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El espiritu de la salsa (2010)
slapdash product that coulda woulda shoulda
The premise of famed Harlem Salsa instructor Tomas Guerrero taking on 10 new students, 2 of whom are a long-married couple, to teach them how to properly dance Salsa over a period of six classes should've been mined for all its worth! Instead we get a measly 47 minutes from the filmmakers Jon Alpert, Francisco Bello, Matthew O'Neill & Tim Sternberg that offers very little about Salsero Tomas Guerrero or the dancers other than some brief cameos of their lives outside the Guerrero dance studio. This story coulda woulda shoulda garnered at least, 90 minutes of storyline to avoid the label 'teaser'; in its final version it's certainly not a pleaser.
Crazy Love (2007)
my personal experiences with Burt Pugach
I haven't seen CRAZY LOVE nor am I particularly interested in doing so. I spent many decades in a prison cell in upstate New York where in one of those upstate prisons, Burt Pugach was an inmate. In prison, Burt was ignored by nearly all the inmates because he was antisocial even in that setting; rarely did I ever see him walking around the outdoor recreation yard. However, allow me to give you a personal glimpse into Burt Pugach, the inmate. In the late 1960's, in Queens County, a young, very attractive married mother of two children, was arrested for the kidnapping & murder of her two children whose bodies were never found. Much controversy surrounded this kidnapping/murder case, and there were numerous rumors about the woman having ties to a Mafia big shot named Grace. When the woman's first murder conviction was overturned on appeal, and she was readying for her second trial, Burt Pugach wrote a letter to the Queens County District Attorney, Thomas Mackel, advising that he "has information about (the woman's) case." Burt Pugach was taken to Mr. Mackel's Office in New York City, and shortly thereafter was returned to the upstate prison because as Mr. Mackel told the media, Burt Pugach's information is worthless. A few days later in the prison, Burt Pugach was returning to his cell carrying a stack of old New York Law Journals when an infamous jailhouse lawyer now deceased, Jerome 'Jerry the Jew' Rosenberg (who spent five decades in prison and died in prison in 2009) clubbed Burton Pugach with a steel pipe; Burt was taken to an outside hospital for treatment, and subsequently returned to the prison to serve out the remainder of his 10-20 years sentence. I was there, I never spoke to Burt Pugach, but saw him throughout the years he and I were in that particular upstate prison. kidblast3