[2ndDivisionVet]

Cantinflas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantinflas

[Captainpaintball]

As a pioneer of the cinema of Mexico, Moreno helped usher in its golden era. In addition to being a business leader, he also became involved in Mexico's tangled and often dangerous labor politics. Although he was a political conservative, his reputation as a spokesperson for the downtrodden gave his actions authenticity and became important in the early struggle against charrismo, the one-party government's practice of co-opting and controlling unions.[citation needed] Moreover, his character Cantinflas, whose identity became enmeshed with his own, was examined by media critics, philosophers, and linguists, who saw him variably as a danger to Mexican society, a bourgeois puppet, a kind philanthropist, a transgressor of gender roles, a pious Catholic, a verbal innovator, and a picaresque underdog.[citation needed]

Although he was a political Conservative, Mexican Hollywood (Mexiwood?) guilted him into pushing a liberal agenda. We have lost America because our entertainers have almost, to a man, been guilted into not standing up for what is right--a valuable lesson to be learned here.

[saminfl]

In the late 50’s I went to the Nogales bull ring and watched Cantinflas. He was hilarious. He was also in the movie. “Around the World in Eighty Days.”