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...particular, Hayek says she was impressed with and most surprised by the “balance” she observed in Harvard students, who could “make it through the week” and still muster the “energy and intensity” apparent in their Cultural Rhythms performances...
...Hayek says that the atmosphere of “young minds, whole spirits, and versatility in sound and color” provided “the best kind of reward for me.” After all, she continues, “One of the most important things for an artist…is artistic and creative stimulation...
Recently returned from another university speaking engagement in Mexico, Hayek has lately charmed college audiences and also found herself “rejuvenated.” As it turns out, Hayek is an across-the-board crowd pleaser, and students have in the past consistently and “cross-culturally” requested that Hayek be a guest to Harvard, according to Harvard Foundation Director Dr. S. Allen Counter...
...hasn’t always been that way. At the beginning of her acting career in the U.S., Hayek struggled to convince film executives that she could appeal to the American mass market as a Latina leading lady. In fact, at a press conference, Hayek recounts a time in her career when she was asked to visit American soldiers in war-time Kosovo during one Thanksgiving, as a sort of “Marilyn Monroe-like figure” to buoy military spirits. As she tells it, her “Why’d they pick...
...Wild Wild West” and “Once Upon a Time in Mexico”) and a director to be reckoned with (she won an Emmy for directing the Showtime movie “The Maldonado Miracle”). In fact, in 2004, Hayek ended the year as Hollywood’s highest paid Latina actress, earning approximately $20 million for her films...