Entertainment

The perennial rivalry between ABS-CBN’s “It’s Showtime” and “Eat Bulaga” (whichever production it might be, this time under TVJ Productions) is on again when the Lopez media conglomerate signed up last week a collaboration with GMA Network for the airing of “It’s Showtime” in Channel 7, the free TV outfit of Kapuso Network. The two noontime shows (with “Eat Bulaga” …

Jovial was the general mood and atmosphere during the 76th birthday bash of National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts Ricardo Lee, better known in the four walls of the arts industry as Ricky Lee. Instead of holding it right in his house inside Xavierville in Loyola Heights which he had been doing all these years, Ricky decided to host …

Being mortals portraying diverse characters of mortality except taking on supernatural delineations onscreen, movie, television and theater luminaries, they, as Christians take pauses and pay homage to Jesus Christ’s sacrifices to save mankind from damnation. One of them is playing Jesus Christ Himself onstage or on cam. On March 25, 2024 at 6 pm at the Kartilya ng Katipunan in …

For a mambabalagtas, verbal joust and poetry are so much more than a way to express complex emotions and stories. While it was born as a form of entertainment during the bleak era of American colonialism, Balagtasan–a form of traditional verbal jousting–became a venue to discuss socio-political issues that besieged contemporary society. Through facts, rhymes, and clever lines, the mambabalagtas …

By Boy Villasanta The adage “an ounce of prevention is a pound of cure” should have been applied to the health condition of award-winning actress Jaclyn Jose when she was still alive. Regrettably, it was too late. According to one of his bosom friends, Jaclyn, Mary Jane Santa Ana Guck in real life, couldn’t have died untimely if she had …

The love affair between 2018 Miss Universe Catriona Gray and actor Sam Milby is the most ideal union there could be among celebrities and perhaps as ordinary mortals. Theirs is a perfect combination not only of beauty but intelligence as well. More than that, Catriona has been associated with socio-civic and nationalistic activities like promoting local products and fighting for …

Thanks to the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Film, Broadcast and New Media Division in continuing to bring back screen masterpieces of National Artists to perpetually educate and inspire the multigenerational audiences not only in film appreciation but evaluation if not criticism as well. “Cine Icons” help prepare the moviegoers to understand better the messages of the films across …

What happens when a celebrated visual artist cum filmmaker and an Information Technology (IT) expert collaborate with each other to produce an innovative digital creation? That we have to find out from movie director, scriptwriter and producer and prizewinning painter Bon Labora and IT entrepreneur Charlie Pena. A traditional art form in modern contents and an immersive tech fusion make …

By Boy Villasanta What a way to celebrate Women’s Month! For a progressive Filipino woman like versatile artist Gem Suguitan, winning the Grand Prize of the first ever Sining Filipina, an all-female art competition in the Philippines held recently at the SM Aura in Taguig City is like conquering, embodying and advocating the ideals of equality before the sexes. Because …

By Boy Villasanta The name Mike Feria, an entertainment writer has been quite popular in Philippine show business especially in the early 80s and 90s but he opted to leave the country and stay in the United States to advance his studies in arts and medicine. In the US, Mike sported his real name Mauro Feria Tumbocon, Jr. but still …