12:47 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Celebrities|sex|Women · 1 Comment
29 Sep 2006
Remember Xuxa? Yeah, that hot little number that all your anglo friends’ moms would turn off when you were watching “a kids show” on “the Spanish channel”. Her legendary sexy kids show has circled the globe, and has even been parodied by The Simpsons. Now, Xuxa’s coming clean about how she learned to be sexy:
Actress and singer Xuxa, who still reigns supreme in the world of children at 43 years of age, revealed in an interview the secrets that made her a sex symbol two decades ago, when she was still a virgin.A pencil helped make a pretty, innocent blonde with blue eyes, who still slept with a teddy bear into a femme fatale, according to IstoƩ Gente magazine.
She had never made love but was already considered a sex symbol. How could she show a face of desire if she had never done anything, Xuxa asked herself. Laughing, the “reina de los bajitos” remembers her first sessions as a model and when she got her director instructions from the: “Bite the pencil, Xuxa! Now imagine that the sun is in your eyes. Keep wrinkling your brow, with your eyes almost closed. Now suck on the air. That’s a face of desire!”
Yuck. What I find ironic is that Xuxa started her career as a porn star, in a movie in which she seduces a 13 year old, and someone thought it would be great idea to make her into a kids show idol.
Via / El Confidencial
12:05 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · TV · 5 Comments
29 Sep 2006
Last night ABC premeired Ugly Betty starring America Ferrera as the fea Betty Suarez. The show, partially produced by la bella Salma Hayek (who makes a guest showing as a gun toting telenovela maid), is a light, fun look at an “ugly” Latina assistant struggling to find her place in the superficial world of a fashion magazine. The show is based on the popular Colombian novela Betty la Fea. This English language version features the fashion capital of the world, New York City, as one of its main characters. Betty is a Queens College graduate and the street on which she lives with her widowed father and single-mother sister looks nearly identical to the Corona, Queens street I spent part of my childhood on (complete with the 7 train passing in the background).
9:42 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Careers|Labor|race|Women · Comments Off
29 Sep 2006
According to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Sally Hatwig was fired by Bear, Stearns & Co. for revealing that she was half-Latina.
Hartwig, who worked for the firm for about three months, claims she was unfairly criticized about her performance and terminated in July 2004 because of her national origin, according to the lawsuit.
Not surprisingly, the worldwide investment banking and securities trading and brokerage firm is denying the claim.
“We believe this case is completely without merit,” Bear Stearns spokesperson Elizabeth Ventura said. “She was terminated during her probationary period due to poor job performance.”
Ventura said Bear Stearns treats discrimination issues seriously and has procedures in place to hear and act on employee concerns.
“She never expressed an issue of bias while she was an employee here,” Ventura said. “This issue only came up after she was terminated.”
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