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FILIPINA LESBIAN IS RECIPIENT OF FIRST NOBEL PRIZE FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY

June 26, 2015 Pol Pinoy 1 Comment

HONOLULU, Hawaii (The Adobo Chronicles ® ) – While the (almost) entire United States was celebrating today’s Supreme Court ruling affirming the constitutional right to marry for members of the LGBT community, Hawaii was celebrating the news that one of its own — Filipina lesbian Denora Dancel — has been awarded the first-ever Nobel Prize for Marriage Equality.

Dancel and Nina Baehr were the same-sex partners who sued the state of Hawaii for denying them a marriage license. The Hawaii Supreme Court in 1993 ruled in their favor in the much-celebrated case of Baehr vs. Lewin. The landmark case began the movement in the rest of the country to challenge the ban on same-sex marriage in the courts, all leading up to today’s historic victory for equality and civil rights.

The Nobel Prize committee is trying to locate Dancel and Baehr so that it could send the formal invitation to them travel to Oslo, Norway, to personally receive the award.

Please contact The Adobo Chronicles for any leads.

Film and TV

HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR CAMERON CROWE APOLOGIZES, ANNOUNCES SEQUEL TO ‘ALOHA’

June 3, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

HOLLYWOOD, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – “Thank you so much for all the impassioned comments regarding the casting of the wonderful Emma Stone in the part of Allison Ng. I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.”

With those words, ‘Aloha’ director Cameron Crowe appealed to everyone to move on from their disappointment that the Ng character in his film wasn’t played by an Asian American actress.

To prove that his apology was sincere, Cameron announced that a sequel to ‘Aloha’ will start filming in Hawaii next month. It will be titled ‘Kilauea.’ The story of the sequel picks up from where ‘Aloha’ left off.

Brian Gilcrest (Bradley Cooper) and Allison Ng (Stone) get married and spend their honeymoon in Hawaii’s Big Island. On the second day of their honeymoon, a major eruption of Kilauea volcano happens, burying the entire resort in which the newly-weds were staying. Only three people in the resort manage to survive the extreme lava flow and fires that ensue: Gilcrest, Ng and Aloha Yamamoto, a half-Japanese and half-Hawaiian who was in Kilauea taking a short vacation from her job as a paramedic in Honolulu.

The events that follow lead to a complicated romantic triage among the film’s main characters.

Cameron expressed confidence that none of the casting controversy in ‘Aloha’ will haunt ‘Kilauea.’

The role of Yamamoto will be played by Korean American film and television actress Sandra Oh.

All’s well that ends well.

Film and TV

THE MISSING LINK IN THE FILM ‘ALOHA’

May 30, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

Crowe, director of 'Aloha' — Crowe, director of ‘Aloha’

HOLLYWOOD, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – One of the biggest criticism about the newly-released film, ‘Aloha,’ is the casting of Emma Stone as a ‘hapa,’ a Hawaiian term that refers to someone who is of mixed heritage.

Stone plays the role of Allison Ng (pronounced ‘ING’), a U.S. Air Force pilot who is a quarter Chinese, a quarter Hawaiian, and a quarter Swedish. (Stone, in real life, is part Swedish.)

Asian American groups have protested the fact that the character was not played by an actress of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage.

The film’s director, Cameron Crowe (‘Jerry McGuire’) maintained that because of her Swedish heritage, Stone was a perfect fit for the role.

Critics, however, continue to be puzzled by a missing link to the character of Allison Ng. “If Ng is supposed to be a quarter Chinese, a quarter Hawaiian, and a quarter Swedish, what race or ethnicity is the remainding quarter? ” the critics asked.

Crowe could not give a response and referred media questions to the film’s writer.

Oh wait, Crowe IS the writer.