Alicia Silverstone was a big hit in her “breakout” film, “Clueless,” in which she played a sweetly loopy lass who was so out of it that she became lovably “in.” After that initial big splash, however, her career didn’t have the “legs” for a long-running stellar career, so her fans found other faves to love.
If American movies vamp on vampires, local TV-film productions counter with their fascination for aswangs. The latest TV series about aswang-hunters started telecasting last Jan. 4—“Juan dela Cruz,” topbilling Coco Martin as a young man whose mother fought the fiendish, evil monsters of Pinoy folk culture—until she was impregnated by the king of the aswangs himself (Albert Martinez)!
“Twilight’ stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are looking forward to sinking their teeth into new, non-vampire roles, as they ponder life after the “Twilight” saga.
Imagine having the great Meryl Streep for a mother-in-law. Actor Benjamin “Ben” Walker does and he has a standard reply to journalists who ask the inevitable question—what’s it like to have the world’s preeminent actress for a mom-in-law?
