Archive for June 5th, 2006
Live Blogging the Not So Live ALMA Awards
5 Jun 2006
How many times does Eva Longoria change outfits? So far she has looked amazing in all of them, except that yellow dress with the bow between her breasts.
Jimmy Smits deserves his best actor in a tv series award. He has always been a strong advocate of positive Latino images in the media and has taken roles, in television and movies, that have reflected the depth and complexity of Latinos.
Ok I take the previous comment back. The last striped outfit that Eva came out in is the worse.
Ay finally some music I can shake my ass to- Vico C. Ha ha did you see the Ying-Yang Twins try and get J-lo up on stage and how bad she didn’t want to go! Good call , since they are singing about being a nasty girl. Again – this show has done nothing but continue to promote negative heterosexist stereotypes about women. Ay could Vico C have a smaller Rican flag?
Live Blogging the Not So Live ALMA Awards
5 Jun 2006
Didn’t Daddy Yankee look fine? I’m not a big reggaeton fan pero he’s a papi. Jessica Alba (who is quoted as saying she doesn’t feel like a “Latin actress”) looks lovely and tiny. Pero contrast that with the subdued and makeupless Shakira accepting her award via video.
Uy looking at Andy Garcia, I realize how much that cuban reminds me of my ex, a half Cubano. I take issue with Andy’s politics pero he is an amazing actor and deserves the Anthony Quinn award. This must be the anti-Castro Cuban bloc, with Andy Garcia, Cristina Saralegui, and Gloria Estefan. Whoa – Did Gloria Estefan have plastic surgery or is it just the hairstyle that makes her look so much younger. And rounding out the bloc is Emilio Estefan.
Live Blogging the Not So Live ALMA Awards
5 Jun 2006
Eva came back looking nice and telling some good jokes about being the first Latina with a white gardener. Awww mira que cute Freddy Rodriguez is. I loved him in Six Feet Under.
Ok wait hold up one second. Why do we need to hear songs about loving women hot like jalepenos? Followed by Paulina Rubio shaking her ass. So far this show is doing absolutely nothing in terms of countering stereotypes of Latina women as hot-blooded. What the hell is Paulina bringing to this show anyway.
Maybe because I’m east coast and Rican I don’t get Big & Rich and Cowboy Troy. Tell me I’m missing something big.
Live Blogging the Not So Live ALMA Awards
5 Jun 2006
And we’re back after seeing not just one but two commercials with Eva Longoria, and she, I must say, is rocking in red tonight.
I must say, as I am listening and watching the Marc Anthony montage, I love that man’s voice pero I can do without seeing him. He deserves priase for his talent. Ay I love the Latina doctora from Grey’s Anatomy, Sara Ramirez. She’s a Latina with curves and super sexy.
Brian McKnight is killing Marc Anthony’s music and Marc Anthony is crying, probably because it’s so bad. So far two of the songs were written during Marc’s Dayanara years. I must also say that his wife (whose name I will not type because I promised earlier today not to) looks lovely. Notice how emotional Marc gets. Also not how tiny he looked next to Jimmy Smits.
Whoa did Marc just confess to some infidelity by saying that he wrote every song performed for his now wife? That’s tacky considering when he wrote most of those songs he was married to the second mother of his children.
Live Blogging the Not So Live ALMA Awards
9:26 pm By Maegan La Mala · Events| TV · 4 Comments
5 Jun 2006
Nothing stereotypical here. Just a bunch of scantily clad latinas (and one latina wannabe) shakin’ their asses. Wasn’t the idea of this award show abot positive Latino images and we’re watching people clapping for hip shaking? Uuuy and Paulina Rubio can’t sing – at least not in English anyway. That was the worse opening number I’ve ever seen.
What is up with all of Eva Longoria’s giggling and what is Jessica Simpson doing looking like a carrot at the ALMA awards? The daughter on Gilmore Girls is Latina? She’s nominated as outstanding actress in a television series. The winner, Judy Reyes, just called out why the hell Jessica Simpson is there.
Student unrest in Chile continues
6:45 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Chile| Education| Politics · 1 Comment
5 Jun 2006
Unrest in Chile’s schools rages on after weeks of sit-ins and protests. The Latin Americanist rounds up a few stories about this ongoing saga on their site today. QuePasa reports on recent incidents which they say mark the “first crisis” of Bachelet’s presidency:
Faced with the first major crisis of her three-month old term, President Michelle Bachelet proposed amending Chile’s constitution to guarantee quality education.But as her proposal was made, police fired water cannons and tear gas on about 1,000 high school students and some adults at a barricade blocking public transport in downtown Santiago.
Leaders of the protests said more than one million students and their supporters would take part in the latest nationwide strike. They are demanding efforts by the government to close the gap between public
Bachelet is calling the protests
“…’unnecessary’ but said that by Tuesday “I will send to Congress a bill to reform the constitution, to confirm the right of all citizens to a quality education.”She added: “The students have made felt their demands, which I have described as just and legitimate, for a better quality education, and they did it peacefully.”
See some amazing photos about all of this on Flickr.
Via / Que Pasa and The Latin Americanist
Photo via JP’s Flickr page
Cuban American filmmaker defies U.S. embargo
5:06 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Cuba| Movies · Comments Off
5 Jun 2006The U.S. embargo of Cuba hasn’t worked, according to Cuban American filmmaker Luis Moro. And while for the most part Americans aren’t allowed to set foot on the island, Moro went to Cuba to make a movie precisely on this premise.
Now he’s being investigated by the U.S. government and fined:
The film, linked as it is to Moro’s personal crusade against the U.S. embargo, led U.S. officials to investigate Moro for possible violation of U.S. laws that make it almost impossible for most Americans to legally visit communist Cuba.
If officials act against him, Moro says he will refuse to pay any fines, even if it means jail time.
“It’s a farce — the embargo has not worked, and it is not going to work,” Moro said of the policy imposed since the early 1960s. “I’m committed to fighting this to the end.”
Moro, who left Cuba with his mother at the age of 5, says his campaign doesn’t mean he favors the Cuban government or its leader
Fidel Castro.“I’m not pro-Castro. I’m anti-embargo,” he said by telephone from Los Angeles.
The (Not so Live) ALMA Awards
11:38 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities| Events| TV · 3 Comments
5 Jun 2006
The National Council of La Raza’s (NCLR) ALMA Awards airs tonight on ABC at 9:30 pm (8:30 pm) central. This event was taped a few weeks ago so there should be no surprises. The event was hosted by Desperate Housewife Eva Longoria and featured performances by Paulina Rubio, Gloria Estefan and others. Marc Anthony was given a special Celia Cruz Award. The ALMAs were created, according to the official ALMA website :
…to honor outstanding Latino artistic achievement in television, film, and music and the enhancement of the Latino image in the entertainment industry.
Because nothing enhances the image of Latinos in entertainment like having a group of Latina (is Carmen Electra even Latina?) women dancing around on stage half naked during the opening act.
I will be posting my comments regarding the actual telecast in real time tonight. So stay tuned.
Happy Anniversary J-Lo and Skeletor I mean Marc
8:55 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities| Chismes · 1 Comment
5 Jun 2006
Against all odds, Jennifer Lopez has managed to stay married for more than a year to fellow NYRican, Marc Anthony. Maybe it really is love. Today the couple celebrate two years of matrimony.
In more Jennifer Lopez bochinche – According to Female First Mrs. Jenny from the block is set to produce her own dance reality show (because there is nothing funnier than watching people who can’t dance dancing) with MTV which will be directly competeing with another dance reality show produced by her ex-hubby Chris Judd.
Hola!
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