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Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month!

On this day in 1821, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador & Guatemala gained independence from Spain. Happy Independence Day!

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@strawberryy-pop

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 10:14:03

Here’s 5 to watch on TCM for the week of Sept. 13, 2021:

1. Vivacious Lady (1938) at 4:15 pm ET/1:15 pm PT Tuesday, Sept. 14: Tuesday’s daytime lineup is filled with film’s from the great leading ladies of ‘30s, such as Irene Dunne (Theodora Goes Wild at 9:45 am ET), Katharine Hepburn (Bringing Up Baby at 11:30 am ET), and Greta Garbo (Ninotchka at 6 pm ET). Click the link for the full September schedule: https://www.tcm.com/schedule-monthly…. We’ll be watching Ginger Rogers as a nightclub singer who entrances a sheepish botany professor (James Stewart) in this cute rom-com. Beulah Bondi (once again playing Jimmy’s mom) is a delight.

2. Intruder in the Dust (1949) at midnight ET/9 pm ET Wednesday night/Thursday morning: The wonderful Puerto Rican actor Juano Hernandez plays a black man who becomes the target of a lynch mob in this excellent adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel. Intruder in the Dust is part of a night of films celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.

3. Key Largo (1948) at 12:15 pm ET/9:15 am PT Thursday, Sept. 16: All four of Lauren Bacall’s films with her husband/costar Humphrey Bogart are airing on Thursday afternoon as part of a birthday tribute to the late actress. Things start out with their final film together, Key Largo, before moving on to Dark Passage (1947) at 2:15 pm ET. Their two best films, the classic noirs The Big Sleep (1946) and To Have and Have Not (1944), are airing at 4:15 pm ET and 6:15 pm PT.

4. I Love Melvin (1953) at 10 pm ET/7 pm PT Thursday, Sept. 16: Donald O'Connor once again shows off his superhuman dancing skills in the roller-skating number in this pleasant musical comedy. In our opinion, O'Connor is even more impressive than Gene Kelly’s famous skate/dance in It’s Always Fair Weather (1955). BTW that film is airing at 8 pm ET.

5. Human Desire (1954) at midnight ET/9 pm PT Saturday night/Sunday morning: The great Gloria Grahame’s desperate housewife in this Fritz Lang-directed noir is both the ultimate femme fatale and something much more rich and strange. Actor Dana Delany, who recently wrote an appreciation of Grahame in Noir City magazine, will introduce this film with Noir Alley host Eddie Muller.
Human Desire will have an encore presentation at 10 am ET Sunday.

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@oldhollywoodfilms

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 18:08:48

¡Qué bonita bandera! AKA what heritage(s) do you claim?

Mexican, Xicanx

When was the first time you saw yourself represented?

I read a poem by Lorna Dee Cervantez in speech class as a 10th grader. When I went to the library to look for it on the shelves, I stumbled upon Sandra Cisneros. Lorna was from California and Sandra from Chicago, even so they are Chicanas chignonas. As a kid growing up on the Texas border, I really connected.

How do you connect to your heritage through your books (if at all)?

I write about Xicanx kids in Chicago in Pig Park (Cinco Puntos, 2014) and also kids on the Texas border in The Smell of Old Lady Perfume (Cinco Puntos, 2008). Not a Bean (Charlesbridge, 2019) is a culturally relevant picture book about the lifecycle of a jumping bean.

What do you hope for the future of Latinx books?

There are so many stories that still need to be told. I meet a ton of kids who are budding writers. I can’t wait to read their stories one day.

What is the book that inspired you to write for kids/teens?

Pat Mora’s picture books are a big inspiration. As far as teens, I was really inspired by Benjamin Alire Saenz’ Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood. He writes about kids in the Southwest and does it beautifully. Reading his books doesn’t just make me want to write, it makes me want to write something beautiful.

What are you writing now?

I’m working on a couple of picture books now. My first picture book, Not a Bean, will be published by Charlesbridge in 2018. My 2008 middle grade,The Smell of Old Lady Perfume, will be available as an ebook and Spanish translation for the first time this year. It is very exciting to think my family abroad will be able to read.

Claudia Guadalupe Martinez grew up in sunny El Paso, Texas where she learned that letters form words from reading the subtitles of old westerns with her father. She now lives and writes in Chicago.