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...TITLE: SPIC-O-RAMA...
...forthcoming big-budget fantasy thriller Super Mario Brothers (from which, he claims, he was "almost fired for coming across too Hispanic"), he is back onstage thumbing his nose both at bourgeois ethnic critics and at what he sees as pervasive racism in the mainstream with the defiantly titled Spic-O-Rama...
...Javier's strikingly forgiving meditations in his wheelchair, seems at once the dramatic high point and the pivotal piece of evidence in explaining this deranged yet oddly delightful family. In the end, it turns out that the entire piece is, as little Miggy brags his life will be, "Spic- tacular...
...cynical disaffected tone alienates all but the most worldly consumers. But nowadays "cult" is just another category in a big schlocky pop culture market. Blockbuster video has a cult movie section, and HMV has an alternative music bin; now you can buy your Suicidal Tendencies album in the same spic and span shop where your grandmother picks up the new Amy Grant CD. It's just no fun being subversive any more...
...hard at work on a follow- up to Mambo Mouth, a one-man show in which he will play six members of a half-Dominican, half-Colombian family who are attending a wedding. "I think it could be controversial," he says with an innocent smile. Its title: Spic- o-rama...