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Babilônia (TV Series)
''Babilônia'' ('' Babylon Hill''; International title: ''Ambitious Women'') is a Brazilian primetime telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It premiered on March 16, 2015, replacing ''Império'' at 9:10 p.m. / 10:25 p.m. (BRT/ AMT). Written by Gilberto Braga, Ricardo Linhares and João Ximenes Braga, with collaboration of Ângela Carneiro, Chico Soares, Fernando Rebello, João Brandão, Luciana Pessanha, Maria Camargo and Sérgio Marques; and directed by Cristiano Marques, Pedro Peregrino, Luisa Lima, Giovanna Machline, Maria de Médicis and Dennis Carvalho. Features performances of Camila Pitanga, Thiago Fragoso, Gabriel Braga Nunes, Marcos Palmeira, Fernanda Montenegro, Nathalia Timberg, Cássio Gabus Mendes, Arlete Salles, Tainá Müller, Thiago Martins, Bruno Gissoni, Chay Suede, Sophie Charlotte, Bruno Gagliasso, Adriana Esteves and Glória Pires in the main roles. With a history considered "bold" by critics, addressing bold themes for the genre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include '' teleserye'' (Philippines), '' téléroman'' (Canada, specifically Quebec), and ''sinetron'' (Indonesia). Commonly described using the American colloquialism Spanish soap opera, many telenovelas share some stylistic and thematic similarities to the soap opera familiar to the English-speaking world. The significant difference is their series run length; telenovelas tell one self-contained story, typically within the span of a year or less whereas soap operas tend to have intertwined storylines told during indefinite, continuing runs. This makes them shorter than most other television series, but still much longer than a miniseries. This planned run results in a faster-paced, more concise style of melodrama compared to a typical soap opera. Episodes of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mart'nália
Martnália Mendonça Ferreira, known as Mart'nália (Rio de Janeiro, September 7, 1965) is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, percussionist and actress. Career Daughter of sambista Martinho da Vila and singer Analia Mendonca (her name is a blend of parents' names), the singer was born in Vila Isabel, North Zone of Rio de Janeiro. Since childhood she was surrounded by music. She began her professional career at age 16, doing backing vocals for her father beside her sister, Analimar. In the mid 1990s, she began making presentations on the circuit of bars, nightclubs and theaters in Rio de Janeiro, which culminated in the release of her samba album ''Minha cara''. Since 1994, she joined the group Batacotô, whose percussionist was Ivan Lins. Mart'nália had the privilege of becoming sponsored by big names of Brazilian popular music thanks to her father. Caetano Veloso was the artistic director of her ''Pé de meu samba'' and composed the title track, and Maria Bethânia produced ''Men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O Dia
''O Dia'' (''The Day'') is a major daily newspaper in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its sales are slightly higher than its main rival, ''O Globo''. In August 2012, it was sold to Central Record de Comunicação. History The newspaper was founded on 5 June 1951 by the then deputy , future governor of the states of Guanabara and Rio de Janeiro. Chagas used graphic equipment evening The News (owned by São Paulo former Governor Ademar de Barros) to run the newspaper. Chagas was a partner and political ally of Ademar at the time. At the time of the coup d'état in Brazil in 1964, the newspaper published an article published on 2 April of that year, which stated: In 1983, O Dia was purchased by journalist and entrepreneur Ary Carvalho. Initially a strong popular appeal newspaper, facing police and violence news, the newspaper underwent extensive renovation in the early 1990s, with the intention to compete for readers with more traditional Jornal do Brasil and O Globo ''O Globo'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folha De S
''Folha de S.Paulo'' (sometimes spelled ''Folha de São Paulo''), also known as simply ''Folha'' (, ''Sheet''), is a Brazilian daily newspaper founded in 1921 under the name ''Folha da Noite'' and published in São Paulo by the Folha da Manhã company. The newspaper is the centerpiece for Grupo Folha, a conglomerate that also controls UOL (Universo Online), the leading Internet portal in Brazil; polling institute Datafolha; publishing house Publifolha; book imprint Três Estrelas; printing company Plural; and, in a joint-venture with the Globo group, the business daily ''Valor'', among other enterprises. It has gone through several phases and has targeted different audiences, such as urban middle classes, rural landowners, and the civil society, but political independence has always been one of its editorial cornerstones. Ever since 1986, ''Folha'' has had the biggest circulation among the largest Brazilian newspapers – according to data by IVC (Instituto Verificador de Cir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chay Suede
Roobertchay Domingues da Rocha Filho (born 30 June 1992), known professionally as Chay Suede, is a Brazilian actor and singer-songwriter. Career Suede's first television appearance was in the fifth season of the RecordTV show '' Ídolos'' (2010), where he finished in fourth place. Due to his popularity among the young audience, he was cast as one of the leads in the Brazilian version of the telenovela ''Rebelde'' (2011). After the band ended, Suede released his first self-titled album in 2013. Subsequently, he signed a contract with Rede Globo and portrayed José Alfredo, in the first phase of the telenovela ''Império'' (2014). In 2015, he played Rafael in the telenovela '' Babilônia''. In 2016, he portrayed Pedro Guedes Leitão in the telenovela ''A Lei do Amor ''A Lei do Amor'' (English title: ''Wounded Past''; literal meaning: ''The Law of Love'') is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by Globo. It premiered on 3 October 2016, replacing ''Velho Chico'', and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Gissoni
Bruno Sang Gissoni (born 9 December 1986) is a Brazilian actor. Biography Born in Rio de Janeiro, Bruno lived for eight years in Los Angeles, United States. In Los Angeles he attended Venice High School. Back in Brazil, he played professional soccer for São Paulo FC and Nova Iguaçu Futebol Clube. In 2007, he made a cameo in the novel ''Alta Estação'', the Rede Record. He debuted in theater in 2009, with the number ''Capitães de Areia'', based on literary works of Jorge Amado, and soon after, joined the Actors School Rede Record, given by actor Roberto Bomtempo. The same year he also joined the cast of the play ''Os Melhores anos de nossas vidas''. In 2010, he had his first role in television, when it pioneered the tenth to eighth season of ''Malhação''. In 2011 works in the series '' Julie e os Fantasmas'', exhibited by Rede Bandeirantes, in 2012, he joined the cast of the telenovela '' Avenida Brasil'', Rede Globo. In 2013, the telenovela is the '' Flor do Caribe' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlete Salles
Arlete Sales Lopes, more known as Arlette Salles (born Paudalho, 17 June 1942) is a Brazilian actress. Biography Born in the interior of Pernambuco, she was married between 1958 and 1970 to the actor Lucio Mauro, with whom she has two children: Alexander Barbalho (actor) and Gilberto Salles (filmmaker). Her grandchildren are actor Pedro Medina and Joan. She divorced Lucio Mauro and at the end of the 1970s, and was married to actor Tony Tornado. Arlete Salles was the joint winner of the São Paulo Association of Art Critics Award for Best Actress in 1996. After battling cancer, she returned to TV in 2016 as a comical maid Consuelo in '' Babilônia''. As of 2017 she is cast on a major role in a new telenovela ''O Alienista'', based on a book by Machado de Assis Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (), often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, ''Machado,'' or ''Bruxo do Cosme Velho''Vainfas, p. 505. (21 June 1839 – 29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O Globo
''O Globo'' (, ''The Globe'') is a Brazilian newspaper based in Rio de Janeiro. ''O Globo'' is the most prominent print publication in the Grupo Globo media conglomerate. Founded by journalist Irineu Marinho, owner of '' A Noite'', it was originally intended as a morning daily to extend the newspaper interests of the company. In time, it became the flagship paper of the group. When Irineu died weeks after the founding of the newspaper in 1925, it was inherited by his son Roberto. At age 21, he started working as a trainee reporter for the paper and later became managing editor. Roberto Marinho developed Grupo Globo (the conglomerate of media companies consisting of ''O Globo,'' TV Globo, Rádio Globo, Editora Globo and other subsidiaries) as Brazil's largest media group, entering radio in the 1940s and TV in the 1960s, and picking up other interests. An active supporter of the military dictatorship that lasted from 1964 to 1985 in Brazil, ''O Globo'' is still considered a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time In Brazil
Time in Brazil is calculated using standard time, and the country (including its offshore islands) is divided into four standard time zones: UTC−02:00, UTC−03:00, UTC−04:00 and UTC−05:00. Time zones Fernando de Noronha time (UTC−02:00) This is the standard time zone only on a few small offshore Atlantic islands. The only such island with a permanent population is Fernando de Noronha, with 3,140 inhabitants (2021 estimate), 0.0015% of Brazil's population.Population estimates Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, 2021. The other islands ( |
Império
''Império'' (English: ''Empire'') is a Brazilian primetime telenovela produced and broadcast by Rede Globo. It premiered on 21 July 2014, replacing ''Em Família'' and ended on 13 March 2015 replaced by '' Babilônia''. It was created by Aguinaldo Silva and starred Alexandre Nero, Lília Cabral, Leandra Leal, Caio Blat, Andreia Horta, Daniel Rocha, Nanda Costa, Ailton Graça, Zezé Polessa, Tato Gabus Mendes, Letícia Birkheuer, Maria Ribeiro, Klebber Toledo, Marina Ruy Barbosa, Rafael Cardoso, José Mayer, Marjorie Estiano and Drica Moraes. Daily, the telenovela was watched by 30 million viewers per minute, number greater than NFL games on American television. Weekly, the accumulated number of viewers reached 100 million. In November 2015, ''Império'' was awarded Best telenovela in the 43rd International Emmy Awards. Synopsis ;1st phase: The plot brings the male protagonist as rude heartthrob José Alfredo (Chay Suede), a boy who leaves Recife in 1989 to try life in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include '' teleserye'' (Philippines), '' téléroman'' (Canada, specifically Quebec), and ''sinetron'' (Indonesia). Commonly described using the American colloquialism Spanish soap opera, many telenovelas share some stylistic and thematic similarities to the soap opera familiar to the English-speaking world. The significant difference is their series run length; telenovelas tell one self-contained story, typically within the span of a year or less whereas soap operas tend to have intertwined storylines told during indefinite, continuing runs. This makes them shorter than most other television series, but still much longer than a miniseries. This planned run results in a faster-paced, more concise style of melodrama compared to a typical soap opera. Episodes of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morro Da Babilônia
The Morro da Babilônia (, ''Babylon Hill'') is a hill in the Leme neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, separating Copacabana beach from Botafogo. It is home to a ''favela'' known by the same name, as well as the favela Chapéu Mangueira. Morro da Babilônia is an environmentally protected area. History In the 18th century the Portuguese constructed a fortress on the top of the hill to protect the entrance to Guanabara Bay.Na trilha das lendas , Cristina Romanelli, Revista de História, October 26, 2010 In the beginning of the 20th century, the engineer Augusto Ferreira Ramos, projected a connection of Babilônia hill with Urca Hill, as part of the festivities of Centenary of Ports Opening. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
