Proposed: That Salma Hayek is The Most Beautiful Woman In Hollywood.

[progmom]

Damn she's hot.


(insert mandatory assertion that I am in fact a straight married woman)

[drdtroit]

1. Oh yeah!!! n/t

[name not needed]

2. I agree.

Damn!

[JimmyJazz]

5. Esscuse me - It's "DaYum"

[Sandpiper]

3. Salma Hayek and Natalie Portman get my vote

For sexiest women in Hollywood.

[OneMoreDemocrat]

42. Yep.........

though I would have to add Winona Ryder.

[radwriter0555]

88. Natalie's head really, really bothers me.... and it shouldn't.

I'm a terrible person because of it.

[JimmyJazz]

4. Straight woman for Salma checking in! Oooh! Oooh! is this

a potential new DU group? :)

[loudestchick]

35. It could be.

[progmom]

56. I'd sign up!

Switching Sides for Selma!

[Nightwing]

6. Absolutely!

Salma is one fine looking lady!!

[WI_DEM]

7. I agree. I've always found Salma very fine eye candy

and a talented actress to boot.

[nytemare]

8. Have you seen "Frida"?

If you haven't, you will like it.

Yes, I play for both teams at times, and I would have to say along with Angelina and Ashley Judd, she is up there.

:)

[progmom]

12. Yes. She was brilliant in it.

Hot and brilliant!

[Doctor_J]

18. the unabrow didn't do much for me

sorry. But besides that, she is hot, hot, hot

[nytemare]

21. Frida Kahlo had a bit of a unibrow

She did a great job in it.

[progmom]

22. yep

frida --->


Salma --->

[Floogeldy]

9. Uh . . .

Okay!

Good choice!

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[Sanity Claws]

10. She is beautiful

in a mature very womanly way. I also think Angeline Jolie is very beautiful in the same way. Someone mentioned Natalie Portman -- she is very pretty but does not strike me as beautiful in the way Selma or Angeline are. In a few more years, she may have the maturity to go beyond just "pretty."

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

83. Yes, yes she is.

But there are others who are more. Like Natalie Portman, Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie etc. Maybe this is just my kind of taste.

[solinvictus]

11. Salma Hayek...

is the hottest woman ever. Ed Norton was a fool to leave her.

[Floogeldy]

19. She turned on him

They always do.

DAMMIT TO HELL!!



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[Sanity Claws]

23. Are you sure?

The gossip I heard is that he was jealous of her success. She was a bigger star than he.

[Floogeldy]

24. They always turn on you

:cry:

DAMMIT TO HELL!

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[Sanity Claws]

25. Oh,Oh

Sounds like you have some "personal issues." Sorry.

[Floogeldy]

28. I didn't want much

All I wanted was to be loved, adored, dressed, worshiped, supported, sated and bathed.

And what did I get, huh? :cry:

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[Sanity Claws]

31. A mother?

Sure sounds like you were hoping for a mother, and not an equal to share to your life and your bed.
As you can see, I also have some "personal issues." ;)

[Floogeldy]

33. Ha ha ha!

LOL. You'll be all right.

Ewwwwwwww. My name is "Floogeldy," not Oedipus!

;)



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[coloradodem2005]

13. She and Natalie Portman are hot.

[Philosophy]

14. Self delete

couldn't get the image to work

[NV Whino]

15. She is definitely a hot lady...

But there's just something about Cate Blanchette.

[progmom]

72. the accent? nt

[steve2470]

16. damn straight she is ! nt

[enigmatic]

17. Yes!

As I said on the other thread, even my wife agrees..

[Longgrain]

20. NAH! Too skinny.

That's all I'm saying...

[progmom]

39. She's no skinny skank.

I'd agree with your statement about so many Hollywood women, but I think Salma's got some serious curves!

[Skittles]

26. her implants are way too big for her body

nt

[enigmatic]

27. She doesn't have implants..

They are real; they've been the same size since she appeared in mexican novelas' as a teen..

[Skittles]

29. I've read she has implants

nt

[enigmatic]

30. That's great..

But she doesn't, and she's said she doesn't. But this isn't worth getting in a arguement over..

[Skittles]

32. nt

[Longgrain]

34. Once again...a pretty face does not make you a Beautiful person!

Nor do air-brushed photos! And starving yourself makes you even less attractive to me!

[Lorien]

36. Salma is beautiful inside and out

see her interview on the "Freida" DVD; she's no airhead. She's also pretty voluptuous; not that much thinner than myself and I haven't starved myself since my teens (and I'm around Salma's age;so that was a while ago).

Count me in as another straight woman who thinks salma is HOT!

[progmom]

37. She seems to be a beautiful person, besides her face and body.

She's really bright and talented, and seems to have a great head on her shoulders.

To your point, here is a quote from her:

Some people think that looking one way, being skinny or dressing smart is sexy. The people that really are sexy are the people who enjoy life with all their senses.

[Longgrain]

38. Sorry for my anger, once again

I still don't know who this Salma Hayek person is...I've never heard of her until tonight...

What movies did she star in? I don't go to movies anymore.

[Floogeldy]

41. If you don't go to the movies

Then why are you participating in a thread about the most beautiful woman in Hollywood?

Huh?

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[Longgrain]

43. Cause I don't think she's beautiful..

I don't even know who she is?

[Floogeldy]

46. Why comment, since you don't know who she is?

You're not worthy to express an opinion, by your own admission.

[enigmatic]

58. Well, that's great...

You've got your opinions, everyone else has theirs; what's the big deal?

[progmom]

44. Well, she was the force behind Frida, as well as the star.

She got all the financing and produced the pic.

I first noticed her in the movie Desperado.
She was also in Dogma, Timecode, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, Wild Wild West, Fools Rush In...

I'm sure I am missing something (even though I amn cheating and looking at her IMDB bio)

[Longgrain]

47. Once again I'm sorry....

We have one Little movie-house here in my hometown.

They got three scenes and only show what people want to see...

So I guessed I missed that movie...

[Name removed]

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[Longgrain]

50. I was trying to be serious...

Sorry you took it as a joke...

[progmom]

51. i also responded to you above...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=2719470&mesg_id=2720182&page=

[Floogeldy]

52. I didn't take your response as a joke, but I'm now taking you as a joke!

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[progmom]

49. Do I need to buy you a netflix subscription??

I have a toddler and rarely get out to the movies, but gosh darn it, I know who Salma Hayek is. :)

[Lorien]

70. You missed a GREAT movie about a FANTASTIC ARTIST!

You shall now be spanked.
:spank:

[kwassa]

89. Actually, you missed a bad movie about a great artist

I expected much more from Hayak and especially Julie Taymor than than this hagiography.

another picture

[Lorien]

92. You have got to be kidding

even Bill Moyers counts it as one of his favorite films!

What, pray tell, do you consider a great film?

[kwassa]

95. something that shows the complexity of the character being

portrayed.

It was basically a travelogue about the outside of Kalho's life. It really told next to nothing about the process of making art, and her internal dealings with the traumas that created the obsession visible in her paintings.

here is a review I agree with:
"Certainly beautiful to look at, but its not very informative about its titular character and no more challenging than your average television biopic."
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM

[Lorien]

96. Well, we strongly disagree on this one

Perhaps it's because I'm a professional artist whose life has always been filled with other artists, but the artistic process was fairly evident to me and those other creative souls I attended the film with. That was no easy feat, given that the creation of artwork is primarily an internal process. "Frida" did not succeed on the level of "Amadeus" IMO (which is one of my favorite films), but it did an admirable job nevertheless.

Here's a review that I agree with:


Kahlo's surreal world comes vividly to life with dynamic Hayek as 'Frida'
By WILLIAM ARNOLD
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER MOVIE CRITIC
For three decades after her death in 1954, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was remembered, if at all, as the long-suffering, feminist-minded wife of famed muralist Diego Rivera: a very small player in the flamboyant, radical-chic Mexican art scene of the '30s and '40s.
MOVIE REVIEW
But since the publication of Hayden Herrera's landmark 1983 biography, her stock has skyrocketed year by year until her myth now exceeds her husband's -- as the dazzling show of their joint work currently at the Seattle Art Museum clearly attests.
And this stellar status is only likely to be enhanced by "Frida," a lavish film version of Herrera's book that leaves out many aspects and nuances of her life, but comes off as an usually vivid portrait of the artist and the influences that shaped her work.
Indeed, perhaps not since "Lust for Life" -- Vincente Minnelli's 1956 film life of Vincent van Gogh -- has a biopic so imaginatively captured the particular agony and ecstasy of an artist's career, while giving us a sense of just how those incidents were transformed into visual art.
The film picks up her story in Mexico City of the '20s, when Frida (Salma Hayek) -- the daughter of a German Jewish father and Mexican mother -- meets Rivera (Alfred Molina) shortly before she's injured in a streetcar accident that will leave her with a lifelong legacy of pain.
Salma Hayek throws herself into her role with such gusto that she convinces us she is Frida Kahlo.

During a lengthy convalescence, she starts painting (mostly portraits of herself, in a uniquely surrealistic style), which greatly impresses Rivera, she falls in love with him, and -- despite his track record as a two-time failed husband -- they get married.
The rest of the movie traces their turbulent lives together and the strong bond of loyalty that's forged between them despite career pressures, his infidelities with various models and her infidelities with several women and the exiled Leon Trotsky (Geoffrey Rush).
Like most biopics, "Frida" is ultimately a Cliffs Notes look at the high points of its subject's life. Several key elements and associations are left out of the flow, and it never quite conveys a comfortable grasp of her complex psychology.
The film's credibility also is undermined by several anachronisms (Frida sees "King Kong" in 1931, two years before it was made) and the distraction of a stream of guest stars in small roles -- Antonio Banderas, Ashley Judd, Saffron Burrows and Edward Norton (as Nelson Rockefeller).
But co-producer/star Hayek, who reportedly went through hell to get the film made, clicks: she throws herself into this dream Hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto, she strikes a potent chemistry with Molina and she gradually makes us believe she is Kahlo.
And the film works as a perfect vehicle for the talents of director Julie Taymor ("Titus," Broadway's "The Lion King"), who has let her unique visual sense run free to punctuate the narrative with a series of surreal asides using animation and special fantasy effects.
There's nothing new in this device -- it's been employed in other artist biopics like "Artemesia," "Caravaggio" and "Basquiat" -- but Taymor does it very boldly, her choices are exceptionally good and they manage to wonderfully evoke the demons of Frida's inner world and the dynamic of her artistic vision.

(snip)

I ask again; name a "great" film; something you would rate at least a B+ or better.

[kwassa]

98. Films I think are far superior, artistically

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and anything else written by Charlie Kaufman, who consistantly breaks apart the conventional narrative structure and creates a new way of telling stories. Kaufman just got an Oscar for it. He also wrote "Adaptation" and "Being John Malkovich". I wish he had done "Frida".

"Sideways" was excellent as a character study of personalities, also unconventional in it's choice of subjects. Also an Oscar for screenplay, though it deserved much more.

My complaint is that "Frida" is a very conventional movie about a very unconventional subject, and didn't reveal the complexity of Kalho. I think it needed to be played with a much darker edge. The subject deserved a much better movie.

I have also spent my life in the arts, and in the motion picture industry, which I believe we discussed before. I don't care for "Amadeus" much either, which made a buffoon out of Mozart, so I think our taste in films is very different.

Here is another clip of a review that I agree with

"The resemblance to the artist is cosmetically faithful, as is the case with much of this meticulously mounted, exasperatingly well-behaved film, which ticks off Kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant. But it fails to get at the ferocity of the artist and her artifice, to get at the core of a woman who painted a self-portrait in which she gives birth to her adult self, as if she were both Zeus and Diana."

-- Manohla Dargis, LOS ANGELES TIMES

[kwassa]

100. and "Pollock" and "Basquiat" are better films about artists

these two just came to mind. I liked them both, particularly "Basquiat" which was directed by Julian Schnabel, a very well-known painter in his own right.

[AngryAmish]

40. Duh

She makes ones genes ache. (Should that be a possessive? Tell me grammer geeks)

[progmom]

45. Is that a good thing or bad?

:shrug:

[kevsand]

69. I don't know,

but I'd have to say definitely possessive.

[Cadence]

53. Definitely. If I could wave a magic wand and look like

anyone in the world I would choose her. I've always thought that.

[progmom]

55. Once again...

Simpatico.

:loveya:

[Cadence]

61. Would you listen to salsa music

and make homemade guacamole while drinking a glass of wine too? Cause I think if I looked like that... I'd be free to dance my ass off as if I was unaware of my innate fiery sexuality. Something I just can't do in a white, waspy looking container. :shrug:

[progmom]

62. I actually do that!

Make homemade guacamole (it's one of my specialties!) while drinking wine and listening to salsa music.

The other stuff...well, yeah, waspy white vessel here too.

[Cadence]

65. He- he...

yeah we are alike aren't we? :hug:

[WindRavenX]

54. I'd do her

She's so freakin' hawt...

[Cadence]

57. LOL! n/t

[Radical Activist]

59. Well, I'm a single straight man, and

I agree that she is seriously freaking hot. Nice dress she had on tonight. :)

[Dastard Stepchild]

60. Yes.... though I like her better without bangs...

The bangs hide her face too much.
I'm married, but I am bi, so I can feel free to drool without guilt.
:)

[progmom]

64. Hey - I have no guilt here!

:)

[Dastard Stepchild]

66. excellent....excellent...

I was all atwitter over Ms. Theron tonight, and Ms. Winslet looked lovely as well. Ms. Berry was working her long hair nicely... it was quite lovely. :)

[Ruffhowse]

63. Sorry, Halle Berry is TOPS, hands down

[xmas74]

67. She's just stunning.

I wouldn't mind looking more like her.

[phrenzy]

68. To Have Sex With That Woman...

Oh man. The things I wouldn't do to have one night of mindless sex w/ that woman.

Then again there are a lot of celebrities that I would give just about anything to do.

One thing I have learned in life though - Physical beauty, no matter HOW incredible, eventually loses its impact. After a certain amount of time, you will look at the person as "just another person" - seeing them in the morning, seeing them get drunk and puke, etc - ...

Beauty can carry a persons interest for maybe 3 or 4 months, then there had better be something else there. So, maybe Ed Norton just didn't get on with her. After he's had sex with her about 100 times, i'm sure the whole "Wow she's HOT" I can't believe I'm bangin this - thing wore off. Then he looks over at Halle Berry and says - now THAT's what I want.

This is the curse of being a man :(

[redqueen]

85. Women can be shallow as well.

It's not hard-wired, I don't think. Seems to me it's more of a choice you make.

[progmom]

71. Salma at the Oscars

[regnaD kciN]

73. My favorite Salma Hayek moment...

...was when she was on the Tonight Show with the creators of South Park. They were explaining how their film had originally been titled South Park: All Hell Breaks Loose, but the studio didn't want them using the word "hell" in the title, so they changed it to South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut.

Salma got the joke approximately a half-second before everyone else. The look on her face...about half-way between complete shock and being barely able to keep from falling over laughing. I was hooked. :loveya:

[baron j]

74. The fashion critics always nitpick at all the women at the oscars

for reasons I simply don't see. They all, always look hot too me. Even if they were wearing sackcloth.

[hfojvt]

75. I cannot say that I like the photo you posted

although I might agree with the sentiment.
I kinda hate the whole business of rating though, trying to decide which extremely beautiful woman is the most extremely beautiful. My sentimental favorite would probably be Ally Sheedy, from War Games, Short Circuit, St. Elmo's Fire, Only the Lonely, Maid to Order, Breakfast Club - do I own all of her movies? Unfortunately, people on screen are typically not as neat as the people they play.

[progmom]

80. you're right

The photo I posted was not her best. That's what I get for posting while talking on the phone!

[SarahB]

76. I'm a strait, less-than-married woman...

And yep, probably in her case, I could conceive of not kicking her out of bed as well.


Ironically, biggest line of bullshit ever fed to me by a man: that I am "better than Salma". :eyes: Ha ha ha ha!

p.s. For the 50 thousandth time, not everyone with boobs like that are fake either.

[sendero]

77. Yes..

.... she is hot. Not being blonde gets her points. :)

[erpowers]

78. No!!!!

In my opinion she is not the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. I think there are a good number of other women who could be put ahead of her.

[progmom]

84. All in the eye of the beholder, right?

If you were voting for hottest woman in Hollywood, who would you vote for?

[erpowers]

90. There Are a Few

I think Halle Berry, Portia De Rossi, and Rebecca Romain are three really hot and sexy women in Hollywood.

I hope I did not upset you by putting the exclamation marks behind the no. Selma Hyeck is a very beautiful women; however, I do not think she is the most beautiful woman in Hollywood.

[El Fuego]

79. I think Scarlet Johanson

She never fails to make me go :wow:

[realisticphish]

94. meh

a lot of guys like her, but i don't see it :shrug:

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[LynneSin]

81. Salma is 110% class, J-Lo is 110% crass

What a difference those 2 have taken in career paths. Salma is knocking on Oscar's door and with the right part she'll be taking one of them home herself (I loved Salma in "Frida"). Jennifer Lopez could take lessons from Salma on how to be a talented, beautiful and classy gal!

[Redstone]

82. Being very partial to dark women (such as my wife),

I'd have to concur.

But let's give some credit to a blonde while we're at it: Is Virginia Madsen the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe, or what? (Not because her face looks like MMs, because it doesn't; I'm just talking about that "blonde with the vavoom factor" thing. If you know what I mean.)

And she's a terrific actress.

Second, anyone?

Redstone

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

86. I abslutely 100% agree

yowza!

[redqueen]

87. Nope, that's Angelina. :)

[Rob H.]

91. You can have Salma...

...that just leaves more Rhona Mitra for me. :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

93. Salma reminds me of Katy Jurado...

[Huckebein the Raven]

97. She's very good looking progmom

but I'm fond of Jude Law's girlfriend at the moment

[progmom]

101. You talking about JimmyJazz?

She keeps staking her claim on Jude...that bitch! :silly:

[Tafiti]

99. Um, yeah.

I'm gonna have to go ahead and AGREE with you there. It's funny you bring it up, 'cause I've thought that for a good 3-4 years now, and nobody ever agrees with me. Apparently some do.

Plus, I have a thing for brunettes, or just Latinas in general.

[DelawareValleyDem]

102. Hey is it true that

Salma first said she did the stunts in Once Upon a Time in Mexico then later said a stunt double did them? I read that on amiannoying.com but a lot of times I think they don't know what the fuck they're talking about.

[MissMillie]

103. She is beautiful, but....

What about Julieanne?