Monthly Archives: April 2015

Politics

HILLARY DECLARES!

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The Clintons (Photo: telegraph.co.uk)
The Clintons (Photo: telegraph.co.uk)

CHAPPAQUA,  New York (The Adobo Chronicles) – It’s 19 months till the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, and candidates are starting to declare their intentions to seek their party’s nomination to be the next White House occupant.

First, it was Ted Cruz. Then  Rand Paul. Both Republican.

Although it is pretty much a given that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee, the former First Lady, Senator from New York and Secretary of State has not officially declared her candidacy. Until now.

The anticipation is over. Today, standing  with husband Bill and daughter Chelsey in front of the Clinton residence in Chappaqua, New York, Hillary declared:

‘I will make the announcement when I am ready.’

Immediately, speculation spread on social media that Bill Clinton will be Hillary’s campaign manager and Chelsey her communications director.

You heard it first here in The Adobo Chronicles!

 

 

Film and TV

‘FRESH OFF THE BOAT’ AUTHOR SUES ABC NETWORK

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imageNEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles) – Most book authors take great pride in having their work transformed into a movie or a television series. Such is not the case with Eddie Huang, author of the book ‘Fresh Off the Boat,’ which is now a sitcom on the ABC network. The book is based on Huang’s experiences growing up as an Asian American in Orlando, Florida in the 1990’s.

The 33-year-old  author who shocked the television world by admitting he doesn’t watch the TV show, used his Twitter account to lodge his complaints against the boob tube version of his true-to-life story.

Huang listed a number of criticisms, mostly aimed at how he thought the show had sugarcoated his childhood memories. But he also struck out at the ways Asian Americans as a whole aren’t being authentically portrayed.

“I don’t think it is helping us to perpetuate an artificial representation of Asian American lives and we should address it.”

The show, which depicts a fictionalized version of Huang’s real family as they acclimate to life in a sun-splashed, white-dominated Orlando, received strong buzz when it first aired as the first network show starring an Asian-American family in 20 years, although the luster has worn from it in recent weeks, with ratings down significantly.

Today, Huang announced that he was suing ABC for misleading him when he sold the rights to make his book a TV sitcom.

” I don’t recognize me at all in the sitcom,” Huang said. “ABC might as well have bought the rights to film the life of Justin Bieber as a Canadian trying to adjust to American life,” Huang said.

The Adobo Chronicles  has learned from very reliable sources that rival network NBC is in negotiations with Huang to film a truer-than-the-ABC version of his book.

Since ABC has all bought the TV rights to the title “Fresh Off the Boat,” the NBC sitcom will be titled, “Fresh Off the Plane.”

It is rumored that the role of Eddie’s mom Jessica (played by Constance Wu ) will be played by Michelle Yeoh in the NBC version.  Yeoh is best known for her role in the Academy Award winning film, ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.’

The Asian American community is holding its breath for what happens next.

 

 

LGBT

WE ALWAYS KNEW ABOUT BARRY MANILOW, BUT NOW MARTIN SHEEN AND SAM WATERSTON COME OUT AS GAY!

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Sheen, left, and Waterston
Sheen, left, and Waterston

HOLLYWOOD, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – Many were surprised at the recent announcement that Barry Manilow married his longtime manager Garry Kief  in a private ceremony at the singer’s Palm Springs, California home last year. But then again, many more were not.

But the bigger and more shocking news in Hollywood is that actors Martin Sheen and Sam Waterson have come out gay and are planning to marry each other.

Actresses Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin have both confirmed the news.

It turns out, Fonda and Tomlin were referring to a Netflix show about two wives, Grace and Frankie, who bond after their husbands (Sheen and Waterston) leave the women for each other.

So, stop the rumor mill.