Rosario Dawson’s mother is directing photographers. Isabel Celeste is an avalanche of a woman, all spilling and tumbling out of her sequined top in a way that makes you want to say, Aye , Madre, and she sees that the red-carpet paparazzi, who have lined up to snap her actress daughter’s photo at last night’s Hispanic Heritage Awards, aren’t getting the best shots. So Isabel Celeste slings an arm around Rosario and another around Rosario’s grandma, Isabel Stokoli. “Look left,” she says. “And center. And right. And again.” Dawson rolls her eyes. Latina mamas. What are you going to do?Dawson was one of the five honorees at these 21st annual awards, held at Washington’s Renaissance Marriott. The purpose? To honor Big Names among Hispanics for work in education, sports, science, the arts and for the alluring-sounding “vision.” Dawson is Vision (and a vision herself in slinky gray silk), recognized for founding Voto Latino, an organization dedicated to increasing voter registration among young Hispanics. ….But for the most part, the night is about fun, most gamely demonstrated by the surprise stars of the evening: Pitbull and Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), who together present the vision award to Dawson.Sanchez cracks that she never expected to be giving out an award with a Pitbull, leading the rapper to mock-bite her before saying, “I heard that was your nickname in the Judiciary Committee.”She blushes, then offers a line that brings down the house: ” Aye, Papi!” And then the luminous Rosario Dawson walks onstage to accept her award, and jokes, “I knew we were going to get an Aye, Papi sometime tonight.” Washington Post{nl}{nl}

October 12th, 2007
Categories: Uncategorized . Author: Joliz

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