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From the Archives: Remembering Joseph Vasquez.

Independent filmmaker Joseph Vasquez. His movie, "Hangin' With The Homeboys," was a semi autobiographical movie about Vasquez' home neighborhood in the South Bronx. He won a 1991 Sundance Film Festival award for the screenplay, which he wrote in three days. Vasquez died earlier this week of complications related to the AIDS virus. He had recently finished work on a new film, "Manhattan Meringue." (REBROADCAST from 6/17/91)

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Other segments from the episode on December 29, 1995

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, December 29, 1995: Interview with Nicolas Cage; Interview with Joseph Vasquez; Interview with Mel Brooks.

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