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TAPE: EF02/0522 IN_TIME: 14:15:54 / 21:04:03 DURATION: 7:20 SOURCES: APTN/EMI Latin RESTRICTIONS: music video/performance rights must be cleared - No re-use/re-sale of film/video/tv clips without clearance DATELINE: New York. Recent SHOTLIST: 1. Video clip - 'Tu Y Yo' 2. B-roll Thalia arriving at Peninsula Hotel, New York. SOT Thalia - "Hello everybody, how are you, I am here in New York and I am going to start a very busy day. Come with me." 3. SOT Thalia - "It's not like a law that you have to make it in America because it's not like that. The world is so big and there are so many different cultures, so many different people that want to hear Latin pop music or a Latin act." 4. Video clip - 'Tu Y Yo' 5. SOT Thalia - "It's amazing, you can do it. You can really get into the American audience. It will be amazing too, a beautiful thing for you." 6. Video clip - 'Tu Y Yo' 7. SOT Thalia - "I don't know how everything was so there for me, I never knocked on the door saying 'give me an opportunity', or never went to casting lines, or I never searched for work, everything came, one thing after the other." 8. B-roll Thalia with her mother 9. SOT Thalia - "I lost my father when I was 5 years old and there was just women in the family, my mother, my four sisters and my grandmother and I. She always told us this was a man's world, you are against the current, against the river, you have to go against it. You have to have soul that is so strong that nobody can bend it, like a man, you have to have a man's soul." 10.Still of Thalia and Tommy Mottola's wedding 11.SOT Thalia - "I always dreamed about that wedding. I always dreamed about getting married in St Patrick, with that long, long, long dress and with all my audience outside saying 'We are with you, we love you', whatever. With the man of my dreams and so I made it real." 12.News footage of Thalia and Tommy Mottola's wedding (Courtesy.El Gordo y La Flaca/Univision) 13.SOT Thalia - "I am married with a man, not with a power, some people search for power. I met him when I was already Thalia and when I was already known in all these countries and I already had a career and I was already with nine records and I was already with 7 soap operas and so I was already a figure. He saw the person and I saw the person and it is beautiful. It's normal." 14. Still of Thalia and Tommy Mottola 15.SOT Thalia - "He's been creating huge careers and it would be stupid of me not to pay attention to the comments that this guy has to offer me. He respects me a lot because I am a tough girl and I am like a Mexican. I know what I want and how I want it. He listens and he says things like 'you take it or don't take it, I respect you'." 16. Opening credits for Thalia's hit soap opera 'Marimar' 17.SOT Thalia - "I read about 2 brothers, one was watching 'Marimar' was the name of one of my biggest soap operas, then at the same time on another channel it was football, it was so huge. So the oldest brother arrived and wanted to change it and the other guy said 'No I'm watching 'Marimar', 'No I want to watch the soccer', 'No I want to watch 'Marimar', so they guy who was watching Marimar went in to his room and took a gun and shot the brother. He shot his brother and changed it, sat down and he watched the end of 'Marimar'." 18.EPK footage of fans mobbing Thalia at the airport 19. SOT Thalia - "It has a bad part but it also has a beautiful part, for example in the hospital, the girls, the babies, the mothers use my soap opera names like Thalia or Marimar or whatever and that is beautiful." 20. Music clip - 'Reencarnacion' 21. SOT Question - "What would people be most surprised and most interested to know about you, that they might not know." SOT Thalia - "I'm natural, that I haven't had any surgery, that is a reality. Then I don't know, what else. I am a very impatient person. I work on that every single day of my life. That's it. I'm calm sometimes and sometimes I am very aggressive and sometimes I am very sweet and sometimes I am like a lion. I am a double personality, kind of thing, but lovely." 20. Music clip - 'Amor A La Mexicana' STORYLINE: THALIA TAKES ON THE WORLD Like her namesake of Greek mythology who inspired poets of antiquity, Mexican singer and actress Thalia has worked her magic on millions of fans around the world. From Argentina to Yemen, the queen of soap operas ruled over the 90s starring in her country's highest-rated TV melodramas, and bewitched many more with her albums. Only in the Anglo-Saxon world has she remained anonymous. That is now set to change. Her first album with several English tracks on it is now atop the Latin charts and she is set to vie with the likes of Britney and Shakira for the pop princess crown. She's already made a splash on Rosie O'Donnell's high-rated talk show in the U.S. and she is getting the best advice in the business for free from her hubbie, Sony Records head honcho Tommy Mottola whom she married in a fairy tale wedding at New York City's famous St. Patrick's Cathedral in 2000. Now Mrs Mottola is hoping that she can follow in the footsteps on her husband's ex, Mariah Carey,. She has recorded albums in Spanish, Portuguese and even tried Filipino, which explains her multi-cultural appeal. But English-language fame eludes her so far, something she hopes to rectify with her new album 'Thalia', featuring the single 'Tu Y Yo', which also includes three English-language songs. Then, later in the year, she will release her first all-English language album. Ever since she was a child, the youngest of five sister, in Mexico City, Thalia Sodi's dream was to become the brightest star and her musical career began aged nine . As her career as a singer took off, Thalia also grew as an actress, working her way up with small roles in the soap-operas The turning point came when Thalia agreed to star in a trilogy of soap operas, playing characters called Maria. The first one, 'Maria Mercedes,' came out in 1992 and quickly broke all ratings records. Success knocked on her door for a third time with 1995's 'Maria la del barrio.' Thalia's name became synonymous with Mexico. The 'telenovelas' were a hit in over 120 countries, and Thalia became a global household name. The star is wanted everywhere. In Latvia they love her, in the Philippines she has a god-like status and people will literally kill to catch a glimpse of her. In Mexican-dominated Los Angeles they even celebrate 'Thalia Day.' Her international stardom as an actress opened even more doors for her as a singer. Her combination of sexy performance, tropical rhythms and enchanting ballads made Thalia's sound a recognisable one in many countries around the world. MUSIC CLEARANCE DETAILS TITLE: Tu Y Yo ARTIST: Thalia WRITER: No Details PUBLISHER: No Details LABEL: EMI TITLE: Reencarnacion ARTIST: Thalia WRITER: No Details PUBLISHER: No Details LABEL: EMI TITLE: Amor A La Mexicana ARTIST: Thalia WRITER: Pupparo PUBLISHER: SACM LABEL: EMI