Infotainment Jan 13, 2008
Talk of the writers strike buzzed around a Four Seasons ballroom Friday as George Clooney, Javier Bardem and other stars gathered for a no-pressure awards lunch hosted by the American Film Institute ... She sported heavy eyebrows in her Oscar-nominated portrait of artist Frida Kahlo, and now actress Salma Hayek is embracing even more conspicuous facial hair for her next film role as a bearded lady. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Salma's 'billionaire' baby Nov 28, 2007
Hayek is famous for films including Frida Kahlo biopic Frida and has recently been seen in the film Across The Universe and in television's Ugly Betty, of which she is also executive producer. SPONSORED LINKS. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Made In Mexico Nov 18, 2007
"Frida" (2002): Salma Hayek not only sparked a new round of Frida-mania but showed off a richly colorful and passionately bohemian Mexico City of past decades that most tourists have never imagined. Much of the film was shot in Casa Azul (Blue House), the childhood home of eccentric and tortured artist Frida Kahlo, who later shared it with muralist Diego Rivera. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
With a little help from her friends Oct 27, 2007
Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Mozart's Magic Flute and the paintings of Frida Kahlo are among the classics she has scrutinised and reimagined for the stage or the screen ... And she got Bono, Salma Hayek (the star of Taymor's film Frida), Joe Cocker and Eddie Izzard to do cameos ... As he worked to match each song's arrangement to its dramatic function, Goldenthal, who scored Taymor's previous films, Titus and Frida, and won an Oscar for the latter, added accordions, mandolins, slap bass,... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Universe' is the Worst Sep 27, 2007
Julie Taymor, the film's director, is best known for her direction of Broadway's "The Lion King" and the Salma Hayek film "Frida." And the film stylistically a combination of "Moulin Rouge" and "Big Fish" is visually appealing, with great cinematography, including rich, wild color schemes, but it doesn't make up for the vacuous screenplay. Here's the rundown: Boy goes to America to find his estranged father. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Salma Hayek Gives Birth to Baby Girl, Valentina Sep 25, 2007
LOS ANGELES Salma Hayek has given birth to a baby girl, Valentina Paloma Pinault, her publicist announced Friday ... Hayek has starred in films such as "Frida," "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over" and "After the Sunset." She is one of the executive producers of ABC's "Ugly Betty" and the chief executive of Ventanazul, a production company she formed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.. (Fox News)
* Planet Pop Sep 24, 2007
A drummer who spent four years in one of the greatest punk bands of all time, The Ramones, filed a federal lawsuit Friday claiming he is owed nearly US$1 million in royalties on songs sold over the Internet ... The birth of the couple's daughter, Valentina Paloma Pinault, was announced Friday by the actress' publicist ... The Mexico-born Hayek, 41, has starred in films such as Frida, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over and After the Sunset. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
It's a girl for Hayek Sep 23, 2007
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Salma Hayek has given birth to a baby girl, Valentina Paloma Pinault, her publicist announced Friday ... Hayek has starred in films such as "Frida," "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over" and "After the Sunset." She is one of the executive producers of ABC's "Ugly Betty" and the chief executive of Ventanazul, a production company she formed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.. (The Palm Beach Post)
'Across the Universe': Turning Beatles songs upside down Sep 13, 2007
Taymor's essentially unclassifiable film, which opens on Friday in the United States and in parts of Europe and Asia through the fall and winter, puts Beatles' songs in the mouths, and sometimes in the heads, of newly invented characters just living their lives ... Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus," Mozart's "Magic Flute" and the paintings of Frida Kahlo are among the classics she has reimagined for the stage or the screen ... And she got Bono, Salma Hayek (the star of Taymor's film "Frida"), Joe... (International Herald Tribune)
Movie review: ‘Across the Universe' an imaginative but often clunky Beatles musical Sep 12, 2007
Inspired entirely by Beatles songs, with characters whose names include Lucy, Jude and Jo-Jo, Julie Taymor's sprawling musical is visually imaginative and often quite bold, as you would expect from the director of the Frida Kahlo biopic rida and he Lion King on Broadway. The actors, who do all their own singing, are certainly up to the challenge, including Evan Rachel Wood (besides Marilyn Manson, who knew she could sing. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Across the Universe Sep 12, 2007
After her Broadway smash The Lion King as well as her feverishly operatic pics Titus (1999) and Frida (2002), it seemed inevitable that Taymors visual imagination and flair for spectacle would lead her to direct a movie musical ... Eddie Izzard and Frida star Salma Hayek have fleeting cameos. (Variety)
Indulgent Across the Universe has moments Sep 12, 2007
Inspired entirely by Beatles songs, with characters whose names include Lucy, Jude and Jo-Jo, Julie Taymors sprawling musical is visually imaginative and often quite bold, as you would expect from the director of the Frida Kahlo biopic Frida and The Lion King on Broadway ... Frida star Salma Hayek also makes an amusing cameo as a naughty nurse in Happiness Is a Warm Gun, with Joe Cocker as a homeless man who helps introduce Jo-Jo during a vampy production of Come... (MSNBC -- Movies)
No Sex Change for 'Matrix' Director Larry Wachowski Sep 7, 2007
Taymor creator of The Lion King on stage, the incandescent film Frida and the ambitious, fascinating Titus goes so far in Universe that she almost doesn t come back ... It opens Friday at Film Forum in New York City, and then in coming weeks at art houses around the country. (Fox News)
Producer: Salma Hayek Sep 1, 2007
"They said, 'You're never going to be an actress. You're Mexican,'" That was before her Oscar nomination (for playing the title role in "Frida"), before her Emmy win (for directing "The Maldonado Miracle") and before "Ugly Betty" collected two Golden Globes earlier this year. Even after inking a landmark deal to produce a full range of Latin-themed pics for release through MGM, "It's hard for some people to believe that I actually have this company, that we finance the movies and have access to... (Variety)
She's on a mission to make Latin films Aug 28, 2007
They're finally getting some traction, thanks in part to the success of "Ugly Betty," the popular television show they produce for ABC that is based on a Colombian soap opera, "Yo Soy Betty, la Fea," and "Frida," the 2002 biography of artist Frida Kahlo in which Hayek also starred ... The idea is to make movies that are a lot like "Betty" or "Frida.". (Los Angeles Times)
TIFF beefs up lineup Aug 3, 2007
From Friday's Globe and Mail ... Taymor's most recent feature film was 2002's Frida, which starred Salma Hayek as the artist Frida Kahlo. (Globe and Mail)
TIFF beefs up lineup with films by Woody Allen and Julie Taymor Aug 3, 2007
Taymor's most recent feature film was 2002's Frida, which starred Salma Hayek as the artist Frida Kahlo. That movie took home two Oscars (for best original score and makeup). (Globe and Mail)
The never-before- seen Frida Kahlo Jun 16, 2007
Frida Kahlo museum to exhibit never-before-seen drawings, personal items ... text size Journalists look at the famous painting "The Two Fridas" done in 1939 by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, during a preview to the press of the National Homage to Frida Kahlo on the 100th anniversary of her birth at the palace of fine arts in Mexico City ... Frida Kahlo museum to exhibit never-before-seen drawings, personal items. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Rarely seen Frida Kahlo items on display Jun 16, 2007
MEXICO CITY - To commemorate 100 years since her birth, Frida Kahlo's Mexico City family home-turned-museum will display clothing, drawings, photographs and tidbits of the eccentric artist's daily life ... "The Treasures of the Blue House, Frida and Diego" will open to the public at The Blue House on July 6, marking Kahlo's birthday in 1907 ... "With this discovery we can get to know Frida more as an intellectual. We see that she was deeply creative, studious," Trujillo said. (Yahoo News)
Mexico museum hosts Frida Kahlo centenary exhibition Jun 14, 2007
The largest ever exhibition of artist Frida Kahlo's work has gone on display in Mexico City ... Museum director Teresa Franco said: "I don't think anyone, after seeing this, will have any questions about Frida's artistic journey." ... Las dos Fridas (The Two Fridas) is among the paintings on display. (BBC News -- Americas)
U.S. Photographer Takes Pics Of Naked Women Resembling Frida Kahlo May 8, 2007
MEXICO CITY -- Frida Kahlo surely would have approved ... "There were 105 Fridas, 105 women with long black hair to pay tribute to Frida Kahlo," said Marco Antonio Hernandez, Tunick's promoter ... Kahlo's tumultuous life has inspired several plays and films, including the 2002 movie "Frida," starring Mexican actress Salma Hayek. (NBC4.tv, CA)
Beatles give 'Universe' narrative Apr 25, 2007
That's not necessarily uncommon for artsy director Julie Taymor, whose previous cinematic efforts "Titus" and "Frida" were, at the very least, unconventional. But "Across the Universe," which is due Sept. 28 from Revolution Studios and Sony, is Taymor's most experimental film production to date. (Variety)
Salma's Spicy Studio Deal Apr 11, 2007
"What's important to us is integrating, not separating...Each project has a different element: from supporting out incredible talent behind the camera, to telling uniquely Latin stories like that of Frida Kahlo, to creating unforgettable characters who just happen to be Latin like Ugly Betty.". Hayek, who earned her Oscar nod for her turn in Frida and executive produces the Peabody Award-winning Ugly Betty, adapted from a Colombian telenovela, said that her new production company will employ... (E! Online)
Hayek targets Latino dollar Apr 11, 2007
Mexican-born Hayek, 40, is one of the most high profile Latino stars in the US. She was Oscar-nominated for her role as the artist Frida Kahlo in the 2002 biopic Frida and currently serves as an executive producer on the ABC television series Ugly Betty. In the meantime, Mexican cinema is enjoying a critical and commercial renaissance, thanks to films by Guillermo Del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Hayek backs Latino film talent Apr 11, 2007
The Oscar-nominated star of Frida is working in partnership with Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She will be the chief executive of Ventanazul, which will release between two and four movies per year. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Salma Hayek, MGM to produce Latino movies Apr 11, 2007
Hayek, 40, has starred in films such as Frida, Desperado and After the Sunset. She is one of the executive producers of ABC's Ugly Betty, which is an American adaptation of a Colombian telenovela. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
MGM and Academy Award(R) Nominated Actress/Producer/Director Salma Hayek Create New Ventanazul Label Apr 10, 2007
"We have been developing for months a plan to create an identity for the company that specializes in the Latino market without isolating the rest of the audience. I'm confident to say that with the help and support of MGM, Ventanazul has a specific vision that sets it apart from some of the stereotypical efforts made in the past.What's important to us is integrating, not separating. This deal represents an amazing opportunity to draw upon the entire range of ways the Latin world can contribute... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Salma Hayek Creates Production Company With MGM Apr 10, 2007
Hayek, 40, has starred in films such as "Frida," "Desperado" and "After the Sunset." She is one of the executive producers of ABC's "Ugly Betty," which is an American adaptation of a Colombian telenovela. She is engaged to businessman Francois-Henri Pinault. (CBS2.com, CA)
WHAT HAPPENS IN MACAO . . . Apr 3, 2007
Salma already made her mark with her Best Actress Oscar nomination for "Frida." She also produced that film about Mexico's best-known female artist. Salma is on top of the TV world right now as the executive producer of the Golden Globe hit "Ugly Betty," which deals with the world of fashion magazines and features a former Miss America, Vanessa Williams, as the devil-like editrix out to vanquish all the good guys. (New York Post -- Gossip)
- Barbara Ellen Mar 25, 2007
If, in a future dimension, the likes of Salma Hayek might be taken quietly to one side during the making of the Frida Kahlo biopic, and advised to 'lose the 'tash. If Judi Dench, playing Iris Murdoch, might be asked to 'tone down the Alzheimer's. (Guardian Unlimited)
Wedding bells, pitter patter of tiny feet for Salma Hayek Mar 14, 2007
The Mexican actress was nominated for a best actress Oscar for her performance in Frida in 2002. She is also a producer and director and has won a best directing Daytime Emmy Award for The Maldonado Miracle. (What is the Word)
RICH AND FAMOUS NOT A BAD COMBO Mar 12, 2007
Hayek and Fran ois-Henri Pin ault. I'm seeing everything because I've actually been working for a year on a stage project. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Salma Hayek Engaged, Baby On The Way Mar 12, 2007
Things couldnt possibly go better for the Ugly Betty producer who announced she is pregnant and engaged to French businessman, Francois-Henri Pinault, her spokeswoman said Friday in a statement ... The 40-year-old actress, who starred in movies such as Frida, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over and After the Sunset, and her fianc, chairman and chief executive officer of the luxury goods company Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, which owns high-end labels such as Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga and... (Playfuls.com)
Dupri makes awards splash Mar 11, 2007
The 40-year-old actress is engaged to businessman Francois-Henri Pinault and is pregnant with their first child, her spokeswoman, Cari Ross, said Friday in a statement ... The Mexico-born Hayek has starred in films such as Frida, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over and After the Sunset. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Salma Hayek To Wed, Is Expecting Baby Mar 11, 2007
The 40-year-old actress is engaged to businessman Francois-Henri Pinault and is pregnant with their first child, her spokeswoman, Cari Ross, said Friday in a statement ... The Mexico-born Hayek has starred in films such as "Frida," "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over" and "After the Sunset." She is one of the executive producers of ABC's "Ugly Betty," in which she recently guest-starred as a two-faced magazine editor ... Hayek received an Oscar nomination for her role in 2002's "Frida.". (Click2Houston, TX)
Salma Hayek, fiancé expecting Mar 9, 2007
Hayek, the producer of ABC's hit Ugly Betty, earned an Oscar nomination for playing painter Frida Kahlo in 2002's Frida. . (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Salma Hayek's expecting and engaged Mar 9, 2007
10:56 AM CST on Friday, March 9, 2007 ... The 40-year-old actress is engaged to businessman Francois-Henri Pinault and is pregnant with their first child, her spokeswoman, Cari Ross, said Friday in a statement ... The Mexico-born Hayek has starred in films such as Frida, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over and After the Sunset. (KHOU.com, TX)
Learning curve Feb 25, 2007
Sal MorganFebruary 25, 2007. Maintaining the best body in the business is a breeze, says Ghost Rider's voluptuous Eva Mendes. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
Success of filmmakers `bittersweet' for Mexico Feb 24, 2007
Mexican filmmakers had already won awards or achieved success in the U.S., for films such as "Amores Perros," "Y Tu Mama Tambien" and "Like Water for Chocolate." Salma Hayek co-produced the English-language film "Frida," which earned her an Academy Award acting nomination. Ramirez, 28, said this resurgence inspired him to make films, including his first feature-length movie, "We Have All Sinned," which began production this week in nearby Puebla. (FOX59, IN)
'Dreamgirls' Tops Oscar Nominations Jan 23, 2007
"Frida" Oscar-nominee Salma Hayek joined Academy president Sid Ganis for the nomination announcement at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Hollywood, Calif. The 79th annual Academy Awards celebration is set for Feb. 25 at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. (NBC4.tv, CA)
'Dreamgirls' picks up most Oscar nods Jan 23, 2007
"If each one of them got nominated on their own, that would be great, but the fact that they all did ... that's just too much for one little girl this early in the morning," said Salma Hayek, an Oscar nominee for 2002's "Frida," who helped announced the nominees Tuesday morning. Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu earned a best-director nomination for "Babel.". (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Oscar Noms Favor 'Dreamgirls' Jan 23, 2007
"Frida" Oscar-nominee Salma Hayek joined Academy president Sid Ganis for the nomination announcement at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Hollywood, Calif. Previously announced honorary recipients include composer Ennio Morricone -- for the Academy's Lifetime Achievement Oscar -- and former Paramount chief Sherry Lansing, for the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, which is a statuette. (TheSanDiegoChannel.com, CA)
Preview: Oscar Nominations Fairly Predictable Jan 23, 2007
""Frida" Oscar-nominee Salma Hayek will join Academy president Sid Ganis for the nomination announcement at 8:38 a.m. EST (5:38 a.m. PST) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Hollywood, Calif.The 79th annual Academy Awards celebration is set for Feb. 25 at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Composer Ennio Morricone was previously announced as a recipient of the Academy's Lifetime Achievement Oscar.Ellen DeGeneres is set to host.Distributed by Internet Broadcasting. This material may not be published,... (Click2Houston, TX)
Salma Hayek saved by dog Jan 20, 2007
The Frida star and producer of Globe-winning TV show Ugly Betty fell asleep in her home when her dog, Diva, alerted her to a gas leak in the house. Salma told Us Weekly magazine: "I had a headache and went to lie down when Diva woke me up grabbing my sleeve in her mouth and trying to pull me out of the house. Then I realised the gas was on!". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Salma Hayek to announce Oscar nominees Jan 18, 2007
Hayek was nominated for Best Actress in 2002 for her portrayal of artist Frida Kahlo in "Frida." Hayek's other films include "Ask the Dust," "After the Sunset," "Once upon a Time in Mexico," "Dogma" and "Fools Rush In." The Academy Awards will be presented Feb. 25 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood in ceremonies to be televised live on ABC.. . (Washington Times, DC)
