Archive for August, 2007
| New TV season brings crop of DVDs |
‘Heroes,’ ‘Ugly Betty,’ ‘House’ among shows hitting shelves soonUgly Betty: The Complete First Season: The Bettyfied Edition (Buena Vista, 23 episodes, six discs, $59.99) is a vivid reminder of the charm and campy humor of the series, right down to the bas-relief braces on Betty’s teeth on the box.Based on a telenovela, the series followed [...] |
19 August, 2007 |
| The skinny on Hollywood |
Yes, bony actresses are sometimes targeted for ridicule in the media, but don’t be fooled — the pressure to look thin is fiercer than ever.Perhaps it’s a sign of Hollywood’s readjusted eye that whenever an average-size woman — a Jennifer Hudson or an America Ferrera — bursts into the limelight, there’s the predictable magazine frenzy [...] |
18 August, 2007 |
| Fox picks up “Drop Dead Diva” |
Hey everyone… well, here’s some news:I can understand the desire to jump on the Ugly Betty bandwagon. After all, Salma Hayek’s show is a hit and has made America Ferrera a bona fide star. Plus, Hollywood is nothing if not a land of copycats. So the description of Berman’s new show is likely meant to [...] |
14 August, 2007 |
| Apology + News |
Hey everyone… I was gone for awhile and I apologize for not letting you know. Here’s an interesting article on Diversity:”What’s kept diversity off of TV for a long time … is the feeling that it was not what people wanted to see, that [diversity] is not what middle America wanted. But the reality is [...] |
12 August, 2007 |
| Tonight’s best bets |
Catch tonights episode of “Ugly Betty”… here’s the episode description of tonight:”Ugly Betty,” 8 p.m. on ABC. What do you do when the girlfriend of the guy you like invites you to a party, and the guy insists you go? If you’re Betty (America Ferrera), you invite your orthodontist along. Hey, he’s a guy, and [...] |
9 August, 2007 |
| First On The Set: “Ugly Betty” |
Hey everyone… I found this article of the second season of “Ugly Betty”… here’s the article:ET is first on the set, visiting the “Ugly Betty” cast during the filming of season two!We caught up with AMERICA FERRERA, who filled us in on where her character, Betty, will be going this season. She tells us one [...] |
8 August, 2007 |
| Salma sets scene for show’s success |
Here’s an article that provides some information about Salma Hayek (Producer on “Ugly Betty”). The article mentions “Ugly Betty”, Betty Suarez, and America Ferrera: Further into the series, Salma steps off the Suarez’s television screen and into Betty’s life when she guest stars as Sofia Reyes, a “newcomer to the Mode Magazine scene, who’ll leave [...] |
6 August, 2007 |
| They’re ‘Ugly’ and they love it |
I found this article about how things are going in the second season of “Ugly Betty”:For those of you who really loved the “Ugly Betty” scenes between Marc (Michael Urie) and Betty’s nephew Justin (Mark Indelicato), there’s more good stuff to come: Early in Season 2, Justin is one of several interns Marc has to [...] |
6 August, 2007 |


