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ING Presents Jennifer Lopez & Marc Anthony En Concierto
Tickets go on sale starting Friday, August 10, at 10:00am, for the mega-wattage pairing of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony for ING PRESENTS JENNIFER LOPEZ & MARC ANTHONY EN CONCIERTO, which kicks off September 29 in Atlantic City. Produced by Live Nation (NYSE:LYV) , the first-of-a-kind tour will make its way to fourteen major markets and some of the hottest venues in the U.S. and Canada, including New York's Madison Square Garden, the Los Angeles Staples Center and the Miami American Airlines Arena (see dates below). $1.00 from every ticket sold on the tour will benefit the ING Run for Something Better, a free school based running program which benefits Latino kids.
The star power and performing prowess Lopez and Anthony bring to the tour is unequaled. Anthony is one of the most thrilling performers in contemporary music and will perform music from his extensive English and Spanish repertoire. Superstar Jennifer Lopez will be touring for the first time, and performing many of the greatest hits she's had in English and also songs in Spanish from her album COMO AMA UNA MUJER. $l.00 from every ticket sold on JENNIFER & MARC EN CONCIERTO will benefit the ING Run For Something Better, a free school based running program ING created to reduce childhood obesity by introducing kids to the benefits of running, physical fitness, and healthy lifestyle choices. The NALEO (The National Association of Elected and Appointed Latino Officials) Education Fund, ING's charitable partner for the multi-city tour, will direct the funds into schools with high Latino enrollment. Lopez and Anthony, the superstar actors/performers/producers have been busy the past month promoting their film El Cantante, in which Anthony stars as the tragic salsa legend Hector Lavoe and Lopez stars as Puchi, his manager/wife. Produced by Lopez's Nuyorican Productions, El Cantante opened last week to rave reviews. Newsday wrote, " ... the haunting beauty of the movie is the way it dramatizes the central figure of salsa music, the singer, who is burdened with carrying the hopes and dreams of his audience ... " Anthony just released the soundtrack to El Cantante and Lopez is set to release BRAVE, her seventh album, on October 9. This past March, she released her first Spanish language album, COMO AMA UNA MUJER which nailed the #1 spot on the Billboard Latin Chart its first week out. Posted on 08 Aug 2007
Jennifer Lopez Fires Back At 'El Cantante' Critics
Jennifer Lopez has heard the criticism of her new film "El Cantante," in which she stars with husband Marc Anthony. But apparently, she's heard just about enough as J.Lo is now firing back at her critics. "I don't know what movie they want to see, because this is the truth," Lopez told reporters during the film's Hollywood premiere.
"El Cantante" follows the rise and fall of salsa legend Hector Lavoe (played by Anthony). Lopez plays his wife Puchi Perez. And while fans and critics alike are blasting the project, which opened Friday after nearly six years of production, the harshest comments may be coming from those who knew Lavoe best. According to an article in the LA Times, after the film's premiere in Puerto Rico, salsa singer Ismael Miranda, a Lavoe contemporary who actually plays his father in "El Cantante," slammed the film for focusing too much on the artist's drug abuse, which eventually led to his death from AIDS complications. Lavoe's former bandleader, partner and producer Willie Colon, who also served as a consultant on the film headed online to express his disappointment. "The creators of 'El Cantante' missed an opportunity to do something of relevance for our community," Colón wrote in a Yahoo.com forum. "The real story was about Hector fighting the obstacles of a nonsupportive industry that took advantage of entertainers with his charisma and talent. Instead they did another movie about two Puerto Rican junkies… It's difficult to comprehend how two individuals who are in the music business like Marc and Jennifer are not aware of the damage and the consequences of promoting only the negative side of our Latin music culture." If that's not enough, Colon later said it was Lopez's character, Puchi, who led to Lavoe's demise and for the film to focus on that relationship was a disgrace to the Latin legend. "I believe that Puchi actually caused Hector's downfall," Colón said. "I never understood why he put up with such a negative, homely, vulgar person. The biggest crime is the canonization of Puchi so that Jennifer can play her." Posted on 08 Aug 2007
El Cantante Premiere in New York : Pictures of Jennifer Lopez & Marc Anthony
Still in the process of updating the gallery with recent pictures... Here's Jennifer Lopez & Marc Anthony in New York for the premiere of their new movie :
     Posted on 04 Aug 2007
JENNIFER LOPEZ: DON'T CALL ME A DIVA
JENNIFER LOPEZ found her ultimate leading man in new movie El Cantante - her husband Marc Anthony. J-Lo stars opposite her other half in the biopic about Puerto Rican salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe. She plays his Bronx-born wife Puchi in the story of Hector's 30-year struggle with sex, drugs, music and fame. And the star says working with her husband was fantastic even though Anthony has called her character a "bitch on wheels" and many of their scenes together were high-intensity fights.
The 38-year-old singer and actress said: "It was fun. Some of the scenes were very intense and you can't fake that. You have to go there emotionally but when we were done there was a sense of satisfaction that we were telling the story. The scenes were real and we were making these people human, making the joyous things joyous and the gritty things gritty. It was all about nuances as it was with the screaming and fighting. Although we have totally different views about the characters. I felt like Puchi loved Hector and it was my responsibility to portray that. I would always tell Marc that if it wasn't for Puchi, Hector would have died a long time ago because she pulled him out of the crackhouses. He would say no, she was doing drugs with him, but thankfully we didn't take any of that home with us. It was more of an adrenaline rush, then on the drive home to Long Island we would talk about it and I'd say: 'Wasn't that great when I was pushing you? You weren't expecting that, right?' And he would be like 'No I didn't'." J-Lo's new-found happiness seems to have spelled the end of her diva demands. But the star reckons that isn't so much to do with her hubby as the fact they simply weren't true. She said: "I always felt that eventually all that stuff would fall away. I think it was a little bit exaggerated and fabricated to make things interesting, while who I am as a person has never fitted with how I have been described or portrayed in the press. So it was always kind of weird for me and I always felt people would eventually get it, even if I have to wait until I'm 40 or 50. I knew people would see me for who I really am." When Jennifer first heard a film was to be made about Hector Lavoe she called Marc right away because she knew he would be perfect for the part - even though they weren't going out at the time. She said: "I first got the script five or six years ago and Marc and I have only been together three-and-a-half years. But I knew he was the person to to play Hector. They even look a bit alike. Also, I realised he knew that world so I called him before anyone else and he told me Hector was his hero and that he would do it. I didn't even know if I was going to be in it at the time." Then before the movie, which will be in cinemas later this year, had even made it into production Lopez and Anthony got together. J-Lo had just ended her high-profile relationship with Ben Affleck and Anthony was in the midst of divorcing his ex-wife and former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres, the mother of his two young sons. Just a few months later the couple married in aquiet ceremony at Jennifer's Los Angeles home, making Anthony the third Mr Lopez. Cynics said the marriage was a cheap publicity stunt to promote Anthony's new album. It was also speculated Jennifer Lopez was pregnant and she was only with Anthony because she was on the rebound from Affleck. Three-and-a-half years later, though, and the couple seem to have proved everyone wrong. They are rarely seen without each other and since they tied the knot the number of column inches dedicated to Jennifer's private life has almost vanished, something J-Lo says she has to thank her husband for. She said: "When I married Marc I was ready to settle down. It took time to get to that point in my life after having made mistakes. Then Marc helped me make the decision to lead a more private life - before then I didn't know there was another way to live. I had planned not to let fame change me, but then you are out there and all this stuff is happening to you. You're on the covers of the tabloids every week and you go, 'Wait a minute, this is not working'. Marc, though, has been in the public eye since he was 11 and been singing since he was a baby so he told me I could be an artist, have my credibility, sell records and be successful while also having a life. So we made a decision to have a life that is private, sacred and ours. And now we are further down the line we have discovered people are more respectful of us." Jennifer admits it is hard for her to imagine not being famous. She always knew she was going to dance and sing for a living and it was her childhood dream to become a star, but she just wasn't prepared for what fame brings. She said: "You go for it and keep going for it but you have no idea about what comes with being famous. Once it happens to you, you have to put your feet on the ground and think, 'OK, I'm still Lupe and David's daughter' and if you have a good foundation you can get through it while a lot of artists are getting thrown off kilter. I was lucky although the biggest sacrifice you make in this business is your life. You sacrifice relationships, seeing your family as much as you should and having normal pleasures people take for granted. So I missed out on a lot because of fame but I also have a lot to be thankful for." And J-Lo certainly has one asset she knows she has to be grateful for - her curvaceous body. As a role model for all women bigger than a size zero, Jennifer can't escape having her fantastic figure discussed, especially her shapely bum. She said: "The fact I am not a typical size four (British size eight), not very tall and not thin is always mentioned but I think that is a good positive message and I am proud of it. You can still be attractive and beautiful even if you do eat that extra cake." Although she feels no guilt about the odd biscuit, J-Lo does have one guilty pleasure. She said: "I love psychics and horoscopes - anything that can tell me what is going to happen. I want to know.The fact I'm not a typical size eight, tall or thin is a positive message I'm proud of" Posted on 04 Aug 2007
El Cantante : Plenty of good music -- but too much Jennifer Lopez
There's a lot of music in El Cantante, director Leon Ichaso's biopic of the legendary Latin singer Héctor Lavoe, with Marc Anthony (who did his own singing) more than doing justice to Lavoe's insanely catchy, groundbreaking songs. It's whenever the music stops that the movie runs into trouble.
The story of Lavoe -- who left his native Puerto Rico in the 1960s and moved to New York, where he became part of the Nuyorican scene that spawned the salsa genre -- follows the sad template of too many other musicians' lives before and since: The overcoming of humble roots, the rush of success, the difficulty of balancing stardom with marriage and the substance abuse that came along with fame. The fact that the basic narrative of El Cantante, which was written by Ichaso, Todd Bello and David Darmstaedter, follows the same track as Walk the Line or Ray is not the fault of the filmmakers. It's the elements of Lavoe's life they have chosen to dwell on that make the movie such a relentless, hollow downer. There is too little of his rise and way too much of his fall, and the subtexts Ichaso works into the story -- the common immigrant experience of enduring racial prejudice in a new land or the anger of loved ones left behind at home -- aren't enough to keep the film from turning Lavoe's life into a gigantic showbiz cliché. There is also, more damagingly, the J.Lo factor: Jennifer Lopez produced the film and co-stars as Lavoe's wife Puchi, and she gets so much screen time that a more fitting title for the film would have been El Cantante's Wife. Lopez's performance is pitched at much too high a volume, and there is simply too much of her in the picture, especially an ill-conceived framing device in which Lopez, wearing unconvincing makeup designed to age her, is interviewed for a documentary about Lavoe's life. Anthony fares well during the plentiful concert sequences, which Ichaso shoots with tremendous style and energy, conveying the revolutionary power of Lavoe's music and the electricity he brought to his stage performances (he is also shrewd enough to provide English language subtitles for the Spanish-language lyrics). But Anthony's performance never gets past the surface of who Lavoe was as a man: For all the tragedy the character endures, you'd be hard-pressed to describe his personality with any specificity after the movie is over. El Cantante does contain fleeting moments of priceless camp, the best one coming early on, during a 1980s montage in which Lavoe and Puchi ride around New York City in a limo, spilling cocaine over themselves while Animotion's Obsession, the cheesiest of '80s anthems, blasts on the soundtrack. But as the film edges toward the two-hour mark, and the couple is having yet another of their screeching arguments, you can't help but wish El Cantante would shut up. Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, John Ortiz, Manny Perez, Vincent Laresca, Ismael Miranda. Director: Leon Ichaso. Screenwriters: Leon Ichaso, Todd Bello, David Darmstaedter. Producers: Julie Caro, Jennifer Lopez, Simon Fields. A Picturehouse release. Running time: 116 minutes. Vulgar language, sexual situations, drug use, adult themes. Playing at area theaters. Posted on 04 Aug 2007
Jennifer Lopez Pictures
I have updated the gallery with tons of pictures of Jennifer Lopez & Marc anthony at the premiere for El Cantante in LA, July 31st.
     Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are off-screen husband and wife and are icons in their own right. Now they are taking to the screen to portray the lives of salsa legend Hector Lavoe and his devoted wife, Puchi. Lopez, who started her career as a fly girl dancer on "In Living Color," actually co-produced the film. She said the project came to her about 5 1/2 years ago and she knew her husband would star as Lavoe. She didn't intend to play Puchi, but it became clear that the part fit her well. "I fell in love with the project as it went on," she told The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith. "It's a very intense story. Once I got the director on and he started doing rewrites and we started talking about the movie, we got so excited about it. He was like, 'You have to play this part.' " When she did take on the role, Lopez found that it was her most challenging to date. But she loved it and loved working with her husband. "I knew he was a really good actor and I knew he was the right person to play this part," Lopez said. "But watching him do Hector was kind of — you know, I knew he would have the singing down and all that kind of stuff but the nuances and watching him work. He worked very differently than I do." Lopez says she likes to prepare and do a lot of research. She likes to know all her lines as well as everyone else's in the scene. Anthony, she says, slides into character. "He comes on set in character, talking the talk, walking the walk, very loose," Lopez said. "I'm waiting for that line, you know. He's getting there. It's fun. It was a very different (approach)." But working with him isn't new to Lopez. She says she met Anthony at work and it's always been easy for them. The only thing that's missing from the movie is Lopez herself singing. But she does dance. There are many scenes of her dancing on the side of the stage while Anthony sings. "Well, I think Puchi really enjoyed being with Hector, a lot for this reason, too," she said. "She saw what he could be. I think she zeroed in on him the minute she saw him. He was like her ticket to where she wanted to be, you know?" But people will get a chance to see Lopez sing when she and Anthony tour the United States together. "Since we've been married he's gone on tour twice, and I go with him every single time," Lopez said. "Usually he goes with one or two other acts. Across the United States. This year, you know, he was going to go. I had my two albums coming out. They're like, 'Why doesn't Jennifer' … They're like, 'Do you think Jennifer will do it?' I was like, absolutely. I never toured the United States. It will be my first time. I'm bringing my stage show. I'm really excited about it." "El Cantante" opens Friday, Aug. 3. Posted on 04 Aug 2007
Jennifer Lopez is dominating - Marc Anthony
Actor/singer Marc Anthony says his wife, the sultry Jennifer Lopez, likes to take the upper hand in their relationship. 'She's always been the boss,' Anthony was quoted as saying by contactmusic.com website.
The couple are set to tour together, their first ever outdoor performance, after Marc recently revealed that they made a vow to each other that they would avoid working separately. Posted on 04 Aug 2007
Jennifer Lopez offers advice to troubled stars
Jennifer Lopez has advised young stars to surround themselves with people who will keep them grounded. Following the recent reports of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan struggling to cope with life in the spotlight, Jennifer Lopez has spoken about how difficult fame can be.
"Nobody has a handbook for fame. It's no easy thing to deal with," Lopez explained in a joint interview with husband Marc Anthony. "You've got to have good people around you." Offering further advice to Hollywood's current crop of troubled stars, the singer added: "You want to be proud of yourself at the end of the day." singer-songwriter and actor, agreed with his wife's assessment: "I had people who kept me in line. I was fortunate in that way. Now it would seem that people's best interests are just to keep the star happy as long as the money is still coming in." Posted on 04 Aug 2007
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