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Along with Bermudez, the Assembly returned three incumbent directors: Alfredo Cesar, Adolfo Calero and Aristedes Sanchez. They join Newcomers Wilfredo Montalban, Roberto Ferrey and Wycliffe Diego, a representative of the Miskito Indians who live on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast. Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Jr., a Bermudez foe whose family publishes Nicaragua's opposition newspaper La Prensa, lost his re-election bid. Calero and Bermudez have clashed in recent months over the handling of the war. But they appeared, for the moment, to have patched things...
...caricaturing of other minorities, the industry's treatment of Hispanics was benign. In the silent era of the Latin lover, actors named Ricardo Cortez, Antonio Moreno and Ramon Novarro all wooed Garbo on screen. In the '30s and '40s, Hollywood called on Cesar Romero, Gilbert Roland or Ricardo Montalban for Continental elegance and rewarded them with careers as durable as Corinthian leather. Even those two camp goddesses of the '40s, Carmen Miranda and Maria Montez, did not wallow in the spitfire stereotype so much as they exploded it, with wit and pizazz...
Forget about Mick Dundee for a bit, and focus on Rico the drug lord. Why is he portrayed as a Colombian, instead of just another bad guy? Why does he have to speak with an accent that makes Ricardo Montalban sound like Lord Byron...
Alfred Drake, Zachary Scott, Herbert Lom, Farley Granger and Ricardo Montalban have all played the role, but for 34 years Yul Brynner has been the first and only King of Siam--an Oriental patriarch who is also a gigolo in jade. He is onstage perhaps half as much as the actress who plays Anna, the Englishwoman who educates the King's children; and of the half-dozen songs that still elate the memory (Hello, Young Lovers, Getting to Know You, I Whistle a Happy Tune, etc., etc., etc.), the King sings none. It matters not. By dint of dogged charisma...
...package of 30- and 60-second public service announcements include segments recorded by college football star Herschel Walker and actor Richard Montalban as well as a parody of the "valley girl...