'La Bamba' is no bomb. (Hollywood blends rock'n'roll and the Mexican wedding dance) From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: August 10, 1987| Author: Podhoretz, John | COPYRIGHT 1987 All rights reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

"La Bamba' is no bomb

Sooner or later, Hollywoodprovides every ethnic group with a tailor-made show-biz legend. Hispanics now have theirs. The hot new movie "La Bamba' is in part the story of the short, happy, successful life of 1950s rocker Ritchie Valens (ne Valenzuela) and in part a delicate, romanticized rendering of the daily lives of Mexican Americans in the late 1950s.

It is also a picture-perfectportrait of cultural assimilation. When Valens takes the...

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