Right before I graduated from high school she gave me a photocopied book of poems she had written comparing Mr. Spock to Jesus Christ.
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On the same city bus was a 50-something postal clerk named Arthur, a Mexican American with a gap between his front teeth. He loved movies.
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Arthur's big thing was telling me which Latin actors had changed their birth names and which had kept them.
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It bothered him that Rita Hayworth had Anglicized her name, but he loved Rita Moreno for not changing hers.
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Arthur was convinced that Tom Cruise was actually Mexican-American and changed his last name from Cruz. I told him this wasn't the case.
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"That's what Hollywood wants you to think," he insisted. "He was born Cruz." He had a very elaborate theory about this.
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Arthur's fantasy was that someday there would be a big budget movie version of The Cisco Kid and Tom Cruise would play the title part.
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Arthur felt this would be an important film for Latinos because the Cisco kid was a hero "and Tom Cruise is the biggest star in the world."
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It meant a lot to him that Tom Cruise would someday reclaim his Mexican-American heritage. He got a faraway look whenever he discussed it.
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Anyway, the takeaway is, pretty much everybody is interesting if you spend five minutes talking to them.
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Give me a film that is observant of its chars in which v. little happens over a plot-driven film in which we don't know the chars every time
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