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2016 MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT TO BE TELECAST IN SPANISH ONLY

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2016 Miss Universe Paulina Vega of Colombia
2015  Miss Universe Paulina Vega of Colombia

MIAMI, Florida (The Adobo Chronicles®) – The 2016 Miss Universe Pageant will be telecast only in the Spanish language, according to a joint announcement today by Univision Communications Inc., Donald Trump and Miss Universe Organization President Paula Shugart.

Back in January, the Miss Universe Organization announced a long-term partnership that will bring the Spanish-language television and digital rights for the MISS UNIVERSE® and MISS USA® pageants to Univision Communications Inc. Univision will  co-produce the MISS UNIVERSE® and MISS USA® pageants.

“The Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants consistently rank as the most watched, most-coveted properties and entertainment programs around the world,” said Trump. “Adding Univision as one of our leading media partners in addition to NBC could not be more exciting,” he added.

The venue for the 2016 Miss Universe Pageant has not het been decided but there is strong speculation that it will be held in one of rhe Spanish-speaking countries in South America.  Univision is currently interviewing Spanish-speaking celebrities who will be named as hosts of the pageant.

Univision said that all the live pageant proceedings will be in Spanish and all contestants will be interviewed in Spanish as well, with interpreters if necessary.

As for the non Spanish-speaking television audience, the telecast will be subtitled in English, French and Tagalog.  The latter is in recognition of the Philippines which has the world’s largest share of Miss Universe fans and viewers per capita.

 

Film and TV, Politics

HOLLYWOOD WEIGHS IN ON DONALD TRUMP’S PRESIDENTIAL BID

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cherHOLLYWOOD, California (The Adobo Chronicles®) – On her Twitter account today, singer Cher said that if Donald Trump were elected president of the United States, she would move to Jupiter.

Like Cher, many other Hollywood celebrities weighed in on the recent announcement by the business mogul that he was running for president in 2016.  Some were showing him love while others have threatened to alter their image or lifestyle.

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  • Justin Bieber – a fan of The Donald — will renounce his Canadian citizenship and become a full-fledged American
  • Kim Kardashian will go full frontal on the cover of Variety magazine
  • Zac Efron will shave his head, permanently
  • Caitlyn Jenner will transition back to being a man
  • Neil Patrick Harris will undergo gay conversion therapy in Texas
  • Emma Stone, star of the film, “Aloha,” will join the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement
  • Meryl Streep will donate all her Oscar trophies to the Smithsonian National Museum
  • Steven Spielberg  will direct a new animation movie titled “Donald Duck Comes to Washington.”

Seeing as how Hollywood greatly influences politics, there is some talk that in a Trump presidency, the South Lawn of the White House would be renamed Jurrasic Park while the United Nations Headquarters in New York would be renamed Jurrasic World.

In addition Cirque du Soleil and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will permanently close shop since there would be enough circus going on in the White House.

Film and TV

Cameron Crowe Will Direct New Sony Pictures Film, “Spokane”

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Who will play Rachel Dolezal in the new Sony Pictures film,
Who will play Rachel Dolezal in the new Sony Pictures film, “Spokane?”

HOLLYWOOD, California  (The Adobo Chronicles) – Sony Pictures just announced that Cameron Crowe has been chosen to direct a new film about the white woman who has been posing as African American.  The film is titled “Spokane,” named after the city in which Rachel Dolezal headed the local NAACP chapter.

Crowe, who has come under fire for casting white actress Emma Stone as Allison Ng, a part Hawaiian and part Chinese character in the film, “Aloha,” is not taking any chances this time around.

Crowe wanted to cast Dolezal to play herself in the new movie, but he eventually nixed the idea, saying she was not “white enough.”

An open casting call has been scheduled  next week in Hollywood.