Hi readers, just a quick note to tell you all that my DVD of The Anarchist’s Wife has just arrived in the mail… jusst had a quick look, through it… doesn’t have English Subtitles, so I’m going to have to rely on my poor knowledge of Spanish 
I’ll get a review up pretty soon, just stand by!
but for now: just a few snapshots from the Making of feature:
WOW she looks beautiful 
Meet Ivana Baquero’s co-star:
A Thomaston resident will make his acting debut in a soon-to-be-released movie called “New Daughter” starring actor Kevin Costner.
The actor is Marmalade, a yellow tabby cat that belongs to Deborah Howington, an animal lover and animal trainer who has worked with a number of films. She went looking for a tabby cat to appear in “New Daughter.”
What is most remarkable about Marmalade’s story is that he is a rescued cat, found by Howington at the Upson County Animal Shelter in May, 2008, just days before a tabby cat would be needed on the set of the movie.
Howington knew when she saw him that the yellow cat was just what she had been looking for.
Howington, who has worked with Southern Animal Talent Agency for 15 years supplying animal “actors,” had put out the word in Upson County animal circles of her search for an orange tabby cat. Upson County animal control director Smart Web called to tell her he had a yellow cat.
What she liked about Marmalade, which she named after his movie character, was his attitude. It was precisely that attitude Howington was searching for. In his role in the movie, Marmalade had to hiss and spit like he had seen a ghost, and he did it well.
Marmalade worked well with Costner, Howington said. “He (Costner) said he absolutely would use Marmalade again. He loved that cat and he loved his story.”
Howington is an assistant and friend to Southern Animal Talent Agency owner Senia Phillips. They met years ago when Phillips came to Howington seeking golden retriever puppies for a Dirt Devil commercial. Howington raised and trained golden retrievers and had a litter of adorable pups just right for the commercial, she explained.
Since then, Howington supplied animals and critters for about 30 movies, including “Black Dog,” starring the late Patrick Swayze, “Flash,“Big Fish,” (in which she worked with 38 cats) “The Joneses,” “Road Trip 1” and “Christmas Memory,” starring Patty Duke. Her Coton de Tulear (a type of dog she breeds) named Mr. Apollo of Woodland Cottage recently appeared in a Tyler Perry movie.
She said images of her golden retrievers are also seen on the box of Heartguard, heartworm prevention medication for dogs. The dogs’ names were Chase and Royal.
“I had good access to animals, dogs and cats,” she said. In addition to Marmalade, Howington supplied to the movie “New Daughter” 1,000 brown spiders, maggots, centipedes, milipedes and a little brown mouse. Not a single creature was harmed, she said.
Howington said animals rights personnel area on the set of all movies to oversee treatment of the animals. The representatives on the set of “New Daughter” were so taken by Marmalade’s story, they planned to do a write up on him, Howington explained.
Marmalade, a bit heavier than he was in “New Daughter,” will also appear in another movie and filming begins in October. Howington can only say it will be a South Carolina location.
He was a true professional on the set. Despite numbers of cameras and bright lights, “this cat never spooked once,” Howington said. “He loves the cameras. He loves working. Kevin Costner toted him around everywhere.”
“He’s probably the best cat I ever worked with,” she said. “New Daughter was one of the best movies I ever worked on.”
There is now another yellow tabby in the Howington household. They call him Baby Marmalade and he is being groomed to be a double for Marmalade. And Howington continues to look for an adult Marmalade look-alike to work with him in films.
Meanwhile, Marmalade enjoys life in the country with his new family, waiting, like any actor, for another great script.
“Keeper of the Pinstripes” is the last film to shoot inside the old Yankee Stadium and the first in the new stadium. It is also the first film since “Pride of the Yankees” (1942) to be endorsed by the Yankees
****WARNING! CONTAINS SPOILERS****
I just thought I’d like to share a few thoughts that I had on Pan’s Labyrinth… Perhaps a twisted view, but I’m sure all of you would find some echo in your own hearts…
This Story I believe is about Love and Human perseverance, and can be adapted to everyones needs and concerns as they go through their life.
Del Toro was brought up as a strict Catholic, and often, thought about deep things, that though Christian in essence can be heart felt by anyone here, regardless of whether they have a religion, or whether they just believe in doing good to all mankind…
Our story starts and ends with Ofelia, we take all our encouragement from her…
Pan’s Labyrinth begins with Ofelia being torn apart from her father who she lost through an untimely death; perhaps some of you have really experienced family problems, I haven’t, but I can imagine… Ofelia, has to be taken away from her father, and has to start to call another person “father”… Can someone really take the place of someone you really love? Ofelia’s trouble’s start at the very beginning of the story.
But though people often come into trouble, yet we find that sometime there is a start of something good. Though Ofelia had all these problems, yet she had the faith to realise that there is a real fantasy world out there, and that she was no ordinary girl, she was a princess. I think Del Toro wants us to see here that, we are not just ordinary people, we are special to someone. Also at this time Ofelia realised that she had a friend in Mercedez, doubtless everyone has had a special friend…?
anyway, so in all her problems she started to realise that there was some good left in the world… and that it is worth living for (and eventually dying for)
Ofelia Gets three tasks that she has to get right. We can interperate this as a human’s job to do good to all people. Well Ofelia gets them all right until she eats something next to the Pale man. She was greedy, and she wanted some of those tasty looking grapes. Perhaps sometimes it may seem alright to just take one thing… But Ofelia had to realise that this could cost the lives of the Fairies. Often times a king is greedy for land or whatever, and he loses lots of soldiers over getting what he really didn’t need at all. Del Toro wants us to watch out that we are not greedy.
So Ofelia comes to her final test… the greatest test of all: LOVE. She is told to sacrifice her baby brother… But in the end love prevails and ofelia gives her own blood, and finally makes it to her kingdom.
The kingdom can be interperated as Heaven, or whatever we are spending our lives to achieve… But the most important thing is that Ofelia never gave up, or said she can’t complete the tasks… and finally it was love, not violence or anything, it was love that finally got her to her kingdom
I just want to mention 2 other things Ofelia’s father and mother were seen in Her kingdom, and also the Fairies that where eaten by the Pale Man where there too…
If you love Ivana Baquero, you would love this special edition of Pan’s Labyrinth… the extra features have loads of Ivana in, compared to the UK and USA versions which have very little.
I’m sorry there is no subtitles to the extras, but well worth the buying anyway!
you can buy from DVDGo here
Instructions on ordering from the spanish site:
you will see on the bar above that it says “registrarte” click in there!
then it will bring you to the proper registering page
the first part you will put in you email address, then a password (minimum of four caracters), then retype your password below that.
next section you will select whether you are a person [particular] or a company [empressa], then you will put your first name [nombre] in, then you insert your last name [apellidos], forget about the NIF (i think it’s a number that’s only used if you are from Spain), then you tell whether your a man [hombre] or woman [mujer], then enter your date of birth
next you enter your address details address (street and house number of name) [calle / numero / piso], then your postal code [C. P.], then your City or Town [Ciudad] [then you country [Pais] (USA is Estatados Unidos) (UK is Reino Uno), then you say you province/county/state [provincia] (you use the right one, the left is just used for residents of Spain), then insert your telephone number [telefono 1] and your mobile/cell phone number [movil]
next section make sure that the top two boxes are unticked… make sure the box below the writing IS ticked, then submit the data [enviar datos a DVDgo]
and you should then be registered and then you just have to order the DVD at the link above…
If you have problems just ask me…
there may be an extra page for submiting your card details…
enjoy the DVD
Born: 11th June 1994
Birthplace: Barcelona, Spain
Director Guillermo Del Toro picked Baquero out of 1000 young actresses for the lead role of Ofelia, in 2006’s Pan’s Labyrinth. Del Toro has said he knew she was perfect for the part the moment he met her the and rewrote the part of Ofelia to accommodate an 11 year-old Baquero(the character was originally aged 8). Her performance won critical acclaim and the film won three Oscars in 2007. In 2008 Baquero worked with Del Doro [incorect as Del Toro didn't have anything to do with Anarchist's Wife] again for a supporting role in The Anarchist’s Wife. Next she’ll be starring in two American films: The New Daughter, a thriller with Kevin Costner, and Keeper of the Pinstripes, with Josh Lucas.
To see the 9 other great actresses click here.
Mike B
here is the new site: http://ivana.fandeluxe.org/
the site has been having problems with viruses, so hopefully this site will be much better!
Enjoy!
Mike B
New Beautiful picture of Ivana Baquero thanks to Mila
I’m having a few problems ordering my copy of Anarchist’s Wife… so I’ve reordered it… hopefull 2 won’t turn up in the mail
Also if you have twitter don’t forget to add me @ivanabaquero and get the latest Ivana News!
I have just created a new twitter account with special Ivana Baquero updates… if you are into Twitter, please follow:
http://twitter.com/ivanabaquero (@ivanabaquero)
