Ugly Betty?

[13_jane]

Hi

Has anyone watched the tv show called "Ugly Betty"? Its starting here in the UK in January, and I just wondered what it was about and if it's worth watching??

thanks

jane x

[boonie stomper]

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It's definately worth checking out if you like this:



TELEVISION REVIEW
'Ugly Betty' has look of a winner

By Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff | September 28, 2006

Betty Suarez is not Tyra Banks or Paris Hilton -- that is, a baton with flat hair. With her metal braces and bushy eyebrows, Betty's a ``before" with no chance of becoming an ``after." Her crocheted vest isn't ``vintage"; it's just old. She looks like mothballs smell.

And Betty is beautiful, which is the point of ``Ugly Betty." It's not a new point; we already know beauty is only skin deep, is in the eye of the beholder, is truth. But it's a point that gets audience-pleasing treatment in this winning series, tonight at 8 on Channel 5. The fascistic world of fashion is famously hollow, but still we love being reminded of that by TV as the Nicole Richies and Lindsay Lohans continue to invade our lives.

``Ugly Betty" has ``The Devil Wears Prada" and ``Working Girl" stitched into its DNA, but it is adapted by executive producer Salma Hayek from a Colombian telenovela. The premiere quickly sets up the story, as brainy Betty (America Ferrera) wins a job at a glossy New York magazine called Mode. Her presence in the Mode offices, from the kitschy baubles on her desk to the empanadas in her lunch box, defies every fashionista tenet. She even smiles, and smiling is so out. But publishing magnate Bradford Meade (Alan Dale ) has specifically hired the unattractive Betty to stop his Mode editor son, Daniel (Eric Mabius ), from his playboy ways.

Yes, Betty has been hired for her looks.

The evil force here -- the Meryl Streep from ``Prada" and the Sigourney Weaver from ``Working Girl" -- is Vanessa Williams's Wilhelmina. She lusts after Daniel's job, and she schemes like Cruella De Vil to bring him and Betty down. Devising evil plots in her office amid Botox shots and foot rubs from her toadie assistant (Michael Urie ), she embodies everything that's cynical and manipulative about the business of appearances.
http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles...k_of_a_winner/

[floydgirl]

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Oh my goodness, I absolutely LOVE this show!

Yes, watch it!

[13_jane]

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Thanks Boonie and floydgirl - I'll tune into it!!

Plus we get the series 3 of Desperate housewives in the New Year - I'll have square eyes watching soo much tv!! hehe

thanks again

jane xxx

[ttdriver]

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I never watched it, but I certainly object to the title !

Betty

[Atkid]

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I love this show, its into reruns now here though. It is funny that Ugly Betty is played by America Ferrera who is a beautiful girl who you probably recognize from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. (They really know how to downplay a girl's looks. LOL! And you can't miss the episode where she gets all dressed up to go to a fancy restaurant, just too funny.

[13_jane]

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I never watched it, but I certainly object to the title !

Betty

Betty - UGLY is just an abbreviation of "unbelievably gorgeous lovely young-thing" hehe!!


jane xxx

[Shilorunamok]

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I watch it every thursday with my DFIL. Except now - because of the re-runs.

[ttdriver]

Re: Ugly Betty?

Betty - UGLY is just an abbreviation of "unbelievably gorgeous lovely young-thing" hehe!!


jane xxx

WELL THEN!!! I'm gonna have to watch it!

Thanks, Jane!

Betty

[sadie147]

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I never watched it, but I certainly object to the title !

Betty

I have a cousin who refuses to watch it because she says the title is horrible as well -though her names not Betty, she just hates the title, thinks it's mean. I've tried to convince her to watch and can't.

I think it's a brilliant show, I never miss it!

[boonie stomper]

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Before finding out it was a show, I thought Ugly Betty was probably some kind of sweet gooey dessert, LOL.

[13_jane]

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Before finding out it was a show, I thought Ugly Betty was probably some kind of sweet gooey dessert, LOL.

lol!!!

I'm soo looking forward to watching it!!!!

[julirama723]

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This show is great--it's so over-the-top, very addictive, and I LOVE the fact that the heroine isn't some string bean...and really, I don't think Ugly Betty is really that Ugly. America Fererra, the actress who plays Ugly Betty, is absolutely GORGEOUS in real life!

[boonie stomper]

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Here's what I was thinking of!!!!!! Here's the original version, DEFINATELY UGLY, if you're on Atkins!!! Let's see if it can get a makeover?!?

Apple Betty

SUBMITTED BY: Barbara Milam


"Everyone always raves about this pie. You don't have to make pie crust! You can control the sweetness by the amount of streusel topping you use."


(8 servings)


INGREDIENTS

• 4 cups thinly sliced apples
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 pinch salt
• 1/2 cup butter

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9 inch pie plate.
2. Mound sliced apples in the pie plate. Sprinkle with orange juice.
3. In a medium bowl, mix the flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Cut in butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Scatter over the apples.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes. Serve warm.

I think it might be decent with substitutions for the flour and sugar, and the pictured ice cream it is served with!

(for OWL fruit rung & up, of course)