Word: ferreras
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...Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 Directed by Sanaa Hamri; rated PG-13; opening Aug. 6 Imagine Sex and the City as an after-school special; that's this sequel to the 2005 film about four teen friends (Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrera, Blake Lively and Alexis Bledel). Each has a new emotional challenge, and somehow they all end up on a Greek isle. Mamma miasma! The going gets wet at times, but if you have heartstrings, they will be plucked...
...facts about illegals, like how they use P.O. boxes for their mail (“so the INS can’t find them,” as Enrique explains). We’re even introduced to poor Mexican-American college students Marta and David (played by America Ferrera of “Ugly Betty” fame and Jesse Garcia from “Quinceaña”) who resort to taking illegals across the border for tuition money. It’s a credit to the filmmakers that the movie’s didacticism doesn?...
...This is an audience that has yet to be tapped into," says America Ferrera, the Ugly Betty star who has a small role as a U.S.-born college student who takes Mexican children across the border. "Yes, they're in line for Spider-Man 3. But they're responding to a story that speaks truly to their experience...
...Under the Same Moon has a character for almost everyone with some part in the Hispanic immigrant story. There's the boy, spunky Carlito (Adrian Alonso), separated from his parents by the border; the mother, Rosario; a disillusioned recent illegal played by telenovela star Kate del Castillo; Ferrera's second- or third- generation college student; a drifter Carlito meets picking fruit; a security guard with a green card and a shiny truck who courts Rosario; and the list goes on. "It speaks about life on both borders, why people feel the need to come over and what it's like...
...That may be true, but Obama's offices, by comparison, are a little less organized. While Clinton has had Chelsea and Bill Clinton coming in for weeks, in addition to celebrities like Ugly Betty's America Ferrera, Obama's folks have had virtually no surrogate presence in state. They trail badly in political endorsements and their volunteers spend hours blacking out the Iowa contact numbers from recycled mailers while Clinton's offices has stacks of freshly-printed glossy ones with a big photo of the candidate and Rendell on the cover...