CINEMA: !VIVA SELENA!

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Quintanilla is often shaken into silence by the ghost and the guilt. "Sometimes I feel like I'm to blame," he says. "Me and my wife were in bed talking about this the other night--that had we not chosen this path for our kids, Selena would still be alive." He also chose Saldivar to run the Selena fan club, after the woman had left more than a dozen insistent messages on his answering machine. "I actually feel sorry for her sometimes," says Abraham, who adds he believes Saldivar was demonically possessed at the time of the murder. "But Yolanda is not really in my mind. Selena is in my mind."

Selena is also in music stores; expect a surge in the sales of her eight albums, and of the soundtrack CD. And this week, with the release of this earnest little weepie, Selena may finally get to fulfill her crossover dream into the mainstream, that River Jordan for Latino musicians. Surely she and her family deserve some sort of Hollywood happy ending.

--Reported by Jeffrey Ressner/Corpus Christi