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Lonely Hearts closes San Sebastian Film Festival
The prestigious San Sebastian Film Festival closed on Saturday with
the awards ceremony followed by the screening of Todd Robinson's
Lonely Hearts, starring John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto
and Salma Hayek.
The ceremony took place at the Kurssal Palace.
Attendees included Jeanne Moureau, Jos?Saramago, Jim Jarmusch, Bruno
Ganz, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Marisa Paredes and Tom DiCillio.
The movie was received with enthusiastic applause.
Guests then continued to celebrate at a private party which didn't
end until the next morning.
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Strong debut for Ugly Betty
After scoring high marks with critics, ABC's new show Ugly Betty
debuted strongly on Thursday night. The Salma Hayek-produced series
had the best premiere for any new show this fall. It was seen by 16.1
million viewers according to preliminary Nielsen ratings, and it went
from a 4.2 to a 5.6 rating during the last half hour. ABC had not had
such a big showing for an 8pm show that day since Mork & Mindy
did so 15 years ago. Harsh competition came from Survivor: Cook
Island, which won in total viewers (16.6 million) but not among
households (9.6 compared to Betty's 10.7).
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Salma Has the Last "Ugly" Laugh
 Salma
Hayek stunned her Latin American audience when she left her role on
"Teresa," a highly rated telenovela, to move to Hollywood
15 years ago. Unfortunately back then, as Salma found out, most
Hollywood roles for Latin women were prostitutes, waitresses or
maids. Thankfully that's no longer the case.
With the premiere of "Ugly Betty," an
American take on the Colombian show "Yo Soy Betty, La Fea"
on Thursday night, it seems Salma may have had the last laugh. As the
executive producer of the critically acclaimed show, Salma could have
easily have had a cameo as a model or high-powered fashion executive.
Instead, she decided to go back to her roots and maybe take a dig at
the Hollywood casting agents who typecast her so long ago.
Salma plays a maid on a telenovela that is on
constantly in Betty's house. Hayek's on tv overacting proves the
highly accomplished actress can still poke fun at herself and at the industry.
Source & Video - tmz.com
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Salma Hayek will be on the View this Thursday
 Salma
Hayek, producer of Ugly Betty, will be the guest in ABC's The View
the next Thursday along with America Ferrara
Thursday 09/28/06
Source - The
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Salma Hayek in Oprah
 Oscar®-nominated
actress Salma Hayek says Betty is a heroine she's always wanted to
see on television. "I thought living in a country that is so
obsessed with image, we have to have our Betty in the United
States," Salma says.
Betty doesn't care about superficial things, says
Salma. "All she cares is to do the best that she can and be the
best that she can do—and she doesn't care about what anybody
says. And she is the smartest person in there and the one you love
the most," Salma says. "It's a little bit sarcastic for all
those people that think that if you're not skinny and tall and 12,
you're ugly."
Even Salma says she can identify with Betty. As a
child, Salma was taunted for being short. "I think we all have
something that people point out to you, especially when you're
growing up," Salma says. "And then you point it out to
yourself nonstop," Salma says.
The thing Oprah loves most about the show is that it
focuses on true beauty. "This says that everybody is gorgeous in
their own way," Oprah says.
Source - Oprah.com
Gallery - Oprah
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Salma Hayek will be on Oprah this Thursday
 Salma
Hayek and the "ugly" truth about her new show. Plus, why
Forest Whitaker has Oscar buzzin'! And, the latest from Grammy winner
John Legend. Join the discussion.
Thursday 09/21/06
Source - Oprah.com
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Lonely Hearts Website online now
 Millennium
Films present the Lonely Hearts Website, the site contains Stills,
Trailer, Movie Poster and Production Notes.
Check Now in http://www.millenniumfilms.com/lonelyhearts
Lonely Hearts - Website
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ABC to Promote``Ugly Betty'' to Transit TV's
Targeted Hispanic Audience
 Television
networks face an increasingly competitive landscape to attract new
viewers, so channels are seeking innovative new ways to promote their
primetime series. With the Fall season premieres just around the
corner, ABC Entertainment (ABC) is targeting the Hispanic audience,
and promoting "Desperate Housewives" and "Ugly
Betty" with the help of its U.S. Hispanic agency ARENAS and
Transit Television Network (Transit TV) as a key resource to deliver
its primetime spots to the Hispanic community.
This Fall, Transit TV will air promotional spots for
ABC's primetime television shows "Desperate Housewives" and
"Ugly Betty" on Transit TV's mobile broadcast network.
The commercials will reach a dedicated, targeted
audience via Transit TV screens installed on thousands of transit
vehicles across select major markets, including Chicago, Los Angeles
and Orlando. Both spots will run in Spanish.
This commercial promotion will support the season's
launch of both shows. The award-winning "Desperate
Housewives" will premiere its 3rd season on Sunday, September 24
(9/8c), while "Ugly Betty" will have its series premiere on
Thursday, September 28th (8/7c). "Ugly Betty" is based on a
Colombian telenovela, "Yo Soy Betty La Fea," and adapted
into an American setting by producer Salma Hayek.
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Happy birthday Salma
 Salma
Hayek was born in the small town of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz to a
politician and an opera singer.
During her childhood she developed a knack for
gymnastics, considering even a life dedicated to it. Her father
wouldn¡¦t permit it though, and she eventually opted to get
an academic degree in Mexico City before something else grabbed her
attention: acting.
She became an overnight sensation with the leading
role in ¡§Teresa¡¨, a telenovela where she played
a scheming climber, but she quickly set her sights elsewhere. She
wanted to become an international actress and work in movies. So she
took her bags and moved to Hollywood. Salma started by taking acting
lessons, and she had the good fortune of being taught by the
legendary Stella Adler. After getting some
blink-and-you¡¦ll-miss-them roles in a couple of TV shows
and movies she found herself broke and unmotivated. That¡¦s
when she returned to Mexico to work on Jorge Fons¡¦s
¡§El Callejón de los Milagros¡¨, which
went on to win more international awards than any other Mexican movie
in history, and earned Salma a nomination for the Ariel, the highest
acting honor in her country.
Director Robert Rodriguez had the good fortune of
stumbling upon Salma in a talk-show while channel-surfing and
instantly spotted her muse. She cast her opposite Antonio Banderas in
¡§Desperado¡¨, which premiered at Cannes and
introduced her to a new worldwide audience. She would eventually work
with Rodriguez six more times and with Banderas four more times. From
then on, the world was ready for Salma to conquer.
For the next ten years or so, Salma shared the screen
with the likes of George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Russell Crowe,
Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Alan Rickman, Will Smith, Kevin Kline,
Benicio del Toro, John Malkovich, Alfred Molina, Ashley Judd,
Geoffrey Rush, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Johnny Depp,
Colin Farrell, John Travolta and other in movies such as
¡§Ask the Dust¡¨, ¡§Dogma¡¨,
¡§Traffic¡¨, ¡§El Coronel No Tiene
Quien Le Escriba¡¨, ¡§Timecode¡¨,
¡§54¡¨ and ¡§Fools Rush In¡¨.
She has worked for directors Andy Tennant, Kevin Smith, Arturo
Ripstein, Mike Figgis, Steven Soderbergh, Julie Taymor and Robert
Towne to name a few.
After years in development she was able to bring the
life of painter Frida Kahlo to the big-screen in
¡§Frida¡¨, a role that earned her an Academy
Award nomination for Best Actress among countless other accolades.
But Salma was ready to immerse herself in other aspects of the
entertainment business. In 2001, she produced ¡§In the Time
of the Butterflies¡¨ and also acted in it, and by 2003 she
produced and made her directorial debut with ¡§The
Maldonado Miracle¡¨, which starred Peter Fonda and for
which she won an Emmy. She is currently working as executive producer
in the ABC new series ¡§Ugly Betty¡¨, with
America Ferrera and Vanessa Williams, which is set to premiere this
month. Salma also has some upcoming projects as an actress in the
form of Todd Robinson¡¦s ¡§Lonely
Hearts¡¨, Julie Taymor¡¦s ¡§Across the
Universe¡¨ and William H. Macy¡¦s ¡§Keep
Coming Back¡¨.
Salma has not only put the name of her country and
heritage in the map, but she¡¦s also fought for women and
their role in society. In addition to her successful career she
dedicates most of her time to defend women¡¦s rights, to
abolish domestic violence and to support campaigns for AIDS and
poverty. In addition to her beauty and talent, Salma is a above all
an unstoppable fighter who seizes every moment life has to offer.
Hail to that!
Jose Ruiloba
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Salma Hayek's Appeal for Juarez Justice
 Actress
calls for action in murders of dozens of women in Juarez, Mexico.
Since 1993, there have been almost 400 murders of
women in Juarez. At least 90 were similar ?young factory workers,
their bodies dumped in fields or the desert, sometimes in groups.
Actress and Mexican native Salma Hayek is one of the
voices calling for action in Juarez. ABC News sat down with her this
week to talk about her efforts to raise money for victims' families
and get U.S. law enforcement more involved.
"They're not just killing women," Hayek
said. "They are taking girls that are both 15 to 22 years old.
They're all pretty. And they are mutilating them, raping them and
burning them. And then, whenever they wish, they throw the pieces in
the desert."
Source - ABC
News
Video - ABC
Interview
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ABC's Ugly Betty Moves to Thursdays
With
critical response to ABC's Ugly Betty extremely positive, ABC is
moving the comic soap to Thursdays at 8 p.m. from its previously
announced Friday 8 p.m. time slot.
The programming move means ABC will hold comedies Big
Day and Notes from the Underbelly--originally scheduled to air
Thurdays from 8-9 p.m.--until later in the season, broadcasting them
either on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, when Dancing with the Stars ends.
Betty's Friday night slot will be taken by America's
Funniest Home Videos, which also will continue to air Sundays.
With it now leading into hit Grey's Anatomy, Betty's
schedule shift underscores not only ABC's growing confidence in the
series. It also marks an increasingly aggressive push by th network
to become a competitor on Thursdays--the most lucrative night of the week.
Betty is produced by Silvio Horta, Ben Silverman,
Salma Hayek and Jose Tamez.
Source - mediaweek.com
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Salma
Hayek was born in the small town of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz to a
politician and an opera singer.
During her childhood she developed a knack for
gymnastics, considering even a life dedicated to it. Her father
wouldn¡¦t permit it though, and she eventually opted to get
an academic degree in Mexico City before something else grabbed her
attention: acting.
She became an overnight sensation with the leading
role in ¡§Teresa¡¨, a telenovela where she played
a scheming climber, but she quickly set her sights elsewhere. She
wanted to become an international actress and work in movies. So she
took her bags and moved to Hollywood. Salma started by taking acting
lessons, and she had the good fortune of being taught by the
legendary Stella Adler. After getting some
blink-and-you¡¦ll-miss-them roles in a couple of TV shows
and movies she found herself broke and unmotivated. That¡¦s
when she returned to Mexico to work on Jorge Fons¡¦s
¡§El Callejón de los Milagros¡¨, which
went on to win more international awards than any other Mexican movie
in history, and earned Salma a nomination for the Ariel, the highest
acting honor in her country.
Director Robert Rodriguez had the good fortune of
stumbling upon Salma in a talk-show while channel-surfing and
instantly spotted her muse. She cast her opposite Antonio Banderas in
¡§Desperado¡¨, which premiered at Cannes and
introduced her to a new worldwide audience. She would eventually work
with Rodriguez six more times and with Banderas four more times. From
then on, the world was ready for Salma to conquer.
For the next ten years or so, Salma shared the screen
with the likes of George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Russell Crowe,
Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Alan Rickman, Will Smith, Kevin Kline,
Benicio del Toro, John Malkovich, Alfred Molina, Ashley Judd,
Geoffrey Rush, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Johnny Depp,
Colin Farrell, John Travolta and other in movies such as
¡§Ask the Dust¡¨, ¡§Dogma¡¨,
¡§Traffic¡¨, ¡§El Coronel No Tiene
Quien Le Escriba¡¨, ¡§Timecode¡¨,
¡§54¡¨ and ¡§Fools Rush In¡¨.
She has worked for directors Andy Tennant, Kevin Smith, Arturo
Ripstein, Mike Figgis, Steven Soderbergh, Julie Taymor and Robert
Towne to name a few.
After years in development she was able to bring the
life of painter Frida Kahlo to the big-screen in
¡§Frida¡¨, a role that earned her an Academy
Award nomination for Best Actress among countless other accolades.
But Salma was ready to immerse herself in other aspects of the
entertainment business. In 2001, she produced ¡§In the Time
of the Butterflies¡¨ and also acted in it, and by 2003 she
produced and made her directorial debut with ¡§The
Maldonado Miracle¡¨, which starred Peter Fonda and for
which she won an Emmy. She is currently working as executive producer
in the ABC new series ¡§Ugly Betty¡¨, with
America Ferrera and Vanessa Williams, which is set to premiere this
month. Salma also has some upcoming projects as an actress in the
form of Todd Robinson¡¦s ¡§Lonely
Hearts¡¨, Julie Taymor¡¦s ¡§Across the
Universe¡¨ and William H. Macy¡¦s ¡§Keep
Coming Back¡¨.
Salma has not only put the name of her country and
heritage in the map, but she¡¦s also fought for women and
their role in society. In addition to her successful career she
dedicates most of her time to defend women¡¦s rights, to
abolish domestic violence and to support campaigns for AIDS and
poverty. In addition to her beauty and talent, Salma is a above all
an unstoppable fighter who seizes every moment life has to offer.
Hail to that!
Jose Ruiloba
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Posted on 01 Sep 2006 - 2009 by Webmaster
Salma Hayek's Appeal for Juarez Justice
Actress
calls for action in murders of dozens of women in Juarez, Mexico.
Since 1993, there have been almost 400 murders of
women in Juarez. At least 90 were similar ?young factory workers,
their bodies dumped in fields or the desert, sometimes in groups.
Actress and Mexican native Salma Hayek is one of the
voices calling for action in Juarez. ABC News sat down with her this
week to talk about her efforts to raise money for victims' families
and get U.S. law enforcement more involved.
"They're not just killing women," Hayek
said. "They are taking girls that are both 15 to 22 years old.
They're all pretty. And they are mutilating them, raping them and
burning them. And then, whenever they wish, they throw the pieces in
the desert."
Source - ABC
News
Video - ABC
Interview
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ABC's Ugly Betty Moves to Thursdays
With
critical response to ABC's Ugly Betty extremely positive, ABC is
moving the comic soap to Thursdays at 8 p.m. from its previously
announced Friday 8 p.m. time slot.
The programming move means ABC will hold comedies Big
Day and Notes from the Underbelly--originally scheduled to air
Thurdays from 8-9 p.m.--until later in the season, broadcasting them
either on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, when Dancing with the Stars ends.
Betty's Friday night slot will be taken by America's
Funniest Home Videos, which also will continue to air Sundays.
With it now leading into hit Grey's Anatomy, Betty's
schedule shift underscores not only ABC's growing confidence in the
series. It also marks an increasingly aggressive push by th network
to become a competitor on Thursdays--the most lucrative night of the week.
Betty is produced by Silvio Horta, Ben Silverman,
Salma Hayek and Jose Tamez.
Source - mediaweek.com
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Ask The Dust on DVD July 25th
 Ask
The Dust is hitting DVD July 25th. Colin Farrell is Arturo Bandini,
a young would-be writer who comes to Depression-era Los Angeles to
make a name for himself. While there, he meets beautiful barmaid
Camilla (Salma Hayek), a Mexican immigrant who hopes for a better
life by marrying a wealthy American. Both are trying to escape the
stigma of their ethnicity in blue-blood California . The passion that
arises between them is palpable ?if they could only set aside their
ambitions and submit to it. Oscar®-winning screenwriter Robert
Towne ( Chinatown ) directs this outcasts¡¦ tale of desire
in the desert.
Widescreen Version Enhanced for 16:9 TVs and features
Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround; English 2.0 Surround; English
subtitles and closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired.
Commentary by director Robert Towne, Salma Hayek and
cinematographer Caleb Deschanel
From Novel to Film: The Making of Ask The Dust
Theatrical Trailer
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Hayek calls reports of big fortune a "huge
lie"
 Mexican
big-screen siren Salma Hayek on Friday dismissed as nonsense reports
that she has a $100 million fortune, and said if she did she would
retire and use the money to help the poor.
Local media in Mexico and Latin America reported this
week that the Oscar-nominated actress had been ranked by Fortune
magazine as the second-richest Latin American in Hollywood, with
nearly half as much money as singer Jennifer Lopez.
"It's a huge lie. It's very, very far from
reality. I don't have that amount of money," Hayek told Reuters,
after reading an article in Mexican daily El Universal about a list
of "Latino millionaires" in the United States.
"Somebody sent me it and I laughed. It's a bit
like a joke. Obviously I have never earned $100 million and I
wouldn't even want to," she said in a telephone interview from
her Los Angeles home.
A spokesman for Fortune said he was not aware the
magazine had published such a list. "It's certainly not a list
we've done. It seems somebody got their facts mixed up," he said.
Source - Reuters
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Hayek helping launch comedic telenovela on ABC
 Salma
Hayek started her acting career appearing in telenovelas. Now, the
Oscar-nominated Mexican actress is bringing her own comedic take on
one to network television.
Hayek is one of six executive producers on "Ugly
Betty," debuting Sept. 22 on ABC. America Ferrera plays Betty
Suarez, a plump, decidedly unhip girl from New York City's borough of
Queens who works as an assistant to a fashion magazine publisher.
Asked whether the show's title might offend viewers,
Hayek said, "It's sarcastic. Anybody who isn't super skinny and
really tall, some people think they're really ugly. We're making fun
of it. We're not really calling her ugly."
The show is based on "Yo Soy Betty La Fea,"
a Colombian telenovela. Telenovelas have been hugely successful in
the United States on Spanish-language networks such as Univision and Telemundo.
"I'm sure that the American audience is very
thirsty for something like this and they're just going to love
it," Hayek said Tuesday at the Television Critics Association's
summer meeting.
Gallery - TCA
Press Tour
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William H. Macy to direct Salma Hayek in Keep
Coming Back
 Macy
will direct a film called Keep Coming Back, which will star Salma Hayek.
"But she's the only name I can name," Macy
told ComingSoon. "I've got more probably cast, but I can't say
it. So that's my directorial feature debut. I directed a little film
for HBO about 100 years ago, but that was shorter with about a
million-dollar budget. This is a real movie, it's an indie."
Macy made his directing debut in 1988 with the HBO
movie Lip Service, based on the Howard Korder play about a young news
reporter who schemes to take over the job of a veteran news anchor
whose ratings he's been hired to promote. The film failed to garner
critical or viewer acclaim (a 5.3 rating on imdb.com).
Keep Coming Back was written by veteran producer Will
Alditch (What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, The Sheltering Sky,
Flight of the Phoenix).
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Dolce and Gabbana honored the Salma Hayek Foundation.
 Thursday
marked a night of sexy, sleek and sophisticated starlets in Los
Angeles, as Eva Longoria, Mischa Barton and Molly Sims all strutted
their Dolce and Gabbana best.
The stars checked into the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel's
newly revamped penthouse as the Dolce and Gabbana honored the sultry
Salma Hayek and the Salma Hayek Foundation.
"It's all for women's rights," she revealed.
This leading lady is a force to be reckoned with, as
famous friends including Nicole Richie and Christina Ricci filled the
room. Salma seized her moment, drawing attention to the ongoing
violence against women in the Mexican border town of Juarez.
"It gives me an opportunity tonight to show a
couple of videos that can show what is happening in Juarez,"
Salma said. "With the 400 women that have been brutally raped
and tortured and mutilated and killed."
"I was just in Mexico with her; she's a real
leader," actress Jane Fonda said of Hayek. "She's been
working hard and speaking out and has been very brave on this issue."
Video - Extra
TV
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