Word: mariachi
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...Mariachi met the Mambo...
...films' ethnic richness is especially appealing. The music of an Easter celebration in Los Angeles' Old Plaza Church is a folk "mariachi Mass," now popular among Mexican American Catholics. But another service there also reflects centuries of Latin tradition, as parishioners take parts-Roman soldiers, Jesus carrying the cross-in a Good Friday procession. In Gary, Ind., a black community church goes in for karate lessons and the gospel of liberation, but the rich hymn singing and some of the rolling language from the pulpit recall old-fashioned black Baptist devotion: "Thank you Lord, for all of your...
CARLO RUSTICHELLI'S insistent mariachi score contributes to the failure of the failure and so does the often garish Deluxe color. But there is a more important problem: Wilder cannot, when working in a place that is real, create a picture that seems real. His great environments of past films--the Hollywood of Sunset Boulevard (1950), or speak easy Chicago in Some Like it Hot (1959)--were made from studio sets, and even in Avanti' the best creations are the hotel bedrooms, which are not Italian...
...wisdom in her top-20 single That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be. >Linda Ronstadt, 25, has had two Capitol LPs out in less than a year. Born in Tucson, Ariz., she is basically a country-rock stylist. Her musical interests (Cajun and mariachi among them) are broad, and she can somehow get as much kick into singing a slow blues number as into a wailing rock version of Wayne Raney's We Need a Lot More of Jesus (and a Lot Less Rock and Roll). - Rita Coolidge, 26, is a Baptist preacher...
Inside other pavilions, there are some adroit and intriguing touches. The Mexican Pavilion features Aztec relics from the Mexico City National Museum of Anthropology, set off by a mariachi band. The Indians and Hawaiians have improvised a pacifier for impatient queues: luscious dancing girls in native costumes. For comic relief, there is the Cuban Pavilion, festooned with love portraits of Castro and Che Guevara counterpointed by hate pictures of Batista and bloated capitalistas...