STILL STANDING: SANDRA IS SOLE SURVIVOR
Thirty-nine days, 16 castaways, four tribes, dozens of broken alliances, a quitter, a grandmother who isn't really dead, and now, one Sole Survivor! Sandra Diaz-Twine, the 29-year-old office assistant from Ft. Lewis, Washington, captured the million-dollar prize. In the gut-wrenching final Tribal Council, Sandra pleaded to the Jury that she went along with whatever alliance would have her without asking questions. Sandra claimed she never got in anyone's way, staying quietly in the background, and that she deserved to be the Sole Survivor. The Jury agreed in a 6 to 1 decision, making Sandra the Sole Survivor and the recipient of the one million dollar prize.

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NEW YORK, Jan 15, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Actor Benicio Del Toro admits he, too, was initially confused by the fractured storytelling technique of the film "21 Grams."

"The script was very much ... Chopped up like that," Del Toro told UPI`s Karen Butler recently.

"When I saw the movie, the first 35 minutes, I was like, `Huh?` But in a good way. It just pulls you in. I don`t know if this story was told in a linear fashion if it would have the same pull. It could, but I don`t know if it would. The fact that there is a side of you -- because this is a dark movie -- but there is a side of you putting this thing together. Making you get involved. Making you think. Not only about the soul and this and that, but think about the plot."

The Oscar-winning actor earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination Thursday for his portrayal of a Bible-thumping ex-con who alters the lives of numerous people in "21 Grams." The story is often interrupted by flash-back and flash-forward sequences designed to mimic how people process experiences and memories.

Esai Morales has been a familiar face on both the large and small screens for years. Most recently he starred in the television movie "The Elian Gonzalez Story," and has been seen in the miniseries on "Wings of Eagles"," Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story", and "Circle of Deceit." He also appeared on the series "Family Law", "Resurrection Blvd.", "The Outer Limits", "Tales From The Crypt", "The Twilight Zone", "Fame" and "Miami Vice."

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George Lopez as a guy whose life has become a bit more complicated since he became the first assembly line worker to be promoted to plant manager at an L.A. airplane parts factory. Though his affable friend, Ernie (Valente Rodriguez, "Erin Brockovich"), and former compadres on the floor rib him about becoming "Mr. Clipboard," they still like him -- they just have to have their fun behind his back now. Managing his tough and acerbic but loving mother, Benny (Belita Moreno, "Perfect Strangers"), while maintaining a civil relationship, presents a whole new kind of challenge, both at work and at home.

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Lisa Vidal plays police officer “Magda Ramirez” on The Division. This striking, dark-haired actress of Puerto Rican descent, New York City native Lisa Vidal began acting in repertory theater at age 14 and was cast the following year in the series "Oye Willie", jump-starting a long and varied acting career. A small role in the comedy "Delivery Boys" marked Vidal's feature debut. The late 1980s saw the actress busy on the small screen with guest roles on such wildly popular series as "The Cosby Show" and "Miami Vice". Determined to take roles that reflected the diversity of the Latino community while at the same time building it up, Vidal acted in the two "ABC Afterschool Special" educational presentations "Class Act: A Teacher's Story" (1987) and "In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story" (1991)

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