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Back when Mexico was still a colony of Madrid, Monterrey was frontier--much like America's Wild West, more than 200 years later--settled by a rugged cast of characters, including unmoored Jews and some in trouble with the Spanish crown, whose present-day descendants are fiercely proud of their heritage and the modern metropolis they developed. Monterrey is the most important business center in the country after Mexico City. It's as if San Antonio, Texas, went on to become Pittsburgh, Pa., skipping the Rust Belt phase. This city of nearly 4 million, often confused by Americans with...
...Massachusetts’ electorate cast a collective vote for dynamism and change. In electing Deval L. Patrick ’78 governor of the Commonwealth, the people of Massachusetts affirmed that there is a place for optimism and positive thinking in the politics of this state. We couldn’t be happier with the choice they have made...
...beautiful teets," she doesn't mind, since he has given the slender actress the weightiest role of her career (and also maybe because somehow it doesn't seem as feelthy coming from a gay guy). The Oscar-winning writer-director of Talk to Her and All About My Mother cast Cruz as the embodiment of motherhood in a movie about three generations of women surviving the wild winds of his home turf, La Mancha, Spain--winds that blow in fires, death and some superfluous men. Volver is Spanish for return. Fittingly, with the film, Almodóvar has reclaimed the Madrid...
...work with Pedro," Cruz says. "I was kind of obsessed about it." In 1997, at 22, she got her wish, playing a prostitute loudly giving birth on a Madrid city bus in Live Flesh. Then the director, whose films are populated by heroic transvestites and lovable hookers, cast her in another memorable maternity part in All About My Mother, in 1999, this time as a pregnant, HIV-positive...
...sounds awfully fatherly when he describes watching Cruz in her first English-language roles. "She was the first Spanish actress invited by Hollywood to come here and make a movie," says Almodóvar. "I felt very proud. And at the same time, I was frightened." Cruz was soon cast in seemingly can't-miss projects: Billy Bob Thornton's first post-- Sling Blade directing effort, a 2000 adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, and Cameron Crowe's 2001 Vanilla Sky, a remake of a Spanish film Cruz had starred in. Forced to utter absurd lines like "Every...