A calculus teacher in L.A. turns a buncha cholos into scholars.

Stand and Deliver

Or so I thought.

But there’s Andy Garcia’s name way down on the list of cast members.

Andy Garcia (103 credits) – born in Havana – I didn’t know who he was until he starred in both Hero and Jennifer 8 in 1992 – not sure what else I saw him in – but he’s in The Mule (2018) – never saw it even thought Clint’s one of my favorites.

Just watched his daughter Dominick in Wild Card (2015) three weeks ago.

Getting back to the two stars.

Edward James Olmos (124 credits) – won an Oscar for this one – lotta episodes of cop shows like Kojak, The Blue Knight, Police Woman, Starsky and Hutch, Hawaii Five-O, Miami Vice, Battlestar Galactica – and, recently, 10 episodes of Dexter.

Lotta my friends keep telling me to watch Dexter – maybe now I will.

Lou Diamond Phillips (145 credits) – started out with an episode of Dallas and Miami Vice before playing the starring role of Ritchie Valens in La Bamba in 1987 – Stand and Deliver two years later – Extreme Justice in 1993 – which I just watched last week – Courage Under Fire (1996) – and a buncha TV series I never saw.

IMDB describes 1988’s Stand and Deliver like so: “The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus.”

Here’s the trailer.

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Warner Books published Born to Be Wild in 1992 & it still sells every day at Amazon & Kindle. True story about certain members of the Warlocks motorcycle gang.

The story takes 21 years to play out – with many twists & turns – an amalgam of Sons of Anarchy & Breaking Bad – but these outlaw bikers make the Sons look like Cub Scouts.