For AiAi, hate has replaced love

CEBU, Philippines -  No more love. Just hate.That’s how AiAi delas Alas describes her feelings now for her husband, Jed Salang.

AiAi shared her thoughts with her close friend, Ogie Diaz during a live telecast last week.

 Finally, AiAi has come to her senses. After her ordeal in the hands of Jed, she has realized that it was time to let go of all the illusions that the marriage would work.

 She had tearfully recounted to Boy Abunda how she was physically abused by Jed. The couple had just celebrated the first month of their wedding in Las Vegas.

Since then AiAi seems to have recovered from her nightmare. In the messages she posted on the social network, she indicated that she is “moving on” and that she is turning “negative things into positive.”

 Last week the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) praised the actress for her courage in exposing what she went through. What she did “will embolden other Filipinas with the same fate but are poor and who felt powerless to come out in the open and confront a growing social problem,” the TUCP said.

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The Court of Appeals has upheld the order of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) to take off the air for one month the noontime show Willing Willie for allowing a six-year-old boy to dance provocatively onstage.

ABC 5, which had aired the program, had gone before the  appeals court   to contest the suspension.

 In its ruling that was released recently, the court said the MTRCB “validly and correctly performed its duty” in “imposing the proper sanction when the content was found indecent, immoral or obscene.”

It said the segment showing the boy “gyrating like a macho dancer while being cajoled and goaded by the show’s host and the audience... is commonly perceived as transpiring only in night clubs and other shadowy establishments.”

Following the suspension, the show’s title was changed from Willing Willie, Wil Time Big Time, and then to Wowowillie.

 Willie Revillame hosts the show.

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Dan Brown’s newest book, “Inferno,” has caused quite a stir among local officials because of a passage describing Manila as the “gates of hell.”

The offensive phrase was attributed to one of the characters, Sienna Brooks, who was appalled at the “six-hour traffic jams, suffocating pollution, and a horrifying sex trade” that she found when she arrived in the city for a humanitarian mission.

The first to raise a howl was Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Francis Tolentino. The chairman wrote Brown to express his displeasure with “how you have used Manila as a venue and source of character’s breakdown and trauma, much more her disillusionment in humanity.”

“More than your portrayal of it, Metro Manila is the center of Filipino spirit, faith and hope… Manila citizens are more than capable of exemplifying good character and compassion towards each other, something your novel has failed to acknowledge,” Mr. Tolentino continued.

Even the President’s spokesman, Abigail Valte, weighed in. “We trust that ordinary readers will give more weight to the testimonials of real people who have enjoyed their stay here in our beautiful country over the experiences of a fictional character whose narrative is written for maximum effect,” Valte said.

But ex-president and incoming Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada finds a semblance truth in the controversial passage. He said a study by the University of the Philippines found that the city indeed suffers from mammoth traffic jams and overpopulation.

There is also a growing peace and order problem, he added.

"Manila is really going to hell," Erap said.

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She turned 60 last week but Ms. Nora Aunor is showing no signs of slowing down.

If fact Ate Guy is pairing up with her old screen partner Tirso Cruz III for a made-for-TV movie titled When I Fall In Love. She also has a forthcoming movie project, Ang Kwento ni Mabuti. (FREEMAN)