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...Corpus Christi to put food on the table when I was 6-1/2," Selena said in the Time interview. "We would play for family weddings. When I was eight I recorded my first song in Spanish, a country song. When I was nine we started a Tex-Mex band." She stuck with it, spending much of her time as a teenager on the road and getting her high-school diploma through a correspondence course. In 1989 she and her band, Los Dinos, got their big break-a recording contract with giant EMI--and then began to ride the wave...
...Anglo-Saxons in order to affirm our separate identity. But now hundreds of thousands of ordinary Mexicans have built bridges to the U.S. The frontier has become but a minor inconvenience. Perhaps it is utopian, but I look forward to its disappearance.'' From south of the border, at least, Mex-America beckons...
...wonder, then, that the Mexican analyst for the Templeton Funds, Ed Ramos, has put out a buy recommendation on several Mexican companies that he thinks are already irresistibly cheap, including Tel-Mex, the big phone company that's in so many portfolios...
...other Rebel Highway films hunker down to more serious matters of turf marking and pubescent angst. Motorcycle Gang revs up real terror, as some wild ones kidnap a restless girl and her dad gets really mad. Roadracers is a hyperkinetic assault on good manners. Dragstrip Girl, a Cal-Mex remake of Rebel Without a Cause, stars Natasha Gregson Wagner (Natalie Wood's daughter) as a bored teen lured by a handsome Chicano's threat and thrill. Confessions of a Sorority Girl uncovers the black-satin double-dealing of a teen queen spurned. Girls in Prison, with a script co-written...
...with determined faces were pictured galloping across the countryside, squinting and gritting ther teeth with determination, when I just wanted to stand up and lament, "Where oh where, at a time like this, is the Bon Jovi musical accompaniment?" J.B.J. did such a good job with the Tex-mex sound, I'm sure he could pull off an inspired 17th century France ballad...