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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, April 23, 2001
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The finale is expected to be broadcast in Colombia in May, although the exact date has not been set because the final installments are still being written. In some countries where earlier episodes are being aired, the last episode will be aired later.
Never before has a Colombian soap opera caught on like *Betty the Ugly One*. The show's humor and uplifting message — that intelligence and integrity will triumph over skin-deep beauty — has
BOGOTA, Colombia — Violence is tearing their nation apart. Unemployment hasn't been this bad since the 1930s. But what has many Colomblans on edge these days is the fate of their most beloved TV character ever
— an accountant with braces, glasses, a snorting laugh and facial hair.
Exhausted actors and the screenwriter who penned more than 300 episodes are ready for a rest; so fans in Colombia and 21 other countries are wondering how they will get their daily fix of Betty once the show ends.
"I'm going to miss it, because it's been a lot of fun," said Elkin Tovar, a 35-year-old chauffeur. "But it will also be a bit of a break, because watching the show so often has become a form of slavery."
Betty La Fea is winding down after a phenomenal year-and-a-half run. Given Colombia's unabashed obsession with beautiful women and beauty contests, the show's smashing success is all the more remarkable.
Maria Sierra, a 36-year-old Bogota cleaning woman, will miss the show. "But on the other hand," Sierra added. "I'll have more time to clean my own house, which has gotten a bit messy."
AmparoPardo, a43-year-old hospital administrator, fears Betty will end up with the sleazy, incompetent Armando.
proved a winning combination.
About one in five Colombians is tuning in. Worldwide, the show claims 80 million viewers, across Latin America and as far away as Hungary and Israel.
In the United States, the show is aired by the Spanish-language Telemundo network, which is reportedly trying to gain the rights to a spinoff.
Betty almost single-handedly rescued from financial ruin the Colombian TV network that created it, RCN, and it has lifted Ana Maria Orozco, the Colombian actress who plays Betty, to stardom across Latin America.
On the way, viewers have watched her gradually gain self confidence, turn down a hefty bribe and finally take over as chief executive.
To the dismay of some, she has fallen in love with Armando, the company's playboy chief executive, and has become noticeably more attractive.
It's a morality play about a woman defying the odds — a lowly, awkward accountant struggling upward through a modeling agency filled with gorgeous models and taunting co-workers.
But those who expected Betty to make a lasting social statement are disappointed.
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5 Pesky insect
6 Customary
15 Scads
15 Black sheep
16 Body trunk
27 Blackthorn berry
18 Work for
19 Namesakes of a Russian saint
20 Japilian product
22 Chihuahua
23 Not so much
24 Disfigure
26 In a rational manner
29 Osaka foik
33 Smells
34 Confiscates
35 Has permission
36 Singer Domino
37 Weekend cowboys
38 Jack or ace
39 Grow more mellow
40 Sword choice
40 Bocchierno or Cherubini
41 Guided around traffic jams
41 Actress Martin
45 Chills
46 Housecoat
47 Reeked
47 Wake late
45 Three-wheeler
56 Taxis
58 Fencer's toil
58 Soft down
59 "Revolutions of the Viaducts" painter
60 Male parent
60 Kgen 'kin
62 Market
63 Surface layer of impurities
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2 Joel Fitzgerald
3 Windtill
4 Thieves
5 Oily
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