Maybe Americans have finally gotten bored with Hollywood’s Barbie doll perfection in its stars - skinny, with perfect skin and designer clothes that look great on TV but couldn’t be further from what most people actually look like (unless you live in L.A, that is).
Because, the most popular new show on US television today is about someone who clearly isnt skinny, well-dressed or with great hair or skin. Its Ugly Betty, and everybody loves her, scoring higher in the ratings than any other new programme this season.
The ABC show, which is based on a Columbian telenovela, features America Ferrera, a plain jane from Queens trying to make it big in the fashion world. It got 16.1 Million people watching on its debut night.
The budding Latina star first made her mark in the HBO film “Real Women Have Curves”.? Heres what she had to say about being pegged as a “Latina actress”:
“I grew up in her (mother’s) office so I’ve seen these women. They are trying to survive…My mother was skeptical but I got a waitress job to pay for my classes, pictures and other expenses.”
“I taped an audition and sent it back but I didn’t expect anything….I was immediately attracted to the character because I’ve been experiencing similar things in my own life. As a first-generation Latina, the constant question is ‘Are you Latin or are you American’?”
“I never even saw myself as Latina until I started to audition for roles, but I could relate to the economics of my character’s situation as well as to the image issue. Caring about your appearance is universal. I know 45 year old women who still hate their bodies. There are no magazines that say ‘love who you are on the inside first, and worry about the outside later’.”
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August has whizzed by, and with September upon us, so are the television specials on one of the most horrible and shocking events in modern history, September 11.
For U.S viewers, the shows titled “Inside 9/11,” The Final Report: Osama’s Escape” and “Triple Cross: Bin Laden’s Spy in America,” will be airing next week from Sunday and again on the 11th.
In “Inside 9/11,” they’ve added the Zacarias Moussaoui trial, the secret Able Danger Osama hunters, etc. “Final Report” charts the generally stumbling pursuit of bin Laden. There’s a misnomer here because there’s no final report. Don’t get your hopes up.
The stunning episode is “Triple Cross,” which the network likens to a Tom Clancy plot. Of course we tend to think of how big intrigues will play on a big screen — and this one is continually fascinating, start to finish.
Ali Mohammed has had his fingers in many if not most of the terrorism gambits all over the world on behalf of radical Islam. He has worked tightly with bin Laden himself — and at the same time he has consulted with the FBI, CIA, the Army, etc.
Not to spoil the ending for you — but after 14 years as a mole for everybody (so it seems), he now is hidden away in America’s federal prisons.
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