Poor Judy Ann Santos

The fuss over Judy Ann Santos’s appearing in an ad for Meralco is a tempest in a teacup. I see nothing wrong in getting a celebrity to explain the side of a giant company like Meralco in a touchy issue like electricity rates.

It’s strange that a group like the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption call for a boycott of Juday’s films when the parties involved in the controversy like the Government Service and Insurance System and the National Association of Electricity Consumers for Reform didn’t raise any objections.

Even Malacañang did not find the Juday infomercial worth reacting to.

Now a congressman is considering calling the actress to a congressional investigation!

Poor Juday can’t defend herself because she’s in Europe with boyfriend Ryan Agoncillo and some friends.

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It seems German Moreno isn’t ready to forgive Billy Crawford just now for choosing to re-launch his career with rival network ABS-CBN.

Kuya Germs had nurtured Billy as a young talent, so it’s understandable that he holds a grudge against Billy. There are even reports that Kuya Germs wants Billy banned from appearing on The Master Showman.

Billy reportedly tried to apologize to his former mentor but Kuya Germs would not be swayed.

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The gloves are off, as far as Sunshine Cruz is concerned. Last Saturday, Sunshine was due to appear in GMA-7’s Star Talk to fire away at her sister-in-law Ched and her stepdaughter Angela Montano for supposedly spreading innuendoes against her.

In a text message she sent to the Philippine Entertainment Portal earlier, Sunshine revealed that Ched and Angela (Cesar Montano’s daughter by a previous marriage) were conniving “to destroy me and my family.”

But that’s not all. She also let on that Cesar was not protecting her from the harangues at all.

She said she had for years kept silent for Cesar’s sake, but it was time for her to speak out, according to PEP.

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 “The Sound of Music,” one of the most beloved musical films that starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, was based on the exploits of the von Trapp family that lived in Salzburg, Austria. Now the city’s tourism officials want to cash in on the movie’s popularity by building a museum devoted to the film.

The museum would house memorabilia from the movie, and is expected to draw 140,000 visitors a year.

Not everyone in Salzburg welcomes the idea. The opponents of the museum argued that it would create an enormous traffic jam in the city’s streets.

There was also a plan to convert the von Trapp villa into a hotel.

The Sound of Music had been a long-running Broadway musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein before it was made into a movie in 1965. According to Wikipedia, Maria, the character played by Julie Andrews, loved the musical but hated the movie because many of the actual events had been altered. “It’s a nice story, but it’s not my story,” she reportedly remarked.

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 “Entertainment Tonight,” the popular celebrity telemagazine in the US, is in hot water for reporting that Angelina Jolie had given birth to twins the other Friday, despite being told that the story was apparently false.

ET is said to have gotten the tip from Jolie’s assistant. It turned out that someone had posed as the actress’ assistant, Holly Goline. The show’s officials were reportedly warned about the imposter but it ran the story on its website anyway.

Later ET acknowledged that it based its story on emails from someone it thought was Goline.

The twins are due in August. If the story were true, it would have meant that Jolie gave birth three months prematurely.