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HOLLYWOOD DISCOVERS LAS PALMAS CANTINA
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIzJgMbGzr1u2XCD4orvgbn0JSxDoRNJGML8yWBmGE6chhM0Zbztz1g10VlC5Z9bnaKoHALEUmiK1OKpaL7dX2p0PHkMPbRQAs2hXddevEJzTCROazqc5KxiMDiAWAXjk41N1B0DWjpPw/s1600/palm1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIzJgMbGzr1u2XCD4orvgbn0JSxDoRNJGML8yWBmGE6chhM0Zbztz1g10VlC5Z9bnaKoHALEUmiK1OKpaL7dX2p0PHkMPbRQAs2hXddevEJzTCROazqc5KxiMDiAWAXjk41N1B0DWjpPw/s320/palm1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>By <b>Juan Montoya</b><br />On Tuesday afternoon, the stunt coordinators for Robert Duvall's movie "A Night in Old Mexico" were going over the moves for a fight scene in the Brownsville barfly hangout.<br />The Palm Lounge was to become Las Palmas Cantina for the movie and the stunt coordinators were acting out the scene measuring the distance between the bar and the mirrored wall from where a drunk was to jump out at the hero, played by Duvall.<br />Then, yesterday afternoon, patrons were ushered out of the bar as the cameras and the movie personnel moved in and covered the entrance with thick black plastic and the local extras sauntered in and managers set up the bar scenes.<br />The stunt men (and women) acted out the moves as the extras sat waiting behind the curtain in the back of the bar. Waitresses moved among the stunt people placing the last touches on the tables. Along the walls, instead of Bud Light and Lite been signs, Pacifica Beer banners hung over the bar's photos.<br />The large round tables were removed and smaller tables were placed in their stead to give the impression of a small-town cantina on the border.<br />A look-alike of Duvall (albeit much younger) worked with the stunt coordinators acting out the way he was going to grab the drunk and heave him over his shoulder and into the bar counter. Several stunt men practiced throwing punches toward the center of the floor.<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtYlnZAAhibbZFMCjuQD0lYBRHYmW-BH0SZSqrtSmawLLOSb-Jr7sPNmIqHtbX0bE_xLXBsZoH7wbv3J0WoO90KK0FrHdnT05qw35wHpgmNbBejfES3rhLTsq5Yrr5OghIFXgMMarurjc/s1600/palm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtYlnZAAhibbZFMCjuQD0lYBRHYmW-BH0SZSqrtSmawLLOSb-Jr7sPNmIqHtbX0bE_xLXBsZoH7wbv3J0WoO90KK0FrHdnT05qw35wHpgmNbBejfES3rhLTsq5Yrr5OghIFXgMMarurjc/s320/palm.jpg" width="320" /></a>As usual, these things take time and as the actors and stuntmen worked out their moves just as they did when they filmed at Charlie's Bar on 14th Street, and Domino's Bar on Market Square. If the places they filmed are any indication of the plot of the money it'll be a bar-hopping fisticuffs affair. At the Palm lounge a couple of ugly garishly-made up bar <em>ficheras</em> sat awaiting their turn to shine while a young bar girl named Maria who we have seen around town also waited nervously for her turn under the lights.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Heaven knows what the plot of "A Night in Old Mexico" will be, but we can almost guarantee that some of the places featured in the film will be all but unrecognizable even to old-time Brownsville residents. But for the last two days, the familiar Palm Lounge was transformed into a Hollywood set awaiting its place in movie lore.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-7321291590101116663?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/08/hollywood-discovers-las-palmas-cantina.html
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UTB MURAL TOO RISQUE FOR JULIET, $17,000 DOWN THE DRAIN
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />When Miguel Vela, the artistic director and owner of LocoSigns in Brownsville submitted his sketch of a mural for the new UTB-TSC gymnasium, the reception was enthusiastic.<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSFhVPy662WBKMPcl00p59LUkgEu-s3oBqyXB2ZyDRgjgBi9sGeJXSXzRLBm5atzzwgdL_yhfwVU0oGHbRKl0ZUTkIxFJ3TPTk0lPXJLTLj5kJW1jxbt5SV-UioGR9JgFXZoYmP_5pV2Q/s1600/utbmrl2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSFhVPy662WBKMPcl00p59LUkgEu-s3oBqyXB2ZyDRgjgBi9sGeJXSXzRLBm5atzzwgdL_yhfwVU0oGHbRKl0ZUTkIxFJ3TPTk0lPXJLTLj5kJW1jxbt5SV-UioGR9JgFXZoYmP_5pV2Q/s200/utbmrl2.JPG" width="200" /></a>He was commissioned to erect â€" at $13,000 â€" the mural on the wall of the new building, appropriately along the second-floor running track.</div>But the devil, as they say, was in the details. Or, more specifically, the buttocks and ample scrotum of the runners depicted in the bigger-than-life-sized mural.<br />"The runner's scrotum was out of logical proportion," said a runner who uses the gym's running track regularly. "And the buttocks of the runners were clearly visible. Some of the more sedate runners complained to UTB president Juliet Garcia."<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It is said that when Garcia ran (appropriately) to the gym she was aghast when she saw the offending art. She didn't hesitate to order the creation destroyed and torn down from the wall.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">"In one fell swoop she had the mural torn down. In the process, there was paint scraped off the wall because the mural had been glued on it. Now the repairs are going to cost another $3,000 to $4,000."</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">No one is saying much about the mural which was up one day and down the next, but we'll be interested to see what the replacement will be. Perhaps we'll see swimmers with crinolined swimsuits of the Victorian era. Or perhaps just a modestly painted wall.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8gT4u1lbXra_tOFR73iSH80t8GNoIE_QPW6btrRepcJY5fRVmGbzKHYwsr5yEtu2ZQFpTkAutiDQsXX_Oc8A98sn83DESi5C1TDlUclA6jI567ZUeVOq3VZgWo-Ns7LBEhS_VxIU6u4/s1600/utbmrl.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8gT4u1lbXra_tOFR73iSH80t8GNoIE_QPW6btrRepcJY5fRVmGbzKHYwsr5yEtu2ZQFpTkAutiDQsXX_Oc8A98sn83DESi5C1TDlUclA6jI567ZUeVOq3VZgWo-Ns7LBEhS_VxIU6u4/s640/utbmrl.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This is not the first time that Juliet has been bitten in the hindsight by an art project. The last time the UTB-TSC commissioned a $640,000 mural by a Mexican artist, the outcry was such that the Pres offered to raise private funds to pay for the work. In this case, with the art having been approved and the payments made, will the public also eat the bill? </div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-2918029844299824677?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/08/utb-mural-too-risque-for-juliet-17000.html
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INSURANCE MOGUL, PHILANTHROPIST JOHNNY CAVAZOS DIES TODAY
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />We have received word that longtime insurance provider and political kingmaker Johnny Cavazos has passed away from congenital heart disease.<br />Whether you like him or not or disagreed with his politics, Cavazos left a legacy of a tenacious businessman and adroit political connoisseur who was able to handle many local boards and political entities to make a decent living selling them insurance on everything from Stop-Loss to windstorm protection.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC2hAz4sjc3yshYMYkKM02YWCIlUrLH466fX6AyHjm_XSnXERhyphenhyphenPRK3__RntCgkpzo3F6pa85KZI2yJq_GdxCGUY2SSWU0WHonzPXisMDdqDN7Psg3Wngqb6T8DU4NJwdmWbx7hvxmMcY/s1600/ajohhnycavazos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" mda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC2hAz4sjc3yshYMYkKM02YWCIlUrLH466fX6AyHjm_XSnXERhyphenhyphenPRK3__RntCgkpzo3F6pa85KZI2yJq_GdxCGUY2SSWU0WHonzPXisMDdqDN7Psg3Wngqb6T8DU4NJwdmWbx7hvxmMcY/s320/ajohhnycavazos.jpg" width="320" /></a>He leaves behind a legacy that is criticized by some and praised by others for this and his wife's philanthropy toward some of the entities with which he did business. The UTB-TSC has been the receipient of a scholarship fund set up by Cavazos and wife Nena as has the Brownsville Independent School District.<br />Before that he had served as a Cameron County Commissioner.<br />In 2010 he was named Honorary Parade Marshal for the Charro Days festival.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">At the time, Kenneth Lieck, president of the Charro Days Association, said he was being honored for his extraordinary years of volunteer service to Charro Days, and his involvement throughout the Brownsville community. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">“Johnny has been an active member of Charro Days for over 50 years,†said Lieck. “He’s a past president and life director."</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Cavazos and his wife of 56 years, Nena S. Cavazos, were honored together several years ago with the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College’s Distinguished Alumni Award. The couple met on the TSC campus in the early 1950s, and both have been active in the community for decades. Starting from a one-room office in 1965, they built the thriving independent insurance agency together. <br />We at Rrun-Rrun have been openly critical of the way that Cavazos was able to work the politics and to garner millions for his business with the help of pliant public boards in the past. However, at this sad time for his family and relatives, we wish to extend out condolences to them. Rest in Peace Mr. Cavazos.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-317922770501515676?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/08/insurance-mogul-philanthropist-johnny.html
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