Word: valdez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past 15 years, the Oests have lived in the Valdez Valley on three acres of land that Nora inherited from her father, land he acquired by trading a La Salle automobile to his Uncle Pedro, who needed it to get to Wyoming...
...Buddy Holly Story and Patsy Cline's Sweet Dreams were good movies. But . . . La Bamba? Ritchie Valens was only 17 when he, Holly and J.P. ("Big Bopper") Richardson died in 1959. His music is surely worth remembering; his life is hardly worth dramatizing. So Writer-Director Luis Valdez shapes facts into fable. Valens' family is a chicano caricature; death forever stalks our shooting star; chunky Ritchie is made over into winsome Lou Diamond Phillips. Even the music (by Los Lobos) sounds thin next to the originals, with their booming bass lines. Only at a concert with Jackie Wilson and Eddie...
Directed by Louis Valdez...
...pipeline has been plagued by financing problems and construction start-up delays, it is seen by industry experts as an important complement to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, which carries 1.5 million bbl. of crude oil per day from Prudhoe Bay on the Beaufort Sea to the port of Valdez, 800 miles to the south. All together, the entire gas-pipeline network is aimed at ensuring adequate fuel supplies for industrial and home-heating use until the turn of the century and beyond...
...relieved a Glasgow-to-London mail train of $7.3 million in what will be forever referred to as the "Great Train Robbery." Resettled for the past dozen years in Brazil and exempt from extradition, Biggs was recently tapped by an Australian ad agency to play the Ricardo Montalban-Juan Valdez role for Café de Rio. "Living here in Rio, I have lots of coffees to choose from," says Biggs in the ad. "And when you're on the run like me, you appreciate a good cup of coffee." The Australian Broadcasting Tribunal has banned...