At a recent sold-out screening of the film “Born in East LA,” comedy legend Cheech Marin talked about the film's impact and its relevance in today’s political climate, especially in the ...

Richard “Cheech” Marin’s 1987 film, “Born in East L.A.,” is resurfacing amid America’s conversation over immigration policy. The comedy achieves what shouting can’t. It entertains and provokes ...

made famous in East LA, where Cheech was born. (SOUNDBITE OF DRUMMING) DEL BARCO: He was greeted by a group of Aztec dancers, and all day there was a street party to celebrate. CHEECH MARIN ...

YAKIMA – Cheech Marin was unsure if he ... of Commerce and OIC of Washington. He was born Richard Anthony Marin in South Central Los Angeles. Marin got his nickname from an uncle who saw him ...

Cheech Marin Art Collection. Like Marin who was born in South Central Los Angeles ... Patssi Valdez grew up in East Los Angeles as a multimedia artist and cofounder of the seminal Chicano artist ...

Cheech and Chong & More Cheech, who grew up in East Los Angeles with Mexican parents, had been making his way through Canada when he met up with Chong, a Canuck with a Scottish and Irish mother ...

After moving to Los Angeles and releasing ... Out of My Room, Marin left the duo to focus on his solo acting career, starring in and making his directorial with Born in East L.A. (1987).

As the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano ... stretching from East Los Angeles (a reference to Marin’s 1987 film, “Born in East L.A.”), eastward to the windmill farms of the Coachella desert.

Born in East L.A. was Marin's first solo project, with him serving as writer, director, and star. Released in 1987, the film was loosely based on a parody song he recorded with Cheech & Chong ...