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"Ugly Betty," the award-winning American television comedy-drama series, starring America Ferrera in the title role, follows the life of the unglamorous and good-natured Betty Suarez, who's completely out of place in her job at an ultrachic New York fashion magazine. The North American series was adapted from a TV novella created in Colombia. Japanese TV, as it happens, has already been there and done that. The comedy drama titled "Busu no Hitomi ni Koishiteru (Loving a Homely Woman Who's the Apple of My Eye)" ended its run on Fuji TV three months before "Ugly Betty" premiered on U.S. TV. Busu is a contraction of busaiku, meaning homely or awkward. In 2004, Osamu Suzuki, husband of entertainer Miyuki Oshima, released the eponymous book, the title of which appears to have been inspired by "Kimi no Hitomi ni Koishiteru," which... [read full story]
