Word: mambo
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...actress who, as Almodovar has written, "enlarges in front of the camera." With her wide-eyed insouciance, she looks like the girl-(or former boy)-next-door, whether she's singing a hymn at the altar, snorting a line of coke or vaulting over a bar counter. Banderas (of "Mambo Kings" and "Truth or Dare") is hilarious as the appealingly deranged fan, and Poncelas convincingly portrays the oddly down-to-earth avant-garde director...
When John Leguizamo burst into prominence last year with his performance medley, Mambo Mouth, reviewers hailed his resourcefulness in creating characters ranging from a punch-drunk prizefighter to a transvestite hooker named Manny the Fanny. But some fellow Hispanics were appalled that so talented a young man should focus on the dark netherworld of ethnic life. "They obviously felt I should be doing Bill Cosby-type things," Leguizamo recalls. "But that's not me and not where I come from...
...early 50s, Cesar and Nestor Castillo (Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas), two Cuban brothers, arrive in New York dreaming of success as musicians. America finds itself in the midst of the mambo craze, and the Castillos intend to be part...
...brothers, working by day at a meatpacking plant, form a dance orchestra called the Mambo Kings. They begin to achieve success, culminating with a lively appearance on the I Love Lucy show...
...film moves to two different rhythms. The first half is a mambo--kinetic, ribald, dazzling. The brothers' heads spin with the newness and excitement of America. Director Arne Glimcher takes us inside the Palladium, the greatest dance hall of the day, which he recreates with electrifying, tactile wealth of detail...