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...minute performance made him No. 1 in northern Cali-fornia. In previous contests Aldea has wowed judges with trademark moves, like a drunken kung fu impersonation - all the while following the requisite dance steps. "I've been to Japan and the Philippines," says Aldea, whose parents are originally from Manila, "and the dancers there focus more on perfect scoring instead of artistry...
ARRESTED. JOSEPH ESTRADA, 64, Philippine President ousted in January; on corruption charges; in Manila. He turned himself in after warrants were issued accusing him of taking millions of dollars in bribes while in office. He is free on bail...
Back when Clark was open, Amerasian children of servicemen did have a chance to go to the U.S.?if their mothers could prove paternity. While that didn't happen too often, the occasional success story gave others hope, and they bombarded the U.S. embassy in Manila with citizenship applications. Older Amerasian girls traded on their exotic-but-familiar looks to marry serving soldiers, later settling in prosaic places like Oklahoma City and Fort Wayne. But with the base gone, so are the servicemen and the link to American passports. Few of the Europeans or Americans who descend on Angeles these...
...credit, Live Show knows better than to be pretentious. In fast, documentary-style, the camera jostles through the dank alleys of Manila's slums and into the queasy, crowded rooms where the performers copulate on lumpy mattresses. There are flashes of flesh, but the camera focuses on the audience's eerie, dead stare. When one of the women, Gigi, starts grunting loudly during sex, her partner wonders if its the onset of an asthma attack. It turns out she was trying to catch the eye of a Korean pornographer in the crowd. For most of the characters, anything that...
...Philippines may well need a moral revival. Though illegal, live sex acts still grind away in Manila's sleazy bar districts. Video porn is easily available, and far cheaper than a movie ticket. The President's men recently banned pornographic videos on long-haul buses, but nothing has been done to halt the practice of provincial theaters to creatively splice a few minutes of hard-core porn into their main features. Films such as Live Show, which tries to explore the poverty behind sexual degradation, may actually serve to diminish the audience for pornography...