Hollywood s Latino Culture Gap
Times journalists examine the complicated history of Latinos in Hollywood and the actions being taken to increase their representation, which remains stubbornly low.
Pop quiz!
Name five Mexican states, four Mexican wrestlers and three telenovelas starring Thalía. Now dance convincingly to a remix of “El Chaca Chaca,” identify Mexican candies while blindfolded and juggle a soccer ball like Chucky Lozano. For extra credit, belt out a reverberant
grito.
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Don’t worry if you failed. This is not a real test.
It’s a tongue-in-cheek plot point from the Netflix comedy series “Gentefied.” In the third episode of the series, which debuted last year, aspiring chef Chris Morales (played by the affable Carlos Santos) has his Mexican bona fides challenged by a fellow cook after he informs his colleagues that, no, he did not catch the latest Chivas match on TV.
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“Keeping Up With the Kardashians” is more than a TV show it’s an empire. And when the reality show shuts down June 10 after 20 seasons on E!, the family’s entrepreneurial machinery will keep on humming.
The relationship between series and the empire has been there from the start, with the former seen as a potential boon to the family’s retail businesses before sparking even greater ambitions. “I thought, ‘This will be so great for the stores,’” mom Kris Jenner tells The Times’ Yvonne Villarreal in her oral history of the pilot episode. “Kim and I would set these goals every year. And [in 2007, the year ‘KUWTK’ premiered], we set a goal to develop her first fragrance, which was Kim Kardashian. That was the start of what we saw the potential could be down the road.”
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