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...against the tropical climate and southeast Mexico's lush countryside to gaze at. These folks are going home. Trouble is, they don't want to. When the bus crosses the border and pulls up on the narrow, rain-soaked street in front of the immigration office in El Carmen Frontera, Guatemala, its passengers are in a foul mood. Home is El Salvador or Honduras or Nicaragua or Guatemala itself--all disaster plagued, crime-ridden, poorer by the minute and, as far as those on the bus are concerned, best seen in the rear-view mirror. They had hoped to travel...
Mexico, whose officials are campaigning for an amnesty for the millions of its people illegally in the U.S., is turning on its own undocumented migrants. Tapachula, a city of 170,000 in the state of Chiapas, 10 miles from El Carmen Frontera, is the headquarters of the "Southern Plan" against illegal migrants--nearly all of them Central Americans heading for the U.S. to look for work. Even before the campaign began, Mexico was stepping up deportations--93,563 during the first six months of this year, a huge increase over the rate in 2000. Originally, the deportees were simply taken...
...stars, movies are the new videos. Vocalists who came of age watching Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard see film roles as essential elements of divadom. Beyonce Knowles of Destiny's Child recently headlined MTV's hip-hop remake of Carmen; next month Mariah Carey will star in Glitter. As for Aaliyah, she has been signed to play a character named Zee in the two upcoming sequels to The Matrix. She is still waiting on plot details in the top-secret productions but says she hopes to get in on the action: "There's nothing like a strong woman who kicks...
...taste in Philadelphia icons ran more to Grace Kelly. To many kids across the country, Kenny Rossi and Arlene Sullivan, Justine Carelli and Bob Clayton, Kathleen "Bunny" Gibson and Ed Kelly, Carmen MonteCarlo and Charlie Zamil were America's sweethearts, their lives followed as avidly as soap opera characters'. Another regular, Pat Molittieri, had advice columns in magazines like Seventeen. Frani Giordano was my wife's favorite when she was a lonely teen in upstate New York, weaving fantasies of adolescent romance into the dance patterns of people her age 300 miles away. Lou DeSera, Carmen Jimenez, Carole Scaldeferri, Rosemarie...
...celebrities are really taking the plunge--flaunting not just navel rings but also jutting pelvic bones, drastic bikini waxes and even a bit of cleavage from behind. Witness Destiny's Child's Beyonce Knowles, who briefly flashes a startling rear view in a scene from MTV's Hip-Hopera: Carmen, which made its debut last week. Or Janet Jackson, whose bikini string rises a full three inches above her jeans on the cover of the premiere issue of Blender magazine, out this month. Or Josie and the Pussycats star Tara Reid, whose down-to-there pants left jaws...