Two full-figured Latina women, a mother (Lupe Ontiveros) and daughter (America Ferrera), argue about food, sex, education and life in an L.A. sweatshop. Patricia Cardoso's first film is a marvel of pointed humor, and Ontiveros and Ferrera could not be better.

“Too Close”

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'"