THE TIMES HADN'T YET CAUGHT UP

Back in the 1970's this young self described "HungaRican" from Washington Heights was changing the face of T.V. His voice was one that most of America had not yet heard from..and sadly rarely still hears.

Freddie Prinze died at the young age of 22. But in the short time he spent with us, he was a pioneer who broke down so many barriers and walls (including most notably Pam Griers').





Along that same note I am including this clip from "House of Buggin'". This show which stared and was created by John Leguizamo ran from the 1994-1995 season on FOX. I still remember how proud I was to see Leguizamo doing his thing on a major network. By this time I had seen his now classics "Mambo Mouth" and "Spic-O-Rama" on HBO and was excited to see that hilariousness and genius on a weekly basis on FOX. Nevertheless, FOX wanted to make changes to expand the show's audience (read: add more White people to the cast-which would ironically lead to the death of another future FOX classic; "New York Undercover").