contemplating the future of showbiz through twink kit thompson

let's take a break, shall we, from the stressful news about the worsening situation in sabah, the forthcoming elections dominated by trapos and their scions as well as movie stars, the worsening criminality, the rising consumer prices, filthy and foul smelling roxas boulevard, and instead focus on something more fun and wholesome - show business. and specifically, the stars of tomorrow! hurray!
(never mind that these ingenues and their male counterparts will probably be our society's headaches in the future - drug users, maid abusers, gambling addicts, serial polygamists, corrupt politicians, etc. of course, they could also turn out alright like...)

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now that i got your attention....
showbiz has been experiencing a slump since the heydays of the eightys and ninetys when the then biggest movie company in the country regal films earned millions by lording it over at the box office, showing hit movies week after week and giving birth to some of the most talented, gorgeous and enduring stars the philippines had ever seen: snooky serna, maricel soriano, dina bonnevie, gabby concepcion, albert martinez, gretchen barretto, carmina villaroel, richard gomez and aiko melendez.
hoping to duplicate regal's past glory, star cinema, the entertainment arm of the country's biggest television network, has been churning out stars after stars,  year after year, but unfortunately most of them end up in the dreaded limbo gays fondly call la ocean deep (or into oblivion) even before they make it in the cutthroat maze that's show business.
undaunted, the movie outfit introduced recently its latest batch of future stars on the small and big screens, unmindful of  the fact that since claudine barretto, judy ann santos and piolo pascual, the star factory has not really produced a genuine superstar that will stay in the business for long (hey, claudine, juday and piolo are still around. they just need a really good project to stoke the fires of stardom and their fans devotion once again)!
so now we have twelve aspiring young men and women (six boys and six girls) hoping to follow the veneered footsteps of claudine and company.
the lucky ones will soon invade our tevee screens (good thing i don't watch teevee), star in countless stupid soaps and mindless movies, commercials and win numerous lucrative endorsements meant to fatten their wallets and their producers and handlers, while their poor fans remain that - poor and miserable - further widening the divide between the two social classes. haha.
oh well, enough of the bitchiness.

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out of the dozen would be stars, two boys and one girl are the standouts. if you disagree with my picks, then go and write your own blog.

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the most exciting of the bunch is of course kit thompson. only sixteen, kit has the prerequisite mestiso handsome look (he is half new zealander after all), height (six feet and one inch), ability to carry clothes so very well like a fashion model, untapped raw sensuality that makes him even more appetizing, and the determination to make it huge in showbiz.
according to the blogsphere, he wanted to be a movie star ever since he was a kid. how's that for an ambition? why can't he dream of being the next taipan or next bill gates? why a movie star? why?

but that's not what makes this young lad exciting, but his alleged "bromance" with another cute teener in one pinoy big brother edition ryan boyce. (yes, kit was one of the fame questers in the fourth edition of pbb teen shown last year. unfortunately he did not win. maybe fans are tired of mestizos in showbiz? are we witnessing a mestizo fatigue already? not me, though. you can always throw them in my direction and i will lap them up like a hungry wolf. double chos!)

apparently, kit and ryan were so close during the show that some people and fans speculated that there was something deeper going on between the two other than being (pinoy big) brothers. here are some of their pictures inside the show that i found on different websites. see? google makes our modern life so easy and stress free. now, if only google would hire me. that would be fabulous! hahaha.

now, i don't know if kit (and ryan too) are just being savvy in marketing themselves, knowing that the pink vote will help propel them to stardom faster than they can say darna! (think thai superstar mario maurer -- for the record i don't like him anymore since he was romantically linked to cacai something -- who played a teen gay man who is in love with his best friend in his first movie ever love of siam. the movie won him fans around asia and countless best actor trophies. or another multi awarded actor coco martin who did a string of indie films catering to the gay market before making it big on the mainstream).

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darlings, if you have been living in the cave for ages, let me tell you this: the pink peso is now one of the most powerful market segments that businessmen, advertisers, movie stars and producers are courting. so that puts kit on the right track. chos!
more hot pictures of kit and ryan. together. enjoy.

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now where am i?

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another aspiring mestizo hoping to cash in on the fickle filipino fans' unexplained fascination for fair skinned handsome actors with gorgeous smiles and wholesome, college boy looks (think gabby concepcion and the late alfie anido) is seventeen year old jerome ponce.

this early, jerome, who is also tall at five feet and ten inches, is already making a mark in the business as he is often seen in the hit dramedy on channel two, be careful with my heart.

somehow, he reminds me of the late teen idol rico yan (reel and real life boyfriend of claudine barretto), whose death during the lenten season several years ago at such a young age (early twentys?) made the whole country and my two teen age nieces cry for a week or so.

now, here is a question for everyone to ponder: who will make it big between the two - kit or ryan? also, who will go the sexy route like coco martin? who will stay wholesome like piolo?

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among the six young ladies, the standout is julia barretto, niece of showbiz stalwarts claudine and gretchen and daughter of their sister marjorie, who was also once a teen star, with comedian dennis padilla. aside from her royal showbiz pedigree (chos!), julia is the most beautiful, most innocent looking among the group, reminding us of the young gretchen when she was introduced in fourteen going steady, kristine hermosa and bea alonzo.

here is hoping that julia makes it and that the industry won't spoil her rotten. it's always nice to have movie stars who make it big without blowing up their egos and losing their humility in the process.

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by the way, the batch also includes sons and daughters of movie stars who have no business being in the industry (hindi sila kagandahan!).

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now, let me shed off my showbiz gay fan persona and resume reading john cheever's the wapshot chronicle. i was already on page forty four when i was distracted by a showbiz website that shall remain anonymous and read all about kit, jerome and julia.

"maggie cooks some bacon and eggs and brings them to the table. she announces then that there has been an accident near the west farm. a man was killed and a young woman was taken into the house."

as i have mentioned earlier, i am only on page forty four (it has three hundred and forty nine pages), but i love what i see so far. it has intrigue, mystery, suspense, comedy, tragedy, wit and chronicles the lives of the eccentric super wealthy family, whose fun lives are much different from you and me.

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that's all! have a great week fairies, angels, princesses, queens, faggots and the pa-men-tas out there!