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When Ritchie is playing in the restaurant, his mother takes a big drink from a glass. But a moment later, the glass is nowhere to be seen. [The glass is actually a hidden a little behind her chair and remains there for the 3 or 4 shots of her before she gets up to dance.]
The opening scene of the movie depicts two small aircraft (one is a Beechcraft Bonanza) colliding in midair and falling in the playground at Pacoima Junior High School. This accident did occur on January 31, 1957, but the aircraft involved were an Air Force F-89 jet fighter and a four-engined DC-7 airliner, and only the DC-7 hit the schoolyard. A young Latino boy is among those killed on the ground, and Ritchie Valens refers to him as "my best friend". In reality, the three boys killed at the school were Anglo and were 12 and 13 years old - two or three years younger than Ritchie at the time. [Just because the kids that died were younger than Ritchie doesn't mean one of them couldn't have been his best friend.]
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