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...Crosby, the Sinatra, the Elvis of Mexico. The top-of-the-charts love ballads he sang in films sent 10 million senoritas into ecstasy; he crooned, they swooned. The movies he starred in were among the most popular in Latin America; and one, the 1948 Nosotros los pobres...! (We the Poor) is the biggest hit in Mexican film history. He anchored cowboy comedies, historical-political epics and dozens of vein-popping romantic melodramas. He played virginal student-priests (in El Seminarista -The Seminarian) and rogues who at the crack of dawn rose from a lady's bed and jumped...
...Mexico was like Hollywood, or like India today: a national industry heavily invested in the romantic and domestic weepie, with fearless emoting, hairpin turns of fate, mega-doses of religious and family piety, all set to the popular songs of the day. (Melodrama literally means music drama.) Noble mothers are forever sacrificing themselves -silently, stoically, suicidally -for their kids. Fully three of the 10 Infante features end with some spiteful young person driving some dear old person to death, only to be flattened with a shocking revelation: "She's / he's your mother / father!" Cue tears that would flood...
...assumes that people are good, because otherwise you need a click track and Pro Tools, and you need to move things around. But if you are really good, then what comes across is the performance and the intensity of that performance.”Besides producing dozens of popular albums, Boyd went on to become head of music for Warner Brothers Films, organizing the scoring of “Deliverance,” “A Clockwork Orange,” and “McCabe and Mrs. Miller.” His latest project is a book detailing...
...Senate in 2002, when she lost by a narrow margin to Sununu. She served as the national chair for John Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004 before taking the helm of the IOP. She emerged as the Democratic forerunner for the 2008 Senate race in 2006, when popular Governor John Lynch indicated that he would not pursue the Senate seat. Once a solidly Republican state, New Hampshire has been trending Democratic in recent years. In 2004, Lynch knocked off an incumbent Republican governor. And last year, when Lynch was reelected, Democratic challengers beat incumbent congressmen in both...
When asked what he would do if Democrats opposed increased funding to troops in Iraq, Lieberman refused to deny the popular rumor that he would switch parties, instead characterizing the idea as a “remote possibility.” His relationship to the Republican Party may indicate otherwise...