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Yet there are rumors that the supposed romance is, just like the others before them - orchestrated. If true, it's like they are deceiving the public.
From a vantage point, showbiz insiders know only too well that CA was over AE a long time ago. It looks like the alleged romance between them has to be carried out if only to cover up for the real McCoy. It must be very hard for CA and EA, yet it is already an accepted norm that one has to take the bitter pill to stay relevant in the business.
Who is the real McCoy then?
Reportedly, it is CA who is the current apple of the eye of a Network Influencer NI. NI is so enamored with CA that NI allegedly promised her with a stable and uninterrupted line-up of projects – as long as they stay together.
It may be recalled that NI was previously linked to another Beautiful Actress BA. Apparently, the relationship soured when BA's Current Boyfriend CB came into the picture. Seeing that BA was so in love with CB and was no match to his machismo, NI stepped back. BA had since been given mediocre exposure in her own network.
Now, it's time for NI's new conquest. CA who had been without significant projects for quite a while is suddenly thrust into a major one. Whatever it takes, it sure is going to be a win-win for both CA and NI, and who knows, probably EA, too - for being such a willing partner.
" The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime." ~ Mignon McLaughlin
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Robert Downey May Have Been a Drug Addict, But This is Amazing
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I’m willing to go out on a limb here and guess that most stories of kindness do not begin with drug addicted celebrity bad boys.
Mine does.
His name is Robert Downey Jr.
You’ve probably heard of him. You may or may not be a fan, but I am, and I was in the early 90’s when this story takes place.
It was at a garden party for the ACLU of Southern California. My stepmother was the executive director, which is why I was in attendance without having to pay the $150 fee. It’s not that I don’t support the ACLU, it’s that I was barely twenty and had no money to speak of.
I was escorting my grandmother. There isn’t enough room in this essay to explain to you everything she was, I would need volumes, so for the sake of brevity I will tell you that she was beautiful even in her eighties, vain as the day is long, and whip smart, though her particular sort of intelligence did not encompass recognizing young celebrities.
I pointed out Robert Downey Jr. to her when he arrived, in a gorgeous cream-colored linen suit, with Sarah Jessica Parker on his arm. My grandmother shrugged, far more interested in piling her paper plate with various unidentifiable cheeses cut into cubes. He wasn’t Carey Grant or Gregory Peck. What did she care?
The afternoon’s main honoree was Ron Kovic, whose story of his time in the Vietnam War that had left him confined to a wheelchair had recently been immortalized in the Oliver Stone film Born on the Fourth of July.
I mention the wheelchair because it played an unwitting role in what happened next.
We made our way to our folding chairs in the garden with our paper plates and cubed cheeses and we watched my stepmother give one of her eloquent speeches and a plea for donations, and there must have been a few other people who spoke but I can’t remember who, and then Ron Kovic took the podium, and he was mesmerizing, and when it was all over we stood up to leave, and my grandmother tripped.
We’d been sitting in the front row (nepotism has its privileges) and when she tripped she fell smack into the wheelchair ramp that provided Ron Kovic with access to the stage. I didn’t know that wheelchair ramps have sharp edges, but they do, at least this one did, and it sliced her shin right open.
The volume of blood was staggering.
I’d like to be able to tell you that I raced into action; that I quickly took control of the situation, tending to my grandmother and calling for the ambulance that was so obviously needed, but I didn’t. I sat down and put my head between my knees because I thought I was going to faint. Did I mention the blood?
Luckily, somebody did take control of the situation, and that person was Robert Downey Jr.
He ordered someone to call an ambulance. Another to bring a glass of water. Another to fetch a blanket. He took off his gorgeous linen jacket and he rolled up his sleeves and he grabbed hold of my grandmother’s leg, and then he took that jacket that I’d assumed he’d taken off only to it keep out of the way, and he tied it around her wound. I watched the cream colored linen turn scarlet with her blood.
He told her not to worry. He told her it would be alright. He knew, instinctively, how to speak to her, how to distract her, how to play to her vanity. He held onto her calf and he whistled. He told her how stunning her legs were.
She said to him, to my humiliation: “My granddaughter tells me you’re a famous actor but I’ve never heard of you.”
He stayed with her until the ambulance came and then he walked alongside the stretcher holding her hand and telling her she was breaking his heart by leaving the party so early, just as they were getting to know each other. He waved to her as they closed the doors. “Don’t forget to call me, Silvia,” he said. “We’ll do lunch.”
He was a movie star, after all.
Believe it or not, I hurried into the ambulance without saying a word. I was too embarrassed and too shy to thank him.
We all have things we wish we’d said. Moments we’d like to return to and do differently. Rarely do we get that chance to make up for those times that words failed us. But I did. Many years later.
I should mention here that when Robert Downey Jr. was in prison for being a drug addict (which strikes me as absurd and cruel, but that’s the topic for a different essay), I thought of writing to him. Of reminding him of that day when he was humanity personified. When he was the best of what we each can be. When he was the kindest of strangers.
But I didn’t.
Some fifteen years after that garden party, ten years after my grandmother had died and five since he’d been released from prison, I saw him in a restaurant.
I grew up in Los Angeles where celebrity sightings are commonplace and where I was raised to respect people’s privacy and never bother someone while they’re out having a meal, but on this day I decided to abandon the code of the native Angeleno, and my own shyness, and I approached his table.
I said to him, “I don’t have any idea if you remember this…” and I told him the story.
He remembered.
“I just wanted to thank you,” I said. “And I wanted to tell you that it was simply the kindest act I’ve ever witnessed.”
He stood up and he took both of my hands in his and he looked into my eyes and he said, “You have absolutely no idea how much I needed to hear that today.”
The Healing Priest’s Rich Lifestyle
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But the business conglomerate discovered massive unnecessary spending by the healing priest, according to an SMC insider, and thus withdrew its support from the project.
“Before, Father Suarez would come to RSA’s office wearing only a T-shirt and sandals, but now he wears expensive clothes and watches, stays in five-star hotels and attends tennis matches like the Wimbledon Classic and the French Open,” said the SMC insider.
Ramon S. Ang, president and CEO of San Miguel Corp. is “RSA” to his subordinates.
RSA, who wears an ordinary collared shirt to work, has faith in the healing power of Father Suarez, but he was reportedly “shocked” at the priest’s change of lifestyle.
Ang is a devout Catholic and his wife is a member of Opus Dei, an organization of ultraconservative Catholic laymen.
When SMC, as a principal benefactor, ordered an audit of Father Suarez’s Mary Mother of the Poor Foundation, the business conglomerate discovered that the foundation had spent money left and right without supporting documents.
Examples:
The foundation acquired the Little Bridge Resort in Butong, Taal town in Batangas province, saying it paid P55 million out of the total purchase price of P74 million.
There were no documents to support the transaction.
The foundation reimbursed spouses Bong and Elvie Garcia $850,727.20 using its dollar account, supposedly for the donation of the Sto. Niño chapel in Pagkilatan, Batangas City.
What was the reimbursement for if the chapel was donated?
Construction work for the Tabernacle 3 of St. Peter’s Chapel in Butong, Taal, Batangas at P17,827,412.04 in 2008 and 2009.
There were no documents proving the amount was donated.
Donation of P7,249,950 by Teresa Chan for the acquisition of a 102,795-sq m property, but only P3,101,850 was booked.
Many rich people healed by Father Suarez have given him hundreds of thousands and even millions of pesos out of gratitude.
But when asked why his foundation was short on finances, the priest was reportedly heard saying: “Sa akin binigay ang pera. Bakit ko ibibigay sa aking foundation (The money was given to me. Why should I give it to my foundation)?”
Suarez’s high living led to the resignations of Archbishop Chito Tagle as chair of Mother Mary of the Poor Foundation on Sept. 27, 2012; Antonio Tambunting as vice chair on Oct. 2, 2012; and Jun Mangilit as treasurer on Oct. 3, 2012.
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SMC under Ang donates to worthy causes.
The firm’s more than P1-billion donation for the rehabilitation of Eastern Visayas after the devastation wrought by Supertyphoon “Yolanda” makes it one of the biggest benefactors of calamity victims.
The construction alone of 5,000 houses, each costing P200,000, will amount to P1 billion.
That does not include the construction of hundreds of schoolhouses and the deployment of hundreds of heavy equipment and personnel to help in the reconstruction of Eastern Visayas.
It is therefore not surprising that Ang pledged a billion-peso donation to build Suarez’s shrine, thinking it would be a pilgrimage site.
To SMC, the amount is peanuts given the money it sets aside for corporate social responsibility projects.
But it would have been very unwise of Ang to continue supporting a religious project whose initiator is living the life of the rich and famous when his life should be monastic.
Saturday, March 8, 2014
His Cup of Tea
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AW is allegedly so sexually oriented that some people often label him as a pervert. He just loves the company of women Reportedly, he swings both ways as can be gleaned from the many sightings of him with different women both in and out of showbiz, while at the same time is also rumored to be very open to friendships (with benefits) with gays, wealthy gays that is.
Apart from all these habits, AW is also a young drunkard, much like one of his colleagues who is so attached to the bottle. As busy as he is, AW never misses to be with alcohol whether he is alone in a bar, or in drinking spree with friends. There are talks that his alleged alcoholism has already peaked years ago.
There were also reported instances that when AW gets really drunk, he would allegedly show his private part to those present, uh oh. While at it, he would go on a kiss and tell marathon blabbing about the sordid details of his making out with different women. Judging by the way AW behaves, he might as well go into a serious rehabilitation before he gets into trouble.
“After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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Filipino - American Wins An Oscar
Songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez accept the Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song award for 'Let It Go' from 'Frozen' onstage during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on March 2, 2014 in Hollywood, California.
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Steven Price won the Oscar for score for his work on "Gravity." Both were considered favorites in their categories.
The Lopezes delivered their thank-you's by alternating their way down a list of names, stopping at one point to sing "Happy Oscar to you/Let's do 'Frozen 2'." While a stage version of the musical film is in the works, Disney has not given a greenlight to a sequel.
The Original Song Oscar joins Lopez's Tonys for "The Book of Mormon" and "Avenue Q," his Emmys for Nickelodeon's "The Wonder Pets" and the musical theater album Grammy for "Book of Mormon." Richard Rodgers is the only other songwriter to win each of the trophies for composing; producer Scott Rudin was the last person to go for the cycle.
In other music-related wins, films about musicians swept the documentary categories, Morgan Neville's "20 Feet From Stardom" winning for feature and Malcolm Clarke's "The Lady in Number 6" winning for a short. "The Lady in Number 6" told the story of Holocaust survivor Alice Herz Sommer, a pianist who talks about the importance of music and optimism in the film. She died Feb. 23 at the age of 110.
"20 Feet From Stardom," which premiered at Sundance in 2013 was released in June by Radius-TWC, chronicled the careers of background singers on rock and soul records of the 20th century.
In his acceptance speech, Neville recalled the words of producer Gil Friesen, the former A&M Records president who died just after the film was finished in November 2012. "This was his idea and it was his baby," Neville said. "And when I first met with him I remember he said, 'I want to win an Oscar. I remember thinking, 'You’re crazy… that will never happen.'”
Backstage, Neville further explained the film that has helped pump up the careers of Darlene Love and Merry Clayton. "It's the secret history of pop music. But to me it's about more than just pop music. The thing I realized when I was making it is that we're all backup singers. I mean, most of us aren't rock stars; most of us aren't presidents. Most of us are backup singers. What I've found is, is the people see themselves in this experience."
It is the second time music-oriented documentaries have won in back-to-back years: "Woodstock" won in 1969 and "Arthur Rubenstein - The Love of Life," about the classical pianist, received the statue a year later.
Beyond the performances of the nominated songs by Pharrell Williams, U2, Idina Menzel and Karen O and Ezra Koenig, Pink offered a salute to Judy Garland and the 75th anniversary of "The Wizard of Oz" with a powerful - and non-theatrical - performance of Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." Bette Midler sang "Wind Beneath My Wings" following the in memoriam segment that included a handful of people whose work crossed over into music: documentarian Les Blank, singer Annette Funicello, former Fantasy Records owner Saul Zaentz, composer Riz Ortolani and sound guru Ray Dolby.
The song category has rarely seen such high-profile nominees whose songs became bona fide hits during the Oscar campaigns. This week, three of the four songs are in the Hot 100, led by Pharrell Williams' "Happy" at No. 1; the "Frozen" soundtrack spent four non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 earlier this year.
For Price, a Brit, "Gravity" was the first film he has scored after working for years as a film editor. Both Price and the Lopezes dedicated their awards to their families, Price tying in the them of getting an astronaut home to his own private life.
Anderson-Lopez said the song is inspired by their girls "and the hope that you never let fear or shame keep you from celebrating the unique people you are."
One musician, Thirty Seconds to Mars' Jared Leto, received an Oscar for his acting, taking home the supporting actor trophy for his work in "Dallas Buyers Club." He delivered the evening's first heartfelt speech, touching on family, international politics and the subject of the film, AIDS. Backstage he explained his reasons for mentioning places of civil unrest.
"Global issues impact us in a really direct way," he said. "Let me give you an example. We have a show in the Ukraine in a couple of weeks. We have a show in Thailand in a few weeks. We had a show in Venezuela in the works. So, these things, social unrest, you know, social issues like this affect us in a really immediate way. So, I felt on behalf of the people that I interact with on Instagram and Twitter and Facebook, and my own interests as, you know, a global-being a person in a global band, it was important to address those things."
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