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• Community welcomes new ConGen • ‘Tamales’ and mangorind at NYT travel show • Condolence book for Japan
By Felix Manuel In an unusually freezing spring evening, community leaders, guests and members of the FilAm media welcomed Consul General Mario Lopez de Leon Jr. to a warm and lively reception organized by GMA Pinoy TV. De Leon, Jr. assumed his post March 1. As the new ConGen for New York, he has jurisdiction […]
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• Vanessa Hudgens as ‘badass’ Blondie • A book of masters’ paintings • Focus group looking for immigrants
Disney darling Vanessa Hudgens was in town March 8 for a series of media interviews to promote “Sucker Punch,” a fantasy action film. She plays Blondie, one of five young girls locked in a futuristic asylum and who plot to escape their captors. The other girls with Vanessa are Abbie Cornish, Emily Browning, Jena […]
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‘Jerry Seinfeld is OK but Charlie Sheen is awesome’
By Cristina DC Pastor Funnyman Air Tabigue says he ‘jokes about’ his family not ‘make fun’ of them, because ‘making fun’ is what a bully does. TF: Filipino standup comedians like you, Jo Koy, Alec Mapa, etc. love to make fun of family. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but is this humor common […]
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‘Dance, dance, dance till you can no longer move’
By Janet Susan R. Nepales The 1980s top Philippine model and one-time Balenciaga mannequin in Paris Bessie Badilla lives in the two best possible worlds: tranquil Connecticut and pulsating New York where all her gay friends are. Beauty-brains-body Bessie Badilla is one rare gem. She is one of the most humble and outgoing persons I […]
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• Arachne changes hands • Philippine life as seen through Hungarian eyes
From one FilAm actress to another. At least that’s how the role of Arachne in the mishap-plagued “Spider-man: Turn off the Dark” has passed the torch. The production is so troubled by rehearsal and soft launch accidents the grand opening has been delayed five times! The exit of FilAm actress Natalie Mendoza, citing health reasons, […]