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Film and TV, The Media

KRIS AQUINO: CRYING ON THE OUTSIDE, LAUGHING ON THE INSIDE

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Aquino (Photo: tempo.com.ph)
Aquino (Photo: tempo.com.ph)

MANILA, Philippines- In public, Kris Aquino  has no qualms about letting people know that she feels guilty that she may be the reason that the TV show “The Buzz” was cancelled after more than 15 years.

The Sunday show aired its final episode last April 5 with co-host Boy Abunda describing the cancellation as “very painful.”

Kris revealed that she had asked ABS-CBN executives if it’s possible for her not to have to work on Sundays so she could spend more time with her sons and siblings.  She believes that it was her request to take Sundays off that led the network to cancel the show.

In private, however, Kris is telling all her friends that it feels very good to know that she is “very much valued” by ABS-CBN and that the network thinks that it is she that has made the show popular among its viewers.”I’m very relevant pa pala,” (still relevant) she said.

Kris and Abunda still have their nightly late night talk show together, “Aquino and Abunda Tonight.”

Inside sources at ABS-CBN said they overheard a conversation between Kris and network executives during which she reportedly said, “Don’t you think the talk show sounds much better if we renamed it, ‘Aquino Tonight?’

Entertainment, Film and TV, Law Enforcement

SAN FRANCISCO BANS WILD AND EXOTIC ANIMALS FROM CIRCUSES, FILMS AND TV

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A scene from the Hollywood film, 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'
A scene from the Hollywood film, ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’

SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – For the longest time, it has been the ‘elephant in the room’ in circuses, films and television shows: wild and exotic animals used commercially for public amusement.

This week, the ultra radical San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an ordinance banning performances by these animals in circuses and on film. It takes effect in 30 days.

Passage of the measure, opposed by the circus and motion picture industries, makes San Francisco the largest city to adopt such a sweeping prohibition on the commercial use of wild animals for public amusement.

The ordinance does not apply to domesticated animals, such as dogs, cats, horses and other livestock or pets. Educational activities or exhibitions accredited by certain zoological and museum organizations are also exempt.

It does bar any public showing, carnival, fair, parade, petting zoo, ride, race, film shoot or other undertaking in which wild or exotic animals “are required to perform tricks, fight or participate as accompaniments for the entertainment, amusement or benefit of an audience.”

Wild and exotic animals are defined as any nondomestic or hybrid creature, whether or not it was bred in captivity. That means elephants, tigers, lions, apes, monkeys, snakes, deer, politicians and right-wing conservatives.

It wasn’t clear whether films like ‘Planet of the Apes,’ filmed in the San Francisco Bay Area (including the Golden Gate Bridge) will be banned from being shown in local theaters and television, or rented out through Netflix.

Film and TV, Health & Medicine, International, Religion

TELEVANGELIST PAT ROBERTSON WARNS AGAINST YOGA, ZUMBA

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (The Adobo Chronicles) – Televangelist Pat Robertson today warned Christians against practicing or participating in Yoga and Zumba, saying that these popular fitness activities promote the worship of Hindu and Arabic ‘deities.’

Responding to a viewer question on the TV show ‘The 700 Club’ whether she should allow her daughter to continue practicing Yoga, Robertson said that while there is nothing wrong with stretching or exercising, Yoga participants are unknowingly praying to Hindu deities, when they utter what may seem to many as gibberish (Uhmmmm; Kali, Kali, Kali).

After the show aired, Robertson was questioned by Christian reporters on what he thought about another popular fitness activity, Zumba.  Robertson said, “Just like Yoga, Zumba promotes non-Christian deity worship. People might think they are just dancing to some Latin music, but they are actually dancing to appease some Arabic deity.”

(The Adobo Chronicles thinks Robertson mistook ‘Arabic’ for ‘Aerobic’)

So, Christian fitness enthusiasts should stick to ‘jumping jacks.’ Unless Robertson also thinks it is a form of worship for some other deity, like Jack in the Box.