The most gigantic beneath-the-belt bulge in history.
George accidentally gets a busboy named Antonio fired, and goes to his apartment to apologize. Antonio is angry, taciturn -- and a Greek god. Viewers wanted to know, who is this Michelangelo's David come to life? This Apollo masquerading as a mortal? And why did the producers squeeze him into jeans so tight that his superheroic endowment was so completely and obviously visible?
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
29-year old David Labios had never had such a gender-transgressive role. Antonio resists macho gender expectations by having a pet cat named Pequita, and by effusively hugging George at the end of the episode.
Maybe that was the point: the stereotyped super-macho guy turns out to be sensitive and sweet, i.e., gay.
Born in 1961, David studied acting at New York University, and first appeared on screen as Carlos Rivera, a boy accused of murder, in the tv movie Death Penalty (1980).
One of his more iconic roles was a change of pace from the stereotyping: The Entity (1982), about a single mother (1970s staple Barbara Hershey) plagued by a murderous poltergeist. The director removed a scene where, under the control of the evil spirit, she tries to her teenage son (David), but also deprived audiences from the opportunity to see him shirtless.
He went on to appear in many of the iconic tv series of the 1980s and 1990s, including The White Shadow, Falcon Crest, The Powers of Matthew Star, Hill Street Blues, and Hunter, often as a Hispanic-stereotyped thug, gang member, or streetwise cop, but also a pr guy in The Guardian (1984); a heterosexual hookup in A Sinful Life (1989); and a singer in There Goes My Baby (1994), with Dermot Mulroney and Ricky Schroeder,
His war hero Juan Medina in An American Story (1992) won him an Emmy nomination.
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Many fans noticed him in a 1996 episode of Murder, She Wrote, about a small-town mystery writer who solves murders. In this case, record produce Max Daniels is trying to sabotage Latinx singer Desi Ortaga (Tony Plana), when his assistant (David) ends up dead.
David continues to work steadily. Most recently he has appeared in episodes of The Queen of the South (2016),American Gods, The Queen of the South, and First Love (2022): not to be confused with the Chinese tv series First Love (2022). This one is either a tv series or a movie, depending on whether you believe the IMDB, and stars Deaken Bluman, who kissed a boy in 13 Reasons Why.
As far as I can tell, David is heterosexual, with a wife and a teenage son. Nor are there significant gay roles in his work; that Seinfeld portrayal was pure subtext. But in a show that was usually homophobic, it was a nice change of pace. With a nice bonus bulge.
