May the best man win
As I’ve said before, Mexicans are the world’s best multi-taskers. Take Mazatlán’s favorite son, 
Pedro Infante. Just as an icon, he is multi-tasking: his memorials here being the statue of him as a biker-dude, and in lending the name of his most famous film character to the city’s best known gay bar.
Not only the Mexican Sinatra (some would say the Mexican Elvis), but the Mexican Clark Gable, Peter Fonda and Sylvester Stallone as well. As an actor he was successful in comedies, westerns and urban dramas… the working class widower of Nosotros los Pobres, who finds love and tragedy in Ustedes, los ricos, and, in Pepe el Toro becomes the “working class boxing hero” .
Sylvester whats-his-name’s “Rocky” series may have started out in the spirit of the nuanced tragedy of Pepe el Toro, but unfortunately continued much too long… as cartoonish and meaningless as his Rambo character. It’s too bad, considering there might have been the greatest working class hero of the boxing ring film that was crying out to be made:
Sombrero tip to Laura Martinez (Mí blog es tu blog)
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Solo ua palabra: ¡A toda maquina!