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Academy Adopts New Rules For Oscar Hosts And Presenters

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LOS ANGELES, California (The Adobo Chronicles, Los Angeles Bureau) – It happened yet again on live television.  The wrong winner was announced.

How can viewers forget that moment when host Steve Harvey announced that Miss Philippines was first runner-up and that Miss Colombia was the new Miss Universe when in fact, it was the other way around?

Tonight at the 89th edition of the Oscar Awards, presenter Faye Dunaway announced that ‘La La Land’ had won the Academy’s Best Picture.  Then in a quick turn of events, the mistake was revealed. ‘Moonlight’ had won the Oscar.

It wasn’t a spoof of the Steve Harvey fiasco at last year’s Miss Universe Pageant.

In a move seen by many as a very serious effort at damage control, the board of directors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences approved a new rule that requires all future Oscar hosts and presenters to undergo a vision test on the eve of the Oscar Awards ceremonies.

“This is to make sure that the correct name or names of winners will be read correctly,” an Academy Spokesperson told The Adobo Chronicles.

The Academy’s move goes a step further from what the Miss Universe Organization did at this year’s pageant in Manila.  As repeat host Harvey was about to read the name of the new Miss Universe, outgoing title holder Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach rushed on stage to hand Harvey a pair of powerful magnifying lenses just to make sure there will be none of the 2016 fiasco.

It wasn’t clear from the new Academy rules if a host or presenter found without a 20/20 vision will be allowed to continue with the hosting duties, or if corrective glasses or contact lenses would be required of them on Oscar night.

Trump Adds Dominican Republic In New Travel Ban Executive Order

img_9113WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles, Washington Bureau) – After a stinging loss at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday, President Donald Trump announced that he is going back to the drawing board and will issue a new travel ban Executive Order shortly.

While Trump’s announcement is not surprising — considering the fact that he is a man that does not take defeat lightly — what shocked even his close advisers is that he is including a non-Muslim country in the new order. That country is the Dominican Republic.

Large-scale migration from the Caribbean country to the United States began in the 1960s, in the wake of economic and political turbulence that occurred after dictator Rafael Trujillo was killed by rebels in 1961 and the U.S. military and other government agencies intervened.

As of 2012, it is estimated that  960,000 immigrants from the Dominican Republic resided in the United States, constituting 2 percent of the total U.S. foreign-born population of 40.8 million.

But the number of immigrants has nothing to do with Trump’s new draft order. Rather, it is in retaliation for a Dominican Republic front-page newspaper article about the U.S. and Israel.

img_9111The photos of both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump appeared in that article in El Nacional. Alas, the paper used a photo of Saturday Night Live’s (SNL) Alec Baldwin impersonating the U.S. president.

Upon seeing a copy of the newspaper, Trump was reportedly mad as hell. So he decided to include The Dominican Republic among the new countries in his new travel ban which will focus not on religion but on national security.