FILM & TV
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Back with Black
It’s hard to be funny in every scene,” says Ana de la Reguera, who credits her costar Jack Black (School of Rock, King Kong) with helping her hone her comedic skills. “It’s difficult to do the same scene five or six times in comedy, and still be natural and fresh.”
De la Reguera, no stranger to the craft of acting, already has a decade of film and television experience. At only 29, she is already one of the most recognized faces in Latin America, and while her past experience was mostly in dramatic roles, this comedy may be just what she needs to strike a chord with American audiences.
From HISPANIC Magazine -June/July 06
Film to show doomed love of Spanish matador Manolete Reuters
Race matters in U.S. "Survivor" series' media blitz Reuters
Aguilera back at No. 1 USA Today
Eva Longoria to improve Latin American immigrants live Moldova.org
Latin flavors, vibe need more pop at La Taza de Cafe San Francisco Chronicle
Disney reaches out to Latinas with "Cheetah Girls" Reuters
Director Garcia scoops Hispanic awards ContactMusic.com
L.A. radio loses its twang
Last country station switches to pop format to attract more Hispanic adult women San Francisco Chronicle
IRS goes after Hollywood 'goodie bags' Reuters
Christina... with a C USA Today
Telenovelas get their English translations USA Today
Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards reach divorce pact Reuters
10,000 expected for Hispanic music festival The Baytown Sun
Straight outta Brooklyn, "Old School's" Rick Gonzalez SOHH.com
Puerto Rico’s voice of salsa, lost but found The New York Times
FILM & TV
An MVP in the Background
From the Taco Bell chihuahua to a hapless, racist Mexican-American cop in Reno 911!, Carlos Alazraqui's knack for controversy goes hand-in-hand.
To hear Carlos Alazraqui explain it, he’s sort of like Rita Hayworth or Raquel Welch, but in reverse.
From HISPANIC Magazine - June/July 06
Mountian Music
Gustavo Santaolalla climbed a long and arduous path before winning the oscar that crowned his career. From the moment actress Salma Hayek intoned “And the winner of the Oscar for Best Original Score is ...,” the professional life of Gustavo Santaolalla changed forever. The stocky musician strode proudly to the stage at this year‘s Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, hugged the Mexican beauty, and cradled the entertainment industry’s most coveted honor in his muscular hands. Then he acknowledged the truly important things in his life—two children and his wife—before paying an emotional tribute. “To my mother—mi madre,” he said ecstatically, “my country—Argentina—and to all the Latinos.”
From HISPANIC Magazine - May 06
From the Small Screen to the Silver Screen
Freddy Rodriguez—best known for his six-year run as mortician Federico Diaz on HBO’s award-winning drama Six Feet Under—is fulfilling his goal. This summer, he has a handful of movies coming out back-to-back. He’s working with some of Hollywood’s biggest players: M. Night Shyamalan, whose hits include The Sixth Sense and Signs, actor-turned-director Emilio Estevez, and first-time director David Ayer, who wrote Training Day for which Denzel Washington won an Oscar.
From HISPANIC Magazine - May 06
MUN2 Reimagined: The Future of Hispanic TV?
The pioneer of bilingual music television has been revamped to attract the picky audience that inhabits both worlds.
From HISPANIC Magazine - May 06
The Lost City
Para atrás ni un paso, ni para coger impulso (Not one step backwards, not even to gather momentum) states the billboard in front of Fico—played by Andy Garcia—as he contemplates leaving Cuba in search of a better life the film The Lost City. It’s an ironic, yet inspiring statement for a story that looks back at the island’s history with an instilled hope of a better future. Written by the late Cuban novelist and film critic Guillermo Cabrera Infante, the film is a melancholic and vivid portrait of the days leading up to the Cuban Revolution, as seen through the eyes of Fico, a suave cabaret owner, and his family.
From HISPANIC Magazine - April 06
Sweet Sorrow
It’s been four years since Mexican-American musician Lila Downs became the first Latina to perform at the Academy Awards, an event that amounted to her international television debut. And it’s been three years since Una Sangre/One Blood took home the Grammy for best folk album. Since then, her roots-rich releases, which dig deep into her Oaxaca origins, have earned her a growing fan base. Venues in which she used to open for other acts, she now fills herself. With her latest release, La Cantina: Entre Copa y Copa, she’s managed to raise her profile to yet another level, even as she has crossed into a deeper realm of artistic maturity. With the immigration reform movement under full swing, her music, a hard-won expression of Mexican pride, has never been more relevant or better received.
From HISPANIC Magazine -June/July 06
Mas Gasolina?
Reggaeton's numbers indicate american popular music is at a crossroads, but is clever artistry enough to fuel a musical revolution?
It has become a familiar tale. Once upon a time, there was a chubby poor kid from a housing project in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His name was Raymond Ayala and he was a rabid hip-hop fan. In keeping with that urban musical tradition, he adopted a hip hop artist’s identity when only a teenager and began calling himself Daddy Yankee.
From HISPANIC Magazine - May 06
El Mulato Rumbero Returns
About six years ago Puerto Rican salsero Michael Stuart found himself in the home of legendary Latin pianist Eddie Palmieri. The elder statesman schooled the then twentysomething Stuart on some of the finer points of Afro-Cuban music as the pair prepared to record tracks for Obra Maestra with Tito Puente. “[Palmieri] played this song, El Mulato Rumbero, with Miguelito Cuni con Chappottin y Sus Estrellas,” remembers Stuart. “And then he said ‘You are the mulato rumbero!’ Well, I heard that and I said, ‘I’m sticking with this.’” Now, with the release of Back to da’ Barrio, Stuart Intends to refine his identity as a hard-driving street-savvy sonero who also happens to be a guy from the old neighborhood.
From HISPANIC Magazine - May 06
In Her Kingdom
Ivy Queen overcame discrimination, poverty and personal obstacles to become the first lady of Reggeaton royalty. Her reign as reggaetón’s supreme female act hasn’t come easy. In fact, it’s taken 34-year-old Ivy Queen more than a decade to reach the throne she occupies right now.
From HISPANIC Magazine - May 06
The Whole World In Her Hands
For author Julia Alvarez, seeing the world clearly is how you begin to save it.
As we begin our telephone conversation with author Julia Alvarez, writer of well-known works How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, she is breathless. The New York-born author, the daughter of Dominican parents, is fresh from an interview with Dolores Huerta, the feminine face of Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers movement. The encounter, a research visit for yet another book Alvarez is working on, has left the author emotionally charged.
From HISPANIC Magazine -June/July 06
Everyday He Writes The Book
To find out just who is Camilo Lara - record executive, pop artist or novelist - one has to give in to all three identities.
BCamilo Lara happens to be a touring music artist following the release of Méjico Máxico, the Latintronica CD released February under his stage name Mexican Institute of Sound. But on lonely quiet evenings at home, the self-described “record junkie” hammers away at his magnum opus, his first novel, tentatively titled Messages to Myself. “I should be done editing it soon, and hopefully it will get published by the end of the year,” he says by phone. The 31-year-old also happens to be a top EMI Mexico record executive.
From HISPANIC Magazine - May 06
Language Play
Thirty-three years ago, three entrepreneurial Latinas set off to bring theater to spanish-speaking audiences in the U.S. Today, their brainchild, the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts, has become one of the most important cultural institutions promoting hispanic arts.More than three decades ago a small group of entrepreneurial Latinas set out to bring theater to Spanish speaking audiences in the U.S.
From HISPANIC Magazine - February 06
Certain images instantly evoke Spain: an idealistic knight tilting at windmills; a gypsy-infused guitar lending voice to the rhythmic clapping and staccato heel tapping of flamenco; the blood-red cape of a torero goading a champion bull; a spirited ¡Olé! We bring you articles and links that will help you discover Spain's rich cultural legacy and you can find them in our 2005- 2006 Hispanic Heritage Plaza.
From 2005-2006 HISPANIC HERITAGE PLAZA - October 05
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