From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2001 - 08:14:26 MDT
Doug Jones wrote:
>
> Mike Lorrey wrote:
> >
> > Well, I'm not up on my hispanic actors that much, who was that fellow
> > who starred in the Milagro Beanfield War? He was also the hispanic INS
> > agent in that chupacabra episode of The X-Files. I think he could pull
> > it off, or else whassisname from Kung Fu.
>
> Rubén Blades was Sherriff Montoya in the Milagro Beanfield War, but if
> you're talking about the original Kung Fu series, David Carradine is
> rather long in the tooth at age 65. Blades isn't much younger at 53.
> (The Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/ is the ultimate movie
> & TV trivia search engine.) Casting would have to take into account
> the melting pot ancestry of the lunies, of course.
Not in the case of LaPaz, since he was a transportee directly from
earth, and was hispanic and elderly. Recall that he had a bad heart they
worried about when he and Manny went to Earth to negotiate.
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