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Opening Date: Oct 13, 2005; Lead Performances: Cheech Marin and Rick Najera; Writer: Rick Najera; Director: Cheech Marin

The stereotype-laden preshow speech sets the tone for Latinologues: ''If you must open your 40 ouncer, do it quietly.'' From there, the laughs are loud, abundant, too easy (a border-patrol agent who puts ''the panic to the Hispanic''), and tired (a horny busboy simulating butt-slapping sex while singing Daddy Yankee's ''Gasolina''). Make that tired and icky. Director Cheech Marin and four appealing actors (including playwright Rick Najera) mine a few quietly emotional moments — a soft-spoken Dominican janitor, the pregnant-and-proud ''virgin of the Bronx'' — and these well-crafted characters are worth more than all the coke-snorting-Cuban jokes combined.


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Posted Oct 28, 2005
 

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