Diego Rivera, Anthony Quinn,the Duke and Duchess of Windsor: "Four celebrities in 45 minutes. Something was going to happen. And it did..."

Mambo "...like the jump from black and white into Technicolor...I would go on to discover that mambo was dancing us all toward genuine being, becoming ourselves through caring about others...In a wonderful book on his life, 'Benjy Lopez: A picaresque Tale of Emigration and Return,' by Barry B. Levine, he shared this insight: 'Imagine if you were twenty years old and didn't feel inferior to anybody or better than anybody. When you treat everybody the same, people open up to you.'"

from "Mambo on my Mind"
Robert Farris Thompson
Newsweek

February 25, 2008