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Mariana Ximenes
Mariana Ximenes do Prado Nuzzi (born 26 April 1981) is a Brazilian actress. Her first role was in the telenovela ''Fascinação'' in 1998 where she portrayed the role of Emília Gouveia. In the same year she played the role of Ruth Stern in the film ''Caminho dos Sonhos''. In 2000, she played in ''Uga-Uga'' portraying "Bionda". This role rise to prominence as she became widely known in Brazil and internationally. Later in 2001, she offered her services in the Portuguese voice over translation in the Canadian/Chinese animated series ''Braceface'', for the character Sharon Spitz. She later played the protagonist in '' Cobras & Lagartos'' in 2006 and Lara in '' A Favorita'', later in 2008. In 2010, she portrayed her first villainous role in the critically acclaimed telenovela '' Passione''. Since 2010 she has appeared in several telenovelas, television series, films and theatre performances. In 2016, she starred the successor of '' Totalmente Demais'', ''Haja Coração'', together ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Paulo (city)
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC as an alpha global city, São Paulo is the most populous city proper in the Americas, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the world's 4th largest city proper by population. Additionally, São Paulo is the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment. The city's name honors the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater São Paulo, ranks as the most populous in Brazil and the 12th most populous on Earth. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas around the Greater São Paulo (Campinas, Santos, Jundiaí, Sorocaba and São José dos Campos) created the São Paulo Macrome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Você Decide
''Você Decide'' (''You Decide'' / ''It's Your Call'') was an interactive television program broadcast on the Brazilian TV network Rede Globo from 1992 to 2000. During each episode special cases were presented, and viewers would decide the ending through phone votes. Broadcast history ''Você Decide'' is the second longest-running series of Rede Globo, with nine seasons and 323 episodes. On March 11, 1999, the episode ''Mulher 2000'' had its finale shown only in the North and Northeast regions (along with portions of the Southeast and the Center-West regions) due to a blackout in Brazil and Paraguay in 1999 that greatly affected much of the country at the time of the show. In its final years, the program aired on Thursday nights shortly after '' Linha Direta''. The last episode aired on August 17, 2000. The following week, the program was replaced with the miniseries ''Aquarela do Brasil'' (Watercolors of Brazil). Brazilian soap opera stars participated in the episodes, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O Estado De S
O, or o, is the fifteenth letter and the fourth vowel letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''o'' (pronounced ), plural ''oes''. History Its graphic form has remained fairly constant from Phoenician times until today. The name of the Phoenician letter was '' ʿeyn'', meaning "eye", and indeed its shape originates simply as a drawing of a human eye (possibly inspired by the corresponding Egyptian hieroglyph, cf. Proto-Sinaitic script). Its original sound value was that of a consonant, probably , the sound represented by the cognate Arabic letter ع ''ʿayn''. The use of this Phoenician letter for a vowel sound is due to the early Greek alphabets, which adopted the letter as O "omicron" to represent the vowel . The letter was adopted with this value in the Old Italic alphabets, including the early Latin alphabet. In Greek, a variation of the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Group
Internet Group do Brasil (iG) is a Brazilian Internet service provider that owns and operates web portals and provides a variety of services, including news, shopping and stock information. iG offered free e-mail accounts until 2016. At the time it was bought in March 2012, iG was the fifth-largest portal in Brazil, with 23.5 million unique monthly visitors. History iG was founded on January 9, 2000, by GP Investments and Banco Opportunity. It gained popularity by offering free dial-up access. In May 2004, Brasil Telecom (then a subsidiary of Oi since 2009) acquired iG for approximately $100 million. In April 2012, Oi sold iG to Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ... investment company Ongoing Strategy Investments SGPS SA for an undisclosed sum. See a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Os Normais
''Os Normais'' (in Portuguese, literally "The Normal Ones") is a Brazilian sitcom directed by José Alvarenga Jr. and written by Jorge Furtado, Alexandre Machado, and Fernanda Young. It aired from 2001 to 2003 on Rede Globo. It features a lot of nonsensical situations, unpredictable stories and wild, often explicit humour. The sitcom was adapted in 2003 into a film titled ''Os Normais, O Filme'' (distributed as ''"So Normal"'' in some countries), which received the sequel '' Os Normais 2 - A Noite Mais Maluca de Todas'' in 2009. Plot Rui (Luiz Fernando Guimarães) is engaged to Vani ( Fernanda Torres). Although they spend most of their time together in the same apartment, they live in separate ones in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ... where st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dias De Nietzsche Em Turim
''Days of Nietzsche in Turin'' ( pt, Dias de Nietzsche em Turim) is a 2001 biographical-drama Brazilian film directed by Júlio Bressane about the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Plot A cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Friedrich Nietzsche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings. It was there that the philosopher wrote some of his most known books such as '' Ecce Homo'' and '' Twilight of the Idols ''. Cast *Fernando Eiras as Friedrich Nietzsche *Paulo José * Tina Novelli *Mariana Ximenes *Leandra Leal * Paschoal Villaboin * Isabel Themudo Awards and nominations * Cinema Brazil Grand Prize, 2003 (Brazil) - Nominated in category of Best Picture * Venice Film Festival, 2001 (Italy) - Winner of Filmcritica "Bastone Bianco" Award (Júlio Bressane). * Candango Trophy, 2001 - Winner of Best Screenplay (Rosa Dias and Júlio Bressane) See also * Brazilian films of 2001 A list of films produced in Brazil in 2001 (se ... [...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] |
A Padroeira
''A Padroeira'' is a Brazilian soap opera produced and broadcast by TV Globo, between 18 June 2001, and 23 February 2002. It is written by Walcyr Carrasco in collaboration with Duca Rachid and directed by Walter Avancini, and stars Deborah Secco, Luigi Baricelli, Maurício Mattar, Mariana Ximenes, Luís Melo, Patrícia França, Paulo Goulart, Rodrigo Faro, Susana Vieira, Otávio Augusto and Elizabeth Savalla in leading roles. Synopsis In the turbulent 18th century, Valentim and Cecília are two young people who fall in love but belong to different worlds and will have to fight many for their happiness. It all begins in 1717 with the arrival in Brazil of Conde de Assumar and his small entourage, including the young Cecília de Sá. The group is attacked by a gang of robbers led by Molina, who kidnaps the girl, enchanted by her beauty. But Valentim comes to her rescue, giving birth to a love that forever changes the lives of the two. Their future is compromised: as soon as Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Kids Brazil
Disney XD was a Latin American pay television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company and one of the channels of Disney Branded Television which operated across Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean region. It was directly operated by Disney Media Networks and The Walt Disney Company Latin America. Launched on November 8, 1996, as an international feed of Fox Kids, it was rebranded as Disney XD in 2009 after five years under Disney's interim Jetix branding. The network closed on March 31, 2022, with its content shifting to Disney Channel and Disney+. History As Fox Kids (1996–2004) The channel was launched on November 8, 1996, as Fox Kids, originally owned by Fox Kids Worldwide Inc., a joint venture of Saban Entertainment and News Corporation. It was the third international version of the network to launch after those in Australia and the United Kingdom and Ireland, and the first version in another language besides English. On July 24, 2001, FKW ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Spitz
''Braceface'' is an animated television series that aired on Teletoon in Canada and the Fox Family Channel in the U.S. The series was produced by Nelvana and Jade Animation, the show features actress Alicia Silverstone from the movie ''Clueless'' (who also voiced the titular character for the first two seasons) serving as executive producer. Summary The series, set in Elkford, British Columbia, recounts the travails of Sharon Spitz (a play on words, "sharing spit" being a euphemism for kissing), who is a junior high school student with braces that get in the way of leading a normal teenage life. Her braces are somehow electrically charged at all times, giving her strange abilities such as remotely operating machinery, tapping into wireless communication channels, and even discharging electricity directly into what's in front of her, though much of these abilities are often outside her control. In the first season, she is enrolled at Mary Pickford Junior High but later the show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Força De Um Desejo
''Força de um Desejo'' is a Brazilian telenovela produced by TV Globo, and was shown in the schedule of 18 hours between May 10, 1999 and January 29, 2000, in 227 chapters. It was written by Gilberto Braga and as collaborators with Alcides Nogueira and Sérgio Marques, Lilian Garcia, Eliane Garcia, Philip Miguez and Mark Silver and directed by Mauro Mendonça Filho, Carlos Araújo, Fabricio Mamberti and João Camargo, with production of the core Marcos Paulo. Featured Malu Mader, Fábio Assunção, Cláudia Abreu, Marcelo Serrado, Selton Mello, Nathália Timberg, Lavínia Vlasak, Isabel Fillardis, Louise Cardoso, Reginaldo Faria, Denise Del Vecchio and Paulo Betti in leading roles. Synopsis The setting is Paraíba Valley, Rio de Janeiro, in the nineteenth century. Higino Ventura (Paulo Betti) is a former peddler who enriched with shady dealings and bought Hill Top Farm in the town of Sant'Anna, to approach his old flame, Helen ( Sonia Braga), a resident of the farm neighbor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
