Category: Glitz and Glamour

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MMFF 2013: A-Grade ‘Boy Golden’ loses to B-Grade Kris Aquino film ‘My Little Bossings’

December 30, 2013December 30, 2013 benign0 49 Comments

Controversy has erupted over what is perceived to be politically-motivated selection of the honour roll of awardees in this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF). Only two films were rated “A” by the Cinema Evaluation Board in the 2013 MMFF — Shoot To Kill: Boy Golden of Scenema Concept and Viva Films which stars Governor…

Glitz and Glamour, Politics

Fan Favorites Kiss Finally Get Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

December 20, 2013 Gogs 11 Comments

Every time I got to thinking, where’d they disappear? When I woke up, Mom and Dad are rolling on the couch. Rolling numbers, rock and rollin, got my Kiss records out. Cheap Trick 1978 was a year of firsts. My youngest sister was born. I experienced going through my first crush (albeit…

Glitz and Glamour

Anne Curtis’s business sense: ‘I can buy your friends, and this club!’

December 3, 2013 Kate Natividad 33 Comments

Poor little rich starlet Anne Curtis, caught behaving badly in no less than the Privé Luxury Club. Tsk tsk. Turns out these artistas aren’t too far off from the characters they portray in Pinoy movies. Sampal sampal pag may time. Lol! Thing is, she had to make sampal sampal no less than John Lloyd Cruz…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media, Society

CNN Is Proud of the Filipino/ Paul Walker Heroics Bola Lang Yan

December 2, 2013January 5, 2021 Gogs 96 Comments

“What a fool believes, he sees” – The Doobie Brothers My Strategic Management professor was good at what he did. He has seen it all. Putting the finishing touches on MBA students in the classroom before they face their grilling in front of three professors. Part of this prep includes grilling students…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media

Filipinos should get the real lesson from Pacquiao’s latest victory

November 26, 2013 ChinoF 7 Comments

Once again, Filipino boxer extraordinaire Manny Pacquiao claims another victory, this time over Brandon Rios. This is supposed to uplift people’s spirits in the wake of the destruction caused by Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. And it’s probably making up for the loss against Juan Manuel Marquez last year. Again, Filipinos are going to say “Pinoy pride,” something…

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Enough pushing of Manny Pacquiao ‘hope’ pills already!

November 25, 2013 Kate Natividad 67 Comments

Ok na sana that Manny Pacquiao won against Brandon Rios. That is of course a cause for celebration for any Pacman fan (which I am). What’s annoying is the way Pinoys extend that victory to give some nebulous basis for some sort of hope to the Typhoon Yolanda victims. Why nga ba? How exactly does…

Civics, Culture, Glitz and Glamour

Why there is no need to feel sorry for Korina Sanchez

November 20, 2013 benign0 31 Comments

Normally giving stuff to poor people and taking the opportunity to adorn these “gifts” with logos or representations of your organisation is not necessarily bad. So, on one hand, I do agree with communications expert JP Fenix “tak[ing] exception to the negative comments on [ABS-CBN broadcast journalist Korina Sanchez’s] advocacy of giving away new rubber…

Glitz and Glamour, Government, Media, Politics

‘Full-blooded’ Filipinas do Miss Universe: Riza Santos and Ariella Arida

October 24, 2013January 12, 2023 Kate Natividad 6 Comments

Two “100% full blooded” Filipinas who have bagged slots in this year’s Miss Universe beauty pageant are making waves and are going to be sharing rooms! Gee whiz! So there’s Miss Canada, Riza Santos and, of course, Miss Philippines Ariella Arida. Arida, described as a “24-year-old stunner” lists among her current pursuits an effort to…

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