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	Jennifer Lopez picture - Collection of Jennifer Lopez videos, pics photo gallery and Jennifer Lopez wallpaper nude.
		Film and television: Jennifer Lopez has appeared on the short-lived television programs South Central, Second Chances, and Hotel Malibu, and the made-for-television film Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7.
		Jennifer Lopez played the lead role in the 1997 film Selena for which Jennifer Lopez was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy" in 1998.
		Jennifer Lopez's performances were less well-received in the financially successful films The Wedding Planner, Maid in Manhattan, and Monster-in-Law.
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	Selena - Film.com - Review
		Jennifer Lopez excels as Selena, the Tejano singing sensation from south Texas who was shot and killed in 1995 at age 23 by Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her fan club.
		Lopez struts onstage in Selena's famous bustiers and boots, lip-syncs to the Tejano songs (a mix of polka, rock, pop, R & B and Latin) that made Selena a Hispanic idol and hits the career high points that led to a Grammy Award in life and international stardom in death.
		After Selena defies Abraham (a stolid Edward James Olmos) by marrying guitarist Chris Perez (Jon Seda), her life is conflict-free until Yolanda, fired after accusations of embezzling, shoots Selena in the back at a Texas motel.
	www.film.com /movies/review/selena/5948830 (432 words)

	Motherhood Manifesto film \| Moms Rising
		House parties are being held to screen the film* across the nation.
		These and other startling facts are presented in a powerful and engaging new one-hour documentary, THE MOTHERHOOD MANIFESTO--a film by Laura Pacheco and John de Graaf, which is narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Mary Steenburgen.
		The film brings to the screen many of the characters, experts and stories from the new book by the same name, written by Joan Blades, co-founder of MoveOn.org and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner.
	www.momsrising.org /film (826 words)

	Amazon.com: Selena: DVD: Jennifer Lopez,Jackie Guerra,Constance Marie,Alex Meneses,Jon Seda,Edward James Olmos,Jacob ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The unavoidable subject of Selena's killer--a woman who happened to be the president of her fan club--is considerably and oddly downplayed.
		The film recounts the brief life of Selena Quintanilla Perez (Jennifer Lopez), a life that was built around her father's broken dreams.
		While this film suffers from linear portrayals; the inevitable "Hollywooditis" that always happens with a film biography, it still is a good watch.
	www.amazon.com /Selena-Jennifer-Lopez/dp/6304584229 (1784 words)

	Selena (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Selena was a Grammy Award-winning recording artist and well known within in the U.S. Latino community and Mexico.
		The film recounts the story of how Selena began her career at the age of 10, becomes a top Tejana selling artist, and deals briefly with how her life was tragically cut short.
		Selena was produced with the participation of the Quintanilla Family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Selena_(movie) (524 words)

	Selena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Selena attained further notability in the United States and Mexico after Yolanda Saldívar, the president of her fan club, murdered her at the age of 23.
		As of June 2006, Selena was commemorated with a museum and a bronze life-sized statue (Mirador de la Flor in Corpus Christi, Texas).
		Selena accepted and on April 2, 1992, Selena and Perez married in Nueces County, Texas, and Selena added her new husband's surname to her own.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Selena (2442 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Movie details - Selena
		Selena is a true star in the music buissness and to bad her singing carrer had to come to a end.
		Selena was tragically shot to death by a member in her fan club in 1995 just has she was getting bigger in the music industry.
		This film is great to watch on the life and carrer of Selena and how she was a beautiful person and had a great singing voice and that she loved her family very much.
	www.hour.ca /film/movie.aspx?iIDFilm=1220 (637 words)

	Selena
		The film tells the story of life of Mexican "Tejano" style singer Selena and the progress of her career resulting in No.1 US album.
		"Selena" tells the story of Latin Queen Selena Quintanilla-Perez, who was the most popular Latin Singer at the time of her tragic death at the age of only 23 years in 1995.
		The film tells the story of the singer as she is accidently discovered by her own father at the age of 10.
	www.filmsafari.com /movie_database/movie.php?mid=0120094 (135 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: 'Selena': A Tale of Music, Moxie and Murder
		As "Selena" acknowledges in flashback, Abraham Quintanilla's dreams were rooted in the early '60s failure of his fledgling doo-wop trio, the Dinos.
		By her mid-teens, Selena was on her way to becoming the first female star in Tejano music, a frothy, danceable meld of Mexican ranchera, polka, country, pop and Colombian cumbia.
		But "Selena" is less concert film than family drama, particularly focusing on Selena's struggles with her father after she falls in love with, and eventually marries, her guitarist Chris Perez (heartthrob Jon Seda).
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/review97/selenaharr.htm (771 words)

	[ ChatTimes Movie Reviews : "Selena"]
		The principle that drives 'Selena' is very sensible: Although what prompted the film to be made is the very essence of tragedy, the horror has most affected those who survive her.
		But Selena, her new husband waiting outside in the car, has hardly taken a step inside the house to face the music and her dad is telling her that she was exactly right to have done what she did.
		The Selena you'll see on the screen is a modest, sweet-tempered young woman who, at the time she died, was dreaming still-girlish dreams of bigger stardom and having babies.
	www.timesfreepress.com /cityscape/diversions/filmfinder/selena.html (749 words)

	SELENA
		The film begins with Selena and her brother and sister starting a band at their father's "urging." They basically had no choice.
		By the time she was sixteen, Selena was winning awards for her music and on her way to becoming the biggest star to ever emerge from the Tejano music scene.
		Edward James Olmos is a little pushy in the beginning of the film, but it's clear that his unwavering love and unrelenting drive are the reasons behind his children's success and his families unity.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsS/f_selena.html (843 words)

	"Selena" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		lthough it could be argued that Selena is a film that is primarily directed to her huge base of young Hispanic fans, this story of the singer's meteoric rise to fame and her tragic death in 1995 at the age of 24 is a touching tribute to her life and family that anyone can appreciate.
		The film is a celebration of Selena's short, but impactful, life and does not dwell on her murder by her fan club president, which is sensitively dealt with through a series of brief cutaways at the conclusion of the movie.
		I had not followed Selena's music career before I saw this film, but this film fueled in me a desire to know more about her, and I have come to know the real Selena as a humble and giving person, just as she was portrayed in the film.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/pre2000/rvu-selena.html (459 words)

	SELENA movie review with photos, video
		Selena succeeds most when it concentrates on her family life, particularly her loving relationship with her father, portrayed here by Edward James Olmos.
		Selena's brother and sister are recruited to play the bass and drums, Mom helps Selena design and make costumes, and Dad drives the tour bus.
		Selena's tragic demise is depicted quickly, almost as a painful afterthought.
	www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/s/selena.html (548 words)

	Selena Movie Review by Anthony Leong
		Selena, on the verge of womanhood (now played by Jennifer Lopez, who also appeared in Nava's previous films), finds herself placed precariously between the wishes of her father, and the need to find her own path.
		The film does not dwell for long on this part of her life, because it is a celebration of a young woman who pursued her dreams and not only did she find happiness, but she also touched the lives of her fans with her music.
		Whereas Selena is uninterested in her heritage and is hesitant to embrace it, Abraham is rigidly traditionalist yet feels handicapped by his background, seeing it as a weakness, recalling the prejudice in his life from both sides of the border.
	users.aol.com /aleong1631/selena.html (1339 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Hispanic Heritage - Biographies - Selena (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Selena left school in the eighth grade to spend more time travelling with the band and earning money for her family, but she eventually completed her high school equivalency requirements through a correspondence course.
		Rather, Selena became known as the "Tex-Mex Madonna" because of her sexy bustiers and provocative smiles on-stage, though off-stage she remained a wholesome, married woman who was devoted to her family.
		Selena indulged Saldivar's penchant for spotted cows with cow-patterned rugs and phones; Saldivar reciprocated by transforming her apartment into a Selena shrine, laden with Selena photos and memorabilia, including a life-size cardboard pop-up of the singer.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/chh/bio/selena.htm (2354 words)

	Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - Independent film on Selena's impact airs on PBS
		Tuesday on PBS (repeated at 9 p.m., Thursday) looks at the life and career of Selena Quintanilla Perez, who was shot and killed in Corpus Christi in March of 1995 by her former fan club president.
		Portillo's film explores the aftermath Selena's death had on the Hispanic community and the legacy of her image as a budding superstar who lived close to her family and shared an unusually personal rapport with her adoring young fans.
		She was still polishing the film as late as two weeks ago, when she abruptly pulled "Corpus" from an independent film festival in San Antonio, where it was supposed to be the closing-night offering.
	www.coastalbendcareers.com /1999/july/13/today/local_ne/3106.html (1034 words)

	Films 1999 - San Diego Latino Film Festival Web site
		The film documents Paulina Cruz Suarez's life as a domestic worker and through the slow revealing, or peeling back of layers, a childhood secret is unearthed.
		While in Chile Guzman films the sometimes agonizing reaction of survivors of that dark period of Chilean history plus the startling awakening of a new generation of students who must all come to grip with the horrors of the past.
		This film is a must see and a very special presentation of the 1999 San Diego Latino Film Festival.
	www.sdlatinofilm.com /films2.html (3084 words)

	Selena Movie (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Selena Film Productions begins principal photography in San Antonio this Wednesday and is scheduled to shoot on location for approximately two months.
		Actress Jennifer Lopez whose most recent film work included "Money Train" and "Jack," thanked the people of San Antonio by stating, "I am very pleased and happy to be starting principal photography on the Selena Project her in San Antonio.
		Selena Film Productions will wrap in San Antonio in late October ending with a shoot in Poteet (just south of San Antonio) as a remake of the concert at Monterrey, Tx.
	www.ondanet.com /tejano/selena.books/movie/PressRelease.html (462 words)

	Selena (1997): Reviews
		Selena is in part a completely predictable Latino soap opera that should satisfy those who complain they aren't making movies like they like used to.
		But the film soars when the stunning Jennifer Lopez beams and struts her stuff in a series of exhilarating performance sequences; she's a glitzy, thrilling icon a la the made-over Olivia Newton-John of Grease.
		You can't help cheering for Selena, but the good feeling is diminished by the sense that her story's been simplified and sanitized.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/selena (780 words)

	Amazon.ca: Selena (Widescreen/Full Screen): DVD: Gregory Nava,Jennifer Lopez,Jackie Guerra,Constance Marie,Alex ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I wasn't familar with the real Selena before this movie (I was a few months short of being 9 years old when she died) and my whole family is mainly white and all my parents listened to when I was growing up was country.
		I saw a taping of the real Selena in concert and it made me love this movie more when I saw how dead on they got to the outfits to the little hand moments when she was performing to just the whole presence.
		Film used approximately 64,000 fans/extras, especially in the case of the stadium scene.
	www.amazon.ca /Selena-Widescreen-Full-Screen-Gregory/dp/6304584229 (1292 words)

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		Since there are few other film makers who can get a film in wide distribution focusing their cameras on Chicanos and even fewer on Chicanas, you have to look to Nava for such films.
		I would like to have seen this film explore and perhaps contrast the lives and experiences of Selena and the woman who killed her, rather than just writing off Yolanda Saldivar as an embezzler who got caught.
		And Selena becomes on the screen something I'm quite sure she was not in life: a kind of plaster saint.
	www.mith2.umd.edu /WomensStudies/FilmReviews/S/selena-mcalister (698 words)

	'Selena' serves as touching tribute to slain singer
		Selena was murdered by her fan club president on March 31, 1995 in Corpus Christi.
		Quintantilla is Selena's father, and protests initially were generated by the thousands who tried out for roles in the film, may of whom also invested in costumes prior to auditions.
		When Ontiveros made her first screen appearance in ''Selena,'' a chorus of boos arose from the audience before her character was even introduced.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/032197/selena.htm (520 words)

	Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena . Austin Chronicle . 08-02-99
		The Selena phenomenon provides an interesting counterimage to the inescapably persistent images of JFK Jr., the son of Camelot, and offers another take on the diversity issue, which is continually cast in fl and white.
		Unlike some Chicano intellectuals who discovered Selena after her death, yet tried to explain the singer's popularity from an insider perspective, Portillo is forthright is declaring her ignorance of Selena.
		Part of the Selena phenomenon included the complete ignorance of the mainstream (including middle-class Latinos), who were not only surprised at the reaction to the singer's death, but asked, "Who's Selena?" -- as if to say, since we don't know who she is, she must not exist, or, she must not matter.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/austin/c/corpusahomemovief1.html (966 words)

	Selena mistakes, goofs and bloopers
		Continuity: When Selena is singing "Como La Flor" in Mexico after the crowd was pushing into the stage, her mouth doesn't match the words to the song.
		Continuity: When Selena is in Mexico and is singing, she puts her microphone out into the crowd but somehow her voice didn't get any softer, so you automatically know she is lip syncing.
		Continuity: When Selena, her brother and father are in the van discussing touring in Mexico, in one shot Abie has his seat belt on, in the next shot it is off, the next is on, etc.
	www.moviemistakes.com /film1133 (493 words)

	VH1.com : Selena : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
		A flamboyant, sexy stage performer, sometimes hailed as the Latina Madonna, Selena was nonetheless considered a role model for off-stage she was family oriented, active in anti-drug campaigns and AIDS awareness programs.
		When Selena began performing at the age of ten, her father became her manager and Los Dinos became her backing band.
		Saldivar was convicted for the murder of Selena in November, 1995 and sentenced to at least 30 years in prison.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/selena/bio.jhtml (704 words)

	Parent Previews: Selena
		Selena, the movie, is a warm and positive story that is much more a testament of the importance of families than a biography that ends in tragedy.
		Other than Selena's attempts to mimic Madonna's trend in on-stage fashion (much to her father's dismay), this film is suitable for all ages.
		The inevitable murder at the end of the film is handled tastefully, so as to not detract from the real message of family love and unity that is felt throughout.
	movies.go.com /parentpreviews/review?rid=341 (360 words)

	P.O.V. - Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena \| PBS
		Tejana singer Selena was on the brink of blockbuster crossover fame when her murder at age 23 catapulted her into mainstream celebrity.
		The film offers a fresh look at how this unique Mexican American voice still echoes in the hearts of her fans.
		Selena's Sister: I think that's what hurts the most, is that she was so giving, so caring.
	www.pbs.org /pov/pov1999/corpus (444 words)

	Film Scouts Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One said, "Chris and Selena forever." The other said, "I love you, Chris." So imagine, he'd go to the bathroom everyday and see that.
		I know how it is. You do films, you go and meet people, then you move on and forget.
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