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The Daily Gazette # 3

by GNN, the Gaz News Network Duckface was free most of the day so he went to the gym, then he bought a pair of dress shoes. We've already mentioned his shoes, right? Ferragamo, call us. Team Gaz had dinner at Escolta at the Peninsula Manila with GMA Network management (L-R): Annette Gozon, Tracy Garcia, [...]

This is what you want? Really??

In this photo Charmaine the wife and Cara the other woman run into each other at a Prince concert in 1985. Except that it's 2011. By all accounts the Viva-Star Cinema production No Other Woman is a smash hit, and in show business there is no arguing with pots of money. We may assume from [...]

Nnnnnooooooo not Danny!

Photo by Phil Walter in IHT/NYT The All Blacks are going to win anyway. Just making things more interesting. Why did it have to be Daniel Carter! Thanks to Jaime for the alert. WELLINGTON — It was the nightmare scenario that no one in New Zealand wanted to contemplate. But the unthinkable happened over the [...]

The Daily Gazette # 2

By GNN, the Gaz News Network Yesterday Gaz had the first press conference of his life at La Mesa Grill in Quezon City. How is it possible that until Tuesday Gareth Holgate never had a press conference in his life? It was more nerve-wracking than a big match, but he got through it. It helped [...]

Writing tips from Charlie Kaufman

Charlie Kaufman wrote the screenplays of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind—screenplays we would kill to have written. (Now that we think about it they resemble our life more closely than any realist movie.) Storytelling is inherently dangerous. Consider a traumatic event in your life. Think about how you experienced it. [...]

Joey Gosiengfiao is dead. This won't bring him back.

We have heard the word "Camp" used in connection with. . .this. You force us to get Susan Sontag on your ass. Excerpt from Sontag's famous essay, Notes on Camp. 22. Considered a little less strictly, Camp is either completely naive or else wholly conscious (when one plays at being campy). An example of the [...]

The Daily Gazette # 1

by GNN, the Gaz News Network Gaz Holgate arrived in Manila last night. His rugby team Kyuden Voltex in Fukuoka, Japan is on a two-week break, and he's here on a working vacation. He's doing several photo shoots and interviews and appearing on television shows. Also he's representing us at the Esquire launch because if [...]

The Daily Gazette: Tuesday

by GNN, the Gaz News Network Gaz Holgate arrived in Manila last night. His rugby team Kyuden Voltex in Fukuoka, Japan is on a two-week break, and he's here on a working vacation. He's doing several photo shoots and interviews and appearing on television shows. Also he's representing us at the Esquire launch because if [...]

All good wishes come true

Photo from Kaka e Carol World. Whenever our friends go on a trip we wish them not only a safe journey and a good time, but something more specific. We wish they would sit next to someone fabulous on the plane, or check into the hotel where their favorite band or filmmaker is staying. So [...]

Wanted: Girls In Black

We wear black a lot. It goes with everything. If you're in a bad mood it matches; if you're in a good mood it's ironic. However we also sweat a lot because we're in the tropics and we have pores. So we use deodorants, and often they leave white marks on our black clothes. (What [...]