Archive for February 19th, 2007
JLo gets booed and boo-hoos
5:05 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Chismes|Movies|World · 1 Comment
19 Feb 2007
I never thought I’d say this, but I feel really sorry for JLo. It seems that the superdiva was made to feel like Jenny from the Block at the screening of her new movie, Bordertown, at the Berlin International Film Festival. Several media are reporting that the movie was booed after the screening, with many audience members leaving before the end (the same thing actually happened to her Bordertown co-star, Antonio Banderas, during the screening of his film, but without the boos) and later had to field questions from a group of German reporters:
Jennifer Lopez defended her new movie, “Bordertown,” against a screaming group of reporters at the Berlin Film Festival today, who were not showing the Puerto Rican hottie the proverbial love. The critics were annoyed by her alleged “ludicrous plot turns and wooden dialogue” according to Deborah Cole in Berlin for the Agence France-Presse.
Another Narcocorrido Slaying?
2:57 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Drugs|mexico|Music · 1 Comment
19 Feb 2007
Major artists in Mexico are canceling appearances at palenques across the country in fear of the wave of violence linked to narcocorridos, songs about the drug trade. Such songs have been linked to the deaths of a number of artists including Valentin Elizalde last November.
Gunmen shot to death four members of Banda Fugaz after a performance in Michoacan. A fifth member of the band was also shot but survived. No arrests had been made and the police had no immediate suspects but what is known is the fact that the band was NOT known for singing narcorridos.
Via / Fox News
Peru wants to erradicate lateness
1:39 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Culture|Peru · Comments Off
19 Feb 2007
The Peruvian government is launching a campaign to do away with lateness, which, according to many Peruvians, is the social ill that holds this South American country back. 91% of Lima residents support the initiative, called Perú: La hora sin demora, which will launch on March 1st by having the entire country synchronize its clocks with the official time of the Peruvian Marines.
The idea of encouraging punctuality — which the government is calling “a civic virtue that represents respect for the other person’s time and there for respect for the other person” — was proposed by a group within Peru’s Consejo de Ministros and made up of luminaries and intellectuals called “El Grupo del Deber” which, according to their website, looks to promote “the return of civic values” in Peruvian society.
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