Colombian Comedy and Humour - Tapa blanda

Chapters: Yo Soy Betty, La Fea. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yo soy Betty, la fea (I am Betty, the ugly), also known as simply Betty la fea (Betty the ugly), is a popular telenovela (soap opera) filmed in Colombia, written by Fernando Gaitan and produced between 1999 through 2001 by the Colombian network RCN (Radio Cadena Nacional). More than a dozen versions of the telenovela have been made in other countries. In the U.S., both the comedy-drama hit Ugly Betty and Televisa program La Fea Mas Bella are based on the Colombian soap opera. Betty La Fea re-aired on TeleFutura in January 2009. Eight years after the telenovela's original run, the highly anticipated return of the original version of Yo Soy Betty, La Fea delivered impressive ratings for the network, attracting over one million viewers, more than half a million of which were adults 18-49. In addition, the premiere episode doubled and in some cases nearly tripled its prior audience among all key demographics. Due to the success of re-runs aired in the United States, in June 2009, Yo Soy Betty, La Fea re-aired in Mexico on Canal de Las Estrellas. Beatriz Aurora Pinzon Solano, Betty, is an unattractive but brilliant economist working as a secretary at a fictitious Colombian fashion empire, EcoModa. Betty constantly faces the scorn of EcoModa's attractive manager-owners but proves herself indespensible to EcoModa's new president, Armando Mendoza. She becomes Armando's accomplice in a clandestine scheme to save EcoModa from financial ruin and they become romantically involved. Although she has a masters degree in finance and although she graduated at the top of her class, Betty has been unable to secure a job interview, because, she claims, her ugly photograph ruins her otherwise impressi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1090403