Sunday, July 15, 2007
La Fea Más Bella Withdrawal II: Don't forget Telenovela-World
Yes, it's been slow there lately. Know why? Because people go there, see that no one has posted, and leave. (I see the same thing happening in the chat room all the time - I'm guilty of it myself.) But if you want people to talk, sometimes you have to start the conversation. Go to Telenovela-World and start a thread there.
Oh all right I'll start it myself. OK done. Now go there. Please. :-)
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I wonder why that was not promoted on Univision so people could get their LFMB fix? Anyhow, it was on at 11 pm Central, and I found it only by reading my interactive cable guide right before it came on. I didn't have time to post about it.
I still miss the show so much....it was almost too hard to watch "Tras..."
Anya, please let us know what was there on "Tras la verdad".
Eve
Thanks! My e-mail address is markley.debbie@gamil.com
Thanks to everyone for these wonderful recaps and comments about this show!
Debbie
Does anyone have all the great La Fea recaps in a Word document that could be e-mailed to me? I would really appreciate it as I started really watching La Fea about half way through and now want to start over with the DVD version.
Thanks! My e-mail address is markley.debbie@gmail.com
Thanks to everyone for these wonderful recaps and comments about this show! You all made watching this show a really special experience!!
Debbie
Mon Jul 16, 06:43:00 PM EDT
It sucks, but all good things must come to an end. Debbie, you can still access all the LFMB recaps on this wonderful site. The shows that have ended are listed below the active shows recaps.
Teresa
Debbie, it would be a lot of time and work for someone to concatenate all of the recaps into a Word file. It would be more work than it's taking you to find and read each of the recaps yourself. No one has done this, that I know of. I would love to do it myself, but I don't have that immense amount of time either. :(
My advice would be to do one month's worth of recaps at a time. It'd be a less intimidating effort, plus Word definitely prefers to deal with smaller files. :)
Gordita
Does anyone have ANYTHING about that site? A link, a name of the site, text you copied from it, anything???
I plan to buy the DVD's when they come out. This Caray site's early recaps (May - July 2006) are a little sparse (but I am still grateful!), so I wanted to check the Colombian recaps. Julie said the Mexican show followed the Colombian show pretty closely, early on.
Any help would be appreciated. BTW, how long does it usually take for shows to go to DVD?
Thanks!
- The original site was called rincondebetty.com. It's been defunct for years.
- It got archived on the internet wayback machine and a few other big web archive sites, and even the archives are now mostly gone.
- There might be some Betty La Fea stuff on Telenovela-World somewhere. Likely it wouldn't be the same recaps, but it might still be good.
- If you can read any Spanish at all, you'll probably have more options. This could be your incentive to learn.
- It also occurred to me just now that Todas Las Feas (as I think they are called) probably know a LOT more. Google 'em!
So, is it correct that the 28 pages listed on this site include all the episodes that were covered by the recappers?
If so, that's good to know and I'll start copying them into a Word document so I can easily refer to them when I'm watching the novela again. The recappers were wonderful to capture all the language and comedic/dramatic details that non-Spanish speakers would miss.
Thanks again to all! I hope this La Fea site will be up and running for a good while because it's good to keep reading everyone's comments about this wonderful novela!
Debbie_Del_Mar
E-mail: markley.debbie@gmail.com
I'd be happy to go ahead and attempt to e-mail it to you if you don't mind that it's edited and that it's so large, but again, I'm not sure it would go through.
Kim P.
It's too bad we didn't get 100% coverage, but I absolutely don't blame Chris for giving up on it when he did. I give him credit for sticking with it so long. They pretty much tortured Lety for several months before the affair began, and it must have been hard to watch. If I had started watching just a little bit earlier - before Fern started dating Lety - I would have hated Fern and would not have stuck with it either.
Kim P.
I listen to songs from LFMB on my IPod at work. Then I go home and watch YouTube all night. I need help!! Are they going to show reruns?
Here we all are the same - who else would follow to anything related to LFMB weeks after it's over?!
Anyway, I also really want to know when the re-run starts.
Eve - fellow fea-holic
:( I missed Tras la Verdad too.
I too miss it terribly!!!!!!!!
All in one week my favorite show ended, and my grocery store I depended on closed.
I am a sad case!
I don't have an ipod to listen to the music all day but I do spend a lot of time on utube watching the videos.
It's just too hard to get back to real life which is not half as much fun as gorgeous Fern and Lety.
Carrie L.
Here is a You Tube link to the very first episode of LFMB. It's kind of blurry but you can still see it. Check out how slim Marta looks.
Did anyone else see the show?
Angie looks amazing... In the first outfit I saw, I didn't even recognize her. I've always thought she has an absolutely gorgeous face, but with that trimmed-down figure, now she's downright smoking hot!
However, even with the new bod, she still needs a little help with some of her fashion decisions. As much as I love her, I have to say her legs are not her strongest feature so she needs to rethink some of her skirt choices, especially the mini's. I bet I saw half a dozen wardrobe changes in the hour I watched; some hits & some misses. I can't even imagine how many there must have been all together!
It was sooooo nice to see JC & Angie together again. The kiss after "Tu Belleza Es Un Misterio" was sweet; nice of them to throw us a bone. When is JC going to finally "get it" and put us all out of our anguish? What a killer couple they'd make.... :-) Hope someone will post some of the video on youtube. That song would be nice to see again.
Still in withdrawal. I think this weekend I will start watching my Novelasrus disks, for the first three months I never saw.
I still have trouble trying to get into the Meebo chat room. I haven't been able to get in at all.
I really would love to get in and chat with my fellow "fea-holics".
If anyone has any advance notice please let everyone know.
It looks like I need to follow Univision more closely.
I've heard talk of reruns but don't know if it's anything serious.
I know that would make my day!
I'm still checking in here for new posts at least once a day.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Carrie L.
Thanks so much for offering to e-mail me the 700-page Word document you have on the La Fea recaps! If it is not too much trouble, I would love for you to try sending it to me. My e-mail address is markley.debbie@gmail.com.
Please forgive this late response but I have been dealing with a family medical emergency for the last few days.
Thank you! I hope to hear from you again. If the file seems too big, maybe breaking it down into two parts might work.
Thanks so much for offering to help me with your recap file on "La Fea"! I really appreciate it! I'll be glad to return the favor.
Kind regards,
Debbie
Kim P.
Gordita
I don't know if it is the same one but we should check to see. I set it to record.
10:00pm - 11:00pm, UNI
Niña del Espectáculo---Mujer Estrella
La vida y carrera de la actriz y cantante Angélica Vale.
Can't wait to see it!
Eve
From what I can tell, this 2006 Mexico-Spain co-production was only released in those 2 countries, and didn't do very well, but hey...it's got JC so I figure it's worth a gamble.
Dialogue is in Spanish & English with Spanish subtitles during the English dialogue). Not sure what subtitles the DVD will have.
For more details, see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0846015/, or the official website, www.ilovemiamimovie.com. The English version of the website has a trailer with Jamie in it (there are 2 different ones, depending on whether you view the site in Spanish or English), but the English page's music soundtrack fails to stop when you play the trailer, so you need to manually turn it off to hear the trailer audio well. Do this by clicking the "stop" button located under the lighthouse graphic in the upper right corner of the page. (The little square means "stop"; it's next to the "go" arrow, and the little pinwheel thingie).
Someone also did a (Japanese!) music video using film footage. See it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cfq8xo4Gmg.
Here's hoping to ease all the LFMB withdrawal out there, and see a (hopefully) good film in the process! :-)
Although that one was blurry, the other ones that came up on the side to view were clearer and are early episodes, so I watched some of them. I see Lety began her career of listening in at doors very early. :) Of course, they all do that at Conceptos, along with the never knocking habit.
It is interesting to see these older ones, since by the time I started watching Fern was stone cold in love with Lety. Sadly, I started watching regularly about a month before Aca, so I missed a lot of the sweet, early stuff.
Thank goodness for youtube and the folks who have posted clips there.
Teresa
Amigas Y Rivals was originally done in 2001. It will be interesting to me to see Angelica in another role.
Ann posted the following on
Fri Jun 29, 12:21:00 AM EDT
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"This is what it says in Novelas R Us about La FEa: - Please read this before buying the novela
We're ready to send you the first 43 DVDs right now. If you purchase now, no matter how many DVDs it takes for the rest of the show, we won't charge you any more than for the first 43 (Which is $165 right now). Once we've finished making all of the DVDs, we'll start charging you more money"
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I ordered mine in late may and got them in early june and hadn't started viewing them yet -- thanks to ann I looked at the last one and it is episode 170 on disk (the dinner on the yacht w/cara letti & ald) thanks to ann I was able to write them and ask for disks 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 & 43 and request being put on their list for the balance as soon as ready (I had paid $165 also). They probably already have me on their list but I was afraid they might forget the people who ordered as soon as it came up on their site and only got 35 disks not 43 needed to get those disks too, not just 44 on up. many thanks ann.
I think they nevernever sent less than a full set before but this intense interest is taking them by surprise. The quality of 170 was excellent by the way. They really are realiable but I just tend to fuss.
/mab
I am watching "Yo soy Betty la fea." I cannot find english recaps anywhere, but can still follow ok. It would be nicer with english recaps. It is interesting to see where LFMB characters came from. It will be interesting to see how it ends since I understand there was no Aldo. Not into it like LFMB but I am only on the 3rd dvd.
I have also been watching "Alborada" with english sub tiltles, which are distracting as I find myself not listening to the spanish. It is good though. It won't play on my laptop top. I don't know why so my husband is forced to watching it with me.
I am still missing LFMB and what I believe could have had a much better ending.
btw... I have the recaps for LFMB through December in a word doc.
Patty B. Utah
Were they just dream sequences? Were they actual scenes that were cut?
I would like to know about Marcia in the ocean with the wedding dress and Lety walking away from Fern and Aldo.
Gee, I still miss the show and all of you so much!!!!!!!!
Carrie L.
I know the scripts are almost identical in the beginning, so what are the differences? Is the acting better in one? Does one seem more polished? Are the characters more extreme or more subdued? Are the characters as endearing? Does the comedy side play as well? Does the hero emanate a manliness so strong, you could hear it through the "cone of silence"? I'd love to hear your impressions - not to all my questions, but pick what stands out to you.
What a shame!
May be we've got spoiled with really good actors and when somebody like her make an appearance it strikes as she is from a completely different league. Even though she wasn't that bad in LFMB.
Eve
In the opening credits of Yo soy Betty la Fea, it shows the nurse flinching at Beatriz in the nursery after she was born, another scene where a kindergartener has to cover his eyes cause it hurts his eyes to look at her.
Actually Beatriz, or Betty, is not near as fea looking as our Lety. She does have some ugly plastered down bangs, big glasses and braces, and her voice is too high, no baby talk yet. She doesn't dress in grandma clothes and she wears make-up. It has been easy to like her.
Patricia, who would be Alicia, dresses much more conservatively hardly any cleavage.
Marcela, our Marcia, is mean and kinky.
Armando, our Fernando, I am trying to keep open about. He is definitely not Fern; there is a scene I describe below that I did not like him in at all, and he is going to have to work hard to get this image out of my mind, But I will give him a chance and see how he does.
Freddy, our Siamon, has a yellow raincoat, but it is only half length. He does the little dances and the hair and breath freshener thing.
Aura Maria is Paula Maria, and I have not seen her midriff at all.
Nicolas, who would be our Thomas, looks like a Clark Kent.
The lady that plays Irmita’s role, (I haven’t heard her name clearly yet) is older, grayer, rounder, and much shorter. She barely is over the waist of the person that plays the counter of Sarah who is very tall.
There are no children to cause havoc.
Armando, I believe is not comfortable with his relationship with Marcela. She’s kinky and she is always all over him. There was one scene where she literally has a noose around Armando’s neck and a bright light in his face. Marcela keeps questioning Armando under the bright light as she slowly tightens the noose. As her questions continue she removes her black trench coat, to reveal her sexy underwear. I guess they both get too hot under the lights and end up in bed.
All in all, so far I think LFMB is much more over the top than Yo soy Betty la Fea.
I am still in the beginning of Yo soy Betty la Fea and I remember reading that some fans thought in no way would LFMB ever compare to Yo soy Betty. We’ll see.
Still missing LFMB,
Patty B. Utah
I did see that there is a special on TONIGHT on Univision at 10pm PST to celebrate the career of Angelica Vale. In the preview there were clips from LFMB.
Be more specific in your search. Enter "fea mas bella" (including the quotes) a space, and one of the following search terms, not in quotes.
parte
prt
certain months
Parte & prt will each get you about 1,200 hits, almost all of them clips. There will typically be 6-8 clips from each episode.
If you use a month as the extra search term, try several variations, e.g. august, agosto, and aug. You can even search down to the day, but remember that the YouTube dates are for the Mexican broadcast, not the US broadcast. The two are roughly four months apart. There is a large collection of clips for (Mex dates) July, Aug, Sept, Dec, Jan, and Feb. Virtually nothing for Oct, Nov, and anything before June 06.
So if you enter the following search:
"fea mas bella" agosto 17
you will find seven clips from the board meeting - end of the world as we know it.
The clips will only cover the most important parts of the episode; they skip most of the blither.
Hope that helps! By the way, in your searching, if you find the "Dinner with Ariel" clip, please post here. I would love to see it, and I can't find it on YouTube.
Ann's translation of novelasrus announcement on its website concerning the 43 disks it has been mailing people: "We're ready to send you the first 43 DVDs right now. If you purchase now, no matter how many DVDs it takes for the rest of the show, we won't charge you any more than for the first 43 (Which is $165 right now)."
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I ordered a month earlier than that message went up, so they evidently had only 35 disks ready then and there was no notice like that - I was just "advance-ordering".
I was thankful to Ann for her translation so I could remind them that some of us ordered so early that it was before 43 disks were 'burned' and I just wanted to get disks 36 through 43 while I waited for the rest (and an assurance I was on the list to get the balance of disks 43 to the end) and take no chances on missing out on those few disks in the middle. I was thankful to Ann for her translation of the spanish -- you can imagine what babelfish did to that message with its machine-translation of spanish...
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Anyway I and others have been satisfied with these people - I started ordering from them because of the good comments others made about them - the quality is good and they are reliable. This lfmb thing has surprised everybody with its popularity and they must have been stunned by the amount of orders coming in.
They a-l-w-a-y-s send complete sets but everybody was so anxious they just were trying to satisfy us. I suppose they realized we all like the earlier episodes best and we could all see the last ep frm Mex (Friday Feb 23rd) in its entirety on youtube while we waited for the disks with scenes that showed all the heartache.
I'm not really worried about it - I'm sure that when they can, they will send the rest of it -- I always was a FussPot.
I'll post somewhere - hopefully we can still post here - when I gettem. (I'm Thankful we can post here when we feel the Need.)
The $165 was for the whole set.
Maybe novelasrus are worried about satisfying everybody now and purchasing more blank disks for themselves, but I've noticed that when the heavy ordering slows down on their past issues of various novelas, they actually have cut the price by $5 so I don't suppose I seriously expect them to raise their price on new orders --- after they fill their current orders and make sure everyone who ordered up to now and until the message changes on their website (and it shows a different price) gets a complete set --- unless they somehow underestimated how many disks it was going to take for each entire set (which isn't likely - they know what they are doing because they've been doing this a long time - they were on ebay for years).
/mab
Thanks for talking to me Lola - I moved during the last 3 weeks of usa lfmb broadcast (from where univision was free on my rabbit-ears tv) and I've moved to where I wouldn't see univision anymore. Caray,caray blogspot here has been a great comfort to me. I miss everybody. I've enjoyed reading the summaries and comments from everyone after I got settled here. I'm grateful for all the fun this has given me - I do like to laugh and lfmb was funny and everyone in here was interesting. Someone in here had a picture for a long time elsewhere showing Fernie&Omar sitting on a couch talking and she had a caption that wondered why they just couldn't whack whoosit. I realized there were/are a lot of people who preferred ald over fern so the comments back and forth really got interesting both in here and elsewhere. I don't speak spanish so I have no idea what's going on other than body language and tones of voice. Hooray for this website.
thanks everyone thanksthanks
/mab
Yeah, the dinner with Ariel was pretty funny. If I come across it, I'll put up a link.
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