Well, here am I. My name is Francisco J. González (Fran), I’m 30, I was born on September 1, 1977 in Rioja, a little village near Almería -inside Andalusia- and currently I live in Madrid -Spain-. I knew Michelle when I was 8, I saw her in Ladyhawke movie and I don’t know what happenned… I loved her, not like a sex-symbol but I’m not be able to explain. I was too young, I just knew I liked the Ladyhawke’s actress, I didn’t know her name neither her movies, I just knew she was the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. So some years later I came back to see her in Dangerous Liaisons, I came back to re-discover her, and it was the boom, it was sure, she was something nice changed my life. I know that since then I keep on her career and I’ve been collecting stuff about her, movies, pics, interviews… etc. and of course I started to be interested on films and so I chose my career: I studied Art Direction & Architecture of Shows. I’ve been working in a lot of Spanish TV-Series such as Un Paso Adelante – A Step Forward (a great success in Spain), Aquí No Hay Quien Viva – Nobody can live here! (the biggest success lately in Spain), A tortas con la vida – Fighting with the Life, Planta25 – Floor25… etc and currently I’m working as Graphic-Designer in an Entertainment & Television Pruduction Company.

Coming about my interest for Michelle Pfeiffer, as I love desings I begun to learn to built websites myself, it was thank my Dreamwaver tutorial, but I ned a subject or theme that I knew so pretty… so the answer was so sure… Michelle Pfeiffer. So on spring 2002 I started all the process to built the fansite, getting the information about Michelle from my personal collection, the net… etc. and on June 2 the site was been released… but the choice of the site’s name was a difficult question.

But let’s come back to the name’s choice. I ned a name for my site, I though about a million of names, but I think the nicer was The Face (really I always called my site “Pfeiffer The Face” all togethet, but I know that the most of you call the site “The Face”, and I like it… it sounds like a own name), I guess and I know, some of you don’t like the title because it is so superficial, and you know Michelle isn’t a simply face, she is much more, she is one of the best actresses of cinema… I know, I know… well, you will see, I’m going to explain to you and I know you will understand it… at first it was “Michelle Pfeiffer, El Rostro – The Face”, the title in Spanish and English, but it sounded too large. I loved “El Rostro” because in Spanish it sounds so poetical, “el rostro” don’t mean simply a face, it is beyond a simple face, it is something spiritual, it is much deeper… you are understanding, isn’t it?

I’ve told you above I discovered Michelle in Ladyhawke, well, I was too young and I didn’t understand at that time, I didn’t know who was that woman, I just knew that her eyes, her mouth, her features, like she moved, like she talked, like she looked at… al about herl… she was the perfect woman, she was magical, ethereal… all that is that she communicated it to me and all it was inside -in Spanish- rostro/ -in English- face… on the other hand, she is an actress, well, an actress communicates something… and she does with a body, a arms, a hands… etc but I think that where is the biggest capacity to commuticate a feel, as expression, reaching the public… is from a face, a gesture… and I think Michelle touches us.

So, the question is easy, why “The Face”?… Michelle is The Face

Up Close & Personal

Pfavourite Actresses: Michelle Pfeiffer, Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson, Keira Knightley, Cate Blanchett…

Pfavourite actors: Joseph and Ralph Fiennes, Brad Pitt, Ryan Phillippe…

Pfavourite directors: Pedro Almodóvar, Tim Burton, Juanma Bajo Ulloa

Pfavourite Pfeiffer’s movies: Ladyhawke, Dangerous Liaisons, Frankie & Johnny, The Story Of Us…

Pfavourite Films: Todo sobre my madre (All About My Mother),Brokeback Mountain, Braveheart, Love Actually, Los amantes del círculo polar…

Pfavourite Tv Series: Heroes, Entourage

Pfavourite play: The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca

Pfavourite musicals: Les Miserables, Martin Guerre, Jesuscrist Superstar, Evita

Pfavourite Books: Alexandros by Valerio Massimo Manfredi and Les Amités Particulières (Particular Friendships) by Roger Peyrefitte

My contribution as a pfan of Ms Pfeiffer in the tv series “A Step Forward”

The TV Series A STEP FORWARD (UN PASO ADELANTE) (where I was working 2002/03 ) was broadcasted in Antena3Tv in Spain. It began its broadcast in January 2002. It is a spanish version of FAME and it has got to be top audience in Spain. It was on for 6 seasons.

It was played by spanish stars as Mónica Cruz (Penélope’s sister), Beatriz Rico, Pablo Puyol, Beatriz Luengo and Miguel Ángel Muñoz.

(They were made when I worked into the set design staff —proper— in the Tv series A Step Forward.)