Brazzil

And one asks why the country is dysfunctional? Get a life Brazil and get productive.The Chinese and East Indians' are coming and you won 't know what hit you until after the steam roller passes over you while sitting on the sofa.. Saying " What happened" !!!

I am watching at Youtube and loving it. Great scenery, it makes me really miss Brazil. Muitas saudades do paraiso!!!
The music is AWESOME, lots of bossa nova e MPB, just classic!!! Tony Ramos is a great actor, I don't know about some others...
Camila Pitanga doing a strip-tease is just SMOKING!
Viva a sensualidade, a sexualidade, cenario paradisiaco, VIVA O BRASIL!!!!!

You don't know why your country is dysfunctional. Why are you speaking of others? Clean the mess in your own.

brazilian people are all controlled, they live what the novelas teach them, and its a shame for me
since im a brazilian to see my people be controlled by a tv channel who shows how normal it is to cheat on a wife or husband, and for kids to be rebelious.

says how its normal for prostitution, and all the banned stuff from the old world.
GLOBO AND THE REST try to show that the world has changed and that evedryone has to act new and do the stuff, syaing it was wrong before but not its wrong not to do it.


BRAZIL WILL ONLY DEVELOP WHEN THEY GET OFF THIS "CONTROLLED BY THE TV STATE"

I related to the writer's distaste of this Mumbo Jumbo! I was forced for years to watch these late night novelas, thanks to my wife! Thank GOD the computer was not far away! I finally found a way to permanently avoid watching them-the answer is called Cable-TV! Unfourtunately now at night I am stuck watching, Queer eye for the straight guy, BB7 pay-per-view or any other GAY themed program that women like to watch. Perhaps the Novelas were not that bad after-all?

Who Really Cares
written by Doggy Daddy, 2007-03-20 03:02:29

And one asks why the country is dysfunctional? Get a life Brazil and get productive.The Chinese and East Indians' are coming and you won 't know what hit you until after the steam roller passes over you while sitting on the sofa.. Saying " What happened" !!!

Lol. At least one Brazilian novela was internationally popular - in such places as China. One of the big Brazilian novela stars recieved an award from China I believe also. So implicit in your idea that China or Bollywood dislikes Brazilian novelas more than they do Hollywood or popular U.S. soap opras or "Pimp My Ride" shows in the U.S. just does not follow.

What about stupid reality TV shows in the USA? Showing young girls and guys drinking all day long and having sex with different people every night probably without protection. Prostitution is not a crime in Brazil and needs to be legal in the US as well and not like is in Nevada where girls work for a "pimp" and give them all the money at the brothel.
In Canada is legal is as well. Why not in the US?

Is just sex, RELAX!!!!

Well, there you have it, folks, right from the horse's mouth.

Here doggy.... You are not worth more than 10cc's of bottled syphilitic whore spit

Football, telenovelas, samba...

Rio de Janeiro: since 1st February, 2007

429 killed
263 wounded
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Don't you guys have any thing else to do other than get into Brazil's business???
Brazil is not the only place on earth that has violence. As a matter of fact, The US is a dangerous and violent country too.
The US has the same kind of problems that Brazil and other country have. But it doesn't mean that us Brazilians are going to sit in front of the pc and talk about the problems that the US has. We have our business, and so do you. So make a good use of it. Look at your country, look at this war that doesn't mean anything but only to kill people.

People that criticize Brazil is just too jelous of us, because we have most BEAUTIFUL places in the WORLD!!!!!!!!!

there's a war going on in Brazilian metropolis, wake up !

Rio de Janeiro
Desde 1º de Fevereiro de 2007
433 mortos
265 feridos

Don't you guys have any thing else to do other than get into Brazil's business???
Brazil is not the only place on earth that has violence. As a matter of fact, The US is a dangerous and violent country too.
The US has the same kind of problems that Brazil and other country have. But it doesn't mean that us Brazilians are going to sit in front of the pc and talk about the problems that the US has. We have our business, and so do you. So make a good use of it. Look at your country, look at this war that doesn't mean anything but only to kill people.

People that criticize Brazil is just too jelous of us, because we have most BEAUTIFUL places in the WORLD!!!!!!!!

Juliana,

Tenha a paciencia, voce e ignorante? Isto aqui nao e jogo de futebol nao. Uma das mais importantes caracteristicas de uma pessoa e nacao e a capacidade de receber e aceitar criticas. Talvez voce aprenda alguma coisa com estes "gringos", seja mais democratica. Se voce quiser mostrar que eles estao errados, prove! Obrigado Ju

Você deve ser novo por aqui. Esse site não é sobre críticas honestas, ele contém apenas pessoas mal intencionadas ventilando o seu ódio contra o Brasil. O mínimo que se espera de qualquer pessoa inteligente é saber discernir entre um e outro caso. Você não discutirá com amigos, mas com inimigos interessados em promover uma agenda própria em detrimento a qualquer coisa que interesse a esse país.

Eu apóio a Ju. Esse site é uma vergonha, e brasileiros deveriam prestar mais atenção antes de falar sobre "saber receber críticas".

Don't you guys have any thing else to do other than get into Brazil's business???
Brazil is not the only place on earth that has violence. As a matter of fact, The US is a dangerous and violent country too.
The US has the same kind of problems that Brazil and other country have. But it doesn't mean that us Brazilians are going to sit in front of the pc and talk about the problems that the US has. We have our business, and so do you. So make a good use of it. Look at your country, look at this war that doesn't mean anything but only to kill people.

People that criticize Brazil is just too jelous of us, because we have most BEAUTIFUL places in the WORLD!!!!!!!!

Oh.. by the way... vou repitir essa mensagem quantas vezes eu quiser, entao para vcs que nao gostaram da minha mensagem, vai ter que aguentar!

PS. O meu nome eh Julia.

This one is particularly bad as it employs the witch hunt that the NGO parasites and elements of the government including Walfrido Mares de Guia (whom we hope is finally kicked out of the ministry of tourism) about this mythical persecution of minors. The NGO parasites, moralists, elements of the government and certain onerous persecuters must be having a hay-day.

Get the age of consent lowered to the voing age and get this garbage off the television now!!!

Soap Gets in Your Ears
Is That Organ Music Coming From Your IPod? Must Be 'Guiding Light.'

By David Segal
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 21, 2006; Page C01

NEW YORK Olivia nearly shoved Ava off a balcony during a catfight. Alan is trying to prove that Jonathan's marriage to Lizzie is a farce. The cops took Dinah in for questioning about the fire at the Beacon Hotel, but lacking any evidence of arson they had to let her go.

Slow month at "Guiding Light," television's longest-running soap opera. A little ho-hum compared with years ago, when one character traveled back in time, lost her eyesight, regained her eyesight and was cloned. What sets apart recent events on the show isn't the message -- keep your enemies close and your ex-wife closer, nobody dead is actually dead , the daddy is never the husband -- it's the messenger.

Specifically, it's Janet Morrison, a 25-year-old from Michigan who has become the online docent for "Guiding Light's" snarling zoo of backstabbing animals. It's her job to take each episode of the TV show, snip out ads, transition shots and dagger-eyed pauses and post a streamlined, audio-only version of the program on the Web (downloadable at iTunes and CBS.com). She also narrates a quick intro recapping events, and during the show she briefly reappears to tell listeners where a scene is set.

"Previously on 'Guiding Light,' " goes a typical Morrison voice-over, "Dinah confessed to Harley that she worked with Alan-Michael to try and bring Harley down at Spaulding. Lizzie was determined to keep the real paternity of her baby a secret. Reva kept her chemotherapy from Josh. Jonathan found himself in trouble again when Ashlee turned out to be the D.A.'s daughter and the D.A. decided to press charges against him."

Bring on the drama!

"I used to be self-conscious about it. Now I'm just like, okay, time to do the announce," says Morrison. She's sitting in her office one recent morning, in front of a huge computer monitor, microphone in hand, getting ready to record about a week's worth of introductions and segues. She turns down the ringer on her phone and clears her throat.

"This is a long list," she says, looking down at a yellow legal pad, where she's scribbled line after line of narration.

We're in the "Guiding Light" offices in the CBS building on West 57th Street, a few stories above the set where the show is filmed. There are copies of Soap Opera Digest on the coffee table and a couple of impassive guys on a couch, apparently here to audition. The hallways and cubicles look like regular corporate America, but the work here is anything but common. This is where the latest torments and traumas are dreamed up and scripted for the benighted souls of Springfield, a fictional Midwestern town where hobbies include relentless psychological warfare and vicious double-crossing.

It's a pretty chilling world, and unfortunately for its creators, fewer and fewer viewers seem to care about it. Like all soaps, "Guiding Light" -- which marked its 15,000th TV broadcast a few weeks ago -- has been shedding Nielsen rating points in recent years: Nearly 5 million viewers checked out the program each day back in the '94-'95 season, and about half that number tune in today. The soap craze of the '80s, when millions of high school and college kids were following the travails of Luke and Laura on "General Hospital," was many hankies ago.

The culprits cited by TV executives and soap-related magazine scribes include the growth of cable programming and the rising number of women in the workforce.

"When I was growing up there were three networks and nothing else to watch in the afternoon and mom stayed home," says Carolyn Hinsey, editor of Soap Opera Weekly. "Now there's a couple dozen shows to watch, and mom is either working outside the home or ferrying the kids to a soccer game."

Like any soap heroine with a problem, "Guiding Light" is fighting back, craftily. The podcast was the brainchild of Ellen Wheeler, a former soap actress who is now executive producer of "Guiding Light." ("It's like being the dictator of a small country," she jokes.) She dreamed up the concept when her stay-at-home husband noted that he could follow the action of the show while he cleaned the house -- if he kept the volume of the TV high enough.
"I came in and asked [CBS and Procter & Gamble, the show's owner] if we could do a podcast," she recalls, "and literally the answer was 'What is a podcast?' " After a quick tutorial -- it's a way to distribute multimedia files online, people -- and further discussion, Wheeler rounded up equipment and recruited Morrison. Since October, "GL," as it's called on the spiffy digital-age-ish logo, has been podcasting every episode, which is about 25 minutes long once the edits are done. (The TV show is 39 minutes, with the rest of the hour taken up by commercials.) A month later, Wheeler launched "Guiding Light Lite," a 10-minute download that follows one strand of the story and typically ends with an interview with an actor. Both podcasts are available at 3 p.m. the day the show airs, and every episode, archived right back to the first podcast, is free.

This isn't "GL's" only attempt at digital up-to-dateness. Written into the plot is the existence of a local gossip blog -- http://springfieldburns.com/ -- whose creator is a source of nonstop and fruitless speculation among "GL" characters. Embarrassing photos of Springfield's most villainous keep turning up on the site, causing humiliation and much tut-tutting. The postmodern twist here is that when fans of "Guiding Light" type "springfieldburns.com" into their real-life Web browsers, they visit the very site that the characters in the show appear so vexed by. So anyone can log on and see what is ostensibly mortifying Reva, Cassie and everyone else.

"Family first, huh?" read a recent Springfieldburns.com home-page headline, with hellish flames flickering behind the head of a character. "Not for this Springfield mom."

"As the World Turns," Procter & Gamble's other soap, now podcasts, too. Are these high-tech extra-credit projects roping in viewers? Barbara Bloom, who is in charge of daytime programming for CBS, says daily downloads number in the tens of thousands, though "Guiding Light" remains next to last among the soaps in TV ratings. (Only NBC's relative newcomer, "Passions," performs worse.)

Just as telling, Morrison has yet to achieve the cult status that she richly deserves. Her vowel-flattening Midwestern accent and gift for condensing tragedy into haiku is one of the podcast's best features.


In reality, "Guiding Light" is taped in a studio where a director has to shout for silence before every take. During a recent visit to the set, a dozen or so stagehands and cameramen fluttered around a bed where Kim Zimmer (who plays Reva) and Jordan Clarke (Billy) were supine and awaiting their cue. Someone asked Clarke to scootch further down the bed.

"I feel like a mouse that's been glued to a board," Clarke muttered dryly, staring up at the ceiling, willing the strength to scootch and angling for a laugh.

Watching, you're struck with this rather basic thought: It's a job, working on a soap. People get bored. People cut up. With five shows a week, the pace is kind of grueling. (Two takes, says a stage guy, is pretty much the max.) It looks exotic enough to an outsider, but everyone here seems like a salaried worker engaged in the classic American enterprise of selling a product. The product just happens to be a story that will never end.

" 'Guiding Light,' Episode 15,013, Scene 5!" shouted the stage manager. Then a countdown, then a very brief bit of action and dialogue, which, per request of the show's publicist, will not be revealed here.

Once the scene was finished, there was a brief moment of quiet. Then Clarke, still lying on his back, slowly raised his arm, elbow bent, middle finger extended. The crew erupted with laughter.

Yes, the gap between the solemnity of the characters and the ironic detachment of the actors playing them is gloriously immense. At one point, Zimmer played a teary, earnest scene in which Reva mulled over her cancer and yearningly stared into the heavens, wishing upon a star. Between takes, she chatted with a sound guy about the gas mileage of her new SUV.

"Sixty-five dollars to fill it up," she sighed, in her nightgown. "Can you believe it?"

written by Luca , Rome, 2007-03-21 13:13:19

Football, telenovelas, samba...

Rio de Janeiro: since 1st February, 2007

429 killed
263 wounded

By the date you posted these figures 692 people (492 263) in Rio were struck by gun fire - or approximately give or take those that were injured or killed in other ways (such as knife attack).

This is interesting because out of 692 people shot (or approximately) 429 died (constituting and registering as homicide). Contrast that to the city of Milwaukee in the United States which had in 2006: 800 people struck by gun fire and only between 100 and 130 people (I don't remember the exact number but know it was below 130) die out of those attacks and wounding.

800 is greater than 692 by approximately 100. Yet with even 100 more people shot (specifically the 800 compared to the 692) at least, or within approximation, 362 more people died in Rio with more than 100 less people shot than in Milwaukee (specific to 800 and 692 figures).

Even the numbers you gave - 492 > 263 - reveals that Brazilians are more likely to die from gun wounds where as in the United States people are more likely to survive gun wounds - 130 < 800.

Err.. 492 < 692 but half of 692 is 346 which = 492 being far over half of 692.

written by e harmony, 2007-03-25 18:44:19
By the date you posted these figures 692 people (492 263) in Rio were struck by gun fire - or approximately give or take those that were injured or killed in other ways (such as knife attack).

This is interesting because out of 692 people shot (or approximately) 429 died (constituting and registering as homicide). Contrast that to the city of Milwaukee in the United States which had in 2006: 800 people struck by gun fire and only between 100 and 130 people (I don't remember the exact number but know it was below 130) die out of those attacks and wounding.

800 is greater than 692 by approximately 100. Yet with even 100 more people shot (specifically the 800 compared to the 692) at least, or within approximation, 362 more people died in Rio with more than 100 less people shot than in Milwaukee (specific to 800 and 692 figures).

Even the numbers you gave - 492 > 263 - reveals that Brazilians are more likely to die from gun wounds where as in the United States people are more likely to survive gun wounds - 130 < 800.

Err... I typed that out and didn't realize until after I posted it and looked back it that I made some numbers look like negatives.

Edit that to say:


By the date you posted these figures 692 people (492 263) in Rio were struck by gun fire - or approximately give or take those that were injured or killed in other ways (such as knife attack).

This is interesting because out of 692 people shot (or approximately) 429 died (constituting and registering as homicide). Contrast that to the city of Milwaukee in the United States which had in 2006: 800 people struck by gun fire and only between 100 and 130 people (I don't remember the exact number but know it was below 130) die out of those attacks and wounding.

800 is greater than 692 by approximately 100. Yet with even 100 more people shot (specifically the 800 compared to the 692) at least, or within approximation, 362 more people died in Rio with more than 100 less people shot than in Milwaukee (specific to 800 and 692 figures).

Even the numbers you gave, 492 > 263, reveals that Brazilians are more likely to die from gun wounds where as in the United States people are more likely to survive gun wounds: 130 < 800.

Even the numbers you gave, 492 > 263, reveals that Brazilians are more likely to die from gun wounds where as in the United States people are more likely to survive gun wounds: 130 < 800.

Actually, I guess it would have been more proper for me to have said 130 < 670. (130 670 = 800)

1. Make up your mind!!!
2. Thought we were talking soap here. Wrong thread.

As for telenovelas, the last Brazilian soap opera which was famous in Italy (now it's all American crap) was Dancing Days with Sonia Braga (the opening theme is still in my head even if more than 20 years have gone by!) and one more was something called "Isaura, la schiava bianca" in Italian (translatable as "Isaura the white slave"). It was interesting to watch (funniest was the Latin American haistyles and the interior of Brazilian homes in the 80's).
Even if it's not properly a telenovela, something which I really enjoyed watching was "Cidade dos homens", with Acerola & Larajinha. I can't wait to watch the movie they're shooting now.

Haha , eu achei engraçado o que o Rob Barone disse. Certo que a grigada aqui quase que só quer jogar sujo, mas o que o rob falou tá certo.. Não curto muito novelas, quando eu era pequena elas eram bem melhores, mas gosto muito dos dramaturgia brasileira, os atores e atrizes daqui são muito legais. Mas, as novelitchas... Não se fazerm mais uma Escrava Isaura hoje em dia....

Don't you guys have any thing else to do other than get into Brazil's business???
Brazil is not the only place on earth that has violence. As a matter of fact, The US is a dangerous and violent country too.
The US has the same kind of problems that Brazil and other country have. But it doesn't mean that us Brazilians are going to sit in front of the pc and talk about the problems that the US has. We have our business, and so do you. So make a good use of it. Look at your country, look at this war that doesn't mean anything but only to kill people.

People that criticize Brazil is just too jelous of us, because we have most BEAUTIFUL places in the WORLD!!!!!!!!

Oh.. by the way... vou repitir essa mensagem quantas vezes eu quiser, entao para vcs que nao gostaram da minha mensagem, vai ter que aguentar!

PS. O meu nome eh Julia.

Brazilian soap operas are boring. All of them are shot in Rio de Janeiro.
COME ON, HAVEN'T YOU HEARD OF OTHER CITIES IN BRAZIL?
BELO HORIZONTE, VITÓRIA, SALVADOR, CURITIBA...WE NEVER SEE THEM IN BRAZILIAN SOAP OPERAS...
brazilian tv is neglecting all cities except RIO DE JANEIRO...RIO is boring...It's trying to copy MIAMI....
If you want real BRAZIL go to SALVADOR.

What about Pantanal?

Real Brazil is in São Paulo. We have more bahianos here than Bahia itself.

I give the author of this review KUDOS! I agree that novelas in Brasil are going downhill in terms of plot and creativity. Brasil has many awesome writers and literates, and the very few novelas that were based on books and historical moments were very well done and very informative, despite the appeal for sexual content... tsk, tsk. I also have the same dejavu feeling when watching all these "modern" versions of recycled thematics and allusions. It is a big shame, because Brasilian people are more than what sensasionalistic media portrays and what the glamour of the novelas omits... we are smart, cheerful and caring people who love to celebrate life despite our sufferings. Brasil is a very young democracy who has been through quite a lot of political coups and changes throughout its History. When the government decides to invest A LOT MORE in early education and stop being so corrupted, then maybe we will start seeing a change in the people's behaviour toward television crap and the Globo dynasty...

Very sad!!! You have some serious problem. First, why you care about Brazil? If you hate so much why you watch ?! Disturbing !!!!! Sorry but we can!!! by the way: in this financial crises, Brasil is the only country doing very well. Ha Ha ha ....

watch your own tale, and get a life and stop to blame Brazil for your sad life.