2011 02/23-03/01

MANILA MAIL COMMUNITY

International Filipina Singer Lea Salonga as she appears on the Cache Creek Casino website promoting her show next month.

ABS-CBN's TV remake of 'Mara Clara' headlined by Kathryn Bernardo and Julia Montes is the station's consistent top rater unbeaten for so many months now. Photo by www.showbiz-portal.com

The Number 2 prime time program, behind "Mara Clara," is "Mutya" starring ABS-CBN's newest child discovery, Mutya Orquia as a little mermaid.

In a star-making performance never seen inside the ring since Pacquiao stopped Hatton, Nonito 'The Filipino Flash' Donaire, Jr. TKOs Fernando Montiel in Round 2 at 2:25 mark of their Mandalay Events Center Las Vegas fight last Saturday night, making him the new WBC WBO Bantamweight Champion. Photo by Chris Farina of Top Rank.

THE NEXT PACQUIAO. "I believe Pacquiao has given me this opportunity. I don't mind being No. 2 behind Pacquiao. I have the utmost respect for Manny Pacquiao," said Donaire as quoted by Boxing Editor Lem Satterfield of www.boxinghouse.com. Photo by Chris Farina of Top Rank.

San Francisco Building Contractor Manny Bautista, cousin of Senator Bong Revilla ofCavite, is shown here with bride FilipinaRestaurateur Myrna Quipse during their wedding buffet dinner and dance reception at Rene's Fine Dining at the Lucky Chances Casino in Colma recently.

93-year old Filomena Bautista, 3rd left, the proud mother of San Francisco BuildingContractor Manny Bautista, back, and his bride Myrna Quipse, 3rd right, are shown with their prominent guests who attended their wedding reception at Rene's Fine Dining, (L-R) San Jose's Fashionably Lady Susan Pacifico, Christine Paul, Singer for all Occassion & President of Forever Young Club Tess Gregorio and Helen Colonge.

Belated Happy Birthday (Feb 21) to San Ramon's Mitos Cunanan Enriquez, shown here with daughter Paula and sons Christian & Sean. She celebrated in Lake Tahoe last weekend with immediate family & close friends.

Lea Salonga to sing at Cache Creek Casino

(Tony Award Winner is scheduled to perform on March 11 & 12)

TO-BE-SEEN IN THE CITY

Fresh from their recent highly successful Sharon Cuneta series of concerts at Cache Creek Casino and Resort’s Club 88, Promoters/Producers Edna & Ben Ramos of Edna’s Ichiban Library is very proud to bring next, the International Multi-awarded Singer, Lea Salonga, performing on two (2) nights - March 11 and 12, 2011, 9pm on Friday and 8pm Saturday, respectively.

Lea Salonga first gained international recognition when she played the role of Kim in the critically acclaimed production of Cameron Mackintosh’s “Miss Saigon” with numerous performances in London, where she won the highly prestigious Laurence Olivier Award. Her very successful London ‘Miss Saigon’ stint led her next to Broadway, where she grand-slammed the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Theatre World Awards.

Lea also essayed unforgettable singing performances in “Les Miserables,” “Grease!,” “Into the Woods,” “My Fair Lady,” “The Fantasticks,” “Annie,” “Paper Moon,” “The Goodbye Girl,” “The Rose Tattoo,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” and “Cat On a Hot Tin Roof,” performing in Manila, London, Singapore, and New York City.

At the peak of her career, she also recorded the singing voice of Jasmine for the Walt Disneyanimated hit, “Aladdin,” and performed “A Whole New World” at the 65th Annual Academy Awards stage (the title song from that feature), for which won an Oscar.

Fast selling tickets are still available on these prices: $99/$89/$85/$75/$65

Call (650) 826-0326 or go to www.cachecreek.com/entertainment/ for tickets and other information.

SEEN IN THE CITY

ABS-CBN Wins National TV Ratings Year-To-Date

ABS-CBN Corporation, the country’s largest multimedia conglomerate, continues its winning streak since the start of 2011 with its locally-produced primetime programs leading the nationwide ratings.

According to Kantar Media/TNS, ABS-CBN led primetime TV with an average audience share of 40 percent or nine points higher than GMA’s 31 percent and TV5’s 16 percent for the period of Jan 1 to Feb 14. Kantar Media/TNS data also show that ABS-CBN obtained a bigger average audience share of 36 percent for the same period (Jan 1 to Feb 14), which is higher than GMA’s 34 percent and TV5's 13 percent.

According to ABS-CBN Corporate Communications head Bong Osorio, ABS-CBN primetime shows are doing so well that its drama series “Mara Clara” has wrestled the Mega Manila leadership from GMA on primetime.

Osorio noted that ABS-CBN’s top raters are all network-produced programs such as “Mara Clara,” “Mutya,” and “Imortal,” while GMA’s top raters are either produced by a blocktimer or a canned Korean series.

“ABS-CBN remains to be the national leader year-to-date (Jan 1 to Feb 14) without excluding some days based on the Kantar Media/TNS ratings data,” he said.

For the month of January 2010, ABS-CBN led in the national, balance Luzon, southern Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao TV ratings.

For Balance Luzon, ABS-CBN obtained a 39% audience share, which was higher than GMA’s 35%.

More than half of the homes in Southern Luzon tuned in to ABS-CBN (56%) than GMA (25%).

In the Visayas, the number of Kapamilya homes was more than twice the number of Kapuso homes. 53% of the homes in the Visayas watched ABS-CBN shows while only 24% watched GMA.

In Mindanao, almost six out of ten homes watched ABS-CBN (55%) compared to only 19% watching GMA.

Kantar Media, a global market research group, offers audience research measurement systems in 32 countries. It started releasing its Philippine television audience measurement data in February 2009 with panels composed of 1,370 representative households covering urban Philippines and reporting on seven sectors namely the National Capital Region, North Luzon, Central Luzon, South Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

ABS-CBN shifted to Kantar Media/TNS after filing a case vs. AGB Nielsen Media Research for failing to comply with its request to investigate alleged cheating and data tampering in TV ratings. The case is still pending in court.

PERSONAL NOTES

Congratulations & best wishes to both Electrical Engineer Manual ‘Manny’ Bautista and his lovely wife Myrna Quipse who tied the knot recently at the Hall of Justice in Redwood City. The groom owns & manages his own electrical and building construction company in San Francisco while she is a well-known Filipina Restaurateur and former owner of Goodah Filipino Cuisine Restaurant on Mission Street, also in San Francisco.

The newlyweds hosted a dance & buffet dinner at Rene’s Fine Dining at the Lucky Chances Casino in Colma, attended by relatives and close family friends. San Jose’s Fashionable Lady Susan Navarro Pacifico was the host of the program while Nat & Paul Cabeza and his Band furnished the ballroom music during the couple’s memorable occasion. Singer for All Occassions Tess Gregorio of Fremont sang the song for the newlywed’s first dance.

The bride is the daughter of Mr & Mrs Prooceso Quipse Bogabon of Nueva Ecija. She is a Business Administration, major in Banking & Finance graduate of Cabanatuan City College. In addition, she also studied Home Economics at the Fountain Blue Culinary School in Manila.

Manny, a native of Cavite, is a distant relative of former Senator Ramon Revilla and SenatorBong Revilla. He is an Electrical Engineering graduate of MLQU in Manila.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“My marketability will skyrocket. My name will get bigger and I will get bigger fights. People will come after me because that’s what happens when you’re on top. My name is in the top pound-for-pound lists and no one can take that away from me after I beat Montiel,” - by Nonito Donaire, Jr. two (2) days before he beat Montiel in Mandalay Bay last Saturday, as quoted by USA Today’s Bob Velin.

After TKO’ing Montiel, during the post-fight media conference, Donaire was also quoted as saying 'That was my hardest punch. I put everything into that punch. Surprised he was able to get up from it... I'm a monster-man!

These pronouncements worry some sectors, for unlike Pacquiao who remained humble despite being on top of the boxing world through the years, Donaire is exhibiting monster-like traits this early in his career – shamelessly dissing in print, his trainer/father, his mom, etc. After his career-defining performance last Saturday, Donaire is currently ranked # 2, behind Pacquiao by some international sportswriters.

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