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Dean Zayas
Dean Zayas Pereira (October 17, 1938 – February 3, 2022) was a Puerto Rican actor, director, playwright, author, poet, dramatic arts professor, and television show host. He directed some of Puerto Rico's best known telenovelas, such as Cristina Bazán, Coralito and Tanairi among others. Zayas was a catedràtic at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, for over 50 years. Biography Zayas Pereira was born in Barrio Canas in Caguas, Puerto Rico. His father was a farmer who would spend a lot of hours reading farming books, and Zayas Pereira became himself an avid reader. Zayas Pereira had a vivid imagination with which he developed imaginary friends; he would talk by himself while thinking he was talking to someone else. His constant reading and the conversations he had with himself evolved into him creating elaborate stories about him and his imaginary friends, and he developed those stories into plays that he would perform for his family. By the time he was in 5th g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caguas, Puerto Rico
Caguas (, ) is a city and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Central Mountain Range of Puerto Rico, south of San Juan and Trujillo Alto, west of Gurabo and San Lorenzo, and east of Aguas Buenas, Cidra, and Cayey. Caguas was founded in 1775. The municipality had a population of 127,244 at the 2020 census. Caguas is located from San Juan. It is located in the ''Valle de Caguas'' or Caguas Valley (also known as ''Valle del Turabo'' or the Turabo Valley), at the eastern ranges of the Central Mountain Range. It is known as ''La Ciudad Criolla'' (Criollo City), ''Valle del Turabo'' (the Turabo Valley) and ''La Cuna de los Trovadores'' (The Cradle of the ''Trovadores''). Its name originates from the Taíno cacique Caguax, who was a regional chief. Caguas is a principal city of both the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area and the San Juan-Caguas-Fajardo Combined Statistical Area. History The area of the Valley of Caguas was first settled by the Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telemundo Puerto Rico (TV Channel)
Telemundo Internacional is a Latin American pay television network owned by NBCUniversal. Telemundo Internacional carries a variety of programs, consisting mainly of select programs from the Telemundo national schedule. History Origins as Telenoticias Telemundo Puerto Rico traces its history to June 1, 1993, when Telemundo Group (then owned by investment firm Reliance Capital) announced that it would launch a 24-hour Spanish-language cable news channel that would be distributed in Latin America, Spain and the United States. This service, christened Telenoticias, launched on December 1, 1994, becoming the second 24-hour news channel to serve Latin America that was headquartered in the region. Telenoticias – which broadcast its programming in Spanish and Portuguese – was operated out of Telemundo's headquarters in the Miami suburb of Hialeah, Florida. In addition to distribution on cable and satellite television, some Telenoticias programming was also carried by television st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inside The Actors Studio
''Inside the Actors Studio'' is an American talk show that airs on Ovation. The series premiered in 1994 on Bravo where it aired for 22 seasons and was hosted by James Lipton from its premiere until 2018. It is taped at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University's New York City campus. On April 2, 2019, it was announced that the show would move to Ovation with the 23rd season premiering on October 13, 2019. Along with producing a new season, Ovation acquired the rights to all previous seasons. With the new format, the show now uses a rotating panel of hosts. About the program The program began as a televised craft seminar for students of the Actors Studio Drama School, originally a joint venture of the Actors Studio and New School University in 1994, with Paul Newman, a former Actors Studio president, as its first guest, and soon became Bravo's flagship program. At first taped at the New School's Tishman Auditorium in Greenwich Village, New York City, it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIPR-TV
WIPR-TV (channel 6) is a non-commercial educational public television station in San Juan, Puerto Rico, owned by the '' Corporación de Puerto Rico para la Difusión Pública'' (English: Puerto Rico Public Broadcasting Corporation). While WIPR-TV is a primary member station of PBS, most programming on its main channel is locally originated. WIPR-TV's studios are located on Hostos Avenue in Hato Rey, and its transmitter is located at Cerro La Santa in Cayey near the Bosque Estatal de Carite mountain reserve. Because of its audience, much of WIPR's programming is in Spanish, as with most Puerto Rico television stations. The station is branded as ''WIPR Television''. Previously, the station was branded as ''Teve 6 / Teve 3'', ''TUTV - Tu Universo Televisión'' and ''Puerto Rico TV. WIPR-TV operates a semi-satellite on the island's west coast, WIPM-TV (channel 3) in Mayagüez. WIPM-TV largely repeats WIPR, but does produce some local programming. This station's transmitter is loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honorary Degree
An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or ''ad honorem '' ("to the honour"). The degree is typically a doctorate or, less commonly, a master's degree, and may be awarded to someone who has no prior connection with the academic institution or no previous postsecondary education. An example of identifying a recipient of this award is as follows: Doctorate in Business Administration (''Hon. Causa''). The degree is often conferred as a way of honouring a distinguished visitor's contributions to a specific field or to society in general. It is sometimes recommended that such degrees be listed in one's curriculum vitae (CV) as an award, and not in the education section. With regard to the use of this honorific, the policies of institutions of higher education generally ask that recipients ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Von Marie Mendez
Von Marie Mendez (born September 8, 1950) is a Puerto Rican actress and restaurateur. Alongside such others as Iris Chacon, Millie Aviles, Sully Diaz, Giselle Blondet, Ivonne Goderich, Marilyn Pupo and others, she is remembered as one of the leading actresses during the golden era of telenovelas produced in Puerto Rico, that being between the late 1950s and the early 1990s. Mendez is a native of the southern city of Ponce. Acting Mendez worked as an actress for canal 2, a Telemundo station. Among other well known telenovelas she acted on is 1982's "Fue Sin Querer", 1985's " Tanairi" alongside Juan Ferrara-where she was directed by the famed playwright Dean Zayas-and 1987's "Preciosa", a sequel to "Tanairi" and where she acted alongside Rogelio Guerra. Restaurateur In 2007, Mendez opened a restaurant named "Botin" in Ponce. Botin was opened in association with the owners of the " Sobrino de Botín" restaurant in Spain, which is considered the oldest restaurant still operat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Ferrara
Juan Ferrara (born Juan Félix Gutiérrez Puerta; November 8, 1943) is a Mexican actor. Family Juan is a son of Ofelia Guilmáin and brother of Lucía Guilmáin y Esther Guilmáin. He was once married to the Mexican actress, Helena Rojo. He has two sons, actors Juan Carlos Bonet and Mauricio Bonet, with his first wife, Alicia Bonet. Biography Ferrara demonstrated an interest in acting since he was a young child. But it wasn't until he was 22 that he booked his first job as an actor. He changed his name to Juan Ferrara before playing a small role in the 1965 movie, " Tajimara". In 1966, he got his first major movie role, as Sonny in '' Los Angeles de Puebla''. Ferrara by then had graduated from Televisa's renowned acting school, and producers decided to cast him as a star in his own telenovela, '' El Espejismo Brillaba''. The novela became a hit across Mexico and Latin America. In 1970, he starred in two successful novelas, '' Yesenia'' and '' La Gata''. In 1978, Ferrara wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvador Pineda
Salvador Pineda Popoca (born June 16, 1952 in Huetamo, Michoacan, Mexico) is a Mexican actor, who has participated in over 20 Mexican telenovelas and Mexican movies, as well as two Hollywood low budget movies. Born to Mexican politician Salvador Pineda who served under Mexican President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, and Gloria Pineda, house-wife. His uncle (on his mother's side) is the renowned Mexican cardiologist Ignacio Chavez Sanchez. Biography Salvador Pineda is known for his acting on many Televisa soap operas, including 1980s ''Colorina'' with Lucía Méndez, and ''Mi Pequeña Soledad'' with Verónica Castro. He is also remembered for his soap opera ''Tu o Nadie'' with Lucía Mendez and Andrés García. Pineda and García were considered two of the sexiest Latino actors of the 1980s, appearing in shirtless photos in magazines sold in Latin America. Pineda's identifiable, gravelly voice and his physique led to his being type-cast as a villain, or, less frequently as a gruff, edgy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claribel Medina
Claribel Medina (born December 16, 1961 in San Juan) is a Puerto Rican actress who has acted for soap operas and movies filmed both in her native Puerto Rico and in Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th .... Biography Claribel started her artistic career in the early 1980s when an opera singer, Alex Vázquez, chose her to have a role in the musical production "The passion and death of Our Lord Jesus Christ." See also * List of Puerto Ricans * Raquel Montero References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Medina, Claribel 1961 births Living people People from San Juan, Puerto Rico Puerto Rican film actresses Puerto Rican stage actresses Puerto Rican telenovela actresses Puerto Rican emigrants to Argentina 20th-century Puerto Rican actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braulio Castillo, Hijo
Braulio Castillo Jr. (born August 30, 1958) is a Puerto Rican actor and radio host. He is the son of Braulio Castillo, an actor across Latin America, and the brother of the lesser known Jorge Castillo, also a television and theater actor. Biography For a short time during the 1970s, he was first known in Puerto Rico doing newsbreaks for WKBM-TV Channel 11 in Caguas, now Univision O&O WLII. Castillo reached national fame in Puerto Rico when he participated in the 1984 Spanish soap opera ''Coralito'' at San Juan-based WKAQ-TV Channel 2. There, he shared star billing with Mexican actor Salvador Pineda and with Puerto Rican actress Sully Diaz. Afterwards, Castillo reached teen idol status across Puerto Rico. In 1985, he was one of the stars of the successful telenovela'' Tanairi'', alongside actress Von Marie Mendez. That year (1985), Castillo was hired to co-host a game show named ''Adelante Juventud'' (''Come on, Youth'') alongside Myraida Chaves. He also starred in three tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sully Diaz
Sully may refer to: * Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger (born 1951), American pilot notable for landing his disabled airliner on the Hudson ** ''Sully'' (film), a 2016 film by Clint Eastwood about Sullenberger Places France * Sully, Calvados, commune in the department of Calvados * Sully, Oise, commune in the department of Oise * Sully, Saône-et-Loire, commune in the department of Saône-et-Loire ** Château de Sully, Saône-et-Loire department * Sully-sur-Loire, commune in the department of Loiret United Kingdom * Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, a village in Wales * Sully Island, an island of Wales United States * Sully, Iowa, a town * Sully, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Sully County, South Dakota * Sully Historic Site, Fairfax County, Virginia * Fort Sully (Fort Leavenworth), an American Civil War artillery battery built west of Fort Leavenworth in 1864 * Fort Sully (South Dakota) (1863–1894), a military post originally built for the Indian Wars * Sully Creek (So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Pupo
Marilyn Pupo (born November 23, 1950) is a Cuban-born Puerto Rican actress, singer and television show host. She is known for her stint as a television show host at Telemundo Puerto Rico's Noche de Gala alongside Eddie Miro, and for starring in the telenovela "El Idolo", also on that channel, alongside Jose Luis Rodriguez, during 1980 and 1981, as well as in other soap operas, such as "Maria Eugenia" and " Ambicion de Poder", where she starred alongside Martin Lantigua. In 1974, Pupo had a short, special participation in the Mexican telenovela, Mundo de juguete. In 1978, Pupo participated in the Spanish-Panamanian film, "May I Borrow Your Girl Tonight?". In 1983, Pupo starred in the Dominican Republic comedy film, "Guaguasi", which was selected by that country as a prospective representative for the Oscars in the "best foreign language film" category but did not compete. A noted theatrical actress, Pupo has also participated in more than ten theatrical productions in Puerto R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
