The news hits the Valenzuela family, Bob Keane, and Donna very hard.

Also featured are several members of the Valenzuela family and director Luis Valdez's family, including:

This production had the full support of the Valenzuela family.

The poor boy from Valenzuela City was the underdog, and televiewers felt like wanting to reach out to this well-meaning guy who only wanted to give his family a good life.

The movie also has several subplots, such as his relationship with his mother Connie Valenzuela ( DeSoto ) and half-brother Bob Morales ( Esai Morales ), and the jealousy Bob felt toward Ritchie because of Ritchie's success.

Bob Morales and Connie Valenzuela came to the set to help the actors portray their characters accurately, and Connie makes a cameo appearance as an older lady sitting next to Ritchie at the family's first party.

Diego Bocanegra, Luis de Morales, Vicente Valenzuela, the Cap.

That includes players like Ron Washington ( 1977 ), Bob Welch ( 1977 ), Ron Roenicke ( 1978 – 1979 ), Mike Scioscia ( 1978 ), Dave Stewart ( 1978 ), Orel Hershiser ( 1980 – 1981, 1991 ), Fernando Valenzuela ( 1980 ), Steve Sax ( 1981 ), Sid Bream ( 1982 ), Sid Fernandez ( 1983 ), Franklin Stubbs ( 1983 ), Ramon Martinez ( 1988, 1996 ), John Wetteland ( 1988 ), Eric Karros ( 1990 ), Pedro Martinez ( 1991 ), Raul Mondesi ( 1991 – 1992 ), Eric Young ( 1991 ), Mike Piazza ( 1992 ), Henry Blanco ( 1993 – 1996 ), Todd Hollandsworth ( 1993 ), Chan Ho Park ( 1994 ), Miguel Cairo ( 1995 ), Paul LoDuca ( 1995, 1997 ), Paul Konerko ( 1996 ), Alex Cora ( 1997 ), Dennys Reyes ( 1997 ), Adrian Beltre ( 1998 ) and Eric Gagne ( 1999 ).

Despite dealing All-Star pitcher Bob Welch to Oakland prior to spring training and an injury to Fernando Valenzuela ( 5 – 8, 4. 24 ERA ), the Dodgers were second in the NL in team ERA and runs allowed, and led the league in complete games and shutouts.

* Rosanna DeSoto as Connie Valenzuela ( Ritchie's mother )

* Connie Valenzuela ( 1915 – 1987 ), mother of musician Ritchie Valens.

* Concepcion Valenzuela ( the real Connie Valenzuela, Ritchie's mother ) as the older woman sitting next to Ritchie at a party

Her other film roles include La Bamba ( 1987 ) as Ritchie Valens ' mother Connie Valenzuela ; and Family Business ( 1989 ) as the wife of Vito McMullen ( Dustin Hoffman ).

Current History ’ s board of contributing editors today includes Catherine Boone ( University of Texas at Austin ); Bruce Cumings ( University of Chicago ); Deborah Davis ( Yale University ); David B. H. Denoon ( New York University ); Larry Diamond ( Stanford University ); Michele Dunne ( Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ); Barry Eichengreen ( University of California, Berkeley ); C. Christine Fair ( Georgetown University ); Sumit Ganguly ( Indiana University ); Marshall Goldman ( Wellesley College ); G. John Ikenberry ( Princeton University ); Michael T. Klare ( Hampshire College ); Joshua Kurlantzick ( Council on Foreign Relations ); Michael McFaul ( Stanford University, currently on leave ); Rajan Menon ( Lehigh University ); Augustus Richard Norton ( Boston University ); Joseph Nye ( Harvard University ); Michael Shifter ( Inter-American Dialogue ); Arturo Valenzuela ( Georgetown University, currently on leave ); and Jeffrey Wasserstrom ( University of California, Irvine ).

Richard Steven Valenzuela ( Phillips ) is a normal teenage boy who becomes a rock ' n ' roll superstar under the stage name Ritchie Valens.

Ritchie Valens ( born Richard Steven Valenzuela ; May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959 ) was a Mexican-American singer, songwriter and guitarist.

Ritchie Valens, born Ricardo Valenzuela, blew the roof off the hit parade with " La Bamba ", originally a Mexican wedding song.

Stars Martin Sheen ( a longtime family friend ), Brian Dennehy, Esai Morales and Rob Reiner ( Marshall's director on A Few Good Men ) were to testify on his behalf.

Morales underwent mandatory military service for a year until 1978, when he returned to the family profession of farming, moving with them to Chapare Province.

Morales ' family were farmers and from an early age he took part in his parents ' work, aiding in planting and harvesting crops and guarding their herd of llamas and sheep, always taking a homemade soccer ball with him to amuse himself.

In doing so, the Morales family were following in an Andean tradition that had been practiced since at least the time of the Inca Empire, that of moving between the different climatic zones in order to diversify their livelihoods ; according to Andean tradition, the family ayllu, being a discontinuous territory, would move with them, but retain links to Isallawi.

Setting up a new home in the town of Villa 14 de Septiembre, El Chapare with the help of a loan from Evo's maternal uncle, the Morales family cleared a plot of land in the semi-tropical forest, and proceeded to grow such crops as rice, oranges, grapefruit, papaya, bananas and later on also coca.

The arrival of the Morales family was a part of a much wider migration to the region, with many Bolivians hoping to set up farms where they could earn a living growing coca, the plant from which cocaine is made, and was experiencing a steady rise in price and which could be cultivated up to four times a year ; in 1981 El Chapare's population was 40, 000 but by 1988 it had risen to 215, 000.

The film also covers the effect that Valens ' career had on the lives of his half-brother Bob Morales, his girlfriend Donna Ludwig and the rest of his family.

After the death of Ray Wallace in 2002, following a request by Loren Coleman to Seattle Times reporter Bob Young to investigate, the family of Wallace went public with claims that he had started the Bigfoot phenomenon with fake footprints ( made from a wooden foot-shaped cutout ) left in Californian sites in 1958.

The new owner, Bob Carpenter, Jr., scion of the Delaware-based DuPont family, tried to polish the team's image by unofficially changing its name to the " Bluejays ".

The Plenty family was a group of goofy redneck yokels headed by the former villain, Bob Oscar (" B. O.

The idea of a family of comical monsters was first suggested to Universal Studios in the late 1940s by animator Bob Clampett, who wanted to do a series of cartoons.

The ten remaining confused passengers are Brian Engle, a troubled, off-duty airline pilot traveling to Boston to attend his ex-wife's funeral ; Dinah Bellman, a young blind girl with minor psychic powers ; fifth-grade teacher Laurel Stevenson, who takes to watching over Dinah ; Nick Hopewell, a junior attache & " mechanic " for the British Embassy ; Don Gaffney, a retired tool-and-die engineer on a trip to see his grandchild ; Rudy Warwick, a businessman ; Albert Kaussner, a talented teen violinist heading to a prestigious school of the arts ; Bethany Simms, a teenager being sent by her family to rehab ; Bob Jenkins, a mystery author who acts as the voice of logic ; and Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a psychotic breakdown.

Bob follows them to their hideout, a houseboat on Terror Lake, and, after subduing the family, prepares to kill Bart.

Bob returns to Springfield and moves into the house next to the Simpson family, assuming Walt's identity.

Bob briefly returns in " At Long Last Leave " ( season 23, 2012 ), where he attends a town meeting to decide on if the Simpson family should be banished or not, and he expresses his desire for the former to happen.

Some family members are disputing Lucille Hester's claim to be related to Bob and are taking steps to ensure she is not part of the Hall of Fame ceremony.

A major part of this stave is taken up with the family feast of Scrooge's impoverished clerk Bob Cratchit, introducing his youngest son, Tiny Tim, who is seriously ill but cannot receive treatment due to Scrooge's unwillingness to pay Cratchit a decent wage.

Since the ending of the original series, in 1966, Bob has left factory life behind for an office job with his future father-in-law's building firm ( something which leaves Bob even more desperate to retain favour with Thelma and her family ).

He played a recurring character on Night Court, Bob Wheeler, patriarch of a rural family.

They were involved in one of the longest and bloodiest family feuds in U. S. history, which began in 1843 when Dr. Thomas Baker ( a grandson of Julius Bob ) shot John Bales.

* Writer Charles Dickens, a one-time resident of Camden Town, placed various characters and places in his stories there as well: Bob Cratchit's family in A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ); the Micawbers in David Copperfield ( 1850 ); and in Dombey and Son ( 1846 – 1848 ), a description of the building of the London and Birmingham Railway, includes a trip through Camden Town.

* The Jim Bob Duggar family from TLC's 19 Kids and Counting.

Former U. S. Senator Bob Graham, younger half brother of family patriarch William " Bill " Graham, is one of the owners, and the late publisher of the Washington Post, Katharine Graham, had a share by marriage.

Also located on Highway 82 is B & G Heating and Cooling, a small business run by Bob Miley and other members of the Miley family which specializes in repairing and installing air conditioning units, Also, ( REPASCO ) a small business owned and operated by Linda Wiley specializing in restaurant equipment sales, parts, and repair service, The Post Office, Glass Unlimited, Volunteer Fire Department, City Hall, the salon ( Freida's Beauty Barn ), and the Bank of Alapaha are all located on Main Street.

As early as 1909 J. C. ( Jim ) Bowles, whose ranch was adjacent to the site of what is now Shallowater, persuaded Bob Crump, a member of a ranching family, to help form a townsite company and attract a railroad to go through the area.

The film, based on Robert Graysmith's book The Murder of Bob Crane: Who Killed the Star of Hogan's Heroes ?, portrays Crane as a happily married, church-going family man and popular Los Angeles disc jockey who suddenly becomes a Hollywood celebrity, and subsequently declines into sex addiction.

Her father, Robert Erhard ' Bob ' Duff, is a partner and owner in a chain of convenience stores with father John B. Duff and who resides at the family home in Houston to maintain the family's business.

Bob Montana, creator of the original Archie characters, knew the Lodges, a Massachusetts Brahmin political family because he painted a mural for them.

His family settled in Timaru, among many other Cornish settlers, and Bob became a blacksmith in his brother Jarrett's smithy.

Influence and business opportunity became increasingly concentrated within Suharto's family, relatives, favoured generals and a number of ethnic Chinese businessmen that he had known since his time in Semarang in particular Liem Siu Liong and Bob Hasan.

Montreal Gazette writer Bob Dunn claimed that the trophy was later rediscovered as " one of the family heirlooms " of an employee of the Toronto trust company where it had been sent for storage.