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Rachel Weisz added a stage accolade to Hollywood stardom Sunday, winning the best-actress prize at London's Laurence Olivier theater awards for her role in A Streetcar Named Desire.

The prize for the Londoner made good in the U.S. was fitting on a night that rewarded several Broadway-bound productions, including Enron, Red and The Mountaintop, a play about Martin Luther King by 28-year-old American writer Katori Hall.

Rock musical spring Awakening - which traveled the opposite direction, from New York to London - took four Prizes, including best new musical.

Another Brillante Mendoza film brought honor to the country.

“Lola,” the latest film by Cannes-winning director Brillante “Dante” Mendoza, won the Grand Knight Award, equivalent to the Grand Jury Prize in the world competition category of the 27th Miami International Film Festival in the US.

The international film festival also commended the star of Lola, Anita Linda, as a cinema icon and its story for offering “an earnest, compassionate study of forgiveness and redemption.”

The pinoy indie film bested 13 other entries from Russia, Brazil, China, Bolivia and The Netherlands in the category that celebrates the works of up-and-coming filmmakers from around the world.

7 pinoys made it to the Top 100 finalists of Benetton’s “It’s My Time” model search.

They are:

Pacman defeats Clottey and retains tite in a hard-fought fight!

WBO welterweight champion and World’s best pound-for-pound fighter Manny Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KOs) from the Philippines scored a one-sided twelve round unanimous decision against former IBF champion Joshua Clottey (35-4, 20 KOs) from Ghana in front of a crowd of 50 thousand at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas Saturday night (Sunday noon in Manila).

Ruffa Gutierrez raised the white flag for “peace, peace, peace.”

Ruffa Gutierrez left in the middle of her talk show The Buzz last Sunday because she got hurt by Kris Aquino’s remarks regarding her transfer to TV5. The alleged “walk out” happened during the Points of View segment (POV) (Read the related story here).

The issue was magnified when rival program “Showbiz Central” aired a phone patch interview with Ruffa’s mom, Annabelle Rama, expressing her disgust on Kris Aquino.

“Pilipinas Got Talent” once again witnessed the birth of remarkable talents last Saturday and Sunday. Among the hopefuls who caught the judges’ attention were one man band Reynaldo Benavente (extreme left) who sang and played the harmonica using his mouth, guitar with his hands, and bass guitar with his feet; four-year old Gabrielle Ramos (second from left) who charmed and impressed the judges with her adorable rendition of

The coronation night of Bb. Pilipinas 2010 happened Saturday night at the Araneta Coliseum with slightly delayed telecast via GMA-7.

21-year-old Bicolana beauty, Maria Venus Raj (#10, center), was chosen as Bb. Pilipinas-Universe. She stands 5′9.

20-year-old former Miss USA-Philippines winner, Krista Mae Arrieta Kleiner (#11, 2nd from left), was selected as Bb. Pilipinas-International. Best known as Krissa Mae, this Psychology grad already appeared in various GMA programs such as Gagambino, Obra, Gobingo and Darna. She’s the girlfriend of RnB Prince Jay-R.

Ezra Band from Davao del Sur impressed the three judges of Pilipinas Got Talent.

There’s something special about Ezra band. This band from Davao del Sur has a girl vocalist named Kaaye and a differently-abled keyboard player. Their soulful rendition of “Wonderful Tonight” wowed the judges.

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(Update 1 - 9:18 p.m.) State seismologists on Saturday afternoon hoisted a Tsunami Alert Level 1 in the Philippines after a powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit south-central Chile on the other side of the Pacific Ocean at 3:34 a.m. Saturday (2:34 p.m. Saturday in Manila), even as reports said the Philippine Embassy officials and staff in the capital city of Santiago were all safe.

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