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THE BUALO NEWSRIDAY MARCH 21 19S7 GUSTO 27 Movie Short story protects the image Rating: 'A EL EEKSES Manne Midland Ama I REVIEW imSwjtMNlt CBS AOIO UnoLE JUNGLE (I Block Si Amhersl Si) whereat 9 8 Sheets 1 190 2 HR 4 HR VIDEOS BUY 2 GET 1 REE Preview Any Movie Only $7 By MELINDA MILLER News Staff Reviewer GENERAL CINEMA McKINLEY 6 McKinley 4 mile strip rds 824 3479 pg Himini wwice shgksteo TOMI WHMi BW OPEN HOURS 7 DAYS A WEEK GENERAL CINEMA UNIVERSITY 8 4100 MAPLE RD 837 8373 GENERAL CINEMA MARKET ARCADE DOWNTOWN THEATRE 00307 855 3022 "LADIES DAY" EVERY SUNDAY 15 NEW STOCK DAILY GENERAL CINEMA WALDEN GALLERIA WOEXnsa 681 4S50 Video Club membership includes 24 ree Rentals (with ad) ENTERTAINMENT ing in between performances though her career was little more than one long bus ride It must be hard to build a mov ie around a character who lived so briefly especially when her manag er father Abraham Quintanilla Jr is executive producer Quintanilla protects his memory' As far as is concerned Se lena could do no wrong She was beloved by all who saw her If you love her it could only be because you hadn heard her yet Edward James Olmos plays Quintanilla with the assurance of a man who never doubts that he knows best Olmos is partic ularly solid in the role and to credit this character also has some faults Olmos plays well opposite Se love interest the gui tarist Chris (Jon Seda) who she eventually married Seda gives the I most realistic performance in the movie as a reserved sort of musi cian who lets his talent do the tMCK tMGAAEMEMT MO PASSES OR OISCOWT COUPONS ACCTTEO Watch the Academy Awards March 24th on ABC wwwjungle2junglecom 1 VIDEOS 33 Thousands each in Stock Hysterical! 11CO1 KNx Jim Svejda KNX CBSRADIO rL Rarron smmWTWWNMEM KrenerS Watch the Academy Awards March 24 ricjAtfresaiQiscouiacoisE TEJANO MUSIC star Se lena enjoyed the love of her family and husband and was heading toward the upper reaches of star dom or her life was good It was only her death that was tragic Killed by a troubled em ployee when she was only 23 Se lena never realized her greatest dreams She already had gold re cords platinum records a Gram my award and five albums at once on the Billboard charts proving she was no one hit dance flash But the best was yet to come The poignant story of this beau tiful young singer comes to life in except this Selena never gets to slip out of her halo Unre lentingly upbeat and sweet na tured she is the person who le gions of fans like to imagine heading toward the special saint hood reserved for slain pop stars Selena grew up near Corpus Christi Texas very American de spite her Hispanic heri tage Her father whose own music career fizzled gave his son a gui tar his other daughter a drum kit and set Selena behind a micro phone hoping they would succeed where he failed Jennifer Lopez stars as Selena when she was 17 to 23 and she fa gives her all in concert scenes showing how Selena captured hearts throughout the Southwest and Mexico The music is energiz GANNETT NEWS SERVICE MauhaLEns NRC TV GOOD MORNING AMERICA mtirooftouv" outrageous talking All too often though not enough going on at all Poor Selena is so sweet ano tnteiy phil osophical you might believe the real teen age Selena did indeed talk like this But her precious na ivete eventually borders on irritat ing She is supposed to be sexy yet a savvy yet innocent busi nesswoman and an object of prej udice who rises above all precon ceptions all quite a lot to ask of one young singer and of one movie even if it is more than two hours long The show ends with a quick radio announcement of murder by Yolanda Saldivar who ran several Selena boutiques and was president of her fan club Then it fades to images of the real Selena on stage and in family snapshots touching and sad and you leave the movie wishing Selena had lived to do more Even if you really remember anything you heard her sing lough! 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