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“My woman, Senor Lopez, must love the land as much as I do!” Armando declares in “Casa de mi Padre.” Since Armando is played by Will Ferrell, the over-the-top line is played as over-the-top as you would expect. And since “Casa de mi Padre” is a Spanish language comedy, a broad spoof of Mexican melodramas and “telenovelas,” Senor Ferrell performs the line in Spanish. A one-joke comedy has to have a pretty good joke to come off, and Ferrell commits corazon y alma (heart and soul) to this farce. Armando is a “hopeless romantic.” But as his father (Pedro Armendáriz Jr.) tells him, “Like your mother, you are not smart ... If you were truly smart, you would realize how dumb you are.”

Bay Area RV Repair recently celebrated its opening with the Gilroy Chamber of Commerce at its service center at 6300 Chestnut St., Gilroy. The business services motor homes, fifth wheelers, trailers and horse trailers. The shop is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Details: (888) 980-BARV (2278) or bayarearv.net.

Lonnie Giamela received a phone call last year, just before the start of the NCAA tournament, from the owner of a manufacturing plant in North Carolina.

 

 

A golden eagle has the Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center to thank for his life.