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Feb 20, 2024 · It's been over three decades since actor Lou Diamond Phillips portrayed Chicano rock 'n' roll legend Ritchie Valens on the silver screen. Little did he know, his role in the 1987 film, "La Bamba," would catapult him into the limelight and into the hearts of the Mexican American community around the country. A year after "La Bamba," he starred in another prominent Chicano film from the late ...
Sep 27, 2019 · Yes, I’ll Donate. It's been over three decades since actor Lou Diamond Phillips portrayed Chicano rock 'n' roll legend Ritchie Valens on the silver screen. Little did he know, his role in the ...
May 3, 2021 · Yet the biopic, made for just $6.5 million, went on to gross more than $54 million. Adjusted for inflation, that’s more than $120 million. “La Bamba became the flagship of what many thought ...
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Apr 16, 2021 · Lou Diamond Phillips looks back on the making of La Bamba, about the life and career of Chicano rock 'n' roll star, Ritchie Valens.
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The brief but incandescent life of rock-and-roll trailblazer Ritchie Valens is immortalized in this enthralling biopic from another Mexican American icon, Luis Valdez, the father of Chicano cinema. With sweetness and swagger, Lou Diamond Phillips embodies the 1950s California teenager who, forged by his fiercely supportive mother (Rosana DeSoto) and rebellious brother (Esai Morales), rises ...
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Jul 25, 2017 · “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 ...
La Bamba. (film) La Bamba is a 1987 American biographical drama film written and directed by Luis Valdez. The film follows the life and short-lived musical career of American Chicano rock and roll star Ritchie Valens. [1] [2] [3] The film stars Lou Diamond Phillips as Valens, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña, Danielle von Zerneck ...
