Tribarazzi: Joline Gutierrez Krueger

It's Crying Time again

Here come those tears again, and here come the makeup ladies, dabbing Jennifer Lopez's eyes, which are working overtime for one of the more monumental scenes in this shoot.
It's a scene done mostly behind glass in the editor's office when Lopez's character Lauren decides she can no longer pretend to be something she's not -- apparently a non-Hispanic, non-caring, highlight-haired chic chick.
She has learned during her time in Mexico covering the mysterious deaths of hundreds of women there that she could have been one of them. She learns she is ... MEXICAN. And she cares.
But not about fashion.
Thus, the classy clothes and hair are replaced with the darker, sloppier, more, um, earthy look of we Mexicans. The stylish highlighted pageboy and designer clothes of yesterday are gone. She's showing her roots, and, baby, they are dark.
Moving on, as I feel we must, Martin Sheen coaches Lopez on their scenes. "Go with it," he says.
"I was lost," she confides.
"Then you are found," he says.
This is so not "Maid in Manhattan."
Seriously, the main story in all this is not the hair, not the newspaper, but the deaths of hundreds of women in Mexico. How many of you have heard of this?
Thought so.
Maybe this film will bring attention to them. Maybe not.
But for now, give the applause to the makeup ladies. They have come armed with extra sponges, their brushes at the ready. It's really moving.
I think I may weep.
Makeup!