Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:06:12 +0000
COLOR OF LOVE – Red or at times pink are the colors associated with love. Not anymore, at least in “The Girl in the Orange Dress,” an entry to the Metro Manila Film Festival. Jessy Mendiola is the mysterious girl in orange and Jericho Rosales the “magnetic” actor. Echo is a superstar and […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:30:12 +0000
WHATEVER’ – Let’s listen how young people or millennials speak. Often heard in conversation is “whatever.” Now what does it really mean? In the preface of her book “Whatever,” Carmen Guerrero Nakpil says: “The title, ‘Whatever,’ is a reference to the millennial way of ending an argument. It used to mean ‘anything’ […]
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Knew all along that Sharon Cuneta and Piolo Pascual have won “grandslam” awards. Just like Nora Aunor, Vilma Santos, Lorna Tolentino, Elizabeth Oropesa, Nida Blanca, Glydel Mercado, and Ronaldo Valdez.
Odette Khan has to date won three best supporting actress awards for Kip Oebanda’s “Bar Boys,” about aspiring lawyers. They are Star, FAMAS, and Urian. Almost a grandslam, but for one more trophy.
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In movie lingo, “sleeper” is a small film which unexpectedly turns out to be a big hit. Best example is last year’s “Kita Kita,” directed by Sigrid Bernardo and topbilled by Alexandra de Rossi and Empoy Marquez, with Piolo Pascual and Joyce Bernal as producers. “Kita Kita” grossed over 300 million pesos.
Former Vice President Jojo Binay, whose complete first name is Jejomar – for Jesus, Jose, Maria. Yes, the Holy Family.
Coco Martin knows how it is to struggle and survive in showbiz. He’s an “alumnus” of the University of Hard Knocks, which explains his being kind-hearted, generous to actors who are facing tough times, hardly getting by.
The Kapisanan ng Artistang Pilipino sa Pelikula at Telebisyon (KAPPT) is really more of Workers’ Guild than Actors’ Guild. Look, the president, Imelda Papin, is “forced” to work for their welfare instead of advancing their art and craft.
Highspeed noted yesterday that decades back, three major movie studios – Seiko, Regal, Viva – were star builders. Today TV stations took over the task of making and packaging stars.