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Article: `Tortilla Soup' is no `West Side Story,' and that's good news.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- August 10, 2001
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The first movie I ever saw in a theater was "West Side Story,'' the 1961 musical about warring street gangs in 1950s New York. The latest was an advance screening of "Tortilla Soup,'' a romantic comedy about a widowed father and his three grown daughters that is scheduled to make its premiere nationally Aug. 24.
More than time separates the two movies. ``West Side Story'' served as a template for how Hollywood would largely portray Puerto Ricans and other Latinos for years to come _ gang members, juvenile delinquents, the poor, thick-accented and obedient dishwasher, garden hand or housemaid. The new film, with a mostly Latino cast, serves as a template for how ...