I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.

A spokesman for the National Puerto Rican Day Parade has stated that Leguizamo would not be stripped of his ambassadorship. In 2008 Leguizamo received the Rita Moreno HOLA Award for Excellence from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA). Dr.

: /ˌlɛɡwɪˈzɑːmoʊ/) (born July 22 1964) is a Colombian American actor film producer voice artist and comedian. John Alberto Leguizamo (pron.