Category: Glitz and Glamour

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Rachel Weisz in ‘Agora’ – experience religious zealotry first-hand

August 14, 2011 benign0 11 Comments

Check out Alejandro AmenÃ¡bar’s Agora starring Rachel Weisz. It is a film that dramatises how the early Christian movement morphed from a small annoyance in Alexandria in then Roman-ruled Egypt in the 4th century into a massive lynch mob powerful and violent enough to bully the Roman provincial government into tolerating their own intolerance for…

Glitz and Glamour, Religion

Melanie Marquez tells Miss Ph-Uni Shamcey Supsup to speak Tagalog

August 13, 2011 benign0 28 Comments

According to Miss International 1979 title holder Melanie Marquez, she will “support” Miss Philippines-Universe candidate Shamcey Supsup if she will speak in Tagalog in the coming Miss Universe 2011 beauty pageant to be held in Brazil on the 12th of September this year. Tagalog is a southern Luzon dialect that was branded as the Philippines’…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour

Miss Earth links global warming to Philippine earthquake

July 28, 2011 benign0 6 Comments

According to 2010 Miss Earth Nicole Faria who is from India, there apparently is some kind of link between “global warming” and the Earth’s continental plate tectonics. This it seems was a conclusion she arrived at after she felt a tremor while in her hotel room shortly after arriving in Manila… â€œI got scared at…

Environment, Glitz and Glamour

Main Event: Manny Pacquiao vs the Manila Polo Club

July 22, 2011 benign0 13 Comments

Lots of populist huffing and puffing going on again after Filipino boxing champ Manny Pacquiao was allegedly refused membership in the Ã¼ber prestigious Manila Polo Club (MPC), which reportedly counts only people who are “the country’s A-listers belonging to the influential and affluent level of the Philippine status quo” as worthy to join its ranks….

Glitz and Glamour, Society

Flashy cars and brand-new SUVs in car-crazy Philippines

July 11, 2011 benign0 3 Comments

First it was President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and his Porsche, now it is Butuan Bishop Juan de Dios Pueblos and the other “Mitsubishops,” proud owners of their Pajeros, considered to be luxury sport utility vehicles (SUVs) in a country with a measly 31 motor vehicles per 1000 people (compared to 273 per 1000 for…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

What’s next for Emma Watson as Harry Potter ends

July 10, 2011 benign0 No Comments

The end of the Harry Potter series of movies with the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 leaves the stars of the wildly successful franchise wondering what they will be doing next. According to its most revered star Emma Watson, her ten-year career playing Hermione Granger in the Potter films…

Glitz and Glamour

Maricel Soriano’s alleged abuse of domestic workers reflects Filipino society

July 4, 2011July 4, 2011 benign0 2 Comments

While much Media airtime is given to the abuse of domestic workers employed in foreign countries, not much interest seems to go the way of domestic workers employed by households in the Philippines. Faded star of the 1980s Maricel Soriano provides the most recent of cases that highlight the plight of domestic workers employed by…

Education, Glitz and Glamour, Society

Noynoy Aquino and his women: the score so far

June 29, 2011 benign0 11 Comments

Malacanang lacks an “official line” on its Chief’s lovelife because, according to Presidential Communications Office Undersecretary Manolo Quezon, the “matter” is “too personal.” The Media, as it is inclined to do, of course does not agree. So armed with a small text input field with the word “Google” splashed in colour above it on my…

Glitz and Glamour