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Victor Alicea Arévalo, better known as Vitín Alicea, is a fictional comedic character created and portrayed by Susnhine Logroño. Created in the mid-1980s, Vitín remains a popular radio and television character in Puerto Rico. He has appeared in Logroño's previous television programs ''"Sunshine's Café"'' and ''"De Noche Con Sunshine"'', ''"Club Sunshine"'', and currently appears sporadically in ''"Sunshine Remix"'', a program aired on WAPA-TV, a station for which Logroño is vice president for talent affairs. Vitín also appears regularly on ''Agitando El Show'', a late afternoon radio program on Cadena Salsoul, one of Puerto Rico's salsa radio networks. ==Vitín, the character== Vitín Alicea is a resident of the coastal Puerto Nuevo barrio of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. He is allegedly the first cousin (''"primo coyunto"'') of Logroño's partner in the radio program "Agitando, El Show", Fernando Arévalo (and Arévalo follows the joke when pressed). Vitín is a hyper-macho misogynist (and very probably a closet homosexual, although this has never been proven) who openly derides homosexuals (''a la'' Roy Cohn) but will discreetly make a pass to many a man who approaches him. Vitín does not spare a second to flaunt his masculinity to the point of self-parody. He is an extreme fan of professional wrestling, weightlifting and film. In actuality, Vitín has always complained of having a pot belly, although he claims to take good care of his "temple", his body (using Saint Paul's verbal analogy). This is actually said in jest, since Logroño occasionally makes jokes about being overweight when he is off character. In early airings of the character, since Logroño was considerably thinner than he currently is, Vitín constantly wore a muscle shirt bearing one of Leonardo da Vinci's anatomic sketches that displayed a man's muscles. Logroño has since physically outgrown the shirt, and now wears other clothes, but tends to gravitate towards a skeleton shirt. He also wears a beret. Logroño over-modulates his voice when representing Vitín to make him sound like a radio announcer at times: Vitín speaks with a baritone voice, has perfect Spanish language diction (using Castilian phonemes at times, particularly a strong j sound that almost sounds like a "kh"), and constantly utters a ''"Hmm?"'' to punctuate most sentences, which he sometimes enunciates as questions. He calls those males that he likes "''Papa"'', a term that has become a comical verbal jab in Puerto Rico against any male who shows his masculinity in public in a blatant way. (''"Papa"'' is actually a term used by natives of the United States Virgin Islands to refer to Puerto Ricans) Vitín owns a makeshift gymnasium in the backyard of his house, called ''"Musculus"'', which is merely a converted garage. Since he's not wealthy, his weightlifting equipment consists of portland cement molded inside cracker tin cans and linked by galvanized aluminum tubes, similar to what Fred Flintstone would use to lift weights. It also features a legendary garden hose, which Vitín dutifully uses to shower the inevitably all-male visitors to his gym (he constantly claimed his gym is the cleanest in town). He also has a makeshift ring in his gym, with rope and posts he purchased at a hardware store and foam he purchased at an upholstery store. Arevalo, Vitin's radio sidekick, usually complains about Vitín removing the doors from the urinals, to which Vitín simply replies that they are not needed. The Puerto Rico Department of Health closed his gym once after detecting leaking urinals, and for a while Vitín regrettably had to switch jobs. He then opened a multi-purpose commercial establishment, ''"La Buchaca Disco, Pub, Mini-Mart and Video Club"'' (Vitín adds other hyphenated uses depending on the occasion), which originally started as a lesbian-friendly bar (''"buchaca"'' is the Mexican slang for a pool table's pockets, and sounds rather close to ''"bucha"'', the Puerto Rican Spanglish word for a butch). Vitin sometimes airs his Fridays radio section on ''"Agitando, El Show"'' from his store, describing the latest video and film releases. Recent episodes have Musculus reopening as a gym. Whenever Vitín is not featured in a proper comedy sketch, he has a habit of receiving famous visitors to his establishments, in both his radio and his television shows. He once hosted a section on "Club Sunshine" called ''"Desde mi ring con Vitín"'' ("From My Ring With Vitín") to sketch these interviews, and used Queen's "We Will Rock You" (played by the program's house band) as a theme song. Inevitably the guest is a male, and Vitín typically hugs and pats (or even pets) him, which inevitably shocks the guest. He would progressively make flattering comments to his guests, which may turn to passes if the guest is not careful. However, one of Vitín's trade moves is to ask questions about the guest's personal likings and agree with whatever the guest says, even self-contradicting himself or his values if the guest says something that Vitín has not expected. For example, Vitín might go to the extreme of saying he hates wrestling if his male guest doesn't like the sport. Usually the interview ends with a blatant pass or physical gesture that embarrasses the guest (a typical one is Vitín standing up, turning around and pump up his muscles with his backside to the guest, flaunting his derriere to him). Usually guests play along until they cannot follow the joke any longer. A willing participant in the joke is Chayanne, who has visited Vitín twice. Vitín is depicted as doggedly persistent and successful in anything he puts his mind into, as long as things do not go wrong (when they do, a comic sketch is born). As a result of his blatant passes and manipulative character, however, there is no known sexual or romantic partner of Vitín's, male or female. This gives the impression that Vitín, as clever as he is, is a perennial loner. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vitin Alicea」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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