He starred in it onstage, together with Daphne Rubin-Vega and John Ortiz, who played an uneasily married couple, and who now follow him into the screen version.

NEWYORKER: Jack Goes Boating

With Ruby Dee, Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Ortiz, Cuba Gooding, Jr.

NEWYORKER: American Gangster

"The federal authorities, along with local cooperation from the Buffalo Police, engaged in a meticulous and lengthy investigation determining, in effect, that Josue Ortiz had nothing to do with the murders of the Camacho brothers, " said John Nuchereno, Ortiz's defense lawyer.

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When John Paul came "it was a different period in our history, " said Camilo Ortiz, a 50-year-old Havana resident, but the former pontiff's visit still "had more power" than Benedict's.

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