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Yes She's A Beauty, But Longoria Has Brains Too (Why? Cuz she's a socialist)
Reuters ^ | Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:18am ET | By Bob Tourtellotte

Posted on 04/17/2006 9:35:53 AM PDT by sully777

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Eva Longoria is annoyed. The Latina beauty on hit television show "Desperate Housewives" is bugged by all the newspaper, magazine and Web gossip about her sex life when there are more important issues to think about.

She is as comfortable talking about U.S. immigration policy and the plight of migrant farm workers as she is having her bikini-clad body on a mega-sized magazine cover spread out in the Nevada desert so that it can be seen from outer space.

Longoria, 31, is a beauty, but her brain is big, too and she wants folks to know it. So when the media focuses on her sex life with boyfriend Tony Parker, as happened last month, Longoria gets irritated.

"It's annoying, absolutely," she told Reuters ahead of Friday's release of her new movie, thriller "The Sentinel," in which she portrays a rookie U.S. Secret Service agent.

"I respect good journalism. I respect certain newspapers and certain publications, and they are just watered down by the bounty for gossip and pictures and information that is irrelevant and uninteresting," she said.

Of course, a lot of that attention comes from the image she has built as a sexpot. She was among People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" and was No. 1 on Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" list of sexy women. She called the publicity "flattering," but added it is Hollywood's starmaking machine talking, not her.

Longoria skyrocketed to stardom in 2004 on "Desperate Housewives" as the sexy Gabrielle Soliz whose skin-tight jeans and skimpy dresses often raise the eyebrows -- not to mention the ire -- of the other neighborhood wives.

The show premiered on U.S. TV and became an instant hit. It averages more than 20 million U.S. viewers weekly and is now a global phenomenon seen in 200 countries.

But beyond the Hollywood glitz. Longoria holds a degree in kinesiology from Texas A&M University - Kingsville. She is a spokeswoman for Padres Contra el Cancer, which is dedicated to helping Latino kids with the disease, and works with the United Farm Workers labor union.

She said it was "unfortunate" that in the United States -- a nation of immigrants -- some lawmakers want to deport illegal aliens and fence off the Mexico/U.S. border.

"Mexicans contribute an enormous amount to our society, economically and socially," she said. "I don't think this administration can afford to have things end badly."

Longoria has politics on her mind a lot these days, in real life and in the movies.

In "The Sentinel," she co-stars with Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland. They play Secret Service agents who clash when the president's life is threatened by assassins. Longoria is a sharp rookie who is teamed with Sutherland in what is her first role in a major Hollywood movie.

She is not the headlining actress; her part supports the male leads. But Longoria said she was not looking to top movie marquees yet, and did not need the added pressure of being the sole star responsible for the film's box office.

"I wanted to be in a good, ensemble cast," she said. "It was an amazing opportunity to work with great actors in a less stressful environment."

Unlike many actors and actresses who proclaim that they do not plan careers and that roles just seem to come along, Longoria says she strategizes about her choices.

She graduated from college with plans to work in sports medicine and become a trainer for a professional sports team. Parker is a star player for basketball's San Antonio Spurs.

Longoria never dreamed of movie stardom back on her family's ranch near the south Texas town of Corpus Christi.

"We couldn't afford to go to movies," she said.

Her fantasy was to be on TV. She won a modeling contest that sent her to Hollywood where she began building a resume. She did extra work, then bit parts on "Beverly Hills 90210" and small roles on soap operas like "The Bold and The Beautiful."

"I planned. It was definitely intentional," she said.

But movies -- not TV -- are the top rung on the career ladder for actors in Hollywood, so after only one season on "Desperate Housewives," she shot "The Sentinel" -- during her summer vacation.

Later this year, fans will see Longoria in a low-budget film "Harsh Times" that she shot over the Christmas holiday. She portrays a lawyer who grew up poor but became successful.

"It's a dark, dark drama. Very indie," she said. "Anytime you do a good independent film ... you're respected in a circle of critics and a circle in the industry. That was definitely a choice." "Harsh Times" is expected to be released this fall, just in time for Hollywood's Oscar season.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: desertads; eva; evalongoria; hollywood; illegalaliens; longoria; mexico; shutupandsing
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To: sully777

Longoria keeps Duracell in business buying batteries for her vibrators.


21 posted on 04/17/2006 9:45:47 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: 3AngelaD
She's not all that attractive....
22 posted on 04/17/2006 9:46:50 AM PDT by 4U2OUI (Iran,YOU are the target.)
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To: sully777
But beyond the Hollywood glitz. Longoria holds a degree in kinesiology from Texas A&M University - Kingsville.

Oooooh! ROFL.

23 posted on 04/17/2006 9:46:54 AM PDT by Dont Mention the War (This tagline is false.)
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To: sully777

A woman who tells the public about her extreme bikini wax and how it helps her sex life wants to be taken seriously as an intellectual?


24 posted on 04/17/2006 9:47:08 AM PDT by peacebaby (May peace and hope and live abide)
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To: AD from SpringBay

Just call her Coach Longoria. The airhead doesn't realize that her support of the union goes against her argument of undocumented non-union workers.


25 posted on 04/17/2006 9:48:39 AM PDT by Huevos Rancheros (Free the Barret Report--William B. Travis)
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To: VegasCowboy

I heard that she's quite a cunning linguist.


26 posted on 04/17/2006 9:48:41 AM PDT by printhead
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To: sully777

Another reason to hope the Mavericks beat the snot out of the Spurs in the playoffs.


27 posted on 04/17/2006 9:49:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
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To: sully777
"Longoria, 31, is a beauty, but her brain is big, too and she wants folks to know it."

Look at the BIG BRAIN on Eva!

28 posted on 04/17/2006 9:50:58 AM PDT by Feiny (I don't understand why everyone is so obsessed over the fact that I have a drinking problem.)
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To: sully777

" So when the media focuses on her sex life with boyfriend Tony Parker, as happened last month, Longoria gets irritated."


Yahh, thats why you flaunt it everywhere you go and have any army of publicity people pushing these stories to every womans magazine in the universe.

Eva, please, keep to what your your good at.
Taking pictures in bikini's and playing the role of a shallow horny slut on tv.


29 posted on 04/17/2006 9:51:16 AM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: Dont Mention the War

Fine looking babes around those parts. It's why Santa Anna came north. To reclaim the babes.

Eva and Selena (RIP) are but a small sampling of the trouble that awaits interlopers. And it's (Corpus Christi) the dumbest place in America according to recent polls. Heaven.

j/k


30 posted on 04/17/2006 9:51:35 AM PDT by kinghorse
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To: 3AngelaD

Lots of illegal immigrants at TAMUK make it to the pros...mathews, little, and that little short def. back that played for the skins, among others.


31 posted on 04/17/2006 9:51:45 AM PDT by Huevos Rancheros (Free the Barret Report--William B. Travis)
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To: sully777

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... dedicated to helping Latino kids with the disease ...
<<<

Why just Latino kids? Why not all children?


32 posted on 04/17/2006 9:52:04 AM PDT by evilC (Call me Krusty)
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To: sully777

Yet another "celebrity" who get paid too much money for doing nothing of substance. NOTHING of substance.


33 posted on 04/17/2006 9:52:36 AM PDT by Clock King ("How will it end?" - Emperor; "In Fire." - Kosh)
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To: sully777

Here's what here degree is in. Sounds like snake oil to me...

"Applied Kinesiology (AK) is a system that evaluates structural, chemical and mental aspects of health using manual muscle testing with other standard methods of diagnosis.

The doctor using AK finds a muscle that is unbalanced and then attempts to determine why that muscle is not functioning properly. The doctor works out the treatment that will best balance the patient's muscles."


34 posted on 04/17/2006 9:53:17 AM PDT by Pessimist
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To: 4U2OUI
She's not all that attractive....

Well now, surely you wouldn't just throw her out with the trash. Perhaps the leftist trash, but pickup for that is on Thursday...

35 posted on 04/17/2006 9:53:54 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: martin_fierro; Maximus of Texas
Socialist, shmoocialist, I'd still do her.

Make sure to leave plenty for the Collective, Comrade.

"From each according to her ability, to each according to his needs", eh!

36 posted on 04/17/2006 9:53:54 AM PDT by tarheelswamprat
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To: feinswinesuksass

any actor/actress with more than 2 braincells is considered big brained in hollywood.


37 posted on 04/17/2006 9:54:21 AM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: FearNoMan

"No one is interested in anything coming out of her..."

Can't say that for things "going into her"... :)


38 posted on 04/17/2006 9:55:01 AM PDT by Pessimist
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To: sully777
I have no idea of her true politics. Perhaps neither does she.

She's doing publicity for her current film. And she's doing the Leftwing Talking Points.

Her next project in a "dark" indie film:

"Anytime you do a good independent film ... you're respected in a circle of critics and a circle in the industry. That was definitely a choice."

She is a very ambitious woman who is trying to push all the proper buttons in Hollywood to give herself a huge career.

She might believe the Leftwing stuff. But mostly, she believes she should talk like that, or her career will suffer.

39 posted on 04/17/2006 9:55:02 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Never question Bruce Dickinson!)
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To: sully777

Noun
kinesiology

(medicine) the study of body movement
(medicine) the application of such principles to the diagnosis and treatment of muscular imbalance

Sounds good, but the explanations make it seem a lot like a chiropractor who doesn't get involved.


40 posted on 04/17/2006 9:55:55 AM PDT by rock58seg (The actual thing all illegal aliens will do, that over half of Americans won't, is vote Democrat.)
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