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La Bamba Information
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La Bamba (1987) is an American biographical film written and directed by Luis Valdez. The picture features Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, among others.[1] The drama is based on the real life events that affected the lives of rock...


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The Washington Post
Lively `La Bamba'
07/24/1987: 973 words, approx. 3 pages
Lou Diamond Phillips, the star of "La Bamba," Luis Valdez's film about the life of rock 'n' roll singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens, has the broad, noble face of a Mayan deity. It's a face with great inherent beauty and dignity, a great face for the...
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The Washington Post
`La Bamba': Rockin' Mythology
07/24/1987: 613 words, approx. 2 pages
LUIS VALDEZ's retelling of pop meteor Ritchie Valens' fleeting late-'50s fame is a notch below canonization. But "La Bamba," with its unabashed only-the-good-die-young mythology, is also a glorious, drug-free shot in the arm for romantics. Valens' life becomes a rock 'n' roll fairytale of...
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The Orange County Register
Taboo? Not in his vocabulary // Go on, ‘Ask a Mexican' – just don't be shocked by the answer.
5/1/2007: 863 words, approx. 3 pages
 It’s a good question, actually. “La Bamba”: What, exactly, is that song about?Also: Can Mexicans eat anything without hot sauce? And this: Why do Mexicans swim with their clothes on? Those are just the printable – in this newspaper anyway – questions that Gustavo Arellano...
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AP News
Clinton cranks up rhetoric against Obama
12/3/2007: 869 words, approx. 3 pages
Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Monday that Barack Obama has too little experience and perhaps too much ambition, pressing an increasingly aggressive campaign against her chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.Both candidates were in Iowa, one month before the nation's leadoff caucuses with new polls...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Anthony DeCurtis
351 words, approx. 1 pages
In the following film review of La Bamba, DeCurtis criticizes Valdez for artificially inflating the already powerful story of Valens's life.


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