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After a hard day's acting, some Hollywood screen sirens like to unwind with a good book of Latin American poetry. At least Sharon Stone does. The actress is such a big fan of Octavio Paz's work, she offered to fly the Mexican poet -- in Atlanta for a gathering of Nobel Prize laureates -- to Savannah, Georgia, near where she's filming Last Dance with Rob Morrow, for lunch and a discussion of verse. After the poet's wife explained to him who Stone was, Paz told the Washington Post he was "amazed and delighted" that she knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 8, 1995 | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

CHARGED. HOWARD STERN, 41, radio "shock jock"; with disorderly conduct; by a judge in Harlingen, Texas. Stern's on-air mocking of slain Mexican-American singing star Selena could earn him a $500 fine if he ever sets foot in the Lone Star State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 24, 1995 | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...total of 15 members. Among them are a couple of grad students, two alums, one members of the community, but we're primarily undergraduates," he says. "What I think is neat is that not everyone in the group is of Mexican descent. We've got a girl from Utah whose parents are both English...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: CREATING COMMUNITY | 4/22/1995 | See Source »

THIS IS THE STORY of two young collegestudents in the Boston area who came up withanother idea for life after college, and who nowwrite each oth-B-12the masterful El Vez ["the Mexican Elvis"] &friends...

Author: By Jake S. Kreilkamp, | Title: PIPELINE | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

...Tejano universe. By the age of 19 she was a millionaire. At 21 she could draw a crowd of 20,000 to the fairgrounds in Pasadena, Texas. Last year 60,000 people showed up to hear her in Houston, and her Selena Live won a Grammy as the best Mexican-American album. The single Amor Prohibido (Forbidden Love), from her most recent album, has sold 400,000 copies in the U.S. and abroad. Most of her songs are a form of dance pop that combines Top 40 melodies with the rhythms of Colombian cumbia and traditional Texas conjunto-the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEATH OF A RISING STAR: Selena | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

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