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...instance, in At the Argentinean Billionaire's Bidding, Alejandro D'Arienzo presents a beautiful heiress, who designs costumes for England's rugby team, with an ultimatum: her name in tatters or her body in his bed. (Spoiler alert: he gets his wicked way.) And in The Ruthless Billionaire's Virgin, a shy opera singer experiences a "wardrobe malfunction" while singing the national anthem, spurring a brooding billionaire to march onto the pitch and cover her bare breast. According to Jenny Hutton, the series editor, "These stories have lovely romance, and they're really heartwarming...
Carlos Reygadas' name is rarely mentioned as part of the recent surge of Mexican cinema. The directors usually cited are the three amigos Alfonso Cuaron (Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Amores perros, Babel) and Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy). Yet Reygadas, 37, has made the biggest noise at international film festivals and among the more intellectual critics. His Japon and Battle in Heaven won praise for their filmmaking rigor, caustic view of Mexico's social ills and often frank take...
...have it name-napped. Those people are stupid. Having written many things that people hate, I decided to thoroughly focus-group my work--especially since my wife Cassandra rejected all my first suggestions: Whiskey, Danger, Genghis and Ribo. She also rejected all my names that were Spanish (Pablo, Alejandro), Asian (Hideki, Attila) or Hockey (Teemu, Jaromir, Zigmund), arguing that they "didn't go with Stein," much like how everything I want to buy "doesn't go with the house...
...Maybe life, as it unfolds, will perfect it.' ALEJANDRO COLANZI, of Bolivia's National Unity Party, on the nation's newly ratified draft constitution, which grants rights to the indigenous population but faces opposition from provincial leaders...
...Miami A Suitcase Full of Cash Testimony in the trial of Venezuelan businessman Franklin Duran revealed how officials worked to conceal the source of a suitcase filled with $800,000 intended for Argentine presidential candidate Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Duran allegedly attempted to silence Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson, the man who was caught with the suitcase in an airport in 2007 and who has suggested that President Hugo Chávez was involved...