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...forcing ground for a talent that resists ethnic labels. His paintings carry echoes of Mexican symbolism, but they also wear the signs of European expressionism, new-wave imagery, old- fashioned camp. And he recalls low- and high-culture influences in his adolescence that are shared by half the Anglo painters in Manhattan. "Daffy Duck on TV in the morning and Camus in my back pocket," as he once described it. Someone like Gronk does not cross over at all. In him, the cultures simply converge...
...turned her attention to the decadent doings of wealthy Wasps, Dynasty Co-Creator Esther Shapiro brought NBC a script for a much different sort of TV show. Called Maid in America, it was a bittersweet movie about a Hispanic girl who goes to work for an upper-middle-class Anglo family. NBC executives praised the script but ultimately turned thumbs down. The reason, Shapiro recalls, was expressed in one blunt comment: "Tacos don't get numbers...
This tangle among diverse strands of the Latino community is reflected in the tango of Anglo movie moguls and Hispanic moviemakers. The industry sees its Hispanic films as good deeds with limited commercial prospects, and ! Hispanic directors worry about making films that are both exemplary and entertaining. The result is an impasse for which, as Casting Director Dan Guerrero notes, "everyone is blaming everyone else. The agent tells an actor, 'I'd submit you, but no one will see you.' The casting director says, 'I'd bring in Hispanics, but no one's submitting them.' The writer says...
Translators do not ordinarily achieve such renown, and the wry, soft-spoken foreign-language professor seems bemused by his success in a career he never planned. "It was serendipity all the way," he says. Little in his childhood suggested he would someday become a bridge across Latin and Anglo cultures. The youngest of three sons of a Cuban father and an American mother, Rabassa grew up in and around New York City and seldom heard Spanish spoken about the house: "As a Cuban, my father was eager to adapt to his new environment." The Rabassas later moved to New Hampshire...
...image of a Latin refuge: an environment that is at once welcoming and protective, that holds a bit of history, a lot of family and no sharp edges. Of all the U.S.'s Latino landscapes, perhaps the most haunting is in New Mexico, where Native American, Spanish and eastern-Anglo sensibilities have boiled together in the Southwest sun for the past four centuries. The so- called Santa Fe look, romanced into the mainstream by Ralph Lauren, has turned into the hottest design fad in years. "People naturally want to return to the earth," explains Rachel Elizondo, owner of Santa...