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...strong, he is sensitive, but the movie Pedro often has a woman problem. At times a female will be too aggressive for him, like the smoldering, man-eating Katy Jurado in The Seminarian: "Are you retarded? Or are you afraid of me?" she asks as she brazenly removes her shawl. A more troubling blind spot in the Infante character: he keeps falling in love with racial snobs. In The Woman I Lost he becomes a fugitive for having protected Silvia Pinal's honor, only to find that she disdains the half-breed beauty who has saved his life...
...Like the U.S., Mexico had a race problem. With plentiful intermarrying between the indigenous population and the descendants of Spanish emigrés, the country was its own rainbow coalition, or contradiction. Most of the movie stars were light-skinned; those that weren't often played comic or villainous relief. But unlike Hollywood, Mexico didn't ignore the race issue. And in Joselito Rodriguez' Angelitos Negros (Little Black Angels), the prejudice of the invaders toward the natives, or anyone with native blood, is crucial, poignant and bizarre. Its script, by Rogelio A. González (from a play...
...problem is, she seems to be very much in the mood to talk. Chunks of Skylab begin to fall from the sky, and fed up with it all, Witherspoon kills herself by standing right in their path. When the lights come up again, we find her perched on an armrest, explaining why Skylab is crashing to earth in a way that seems more like a fourth-grade teacher than one of Durang’s trademark paranoid neurotics...
...underlying problem is that when it comes to Darfur, governments have thus far done little more than talking. Neither the U.S. nor the E.U. are willing to forcefully intervene for humanitarian reasons, and rising powers like China have undermined multilateral economic pressure by signing trade treaties with the Khartoum regime that sponsors the Janjaweed paramilitaries. And as usual, with no willing hard power around, United Nations’ resolutions seem at best inconsequential...
...credit, Slim, a widely respected figure and the son of a Lebanese immigrant, seems to be acknowledging the problem. He has accepted, for example, a rare move by Mexico's Federal Competition Commission to block Telmex from expanding into cable television until it allows all competitors to be smoothly hooked up to its telecom services. And he is lifting his charitable profile, announcing he'll pour $10 billion over the next four years into his health- and education-related Fundacion Carso. Business and philanthropy experts alike hope these developments will help prime the pump not only in Mexico but throughout...