Showing posts with label Vanity Fair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vanity Fair. Show all posts

Sunday, April 26, 2015

It’s OK -- They were doing it to ‘their own people’

“’At the time [the 90s] there were no managers for TV personalities in the Latin market.” According to Luis Balaguer, the man who would become (Sofia Vergara’s) manager, the lack of representation was due, in large part, to Univision, which had a virtual monopoly on Spanish-speaking talent: ‘You needed to be careful. You needed to behave, because if Univision fired you, people would never hear from you again.’ And Univision did more than discourage the hiring of managers. It also insisted that talent sign a contract—written in English, even though so much of the Univision talent could only habla espaƱol—in the room and on the spot, no lawyer to run a magnifying glass over that fine print. (Univision, incidentally, declined to comment for this article.)”

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/04/sofia-vergara-hot-pursuit-may-2015-cover

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Don't these people have anything better to do?

Well ... No.

‘Springsteen favored to write new US anthem: poll’

“Twenty-two percent of Americans think veteran rocker Bruce Springsteen should compose a new US national anthem to replace ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’ suggests an online poll released Monday.

“That's more than the 19 percent who think country legend Dolly Parton is up to the task, or the 18 percent who favor soulman Stevie Wonder, according to the poll for the CBS current affairs show ‘60 Minutes’ and Vanity Fair magazine.

“Eleven percent named venerable singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, 10 percent favor movie soundtrack composer John Williams, eight percent voted for rapper Jay-Z and five percent named pop diva Madonna.

“Pollsters telephoned a random sample of 1,026 adults nationwide between April 27 and 30 for the poll, which had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.

“Based on a poem by Francis Scott Key describing the British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland during the War of 1812, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ has been the official US national anthem since 1931.

http://news.yahoo.com/springsteen-favored-write-us-anthem-poll-215026210.html


(Let’s recap: 22 percent is more than 19 percent, more than18 percent, more than 11 percent, more than 10 percent, more than 8 percent and more than 5 percent.

(Let’s recap, Part 2: “Twenty-two percent of Americans think …” No, 22 percent of 1,026 adults said in a poll … My guess is, the “think” part played no role in the poll.

(Let’s recap, Part 3: Responses indicate the thought level of the 1,026.)