NICKI MINAJ SUES MADONNA, NBC OVER SEGMENT ON ‘THE TONIGHT SHOW’

April 10, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MInaj, left, and Madonna (Photo: www.afrikakwetu.com) — MInaj, left, and Madonna
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NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles) – Some are calling it the ‘battle of the bitches.’ And the NBC network is caught in the middle. The protagonists: Madonna and Nicki Minaj.

The 56-year-old diva (meaning, Madonna) performed a live take of ‘Bitch I’m Madonna’ during a recent episode of ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.’ The song is included in Madonna’s latest album, ‘Rebel Heart.’ The original recording also features 32-year-old singer and songwriter Nicki Minaj, rapping to Madonna’s music.

But Nicki Minaj was nowhere to be seen during the Tonight Show performance, except for screen images of the rapper flashed in the background while Madonna twisted and twerked in the company of her dancers.

After the segment aired, Minaj told reporters she was suing Madonna and NBC for excluding her in the live performance. ‘The song is mine as much as it is Madonna’s,’ Minaj said.

‘For Madonna and NBC to exclude me from the show is not only inappropriate but insulting,’ Minaj said, adding: “after all, I think the song is more about me than it is about Madonna.”

So, who’s the real ‘bitch’ here? We’ll let our readers decide.

Here’s the video on Madonna’s live performance.

Politics

HILLARY DECLARES!

April 10, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

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

April 9, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

NEW 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.