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Yet another episode in which the Rock Legends team blows a great opportunity to explore a fascinating topic, choosing instead to take the episode that purportedly discusses a whole genre (or this case gender) but instead (a) focusing on a few deserving but arbitrarily chosen cases to the exclusion of virtually everyone else (b) giving lip service in a single sentence to the contributions of African American performers while not actually playing even a note of their music or exploring their contributions in the least. Most of the episodes I would give a 7, with the occasional 8 and once in a blue moon attend. But this one gets a 4 precisely because it just ticked me off so much watching them squander an episode that could have addressed a range of women in rock, opting to talk almost exclusively about The Bangles, Suzi Quatro, and Heart - all certainly significant - with a single sentence about Janis Joplin, another sentence glossing over Sister Rosetta Tharpe without playing a solitary note of her music or examining its reach. It probably isn't an oversight to be ascribed solely of the fact that everyone on the show is white, but I doubt that little fact helps. When your oversight.

... because it was the first I ever heard the lovely, haunting song "Scarlet Ribbons." He did it beautifully, and I wish I could find it online to watch again. I think of him fondly every Christmas season.

This is one of the most watchable of the Cantinflas movies, at least for me. A good thing, too, as I've had to watch it several times to get some of the jokes! Cantinflas stars as Mateo, son of a postman, who gets involved in a number of subplots loosely organized around his new job as a bureaucrat and around life in the boarding house where he lives.

As is often the case with the Cantinflas movies, to enjoy the movie you have to accept that the only purpose of the plots is to let the star's humor shine in a number of absurd situations -- bureaucracy, office politics, adventures with an antique car, writing letters for others in the plaza -- and to let him express noble ideas in pursuit of a noble goal (in this case, helping a deaf girl and her grandfather). Once you let yourself roll along with the humor, you will enjoy many gems; my favorite is a scene dealing with the paperwork necessary for a simple question in the appraiser's office.

Check out and cherish the talents of a genuine international star who was a great man offscreen as well.