La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for April 19, 2011
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Dear Mr. Alcaraz, Regarding your recent comic strip claiming that Latinos do not appear in disaster movies, specifically "Titanic"... My Mexican wife says that since Titanic was filmed in Rosarito, Mexico with many extras floating in a large tank of water... many of the floating extras were Mexican. Sincerely, PH, San Diego I know some readers are now thinking of a "swimming illegal immigrant" joke here, so stop it.
lewisbower over 13 years ago
Note to Editor. I believe “swimming illegal aliens’ jokes were started almost a century ago about WithOut Papers immigrants. They lived through the ridicule and started a large underground organization.
Plods with ...™ over 13 years ago
I think they brought the “organization” with them , Lew
Yukoneric over 13 years ago
¿Mojados?
nerdhoof over 13 years ago
If it was filmed in Mexico, they weren’t immigrants. Maybe the joke is they were going to use CGI, but Mexicans were cheaper.
dougdash over 13 years ago
I thought that the film industry was more interested in hiring people with TALENT, rather than filling ethnic quotas?
MisngNOLA over 13 years ago
C’mon Doug Dash, surely you can’t be serious.
Woody157 over 13 years ago
Doug Dash, I thought that the industry was only interested in whether the bottom line was Black or Red. So, I guess us Brown, Yellow and Whites don’t count, TALENT or NOT. just BOTTOM LINE (no pun intended) and LOOKS.
Bender_Sastre over 13 years ago
Hollywood: taunting me with a rainbow of beautiful women that I can never have for the last 20+/- years and counting.
Trebor39 over 13 years ago
I suppose you can honestly say that they had wet backs.