Selena

[neferetus]

Just caught the tail end of JLO in SELENA, a film about the late Tejana singing sensation. In the film, she and her husband stand on a bridge on the San Antonio Riverwalk and then Selena does a night concert in front of the Alamo.

[Bromhead24]

The wife likes her music and has most of her music on CD's and has the movie. I have seen it several times...it's ok.

[Greg C.]

i have never heard of this movie. Im surprised this wasnt mentioned by anyone on the other site.

[Bromhead24]

I'm done with the other site, there are too many people pontificating their idiotic political views
on everybody....It's a shame

[Greg C.]

that happens on a lot of boards for a while but then it all dies down. it even happened on this board but that was taken care of. has anyone ever been banned from thealamofilm site?

[Bromhead24]

admin said:

that happens on a lot of boards for a while but then it all dies down. it even happened on this board but that was taken care of. has anyone ever been banned from thealamofilm site?

Remember Roger? He's gone and ther where a few others but i can't remember their names..There are a few more that need a good talking to too..

[neferetus]

The real Selena, live, in San Antonio.

[Greg C.]

bromhead24 said:

admin said:

that happens on a lot of boards for a while but then it all dies down. it even happened on this board but that was taken care of. has anyone ever been banned from thealamofilm site?

Remember Roger? He's gone and ther where a few others but i can't remember their names..There are a few more that need a good talking to too..

who's roger?

[neferetus]

ROGER BORROEL

[neferetus]

I discovered that there's actually a 'Selena' tour of Sn Antonio and the Alamo is on the list of places where Selena once walked.

[neferetus]

neferetus said:

I discovered that there's actually a 'Selena' tour of San Antonio and the Alamo is on the list of places where Selena once walked.

Hey, come to think of it, I once walked there, too!

[neferetus]

When I was taking the San Antonio river boat tour with my brother and his wife recently, the tour guide/driver told us how some of the film SELENA had been filmed at the Arenson River Theater. He also pointed out the bridge where Jennifer Lopez (as Selena) met her boyfiend during her San Antonio concert tour.

[neferetus]

The "Selena Bridge" on the San Antonio River.

[neferetus]

Jennifer Lopez, as Selena, performs in front of the Alamo.

[seguin]

neferetus said:

The real Selena, live, in San Antonio.

I´ve never heard of her or the movie. Nice looking woman though! What happend to her, since they made a movie about her?

[neferetus]

In 1995, at the age of 24, The Tejana singing sensation was just making her play to conquer the mainstream music market with an album of English lyric songs, including I COULD FALL IN LOVE and DREAMING, when she was fatally shot by one of her business associates whom Selenea discovered was embezzling money.

[seguin]

So the embezzler shot her. What a tragedy! - Thanks, Nef...

[alamorob]

It was actually her fan club manager. Poor girl. Her Father put her on the road and she never did finish High School.

[neferetus]

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Apr 14, 2008 20:09:01 GMT -5 alamorob said:

It was actually her fan club manager. Poor girl. Her Father put her on the road and she never did finish High School.

Edward James Olmos portrays her father in the film. Olmos gained fame in the 1978 play ZOOT SUIT, where he portrayed "El Pachuco", the leader of a group of 1940's Mexican-American teens in Los Angeles who wore the Zoot Suit and spoke their own distict slang.

As an act of racial hatred, a mob of U.S. sailors came to Los Angeles on May 21, 1943 to pick fights with the local "pachucos''.

An eyewitness, journalist Carey McWilliams, describes the shameful event:

"Marching through the streets of downtown Los Angeles, a mob of several thousand soldiers, sailors, and civilians, proceeded to beat up every zoot suiter they could find. Pushing its way into the important motion picture theaters, the mob ordered the management to turn on the house lights and then ran up and down the aisles dragging Mexicans out of their seats. Streetcars were halted while Mexicans, and some Filipinos and Negroes, were jerked off their seats, pushed into the streets and beaten with a sadistic frenzy."

All this happened, while the police stood by, cheering on the mob. In all, 300 pachucos and 9 sailors were arrested. While many of the pachucos who had been attacked by the mob, ended up in San Quentin prison, only one sailor was officially charged and then later released.

The local press, meanwhile, lauded the attacks by the servicemen, describing the assaults as having a "cleansing effect" that were ridding Los Angeles of "miscreants" and "hoodlums." The violence only subsided when military authorities intervened on June 7. They declared that Los Angeles would be off-limits to all military personnel.

A week later, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt characterized the riots, which the local press had largely attributed to criminal actions by the Mexican American community, as in fact being "race riots" rooted in long-term discrimination against Mexican-Americans. This led to an outraged response by the Los Angeles Times, which in an editorial the following day accused Mrs. Roosevelt of stirring "race discord."

[seguin]

Jezuz! That´s a black stain on the US navy and on the L.A. police too, who stood and cheered the mob. First the Mexican-Americans are discriminated against for about a century and then they get attacked by a mob of US sailors, who wants to blame them for all of society´s evils. It reminds me of how the Tejanos was treated in the years after Texas independence where new Anglo settlers arrived and threatened the Tejanos to give up their land (sell it cheap or be shot).