Archive for May 2nd, 2006
JLo sued over TV show
5:06 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Chismes|Controversia|Justice · 2 Comments
2 May 2006
Could we go a whole two days without writing about JLo? I knew we couldn’t do it. Maybe we should just start a JLo category. After a long day of being en la lucha yesterday, it’s time for some chisme.
After suing her ex, now JLo herself is getting sued by a guy who says she stole his idea for a TV show. From Yahoo! News:
A television writer has filed a lawsuit saying Jennifer Lopez and UPN stole his idea for a series based on his move from Brooklyn to Miami and involvement with the modeling and nightclub scenes.Jack Bunick’s lawsuit claims “South Beach,” a TV series executive-produced by Lopez that debuted Jan. 11 on UPN, mirrors a script he wrote in 1999 for a pilot episode of a show that would have been called “South Beach Miami.”
Bunick’s script was about two young men from Brooklyn who travel to South Beach, where one of them quickly gets involved with the club and modeling scenes, according to the federal suit.
Has anyone seen the show? The premise sounds horrid and it’s on UPN. That’s enough for me to pass blind judgement on it.
Related: POPSUGAR’s related post with JLo papparazzi pics
Via / Yahoo! News
Boycott in Mexico: Effective?
12:40 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Immigration|mexico · 2 Comments
2 May 2006
The New York Times (reg. required) compiled reports from various cities across the U.S. today to give us a sense of the vibe across the country. The last report in the article was dispatched from Mexico City, where activists urged Mexicans to boycott all American companies and products yesterday:
A call to boycott American brands and businesses got a lackluster response in the capital today despite widespread circulation on the Internet and in the media. Student protesters blocked entry to a Wal-Mart in a working-class neighborhood of Mexico City but elsewhere many were using the May Day holiday to get shopping done.“Life has to go on and you have to get the shopping done,” said Martha Juarez, 40, a nurse, shopping at a Wal-Mart supermarket chain.” As for avoiding American-owned stores she said: “They are franchises that Mexicans buy, so boycotting them means boycotting Mexicans.”
Mariela Vallejo decided against buying some crackers because they are made by Nabisco. “It’s a way of supporting them, said Ms. Vallejo, 31, a federal government employee. But she smiled with embarrassment when reminded that she had just shopped in a Wal-Mart-owned store.
Ignacio Lopez, 34, a lawyer, who arrived at Starbucks here on a Harley Davidson motorcycle wearing a Harley Davidson jacket, was openly dismissive of the boycott. “It’s absurd to support this with a boycott.”
Those leftist Latin American leaders are at it again. Bolivian president, Evo Morales returned from a weekend summit with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro and nationalized his country’s natural gas industry. In a bold move that has caused international interventions before:
Morales immediately ordered soldiers to occupy Bolivia’s gas fields, and he told energy companies operating in the country that they have six months to hand over majority control of their holdings to his government.
Bolivia has the world’s second largest natural gas reserves. This combined with the growing energy crisis in the U.S. and Venezuela’s large oil reserves have me predicting some sort of sanctions (military or other) by the U.S.
Via / ABC News
A Day Without Immigrants : Success or Failure
7:33 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism|Immigration · 5 Comments
2 May 2006
It all depends on who you ask. Right wing pundits and their media a la Lou Dobbs say yesterday was a failure. The country didn’t shut down. Many participants and their supporters point to the fact that although the country wasn’t closed for business, many businesses were closed.
Tyson Foods Inc., the world’s largest meat producer, shuttered about a dozen of its more than 100 plants. Eight of 14 Perdue Farms chicken plants also closed for the day. The rallies shut down 29 branches of Chipotle Mexican Grill, a Denver-based fast-casual dining chain. Goya Foods, which bills itself as the nation’s largest Hispanic-owned food chain, suspended delivery everywhere except Florida in what the company called a gesture of solidarity.
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