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Fox Theater shows special screening of Olmos' work
| Monday, Mar 13 2006 11:00 PM
Last Updated: Monday, Mar 13 2006 11:04 PM
Actor Edward James Olmos was a no-show at Monday night's free special screening of his self-directed film, "Walkout," at the Fox Theater in downtown Bakersfield.
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But no one seemed terribly disappointed that the Oscar-nominee didn't make it.
After all, 30-year-old Bodie Olmos, the director's son who also acts in the film, was there -- and so was a packed house of movie-goers.
Set in the late 1960s in Los Angeles, the film portrays an era when Latino students were punished for speaking Spanish, and according to Bodie Olmos, were rarely steered toward higher education.
They rose up in protest in 1968.
The screening was sponsored by Más magazine, Heritage of America Educational & Cultural Foundation, and the Chicano Latino Scholastic & Leadership Academy.
Many on Monday said they came to educate themselves about the historic civil rights uprising, and to support a film about Latino heritage.
"I had to see this film," said Robert Baca, a retired Kern County judge who practiced law in East L.A. during the 1960s. "It was something I knew about at the time, so I had to be here."