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Nestor Carbonell is part of a big-name cast on the CBS drama “Cane” that has one thing in common: The leads are almost all Latino.

There’s Emmy-winner Jimmy Smits, Emmy-winner Hector Elizondo and Oscar-winner Rita Moreno, among others.

“I’m so thrilled,” Nestor said when we chatted last week. “You always hope that strides are made, and I feel they certainly have been. Even before `Suddenly Susan,’ when I started (in 1996), the kinds of roles that were open to Latinos are nothing like there are today.”"*

Jimmy Smits has starred in some of television’s most acclaimed series from L.A. Law to NYPD Blue to The West Wing. Previously to be found in supporting-actor roles, Smits takes center stage in Cane, a new drama from CBS Paramount Network Television. In the series, which Smits is also co-executive-producing, he plays Alex Vega, the adopted son of an affluent Cuban American family that runs a sugar-and-rum empire in Florida. With a cast that includes Hector Elizondo as Pancho, the ailing family patriarch who chooses Alex as his heir over his biological sons; Rita Moreno as Pancho’s wife Amalia and Nestor Carbonell as Alex’s resentful brother Frank, the series has the weight of CBS’s marketing machine behind it. Smits talks to World Screen about his hopes for the show.”*

Join us for a frank discussion of the growing influence and impact of the Hispanic audience, their television viewing habits and the implications for the major English language television networks.

Panelists include:
NINA TASSLER • President, CBS Entertainment
KIM ROZENFELD • Senior Vice President, Current Drama Programming, ABC
CESAR MELGOZA • President, Latin Force Group
ROCHELLE NEWMAN-CARRASCO • CEO/Principal, Enlace Communications, Inc.
PETER MURRIETA • Creator, Greetings from Tucson/Executive Producer, Wizards
of Waverly Place
DOUG DARFIELD • Senior Vice President, Hispanic Services, Nielsen Media Research
DANNY PINO • Cold Case
MARIO LOPEZ • Correspondent for Access Hollywood and Dancing with the Stars
JAY HERNANDEZ • Six Degrees
ROSELYN SANCHEZ • Without a Trace
NESTOR CARBONELL • Cane

Moderated by: RICK RAMIREZ • Vice President, Emerging Markets, Fox Entertainment Group
Music by: DJ MJ
Produced by: FRANK ESTRADA “*

“They’ve done everything they can to make it authentic, from hiring a dialect coach to ensure Spanish is spoken with a Havana accent to making hundreds of expensive color photocopies of Cuban tile to dress the set walls.

But, the producers of Cane — the new CBS series about a family of Cuban-exile sugar barons in South Florida — warn that their show is ultimately a drama, not a documentary.

”I hope Cubans like it. I hope they’re proud,” says Cane creator Cynthia Cidre, herself an exile from Little Havana. “I’m Cuban. But it has to appeal to the whole country, not just Miami.”

Cane — which debuted Tuesday on WFOR-CBS 4 — has stirred intense interest in South Florida since its May announcement. It’s the first prime time drama on a broadcast network about not just a Cuban family but a Latin family of any kind. And it’s coming to America’s top-rated network with an all-star cast that includes Jimmy Smits, Rita Moreno, Hector Elizondo and Nestor Carbonell.”

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“This season, CBS is giving drama another shot with “Cane,” a slick and earnest soap about rival families in southern Florida. One makes sugar and rum; the other makes trouble. And presiding over it all is the ever-capable Jimmy Smits, who has been around long enough to play a world-weary heavyweight rather than the affable hunk of roles past. The show will sink or swim on his broad shoulders, and early indications are reasonably promising.

Despite the title, there is actually nobody named Cane here. The primary clan here is the Duques, a Cuban-American family headed by patriarch Pancho (Hector Elizondo) and matriarch Amalia (Rita Moreno, still breathing fire). They have an ambitious son, Frank (Nestor Carbonell), who sees as his birthright the assumption of their mega-successful rum and sugar empire. Frank is locked in a power struggle with Alex Vega (Smits), Pancho’s son-in-law who married into the business via his daughter Isabel (Paola Turbay), while youngest son Henry (Eddie Matos) is content to stay on the sidelines and away from the battle.”

“The new CBS drama series Cane centers on the Duque family, the Cuban-American owners of a sugar and rum business. Created by Cynthia Cidre, the show features many elements of her personal experience and unique writing trademarks, such as her father’s experience in the sugar industry and her inclusion of adopted characters in large Cuban-American families. Cane stars an impressive Latino cast, including Jimmy Smits, Nestor Carbonell, Hector Elizondo and Rita Moreno.

Cynthia Cidre spoke to BuddyTV about how the show initially came into being, the comparisons between Cane and Shakespeare’s King Lear, and the overall attractiveness of her show’s cast. Below you will find the complete transcript as well as the mp3 audio file of the interview.”

“Distinguished event sells out at Walt Disney Concert Hall with special awards for Disney-ABC Television Group, America Ferrera, Walter Ulloa and Cynthia Cidre

Winners in 19 Categories for film and television announced

Los Angeles, CA–(HISPANIC PR WIRE - BUSINESS WIRE)–July 30, 2007–More than 2,000 actors, entertainment industry executives, film and television studios and supporters including actors America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, Jimmy Smits, Carlos Mencia, Kelly Monaco, Hector Elizondo, Tony Plana, Judy Reyes, Constance Marie, Jesse Garcia attended the 22nd Annual Imagen Awards Gala debut tonight at the sold out Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Nineteen awards were presented in categories including film and television, plus The Imagen Foundation presented four additional awards including the President’s Award to Disney-ABC Television Group with an acceptance by Anne Sweeney, Co-chairman, Disney Media Networks, President, Disney-ABC Television Group; the Lifetime Achievement Award to Walter Ulloa, Chairman & CEO, Entravision; the Creative Achievement Award to America Ferrera, star of ABC’s Ugly Betty; and the Norman Lear Writer’s Award to Cynthia Cidre, writer of Cane, an upcoming CBS Latino-cast series.

The Imagen Awards were established in 1985 to encourage and recognize the positive portrayal of Latinos in all media and to increase Latino representation at all levels of the entertainment industry.

Talent at the 22nd Annual Imagen Awards (In Alphabetical Order):

Jake T. Austin, Nominee, (Best Actor, TV, Go, Diego, GO!) Kuno Becker, Nominee, (Best Actor, Film, GOAL) Hector Luis Bustamante, Presenter, (THE SHIELD) Nestor Carbonell, Presenter, (CANE) Ricardo Antonio Chivira, Presenter, (DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES) Maria Costa, Presenter Kat De Luna, Performer Yasmin Deliz, Presenter, (VIVO) Laura Diaz, Presenter, (CBS 2 NEWS) Sandra Echeverria, Presenter, (MARINA) Hector Elizondo, Presenter, (CANE) America Ferrera, Honoree, (UGLY BETTY) Aimee Garcia, Nominee, (Supporting Actress, TV, THE GEORGE LOPEZ SHOW) Jesse Garcia, Nominee, (Best Actor, Film, QUINCEANERA) Chalo Gonzalez, Nominee, (Best Supporting Actor, Film, QUINCEANERA) Kathleen Herles, Nominee, (Best Actress, TV, DORA THE EXPLORER) Dalia Hernandez, Nominee, (Best Supporting Actress, Film, APOCALYPTO) Eva La Rue, Nominee, (Supporting Actress, TV, CSI: MIAMI) T. Lopez, Presenter, (THE DROP) Constance Marie, Nominee, (Best Actress, TV, THE GEORGE LOPEZ SHOW) Erika Martin, Presenter, (STYLE NETWORK) Eddie Matos, Presenter (CANE) Carlos Mencia, Nominee, (Best Actor, TV, MIND OF MENCIA) Eva Menez, Nominee, (Best Actress, Film, GHOST RIDER) Kelly Monaco, Presenter, (GENERAL HOSPITAL) Amaury Nolasco, Presenter, (PRISON BREAK) Lupe Ontiveros, Presenter Ana Ortiz, Nominee, (Best Supporting Actress, TV, UGLY BETTY) Valerie Ortiz, Guest, (South of Nowhere) J.D. Pardo, Nominee, (Best Actor, TV, A GIRL LIKE ME, THE GWEN ARUJO STORY) Tony Plana, Nominee, (Best Supporting Actor, Film, GOAL) Victoria Recano, Presenter, (THE INSIDER) Judy Reyes, Nominee, (Best Actress, TV, SCRUBS) Emily Rios, Nominee, (Best Actress, Film, QUINCEANERA) Diana Maria Riva, Presenter, (LIFETIME) Jelynn Rodriguez, Presenter, (THE DROP) Romeo, Presenter, (THE DROP) Jimmy Smits, Presenter, (CANE) Paola Turbay, Presenter, (CANE) Wilmer Valderrama, Nominee, (Best Actor, Film, FAST FOOD NATION) Jose Yenque, Nominee, (Best Supporting Actor, TV, BETWEEN) David Zayas, Nominee, (Best Supporting Actor, TV, DEXTER)

Sponsors of the 22nd Annual Imagen Awards include:

Premiere: Disney-ABC Television Group

Diamond: Hoy, L.A. Times Media Group, www.hoyinternet.com, National Graphics and Printing

Platinum: Variety, Lear Family Foundation

Gold: The Hollywood Reporter, CBS, ipressroom, Entravision Communications Corporation, Fox TelevisionStation Inc., LATV Networks, NBC Universal, T52 Telemundo, Paramount Vantage, Sony Pictures, Universal Money, KXLA Television-44, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Hennesy, Privilege, V.S.O.P.

Additional information regarding the Imagen Foundation and its awards program is available on its Web site: www.imagen.org, or by calling 626-836-6100.

22nd ANNUAL IMAGEN AWARDS WINNERS July 28, 2007:

– Film Best Picture: Pan’s Labyrinth
– Film Best Actor: Kuno Becker – Goal
– Film Best Actress: Ivana Baquero — Pan’s Labyrinth
– Film Best Supporting Actress: Dalia Hernandez — Apocalypto
– Film Best Supporting Actor: Gerardo Teracena — Apocalypto
– Film Best Director: Guillermo Del Toro — Pan’s Labyrinth
– Film Best Theatrical Short or Student Film: La Primavera Communion
– Film Best Theatrical Production: Macho Men & The Women Who Love Them
– TV and Film Best Documentary: Lalo Guerrero — The Original Chicano
– TV Best Primetime Program: Ugly Betty
– TV Best Actor: Miguel Ferrer — Crossing Jordan
– TV Best Actress: America Ferrera — Ugly Betty
– TV Best Supporting Actor: Jose Yenque — Between
– TV Best Supporting Actress: Ana Ortiz — Ugly Betty
– TV Best Variety or Reality Show: Dancing With The Stars
– TV Best Children’s Programming: Dora The Explorer
– TV Best Local Informational Programming: Life and Times
– TV Best National Informational Programming: Voces
– TV Best On Air Advertising: Splenda - Mama Yo Quiero New “

“Cane is a rarity for network television: a drama with a mostly Latino cast.

And what a cast it is: Jimmy Smits, Rita Moreno, Hector Elizondo, Nestor Carbonell, former Houstonian Paola Turbay, Michael Trevino, Eddie Matos and Lina Esco.

As Smits noted, “This is a deep bench.”"