawyer-detective and object of his adulterous wife Lana's (Kate Nelligan) murderous schemes. Sherilyn Fenn stars as Laura, Ned's devoted secretary who is blindly in love with him. She competes with the provocative, Sharon Stone-like seductress, Lola (played by the sizzling Sean Young), for his attention...
...think that The Mambo Kings, before the Pulitzer, changed things. I think with the Pulitzer, it helped us along even more. It's hard to say. New York publishers are impressed by breakthroughs and I think it certainly did help them. I think that it maybe set up an idea in the minds of the literary establishment [about] Latino writers who, I think, for many years--with some exceptions like Richard Rodriguez and folks like him--did not get much play in the press. So it's opened eyes a little bit. I wouldn't take credit, because these writers...
...Irish take on things, the melancholy which I guess is in all my books. There are parts of Fourteen Sisters that to me are truly magical that no one mentions, so different from Garcia Marquez that it's amazing to me. I could've written a follow-up to Mambo Kings could've done a follow-up to my first novel. I'm just trying to change things a little bit. Not to be [retentions, or anything, I just want to break the mold...