Selena fans started lining up 12 hours before the Alamodome opened on a Sunday morning 29 years ago. They were hoping to get a seat within the movie cameras’ range.
By 9 a.m. on Sept. 15, 1996, thousands were waiting outside, many wearing Selena T-shirts and some “clutching colorful signs declaring their love for Selena,” newspaper archives show. An hour or so later, the well-behaved crowd began filling the Alamodome, which filmmakers had transformed into the setting of one of Selena’s final performances.
The depiction was for the $20 million biopic of the Tejano superstar, who was killed about 18 months before filming of “Selena” started…