So, who’s Morissette? An average guy (read: someone not into showbiz gossip) asks. The young woman who spends 85 percent of her waking hours watching TV and browsing the web and looking at showbiz news and gossip says, “The singer!” The guy retorted, “You mean Alanis?” The girl answered back, “No, Morissette, the singer!”
That may well be the banter of two people about Morissette Amon, the singer who is making waves in the live circuit these days.
She was recently featured in the season end of Stages Sessions Dec. 13 at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf (CBTL) at the Fort. And, the crowd that jam-packed the coffee shop was enough for us to say the singer was, indeed, was on her way to stardom.
Her fans call themselves Mowienatics and they were all there, some even standing till the end of her performance as there were no more seats available, to show their love and support for her. The 19-year old diva-to-be simply performed like it was her last as a way of acknowledging her fans.
Stages Sessions is a venue for artists like Morissette to be what they are, allowing them to perform songs they couldn’t because of the images they have been molded by their recording companies or management.
And Morissette was glad she was invited to be part of it and even become its closing performer.
Stages Sessions will be back, I was told, next year, at the same venue. And, I believe many fans are waiting for its return after listening to some of the artists during the first sessions performing wholeheartedly and with gusto.
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Box office supremacy
By now, you know which movie won the best picture and performers as best actors/actress, but the box office race is not over yet.
After four days, the race is still being fought between My Bebe Love: #Kilig Pa More and The Beauty and the Bestie. Fans of leading performers in either film claim the film of their idols is leading and so we let them relish their illusions. But, in the end, it will be the MMFF’s tally that will count.
The media will be swamped with claims from either camp that either film is leading, and, expectedly, scribes will dive and grab this for something they can dish in their columns or entertainment pages.
What’s important though is the crowd is pumped up to support the film they like to win in the box-office race. We shall wait until the last day, Jan. 3, which film has the legs to maintain its lead at the tills.
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Marimar’s end is near
In less than two weeks, Marimar, the current re-imagining on GMA 7, is going to fade to black. It seems the network has decided to have an abbreviated second version as the plot doesn’t thicken but instead is meandering. Perhaps the production staff can no longer see anything to make the plot even more convoluted as it is now.
Cutting it short while the figures are still better than they expected would mean with the series the Kapuso network succeeded in giving its rival, the Kapamilya network nights of serious thinking in how to arrest the ratings siege.
While it may be true that there were nights Marimar nearly toppled its rival shows on the other network, figures in nationwide surveys indicate otherwise. To end it in a couple of weeks may even be good for the ratings of the show.
If the Kapuso network read the figures carefully, either those supplied by AGB or NUTAM or Kantar Media, then they should be guided on what kinds of shows they have to produce to make sure the other network wouldn’t have reasons to claim ratings lead. But if the network would merely rely on remakes, as if their duplication on screen would lead to better ratings, then they should not expect to maintain whatever lead they had gained this year.