Thursday, December 16, 2004

649 George Lopez represents all the Hispanics?

We watched "Naughty or Nice," a new Christmas movie the other night with George Lopez. The main characters didn't need to be Hispanic, but the husband, wife and daughter in this movie are. George's character, Henry Ramiro, was a "mean" sports talk show host in Chicago. A young man (not Hispanic) was a fan and called in and asked him to be "nice." The kid was sick (CHF), and died, but Henry, the Shock Jock, didn't know that and strikes up a friendship with him (he's now an angel). Henry ruins his career by being "nice" for this kid. I think I dozed off, because I don't remember how it ended. I did recognize a few Chicago landmarks in the movie.



I read in one of the papers today that according to a recent study Latinos are 13% of the population, and Lopez's Friday night comedy show has 14% of the Latino characters on eight of the 2004 primetime series set in LA. His show corners the market on Latinos. It probably also corners the market on loud-mouth, incompetent, rude fathers, and nasty adult sons (his Friday night ABC character). Is he the only working Latino comic?

1 comment:

Anvilcloud said...

We wathced the old, b&w version of Scrooge last night: the one with Alastair Sim. We watch at least one version of Scrooge every Christmas and will probably do several this year. We also have the George C Scott version and the Patrick Stewart one. It's part of our Christmas tradition.