re: My thoughts on IN THE HEIGHTS (long)
Ok. My two cents on the Benny thing (and this is only because I live it)... I am CERTAIN that it's because he's not hispanic enough for them. I suffer the same thing. Raised completely in the states, I had no desire to learn Spanish and my parents didn't enforce it with me, so now, I get a lot of funny looks from hispanics I meet at my retail gig who walk up to me and start speaking spanish because I "look" like I should speak Spanish. I've even had people get mad and leave when they realize I d