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Xuxa Popstar
Xuxa Popstar is a 2000 Brazilian musical romantic comedy film directed by Paulo Sérgio de Almeida and Tizuka Yamasaki with screenplay by Vivian Perl and Wagner de Assis. The cast includes Xuxa Meneghel, Luigi Baricelli, Marcos Frota and SÃlvia Pfeifer, as well as musical numbers with Os Travessos, KLB and Deborah Blando. Popstar was co-produced by Warner Bros. and was released theatrically on 15 December 2000. The feature was watched by approximately 2,394,326 viewers. Plot After a brilliant career abroad, an international top model named Nick (Xuxa Meneghel) returns to Brazil to find her Prince Charming, whom she met through an Internet chat. In the country, she becomes a successful businesswoman of fashion, but her competitor does everything to disrupt the girl. Cast *Xuxa Meneghel as Nicole Vegas (Nick) *Luigi Baricelli as Ricardo / Ray of Light *Marcos Frota as João Pedro (JP) *Cláudia Rodrigues as Mari * SÃlvia Pfeifer as Vani *Cláudio Corrêa e Castro as OlÃmp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tizuka Yamasaki
Tizuka Yamasaki (born May 12, 1949) is a Brazilian film director. Early life and work Born in Porto Alegre, at the age of 2, Tizuka moved back with her Japanese immigrants parents to the city of Atibaia, in the state of São Paulo. In her teenage years, Yamasaki moved to São Paulo city for an undergraduate course in architecture, though she changed her mind before her admission and moved to BrasÃlia to study cinema instead. Yamasaki finished college in Rio de Janeiro, where she started her professional career. Yamasaki was one of the first women filmmakers in Brazil who achieved a successful and longstanding career. She and her peers learned filmmaking by working on the sets of well-established Cinema Novo directors. Yamasaki worked as director assistant with Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Glauber Rocha. Yamasaki challenged the norms of Cinema Novo by increasing both the representation of women and the awareness of issues affecting women in Brazilian society. Her film style fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leandro E Leonardo
Leandro e Leonardo were a Brazilian '' sertanejo'' duo. The two brothers (third and fourth of eight siblings), Leandro (born Luiz José da Costa, August 15, 1961–June 23, 1998) and Leonardo (Emival Eterno da Costa, born July 25, 1963), were from Goianápolis. History The brothers were raised in a poor family in Brazil, and from a young age worked with their parents on tomato farms and did odd jobs such as shining shoes. Emival convinced his brother to move to the city, and the two practiced performing songs by Chitãozinho & Xororó, Roberto Carlos and The Beatles with Emival typically singing lead as Luiz sang harmonies and accompanied them on the guitar, then began playing locally in a group called ''Os Dominantes''. After moving to BrasÃlia, where they lived with their uncle Zé, who arranged work for Luiz as a salesman at a clothing store and for Emival at a pharmacy, while also booking gigs for them. When they began performing regularly as a duo it was as Leandro & Leona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcello Antony
Marcello Couto Antony de Farias better known as Marcello Antony (born 28 January 1965) is a Brazilian actor. He lives in Cascais, Portugal. Filmography References External links * 1965 births Living people Male actors from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian male television actors Brazilian male telenovela actors Brazilian male film actors {{Brazil-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thiago Lacerda
Thiago Ribeiro Lacerda (born 19 January 1978) is a Brazilian actor. Biography Lacerda spent his childhood between Rio de Janeiro, where he was born, and Recreio, a mining town where his grandparents lived. From the age of three to 16, he devoted himself to swimming, winning more than 170 medals. Convinced that it would be very difficult to make a living in the sport, he abandoned the idea of becoming a professional swimmer and started to make breaks as a model, besides working as a salesman for a clothing store. He attended a course of interpretation to get rid of shyness, which he felt would hinder his career as manager of a bank. He was ashamed of his 1.95 meters in height, confessing, "I thought that everybody was looking at me." Thiago was studying Business Administration at UERJ when he received an invitation to test for the part of a professor of swimming in ''Malhação''. He resolved to take the risk and was awarded the role. After finishing recording the first scene, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
É O Tchan
É, é ( e-acute) is a letter of the Latin alphabet. In English, it is used for loanwords (such as French '' résumé''), romanization (Japanese '' Pokémon'') or occasionally as a pronunciation aid in poetry. Languages may use ''é'' to indicate a certain sound ( French), stress pattern (Spanish), length (Czech) or tone (Vietnamese), as well as to write loanwords or distinguish identical-sounding words (Dutch). Certain romanization systems such as pinyin (Standard Chinese) also use ''é'' for tone. Some languages use the letter only in specific contexts, such as in Indonesian dictionaries. Languages Afrikaans In Afrikaans, é is used to differentiate meaning and word types. For example: in a sentence that repeats a word (that contains the vowel e) with different meaning or specificity, the e in one of the occurrences could be replaced with é to indicate the different meaning or specificity. Furthermore, é is respected when writing foreign words, mainly from French; and it i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terra Networks
Terra is a Spanish Internet multinational company owned by Telefónica, with headquarters in Spain and offices in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, the United States and Peru. Part of Telefónica Group (the former Spanish public telephone monopoly), Terra operates as a web portal or Internet access provider in the U.S., Spain, and 16 Latin American countries. Founded in 1999 as Terra Networks, S.A., a publicly traded company with Telefónica as its largest shareholder, all outstanding shares were purchased by Telefónica in 2017, making Terra a wholly owned subsidiary. History Terra was founded in 1999 as Terra Networks, S.A. by Juan Villalonga, Telefónica's president between 1996 and 2000, and grew in size through the acquisitions of several local startups in Spain and the main Latin American markets: Olé (Spain), ZAZ (Brazil), Mexico, Gauchonet, Donde (Argentina) and Chevere (Venezuela). Terra has created several digital portals, like Invertia, a successful finance port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planeta Xuxa
''Planeta Xuxa'' ( en, Planet Xuxa, italic=yes) was a Brazilian television program directed by Marlene Mattos and hosted by Xuxa Meneghel. It was aired by TV Globo from 5 April 1997 to 28 July 2002. Aimed at the family and teenagers, it was initially broadcasting on Saturday afternoons. As of 19 April 1998, the TV show was aired on Sundays due to the transmissions of the 1998 World Cup, remaining on Sundays until its final broadcast in 2002. It was the first Sunday evening program of auditorium hosted by a woman on Brazilian television, because before Xuxa, the dispute was between people like Silvio Santos, Faustão and Gugu Liberato. Presenters Márcia Goldschmidt and Eliana followed the footsteps of Xuxa and also appeared on Sunday afternoons on Brazilian TV. The program was an audience success with averages always above 21 points, often surpassing '' Domingão do Faustão''. Planeta Xuxa was being fully re-released by Canal Viva, on Sundays at 7:00 p.m., and its re-ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folha
''Folha de S.Paulo'' (sometimes spelled ''Folha de São Paulo''), also known as simply ''Folha'' (, ''Sheet''), is a Brazilian daily newspaper founded in 1921 under the name ''Folha da Noite'' and published in São Paulo by the Folha da Manhã company. The newspaper is the centerpiece for Grupo Folha, a conglomerate that also controls UOL (Universo Online), the leading Internet portal in Brazil; polling institute Datafolha; publishing house Publifolha; book imprint Três Estrelas; printing company Plural; and, in a joint-venture with the Globo group, the business daily ''Valor'', among other enterprises. It has gone through several phases and has targeted different audiences, such as urban middle classes, rural landowners, and the civil society, but political independence has always been one of its editorial cornerstones. Ever since 1986, ''Folha'' has had the biggest circulation among the largest Brazilian newspapers – according to data by IVC (Instituto Verificador de Circ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandy & Junior
Sandy & Junior were a Brazilian pop music duo consisting of siblings Sandy Leah Lima (born January 28, 1983) and Durval de Lima Júnior (born April 11, 1984). They first gained notoriety by being the children of Xororó from popular sertanejo duo Chitãozinho & Xororó. Sandy & Junior began by singing children's songs and sertanejo-influenced tracks (their first single, "Maria Chiquinha", is a classic sertanejo song). Once they reached adolescence, they changed their style to pop-influenced songs, mainly ballads and upbeat songs. They became a pop phenomenon in Brazil with the release of the albums ''Era Uma Vez... Ao Vivo'' (1998), ''As Quatro Estações'' (1999), ''Quatro Estações: O Show'' (2000) and ''Sandy & Junior'' (2001), which sold more than 9 million copies together, receiving multiple diamond certificates. '' Época'' magazine compared their success to Beatlemania. One of the best-selling Brazilian artists of all time, Sandy & Junior sold over 20 million albums. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xuxa Em Sonho De Menina
Xuxa em Sonho de Menina () is a 2007 Brazilian fantasy children's film, written by and directed by Rudi Lagemann. It was the first film with the actress Xuxa (Xuxa Meneghel) to be directed by Conspiração Filmes, and was distributed by Warner Bros. and Globo Filmes. The film starred Xuxa Meneghel and LetÃcia Botelho, with the participation of Carlos Casagrande, Alice Borges, Betty Lago, Dirce Migliaccio, and Marcelo Adnet. In the film, Xuxa plays a teacher, Kika, whose dream is to be an actress. Encouraged by her childhood best friend, Lara, Kika decides to go to Rio de Janeiro for an audition. However, a misunderstanding separates the two friends. Kika, alone in a bus station, finds a group of children who are going on a bus to Rio for an important math test. Kika ends up getting on the bus and the trip is the backdrop to many adventures and discoveries. A spell makes Kika go back to being a child - and she ends up dealing with the children's antics at a roadside hotel. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Pires
Alexandre Pires do Nascimento (born January 8, 1976) is a Brazilian singer-songwriter. Pires was previously the singer of group Só Pra Contrariar which he joined in the late 1980s. Career Pires began his career playing a new and more appellative style of samba that is known as Pagode and more romantic too that used to be known as Samba-canção and now is known as Samba Romântico. After his rhythm and melody started to become a little more romantic. He crossed the vertent known as "Pagode Romântico" and then he jumped to Samba-canção his favourite style. The Sambas-canção most famous are "Depois do Prazer" and "Tudo tem A ver" with a lot of influences of Brazilian Country Music ("Sertaneja"). The pagodes that are the most famous are "Quando é Amor", "A barata" and "Mineirinho" produced with the group Só Pra Contrariar. At that time, he received also a lot the influences of Cauby Peixoto, Ângela Maria and Agnaldo Rayol, mainly because his father was one of the best f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scheila Carvalho
Scheila Carvalho Ladeira (September 24, 1973, in Juiz de Fora) is a Brazilian model, dancer, and latterly sex symbol. She rose to prominence as a dancer for axé act ''É o Tchan!'', and has gone on to appear in numerous magazine photo shoots, including several for the Brazilian Playboy. She is married to Jorge Antonio da Silva Santos (also known as "Tony Salles") from ''É o Tchan!''. She left the band with Salles in 2005 and she currently hosts a TV show in Bahia Bahia ( , , ; meaning "bay") is one of the 26 Federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo (sta .... She is a Spiritist. References External reference * 1973 births Living people People from Juiz de Fora Brazilian female models Brazilian television presenters The Farm (TV series) contestants Brazilian female dancers Brazilian women television presenters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
