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.
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..."
More Pictures!! And since she is a socialist, free pictures!
"I don't think this administration can afford to have things end badly."
So George Bush is a "socialist" too?
Socialist, shmoocialist, I'd still do her.
Yawn. Stop talking sweetheart. You are not famous for your "brains," mmmkay?
I used to be a Socialist, but then I graduated from High School and stopped smoking pot.
I just don't get it with this twit. Her family, like mine, has been in Texas since the time of the Republic. She of all people should be anti-illegal-immigration.
Que pendeja!
I'm glad we have another foreign policy expert in the wings. Does she really have a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology from Texas A&M, Kingsville? That puts her ahead of most of the Hollywood pack.
This Hollywood empty hat thinks its improper to deport illegal invaders and equates illegal invaders with legitimate immigrants??
What am I missing here.
Add this nitwit to the Alec Baldwin, etc. scoresheet of banned actors/actresses and their prodcutions.
No need to help fund our own destruction by contributing to their inflated salaries.
Make sure to leave plenty for the Collective, Comrade.
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Hell, now that she has an acre sized picture of herself in the desert I'm suddenly starting to rethink my position on ignoring the borders and allowing unrestricted access to our country by anybody who feels like showing up....
She is an extremely attractive idiot with a "degree" in weightlifting from some school in Texas that specializes in illegal immigrants. Her handlers should have told her to stay away from politics. The TV show, however, is fairly entertaining. This reporter should have been advised to take a cold shower after the interview and before writing his story. Men.
Who?
No one is interested in anything coming out of her...
ROTFLOL!!!
Longoria keeps Duracell in business buying batteries for her vibrators.
Oooooh! ROFL.
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?
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.
I heard that she's quite a cunning linguist.
Another reason to hope the Mavericks beat the snot out of the Spurs in the playoffs.
Look at the BIG BRAIN on Eva!
" 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.
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
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.
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... dedicated to helping Latino kids with the disease ...
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Why just Latino kids? Why not all children?
Yet another "celebrity" who get paid too much money for doing nothing of substance. NOTHING of substance.
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."
Well now, surely you wouldn't just throw her out with the trash. Perhaps the leftist trash, but pickup for that is on Thursday...
Make sure to leave plenty for the Collective, Comrade.
"From each according to her ability, to each according to his needs", eh!
any actor/actress with more than 2 braincells is considered big brained in hollywood.
"No one is interested in anything coming out of her..."
Can't say that for things "going into her"... :)
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.
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.
Applied Kinesiology Journal
What is APPLIED KINESIOLOGY?
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.
Treatments may involve specific joint manipulation or mobilization, various myofascial therapies, cranial techniques, meridian and acupuncture skills, clinical nutrition, dietary management, counselling skills, evaluating environmental irritants and various reflex procedures.
AK uses the Triad of Health. That is Chemical, Mental and Structural factors that balance the major health categories...
I let her give me a massage.
All those supposed "brains" and she still can't figure out the difference between LEGAL and ILLEGAL.
I actually know that store.
In its defense, there was no place to attach the wood on the outside, and the decision was made that it was better to sacrifice the glass than lose the glass and the merchandise.
Hard choice made fun of by people who know not.
"English Illegal Immigrant, do you SPEAK IT?"
"Say 'que?' again, I dare you ..."
:P
IOW, a glorified masseuse.
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