Jessica Alba is going to be a great mother.
At least that’s what Eva Longoria’s mommy radar senses. During a gushfest that had people me wondering whether E.Lo was the newly appointed publicist for the relationship of La Alba and Cash Warren, Evasita said:
“She’s going to be amazing!She has to be one of the most compassionate, loving people you’ve ever met, and she is going to raise the most awesome human being in this world!”
Oh, brother.
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Ninel Conde is living a life full of plot twists that a Telemundo telenovela writer won’t think of. The man she married this past December in Acapulco, turns out, is still legally married to his beauty queen wife María Sol Corral. And that ain’t all of it.
Her man was also previously incarcerated back in 1998 for some, er, pecuniary issues. Ninel, at 37, don’t think there’s a lack of good men out there for you. You are a good catch girl. And do some reference checking and cross-reference checking next time.
I am so NOT feeling this misplaced damaltion-patterned outfit. What was Kat DeLuna thinking when she put this on? Wait, a better question…what stylist would let a star under her guidance go out with this getup? Kat’s 9 Lives album may be tight, but she needs to work on her dressing game. Dios mio. And look at her smiling, like she got it going on. Pobrecita.
Adriana Lima is on to better things. She’s fit for more brainy stuff than shaking her moneymaker on the catwalk okay…like hosting E!’s upcoming countdown.
The countdown show Victoria’s Secret: What Is Sexy? 2008 airs on February 9th 5/4c. This is going to be a busy year for Adriana La Virgen. She’s also going to be in Victoria Secret’s superbowl ads.
Is David Bisbal crushing on R&B/pop superstar Rihanna? The two recorded a song, and David sounds muy smitten:
“It was great. It was really a pleasure. She sings her version in English, and I sing mine in Spanish. Honestly, one of my dreams right now would be to share a stage with her. That would be amazing, and I hope we can make it happen in the future. “
Ahem, sounds like more than a musical admiration to me. You can get under her umbrella…la..la…la, eh…Ooh, David.
When it comes to family drama, ain’t no family in the world who had anything on half-sisters Laura Zapata and Thalia Sodi. They’ve made up, then stopped speaking again. Repeat cycle. But the sisters are taking steps to making up gracias a Dios.
The hermanas have a lot to catch up on. Laura’s never actually seen Thalia’s daughter Sabrina Sakaë. Laura told People en Espanol:
“I already received the address where I can send Sabrina gifts, and that makes me happy. I told [Thalía] that now that she’s a mother she’s going to understand a lot of things, and she agreed, saying ‘I already understand a lot of things as a mother, and I also understand that I love you.’”
Aw.
All that reconcilation stuff stops at Thalia, though. Laura says that she’s not taking steps to making up with her mother Yolanda Miranda Mange. Go figure. You ought to start your reconciliation game on your mother and then your half-sister. God knows life is short.
I can already hear the sisters’ first conversation together, with Laura swapping plastic surgeon references with Thalia. Oh, the love.
Can’t wait to see Zoe Saldaña in the upcoming Star Trek movie? You can watch her in the meantime. Zoe plays Claudine in BlackOut, premiering on BET this Friday at 8 P.M. E/T. The movie’s storyline centers upon the 2003 electricity outage and how it restored the connection and blotted out the despair in an inner city neighborhood. Watch your favorite Dominicana do her stuff.
Shakira, Christina Aguilera, and Mariah Carey have yet another thing in common. They’re the only three Latinas to make Forbes magazine’s list of highest grossing female musical artists for the fiscal year of 2007.
The wonderful government officials in the country of Republic of Spain want Antonio Banderas to bring down the house. And we’re not talking about in the slangy way.
According to The Telegraph, part of the beachfront million dollar vacation mansion in the exclusive town of Los Monteros was built illegally by the previous owner:
“Neighbours have long argued that Banderas, who bought the property 11 years ago, is the victim of corrupt town hall officials who issued planning permission after illegally reclassifying green belt land in return for backhanders. Read the rest of this entry »
She’s at Northshore Hospital, according to Newsday, as I’m typing this. Could Skeletor’s spawn be going through that canal right about now?
A scene from the Jennifer Lopez, Gregory Nava-directed film Bordertown, out on DVD today. The film also stars Antonio Banderas. This movie will be our only movie look at Yeni for some time. Unless a script comes up for the role of a wealthy and pregnant Latina, with a spoiled fetus, a Skeletor for a husband.
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Juanes now has his own music label. 4J’s, he calls it, after the first initial of the men in his family. Juanesito promises to bring Columbian talent to the forefront saying:
“We [he and his record label associates] get information from everywhere – the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. And the young, because of our reality, are curious and have lots to say. We’re not waiting for time to pass us by.”
That reality includes national profiling at international airports:
“It’s hard for Colombians,” he says. “Every time you’re in an airport, they think you’re a narco-trafficker. “
Chill, Juanesito. It could be worse. ‘Tis better to be harassed for being a national from a narcotics-happy country, than to be fashion policed for being a fug.
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Gloria Estefan is ready to pass on the musical torch, to none other than her daughter Emily.
The Cuban-American pop star introduced her daughter on drums at a concert in India. She told the Miami Herald:
”She’s focused on that and she’s very good,” Estefan said. “But she knows she has to study and then decide. I am not going to push her, or prevent her from developing herself. It’s a matter of time.”
Don’t think Emily look like star material? Remember that’s what they said too about the Clinton girl Chelsea Clinton. And now she’s a swan.
Go Emily! Run with that torch.
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Just look at her. Ain’t she a dream. That’s Dania Ramirez on the Hissiper’s radar over the weekend in Beverly Hills. In addition to her role in NBC’s “Heroes”, Dania Ramirez will be getting her movie game on pretty soon. Her slate is pretty much filled up: she’s starring in her fiancee’s Jesse Terrero’s film The Fifth Commandment, Ball Don’t Lie (with Harold Perrineau, Rosana Arquette and Nick Cannon) and the thriller Brooklyn to Manhattan. This Dominicana is sure going places.
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Jessica Alba looked quite glowing as she spoke to Matt Lauer ealier today on “The Today Show.”
The actress discussed her newest movie The Eye as well as her pregnancy. Of impending mamahood, Jessy told Lauer:
“You definitely have to go with the flow. You definitely have to surrender. But it’s a shock to a system. Again, I’ve never been one to emphasize anything on my looks or anything. It was just the polls, the magazines, they do it. It was never my thing. So I really don’t care.”
Girl, you trying to tell us that the fact that your body is blowing off and that you will be off those sexy package polls won’t bother you? Jessy, please. Whatev.
Why does everyone in this pic look a mess? Paulina Rubio should know better than to put that on. Alejandro could have used a grease wiper. I’ll spare Angelica Aragon. She’s entitled to a senior moment, after all.
pic: Ernesto Sanchez
I think I’ve figured out what happened.
The memos from the respective stylists of Sara Ramirez and America Ferrera ended up being the victim of the old switcheroo stuff, which explains why America looked like an old lady and Sara looked as if she were going to her prom.
Does this chica look good or what? Whereas America…
Something’s just not right with this outfit. The Monique L’lullier dress is just fine really, but I think I have a problem with the color. It’s just doesn’t say America. England maybe. Dress makes America look like an old lady. What’s worse than her choice of color? Her choice of hair style. That do makes it look as if she’s being seen in an aging mirror that ages her about 20 years.
Javier Bardem won a SAG award for his role as Anton in No Country for Old Men. JB, I’m totally feeling that humility ish, but it’s time to upgrade that wardrobe. Tell your assistant to get you some pomade to tame down those unruly strands of hair. A little vaseline and castor oil goes a long way.
Pic credit: (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
Ooh, E.Lo’s looking great. The hair and jewelry I mean. That dress looks like it’s just hanging. The fabric reminds me of those rectanble tablecloths my grandmother puts on her dining room table on Palm Sunday. That sleepy vixen pose and gaze looks good and the dress makes the best of her back rack… at least.
While Jessica Alba is waiting for the writer’s strike to end so that Fantastic 3 can start filming, she’s getting her movie game on with the film The Eye.
In the film, Jessy plays a blind violinist who gets an eye transplant, and then afterwards starts to get haunting visions. Hmmm. Interesting. Movie’s out this Friday.
After getting those multiple Razzy nominations, let’s hope this will be a start to getting Jessy some serious acting awards.
Eva Longoria was caught buying baby clothes. No, they’re not for her, but for her amijita Jennifer Lopez. As if Yeni needed any more baby stuff.
Speaking about her own eventual plans for motherhood with husband Tony Parker, E.Lo told the British press:
“We’re so happy if we get pregnant, and if we don’t, we’re okay. We’re just letting God decide it.”
In the meantime, guess she’s getting some good training in baby clothes shopping.
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The Latina Preggers Club is now in session and is abuzzing.
Club treasurer Jennifer Lopez is worried sick about pregnancy weight gain. Club President Salma Hayek hooks her mamalas to a breast-feeding pump, even when she’s not breastfeeding. It’ll help her lose weight…she thinks. And now…now junior member Jessica Alba…wait…let’s hear it from the lady herself:
“breastfeeding … is the only thing I’m paranoid about. More than giving birth.”
So what excatly are you afraid of Jessy? That little Junior Warren is gonna suck those teetays right off your chest? Or worse yet, that they’ll sag. Hee, hee. Then you’ll have to slid right off those Maxim and AskMen.com countdowns, huh?
George Lopez is in the latest issue of Dune Magazine. His sitcom The George Lopez Show may be cancelled, but the comic is finding all kinds of ways to keep his little self occupied (subtext: keeping his name out there) and is letting it known to the world that he’s still holding a grudge against talk show host Jay Leno over that little debacle in which Leno mistook Paul Rodriguez for him.
“If you shoot, expect to be shot at. (Leno) takes shots at people every night. So why can’t he withstand some?… I think he’s a person that cannot be ‘unliked.’ I think he has to feel like he’s liked at all times. And I think that’s a little disturbing. I mean, I know people don’t like me, and I’m cool with that. But he’s called TV stations to take on reporters and things when somebody says something that’s unkind. It’s a little bizarre.”
But G.Lo, he’s reached out, apologized to you and offered to make amends. Let it go, G.Lo. Forgiving will do you some good. Or, at least that’s what I’ve heard folks say.
P.S: Look at how those toes are sticking out on the cover. His toes look suspect, eczema suspect.
After being told by her more experienced friends in motherhood that breast feeding your baby helps you lose pregnancy weight, Salma Hayek is trying to lose all the pounds she gained while pregnant with Valentina in a quite an unusual, ahem, way. A friend let the chihuahua out of the bag on Salma’s diet:
“Salma has been pumping and freezing endless amounts of breast milk. When she’s not feeding Valentina, she’s hooked up to an industrial-size breast pump.”
Some friend.
Unfortunately despite Salmaita’s best efforts, the pregnancy weight seems to remain. Pobre, Salma. Susan Condon, a breastfeeding expert has some advice for Salmaita, though:
“After you have your baby, if what you eat is varied and well balanced, breastfeeding can help you lose your pregnancy weight without compromising either your health or your baby’s by dieting. And you naturally burn calories to make breast milk every time you nurse. The best way [to] losing weight is to work toward a gradual weight loss, eat when you’re hungry, and make sure you get enough fluids. It’s the best way of losing weight easily and safely!”
Salmaita, I will give you the same advice I gave Jennifer. Don’t worry about that pregnancy weight. There’s just more of you to love, that’s all, comadre. And those size 6 designer gowns…send them my way. I will gladly dispose of them for you.
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Eva Mendes had some off-the-set gossip to dish on Will Smith, with whom she co-starred in the matchmaking romantic comedy Hitch:
”Will literally takes three sips and he’s buzzed. It’s not even like three sips of whiskey; it’s literally a pina colada or a daiquiri – he loves girly drinks – and he’s down.”
He couldn’t hold his liquor, huh, Eva? But you couldn’t hold your teetays. Guess, nobody’s perfect.
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What I told you? Told you that Javier Bardem would be nominated for an Oscar for his role as Anton in No Country for Old Men.
Oscar noms are in, and sure enough my boy is on the list. Hope the strike is over by Oscar time, or hopefully the organizers can get themselves a waiver from the Writer’s Guild. There’s no way Javier is going to be deprived of his Oscar glory and any of those post-show fests.
In the other corner, we’ve got La Alba who got nominated for a Razzy for her roles in Awake, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Good Luck Chuck.
The musclelicious actor Mario Cimarro will be starring in yet another Telemundo production with fellow Pasion de Gavilanes alum Danna Garcia called La Traición (The Betrayal).
Telemundo is no doubt hoping that the chemistry of the two actors will reignite for this new production.
Goodness knows they need the ratings. Pobre Telemundo. Always getting Univision’s leftover viewers. Like Telemundo’s recent hit Zorro:La Espada y la Rosa, La Traición is set pre-20th Century. The novela also stars Sandra Echevarría and Gabriel Porras. Even with this period costume, pretty sure the script will find a way to have Mario remove his shirt.
Here’s La Cubanita Cristina Khuly at the Miami premiere of her documentary Shoot Down.
Shoot Down chronicles the 1996 Cuban government-ordained shooting down of volunteer planes that were helping Cuban refugees who coming to Florida in rafters. Cristina explained the motive behind making the film:
“My goals in making the film are two-fold. First my Uncle was one of the men killed that day, so I feel personally motivated to make sure people understand the facts about the incident. Also I’m Cuban-American and I feel we as a community are misunderstood. I have heard people refer to us as “right-wing nuts” or the “Cuban Mafia” and that kind of rhetoric is hurtful and untrue.”
And about her reaction about how the movie’s received so far:
“I guess I feel that I have done my community proud not just by making the film but by getting it into a situation where it has the opportunity to be a theatrical success. The film is opening January 25th on over 20 screens, thus bringing an extremely important story to a mainstream audience. I think Cuban-Americans have not had many such opportunities and I’m thrilled to be blazing this trail for other filmmakers.”
Latinas are doing it for themselves, thank you very much.
[pics: doc stills Claudia Raschke-Robinson, CrissyK pic Gayle O]
It seems that Mario Lopez is everywhere these days. Since his “Dancing with the Stars” bit, it seems that there’s no escaping the dimpled one. And the latest Mario Lopez sighting? In the Lone Star Sate of Texas.
The actor was at the San Pedro Playhouse this past weekend, and at ACC’s Rio Grande Campus Main Stage as part of a workshop for aspiring entertainers.
Who better to show the novices the ropes than someone who was “it”, then went into oblivion, and then came back?
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As Rico on TV’s Hannah Montana, he’s everyone’s favorite annoying little brother. But shorty cute actor Moises Arias has got swagger.
He’s making some moves career-wise. The thirteen year old is set to appear in Dadnapped, a Disney TV-movie with Jonathan Keltz and David Henrie.
I bet he’s going to be the next Frankie Muniz. At least if he falls in the traps of teenybobby drama, he’ll have his brother to fall on. The teen star said his 12-year old brother is his best friend.
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Jessica Alba and Warren Cash were at Park City, Utah over the weekend attending Sundance. The expectant mama has been photogged looking quite discontent lately, but fortunately was in a good mood during the film festival. She even got chummy with a festival attendee.
Of course papacito Cash Warren was there, at her side. I’m so feeling that Eskimo getup. 
Puerto Rico has a new magazine.
Who better to make its premier cover than Puerto Rico’s own native son and Cane star Jimmy Smits?
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Yeni had a baby shower over the weekend at the exclusive Park Hotel in New York City. The blue and pink theme makes her a mother-of-twins suspect. Word is, the shower took place on the hotel’s rooftop. Wonder if Marky hauled her off on a wheelchair to the elevator. Or did she walk up those long flight of stairs and got some mommy exercise?
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You know a rapper is about to have an album out when all over sudden he’s trying to open beef scabs. Ahem, Fat Joe’s album “The Elephant in the Room” is set to drop in March from Virgin Records and the blitz has begun.
The rapper taped an appearance this week on BET’s Rap City and bragged host Q-45’s head off:
“Do you know the life span of an artist? Artists don’t last no more than two albums. He come out, he a new sensation, he got a hot record. When he come out with the second album, he don’t even have a hit, he’s gone, similar to a Young Buck/Lloyd Banks situation. That’s real talk, they outta here. I’ve been in the game for 14 years. I’ve been dropping so many hits. Do you know how hard it is for a guy to make a hit record every single time? This record right now is about to be #1 in the country. It’s killin’ them. You can’t stop me. So my thing is why not give credit where credit is due?”
While going on with his bragging rhapsody, Fatty Joe took a little time to take credit for the success of many artists:
“If a dude keep bringing out number one records ‘Make It Rain,’… ‘Lean Back’ made them ‘Lean Wit it, Rock Wit It,’ made em ‘Shoulder Lean,’ matter fact blame me for ‘Pop, Lock and Drop It’ cause ‘Lean Back’ started that. ‘Make it Rain’…”Rihanna” had to talk about it, she had to get an umbrella. How many people you seen make it rain after a song like that? But they don’t want to talk about Fat Joe like he’s top ten. Elephant is in the Room, the Room is hip-hop!”
Por favor, hermano.
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Used to be a time when Cuban Link and Fat Joe were the best of friends. As members of Terror Squad, the amigos drank Cristal together and held it down, all while representin’ the Bronx.
Now all these sweets memories have been thrown in archive. Cuban hasn’t been a part of Terror Squad for some time due to some irreconcilable differences. Thought it was left at that…but obviously not. Cuban Link actually has come out with a diss record, called “You’re Not Hood”.
On it, Cuban raps: “N*gga you’re not hooooooooood/ You wear your pants above your waist yous just a gangsta on Myspace, that’s gonna make you catch a case/ You’re not hoooooooood…”
He also has some hard words for Fat Joe’s new BFF’s Miami-based radioman DJ Khaled…:
(“Aye yo Khaled, you a f_ _ _ _ _, you about to get your mothaf*ckin shit tossed/ like a salad, Ima let you have it”)
…and teetaylicious rapper Rick Ross:
“f*ck you and a mothaf*ckin Rick Ross/ …Yall should just really ‘listennnnn’/ before yall come up missinnnn…”
It’s like that huh, Cuban? Look for a rebuttal diss from Fat Joe on a remix from his newest album “The Elephant in the Room.” What’s that quote from the 18th Century French composer? “It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend. “
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Tom Cruise basically used Penelope Cruz and Sofia all in the name of Scientology expansion…if you believe passages from Andrew Morton’s explosive unauthorized biography of Tommy.
public knowledge: Tom Cruise and Penelope fell in love on the set of Vanilla Sky.
But according to Morton: the Scientology church approved of Penelope because of ulterior motives: “It didn’t hurt that Tom’s love interest Penelope Cruz came from Spain, a market that Scientology was looking to exploit.”
And La Vergara:
public knowledge: Sofia Vergara and Tommy briefly dated.
But According to Morton: After being zealously courted by Tommy (flowers, romantic text messages, and some good Scientology books), Sofia was put off by Tommy’s bossy possee. She told her comadres that she found out that she was being recruited as a bride for Tommy, only so the Scientology church could use her in recruiting little armies of Scientologists in Latin America.
Oh, brother.
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Jaslene Gonzalez is on the cover of the clothing catalog Metrostyle.
I don’t see this chica enough. She made history by becoming the first Puerto Rican model winner on the show and she deserves more magazine covers. Visibility, I say for Jaslenita. Somebody please refill the Starbucks coffee cup of her agent at Elite.
Marc is changing Yeni. Not the way around. In the UK edition of Cosmopolitan Yeni lets it out.
“What I know is that after I married Marc, I wanted to take stock of my life and make my marriage work. ‘J Lo the diva’ made a conscious effort to become ‘Jennifer the wife’.”
Could there be some truth to the claims that celebrity manager Irving Azoff dumped J.Lo because her hubby Marc Anthony was constantly butting in, in career decisions? What do I get the feeling that after this chica drops that baby, she’s going to be a whole different person, and I’m not talking about the three extra butts she’ll have in post-pregnancy baby weight.
Each day I’m more convinced that Javier Bardem will end up winning an Oscar this year for his role as Anton Chirugh in the Coen Brothers film No Country for Old Men.
My lastest convincer? My boy actually got nominated for his role in No Country for Old Man for the BAFTA awards, the British equivalent of the Oscars. Go head on, Javier.
Rosie Perez co-hosted the Urban Wheels Awards last night in Detroit with Kevin Frazier and didn’t make it a secret that she wants to go green.
She’s undecided between a Toyota and a Ford Escape (subtext: bigging up the car industry or supporting the environment):
“Toyota is a great company, but I would love to see Americans have jobs and prosperity. I believe we’ll have prosperity, and we won’t have layoffs if we go green.”
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It’s official. “Ugly Betty” estrella America Ferrera is in Hillary’s corner.
According to UK’s The Independent, this is a milestone for the presidential nominee formerly known as Hillary Rodham Clinton. Ferrera joining her camp:
“generat[es] instant appeal among Hispanic voters – a key swing vote in the 2008 US presidential race.”
America had this to say:
“This election is too important to stand on the sidelines, especially for my generation. I look forward to rallying young people to use their voices and get involved. I believe that Hillary Clinton can turn this country around. I am confident she will be a champion for young women and men across the country.”
Wonder what Latino Obama plans on pulling in his corner? The Independent made this remark:
“In Nevada, Mr Obama has been saying he transcends the bitterness that often exists between blacks and Spanish voters. “My history is excellent with Latino supporters back in Illinois, because they knew my record,” he said, “Nationally, people don’t know that record quite as well. So it’s very important for me to communicate that.”
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If Roselyn Sanchez has her way, she will play Mexican-born screen legend Lupe Velez, who after a turburlent life killed herself in 1944. Roselyn has option a biography of the actress and wants to make it her baby project, telling writer Josh Getlin:
“Velez was a talented and free-spirited person, very sexual, and it was incredible what she could do in Hollywood with such a thick accent, especially as talking films began . If I had a magic wand, I would do for her what Halle Berry did for Dorothy Dandridge, in her movie for HBO.”
Roselyn went on:
“Hispanics have become the ‘it’ demographic these days, but Hollywood hasn’t really catered to our demographic. I want to show people that we already had a presence in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s, and that we didn’t just come out of nowhere. This is important history.”
Hope it becomes a reality. If HBO won’t make it, take your stuff to Showtime girl. Showtime tells you no? There’s Oxygen.
Mariah Carey is one the many artists featured on American Idol Judge Randy Jackson’s upcoming Dream Merchant album compilation “Randy Jackson’s Music Club, Vol. 1″.
The Riah makes the musical appearance on the song “I Understand” along with Bebe Winans, Kim Burrell, Rance Allen, and Hezekiah Walker and his The Love Fellowship Tabernacle Church Choir. MeMe is obviously warming us softly for her own album later on this Spring.
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If the Grammys end up getting the Golden Globe treatment because of the writer’s strike, the winners at this year’s Grammys will not get to walk across the stage in all their Grammy-winning glory come this February 10th. Here are the Latinos who are nominated this year’s awards:
In the Best Latin Rock Or Alternative Album we have No Hay Espacio by Black: Guayaba; Adelantando by Jarabe De Palo; Amantes Sunt Amentes by Panda; Kamikaze by Rabanes; and Memo Rex Commander Y El Corazón Atómico De La Via Láctea by Zoé.
In the Best Latin Urban Album category, nominations went to E.S.L. by Akwid; El Abayarde Contra-Ataca by Tego Calderón; Residente O Visitante by Calle 13; El Cartel: The Big Boss by Daddy Yankee; and Vacaneria! by Fulanito. And of course Mike Elizondo was nominated for Producer of the Year.
Too bad J.Lo’s album “Como Ama Una Mujer” did not figure in any of these categories. It was released in time to be eligible. She’s done some of her best vocal work on this album.
pics: Batanga
…try again and again til you get it right.
Christina Milian’s singing career has a new home. Milian has signed on with MySpace’s new recording label in a collaboration with Interscope Records. Def Jam, ChrissyMili’s previous label gave her the boot. Reports the BV Buzz:
“Milian currently dates producer Dre of the producing duo Cool and Dre . The production team produced the majority of her last album on Island Def Jam and reports claimed that since Milian only wanted her boyfriend to produce the album, the label decided to drop her once it performed poorly.”
Let’s hope that the tide turns for Christina’s next album, and that she makes more fruitious decisions about her career. She actually turned down the song “S.O.S”. , which eventually became a big hit for fellow singer Rihanna.
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Did Jennifer Lopez fired her manager Irving Azoff? Or was it the other way around? It all depends on whose publicist you believe.
The Jennifer Lopez side: Yeni parted ways with the manager.
The Irving Azoff side: During a heated phone call with J-Lo, Azoff told Yeni that she made it impossible for her to be managed and that he didn’t appreciate Marc Anthony’s undesirable advice and meddling. He then send her off her dumping letter.
Scotland Yard, we need your help on this one.
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You’ve never seen anything until you’ve seen a Mexican’s take of the character of Roxie Hart the character in the musical ”Chicago”. Your chance is via the vivacious actress Bianca Marroquin who broke a barrier as the first (as far as we know) Latina actress in history to come from Mexico to a leading role on Broadway.
The actress, we’re told, returned to the stage last night at the Ambassador Theatre and rocked it. Good for you BiBi.
Say what you will about reality shows, but “Celebrity Apprentice” is somewhat of an interesting watch if only for Nely Galan.
This chica used to be a Telemundo executive, and wrote a makeover book ( The Swan Curriculum) but these days she’s rocking it solo via her own production company in Venice, Cali. Unlike other reality show contestants, don’ t think she’s gonna fall off the radar if she ends up being eliminated. This chica’s got swagger. She’s putting together “The New You,” a daytime health and wellness series set for NBC and has big screen plans for the novel “The Dirty Girls Social Club”.
Watch out for boxer Tito Ortiz too, who has his Team Punishment clothing line out. The show airs on NBC Thursday 9 Central time.
The beautiful and kittenish Puerto Rican actress Adamari Lopez is coming back to TV with another Roberto Gomez Fernandez production the telenovela Alma de hierro (Iron Soul).
The actress played a bad girl in her last telenovela outing Bajo Las Riendas del Amor and looks forward to playing another vixen:
“My character’s name [in the new telenovela] is Rita. I’m going to play the role of the villain, so I’m really happy, always the villain. I love wreaking havoc on other people’s lives.”
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Javier Bardem won a Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actor for his role as Anton the psychopath in the film No Country for Old Men. Javier released a statement:
“It is a great honor to have been recognized with this award in a time when there are so many outstanding performances in this category.”
Due to the writer’s strike, the winners were announced via a live press conference. I had to resort to mentally picturing the fashions for the night. So, I will tell you what everyone wore. Best Actress in a Comedy or musical nominee America Ferrera wore a green toga-like Elie Tahari gown with Shemera eyelashes and a sweeping hairdo. Shakira, best song nominee? A fitting gown that showed off her belly dance-flattened abs.
Tony Parker wants to have a few juniors and juniorettes with his wife Eva Longoria. Says Eva:
“Tony wants his children to be able to see him play… and I’d like lots of little TP juniors.”
Meanwhile, Eva is giving the hand to pregnancy rumors.
“We’ve [the TV writing world] been on strike, so I’ve been home in Texas. I’ve gained 10 pounds just cooking and eating.”
It’s cooking fat, okay. Not baby (bump) fat.
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Rosario Dawson and Jessica Alba were among the celebs who showed up in support of the decade-old V-Day, a world-wide effort to stop the violence against women.
Jessica told the crowd: “If you guys don’t know, I’m pregnant. You’re all women. I think you understand your breasts are engorged and your stomach is getting bigger by the second.”
Being pregnant has also brought Jessy’s awareness of women’s treatment around the world to a new level.
Rosario read a poem she wrote for the occassion, and was quite passionate about the cause:
“It literally started from one woman’s voice … and it’s exponentially grown. It’s about embracing being a female and reclaiming that.”
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ChrissyAgui gave birth yesterday via a C-section at Cedars Sinai Hospital. Aguilera and her music executive husband Jordan Bratman welcomed baby boy Max Liron Bratman. The baby boy arrived just a few minutes after 10:00 p.m. 10:05 and weighed about 6 pounds. ChrissyAggui (or maybe a well-paid epublicist) wrote this message on her website:
“Today is a very joyful and special day for Jordan and I as we welcome our first son into this world.”
As a bonus to friends, Chrissy put together a mini-music video for the song Save Me From Myself from the Back to Basics album with plenty of footage from the couple’s wedding video.
The song’s lyrics calling for patience, compassion and perseverance in a relationship (“It’s not so easy loving me/It gets so complicated/All the things you gotta be/Everything’s changing”) were obviously written as a sort of love hymn for Bratman, but with little Max arriving, it carries deeper meaning.
Congrats Chrissy Agui.
Mexican actress Ana Claudia Talancón, who starred alongside Javier Bardem in Love in the Time of Cholera, has another movie coming up Arráncame la vida (Take Away my life) sounded off recently to reporter Francis Rodríguez about the treatment Latinos get in Hollywood:
“I’ve received some support, but there still are some directors stuck in stereotypes. They organize everything in boxes and, of course, Latinos have their own box. But they need to know that some of us are güero (white) and blue-eyed.”
Huh? What is this suppose to mean, Anita? Should fairer skinned Latinos be the only ones representing Hispanics in Hollywood? If you’re mad about Hollywood’s bigotry, shouldn’t you be attacking Hollywood and not be making tart little comments about your darker-skinned fellow Latinos?
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Jessica Alba had enough of Perez Hilton blasting her on his website about being ashamed of being a Latina/of Mexican heritage and she’s not gonna take it anymore.
According to Jessica, Perez Hilton has been dogging her out because she refused to take photos with him at a club once. Here’s her Perez Hilton diss:
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When you take the saucy storyline of ABC’s phenomenal hit “Desperate Housewives” and you transplant it into a telenovela, and you recruit telenovela/s biggest beauties/actresses—Lucia Mendez, Scarlet Ortiz, Lorna Paz, Ana Serradilla, Gabriela Vergara and Julieta Rosen—what do you get? A big hit, that’s what. Only in its first week and
Univision’s new telenovela “Amas de Casas Desesperadas” is already giving Telemundo a run for its money.
It wasn’t much of a gamble. All the right elements were there. Isn’t Univision glad it didn’t take the dubbed route?
Salma Hayek has signed on to play the facial-hair laden Madame Truska in the Paul Weitz movie Cirque du Freak opposite John C. Rilley.
We bet every guy on the block will holler at this bearded lady. She’ll make the sexiest freak ever.
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Former James Bond Roger Moore finds Shakira a bit appealing. He’s had a chance to work with her one-on one during her stint as a UNICEF ambassador.
And it’s not just her hip work that the 80-year old finds impressive. “I know Shakira and her great work. She’s a very talented lady,” the knighted actor told the British media.
Shakira inspires, um, admiration in the other sex too. Nora Jones has got a love jones for La Columbiana: “She’s hot. I like that she’s this pop star, but she’s also kind of unique and weird. I always sing Shakira when I do karaoke with my friends.”
Drawing drool lust from an 80-something and another female. Guess Shakira is that kind of chic.
Things haven’t been going too well for Paulina Rubio lately.
Last year, she and her husband Nicolas tested positive for marijuana use and had their visa request denied in Mexico. Then her papa-in-law passed. And now her pooch a Pomeranian she named Miranda Rubio Dosamantes has died. Just how close were Paulina, mistress and Miranda pet? Let’s look at this excerpt from a press release and get an idea:
“Wherever Pau went, Miranda went. Let’s not forget her barks from the super song from the Pau-Latina album, and let’s remember that Miranda starred in a bunch of Pau’s videos.”
Aw. Here’s to the Hissiper wishing Paulina better days.
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The question of the day is in: who let Michelle Rodriguez out? Apparently the wonderful folks at Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California due to overcrowdedness.
The actress was supposed to have completed a 180-day jail term, but was released after serving 17. Let’s hope she’s learned her lesson.
It was too good to be true from the beginning.
A non-stereotypical drama about a Latino family (Cuban to be precise) on prime-time. But the future of The Sopranos-Dyansty hybrid “Cane” starring Jimmy Smits, the legendary Rita Moreno, acting veteran Hector Elizondo, Michael Trevino, Lina Esco, Nestor Carbonell, Paola Turbay, Eddie Matos—could be in jeopardy. Oscar Torre told the Miami Herald:
Keep being positive. And let’s hope things work out just fine.
Latina diva Kat De Luna owes her divorced parents some flowers, for unwittingly pushing her into music. During the De Lunas arguments and following their divorce KD would find refuge in music:
“My mum and dad fought a lot when they were together. With all the difficulties around me that time, music gave me peace.”
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Ever wonder how Ana Ortiz maximed her chances of getting the role of America Ferrera’s sister Hilda Suarez on “Ugly Betty”? Wonder no more. The actress simply dressed the part.
Ana also teased the press about whether her character Hilda will get together with Daniel:
Going green is the thing to do these days in celebrityhood.
Some cynics (and no: cynics isn’t a noun replacement for The Hissiper) might wonder whether they’re doing it for the publicity or for the good of the environment, but you can count on having a sincere earth lover in Jose Gonzalez. Being green is not just about showing up at the latest paparazzi-infested event for a photo op. For him, it goes on when he’s out of the public eye too.
Gonzalez’s road touring staff will be handing out reusable water bottles as part of the singer’s green effort. The singer has also teamed up with the organization Reverb to calculate the CO2 footprint of the undertaking–from venue energy use to transportation emissions–and work to neutralize it by supporting green alternative solutions on the tour. Tickets for the outing–which will hit 26 cities throughout March–will include a 50-cent surcharge to help offset Reverb’s environmental efforts, according to one report.
But don’t think the album is going to be about leaves and grass. The singer said:
“The lyrics are far from biological. It’s mainly the theme that interests me.”
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Mariah Carey says that reports that she referred to Jennifer Lopez as “a pig” is so untrue.
“This is just some internet gossip and it’s pathetic that people actually entertain the thought that this could be real. This is another sad example of two strong women being pit against each other.”
So the pig part wasn’t true, diva…can we still hope for a duet? [Source]
Mariah Carey reportedly wants to give speed-dating a try.
“I like the idea of 15 mini-relationships each lasting three minutes and then you go home alone!”
Gee, didn’t know MeMe was that disillusioned. She said she found the format of speed-dating appealing:
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Kat Von D seems to be getting a little plumper. Could there be something cooking in her oven. And we’re not talking about arroz con pollo? Maybe the next time she visits the tattoo parlor she’ll have the artist draw a sonogram.
Look who’s on the cover of the newest Harper’s Bazaar. None other than my best friend Yeni.
Yeni is all drama inside the magazine’s covers.
Commenting on her recent preggers-on-the-hush-hush: “I kind of feel like everybody knew anyway. I was on tour with a bubble gut!”
Of her skeletor marido Mark Anthony she said:
“He made me realize you can be an artist, and have credibility and success, without your life being on public display 24 hours a day.”
And looks like once she gets her bun out of the oven, she’s gonna get extra private:
She looks good, though. Got to admit it.
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Alba let the paparazzi have it in the latest issue of Elle, for which she graces the cover:
“They do this [follow] to me every day. And every day there’s no story. I’m not doing drugs. I’m not running over people. I’m not going to clubs. I’m not dating anyone famous. I’m not doing anything interesting! I don’t get it. I’m the most boring chick ever.”
The most boring chick ever? In whose universe Jessy?
At some point, your overworking brain has probably thought about how great it would be if Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez, two great Latinas would do a song together. File this fantasy under ‘Dream On’, ’cause it ain’t gonna happen. When asked about the possibility, Mariah, while being interviewed by “Inside Hollywood”, The Riah said:
Ouch. Sounds like a little bit of resentment to me. Yeni doesn’t have half of the pipes, but she gets as much fame and attention. This must be getting on Mariah’s nerves.
According to a source, this rivalry goes waaay back, when J.Lo sampled two of the songs that would eventually be on soundtrack to Mariah’s soundrack to her movie Glitter.
We all know the rest of the story. Glitter tanked, and J.Lo’s album blew up. But surely, there’s enough room for everyone.
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To lose weight Rosario gets her yaz on. It’s an exercise that combines spinning and yoga and is the workout of the moment in Hollywood.
“It’s not only great that I’m feeling strong, but because of Yaz my butt is looking much better these days.”
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Not that she has the ring on her finger and is known in social circles as Mrs. Tony Parker, Eva Longoria has been neglecting the treadmill:
Girl, you still got some of those New Year’s Eve martinis-vodka cocktail streaming in your cerebrum?…You better work it.
Just ’cause that whole Alexandra Paressant story turned out to be fallacious does not mean you have to let go of the b-o-d-y.
Eva says that she never exercised to look good for her man in the first place. “I grew up as an athlete, so I wanted to be strong and healthy, not so much thin and beautiful. So that’s not what I work out for.”
As a child, Eva Mendes wanted to be a nun…you know those self-denying ladies, with huge crosses hanging around the necks and with the long robes (in varying colors as grey, black, and blue). But she opted for Cal State University and not the convent.
So, what exactly made La Eva drop her rosary?
“My sister told me: ‘You know, Eva, nuns don’t get paid.’ And I said: ‘Forget it!’ I’ve always wanted a better life, financially.”
Looks like there’s still a little nun left in Eva. So her parents wouldn’t see the sex scenes she has with Joaquin Phoenix in the movie We Own the Night, she had them wait in the lobby at the movie’s premiere for a good 15 minutes. [Source]
Javier Bardem attended the New Yorks Critics Circle Award and walked off with a trophy for his role as Anton, a psychocrazy in the film No Country for Old Men.
While at the award show, the actor known for his laidback style, verbally stated his support for the writer’s strike: “We have to support people who protest for just causes, and this is obviously one of those cases that we must support.”
Penelope was not by his side, but was really present during the couple’s beach romp over the weekend.
Guess there’s a time to play, and a time to work.
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Christina Aguilera is opting for a C-Section, although her pregnancy doesn’t warrant one. ChrissyAgui is opting for the procedure to make her labor pangs as painless as possible, but it may do just the opposite, says a labor expert:
Guess Chrissy Agui is so loaded, she’s choosing to ask for surgery she doesn’t need.
Model Naomi Campbell interviewed Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez for GQ. Among Naomi’s discoveries: “If he wasn’t the president, he’d be a very successful Latin singer.”
Who would ever thought?
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Is success going to the head of reggaeton duo Wisin y Yandel, best known for their hit “Rakata”?
“We’re beyond reggaetón,” Wisin told a NY Daily News reporter recently. “We are aiming at Europe and Russia first, and we know we have the potential to enter these markets hands-down.”
Continuing with his braggadacio rhapsody:
A little humility please amigos. In the fickle world of music, today’s hottest flavor could be declared stale the next.
Gloria Estefan was recently interviewed by Shaun Robinson of “Access Hollywood”. Gloria was on the show to promote her upcoming appearance on “Dancing with the Stars.”
Gloria has been holding it down, in spite of her mom’s illness.
Carlos Santana knows what the world needs. Another church. The guitarist, whose wife recently filed for divorce, told World Entertainment Network News:
“It will be non-denominational and purely about spirit, where everything merges… We won’t leave anybody out.”
Wonder what the first commandment of the Church of Santana will be? Thou Shall Not Cheat on Thy Wife maybe?
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She may be preggers, but Christina Aguilera is not planning on being some house decoration or putting herself on career punishment, once she gives birth.
The singer will be taking up the next echelon of her superstar career: acting. The film, reportedly entitled Humboldt Park will have ChrissyAgui starring alongside John Leguizamo and preggers alumni Katie Holmes. The movie is set for ‘09 release. Let’s hope Chrissy gets better reviews than Mariah Carey did for Glitter.
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So, VH1 will have a reality show in which the winner will get the chance to star in a steam telenovela? No, it’s not called “Telenovela Idol” or “Sleeping with the Telenovela Stars”. It’s entitled “Viva Hollywood”, and will premiere this spring, and will be hosted by the singer-actress Maria Conchita Alonso and songwriter-actor Carlos Ponte (“Dame Chocolate”). A dozen contestants will be schooled on the Seven Deadly sins of Telenovelas (that’ll be passion (ooh), lust (ah), charisma (ooh), drama (hmmh), fire (hahh), seduction (ooh)and scandal (ah).
The winner will get…get this…a spot on a Telemundo show, a representation contract from Latin World Entertainment, and a $100,000 in cash (or whatever amount it comes to after the IRS has their share of the dough).
Telemundo had its own version a few years back. VH1’s version will no doubt give the eventual winner and participants additional exposure in the English-speaking market.
Strange twist: astrologer Walter Mercado will give the contestants guidance. The fraudista. If he’s so clairvoyant, why doesn’t he just predict the winner and spare us all?
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While it was no secret that Jennifer Lopez is expecting twins, the sex of the Marc Anthony and Yeni babies have been a mystery. Until now. JLo recently got a sonogram, and it revealed that that it’s gonna be a boy and a girl. The singer has had monogrammed Princess and Prince at celeb baby bump haven Petit Tresor. Wonder what their names will be..
JLo has also admitted in an interview that her preggers status has turned her into a big cry baby:
“Anything that is touching makes me cry – any commercial that is sappy and silly. Things about dads make me cry, maybe because of my relationship with my own father. But anytime I see anything about a dad with his little girl, and I’m over tired, I’m gone!”
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It turns out that all that clamor about Penelope Cruz kissing her sister Mónica in her brother singer Eduardo’s music video wasn’t true.
She’s actually lip-locking with another girl, a Ms. Mia Mastro. Got it.
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Juanes is the king of the Latino love song, some would say. Check out what he had to say about his craft.
Interviewer: ”Why are love songs and songs about falling out of love so popular?”
Juanes: “They’re very much alike. It’s like the moon is dark on one side and light on the other – it’s the same thing. Love and sadness are the same thing. The only way to understand one is to know what the other means. When we’re in love we’re human – it’s part of life. When you love you have to assume that you have to suffer, that love hurts. When your daughter falls you know it will hurt you, because it’s such a powerful love. It’s a love that’s so great that it hurts.”
Guess we can expect his reunion with his wife Karen Martinez after their separation to be permanent. And if not, maybe it’ll serve as some inspiration for a jam.
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Latino funnyman Gabriel Iglesias (“BET Comic View”, “My Wife and Kids”, “Comedy Minutes”) is on a comedy tour, which will take him to South Florida January 10-13th at the Improv in Hollywood.
Look forward to hilarious banter and jaw-curving jokes.
Real love is out there. Tila Tequila is sure of it. The folks at MTV are apparently just as convinced. They’re giving the reality star another stab at love, with a second season of the show “A Shot at Love”.
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Sebastián Rulli wed his on and off-again live-in girlfriend TV host Cecilia Galeano.
The telenovela star and his bride said their vows in front of a judge and a few family members (about 27). In this recessiony economy, it’s great to know that the Rullis will have to buy only one can of mousse and only one can of hairspray, from now on. No sense in going to shop for two sets of everything.
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Start racking up things to stuff in that trousseau Mama Sanchez. Your daughter Roselyn Sanchez is engaged to actor Eric Winter.
The happy engagement was officially sealed in Sanchez’s commonwealth home of Puerto Rico, on the romatic island Vieques. The Rush Hour 2 star and her man haven’t announced a date yet. [Source]
Here’s Christian Milian looking quite dapper on New Year’s Eve in Miami.
And my girl Mariah Carey at Tao’s in Vegas…waiting for the New Year to clock in.
Here’s a better view of her slamming outfit.
