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It’s time for a Native American superhero! Meet REZ WUFF (video)
Representation matters, and Native Americans need their own superhero too. According to The 1491s, it might go something like this ….
Mas…It’s time for a Native American superhero! Meet REZ WUFF (video)
STIX NIX HICKS PICKS (POCHO.com 1999)
(PNS reporting from HOLLYWOOD) Latino media crix nix the new prime-time fall tele sked in latest minority tubthump, claiming the nets are ignoring a whammo part of the aud by nixing topline talent of color. They also accuse not only webs, but percenteries, individual percenters, reps, prexies and veeps for the lack of color in the ranks of exex, scribblers, scripters, scribes, helmers and thesps.
Casting Call: Do it again, but this time act ‘Mor Mexican!’ (video)
In Mor Mexican! Mexico City-born actor Ricardo “Pekas” Aranda eats a McXican Burger for the casting director. But is he acting Hispanic enough? Maybe makeup and wardrobe can help.
Pocho Ocho Best Ways to #MakeMoviesMexican (via Twitter)
Very late Wednesday night, I created a Twitter hashtag — #MakeMoviesMexican — and asked the Tuiteros if they had suggestions.
Huh? What do you mean? Like this:
#MAKEMOVIESMEXICAN. Gone With the Migra. White Men Can’t Cumbia. Get the idea?
(It turns out I wasn’t the first with this idea. Superstar pocho comic Felipe Esparza tried this concept in February.)
Here are the Pocho Ocho NEW Top Tweets we got in return (racist, ignorant Tweets not included — the entire thread is below.):
8. Mex In The City
7. Dude, Juarez My Car?
6. Finding Chapo
Mas…Pocho Ocho Best Ways to #MakeMoviesMexican (via Twitter)
La Cucaracha: Scarlett Johansson stars in new Paramount flick (toon)
[Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this post misidentified the studio as Pixar. My bad. – Comic Saenz.]
