Word: mexicanization
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...expect willful ignorance from Joan Rivers, but not the rest of you - nobody could pronounce those foreign names. Naomi Watts flubbed Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu; Meryl Streep gave Spanish film Volver a nice plug but rhymed it with Oliver; Barrymore botched composer Alexandre Desplat's name badly enough when announcing the Best Score category that co-presenter Hugh Grant snatched away the winner's card with Desplat's name, saying, "Yeah, it's in French." Remarkably, everyone could pronounce that Kazakh fellow Borat's name just fine...
...Mirren, Hugh Laurie, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Irons and Bill Nighy - were the night's big winners and big charmers. Why this makes us want to throw tea into the Beverly Hilton pool, we have no idea. But we're pretty sure we can talk the Latin posse (three Mexican directors, Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek), into helping us. If not, we'll have Governor Schwarzenegger look into their immigration status...
...Their off-screen story was every bit as dramatic as any of their movies. It might take the name of one of them: Marriage, Italian-Style. Ponti, then married, had tried keeping his relationship with Loren hush-hush, as his lawyers won a Mexican divorce from his estranged wife, Giuliana. In 1957 the producer and his star were married by proxy in Mexico, with two male attorneys standing in for them. But the Italian government forced the annulment of their marriage and branded Ponti a bigamist. The couple had to live either abroad or secretly in Italy, until 1966 when...
...insisting that all my friends and family read Poniewozik's article. My grandparents were from Mexico. My parents were born in the U.S. and grew up in a mainly Mexican community. They were raised to be bilingual and bicultural and graduated high school at a time when they were forbidden to speak Spanish there. My dad is a Korean War veteran. My brothers and I attended college. I married a Mexican farmworker with a green card. ˇDios mio! I remember a time when we rarely saw a brown face in the media. Immigrants remain the hardworking, grateful backbone...
With the fur trapper and wilderness scout Kit Carson as his focus, Sides has constructed a heartbreaking history of three cultures in the Southwest--American Indians, Mexicans and Americans--during and after the Mexican-American war, an age of bloody confrontations in which the Navajo would be all but swept away...