DIVERSIFIED PINAY BEAUTY: "Dolce Amore" Sisters

The Philippines, of course, is a melting pot of races, and while the original races have distinct external phenotypes, the final product has more or less molded a new improved specimen more typical of this land. One can distinguish a Latin from an Anglo-Saxon, but their Pinoy hybrids look practically the  same-  the celebrated Pinay Tisay.

Liza Soberano has Latin (Italian) in her genes but she looks as Pinay as Sue Ramirez (who's got Irish in hers).

TOPLESS IZA CALZADO?

Relax, we still don't have the much-awaited picture, but the sexy actress has already indicated that her next film under the direction of Jerrold Tarog (who directed "General Luna") will be a sexy thriller. So the topless images are definitely coming.

I know what you're thinking. After being inundated with sex scandals from the boy's side, things are finally moving in the girl's camp? Oh I know, topless is peanuts... but this is THE Iza Calzado, and if a respected actress like Iza is feeling bold, what more are the ubiquitous sexy starlets?

The bonus is that  Iza Calzado is definitely one of the truly beautiful Pinay actresses-  beautiful everything, eyes, nose, lips, facial shape, body, everything- not the fake types we  get sometimes where we were supposed to be enthralled mostly by the illusion of beauty generated by loads of swirling voluminous rebounded hair & be distracted as a result from the eyes which were actually "duling". Lol.

Pre-Solemn Solenn Heussaff

She's definitely one of the sexiest local actresses but I didn't include Solenn Heusaff in my wish list for sex scandals because she is scheduled for a  church wedding with her Argentinean husband  Nico Bolzico shortly. But that really won't prevent us from thinking dirty thoughts just yet. Dirty things like local politics included? Make that only sexy dirty thoughts about ... who else?

We will return after the elections. 

MOVIE TEASER: "Love Me Tomorrow" starring Piolo Pascual, Coleen Garcia & Dawn Zulueta

ANDREA BRILLANTES: The Next Superstar?

I'm getting senile, it always escaped my mind lately that I was the President of the Andrea Brillantes Everlasting Everloyal Forevermore Fans Club. The Musically video of Andrea became viral without me noticing it.

Anyway, it's not really a big surprise that the videos would become hits. After all, Andrea is the first Pinay actress  to become the favorite of many even without seeing any of her films. Incredible, you say? Just trust me, she has her ways but I won't be more specific than that.

Now watch...

Pinoy Teleserye Marches On Throughout The World

Pinoy teleserye is really going places, No need for words, just watch a few clips I selected. I have to repeat the word few. Needless to say, there are more...

Pangako Sa Yo in Spanish (La Promesa)
Forevermore (in English), after taking Central Asia by storm, now making waves in Africa

Marian Rivera's "CARMELA" in Vietnam, Africa, Cambodia & Malaysia

PINOY TELESERYE ON PERUVIAN TV: "Puentes de Amor" on Panamericana TV de Peru

So Pinoy teleserye has finally invaded the birthplace of telenovela, Latin America. It is now being shown on the Peruvian Panamericana Tv. The history-making feat is courtesy of the teleserye Bridges of Love, now given the title Puentes De Amor (direct Spanish translation of the original title).

MOVIE TRAILER: "This Time"

I received a curious email from a Jadine fan acquaintance. She was ruing the fact that the last time a Jadine film was shown,  Para Sa Hopeless Romantic, its showing was delayed for so long only to run smack against the international hit Pitch Perfect( like  I wrote in a previous article). Now their new film will suddenly run smack against the film of local established stars John Lloyd Cruz & Jennilyn Mercado. Rare was the time that local films would fight it out in the box-office. She asked if I "could take the cudgels" like last time?

Obviously, I was not privy to the private calculations done to arrive at the decisions why events have become so. But it's clear the circumstances are not the same as before. James Reid & Nadine Lustre have grown in their careers in the intervening months- they had a teleserye & series of concerts in many parts of the world- that they might not need hand-holding after all. This is their fifth film together, and I don't think it's wise to dust up conspiracy against them this time. Like any business, competition is part of the game. Anyway, their team works in various dimensions- not only films but concerts, records, ad campaigns, etc.

I'm already thinking on another level. The top 3 young love teams in the country have really caught the attention of many, not only in the country but throughout the world. They have been busy and people obviously enjoyed their shows. But how to rev up the game? It's actually curious how things will shape up going forward. Will there be a rigodon of the stars to add spice to the game? I'm curious about the possible new combinations. Very curious. Like I wrote before, the loveteam thing is the cutest part of Pinoy showbiz.

The Natural Asian Look? What Asian? Asia is the biggest continent!

NATURAL KOREAN LOOK: UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki-Moon;
 former South Korean Presidents Lee Myung-bak & Rob Tae-Wo &
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. 
Korea is ethnically 
homogenous, they have a common Mongoloid look,
unlike the Philippines which is a melting pot 
of Eastern & Western races

I'm still on vacation. I just wanted to post this so you won't miss us so much.

Trends change. For a time, people thought the synthetics were the best. But the trend shifted to organics as people learned eventually the superior benefits. For a time, people thought Plastic Surgery would be enough to magically present oneself as beautiful. But people eventually  realized it isn't really wise to be deluded that Plastic Surgery even had the last word. What if you married what you thought was a pretty girl but only to find out that your child would look like her original face? Imagine how fast you would shriek and run away from the nursery upon seeing the baby's face.

For the past decade, the Philippines & the rest of Southeast Asia were awashed with heavy propaganda that sought to reengineer our beauty standards in a "certain" Asian, unpopular up to now, way. Never mind the heavy industrial-scale plastic surgical intervention. The Philippine showbiz & mass media was ground zero.  It was really unfortunate that the so-called  South Korean wave, the battering ram of the propaganda attack, has been fading all over, even in the Mongoloid space. Back to Square One, the propaganda was a joke. Expectedly, the investors will stage a last-ditch stand so expect a heavier propaganda drive heretofore. If you were watchful, it has already started.

Of course, we expect it to end the same way. I can confirm because I and my friends grew up subjected to its mostly hilarious machinations. Beauty is not forced, it is felt. More importantly, you were supposed not to laugh in front of great beauty.

Natural is always good. Asians will be truly beautiful if they just be honest & face what they see in the mirror. Accept themselves, never mind if they became the standard or not because it's clear they never will. So no shrieks of terror  will rip through the night in the right moments that count.

This post is the introduction to a series of articles about this topic.

YANG BANYAK DITUNGGU-TUNGGU: "Dubmash Movie" TEASER

The much-awaited film starring Pinoy actor Teejay Marquez & his Indonesian co-star Jessica Mila.

PHILIPPINE ENTRY TO CANNES 2016: Brillante Mendoza's MA'ROSA

Typical Pinay Beauty: Centuries of Diversity

I unwittingly stirred a minor Hornet's nest in my preceding post. I myself was surprised by the direction of the discussion in the comments.That's what you get when shallow interests tinker with ghosts which were better off left  hibernating beneath the ground. It could have been avoided with a little more common sense.

For one, it's wiser not to use the terms "typical Pinay beauty" because of the stable melting pot we have in the country. We don't have to parrot the pretentious discourse on Diversity elsewhere just to be trendy because we have been diversified long ago in our history. It became plain stupidity when the phrase "typical Pinay beauty" was used with an entirely erroneous meaning- worst,  describing something as "typical" just to advance subliminally a false narrative. The ulterior motive was obvious, only a moron won't have noticed the "racist"campaigns for a better part of the last decade which were mostly  just ignored because they were so ridiculous.

Well, let's just celebrate Pinay beauty. With that, I will have a few days vacation.

KYLIE VERSOZA, JENNIFER HAMMOND, JOANNA EDEN,
 NICOLE CORDOVES, NICOLE MANALO

BEAUTIFUL PINAY MONITOR: Kylie Versoza is not from Myanmar

A friend loves to monitor the various international  beauty pageant blogs (he's a linguist like me so he scours all the continents, from Latin America to Asia to Europe). The Philippine beauty pageant circuit has become a landmark in the world and it appears most of them even watched online the just recently concluded Bb. Pilipinas pageant. It turned out they were unanimous in their  low opinion of the winner, Maxine Medina. Mostly they were happy because our representative to this year's Miss Universe is "ugly". Frankly, I almost thought so myself (I found her ordinary but not exactly ugly) but it was strangely heartening that so many shared my "not impressed" reaction.

What mystifies me now is the description used in some local media to describe the winner as "typical Pinay beauty". If she was typical Pinay beauty, then what do you make of a "typical Myanmar beauty"? Because as one German opined "She might look like a Miss Myanmar but she might still win again because the MU might be held in the Philippines this year".

So even a German knows how a "typical Pinay beauty" looks like. Of course, nobody thinks much these days about salaried media underlings trying to inject subliminal messages on how Pinoys should suddenly look like in a "certain" Asian way. The usual promotional campaign for slit-eyes which has been hectic for years now (while in the Asian mainland, they are busy repairing theirs that their celebrities now look like "typical Pinay beauties"). Useless anyway.

Of course, mostly the international beauty blogs sighed with relief that Kylie Versoza didn't win the Bb. Pilipinas Universe crown. They mostly considered her as the threat. 

How about becoming the next hot actress instead?

Re: Sex Scandal, Part 3: SO, WHERE ARE THE GIRLS?!#@!

The frustration is palpable from their comments: I know I have lots of hot-blooded real heterosexual male readers, just look at the list of our all-time most popular posts at the sidebar. But while the local headlines are full of stories of masturbation videos of male actors, there was a glaring lack of similar videos from the other gender. Were they suddenly shy?

I myself don't believe that Pinays only love amusing themselves in the kitchen. We always have had high birth rates that's why Pinoys are already 100 million strong.

Why were the girls so fun of making video of the boys but not vice versa? Somebody else not actually of the girl variety making the videos? Be that as it may, that's no reason to hide the girls.

The stuffs fantasies are made of. What if...?

Arci's First Primetime Teleserye

In a way, the news that Arci Muñoz is now starring in her first primetime teleserye really made me proud. For one, I personally benefited from the sex appeal of our new sex symbol. I can take all the vacation I want but I can rest assure I will still get clicks because our all-time most popular post on Ms. Muñoz still gets steady hits everyday. In a way, she has become the trophy Princess Sexy of this blog. And mind you, her fans are not only found in the Philippines, half of them come from all over the world. Needless to say, this blog first felt the confirmation that a new star was born.

That gives me a dilemma. I know, my biggest readers are red-blooded heterosexual males but I also have loads who crave for our young stars. In fact, the latter were our first supporters. That's the challenge, how to balance between our two seemingly opposite crowds: satisfying one shouldn't aggravate the other. I guess I'm doing fine, I take a lot of vacation but everybody are still with us.

Arci Muñoz will have Jericho Rosales & John Estrada as her co-stars in the forthcoming teleserye Never Ever Say Goodbye.

MUSIC VIDEO MOVIE TRAILER: "Just The 3 of Us" / GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER by BILLY CRAWFORD

LOVETEAM WATCH: Derrick & Bea in "Hanggang Makita Kang Muli"

It's turning out that the cutest part of local showbiz is the loveteam thing. Pinoys have always been nosy on who was doing it with whom. The movie idols are definitely not exempted.This nosiness triggers the magic to the whole thing. But can it be sustained?

There's an endless supply of loveteams. Thus, our Loveteam Watch. We'll start monitoring the progress of each team as it hurtles down Pinoy showbiz lane.

 GMA has been prolific in creating cute loveteams lately. The Tisoy-native combination has become a Philippine brand, & GMA has them plenty: Aldub, Anbie. Here's the latest one: GMA has a stable of cute mestizos & 20 year old Derrick Monasterio was available to counterpoint 18-year old Bea Binene, a petite Anjanette Abayari-ish wisp of a girl. In their first teleserye together, she reprises  the role of a feral child who was brought in from the wild and taught to adapt to a new civilization where she later would find love.

A feral child is a human child who has lived away from human contact from a very young age, and has little or no experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and, crucially, of human language.

‘Mamboboso’ skills: Target Kim Domingo

STILL CURIOUS: The Break Up/ One More Chance- Kathryn Bernardo & James Reid

To tell you the truth, this team-up is growing on me.

Îndrăgostiţi: Pinay Biritera in ROMANIA GOT TALENT 2016, Resciebelle Santiago

The Pinoy boys have been winning the biggest international musical competitions in Germany & Australia, but the girls are not about to lock themselves in a kitchen somewhere. One of them visited her  Romanian boyfriend's family in his country but she ended up not only joining Romania Got Talent, she also ended up being unexpectedly hounded in a beach by the Romanian paparazzi. Her boyfriend, Sorin Dumitraş  was  formerly a reality talent in the Romanian version of The Bachelor.

Pinoys do get around. Didn't I hear somebody said it's more fun to be Pinoy?