Word: pedro
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Philippine President Corazon Aquino, for her boldness and spirited courage in challenging the 20-year regime of Ferdinand Marcos. (The Rev.) Ronnie Roque San Pedro, the Philippines...
...Another Gee! Or should I say Zut alors!? For the first time in ages, the foreign-language category boasts five films that not only are quite good but which critics like me have actually seen. I'm sorry that Pedro Almodovar didn't make the finals with Volver, but it's not as if he needs another Oscar. Deepa Mehta certainly deserves some kind of award for Water, which she made despite sabotage and death threats from Indian fundamentalists. And I'm pleased that The Lives of Others was cited: partly because it's a smartly pensive spy thriller, partly...
...microphone that a reporter left lying somewhere, so he took it and confidently went up to the players," Jobbins said. "He got an interview with Pedro Martinez before security figured out what was going...
...This gives Hollywood three films to see and debate, Others may be added: Babel, Dreamgirls, Pedro Almodovar's Volver - maybe the indie hit Little Miss Sunshine. That could be a dark horse like last year's Crash, which all the critics' groups except Chicago's ignored, the better to celebrate Brokeback Mountain. The field's more open this year. In the New York Film Critics' voting, the 12 awards went to 11 different films; only The Queen won two. And though we weren't thinking about it, the 11 films had 10 different distributors; only Warner Bros. had two winners...
...Ugly Betty producer Salma Hayek. "Maybe I should work a little less," Cruz says. "Making Volver has spoiled me. I am having difficulty feeling something that pushes me enough that I want to go to the set again. I am comparing everything I read to these experiences with Pedro." Cruz is still keeping a house in Los Angeles, but as an actress, she has found her true home...