This image was lost some time after publication.

Eva Longoria is confounded by the fact that her media coverage—for example, posing in a bikini for a 110-foot Maxim cover visible from space—has given the public the impression that she's some sort of a primetime soap-starring airhead. Promoting her upcoming supporting role in The Sentinal, she corrects the record on the massive intellect she has until now been keeping tucked away safely somewhere in her cleavage:

Eva Longoria is annoyed. The Latina beauty on hit television show "Desperate Housewives" is bugged by all the newspaper, magazine and Web gossip about her sex life when there are more important issues to think about. [...]

"It's annoying, absolutely," she told Reuters..."I respect good journalism. I respect certain newspapers and certain publications, and they are just watered down by the bounty for gossip and pictures and information that is irrelevant and uninteresting," she said.

She said it was "unfortunate" that in the United States — a nation of immigrants — some lawmakers want to deport illegal aliens and fence off the Mexico/U.S. border. "Mexicans contribute an enormous amount to our society, economically and socially," she said. "I don't think this administration can afford to have things end badly."

While Longoria has found herself on both sides of the dicey labor issue (she once mouthed-off at a San Antonio police officer, dismissing him as being "just a Mexican bike cop"), we're heartened to see that she has become the second Mexican-descended celebrity to take the side of undocumented immigrants in the controversial debate. Of course, it never hurts one's fledgling feature career to be able to drop phrases like "I was just saying to Salma Hayek, my fellow brainy Latina movie star friend and immigrant labor advocate..." into one's interviews.