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Cuando se criaba en San Antonio, TX, hijo de inmigrantes mejicanos, el destino de Lionel Sosa era aprender un oficio, deferir a los anglos y votar por los dem?cratas. Pero a los 13 a?os qued? tan impresionado por el discurso televisado de Dwight Eisenhower sobre el Sue?o Americano durante la Convenci?n Nacional Republicana, que decidi? entonces ser un empresario rico y afiliarse al partido republicano...
...Aunque tienen un poder adquisitivo de 600,000 millones, reci?n empiezan a destacarse en la industria publicitaria, y su influencia pol?tica todav?a va a la zaga de los n?meros. Los hispanos, la minor?a ?tnica m?s numerosa del pa?s, prometen contribuir al pa?s en el siglo 21 de una manera tan vital como lo hicieron los afroamericanos en el siglo...
...Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Noor, accept responsibility for the ... assault. The pain and hurt caused to you and to your family is deeply regretted." RAHIM NOOR, former Malaysian police chief, in a statement apologizing for the beating of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim during Anwar's controversial 1998 arrest on sodomy and corruption charges...
That sentence is the creation of a man named Donald Cammell, who, possibly to his regret, agreed to co-write with Brando a screen treatment, and then a novel, called Fan-Tan, which is about to be published in the latter form (Knopf; 272 pages) a bit more than a year after the death of the once great actor. The book is being blurbed as a "delectable romp" and as the "last surprise from an ever-surprising legend," both claims requiring some parsing...
...unique Hollywood story, out of which one might make a far better novel than Fan-Tan. The book has some modest, largely descriptive merits but is essentially just another celebrity scam. --By Richard Schickel