Or the national crisis that arose when Darva Conger decided that she'd rather not be married to a multimillionaire after all. Compare it to the fervor and indignation stirred by Dan Quayle blaming Murphy Brown for the downfall of American civilization. Everyone, it seemed, wanted to weigh in on the telenovela where comedy and drama, social commentary and sappy love story were regularly tossed into the mix. Colombia's attorney general wrote an op-ed piece for the nation's leading newspaper, El Tiempo, on the moral implications of Betty's business practices. Which is why Betty has become an international obsession these past few months.įeminists have fiercely debated whether Betty should get a makeover. Except that to triumph over the beautiful ones, apparently, one has to join the ranks of the enemy. In the case of Betty, it's the ugly triumphing over the beautiful. This is about the triumph of a 99-pound weakling over the big bully kicking sand in the schnoz at the beach. So you watch, and wait, and you just know that Betty's going to get her man. Nobody loves happy endings more than a telenovela addict. (Not to mention the white.) To have a fea (okay, Ana Maria Orozco, a beautiful model impersonating a geek) starring in a soap was unheard of.
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Telenovelas, Latin American soap operas, are the province of the rich and the beautiful. A nerda who was rejected again and again, mocked mercilessly because she was, well, fea. A brainiac who yearned for love in the gaze of her undeserving boss, the wimpy and duplicitous Armando. Forty-five minutes left still in last night's final episode of "Betty la Fea."įor 18 months, an estimated 80 million viewers across the United States and Latin America have tuned to the Telemundo network - lunes a viernes, Monday through Friday - to this Colombian export, getting their daily half-hour fix of the homely, lonely Betty, who just happened to be a financial whiz. Okay, so Betty still snorts when she laughs. But when it comes to makeovers, nothing, but nothing quite compares with the beauty-enhancing powers of a soap-opera writer hellbent on transforming Betty la Fea - Betty the Ugly - the most popular telenovela heroine ever, into Betty la Bella.
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Then there's the magical power of a little hot wax smoothed over - and then yanked off - an errant, oh how should we say. A little shampoo, a flatiron and a blackhead extractor can do wonders for a girl's image.