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Mila Ximénez
María de los Milagros Ximénez de Cisneros Rebollo (21 May 1952 – 23 June 2021) was a Spanish journalist, writer, gossip columnist, and television personality. Biography and career Ximénez was the daughter of Manuel Ximénez de Cisneros Muñoz de León (1924–2008) and Nicolasa Rebollo Burgueño (1926–2009). Although she began studying journalism in the University of Seville, she dropped out. At the age of 18 she moved to Madrid, and since February 1986, she collaborated in the newspaper ''ABC'', taking charge of a weekly section called "Café con Mila Santana", where she interviewed: Andrés Segovia, Antonio Mingote, Cayetana de Alba, Leonard Cohen, Plácido Domingo, Terenci Moix, Antonio Asensio, José María García Perez, Miguel Bosé, Pedro Almodóvar, José María Ruiz-Mateos, Carmen Sevilla, Boris Becker, etc. She previously did some collaborations in a tennis magazine and was the owner of the ASPORT video production company, which was dedicated to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seville
Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Seville has a municipal population of about 685,000 , and a metropolitan population of about 1.5 million, making it the largest city in Andalusia, the fourth-largest city in Spain and the 26th most populous municipality in the European Union. Its old town, with an area of , contains three UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the Alcázar palace complex, the Cathedral and the General Archive of the Indies. The Seville harbour, located about from the Atlantic Ocean, is the only river port in Spain. The capital of Andalusia features hot temperatures in the summer, with daily maximums routinely above in July and August. Seville was founded as the Roman city of . Known as ''Ishbiliyah'' after the Islamic conquest in 711, Seville became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Becker
Boris Franz Becker (, ; born 22 November 1967) is a German former world No. 1 tennis player. Becker was successful from the start of his career, winning the Wimbledon Championships at the age of 17. He ultimately won six Grand Slam singles titles: three Wimbledon Championships, two Australian Opens and one US Open. Becker also won three year-end championships, 13 Masters titles and an Olympic gold medal. In 1989, he was voted the Player of the Year by both the ATP and the ITF. After his playing career ended Becker became a tennis commentator and media personality, his personal relationships were discussed in news outlets. He has engaged in numerous ventures, including coaching Novak Djokovic for three years, playing poker professionally and working for an online poker company. In October 2002, the Munich District Court gave Becker a suspended two-year prison sentence for tax evasion. He declared bankruptcy in the UK in 2017. In April 2022, he was sentenced by UK courts to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
¡Hola!
''¡Hola!'' is a weekly Spanish-language magazine specializing in celebrity news, published in Madrid, Spain, and in 15 other countries, with local editions in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Greece, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela. It is the second most popular magazine in Spain after ''Pronto''. The title means "Hello!" in English and it is the parent magazine of the English-language '' Hello!'' and ''Hello! Canada'' and Hola! USA'. History and profile ''¡Hola!'' was founded in Barcelona on 2 September 1944 by Antonio Sánchez Gómez, who continued to run the magazine until his death in the 1970s. He employed mainly relatives and to this day ''¡Hola!'' remains a predominantly family run organisation, with Sánchez's wife still stepping in to provide layout for important royal wedding spreads. Later the headquarters of the magazine moved to Madrid. Initially designed as a family ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gran Hermano VIP
''Gran Hermano VIP'' (as known by the acronym ''GH VIP'') is a reality television series broadcast in Spain on Telecinco produced by Endemol. It is the celebrity version of ''Gran Hermano'' and part of the ''Big Brother'' franchise first developed in the Netherlands. The first edition of the program was broadcast in 2004. in abc.es As of September 2019, 7 editions of the show have aired. Format The mechanic of the contest is essentially the same as the original ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Confidencial
''El Confidencial'' is a Spanish-language general-information digital newspaper located in Spain, specializing in economic, financial and political news. It was established as an online newspaper in 2001. Its target readership is professional and middle-aged. It has a liberal political orientation. It was one of the news outlets participating in the Panama Papers investigation into material leaked from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca Mossack Fonseca & Co. () was a Panamanian law firm and Corporate services, corporate service provider.2001 establishments in Spain [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twelve Grapes
The Twelve Grapes ( Sp. , "the twelve grapes of luck") is a Spanish tradition that consists of eating a grape with each of the twelve clock bell strikes at midnight of December 31 to welcome the New Year. Each grape and clock bell strike represents each of the coming twelve months. This tradition dates back from at least 1895 but was consolidated among the population in 1909. In December of that year, some Alicantese vine growers spread this custom to better sell huge numbers of grapes from an excellent harvest. According to the tradition, eating the Twelve Grapes leads to a year of good luck and prosperity. In some areas, this practice was also believed to ward off witches and evil in general, although today it is mostly followed as a tradition to celebrate and welcome the New Year. There are two types of places where people gather to eat the grapes: at home with family members after '' Nochevieja'' dinner, or in the main squares around the country, with the most famous being t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Survivor Spain
''Survivor Spain'' is the Spain, Spanish version of the popular reality series ''Survivor (franchise), Survivor''. This version of the show has aired on Spanish broadcast channels Telecinco, from 2000 to 2001 and 2006 to the present, Antena 3 (Spain), Antena 3, from 2003 to 2005, and on laSiete from 2009 to 2014. Throughout its time on air in Spain, ''Survivor'' has gone by many names. From 2000 to 2001 it was known as ''Supervivientes: Expedicion Robinson'', a show that closely followed the Survivor (TV series), American version of the program. From 2003 to 2004 it was known as ''La isla de los FamoS.O.S'', which, unlike its previous incarnation, resembled more of a ''Big Brother (TV series), Big Brother'' format and included celebrities as contestants (this format would be carried over to all future versions of the show). In 2005, it was known as ''Aventura en África'' and since 2006 it has been called simply ''Supervivientes''. Format and rules Spanish ''Survivor'' followed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diario AS
''Diario AS'' () is a Spanish daily sports newspaper that concentrates particularly on football. Profile ''Diario AS'' is part of PRISA which also owns '' El País'' and ''Cinco Días''. The paper particularly covers news of the Community of Madrid football teams: Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid, Getafe CF, CD Leganés, and Rayo Vallecano. It competes directly with ''MARCA''. In addition to Madrid, the newspaper also has satellite bureaus in Barcelona, Bilbao, A Coruña, Seville, Valencia and Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari .... In May 2012 the newspaper launched aEnglish language sub-siteoffering original journalism and articles translated from the original Spanish by native English-language speakers. The circulation of ''Diario AS'' was 181,172 co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Noria
''La Noria'' (Spanish for "''The Ferris Wheel''") was a Spanish talk show produced by the company ''La Fábrica de la Tele'' which aired on the Spanish television channel Telecinco from 2007 to 2012. The show was hosted by Jordi González and his special collaborator, Sandra Barneda, although it was Gloria Serra who helped him several years before. It aired weekly, every Saturday at 0:30 am. On 14 April 2012 its last episode was aired. After that the show ''El gran debate'' took its place. Broadcasting milestones ''La Noria'' began broadcasting on 25 August 2007 during prime time. From then on, it would air weekly, hosted by Jordi González and Gloria Serra. The show was born to wash off the aggressive-hearted image that its predecessor, ''Sábado Dolce Vita'' (previously called ''Salsa Rosa''), had left on the TV channel. Since its beginning, ''La Noria'' gathered a historic average of 17.4% share rate and almost 1.9 million viewers, thus making it by far the most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crónicas Marcianas
''Crónicas'' ("chronicles") is a 2004 Ecuadorian thriller film, written and directed by Sebastián Cordero. The film was produced by, among others, Guillermo del Toro, director of ''Pan's Labyrinth'', and Alfonso Cuarón, director of '' Children of Men''. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Overview Set in rural Ecuador, the movie follows a television journalist named Manolo Bonilla (played by John Leguizamo) as he investigates the rape and murder of children in the area. The film also stars Leonor Watling and José María Yazpik as Manolo's producer and cameraman, respectively. The film was the official Oscar selection from Ecuador in the Best Foreign Language category. Plot summary After traveling to a small village in Ecuador, Miami tabloid news reporter Manolo Bonilla (Leguizamo) witnesses the death of a local boy after Vinicio Cepeda, a traveling salesman, hits the boy with his pickup truck. When Cepeda attempts to back h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telecinco
Telecinco is a Spanish free-to-air television channel operated by Mediaset España. The channel was previously known as Tele 5, because it had first begun its experimental transmissions on 10 March 1989, and a year later, it was officially launched on 3 March 1990, becoming the fifth of the national terrestrial television channels and the second private channel in Spain. In 1997, Tele 5 was rebranded as Telecinco, dropping the biscione-absent flower logo seen in other Mediaset channel logos. History On April 4, 1986, the Council of Ministers of Spain approved private television in the country, the legislation was approved in 1988. On August 25, 1989, the contest was held to obtain three private television licenses, the which were granted to Gestevisión Telecinco, Grupo Antena 3 and Sogecable. Tele 5 began transmissions experimentally in 1989 to officially begin broadcasting on March 3, 1990, although with limited coverage in Madrid and Barcelona. In January 1991, it achieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cadena COPE
COPE, an acronym for Cadena de Ondas Populares Españolas ("People's Radiowaves of Spain Network") formerly called Radio Popular, is a Spanish language radio station. It is the second most listened to in Spain's generalist radio. Owned by the Spanish Episcopal Conference company "Radio Popular SA", belongs to the "Group COPE" with music stations Cadena 100, Rock FM and Megastar FM, in addition to Spain's generalist TV channel Trece. The station is associated with Spain's journal ''Diario ABC''. Created with the aim of offering religious services, since the 1980s its programming has evolved into the model of conventional general radio, while maintaining programs with religious content, such as ''El Espejo'' (The Mirror) of José Luis Restán and ''La linterna de la Iglesia'' (The Lantern of the Church) of Faustino Catalina, especially on Sundays in the day when Holy Mass and special dates News Church and Catholic liturgical calendar as Christmas and Easter is issued. Its editorial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
