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...Bebe Buell,” while perhaps the most lyrically light—“This ain’t groupie love ’cause you mean so much to me / You’re my Bebe Buell, you’re my Puerto Rican Pamela Lee”—is nonetheless overwrought in production, featuring an insipid chorus and piano line to match, not to mention the overwhelming presence of Drummey’s distorted guitar. “Country Interlude” just never really finds a voice, despite being the longest track...
Blagojevich, Rod • not guilty plea of to 16 federal criminal counts is instantly followed by news of planned appearance by - assuming a judge says it's okay - on NBC Survivor-type reality show set in Costa Rican jungle...
...competent but bland cast. As Tony, leader of the Anglo gang the Jets, Matt Cavenaugh is an attractive, sweet-voiced Broadway leading man, but he doesn't look like he could survive a game of touch football, must less a gang rumble. As Maria, the virginal Puerto Rican girl he falls for, newcomer Josefina Scaglione has a lovely voice and good energy but seems to be acting by the numbers. (Karen Olivo, as her friend Anita, is the only one in the cast who shows some real fire...
...movie’s first scene, a student passionately refuses to define his ethnicity in a classic “checkbox” dilemma. At stake is a $12,000 scholarship offered only to minority students, but Patrick (Victor Rasuk) does not identify with his Puerto Rican roots on principle. The desired effect is admiration for his idealism, but a low-income college student turning down thousands of dollars essentially because he “hasn’t even been to Puerto Rico” smacks of pretension. His feeble arguments against accepting the money sound especially forced when...
...characteristic lack of subtlety seeps into these portrayals as well, and the characters are painted in broad, vapid strokes. Though Joon painfully recalls being taunted with racial slurs as a child, she views her multiracial peers through an equally skewed lens—in which lisping Puerto Rican call girls offer advice on oral sex and superstitious Chinese women throw knives at enemies. When racial stereotypes aren’t heavily reinforced, Mun utilizes conspicuous hints to contextualize Joon’s acquaintances—a fellow runaway who endeavors to teach Joon life lessons is named Knowledge, while...