Entertainment

Stargazing at ABS-CBN: AJPress meets Star Magic

Friday, 08 May 2009 23:08 Louie Jon A. Sanchez / AJPress Manila

MANILA —We were standing outside the alley that led to ABSCBN’s Studio 10, all ten of us members of paper, like we were some kind of movie fans. The alley had doors, and more alleys and doors appeared as we were led to see the stars of Star Magic, ABSCBN’s pool of stars. We passed by doors that contained names familiar. One even had "Vhong/Sam/Echo" and many more names, which ended with an abbreviated one, "JLloyd." The boys’ dressing room, of course. The next door had the name "Angel," and nothing else. She’s a diva on her own. At 30 minutes before 12, the alley started to swell with staff and production members. The glittering stars of the show started to run to the studio too, taking their places in that full-packed Sunday noontime show.

‘Ploning’ Needs Support to Win 81st Oscars

Sunday, 14 December 2008 22:58 RENE VILLAROMAN AJPress

WHEN a man has lived in his birthplace for so long, especially for a thirty-something director Dante Nico Garcia, chances are he would create a fi lm that would aspire to greatness based on his experiences as a young boy in the island of Cuyo, off Palawan. In Ploning, Garcia populated his movie not only with the essential beauty of this tiny island-town, but also its livelihood, its feasts and its prominent and common Cuyonons.

Garcia had lived in Cuyo until he was a young adult. He left his beloved island-town to take up fi lm and theater arts at the University of the Philippines suffused with remembrances of his rustic birthplace. This year, he went back to his native town and created Ploning, which is now the offi cial Philippine entry to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 81st Academy Awards.

Immersed, literally

Thursday, 09 October 2008 12:39 Bayani San Diego/Inquirer.net

MANILA - As producer Albert Almendralejo recalled it, the first shooting day of “Bakal Boys” in the Baseco compound in Port Area, Manila, was a literal immersion for first-time filmmaker Ralston Jover.

“He fell into a ditch,” Almendralejo reported.

RP ‘jazz queen’ 75, still singing

Thursday, 09 October 2008 09:58 Pocholo Concepcion/Inquirer.net

MANILA - Balloons and flowers adorned Merk’s Bar & Bistro Monday night, as the owner led an intimate group of well-wishers in greeting his mother, RP jazz queen Annie Brazil, on her 75th birthday.

Annie, who flew in from her home base in New York, hardly looked her age. Hair in a short bob and wearing a sequined white top with a black blazer over pinstriped pants, she cut a relaxed figure as she sang both rarely heard and oft-covered classics.

‘Survivor - Philippines ’ spoiler alert

Sunday, 05 October 2008 05:49 Marinel Cruz/Inquirer.net

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MANILA - A show biz-oriented website announced that San Sebastian cager JC Tiuseco, 23, won the reality program “Survivor Philippines,” which started airing on GMA 7 only three weeks ago. Program host Paolo Bediones branded the website as a “spoiler.”

“Spoilers come from people who make it their business to ruin the show for others,” Bediones told Inquirer Entertainment by phone on Monday. “Ninety-five percent of those are untrue. But thanks to them, people are now more curious about the show.”