Spain’s most entertaining import since Pedro Almodovar has arrived in the New World: Arturo Pérez-Reverte (above). The hugely popular Spanish adventure writer’s best-selling novel “La Reina del Sur” (”The Queen of the South”) is debuting as a TV miniseries on Telemundo, and has been scheduled for a Hollywood movie as well. Bravo!
“The Queen of the [...]
Mexican-American film and TV star Ricardo Montalbán passed away Wednesday, at 88. Latino Hollywood’s small club of headline actors will miss the elegant hearththrob, as will his many fans.
Ricardo Montalbán is best known to modern audiences as Mister Roarke from “Fantasy Island” (1978-’84) and Khan Noonien Singh from “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan” (1982). [...]
Amy Tan, SF-based author of
“The Joy Luck Club” novel and movie, will soon see another of her stories jump off the page: “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” by Tan opens the San Francisco Opera’s new season Sept. 15.
(Tan is hugging beloved Bay Area neighbor Rita Moreno in photo.)
How exciting! When was the last time you attended an [...]
The New Yorker’s cover showing Barack Obama as a Muslim terrorist made me uncomfortable, but after some consideration I’ve decided that what I want is not less Obama satire — I want more McCain satire!
Barack Obama made a good point: He said he was offended by the cover not because it insulted him, but because [...]
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