Tribarazzi: Joline Gutierrez Krueger

Newsroom scene

It's quiet on the "Bordertown" set of The Albuquerque Tribune. Film crew folks have been asked to leave for five minutes, and the few "real" people who remain are the Tribune interns and one starstruck editor. Hmmm.
Director Gregory Nava is walking around with Martin Sheen and Jennifer Lopez, looking snazzy in her black tank top and low-slung white capris. Her hair is hidden by a baseball cap and she wears silver hoop earrings big enough for a circus tiger to jump through. She seems much happier today.
Sheen looks tanned and rested like a, um, former president. He wears an untucked chambray shirt and jeans.
New to the group is Randall Batinkoff, and I can see what Molly Ringwald saw in him in the epic 1988 classic "For Keeps." He is tall and handsome and nothing like any of the reporters I have ever worked with.
Uh, maybe one. Sorry guys.
Thus ends the Daily Style and Shallowness Report.

Now for the Weather Report ...
I say quiet on the set, but it is anything but. Our blue New Mexico skies have suddenly turned dark and the rain/hail is slamming down on the skylights like a battalion of flamenco dancers.
This is troublesome considering that much fretting was concentrated on the barely audible purr of our air conditioning system. (That's been shut off, and already I ... can't ... breathe.
It takes several minutes before Nava and stars figure out what the racket is.
"Is that the rain?" one asks.
"It might not last that long," another replies.
Then, a violent crack of thunder. A burst of laughter.
"Was that a sign?" Lopez laughs.
Much happier.