Two years after Rock Ed Philippines debuted some of the first tracks in its multiartist musical tribute to the country’s national hero on his 150th birth anniversary, “Rock Rizal” remains as new, as provocative, as ever.
She’s been in the industry for over 30 years; Zsa Zsa Padilla feels she has nothing left to prove as a singer. She sees the scene constantly evolving, and what makes a successful Original Pilipino Music (OPM) artist now is different from what it took in the early 1980s, when her song “Kahit Na” became a hit.
Actor-restaurateur Marvin Agustin on his love for cooking: “While growing up, I would always see my parents cooking in the kitchen. It was something they enjoyed doing together.
Speaking like the grizzled veteran of countless skirmishes on Boulevard de la Croisette that he was, Filipino filmmaker Tikoy Aguiluz told a skeptical neophyte: “The pink press ID is the best badge in Cannes.”
Backstage in conversation with Sierra Boggess, one of my costars in the “4Stars” concert (series in Tokyo and Osaka, with Sierra, Ramin Karimloo, and Yu Shirota), the term “show pony” came up. The term was coined by her “Love Never Dies” director, Jack O’Brien, to describe certain people.
Not even the monsoon rains could stop the 39th Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) from making its top eight film choices, said Francis Tolentino, chair of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, which spearheads the annual event.
When we first heard that macho star Michael Douglas had agreed to play gay pianist Liberace in an HBO film bio, we were thrilled at the prospect, because it would clearly be such a huge “stretch” and challenge for the actor.
The play dates of the independent film “Dance of the Steel Bars” in 13 SM cinemas nationwide have been extended another week, Cesar Apolinario, one of its directors, announced on Tuesday.
A Quezon City court on Wednesday ordered comedienne Ai-Ai delas Alas and her estranged husband businessman Jed Alvin Salang to refrain from making any public comments on a case involving the two of them.
The whispers are getting louder: Hunky Heartthrob has hooked a new closeted benefactor, High-profile Politico, who’s rich and wields considerable power.
