by Hispanically Speaking News
Son By FourSpain’s Javier Bardem has been nominated for a Bafta award, the British film industry’s top prize, for his role in the James Bond film “Skyfall.”
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts on Wednesday announced the list of nominees for these prestigious awards, which also included actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren, and Emmanuelle Riva.
“Lincoln,” a historical drama about U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s efforts in January 1865 to have a constitutional amendment passed to outlaw slavery, led all films with 10 nominations, followed by “Les Miserables” and “Life of Pi” with nine each.
Besides Bardem, selected for his portrayal of cyber-terrorist Raoul Silva in the latest installment of the Bond saga, the other best-supporting actor nominees are Alan Arkin (“Argo”), Christopher Waltz (“Django Unchained”), Philip Seymour Hoffman (“The Master”) and Tommy Lee Jones (“Lincoln”).
In addition to “Lincoln” and “Les Miserables,” the other films nominated this year for a best-picture Bafta are “Argo,” “Life of Pi” and “Zero Dark Thirty.”
Christian and Son By Four promotes new single
The Puerto Rican Christian music group Son By Four, known internationally for the number “A Puro Dolor” (Purest of Pain), is promoting their new single, “Si Los Ves Llorar” (If You See Them Cry).
The message of the song, adapted to Spanish from the tune “When the Children Cry,” is that adults should offer faith and hope to youngsters to protect them from the evils of the world, vocalist Jorge Montes told Efe.
“The lyrics are a positive criticism about what kind of world we are going to leave our children, and about how parents, the grown-ups, should behave in front of them to set the world aright,” he said.
Son by Four struck it rich in 2000 with the number “A Puro Dolor,” which topped Billboard’s Hot Latin Tracks chart for five months and became a global hit.
Nonetheless, after the group enjoyed “the fame, the money, the red carpets and trips in private planes,” Son By Four broke up in 2003, re-forming four years later as a band devoted to Christian music.
Victims of Jenni Rivera crash sue her estate and plane’s owners
The families of victims of the airplane crash that took the life of Jenni Rivera are now suing the singer’s company, Jenni Rivera Enterprises, and the airplane owners for negligence.
The private plane carrying popular Mexican-American singer Rivera and several companions experienced an “abrupt descent” before crashing in northern Mexico, killing everyone aboard on December 9, 2012. Days later the wreckage of the completely destroyed plane were found on a ranch in the remote mountainous state of Nuevo Leon.
The famed banda singer was traveling with her publicist, Arturo Rivera, her makeup artist Jorge Sanchez Vasquez and her attorney Mario Macias Pacheco.
The private plane left Monterrey, after Rivera finished performing at The Arena around 3:30 a.m. and lost contact with air control 15 minutes later.
The victim’s families describe, in a suit filed in Los Angeles, the 53 yearold Lear’ jet as a “bucket of bolts” that was owned by Starwood Management.
A plane they felt should never of been in the air.
The families also question Rivera’s judgment in choosing that plane and that hour of departure.
