The Asheville Art Museum will screen an award-winning film based on the life of Frida Kahlo on Saturday and Sunday, followed the next weekend by the experimental documentary film “Naqoyqatsi: Life as War.”All films begin at 2 p.m. and are free with museum membership or admission.

Kahlo’s life was a beautiful and tragic one that intertwined her painting, politics and sexuality.

“Frida,” starring Salma Hayek as Kahlo and Alfred Molina as her husband artist Diego Rivera, was nominated for six Academy Awards and won for Best Music Score and Best Makeup in 2003.

On May 10-11, the museum will screen “Naqoyqatsi.” Held in conjunction with the museum’s current exhibition “Time is of the Essence: Contemporary Landscape Art,” this 2002 work features no words or commentary, but instead uses the music of Philip Glass and computer-manipulated images to comment on the war of daily living.

Just Jared has a snapshot of actress Salma Hayek on the set of Paul Weitz's Cirque de Freak. In the film she plays a bearded woman, just one of the many residents of a illegal freak show where a young man (Josh Hutcherson) starts up an apprenticeship with a vampire (John C. Reilly, no joke). Weitz script the film for Universal Pictures. Chris Kelly and Ken Watanabe (Batman Begins) co-star. According to Just Jared, the Cirque opens on February 19, 2009.

Look at them boobs. Magical, I swear. And they've gotten even bigger as Salma Hayek expanded her career description to include "Mommy" to her new daughter Valentina. She was seen on the set of her new movie CIRQUE DU FREAK, holding her new precious cargo, sans the awful make-up job that they've got going on with her in that film.

See, Salma's going to be playing the bearded lady. WHY? I mean, I know that she was going to need something to ease herself back into work with and that the beard might help distract from whether or not she'd shed the last of her pregnancy weight. But still... Must we always do this to our hot actresses? Must they always step away from their beauty to play ugly to be taken seriously.

Because I'll tell you what, I took her damn seriously in FROM DUSK TIL DAWN, when she was the hot vampire stripper. And I took her very seriously when she was dancing to "Candy Girl" in DOGMA. Those were some very serious and mild-alteringly great moments in cinema, wouldn't you agree? 

She said: “I don’t even remember what my life was like before. I can tell you that I don’t sleep. This is a cliché but it’s true. I haven’t slept in the last six months.

“The blessing of having a healthy child, I think is the best thing that can happen to anyone.” The 41-year-old star also dismissed stars who claim they have lost their post-baby pounds simply by breastfeeding, insisting she has had to work out to regain her figure.

Salma added to a US TV show: “I thought, ‘As soon as this baby’s out, I’m just going to lose all the weight super- fast because I'm going to breastfeed and the weight is going to come off.’ “It takes you nine months to get it, and nine months to lose it. I’m proud of what I’ve lost. And the rest is going to go when it's time to go.”

Born September 2, 1968 in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, Salma Hayek has become on of the more popular leading ladies on film today. Salma certainly didn't have the average life of others from her country, as her father was a top exec with the state-owned oil company and mother was an opera singer. 

Actress SALMA HAYEK is to be honoured at the Crystal + Lucy Awards in the U.S. for raising the profile of women in entertainment.
The Crystal + Lucy Awards will acknowledge the 41-year-old's successful career not only as an actress, but also as a producer and director in the film and TV industries.
The Ugly Betty producer will also be sharing the spotlight with other honorees, including Ginnifer Goodwin, Sherry Lansing, Diane English, and the cast of the 2008 film The Women.
The event, established in 1994 in honour of comedienne Lucille Ball, will be held on 17 June (08) at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles,

Set to receive the Crystal Award for excellence in film is English and the cast of "Women," her remake of the 1939 classic. The creator, writer and exec producer of CBS' "Murphy Brown," English has spent 13 years nurturing a new version of the Clare Boothe Luce play, lining up an all-female cast that includes Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Cloris Leachman, Bette Midler and Candice Bergen. Picturehouse will release "The Women" on Oct. 10.

The 2008 Lucy Award for excellence in television, named in honor of Lucille Ball, will be presented to Hayek, the actress/director/producer who serves as exec producer of ABC's "Ugly Betty."

Hayek earned a Daytime Emmy for her directorial debut, "The Maldonado Miracle," starring Peter Fonda, Mare Winningham and Ruben Blades, which aired on Showtime.
 

An Oscar nominee as best actress for "Frida," she'll be seen in the upcoming films "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" and "Cirque du Freak."

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Women like Salma Hayek. They weren’t turned off by her unibrow in Frida, and unlike men they weren’t distracted by long-since discredited rumors that she might make out with Penelope Cruz when nobody’s looking. While we men are simply lusting after and dreaming of her thrust into a unibrow-free lesbo relationship, women are giving her awards for being a woman and being in film. Or something like that. It’s hard to focus with all this talk of Salma Hayek and how hot she is.

Women In Film believes that she brings something more important to our culture than her hotness. Utter madness, I know. There’s absolutely nothing more important after all. But Variety says on June 17th they’ll honor her for furthering the cause of women at their 35th Annual Crystal + Lucy Awards. What kind of award has a plus sign in it?

Being honored along with her will be Diane English, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Sherry Lansing. My apologies for this report, it’s two in the morning, I got a little distracted, and let’s face it I probably should have waited and let Katey write it. She’s respectable… and not a dude. Two huge advantages when it comes to talking about Salma Hayek without drooling on your shoes.

Actress Salma Hayek is pulling an all-nighter many all-nighters, actually as the new mom watches 6-month-old daughter Valentina sleeping.

“Every night, I don't sleep, I watch her,” Hayek said, who added that she's still breast-feeding.

But little Valentina isn't quiet the whole night.

“At some point during the night, she starts cracking up, she just laughs and it makes me so happy,” Hayek said. “Some babies snore, mine laughs.”

The “Frida” actress and “Ugly Betty” executive producer traveled to Chicago last week for the North American launch of One Pack One Vaccine. A joint partnership between UNICEF and Pampers, the initiative provides mothers and newborns in developing countries with tetanus vaccines. For each Pampers product purchased with a blue sticker and campaign name, Pampers will donate one tetanus vaccine. UNICEF aims to eliminate tetanus in 12 African countries in the next two years, and Pampers hopes to provide 50 million vaccines through its North American effort.

“It's very possible that the death toll will become zero,” Hayek said.

Caryl Stern, president and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, said: “There's lots of room for hope but no hope for complacency.”

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Salma Hayek has said she can barely remember life before giving birth to her daughter and she hardly sleeps these days - but she doesn’t mind.

The actress gave birth to Valentina Paloma Pinault - her first child with fiance François-Henri Pinault - in Los Angeles in September last year and she told Extra recently: “I don’t even remember what my life was like before.”

“I’m trying to get back to my life. I’m trying to remember what it was because she is so beautiful and fun and amazing. It’s hard to look anywhere else.”

“I can tell you [though] that I don’t sleep. This is a cliché but it’s true. I haven’t slept in the last six months.”

“[But] the blessing of having a healthy child, I think is the best thing that can happen to anyone.”