Random question: Did she out him?
Discuss.
How do you all know what we’re talking about when we didn’t name anyone? (How do we know when we don’t watch tv and are not on facebook and twitter? Oh right, we have ears.) Hahahaha.
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Long weekend to-do list
1. Watch three seasons of Breaking Bad.
Said to be the best American TV series since The Wire. Just finished the first season. It’s not as Shakespeare as The Wire and not as ambitious, but we love a very black comedy. Funnily enough it is referred to as a drama. Breaking Bad is about a man who only starts living when he finds out he is dying. Why are the best TV series about drugs? The hero of this one is a man who cooks shabu. We watch him go from a good law-abiding citizen to a…he’s not quite bad yet, but we can see where he’s headed. This series has given us a new respect for the periodic table.
2. Read The Known World by Edward P. Jones, who is coming to Manila next week. The Pulitzer-winning novelist will give talks at several schools. He will also be a panelist at the Manila International Literary Festival of the Unfortunate Acronym.
3. Buy the wine for the 5th anniversary party on Thursday November 10.
So now you have a real reason to go.
4. Watch Michael Fassbender as Rochester in Jane Eyre.
We never cared for Jane Eyre, but if anyone can make us it is he.
5. Pick up the Reading Group copies of The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, which arrived yesterday.
6. View the group exhibition Ciento Cincuenta at Pinto Art Museum in Antipolo.
7. Attend Ambeth Ocampo’s talk on Jose Rizal on Sunday, 3pm at Pinto Art Museum.
The Daily Gazette # 6
by the Gaz News Network. Please link to this page; do not copy/paste.
Last Sunday at the GMA studios we gave Gaz a short history of Philippine television. “See that? That’s German Moreno. He’s an institution. Many of the biggest stars in the Philippines got their break on his TV shows. In the 80s he was host of GMA Supershow every Sunday and That’s Entertainment every day. People thought ‘GMA’ meant ‘German Moreno & Associates’. Also, the National Museum should do a retrospective of his outfits.”
Caption this. Best caption gets a prize. (It’s a surprise!)
We watched Party Pilipinas live in the studio, close enough to the stage to feel the heat, literally. There were flames shooting out of the stage.
Cute guy alert. He can dance. Hey it’s hotdog pitchman Aljur Abrenica.
Then we waited in the upstairs dressing rooms as Gaz was interviewed on the entertainment talk show Showbiz Central. Here is the boss of Team Gaz looking on.
Straight from the studio we rushed to SM City in Masinag for his meet-and-greet and rugby demo for the kids of ChildHope Asia. ChildHope is a non-profit organization securing social justice for children and young people in Africa, Asia and South America.
The event was hosted by Mico Aytona, who is recording his first album. It will contain original material and remakes of OPM hits. We recommended that he sing those Hajji Alejandro Pinoy versions of American pop hits like Panakip Butas and Tag-Araw. Special guest Ogie Alcasid sang a song.
The kids had a great time, and so did Gaz who would rather teach rugby to kids all day than appear in a musical number. Thanks to Team Gaz and ChildHope Asia for making this happen. After this very long day we all had dinner at Max’s Fried Chicken and Gaz learned what “bagoong” is.
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Gaz factoids
1. His favorite clothing brand is AllSaints.
2. World Cup prediction: “Wales has an even chance against France.”
3. He can sing “Chim chiminey Chim chiminey Chim chim cher-oo” from Mary Poppins.
Gaz is flying back to Japan this morning to prepare for the next round of matches with his team, Kyuden Voltex. “I had a great time in Manila. This is all new to me and I’m actually sad to be leaving. Thank you everyone. See you soon.”
Have a safe trip, Gaz! See you very soon, on a billboard if not in person.
Buffy’s back on TV
Not as Buffy, but as twins in Ringer, which sounds Hitchcockian. We’re glad she pointed out the ludicrousness of doing a Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie without Joss Whedon.
Never an ill word will be dragged from me against Sarah Michelle Gellar, the star of the new CW series Ringer, which debuted last week but which I only saw last night on iTunes, because I have no TV where I am, my idea of “roughing it.”
Anything SMG does post-Buffy will seem anticlimactic and it can’t be said that she’s expanded her acting range in the meantime, or carved deeper channels of implication and filigreed her facial expressions. And yet it doesn’t matter. As an actor Gellar is a compelling anomaly. She has a somewhat toneless voice that tips up at the end of sentences and rhetorical questions to denote bittersweet sarcasm, her movements are mostly shoulder-propelled, and her raccoon eye makeup seems like an homage to Lisa Marie Presley–Gellar ought to have all the presence of a sad emoticon on the screen, a flat drip.
And yet she’s never less then compelling and sympathetic, and believable in everything her characters do–there’s a vulnerable note of pathos in SMG that always rings true, pun perhaps intended. It doesn’t hurt that she wears clothes beautifully, her wardrobe as an ice-queen socialite the perfect marriage of money and monastic hauteur…
Our favorite sexy imp goes home with Emmy
Peter Dinklage, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the 2011 Emmys.
Tyrion Lannister rules Westeros!
Thanks to brewhuh23 for the alert.
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