Porsche Boxster $45,600 or Porsche Cayenne $42,200 By Virginia HeffernanThe New York TimesHoping to claim a piece of the telenovela phenomenon, ABC may have inadvertently tapped into an even bigger trend this fall: ugliness.

Not real ugliness of course. Hollywood ugliness. But Hollywood's standards of ugliness, like Hollywood's standards of beauty, change. Remember Eliza Doolittle, with her ratty hair, tar-colored dress, smudged cheeks? Messy stood in for ugly in those days.More recently, movie actresses who have played women we're told are ugly -- Toni Collette ("Muriel's Wedding"), Minnie Driver ("Circle of Friends"), Lili Taylor ("Dogfight") -- have gone on to play objects of desire. To pass as ugly, a woman is now typically about a size 10 among zeroes, with slightly smaller eyes and a bigger nose, proportionally, than a Hummel figurine. Thus, "ugly."And consider America Ferrera, the 22-year-old Honduran-American star of "Ugly Betty," ABC's charming and irrepressible mash-up of "The Devil Wears Prada" and the Colombian telenovela "Betty la Fea."

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