How Sesame Street tones down for Afghanistan
Indian and Afghan producers of children’s TV favorite “Sesame Street” are brainstorming in a New Delhi office, swapping tips on how to make Big Bird and his fluffy pals palatable to local viewers.
Indian and Afghan producers of children’s TV favorite “Sesame Street” are brainstorming in a New Delhi office, swapping tips on how to make Big Bird and his fluffy pals palatable to local viewers.
“Being an actor is a privilege. I make sure to use it wisely,” says Enzo Pineda, explaining why he wants to become a good role model for the youth. In 2012, Enzo became an ambassador for Children’s Hour. He tells the Inquirer: “GMA 7 called to ask if I was OK with the idea; [...]
Taylor Swift has visited a young cancer patient in Nebraska.
Even in his so-called “bad boy” days, Colin Farrell was, deep down, this sweet, good-natured Irish kid, gracious and engaging in interviews. Colin stayed grounded and approachable, and kept his sense of humor even as he earned a reputation as a party man who liked to drink and smoke and figure in headline-making shenanigans that included fights and a sex video.
On Valentine’s Day Thursday, civic-minded celebrities, including media men, will spend time to cheer up cancer-stricken children at the Tahan-Tahanan facility of East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC) in Quezon City. The special program is part of the second year anniversary celebration of Tahan-Tahanan—a halfway home for pediatric cancer patients from 0 to 20 years [...]
If you are concerned about the quality of programs for your children on TV, do support the laudable goals of AnakTV by joining its Family Fun Walk at 6 a.m. tomorrow, Jan. 27, at the UP Diliman grounds.
My friend’s 4-year-old daughter has leukemia. Despite limited understanding of medical technicalities, she coped with her illness. She was initially terrified of nurses and doctors, but realized that they were trying to help her, and got braver!
Haiti’s president performed a duet late Friday with Spanish crooner Julio Iglesias in a celebrity-studded concert in the Dominican Republic to help raise money for impoverished children.
Padre Mario Valenzuela was a Spanish priest who came to the Philippines in the time of Jose Rizal. He went to a faraway town on a mountain to be the parish priest of a few baptized Christians.
Nearly a thousand children from all over Metro Manila listened to stories about biodiversity and the riches of the planet during the two-day Inquirer Read-Along Festival last Nov. 26 and 27 at the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center in Quezon City.
We lose our child-like sense of wonder during our alternately exhilarating and confounding transition to adulthood. In these amoral times, however, more and more kids succumb to cynicism long before they hit puberty—and, as dramatized in Peter Ramsey’s visually succulent animation, “Rise of the Guardians,” Santa Claus (voiced by Alec Baldwin) and his colleagues, the Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman), Sandman, and the Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher), are deeply concerned!
We’ve been famously or infamously nagging parents and educators to protect their vulnerable children from “bad” television for years, so we’re glad that, at long last, the creation of TV advocacy groups is on the upswing.
