Word: telenovela
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...Bodas de Sangre” is the inaugural production of Harvard College TEATRO!, a new student organization that presents Spanish plays at Harvard in their original language.A tale about love, suffering, and betrayal (I promise it’s nothing like the typical Spanish telenovela), “Bodas de Sangre” is a haunting story about a wife-to-be who leaves her fiancée at the altar and escapes with her ex-lover. A bitter and violent rivalry ensues between the two families. Lorca’s obsessions with murder, death, and the role of women...
...coincidence that Ugly Betty the series is itself an immigrant, a remake of a worldwide-sensation telenovela franchise. That's what makes our pop culture so vital: from TV to music to fashion, it is constantly transfused by foreigners who are able to out-American Americans...
...Loves Raymond alum Brad Garrett, and NBC's offbeat comedy My Name Is Earl are getting as much as $500,000 an episode, compared with $200,000 for sitcoms five years ago. Touchstone's Ugly Betty is on its second global lap. Based on the wildly popular Spanish-language telenovela Yo Soy Betty, la Fea, it was redeveloped for a U.S. audience and is now being resold in Europe and elsewhere--in some cases dubbed into Spanish...
...music, DJ Shadow (Josh Davis) isn't just the big fish; he's the only fish. Perhaps recognizing that the water is getting a little brackish, Shadow varies the formula on his latest with a folk ballad, a soul jam and a delicate guitar symphony as emotional as a telenovela. (Qu dramtico!) His more conventional hip-hop tracks pose no threat to commercial radio, but they're perfect platforms for Bay Area rappers Keak Da Sneak and Lateef the Truth Speaker to say the things Shadow's samples...
...other networks have not jumped into the telenovela's arms quite as eagerly. ABC is hedging its bets, developing a remake of a telenovela from Colombia called Yo Soy Betty, la Fea (I Am Betty, the Ugly One) that transformed itself into a global hit. Local versions of Betty's ugly-duckling story won huge audiences in Germany, India and Russia, but ABC will air it as a once-a-week prime-time comedy. As the network responsible for Desperate Housewives, the closest thing to a network telenovela today, ABC has a good shot at creating a successful hybrid...