Salma Hayek confirmada para "Notas de un secuestro" del Gabo - Noticias - Cine - www.aztecaespectaculos.com

Gabriel García Márquez ha participado activamente en la elección del elenco. “La semana pasada, Gabriel recibió el guión completo y ahora estamos a la espera de sus comentarios para terminar de elegir al elenco," comentó Constantini hace unos días durante una entrevista.

Y aunque aún falta completar el elenco, Salma ya es de las confirmadas, así como el novio de su mejor amiga Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Benicio del Toro, Victoria Abril y Pablo Pedro Ibarra.

There is still no confirmation at IMBD.com that the adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez' "Notas de un secuetro" is going to happen. Still, it would be not just totally hot but epic if this movie had this cast. So let's keep our fingers crossed.
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Geezus.

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo found out about this gaffe via El País, Spain's "paper of record".

John McCain, is being interviewed by a journalist with an obvious Castillian accent. She asks him a series of questions about his future policies towards Latin America (which was the focus of the press conference).

Then in the last 30-40 seconds of the clip she asks him if he's looking forward to meeting with Jorge Zapatero, the prime minister of Spain. This is a somewhat tricky diplomatic question. Since winning the elections more than a year ago, Zapatero has not had a chance to visit the White House, nor has George Bush gone to Spain for an official meeting.

What does McCain do? Give his standard talking point about meeting with friendly countries only and standing tough against rogue and hostile countries.

The reporter re-frases the question 3 more times, with the last one being, "what about Europe? Spain is in Europe". McCain sticks to the talking about as if Spain were a Latin American threat to the United States.

Here's the audio clip :

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Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's chief strategist has resigned from the Clinton campaign amid allegations of conflict of interest and ethical improprieties.

Penn had worked full time for the Clinton campaign even though he had not taken a sabbatical from his position as CEO of the international communications and lobbying firm Burson-Marsteller. What that meant was clear : Penn was taking meetings with political, corporate and consular clients while managing the campaign of a potential future president of the United States.

One of those clients was the government of Colombia, which had hired the firm in order to market in Capitol Hill a bilateral free-trade agreement with the United States as well as their anti-drug trafficking initiatives.

Penn vigorously defended the meeting saying he was there as CEO of Burson-Marsteller, not as campaign manager of the Senator. Yet he later retracted after it was revealed that Clinton was opposed to the trade agreement as well as her supporters with the labor movement.
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