Showing posts with label Isabelle Daza. Show all posts
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Monday, September 25, 2017

MOD's 101 Most Beautiful Women in the World (2006)


MOD, September 25, 2006 (32nd Anniversary Special)
On the cover: Gloria Diaz and her daughter Isabelle Diaz Daza


Different international magazines feature the so-called “top list” annually: FHM with the “100 Sexiest Women,” Maxim with the “Hot 100,” etc. And it sells! So, I thought of creating such a list – “101 Most Beautiful Women in the World” – for MOD magazine. It was not, however, promoted well and the magazine didn’t sustain its publication. Too bad. It was picked-up by another local magazine and they have been publishing it annually ever since. And yes, it really sells!
Here, in this MOD 32nd Anniversary Special, is my brainchild, the “101 Most Beautiful Women in the World” list. Plus a congruent list of the “32 Most Beautiful Filipinas.”





Also in this anniversary issue is an early article for the Holidays – “All You Want to See This Christmas” – which is another list, of brief info about Christmas films.





“You are the most beautiful of women..... My darling, you are like a mare among the king’s stallions. Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments and your neck with jewels. We will make for you gold earrings with silver hooks.” – Song of Solomon 1:8-10, The Everyday Bible, New Century Version.


Tuesday, September 25, 2012

September 24 & September 25

 
SEPTEMBER 24 

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 19 No. 21, September 24, 1996
On the Cover: Jason Everly and Donna Cruz
 
 
Setyembre 24 sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas
 
          Noong Setyembre 24, 1716, Nagkaroon ng malakas na pagsabog ang Bulkang Taan sa Batangas.
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          Nasakop ng mga puwersa ng British ang Ermita at Malate at pinagsalikupan nila ang napapaderang siyudad ng Intramuros.
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Personalities and celebrities born on September 24: 
1894 – Jose Y. Yulo, Secretary of Justice, fifth Speaker of the House of Representative (January 24, 1939 – December 30, 1941) and sixth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (February 5, 1942 – July 9, 1945) – in Bago City, Negros Occidental (d. October 27, 1976).
1934 – Edgardo Javier Angara, politician and senator – in Baler, Tayabas (now Aurora)
1940 – Renato Naranja, chess international master.
1940 – Rogelio Lunasco Ordoñez, multi-awarded fictional writer and journalist – in Alapan, Imus Cavite (d. May 19, 2016).
1970 - Keanna Reeves (Janet Derecho Duterte), actress - in Cebu City.
Keanna Reeves
on the cover of Sense and Style (August 2006)



1979 – Julia Clarete (real name Edna Giselle Rosetta Nuñez Clarette), singer, actress and television host. 
Julia Clarete
on the cover of MOD (January 13, 2006).
1989 – Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, German-Filipina actress, TV host, model and Miss Universe 2016 – in Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.
Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Universe 2016,
on the covers of Cosmopolitan Philippines (April 2016) and Rogue (June 2016)
1992 – Coleen Garcia (full name Danielle Claudine Ortega Garcia), Filipina-Spanish model and actress – in Mandaluyong City.
Coleen Garcia
on the cover of Bannawag (September 7, 2015)
 
Ang mga Sesame Street characters na
sina Big Bird, Ernie, Bert, Cookie Monster,
Grover, Oscar the Grouch at Elmo,
tampok sa taklob-pahina ng TV Star Guide
(September 2001).
Larawang Trivia
         Noong 2001 tinatayang mayroong mahigit 120 million manunood ang Sesame Street sa buong daigdig. Mahigit 1,000 research studies na ang ginawa tungkol sa efficacy, impact at effect ng programang ito sa American culture. Tinatayang 95 porsyento ng mga preschoolers sa America ay nakapanood na ng Sesame Street bago pa man sila umabot ng tatlong taong gulang. Halos 25 porsyento ng mamamayan ng America ang nakapanood na ng programang ito. Sa ika-40 anibersaryo ng children’s show noong Nobyembre 10, 2009, ito ay napanood sa mahigit 140 bansa kabilang na ang Pilipinas.
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SEPTEMBER 25
MOD 32nd Anniversary Special, September 25, 2006
On the Cover: Gloria Diaz and Daughter Isabelle Diaz Daza

Setyembre 25 sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas

          Noong Setyembre 25, 1945, itinatag ang People’s Court sa pamamagitan ng Commonwealth Act No. 682 upang maging hukuman para sa mga nagawang krimen laban sa pambansang seguridad sa panahon ng pananakop ng mga Hapon.
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Personalities and celebrities born on September 25:
1876 – Hemenegildo Villanueva, politician – in Bais Negros oriental (d. April, 1939).
1879 – Lope K. Santos, poet, novelist, lwyer and labor leader – in Pasig (then part of Rizal) (d. May 1, 1963).
1925 – Pablo Paras Garcia, lawyer and politician – in Cebu.
1957 – Edgar Sulite, martial arts teacher and creator of Lameco Eskrima, a Filipino martial arts system – in Tacloban City (d. April 10, 1997).
1961 – Mark Gil (real name Raphael John de Mesa Eigenmann), actor – in Manila (d. September 1, 2014).
1966 – Ramon “Bong” Revilla (real name Jose Marie Mortel Bautista), actor and politician – in Manila.
 


Supermodel Gisele Bundchen on the cover
of Newsweek (September 25, 2000).
Picture Trivia
          Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen became one of Victoria’s “Secret Angels” starting year 2000 when she received a 25-million-dollar contract. It was also in 2000 when Bundchen wore the most expensive Victoria’s Secret Fantasy Bra of all time, the 15-million-dollar “Red Hot Fantasy Bra,” listed in the Guinness World Records as the “Most expensive lingerie ever created.”

 
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

March 6



MARCH 6
Celebrity World Vol. 4 No. 187, March 6, 1995
On the Cover: Taiwanese Martial-artist and actress Cynthia Khan (real name Yang Li-tsing).
 
 
Events that happened on March 6
1946 – The University of Santo Tomas Hospital was inaugurated.
1947 – President Manuel A. Roxas declared the Huks as an illegal group organized to commit sedition and overthrow the established government.
1951 – Fort Santiago in Manila was declared a national shrine by Republic Act No. 597
The entrance arch of the Baluarte de Santiago (Fort Santiago).

 
Personalities and celebrities born on March 6:
1938 – Armando Ramos, singer, actor and “Prince of Kundiman” – in Tondo, Manila.
1954 – Chanda Valenzuela Romero, actress – in Cagayan de Oro. 
1970 – Gretchen Barretto, actress and model – in Cebu City.

Gretchen Barretto
on the covers of Kirot Komiks (February 11, 1996) and Metro Society (February 2011).

 
1988 – Isabelle (Ysabel) Diaz Daza, model and television host – in Manila.
Isabelle Daza
on the covers of Rogue (May 2012) and Cosmopolitan Philippines (April 2013)

 
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy the Vampire Slayer
on the cover of Entertainment Weekly
(March 6 1998)


 
Picture Trivia
          In 1995, at the age of 18, Sarah Michelle Gellar won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Kendall Hart in the TV series All My Children. In that same year, she left the series.
          Did you know how many times Gellar auditioned for the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 1997? Gellar first auditioned for the supporting role of Cordelia. She did 11 screen tests before she was finally chosen to play the lead character of Buffy.
          The series lasted seven seasons totaling 144 episodes, and made Gellar and the character Buffy cult icons in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia. Even in the Philippines, TV viewers followed the adventures of Buffy, the teenage hero who fought vampires and other supernatural creatures.         
 
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