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Picture

Is it just me or does the picture this page offers of Cruz horrible? Its dark, you can't see her face, and it honestly could be anyone. Who the hell knows how to upload here? I don't, but I'd suggest a new pic of her!

You're right, it's not a good picture (indeed, we upscaled a bad picture, making it worse). Somewhere I have a DVD of Jamón, jamón... (yeah, you guys know what I mean) -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:21, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Improving the image

I'm still learning how to brighten up an image on Wikipedia. Some that look good on my machine turn out to be still too dark once uploaded. I'm going to replace the picture of Penelope Cruz with an adjusted version and see how it goes. --Chris 21:36, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, it's in place. Filename changed to "Cap001a.jpg". It's brighter, but not as bright as I'd prefer. (Maybe that matches the movie; I haven't seen it.) --Chris 21:48, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- The whole reason I went through the talk page delete/archive rigamarole below is because I wanted to add this comment! The drawing in the article is cool, but it would sure be nice to have an actual photograph that shows what she really looks like. I mean, she is known as a beauty. Seems like a picture would be helpful. --Dmz5 00:42, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Note that we may only use freely-licensed images to depict living people, though, so no film screenshots and no promotional images. --Yamla 00:48, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I found something on the internet, but it's so awful, that trust me, the drawing is better. -Patstuart^talk|edits 00:55, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That drawing is so awful, any image is better than that! --Gunsfornuns 14:08, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Talk Cleanup

Immediate Cleanup of this page is required. Either archived for the sake of saving the work, but I can only find two secions regarding the picture and another subject are clean and follow any guidelines or serve a purpose. I do not maintain this page but this article needs immediate work. --OMG LAZERS 10:07, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I removed it up. There's no point to litering the talk page with that. -Patstuart^talk|edits 00:39, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Aww I was just learning how to archive a talk page. I agree however that getting rid of it is the best option. --Dmz5 00:40, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Paragraph Early Life" reads like it was made up - Kristina Kota Kochool (?) and the Conservatorio Nacional in Racine, Wisconsin???

If you read her bio, Penélope Cruz was born in Spain. She has lived almost her entire life in Europe. When do you suppose she would have moved to Racine, Wisconsin for five years? That whole paragraph reads like vandal heaven. The Conservatorio Nacional is in Spain. Kristina Kota Kochool (please see initials) ???? There is no such place and only shows up in sites that mirror Wikipedia. To the best of my knowledge, she has never lived in New York either which why that whole paragraph looks like it was dreamed up. Ronbo76 02:01, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The whole thing looked fishy to me, but the only part I could be sure was wrong was the part about Racine, Wisconsin. I live in Racine, Wisconsin, and there is no 'Conservatorio Nacional' here (nor has there ever been). I checked an early version of the article, and it had the Conservatorio in Madrid. I deleted the Racine reference, but left everything else, because I wasn't sure which parts were wrong. MayerG 02:41, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A lot seems to be in the imdb article: [1]. I hope they didn't copy from us or from anyone who copied from us. Patstuart^talk|edits 02:57, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Friendship?

Why is the friendship between Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek notable?

They are two of the top Hispanic female stars. They have acted together and share a deep friendship which is openly displayed by themselves in the media. Supposedly Hayek is working on other joint projects. Hope this helps. Ronbo76 18:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently, someone just took it upon themselves to remove it anyway....Gotta love that. Abalu 04:34, 22 May 2007 (UTC)Abalu[reply]

Unsourced information

I recently did a large cleanup of this article, and sourced everything I could find (it was hitherto totally unsourced). However, I found a lot of the facts to be totally unsourceable except by one major site: An imdb.com bio. However, I'm willing to bet that they actually took a lot of the information from us. Does anyone think we should get rid of anything, or at least place {{fact}} tags that can't be unsourced outside of that side? I am of the opinion we should. Patstuart^talk·edits 22:14, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

IMDb is not a reliable source, so feel free to remove the passages. This is about a living person, and while the information may or may not be controversial, it can be removed until someone finds a real source for the information. The Behnam 22:30, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

er you did a large clean up and missed the constant references to her being a gypsy and my personal favourite "a gypsy from outer space" ? I'd edit but i don't know anything about her!

Her true age??

Theres NO WAY on Earth that she was born in 1974....

I remember seeing videos of Spanish electropop group Mecano in early 1989 and she already dated one of the band members (dating a popstar at 14?) and appeared on video as a teen girl( but not soo juvenile, she looked like 17-18)

My guess is that Ms Cruz was really born in 1970-71 but as usual with most female stars she wants to remove years from her! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pikaia (talk • contribs) 20:28, 15 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]

I agree about her age being unrealistic

She has got to be older than this article claims. I've seen the video for La Fuerza Del Destino, released in 1988, and she definitely looks a lot older than 14. If you don't believe me, go see the video on YouTube. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.246.153.217 (talk) 01:57, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

i dot agree with her personal life thing it sounds made up —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.49.226.92 (talk) 18:38, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Penelope was really born in 1974 and did have a relationship with said popstar. This caused a stir in Spain at the time (in fact, she has a really bad reputation in Spain, but that's a different issue)

Language skills

I do not think Penelope is "fluent" in any language but Spanish (and perhaps French). She has said she learnt the scripts in Italian "by sounds" and her English is far from fluent!

I can assure you that she speaks Italian. She was one of the guest at the 57th San Remo Italian Music and it was impressive to see how easily she answered all the interview questions in Italian.--ant of A 17:19, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Personal Life

She had a relationship with Tom Cruise...can somebody write on this? thx —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nao1163 (talk • contribs) 02:30, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Controversy"

The reference to the mascara commercial doesn't seem significant, and it's unsourced, so I'm removing. Gerardw (talk) 14:40, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not Vegetarian

She's totally hot, but come on, third party info says she's been eating bacon and a burger, so uh, it ain't disputed, it's proven false. I am removing the tag until she asks me out. Or we get a source saying otherwise. Gatesofawesome! (talk) 23:10, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]