By Renato Andrade It’s no secret that today’s audience, especially Generation Y, have more sympathy for villains than heroes. Brazilian actors, after coming to this realization, are now delighted in portraying malicious characters, especially in Brazilian soap operas, in which the positive repercussion seems to be even greater. Why are villains considered to be more [...]
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Posted in Artikullocks, Celebrity, Generation on nov 24th, 2009
By Ines Schinazi An Interview with the 2009 Miss Mundo Brasil Luciana Bertolini Standards of beauty are constantly evolving, a rare glimpse into society’s current state of mind. In 1951, the era of the housewife, Miss World, the oldest surviving international Beauty Pageant is founded. Twenty years later, in 1970, the contest is subject to [...]
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By Eline Kullock I just read an article on Folha On Line in which an actress, wearing a short dress (not even that short in the eyes of a baby boomer,) went to various prestigious Brazilian Universities (including the Law School at USP, FMU at University Ibriapuera, and PUC). The actress, pretending to be a [...]
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I have my own explanations regarding Brazil’s win as the host of the 2016 Olympics. Maybe behind my logic lies an idealistic baby boomer, and if that idealism does exist, that’s great. I never want to lose it. Are we going to buy the Brazilian representation that went all the way to Copenhagen? Do you [...]
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By Eline Kullock I ask myself why Harry Potter is so popular with generation Y. Is it a deficit in idols that makes this “hero” more significant than Spiderman for this generation? What values of witchcraft and magic does this generation identify with? Everyone will agree when I say that Harry Potter mania is officially [...]
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By Ines Schinazi “My mother has always been an actress to me.” This is how Jessy Hodges explains that her relationship with her mother hasn’t changed, despite the fact that they’ve recently found themselves in very similar places career-wise, while obviously being at completely different points in their lives. As a mother gets back into [...]
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By Ines Schinazi Like little peeping toms, peering through television screens, mesmerized by the dancing photography burning from somewhere within the screen. The reality show hits the human mind, like a burglar with a baseball bat, knocking us unconscious. Leaving us ignited with an almost-foreign animalistic desire. We cry out for more and more… Feeding [...]
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By Ines Schinazi The camera hones in, catching the shy pulse of adolescence. Fluttering images, replete with beauty, cut sharply against the rough and gritty pain of characters stuck somewhere in the middle… Susan Miller (Baby Boomer) and Tina Cesa Ward (Generation X) write about Generation Y, as young actors portray parts of themselves. Clearly [...]
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Mauro Segura I remember a few years ago, during management training, an instructor asked each of us to bring in an image that had spoken to us in adolescence and still remained present in our mind today. Most people brought in pictures of their family, of their first boyfriend or girlfriend, of their dog, or [...]
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Ines Schinazi The Manhattan summer, filled with pent up heat and the polluted desire of lust, ignites Katy Perry’s voice, making it the perfect soundtrack for half of an instant, as Lindsay Lohan kisses Samantha Ronson behind the DJ booth, in a scene so surreal it could emerge straight from “The L Word.” Flash forward [...]
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