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September 29, 2002 - Ruven Afanador on photographing Salma Hayek in Entertainment Weekly: "She was in character as Frida Kahlo. She had just finished the film, and it was automatic. If you want an actress to be in character, and she wants to be in character, it's an ideal thing, sort of a gift."

September 27, 2002 - Rex Features has more photos of Salma Hayek at the premiere of 'Frida' in New York. Check them out here.

September 26, 2002 - Roger Friedman of Fox News reports last night, Salma Hayek did the circuit. First she was the guest of honor at a party thrown for her new movie, Frida, at the Museo del Barrio on upper Fifth Avenue. Later, she and boyfriend Ed Norton turned up further uptown at Jimmy's in Harlem for nostalgia act Prince. Read more.

September 26, 2002 - Salma Hayek was at the 'Frida' screening in New York on Tuesday at the El Museo Del Barrio. Check out photos from Rex Features and WireImage.com.

September 24, 2002 - Lycos 50 reports Frida Kahlo is beginning to stir on the Lycos search logs. Read more.

September 23, 2002 - Salma Hayek has told Parade magazine how she was kidnapped at gunpoint and held for ransom – and loved it. She was grabbed in 1983 in her native Mexico with the real target, her wealthy college boyfriend. She says: "They put a gun to my head and I said, 'Kill me. I believe in reincarnation, I’ll just come back'. I got into the drama of the thing. It was like being in a movie." Both were freed unharmed.

September 19, 2002 - The New York Daily News reports Salma Hayek just said "no" to a new fur when designer Dennis Basso boldly approached her at the event. "I have eight or nine fur coats hanging in my closet," she said. "But I don't wear them because my boyfriend hates them!"

September 18, 2002 - LFI had photos, since removed, of Salma Hayek at the New Yorkers for Children Fall Gala at Regent Wall Street in New York City on Tuesday.

September 18, 2002 - Us Weekly has details of Salma Hayek's Marie Claire magazine cover, which has her wearing a Versace gow. Salma was chaperoned by her brother Sami and had to hurry out for a TV interview about 'Frida.'

September 14, 2002 - Jayne Clark of USA Today has more on detail Frida quoting Ignacio Custodio, administrator at the Frida Kahlo Museum in the home where she lived and worked for much of her life. "Frida is popular now. But she was always important," he said. Read more.

September 10, 2002 - Extra TV was on hand at the Toronto Film Festival and spoke with Salma Hayek from the premiere of 'Frida'. Salma said, "I think it's important to make this story about this woman that had the courage to be unique." Watch the clip here.

September 9, 2002 - Reuters reports Salma Hayek says she misses the days when she had one eyebrow because it would have come in handy for the movie in which she plays the legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, notorious for her thick, connecting eyebrow.

September 7, 2002 - Us Weekly quotes Salma Hayek talking about 'Frida' saying, "There were so many reasons nobody wanted to make it. It's about a hairy woman and a fat man who were Communists. She was a bisexual, and they were both Mexicans."

September 1, 2002 - Salma Hayek makes her directorial debut and serves as executive producer of the Showtime Original Picture For All Ages The Maldonado Miracle. Read more.

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