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The Beatles

Nothing beats listening to the Fab Four songs featured and interpreted in the superbly hilarious movie "Across The Universe" on Imeem. And the day has barely started. Long Live The Beatles!

KBP Awards

We cannot nominate entries for the KBP Golden Dove Awards this year due to the pending compaint against the station. I'm sad for the anchors. Their efforts won't get recognized. Sayang.

My Immem

I've discovered Grooveshark accidentally and found it more generous than Lastfm and Pandora. But I can't access it in the office PC. Imeem saved the day.

Can Barack Survive?

The Democrats nominate Obama, who has excellent chances of becoming the first black president in the US. But can he survive? Can he last? Is the US ready for him?

Cebu's Floods

When can we solve Cebu's endless floods on rainy days? When will politicians use pork for drainage?

PAF Mactan is mourning the loss of the crew of the C-130 cargo place which crashed in Samal Island in Davao City.

I love Skypecast. I can't believe DYAB can now be heard all over the world. From zero to something. And the quality on good days is unbelievably crisp and clear.

Ethel doing well inside PBB house, says ma

Her Ma's Fave Housemate.

 

 

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Ethel doing well inside PBB house, says ma

via ABS-CBN News on 10/24/07

The mother of sexy comedienne Ethel Booba is satisfied with her daughter's performance inside the Pinoy Big Brother house.

 

 

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Forget The Spice Girls!

Aqua Take Two!

 

 

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Forget The Spice Girls!

via Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton by Perez Hilton on 10/24/07

Have you been dying for Aqua to get back together???

Well, whether you like it or not, the Danish band is reuniting!

After a six year break, the band will put out a greatest hits including several new songs and go on a European tour next year.

Right now the Aqua's US Top 10 hit, Barbie Girl, is climbing again in the UK chart's thanks to a God-awful remake by Big Brother runners up, the blonde twins Sam and Amanda Marchant.

While this is cute, we're anxiously awaiting the return of Ace of Base. Aren't U?

 

 

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Ask And Ye Shall Receive

Yipeeeee!!!!!!!

 

 

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Ask And Ye Shall Receive

via Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton by Perez Hilton on 10/24/07

Ace Of Base are reuniting!!!!

 

 

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Jackie Chan flexes his vocal muscles

Again? Jackie Chan can sing?

 

 

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Jackie Chan flexes his vocal muscles (AP)

via Yahoo! News: Entertainment News on 10/24/07

AP - Jackie Chan has flexed his vocal muscles for the Olympics. The 53-year-old actor, best known for his daredevil stunts, has recorded "We Are Ready," the official countdown song to the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.

 

 

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DYAB & ABS-CBN Cebu Anchor Leo Lastimosa

With ABS-CBN Cebu's Angela Calina

DYAB & ABS-CBN Cebu Anchor Leo Lastimosa

Attending to patients during DYAB's Halad sa Kapamilya

DYAB Cebu Kumbira sa Kapamilya in June 2006

DYAB Cebu Kumbira sa Kapamilya in June 2006

DYAB Cebu Kumbira sa Kapamilya in June 2006

DYAB Cebu Kumbira sa Kapamilya in June 2006

DYAB Cebu Kumbira sa Kapamilya in June 2006 

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RNG's best AE, Mau Palomo

Maul Palomo and Myca Ramos

DYAB's Web Designer Chris Balaga

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'Brokeback' named Hollywood word of the year

Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:33 AM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - And the winner for Hollywood's word of the year is "Brokeback," thanks to all the talk around the water cooler and Internet jokes that have turned a film about two gay cowboys into a cultural phenomenon.

The nonprofit group Global Language Monitor placed "Brokeback" -- as in the film title "Brokeback Mountain" -- at the top of its list of Hollywood words and phrases that captured attention this year.

Paul JJ Payack, the head of Global Language Monitor, said the movie became a cultural phenomenon that generated a million jokes, according to Google. Overall, a Google search shows more than 38 million references to the film, although only about 10 million people saw the movie.

In second place was "Brangelina," the hybrid name given to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as Hollywood's hottest new couple. They beat out "TomKat," bestowed on Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and "Vincifer," a hardly used term referring to Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn.

Placing third on the list was "petronoia," a phrase inspired by the film "Syriana" and meaning an irrational fear of the collapse of the oil industry followed by global economic crisis.

In fourth place was "tuxedo," a reference to the nature film "March of the Penguins." Payack said, that "while the dialogue, not to mention the stars, were a bit stiff, the chronicle about Emperor penguins in their breeding trek across Antarctica flew to remarkable heights."

Payack said the term "pimping" was fifth on his list, thanks to the film "Hustle & Flow," which is about a pimp's dream of becoming a rap star.

"Jaws" author Peter Benchley dead at 65

Sun Feb 12, 2006 8:56 PM ET
By Chris Michaud

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Peter Benchley, author of the bestseller "Jaws" that was the basis for the blockbuster movie that terrified beachgoers and kept many out of the water for years, died at his home at age 65, his family said on Sunday.

Benchley, well-known for other water-based suspense fiction including "The Deep" and "The Island," which also spawned films, died of complications from pulmonary fibrosis, his son-in-law Chris Turner told Reuters.

Benchley was diagnosed with the condition last autumn and his health had been diminishing, but his death at this time had not been expected, according to Turner.

"It was peaceful," he said, adding that the writer's wife Wendy and other family members were by his side at their Princeton, New Jersey home.
In addition to the fame he achieved as a novelist, Benchley was a reporter for the Washington Post and Newsweek, wrote for magazines and a speechwriter for President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1967 until January, 1969.

The Harvard graduate, who grew up in New York City and went to prep school in New Hampshire, was also the grandson of writer and humorist Robert Benchley, member of the renowned Algonquin Round Table that included personalities such as Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood and Alexander Wolcott.

But it was the 1974 novel "Jaws," about a series of gruesome shark attacks that cause panic in a placid beach resort, that Benchley won the kind of fame rarely accorded any writer of popular fiction.

The book has sold more than 20 million copies, and Benchley even had a cameo as a reporter in the 1975 Steven Spielberg film, which spawned a series of inferior sequels.

Benchley said he had been interested in sharks since his childhood days spent on the island of Nantucket off Massachusetts. Then, in 1964, he read about a fisherman who caught a 4,550-pound great white shark off Long Island.

"I thought to myself, 'What would happen if one of those came around and wouldn't go away?' That was the seed idea of 'Jaws,'" he said in an interview on his Web site.

But he didn't pursue the idea until 1971. By the time the book, his first novel, came out in early 1974, it had earned more than $1 million before the first press run, including $575,000 for the paperback rights and from sales to books clubs and the film's producers.

Benchley continued his lifelong fascination with the sea and its potential terrors with "The Deep," about divers looking for treasure, and "The Island," in which sailors are terrorized by modern-day pirates. Among his latest books was "Shark Life: True Stories About Sharks and the Sea," which was published only last year.

"Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about," Benchley said.

"In 'Jaws' I knew a great deal about sharks. In 'The Deep' I had been lucky enough to learn about Bermuda and to meet Teddy Tucker, a great Bermudan treasure diver, while doing a story for the National Geographic, and I learned about shipwrecks in Bermuda," he added.

But, he noted, he was never injured by any sea creature other than jellyfish stings or sea urchin spines, although he was nearly bitten by sharks a few times.

Other books included "White Shark," "Beast," about a giant squid, and "Rummies," about an alcoholic's journey through recovery and rehabilitation.

Besides his wife Benchley is survived by two grown children. Funeral arrangements have not been formalized.

Altman back with film about real-life radio show

Mon Feb 13, 2006 1:42 AM ET
By Mike Collett-White

BERLIN (Reuters) - Veteran director Robert Altman has chosen an old-fashioned radio show threatened with closure for his latest film, a riotous yet touching story which actress Meryl Streep said recalled a more innocent time for Americans.

Streep leads an all-star ensemble cast in "A Prairie Home Companion" which also features Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Lindsay Lohan and Kevin Kline.

It was written by Garrison Keillor, real-life host of the titular program that is heard every week by millions of listeners around the world.

"There's something about the world that Garrison Keillor creates that locates a place in our childhood, in Americans' childhood," Streep told reporters after the picture premiered at the Berlin Film Festival Sunday.

"We grew up listening to the radio in a more innocent time."
Keillor appears playing himself in the picture, which was shot in the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, that is home to the radio show.

The film was warmly received by the famously picky Berlin press corps, and is one of the early frontrunners to win the coveted Golden Bear at the end of the annual film festival.

The action cuts from backstage, where characters reminisce about the good old days, play vinyl records, apply their makeup and even drop dead, to the stage itself where music dominates, from country and folk to commercial jingles.

Streep and on-screen sister Lily Tomlin wear their hearts on their sleeves when they perform, while Harrelson and his singing sidekick John C. Reilly, kick up a storm with their bawdy cowboy comedy act.

Kline imagines himself to be a private eye in the Raymond Chandler mold, while Virginia Madsen plays a mysterious angel whose exact intent is unclear.

RELEVANT TO TODAY

While the film clearly is not a direct commentary on politics today, Altman said it was in some way connected with current events.

"We don't have to go to the battlefield every time to make a comment on the attitudes of this war (in Iraq)," the 80-year-old said. "Although I don't think it's a war, I don't know what it is ... a bombing campaign," he added.

Keillor sets the narrative as the players await the arrival of "The Axeman," played by Jones, whose job it is to close the theater at the end of the show and knock it down.

"This creation is not really like his show," said Streep. "It is an imagined last show, and so it's in the context of being taken over by a radio conglomerate, which is happening to a lot of radio shows at home."

Altman, who has been nominated seven times for an Oscar -- for films including "MASH," "Nashville" and "Gosford Park" -- and never won, will receive an honorary Academy Award at this year's ceremony.

Asked whether he had felt snubbed in the past, he joked: "Let's get on their case. What's the reason for it? I've always handed my name in to the contest."

But he added: "I'm very happy with the fact that I'm being recognized this year. I'm very proud of that. I can't think of a better award. To me it's better for all of my work than just for a couple of things."

Altman is one of two renowned veteran filmmakers launching their latest pictures in Berlin this year.

Sidney Lumet, 81, directs "Find Me Guilty," in which he returns to the theme of justice he so famously explored nearly 50 years ago in "12 Angry Men."