Willing Willie Revillame Is In Trouble....Again

TV host Willie Revillame, the savior of poor and downtrodden Pinoys, finds himself in trouble again because of a 6-year-old boy, Jan Jan Suan.

During the March 12 episode of Willing Willie, Jan Jan danced like he's auditioning for a role in the sequel to Lino Brocka's Macho Dancer- Macho Dancer, toddler edition.

Janjan showed his macho-dancing talent, while tears were running down his cheeks, and he got P10,000 from Willie for his troubles.

Well, Janjan can macho dance to his heart's content-inside his home and with only his immediate family as audience. Don't let that kind of shit be seen by millions of viewers on national TV.

To janjan's parents who said their boy was not abused and humiliated and that he was just showing off his dancing talent: shut your mouths, go outside and find a decent job!

JanJan's parents is my #1253845 reason why there should be selective sterilization in our country. Good parenting job there, parasites! Just because you can, doesn't mean you should have kid(s), that is.

To the apology that Willie and his staff issued: blah, blah blah, it was as bogus as Vicki Belo's entire face. Aside from the apology, Willie and staff issued this non-excuse:

“He appeared to be sad or even in tears, not because he was being forced to dance, but because he felt the dance was ‘serious’ and he was playing a role. He did not want to smile because of his missing upper front teeth and because of the presence on the set of former basketball player Bonel Balingit who Jan-jan thought was a scary ‘giant,”

To Willie's retort about there being more important national issues than a minor being made to dance for money, I say Willie is part of the (poverty) problem in the country when you look at it beyond the surface.

Sure Willie's show gives away cash, cars and house and lot but the show is also teaching the poor to rely on luck and the goodness of others to reverse their fortunes. Lady luck will not smile at every one of those poor sods who line up from dawn up to how many hours just to get inside the studio and be one of Willie's chosen few.

Willie Revillame is really pissed that many sectors, from A-B crowd to the MTRCB and the NGOs, are disrupting the handjob that his poor sycophants are giving him.

He should be afraid because there are petitions that the ads on his show that are his bread and butter be pulled out.

As for janjan's parents, they're thinking of going to the province for a while just until things cool off. Well, I bet janjan's parents are now thinking they should have just taught their kid how to hip-hop, break dance or ballroom dance.

American Idol 10: Pinoy Bets - Thia Megia

The top 11 results are in!

Our Pinay bet, Thia Megia, hit the seal but was safe.

For Motown week, Thia went uptempo with "Heatwave.' Though she flubbed some lyrics, the performance was still okay. I got my wish for a slightly faster song but for you for me Thia did not connect with the song. Thia waved her hands, brought her arms up and swayed here and there but it still felt like Thia was just singing a song. This was this week's performance issue for me.

Thia is safe and made it to the Top 11 tour, which is good coz it's more exposure and more opportunities for growth for our girl Thia.

This week's results show was bizarre but entertaining, very entertaining. Crash course on ear monitors with Marc Anthony, Stevie Wonder singing Happy B-day to Steven Tyler, Hulk Hogan and James Durbin's reaction (priceless!), and Casey Abrams being the lowest vote getter, getting interrupted by the judges mid-song, and then being saved. I mean, the 'save' being used at Top 11!

I thought we are going to see a first on television- Casey puking out blood on Ryan's Seacrest shoes (we know Casey's stomach problems) or Casey dying right in front of millions of viewers.

So onto next week!

The Julia Clarete-Illiac Diaz-Angelica Jones Love Triangle

I relegated this issue to the "meh" bin coz I thought this was nothing more than a love triangle gone bad.

The issue involved a girl from Eat Bulaga, a guy who builds houses and a girl "who's not GRO" and so is now a provincial board member.

For me for you the issue has suddenly becoming interesting because now money, charity and elected officials are involved.

Before we get to that, let's get this out of the way: it's not true that there was a hair-pulling incident between Julia Clarete and Angelica Jones in a church after the former found out that her boyfriend is stepping out on her with the latter.. So...

The issue is getting juicier and juicier with neither party refusing to shut up and back down. Milking it for what its worth...

Illiac Diaz has accused Angelica Jones and her stagemother, Beth Jones, of failing to produce documentation to show the proper disbursement of funds for their water bottle school under Illac's My Shelter Foundation.

Of course Angelica and her mother invited reporters, entertainment writers mind you, to defend herself. basically saying the provincial government has not released funds through her and some of the money came from her own pocket.

I don't know who's telling the truth here and I don't care. What I want to find out is why Angelica keeps getting denied by men she claims to have dated. The first was Bobby Yan and now Illiac Diaz. Angelica told those who cares to hear that she and Illiac dated a while back. Illiac denied it and probably was laughing inside while saying 'not on your life.'

Angelica, despite being good looking and tisay, looks baduy, bakya and yes, cheap. I also get a desperate vibe from her and her stagemother - Desparate for fame and money.

Now Angelica is a board member of Laguna. Her first try she failed. I thought Angelica would finally disappear into obscurity. But no. She tried for a second time and this time winning!

Cheap issues keep hounding Angelica Jones, or she keeps finding it. I guess class in ingrained? And I guess an elected post can't get you respectability?

American Idol 10: Pinoy Bets - Thia Megia

American Idol 10 Top 12 results are in!

And our Pinay bet Thia Megia lives to sing another week-hopefully not another ballad.

Karen Rodriguez went home despite pleading to be saved and promising America everything. I won't miss Karen as I've had enough of Selena and Jlo songs. She's a good singer but not memorable and doesn't bring anything new to the table.

Our girl Thia sang "Colors of the Wind," the theme from the Disney movie "Pocahontas." On results night Thia brought the "Pocahontas hair" out.

This week another pitch perfect performance and another boring ballad from Thia. I fear our girl Thia is out soon if she doesn't step up and sing something out of her comfort zone for a change.

Noticed that the girls are being slayed on by one? No bottom ranking for any of the guys that sucked this week, namely Casey, Paul and Jacob. I hope Jacob is not long for this competition. It's getting tiring in the ears hearing him sing like he's in church every time. I mean, Alone? Pitchy and screamy.

Where's Glee's Big Gay Kiss?

Klaine shippers are up in arms!

The much-awaited kiss between Blaine and Kurt never happened- at least on Philippine TV. Booooo!

What's MTRCB trying to say? That gay kiss is unnatural (i.e not found anywhere in the Bible) and should not be emulated? Puleaze! That's so yesterday.

It was a kilig and sweet moment, I heard, so I'm baffled as to why? why?

Let's all ask the bigots at MTRCB, yeah? And I thought it was good was that we've finally seen the last of Condi La Guardia.

Ethel Booba Has Gone Cray Cray

Mar 11 2011 is the day when Japan was hit with a devastating magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami.

It was also the day Ethel Booba, Ethel Gabison sa totoong buhay, finally revealed herself to be a batshit crazy has-been.

Ethel Booba tried to set her condo unit at Prince June Condominium in Tomas Morato on fire but instead just managed to burn a lampshade and curtains because the sprinklers went off.

Thwarted by a thing called sprinklers! Ethel Booba really can't catch a break, huh?

Since Ethel Booba just needed a little nudge towards cray cray territory, all it took was to find out that her foreigner boyfriend of one year is gay. If this happened to us, there would be some shouting and a little throwing of things. Then we move on.

But since this is Ethel Booba we are talking about, she had to put a lot of melodrama into it to garner attention.

Ethel Booba going crazy I was kinda expecting. But I was expecting she'd go crazy with her former douchebag boyfriend, Alex Crisano.

But what do you know? Ethel Booba remained a loser and Alex Crisano got recruited to play basketball in a Malaysia league. This I found out while browsing though Air Asia's inflight magazine.

Alex Crisano is/was also the endorser for a newly opened health and beauty center. Well, Ethel Booba could maybe land a paying gig endorsing anti-psychotic drugs.

The owner of the condominium decided not to press arson charges against Ethel Booba. All the owner asked was for her leave and pronto.

Anyway, the moral of the story? Make sure there are no sprinklers if you decide you've had enough of life and want the TV set, sofa and dining table to die with you in a fire.

American Idol 10: Pinoy Bets - Thia Megia

American Idol 10 Top 13 results are in!

And Thia Megia is safe! I didn't watch the live results night because I was riveted on CNN and NHK watching the aftermath of that 8.9 magnitude and subsequent tsunami that ripped through in Sendai. Watching the deluge of ocean water rip everything in its watch is more riveting. Reality TV what?!

Anyways, no protest from me over the bottom 3 and the right person, Ashthon (with the extra h), went home.

Wannabe diva Ashthon was pitchy in places sharp in some and flat overall during the top 13 performances. I was thinking while she was singing Diana Ross's "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" was "I'd rather listen to cats in heats."

Thia singing "Smile" by Michael Jackson was beautiful in the beginning and then I got afraid for her in the second half. I thought she was going to get hosed by the judges because that jazzy beat was meh. She struggled in that second half - and she didn't know who Charlie Chaplin was.

Our girl Thia cried backstage coz the judges did not like the arrangement of the song 100%. Thia's 15 but she needs to grow a backbone and learn to accept the criticisms as part of improving her craft. That's all I'm saying. Thia is not ready for this, I feel like. If she can't do this, then she has no place in cut-throat competitions like American Idol.

Angelica Panganiban vs Fan Over Azkal Phil Younghusband

With Angelica Panganiban's twitter war with Claudine Barretto still fresh in our minds (blog posts here and here), here comes another twitter catfight - this time with an avid, or should I say rabid, fan of Azkal Football team striker Phil Younghusband.

What started it all? A twit from Angelica Panganiban that said: (IamAnglicaP) "Si Phil may indie film..Akala ko ba football player siya? (lahat na lang artista na... sad)"

It was followed by: "Masama. Sana magfocus na lang silang lahat sa football. Para sa pinas kasi yun. After na lang ng tourny mag artista."

A fan took Angelica Panganiban twits as a diss to his/her beloved Phil Younghusband and so for the next few minutes, or hours maybe, both Angelica and the fan traded twitter messages. What can I say but those are minutes/hours you can never get back.

I was Team Angelica! even before knowing that she just meant famewhore Phil Younghusband shouldn't be doing an indie film while doing football.

The exchange between Angelica Panganiban and the fan got heated to a point where the words "estupida" "boba' and "i-bj na lang si Derek" came up - from the fan to Angelica.

Angelica Panganiban was getting a kick out of the exchange of twitter messages up until that point. The next twitter message from Angelica went out to her lawyer. And up until that point I was Team Angelica!.

I'm pretty sure it was not Angelica's first time to hear being referred to as estupida and boba. So I could also assume she took offense to the words "i-bj na lang si Derek." Isn't Angelica proud of blowing Derek? A lot of gays and a good portion of the female population would love to trade places with her.

I don't believe Angelica and Derek just hold hands in the many unchaperoned trips that they have taken together. A textbook hypocrite is what Angelica Panganiban is.

As for suing the famewhore Phil Younghusband fan, good luck with that. It's in a lawyer's best interest to advise a client to go ahead with a lawsuit. That's how they make money - frivolous lawsuit or not.

American Idol 10: Pinoy Bets - Thia Megia and Clint Jun Gamboa

American Idol 10 Semifinals and Wild Card Results are in!

Thia Megia is in. Sadly (not!) Clint Jun Gamboa and his stupid eyeglasses are out!

For a minute there I thought Junebug is going to lose it. Dude was hyperventilating so much I felt bad for him, for a while. Then I smiled because I realized I will no longer hear Junebug shout at me every week.

Junebug did not even get picked for the wild card. Which means you're not all that Junebug. Awww..

As for Thia, we got a little emotion out of her tonight as we saw tears running down one eye. Doesn't get more cinematic than that.

Now I want you to buy a personality, i.e. likability, so you'll get far in the competition and I will not be stopping my American Idol Pinoy Bet update the week after next. K? Thanks!

RIP Pacquito Diaz

Angels have come out to welcome home Pacquito Diaz, one of the villainous villains that ever ever villain-ed in Philippine cinema.

Pacquito Diaz, Fernando Poe Jr's favorite bad guy, suffered for many years, first from stroke and then just recently from pneumonia. So his passing, in a way, is a relief. Dude deserves to rest finally.

Heaven must be extra happy today. Partner in crime Max Alvarado more so. Ang Panday, Flavio, probably not so much. Pacquito and Max are probably now plotting against the Panday. Just like old times.

RP Pacquito Diaz.

If you doubt that Pacquito is Fernando Poe's favorite bad guy, just like at the number of films they made together:

Asedillo 1971)
Totoy Bato (1977)
Durugin si Totoy Bato
Bandido sa Sapang Bato (1981)
Partida (1985)
Muslim Magnum 357 1986)
Kapag Lumaban Ang Api (1987)
Agila ng Maynila (1989)
Kapag Puno na Ang Salop Part II (1989)
Kahit Konting Pagtingin (1990)
May Isang Tsuper ng Taxi (1990)
Mabuting Kaibigan...Masamang Kaaway (1991)
Hindi Pa Tapos Ang Laban (1994)
Ikaw Ang Mahal Ko (1996)
Ang Pagbabalik ng Probinsiyano (1998)
Isusumbong Kita sa Tatay Ko (1999)
Ang Dalubhasa (2000)
at Pakners (2003)

American Idol 10: Pinoy Bets - Thia Megia and Clint Jun Gamboa

Thia Megia sang "Out Here On My Own" by Irene Cara. Nailed it. It was brave singing A cappella at the beginning of the song. Pitch perfect. My only critic is she has too connect with the song emotionally so she does not appear robotic. Develop a personality too especially when being interviewed by Ryan Seacrest. Overall, I like the performance.



Clint Jun Gambao sang Stevie Wonder's Superstition. Clint Jun can hit those notes but he's too shouty for me. Pre-hate on Clint Jun because of the Jacee ouster brouhaha during Group week. Jun also bugs the crap of me with his seemingly owlish eyes behind those ridiculous eyeglasses. Don't care if Jun bug does not make it to the top 10.