Mucho Mucho Amor (★★★★☆).A staple in millions of households since the late ’60s, the star vanished from public view after airing his final broadcast in 2006.
Cristina Costantini, who made the equally uplifting 2018 documentary Science Fair, and her co-director Kareem Tabsch find Mercado living comfortably, though not extravagantly, at his home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, attended to by his longtime assistant, Willy Acosta, as well as a family of nieces, and his beloved pooch Runo.
From there, Mercado spins the tale of how he became “Walter of the Miracles,” and, in his own words, “fabricated a famous person” out of himself.One or two of his self-mythologizing stories indeed sound fabricated, or at the very least exaggerated for effect.
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