This Father’s Day, we salute men who are mentors, coaches, spiritual guides, sources of inspiration and guidance or simply friends in young people’s lives. May they continue to spare time to make a difference in their kids’ future.
“My jaw just dropped.” That’s how Emma Watson recalled her reaction when she first walked into Paris Hilton’s closet. Paris had allowed Emma, director Sofia Coppola and the cast and crew of “The Bling Ring” to shoot in her (Paris’) house. The film is a fictionalized version of a Vanity Fair article that recounted the exploits of a gang of suburban Los Angeles teenagers who broke into the homes of celebrities, including Paris, Lindsay Lohan and Orlando Bloom.
“You can’t see it but I haven’t shaved my legs,” Julie Delpy blurted out with a laugh. We were talking about aging and what she was fearful of. The actress, beloved as Celine in “Before Sunrise,” “Before Sunset” and now, “Before Midnight,” said she wasn’t “into my looks and stuff”—thus the admission about her unshaved legs. “Thank God there’s this thing,” Julie said of the table skirt hiding her gams.
“I don’t know why it hasn’t been told,” actor-director Diego Luna said of Cesar Chavez who, along with Filipino and Mexican migrant workers, organized the first successful farm workers union in American history. Diego grabbed the chance to tell the saga of the farm labor leader and civic rights activist in “Chavez,” which he directs and stars in, with Richard Peña in the title role.
Thank God for Filipinos! Salamat!” Michael Bublé exclaimed and then made the sign of the cross. The Grammy-winning crooner, who was raised as a Catholic, was telling me one unusually dark and rainy morning in Los Angeles, why he was grateful to Filipinos. A lit fireplace kept Michael’s two-story private villa at Sunset Marquis warm but it was his easygoing, humorous personality that sparked our conversation.
Just when Dwayne Johnson is about to finally realize his dream to star in a Hercules movie, a competing project comes along with “Twilight” star Kellan Lutz as the Greek god.
The question thrown at Thandie Newton was fairly innocuous but her surprising answer said a lot about her down-to-earth nature: “Do you Google yourself?”
On this joyous Easter Sunday, we begin with a joke (source unknown): “The Pastor said, ‘You need to join the Army of the Lord!’ My friend answered, ‘I’m already in the Army of the Lord, Pastor.’ The Pastor asked, ‘How come I don’t see you except at Christmas and Easter?’ My friend replied, ‘I’m in the Secret Service.’”
A recent interview with author Stephenie Meyer gave us the chance to ask her to recap her “Twilight” journey, several months since the last in the franchise, “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part 2,” was released.
By the time this column comes out, designer Michael Cinco will have shown his collection for the first time in LA and, we are guessing, must have wowed Hollywood’s top stylists and fashionistas. Since Sofia Vergara and Britney Spears wore gowns by the Catbalogan, Samar native at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards and Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscars party, respectively, LA’s tastemakers have become curious about the Dubai-based designer.
LOS ANGELES – A Filipino-American college student, whose winning video bought him the chance to be called onstage and present those gold statuettes in last Sunday’s Oscars, said he had an “exciting” time at the Dolby Theater. Abe Diaz, whose parents’ roots are from Cebu and South Cotabato, got to hand the trophies to presenters [...]
Give the golden statuettes already to Daniel Day-Lewis (for Best Actor) and Anne Hathaway (Best Supporting Actress). Come Sunday evening (Monday morning in the Philippines) at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, the suspenseful moment will be when the Best Actress envelope is opened.
