A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born:
January 1, 1949
Died:
April 10, 2009
Born as María del Pilar Gaos Meizoso in La Coruña, Spain, in 1949, she made her debut in Mexico in 1962. Her presence was like a fresh drop in the world of modern singers and young Rock & Roll performers. She was the younger sister of Mayté Gaos, another "rock and roller." Pily was beautiful, charming, cheerful, petite, and had a childlike appearance. She sang like a girl in the process of growing up. Her most notable hits included "Las trencitas," "Mi novio esquimal," and "Aburrida y sola." She retired from the music world and passed away from cancer on April 10, 2009, in Spain. She also appeared in Mexican cinema, starring in Demonios sobre ruedas (1967), La batalla de los pasteles (1966), and Un ángel de mal genio (1964).
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.