Before Tex[t]-Mex: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

Save for a dig at him in an early version of this blog (it's near the bottom of the page, you will have to scroll and scroll), the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog has NOT come clean about its debt to John Leguizamo. Say what you will about the man, it was his New York one-man show MAMBO MOUTH, that blew away this wet-behind-the-ears assistant professor from the University of Connecticut--a riveting performance that opened my shuttered eyes to the velvety richness and intoxicating diversity of Latino and Latina stereotypes in the universe.

The 'and'?

Leguizamo gives great drag!.

Here's a 1991 Time Magazine piece on MAMBO MOUTH. A retrospective of scripts from his shows arrives in November from Harper Collins. Here's a couple of YouTube captures of Leguizamo in action:




Here's a decent interview with Leguizamo.