Fashion at 38th MMFF Awards night

“One More Try” wins a total of six awards, including the inaugural Fernando Poe Jr. Memorial Award for Excellence at the 38th MMFF awards. “El Presidente” wins the most awards in the competition with eight awards; “Thy Womb” wins six. “Sisterakas” bags two awards while “Shake, Rattle, and Roll 14” gets one.

See the complete list of winners here.

Kris Aquino Host 38th MMFF Gabi ng Parangal

Best Screenplay Award goes to Star Cinema's "One More Try"

Director Brillante Mendoza accepts the award for Best Director (Thy Womb)

KC Concepcion and Kris Aquino host the 38th Metro Manila Film Festival Awards night.

Jose Manalo and Wally Bayola Perform with G Force

Director Wenn Deramas of "Sisterakas" accepts the 3rd Best Picture Award.

Angel Locsin, Zanjoe Marudo, Miguel Vergara and Director Ruel Bayani Accept their Best Picture Award for "One More Try"

Governor E.R. Ejercito claps as Nora Aunor greets former President Erap Estrada .

Nora Aunor accepts her Best Actress award for "Thy Womb"

Dingdong Dantes accepts his Best Actor Award for "One More Try".

Cesar Montano accepts his Best Supporting Award for "El Presidente"

Henry Burgos accepts his Best Screenplay Award for "Thy Womb".

Director Mark Meilly accepts the 2nd Best Picture award for "El Presidente".

1. Kris Aquino hosts the 38th MMFF Awards night.

2. Best Screenplay Award goes to Star Cinema's "One More Try"

3. Director Brillante Mendoza accepts the award for Best Director (Thy Womb).

4. KC Concepcion and Kris Aquino host the 38th Metro Manila Film Festival Awards night.

5. Jose Manalo and Wally Bayola perform with G Force.

6. Director Wenn Deramas of "Sisterakas" accepts the 3rd Best Picture Award.

7. MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino addresses the audience of the 38th MMFF Awards night.

MMFF 2012: Gabi nang Parangal List of Winners

The 38th Metro Manila Fil Festival (MMFF 2012) Gabi ng Parangal was held at the Meralco Theater in Pasig City LAst nigh December, 27, 2012. Event was Hosted by Sisterakas star Kris Aquino and KC Concepcion.

Nora Aunor bagged the Best Actress trophy while Dingdong Dantes won Best Actor for the second consecutive year (he was also hailed as 2011 Festival Best Actor for "Segunda Mano"). Brillante Mendoza won Best Director for "Thy Womb."

Most of the awards were shared by three films -- "Thy Womb," "El Presidente" and "One More Try," which won Best Picture.

Here is the complete list of winners of the 2012 MMFF:

Best Float: "El Presidente"
Youth Choice Award: "El Presidente"
Best Child Star: Miguel Vergara, "One More Try"
Best Sound: Albert Michael Idioma, "El Presidente"
Best Musical Score: Jessie Lasaten, "El Presidente"
Best Theme Song: apl.de.ap and Jamir Garcia of Slapshock, "El Presidente"
Best Make-up: Warren Munar, "El Presidente" by Warren Munar and Co.
Best Visual Effects: "Shake, Rattle & Roll 14: The Invasion"
Best Production Design: Brillante Mendoza, "Thy Womb"
Best Editing: Vito Kahili, "One More Try"
Best Cinematography: Odyssey Flores, "Thy Womb"
Best Supporting Actor: Cesar Montano, "El Presidente"
Best Supporting Actress: Wilma Doesnt, "Sisterakas"
Best Original Story: Henry Burgos, "Thy Womb"
Best Screenplay: Anna Ramos, "One More Try"
Best Director: Brillante Mendoza, "Thy Womb"
3rd Best Picture: "Sisterakas"
2nd Best Picture: "El Presidente"
Best Picture: "One More Try"
Best Actor: Dingdong Dantes, "One More Try"
Best Actress: Nora Aunor, "Thy Womb"

New Wave Films Category
New Wave Best Actor: Alan Paule, "Gayak"
New Wave Best Actress: Liza Diño, "In Nomine Matris"
New Wave Best Director: Tyrone Acierto, "The Grave Bandits"
New Wave Best Film: Tyrone Acierto's "The Grave Bandits."
New Wave Special Jury: Armando "Bing" Lao's "Ad Ignorantiam"

Student Short Films Category
Best Short Film: "Pukpok" (DLSU)
Most Gender Sensitive Film Award: "Manibela" (FEU)
Special Jury Prize: "Tagad" (USC)

Special Awards
Gender Sensitivity Special Award (New Wave): "In Nomine Matris"
Gender Sensitivity Special Award (Mainstream): "Thy Womb"
Gender Sensitivity Special Award (Shorts): "Manibela"
FPJ Memorial Award: "One More Try"
Gatpuno Villegas Award: "Thy Womb"

Other Awards
Stars of the Night: Nora Aunor, former President Joseph Estrada
SMDC Male Celebrity of the Night: Zanjoe Marudo
SMDC Female Celebrity of the Night: Bianca King

Source: Bidakapamilya.blogspot.com

Why Matt Damon never denied rumors about a gay relationship with Ben Affleck

Matt Damon in 'Behind the Candelabra' (Photo: Jarett Wieselman)When childhood friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck won an Oscar for writing 1997's "Good Will Hunting," the two Boston natives also became fodder for the Hollywood rumor-mill. Stories speculating the actor-writers were in a homosexual relationship together began to circulate.

It is a topic that Damon has apparently never addressed until now. The 42-year-old actor, now married with three daughters, recently expressed sensitivity around the longtime rumor in an interview with Playboy:

I never denied those rumors because I was offended and didn't want to offend my friends who were gay—as if being gay were some kind of f----ng disease. It put me in a weird position in that sense. The whole thing was just gross. But look, there have been great signs of progress—the fact that Anderson Cooper and Ellen DeGeneres can come out so beautifully and powerfully, and it's a big f----ng deal that it turns out nobody gives a sh--. If Liberace were alive today, everybody would love his music and nobody would care what he did in his private life. Like with Elton John.

Damon stars in Steven Soderbergh-directed HBO biopic "Behind the Candelabra" as Scott Thorson, Liberace's longtime lover. Damon recently said his costar Michael Douglas, who plays the famed television and Las Vegas entertainer who lived his life as a closeted homosexual, is "a wonderful kisser."

The "Bourne Identity" actor never seems to have shied away from such roles over his career. He recalled speaking to Heath Ledger before he died about filming passionate kissing scenes with Jake Gyllenhaal for 2005's "Brokeback Mountain" -- a film in which Damon was originally set to star. Damon revealed that he and Joaquin Phoenix were at one point in talks to play the leading roles in the Oscar-winning film, tossing the idea around with director Gus Van Sant. (It was eventually helmed by Ang Lee who won an Academy Award for directing.)  But since he had just done "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "All the Pretty Horses," Damon wanted to wait on "Brokeback" a few more years. "I just did a gay movie and a cowboy movie. I can't do a gay cowboy movie now," he recalled telling Van Sant. "The right actor got the part. Heath Ledger was magnificent," Damon added. And when it came to those kissing scenes, the late Ledger told him, "I needed to just go for it. If you can't do that, you're not making the movie."

Ledger's advice served as inspiration to Damon as he made "Candelabra." He has some pretty passionate scenes with Douglas and at one point straddles and kisses him in a chaise lounge. "It's not like I kiss him just once. We drew it up like a football plan," he told Playboy. Damon also has many nude scenes in the film -- something he doesn't typically do. "This movie's not going to be for everyone," he said, adding that he and Douglas have a lot of gay friends so, "we were not going to screw this up or bulls--- it."

Damon went on to say the film covers the intimacy of their relationship and portrays a marriage "long before there was gay marriage. That's not an insignificant thing."

Damon also stars in the upcoming "Promised Land" with John Krasinski - a film the two actors co-wrote. Out in limited release on December 28, "Promise Land" is directed by Gus Van Sant.

-Source: Yahoo.com

A VERY INTERESTING CONVERSATION

An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to his Class on the Problem Science has
With GOD , the ALMIGHTY. He asked one of his New Christian Students to stand and . . . 

Professor : You are a Christian, aren't you, son ? 
Student : Yes, sir. 
Professor : So, you Believe in GOD ? 
Student : Absolutely, sir. 
Professor : Is GOD Good ? 
Student : Sure. 
Professor : Is GOD ALL - POWERFUL ? 
Student : Yes. 
Professor : My Brother died of Cancer even though he Prayed to GOD to Heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn't. How is this GOD good then? Hmm? 

(Student was silent ) 

Professor : You can't answer, can you ? Let's start again, Young Fella. 
Is GOD Good? 
Student : Yes.
Professor : Is Satan good ? 
Student : No. 
Professor : Where does Satan come from ? 
Student : From . . . GOD . . . 
Professor : That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this World? 
Student : Yes. 
Professor : Evil is everywhere, isn't it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct? 
Student : Yes. 
Professor : So who created evil ? 

(Student did not answer) 

Professor : Is there Sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? 
All these terrible things exist in the World, don't they? 
Student : Yes, sir. 
Professor : So, who Created them ? 

(Student ha d no answer) 

Professor : Science says you have 5 Senses you use to Identify and Observe the World around you. Tell me, son . . . Have you ever Seen GOD? 
Student : No, sir. 
Professor : Tell us if you have ever Heard your GOD? 
Student : No , sir. 
Professor : Have you ever Felt your GOD , Tasted your GOD , Smelt your GOD ? Have you ever had any Sensory Perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't. 
Professor : Yet you still Believe in HIM? 
Student : Yes. 
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my Faith. 
Professor : Yes, Faith. And that is the Problem Science has. 

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as Heat? 
Professor : Yes. 
Student : And is there such a thing as Cold? 
Professor : Yes. 
Student : No, sir. There isn't.. 

(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events ) 

Student : Sir, you can have Lots of Heat, even More Heat, Superheat, Mega Heat, White Heat, 
a Little Heat or No Heat. 
But we don't have anything called Cold. 
We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is No Heat, but we can't go any further after that. 
There is no such thing as Cold. 
Cold is only a Word we use to describe the Absence of Heat.
We cannot Measure Cold. 
Heat is Energy. 
Cold is Not the Opposite of Heat, sir, just the Absence of it. 

(There was Pin-Drop Silence in the Lecture Theatre ) 

Student : What about Darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as Darkness? 
Professor : Yes. What is Night if there isn't Darkness? 
Student : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the Absence of Something 
You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light . . . But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and its called Darkness, isn't it? In reality, Darkness isn't. If it is, were you would be able to make Darkness Darker, wouldn't you? 
Professor : So what is the point you are making, Young Man ? 
Student : Sir, my point is your Philosophical Premise is flawed. 
Professor : Flawed ? Can you explain how? 
Student : Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a Good GOD and a Bad GOD. You are viewing the Concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can't even explain a Thought. It uses Electricity and Magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view Death as the Opposite of Life is to be ignorant of the fact that Death cannot exist as a Substantive Thing. 
Death is Not the Opposite of Life: just the Absence of it 
Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your Students that they evolved from a Monkey?
Professor : If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes, of course, I do. 
Student : Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir? 

(The Professor shook his head with a Smile, beginning to realize where the Argument was going ) 

Student : Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and Cannot even prove that this Process is an On-Going Endeavor, 
Are you not teaching your Opinion, sir? 
Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher? 
(The Class was in Uproar ) 

Student : Is there anyone in the Class who has ever seen the Professor's Brain? 

(The Class broke out into Laughter ) 

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's Brain, Felt it, touched or Smelt it? . . . 
No one appears to have done so. 
So, according to the Established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that You have No Brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then Trust your Lectures, sir? 

(The Room was Silent. The Professor stared at the Student, his face unfathomable) 

Professor : I guess you'll have to take them on Faith, son. 
Student : That is it sir . . . Exactly ! 
The Link between Man & GOD is FAITH. 
That is all that Keeps Things Alive and Moving.

NB:

I believe you have enjoyed the Conversation . . . and if so .. . 
You'll probably want your Friends / Colleagues to enjoy the same . . . won't you? 
Forward them to Increase their Knowledge . . . or FAITH. 
That student was Albert Einstein. 

you don't believe with God? you only believe with Science? 
alright then,
Albert Einstein was a Scientist himself... He believed with God... therefore, you believe God.