Word: telenovela
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...still complex, vivacious and emotionally resonant. Since the gynocentric Mother and Volver, and the guy-nocentric Bad Education, Almodóvar has returned to the plot structure of the noirish Live Flesh: the toxic romantic geometry of a triangle love story. In the world of telenovela melodrama that has long appealed to Almodóvar, jealousy must be twisted into violence at the top of a winding staircase, while lust collides with a dark fate on a highway with one too many cars...
...poorest as a bishop, toppled the seemingly omnipotent Colorado Party, the political base of the country's 19th and 20th century dictators like General Alfredo Stroessner. Lugo has since pushed for essential measures like land reform. What Paraguay is getting instead, at least for the moment, is "a telenovela," says respected investigative journalist Mabel Rehnfeldt of the newspaper ABC in the capital, Asunción. Yet she predicts the scandal will not damage Lugo's presidency too badly - for reasons that reflect both Latin America's machismo and its modernization. "Many Paraguayans on the one hand will say, 'Here...
...rooting for the Phillies by •Palin is called "the best thing that could have happened to my campaign and to America" by •Palin is called "the most qualified of any that has run recently for vice president" by •Powell endorsement of Obama is countered with telenovela actress's endorsement...
...doesn't look like the usual Mexican telenovela, packed with scantily clad girls, dashing macho men and unceasing melodrama. And there's a lot more about Capadocia, HBO's first attempt to crack the Mexican market, that sets it apart from any other Latin American TV production. Shot on 400,000 feet of film, with three movie directors and 300 actors, it is probably the most expensive TV series ever made south of the Rio Grande. HBO executives wouldn't release the exact cost, but said that one episode of Capadocia costs about the same as 250 episodes...
...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...