Celeb tricks and treat

It’s a week before Halloween!

We’ve all had our share of tricks and treats. Mine was when I played a prank on my nanny. At age 6, I pretended to be missing. And my all-time treat to myself is when I take off on a solo journey to a place I’ve never been before.

Whatever your plans are, hope you’ll have a HalloWINNER! Stay bewitched!

JED MADELA:  [On] Halloween last year, my brother and I did a morbid photo shoot which showed me “lifeless” in bed, with bruises and open wounds. We posted it on Facebook and got lots of reactions. Of course, our mom scolded us and demanded to have it removed.

In November 2010, I treated myself to a vacation in New York alone and gave in to my addiction to Broadway shows—watched a total of seven shows.

BARON GEISLER:  A Halloween trick went wrong when I was in Grade 4. I had the brilliant idea of leaving a stink bomb in the girl’s restroom, unaware that a teacher was in one of the cubicles. She perceived it as a personal attack and I nearly got expelled.

My fondest child memory of a treat must be of my brother and I trick-or-treating in Clark Air Base, in Batman costumes. We got huge quantities of imported chocolates.

ROCCO NACINO: My Dad and I wore Halloween masks and sneaked into the bathroom while my brother was in the shower. We waited for him to turn around and scared him to death. We had a good laugh.

The best treat was when I bought mags for my car, 22-inch chrome rims, for my birthday.

America still rocks

Even if I was still a baby when the songs of America became big hits, I immensely enjoyed their concert at the Big Dome.

It was amazing that even if the band members were already pushing 60, they could still rock and roll. As their vocalist said, “Every time we’re on stage, we relive our youth.” It definitely showed that night.

President Noynoy Aquino, Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas and former Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona were spotted at the concert.

Kalapana also performed that night. Their songs “Nightbird” and “The Hurt” are timeless Pinoy anthems. Bravo, America and Kalapana for still sounding so good after all these years. They make music the way it should be.

Separation anxiety

I must confess that I’m one of the avid viewers of ABS-CBN’s “Walang Hanggan.” Too bad all good teleseryes must come to an end.

One of the lead stars of the phenomenal soap, Richard Gomez, told me that they all have separation anxiety. “We’ve become a family,” Goma said. “There were no primadonnas on the set. We all genuinely enjoyed working with each other. It was always positive vibes during taping. That’s why we’re sad that our show is about to end.”

GIANT Dolphy puppet in MassKara festival PHOTO BY RONNIE QUIZON

Their TV Special, “Walang Hanggang Pasasalamat,”  touched our hearts in all the right places. Long after the show is over, the lessons it taught us about friendship, family and love will remain.

Dolphy puppet

No tribute can sufficiently show how well-loved and revered Tito Dolphy still is. At the recent MassKara Festival in Bacolod, there was a huge puppet done in the Comedy King’s likeness. And rightfully so. What would the fiesta in the “City of Smiles” be without a touch of the man who left us with the gift of laughter and smiles?