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King of California is a 2008 American comedy-drama film written by Mike Cahil and directed by Ron Shelton, in his debut as a screenwriter and director. [3] It premiered on VHS January 28, 2008 at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival [4] and opened in limited release in North America on September 14, 2008.
The Cali Cartel (Spanish: Cartel de Cali) was a drug cartel based in southern Colombia, around the city of Cali and the Valle del Cauca. Its founders were the brothers Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela , Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela and José Santacruz Londoño .
Cristo Rey (English: Christ the King) is a statue 26 meters tall located in the Cerro de los Cristales (Hill of the Crystals) in the village of Los Andes, west of the city of Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. [1] The hill is so named because of the large amount of quartz that could be collected in the surrounding area.
The real "King Of Cali" made a cameo appearance in the film, in the scene where Kid is in a meeting with the set. [3] Slick Will really does not blink as the bike hits him, as Soul Train states. Actual motorcycle clubs were on the set as technical advisors, and performed some of the tricks, stunts, and racing.
AllMusic critic Mark Deming wrote: "While King of California was often lumped in with the then-fashionable unplugged craze, in retrospect it was the album where Dave Alvin's abilities as a performer began to catch up with his gifts as a songwriter, pointing the way for his later albums Blackjack David and Public Domain."
Henry Miller, c. 1887 Correspondence between Henry Miller and his superintendent, P.H. Turner. Henry Miller (July 21, 1827 – October 14, 1916) was a German-American rancher known as the "Cattle King of California" [1] who at one point in the late 19th century was one of the largest land-owners in the United States.
"The king who didn't want to be known". Los Angeles Times; The King of California: J. G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire, Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman, 2003, PublicAffairs. ISBN 1-58648-281-5 (pbk)
José Santacruz Londoño (1943–1996) was a Colombian drug lord from Santiago de Cali. Along with Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela and Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, Santacruz Londoño was a leader of the Cali Cartel. The trio was profiled in a Time magazine cover story in July 1991. The DEA cited him as "one of the premier drug traffickers in the ...