Monthly Archives: August 2015

Film and TV, The Media

ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE EMMA STONE TO KEYNOTE ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS CONVENTION IN SAN FRANCISCO

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Stone (Photo source: boomsbeat.com)
Stone (Photo: boomsbeat.com)

SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles® ) –  Academy Award-nominated actress Emma Stone will keynote the Asian American Journalists Association’s (AAJA) annual national convention to be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Embarcadero in San Francisco this week.

Stone was a last-minute replacement for San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, an Asian American, who backed out of the keynote address scheduled for Wednesday, August 12.

Lee’s office   sent an urgent message to AAJA President Paul Cheung saying that the mayor decided to skip the journalist convention because of recent allegations that implicate him in the same bribery scandal that entrapped California State Senator Leland Yee, another Asian American. The mayor wanted to keep a low profile for now.

Stone, who is a quarter Chinese and quarter Hawaiian, starred in the Sony Pictures film, “Aloha.”

Asian American advocacy groups, led by the Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA) were very critical of Director Cameron Crowe for casting Stone as Allison Ng who is supposed to be quarter Chinese, quarter Hawaiian and half Swedish.

During her keynote address, Stone is expected to defend her casting in the ‘Aloha’ film on the grounds that aside from being a really good actress, her mixed heritage makes her qualified to play the role of Ng.

The Adobo Chronicles could not reach MANAA founder Guy Aoki for comment. Aoki is not expected to attend the AAJA convention because of ideological differences with AAJA’s leadership.

Religion

POLL: SHOULD CORY AQUINO BE NAMED THIRD FILIPINO SAINT?

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imageTHE VATICAN, Italy (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – The Philippines, a country of more than 100 Million people, about 80 percent of whom are Catholics, has its share of saints.

There are now two Filipino saints, both male — Lorenzo Ruiz and Pedro Calungsod.

There is a growing clamor in the Philippines to name former President Corazon Aquino as the third Filipino saint, and the first woman.

Sainthood is a long and tedious process.

The process of documenting the life and virtues of a holy man or woman cannot begin until 5 years after death. This waiting period insures that the person has an enduring reputation for sanctity among the faithful. It can be waived by the Supreme Pontiff, and has been done on two occasions. Pope John Paul II waived 3 years of the waiting period in the case of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and Pope Benedict XVI waived all five years in the case of his predecessor, Pope John Paul II.

It’s been six years since Aquino passed away from cancer.

Aside from being president, Cory is the widow of former Senator Benigno Aquino who was assassinated in Manila upon his return from years of exile in the U.S.

Many consider the senator as a martyr. So it is their belief that it would only be fitting for the widow of a martyr to be named a saint.

 

Entertainment, Media, Music

BLACK JOURNALISTS PAY $10 PER MINUTE TO SEE PRINCE AT SINGER’S PAISLEY PARK

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imageMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (The Adobo Chronicles® ) –  At least 650 members of the National Association of Black Journalists  (NABJ) accepted an invitation from Prince to pay $20 apiece to visit the Paisley Park studio complex used by the entertainer outside Minneapolis Saturday night in hopes of seeing the star himself, according to Richard Prince (no relation to the singer) of Journal-isms.

But the NABJ members — and an additional 227 people who paid $50 for the privilege — saw an appearance of just two minutes or so in which the entertainer plugged his upcoming recording.  That’s $10 and $25 per minute, respectively.

He did not perform.

The journalists were in Minneapolis for their annual national convention.

But NABJ convention organizers still praised the last-minute invitation and event.

Per policy, cell phones and cameras are not allowed inside Paisley Park. So the journalists had no choice but leave their mobile devices in their hotel rooms.

The result?  No calls, no tweets, no Facebook or Instagram posts. Just the good old, person-to-person conversation! (Although some attendees said a selfie with Prince would have been nice.)

All’s well that  ends well.