Meet Cristina the superstar. The granddaughter of the foremost publishing czar in Cuba, she fled as an adolescent to the United States after the revolution. A young woman working her way up through the ranks of the North American-based Spanish-language media, she eventually assumed the reins of Cosmopolitan en Espanol. After ten years with Cosmopolitan, Cristina made the boldest move of her career - creating and hosting El Show de Cristina, the talk show she has developed into the phenomenon seen by 100 million worldwide. Friend and confidante to celebrities both inside and outside the Hispanic world, she also hosts a radio show heard all over Latin America and publishes the magazine Cristina La Revista, read avidly by thousands of fans every month. Meet Cristina the Motivator. Groundbreaker and role model for women everywhere - especially Latinas - she offers advice, based on the life she has lived and the wisdom she has earned, on overcoming racial and sexual discrimination...raising children...keeping a happy marriage...growing older gracefully...and the Winner's Ten Commandments.
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In this gutsy but simple-minded memoir, the 49-year-old host and executive producer of El Show de Cristina, copublisher of the magazine Cristina la Revista, and host of the daily radio program Cristina Opina offers her advice on marriage, child-rearing, racial and sexual discrimination, menopause, and the challenge of growing old. Saralegui's colloquial prose also recounts the legends of her proud Basque heritage and her immigrant forebears' affluent lifestyle in the Caribbean. The granddaughter of a millionaire Cuban publishing magnate, she was born in a wealthy suburb of Havana but emigrated to Miami with her family at the age of 12, shortly after Castro's revolution. She gives thumbnail sketches of Cuban character and culture in transition as she and her fellow expatriates made their new home in a tightly knit, middle- class barrio where many immigrants grew up, lived, and died without ever speaking (or needing to speak) a word of English. Saralegui later enrolled at the University of Miami to study communications and creative writing. There she learned the dubious craft of writing ``for the dumb schoolgirl,'' a technique she has all too clearly mastered. Once finished with school, she landed a gig writing mostly fluff pieces for Cosmopolitan en Espaola hugely successful Hearst spin-off of which she eventually became editorial director. In that leading role, she seemingly chose to clone her mentor, Helen Gurley Brown, and live the quintessential ``Cosmo Girl's'' unexamined life. Saralegui's comments on her career move to television and radio are as brisk and shallow as all the others. Her life reads like a series of pranks or a continuation of her show's shenanigans, peopled with lackluster acolytes and charlatansvampires and alien abductees alike. A half-witted tell-all in the talk-show mode. (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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...reads like a long, savvy letter from the best big sister in the world. -- Entertainment Weekly, Charles Winecoff
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Excellent and Inspiring,
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This review is from: Cristina!: My Life as a Blonde (Hardcover)
This account is a humorous, inspiring take on life from one of the most well known and beloved Cuban superstars on the scene today. I am aware not only of Saralegui's humor and love of life, but also her extensive humanitarian work with AIDS, teen pregnancy, and many other causes. Reading this title helped me through a very difficult time in my life...three cheers, and I hope there is a sequel.
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This book affords us a look into the priveledged family life of pre-Castro Cuba, . I was very interested in the family life of Cristina, and her inter personal relationships with her friends Gloria Estefan and Don Francisco.The book is a must for anyone who admires these entertainers.
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Cristina is proof that the land of opportunity is still alive and well.,
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A great story of success by another Cuban American whose pesistence, enthusiasm and dedications were no match for they nay sayers and pesimist of 60's. The book defines what it takes to be successful in our country. The tittle of her book could have easily been "the other Ophra" or the "the Cuban Ophra."
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