Returning to film, as the last feature she starred in was 2007's Noise, Moynahan appeared in Ramona and Beezus, playing the mother to Joey King and Selena Gomez's characters.

In 2011, he played stepfather to Selena Gomez's character in the romantic comedy Monte Carlo, and in 2012, appeared as a congressman in the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises.

* In 1996, RCA Victor released the tribute album The Songs of West Side Story featuring new versions of the songs from the musical sung by popular music stars, including: " The Jet Song " sung by Brian Setzer, " A Boy Like That " sung by Selena, " I feel Pretty " sung by Little Richard, two versions of " Somewhere " performed by Aretha Franklin and Phil Collins, " Tonight " sung by Wynonna Judd and Kenny Loggins, " America " sung by Patti LaBelle, Natalie Cole and Sheila E., " I Have a Love " sung by Trisha Yearwood and " Rumble " performed by Chick Corea Elektric Band and Steve Vai's Monsters.

Lymon's music and story were re-introduced to modern audiences with Why Do Fools Fall in Love, a 1998 biographical film directed by Gregory Nava, also the director of the Selena biopic.

The only songs performed by Selena that were not heard on the film were " Is it the Beat ", " Only Love ", and " A Boy Like That ", and the Selena tributes sung by other artists.

Pérez has written a new book titled " To Selena, with Love " that came out in bookstores on March 6, 2012, which has been written in Spanish and in English.

Although, notably, Z100 snubbed several big pop hits at the time such as " Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman " by Bryan Adams, " You Are Not Alone " by Michael Jackson, and " I Could Fall In Love " by Selena.

Selena y Los Dinos ' last independent studio album was released in 1988 under the title Dulce Amor ( Sweet Love ).

Byrne worked with the " Queen of Tex-Mex ", Tejano superstar Selena, writing, producing and singing a song (" God's Child ( Baila Conmigo )"), included on Selena's last album, " Dreaming of You ", before her death.

It debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and became the highest charting, primarily-Spanish language album in the United States, since Dreaming of You by Selena.

The film ends with footage of the real Selena while the song " Dreaming of You " plays.

Addiego, writing for the San Francisco Examiner, did have a few enjoyable moments viewing the film but wrote, " You can't help cheering for Selena, but the good feeling is diminished by the sense that her story's been simplified and sanitized.

Songs by Billie Holiday (" Don't Explain ", " Down In The Dumps "), Patsy Cline (" Imagine That ", " I Fall to Pieces "), Sonic Youth (" Pacific Coast Highway "), Selena (" No Me Quedo Mas "), and even The Minutemen ( a rearranged " Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth?

He also has produced: LeAnn Rimes, Faith Hill, Michael McDonald, Natalie Cole, Patti LaBelle, Amy Holland ( he sang a duet with her called " I Still Run To You " which was on Amy's second album On Your Every Word ), Trisha Yearwood, Selena, All-4-One, Bette Midler ( and also sang a duet with her, " I Know You by Heart ," on the Beaches film soundtrack ), Brian Setzer, TLC, Brian McKnight, Little Richard, Patti Austin, Linda Ronstadt, James Ingram, The Pointer Sisters, Mavis Staples, Andrae Crouch, David Benoit, Take 6, Bruce Hornsby, Branford Marsalis, Chick Corea, Steve Vai, Tevin Campbell, The Jerky Boys, Paul Rodriguez, Yakov Smirnoff, Def Jeff, Amy Grant, Chet Atkins, Olivia Newton-John, DC Talk, recent Academy Award – winner Jennifer Hudson and CeCe Winans.

Like Estefan and Selena, many of these artists, including some who recorded in English after gaining fame singing in Spanish, had been influenced at least as much by American music and culture.

The album featured several of the musicians that worked on the Commitment to Life project, collaborators Brian Setzer, Michael McDonald and James Ingram ; a rollicking take on " I Feel Pretty " from Little Richard ; Phil Collins and Aretha Franklin, who performed separate versions of " Somewhere ; and " A Boy Like That " performed by Selena.

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Selena was the wrong woman for these crudities.

Selena Masters, Joe realized, was her own woman.

Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.

* 1995 – Selena, an American singer, was murdered by her friend and employee of her boutiques Yolanda Saldívar who was embezzling money from the establishments.

" On November 10, 1998 a triple CD live album entitled Different Stages was released, dedicated to the memory of Selena and Jacqueline.

A stage partnership was formed with the young actress Selena Royle, who had already made her name on Broadway.

Selena Quintanilla-Pérez ( April 16, 1971 – March 31, 1995 ), known simply as Selena, was an American singer-songwriter.

Selena was murdered at the age of 23 by Yolanda Saldívar, the president of her fan club.

Selena's life was also the basis of the musical Selena Forever starring Veronica Vazquez as Selena.

In June 2006 Selena was commemorated with a life-sized bronze statue ( Mirador de la Flor in Corpus Christi, Texas ) and a Selena museum opened there.

Selena was born in Lake Jackson, Texas, as the youngest of three children born to a Mexican American father, Abraham Quintanilla Jr. and a half-Cherokee Native American mother, Marcella Ofelia ( née Samora ).

When she was nine years old, her father launched a vocal group consisting of several of his children, Selena y Los Dinos.

Selena was buried at Seaside Memorial Park, in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Selena was inducted into the " Latin Music Hall of Fame " that same year.

Under a judge's order, the gun used to kill Selena was destroyed in 2002, and the pieces thrown into Corpus Christi Bay.

Mirador de la Flor is a tourist attraction in Corpus Christi, Texas, that was unveiled in 1997 to honor Selena.

Selena was among two other Latin artists who had the best sales of records in 2001.

Selena mistakes Jim for an infected and raises her machete to kill him, but when she hesitates, Jim remarks, " That was longer than a heartbeat.

It was rejected for seeming too bleak ; the final exit from the hospital was intended to imply Selena and Hannah's survival, whereas test audiences felt that the women were marching off to certain death.

Bronco, who had already experienced international fame partly by help of their international hit Que no Quede Huella ( May no Traces be Left ) from their 1989 album A Todo Galope, and being scheduled to tours that took them all over Mexico, to the United States, Puerto Rico, Spain, Argentina, Venezuela, Peru and many other countries, found themselves in the midst of a second power dose of famousness in 1993, when they acted in the Televisa soap opera, Dos Mujeres, un Camino ( Two Women, one Road ), alongside Erik Estrada, Laura León, Lorena Herrera, Selena Quintanilla and Bibi Gaytán, among others.

The end scenes of the film where Jim, Selena and Hannah are living in a rural cottage were filmed around Ennerdale in Cumbria.

The night before, they had telephoned the Andrus maid, Selena Masters, and she had arrived early, bursting her vigorous presence into the silent house with an assurance that amused McFeeley and confounded Moll.

`` I'm awful sorry about what's happened '', Selena said.

* 1971 – Selena, American singer-songwriter ( d. 1995 )

Peart's daughter Selena died in an automobile accident in August 1997, followed by the death of his wife Jacqueline from cancer in June 1998.

* March 31 – American Tejano pop singer Selena is murdered at a motel in Corpus Christi, Texas.

* October 23 – In Houston, Texas, Yolanda Saldivar is convicted of first degree murder in the shooting death of Selena Quintanilla Perez and three days later is sentenced to life in prison.

** Selena Quintanilla Perez, Mexican-American singer ( d. 1995 )

In the film Selena, in which Jennifer Lopez plays Selena Quintanilla-Perez, she is shown bungee jumping at a carnival.

* March 31 – Yolanda Saldívar will be eligible for parole after the 30th anniversary of the murder of American singer Selena, which Saldivar committed in 1995.

Texan star Selena is credited with bringing Tejano music to the forefront of popular music.

She does, however, confess to the murder of her husband, Joe St. George, almost 30 years before, after finding out that he sexually molested their fourteen year old daughter, Selena.

Selena released her first album, Selena y Los Dinos, at the age of twelve.