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About an hour before the first pitch on a breezy Southern California evening, Arturo (Arte) Moreno, billionaire owner of the Major League Baseball team now known as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, walks the concourse of Angels Stadium, picking up cigarette butts and greeting fans. In January Moreno upset many Orange County supporters of the former Anaheim Angels by tacking Los Angeles onto the team name, relegating Anaheim, a city of 343,000, 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles, to a mere appendage. He also granted the Angels the dubious distinction of being the only major pro-sports franchise...
Drawing the tournament’s fourth seed in Cal Poly’s Vic Moreno, Preston (23-5)—the EIWA Champion—took the senior to the limit before eventually falling in overtime...
...Vega plays Flor Moreno, a Mexican woman who moves with her daughter Cristina to Los Angeles and ends up working as a maid in the upscale home of successful chef John Clasky (Sandler) and his high-strung wife Deborah (Leoni). They don't speak Spanish and Flor doesn't know a word of English - it's a comedy of confusion. But with a message: Between the laughs, Flor struggles to protect her humble values and shield her daughter from the corrupting power of money. Vega's faltering English didn't deter director James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, As Good...
...highlights Catalina Sandino Moreno--in her first professional role--stars as the willful Maria, a young Colombian who, faced with few options in life, decides to become a drug mule. Director Joshua Marston's commentary on the DVD provides a historical backdrop, talking extensively about the drug trade in the U.S. and Colombia...
...criminal underworld are just a pretext. What we come to care most about in writer-director Joshua Marston's film is how his heroine achieves the state promised by his title, Maria Full of Grace. Our emotional investment in her derives primarily from the astonishing performance of Moreno...