Half-Filipino Clint Jun Gamboa off to next round of American Idol 10

If you're wondering if the asian-looking guy Clint Jun Gamboa who belted out the song "Get Ready" during the group round of the Hollywood Week in American Idol Season 10, is a Filipino?


Yes he is. I read this on the comments of his old Youtube video when someone asked him his roots even before he joined the singing contest. He said he is Half-Pinoy. Check his Youtube channel HERE.


The karaoke host and his group in the second round of Hollywood Week got a little controversial when they dismissed 15 year-old Jaycee Badeaux since the latter cannot catch up with their choreography. Jacee ended up searching for a new group while fighting back in tears.

It was a good call for Clint's group since they were able to deliver one of the best performances of this round. Clint was shocked though when Steven Tyler asked his groupmates to step forward leaving him behind alone, only to find out that they all made it through to the next round.

Jennifer Lopez said, "Come'on Jun! You know you're going through!"

Clint is off to the next round which will be aired tonight. He has to capture the hearts of the judges once again with a solo performance.

Justin Bieber launches Never Say Never film in UK

Justin Bieber has launched his Never Say Never 3D film in London with hundreds of fans turning up to see him.

People queued from Wednesday morning to see the 16-year-old Canadian, and his evening arrival prompted some pushing and shoving in the crowd.

Some fans had to be pulled to safety with organisers saying they took "every measure possible" to prevent injuries.

Meanwhile, others in the crowd were in tears after being given tickets to see the film.

Justin Bieber told reporters that he hoped people would go to see Never Say Never whether they were fans or not.
'Inspiring'

At a press conference before the screening, he said: "It's just inspiring whether you are a fan of me or not a fan of me."

"I saw a video on the internet last night and it was a review by this guy.

"I was like, 'OK good, this guy is gonna hate on me for 10 minutes straight, saying that I have ugly hair, and I look like a girl, and my voice hasn't dropped and all this stuff'.

"So I go to the video and the guy says, 'OK I'm not gonna lie, I hated Justin Bieber, and now after watching this movie it got me to respect him'.

"That was really neat to hear," he said.

Never Say Never tells the story of the Canadian teenager's rise from a small-town singer to international star.

It shows a young Bieber playing the drums and busking on the streets of Ontario, Canada, before rising to fame through YouTube and Twitter.

It also features Justin Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, who discovered the teenager on YouTube and, with Usher, helped get him a recording contract on a visit to Atlanta.

The star picked up the international breakthrough act at the Brit Awards this week.

Never Say Never is released on 18 February.

Lady Gaga claims 1,000th number one on Billboard chart

Lady Gaga's latest single has made US chart history by becoming the 1,000th number one on Billboard's Hot 100.

The Grammy-winning singer told Billboard magazine the milestone was "the greatest honour" of her career.

Born This Way is the 24-year-old's third US number one single, following her 2009 hits Just Dance and Poker Face.

The Hot 100 chart, which began in 1958, ranks songs by a mix of radio airplay, sales and streaming activity data.

Born This Way, which Lady Gaga performed at the Grammy awards last weekend, is only the 19th single to debut at number one in the Hot 100's history.

With digital sales of 448,000, the track also broke the record for the largest amount of downloads of a song by a female artist in its first week on release.

In other chart news, the cast of US show Glee has set a new record for the act with most songs on the Billboard chart.

Thanks to the show's policy of releasing multiple songs digitally after each episode, its cast has seen 113 tracks in the Hot 100 - five more than Elvis Presley charted over his entire career.

Justin Bieber film a solid bid for credibility

LOS ANGELES: Setting out to demonstrate that overnight sensations deserve respect too, Justin Bieber should make believers out of all but the most hardened of skeptics with "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never," which opens Friday.

An energetic 3D portrait of the global superstar as a down-to-earth teen from small-town Canada, the 105-minute documentary works overtime (by about 10 minutes too long) to change his perception from fluke Internet phenom to the hardest working 16-year-old on the planet.

And it generally succeeds, too, thanks to a visually energetic approach by director Jon Chu that keeps all the obligatory backstage/onstage bits moving fluidly.

In a business where timing is everything, the Paramount release is perfectly positioned for maximum impact especially considering an ambitious media blitz that saw Bieber extending his demographic reach with appearances on "The Daily Show" and "Late Show With David Letterman."

Unlike, say, the 2009 Jonas Brothers 3D concert film, which felt like it came out a couple of years too late, "Never Say Never" is striking while the fever's still hot, which should translate into more Miley-sized returns. "Hannah Montana" debuted to $31.1 million three years ago, and "Jonas Brothers" to just north of $12 million.

Starting off, appropriately, on a YouTube page, where Bieber famously overtook the sneezing pandas and cute kitties singing a cover of Chris Brown's "With You," the film follows the trajectory of its main man's career from behind his kiddie drum kit to the mighty Madison Square Garden stage, which, incidentally, was sold out in a mere 22 minutes.

Along the way we meet his young, devout Christian single mom, Pattie (who gave birth to The Bieb when she was all of 18) and his baby-faced manager, Scooter Braun, not to mention several of his more famous, early adherents, including Usher and prolific producer Antonio "L.A." Reid, who in the remarkably self-possessed Bieber saw a musical Macaulay Culkin.

Director Chu, who infuses the film with the same lively zip he lent "Step Up 3D" (although here he's working with a more intriguing "script"), keeps things disarmingly real for the most part, and even manages to work in a little drama when it appears Bieber's raggedy voice may not bounce back in time for the MSG gig.

And much like in Chu's previous film, the 3D pops mainly in the performance sequences, in which he's joined by the likes of Usher, Cyrus, Ludacris and Jaden Smith, where all the fist-pumping, dancing lasers and cascading ticker tape work to heightened effect.

But where the film ultimately hits home is with the more intimate, backstage stuff.

Under the protective wing of an on-the-road support system serving as, in the words of one of his crew, a highly functional dysfunctional family, Bieber manages to make his film's inspirational message heard loud and clear:

Despite your preconceived notions, he's just your average, everyday multiplatinum-selling teen idol who still likes to kick back with his Stratford, Ontario, homies and grab a slice at the corner pizza joint.

After saying grace, naturally.

Halle Berry rejoins 'New Year's Eve'

LOS ANGELES: Halle Berry has rejoined the cast of the ensemble romantic comedy "New Year's Eve" after pulling out of the project last month to fight a custody battle for her young daughter.

At that time, Katherine Heigl stepped in and replaced Berry. But Berry was freed up this week when a judge in Los Angeles ruled in her favor, making it possible for her to travel with her daughter to New York, where Garry Marshall is shooting "New Year's Eve."

Berry's new role in the film -- she'll play a nurse -- is slightly smaller than the one she gave up.

The cast also includes Sarah Jessica Parker, Zac Efron, Hilary Swank, Ashton Kutcher, Lea Michelle and Robert De Niro.

Additionally, Carla Gugino has closed a deal to join the New Line project, which follows a number of couples whose lives cross paths on New Year's Eve. Gugino, whose character is a doctor, will mainly play opposite Jessica Biel and Seth Meyers.

Gugino, who plays one of David Duchovny's love interests in the current season of "Californication," returns to theaters next month in Zack Snyder's "Sucker Punch." In June, she'll be seen opposite Jim Carrey in the family film "Mr. Popper's Penguins." (Reuters)

Country trio, Canadian rockers win big at Grammys

LOS ANGELES: US country trio Lady Antebellum emerged as surprise winners Sunday at the Grammys, taking five awards in a disappointing night for Eminem at the music industry's annual megabash.

Canadian indie band Arcade Fire won the coveted best album top award at the climax of the three-and-half-hour show in Los Angeles, while Lady Gaga -- who turned up in an egg, in inimitable style -- garnered three gongs.

Rapper Eminem, who had been nominated in 10 categories and was hoping to cap a comeback year, had to settle for two wins after a show including performances by rock legend Mick Jagger, folk icon Bob Dylan and diva Barbra Streisand.

Jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding, who is one of President Barack Obama's favorite musicians, was named best newcomer at the music industry's annual awards, beating teen sensation Bieber among others shortlisted.

Lady Antebellum appeared shocked by their success, in winning in five of the six categories for which they had been nominated including best song and best record for "Need You Now," from their best-selling album of the same name.

"We are completely floating ... We're on a cloud," said female band member Hillary Scott immediately after the show, calling it "just the most humbinng feeling in the entire world."

Charles Kelley, leader singer of the Nashville, Tennessee-based band, added: "It definitely feels pretty surreal ...It does feel like we've arrived in a way... We'll probably never have one of these moments again.

"We're gonna try to soak it up ..we're never gonna ever forget this for the rest of our lives."

The trio were only prevented from winning a clean sweep of all six categories in which they were nominated by Arcade Fire, who won album of the year Grammy for their record "The Suburbs."

Eminem, who performed his song "Love the Way You Lie" with Rihanna at LA's Spaples Center, had garnered the most nominations ahead of the show, with nods in 10 categories, fueling hopes o.

The singer -- real name Marshall Bruce Mathers III -- dropped out of music-making in the middle of the past decade as he battled with drug problems, but returned with the album "Relapse" in 2009, before 2010's "Recovery."

But hopes that his comeback would be crowned with a brace of Grammys were not to be: he ended the evening with only two -- best rap album for "Recovery" and best rap solo.

The show began with a tribute to soul legend Aretha Franklin, with singers including Christina Aguilera belting out a string of Franklin's hits including "Respect," "Think" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman."

The "Queen of Soul," recovering from reported cancer surgery, send a video message thanking everyone for their prayers and promising to be back for next year's show.

Of the veterans who did perform Sunday, Jagger was the most explosive, rocking the show with a version of the Blues Brothers' classic "Everybody Needs Somebody."

Dressed in a purple gown Streisand, who rarely performs in public tese days, sang "Evergreen," while Dylan growled his way through "Maggie's Farm" backed by an acoustic band, with a harmonica flourish at the end.

Possibly the most memorable acts of the evening was by Cee Lo Green, who sang the toe-tapping "Forget You" in a costume topped by multi-colored feathers -- and accompanied by slinkily-dressed actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who gave a stunning performance ending up dancing on the artist's grand piano.

After the show top newcomer Spalding, who has performed at the White House twice, played down the fact that she had beaten mega-selling artists including Bieber, even with his new haircut.

"I didn't beat him. I mean, he sold more records than me, did he beat me?" Spalding said afterwards .. "And and he has great hair and I have great hair," added the Afro-topped 26-year-old African-American musician. (AFP)

'The King's Speech' sweeps board at BAFTAs

LONDON: "The King's Speech" continued its regal progress through the awards season, winning the Best Film award at the BAFTAs, as Colin Firth, who plays the film's stammering monarch, picked up Best Actor.

The dramatisation of the true-life relationship between King George VI and his speech therapist won seven awards at the ceremony held in central London's Royal Opera House.

A selection of Hollywood royalty including Samuel L. Jackson and Mickey Rourke looked on as the story of the stuttering sovereign beat off competition from "The Social Network," "Black Swan," Inception" and "True Grit".

The film is among the favourites to collect the Best Picture award at the Oscars on February 27.

Firth has now claimed the impressive double of BAFTA and Golden Globe for his portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II's father, but will have to wait two weeks to find out if he can complete the set with the biggest prize in showbusiness.

The 50-year-old actor used his speech to reveal the circumstances of his first meeting with director Tom Hooper.

"I had to postpone a routine but somewhat uncomfortable medical examination," Firth recalled.

"I am happy to report that the meeting was rather less uncomfortable than the exam, but as time went on it became clear that Tom's working methods were just as thorough and invasive as my doctor's.

"But when you see the results you're grateful, so I am thankful as I am to my doctor," the "Bridget Jones's Diary" actor added.

The Queen was reported to have given the royal seal approval to the triumphant film, an endorsement which Firth admitted meant "a very great deal."

Hooper said he was "completely thrilled" by the film's raft of awards.

Helena Bonham Carter earlier won best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of the king's wife.

"I'm so used to losing that it's kind of a strange feeling to win," said Bonham Carter in her acceptance speech.

"It's very nice, but children, if you're watching, it's not about the winning. It still feels nice."

Geoffrey Rush walked off with best Supporting Actor for his role as the king's speech therapist.

Decades before her death, the Queen's mother told the film's writer, David Seidler, that she approved of him recounting the story once she had passed away.

"She was a lovely old lady and I thought a couple of years, three at the most, but 25 years later I was able to make the film," Seidler said.

Natalie Portman was unable to collect the Best Actress award for her performance in "Black Swan" due to her pregnancy. The trophy was picked up by the film's director, Darren Aronofsky.

"She trained for a year before we made this movie," Aronofsky told the audience.

"When we shot every day she was in every single scene and every single shot. So with a lot of pride I thank you for this for her. Thank you Natalie."

West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin scooped the Adapted Screenplay prize for The Social Network, a film tracing the rise of social networking website Facebook. "Under normal circumstances I would be very excited about this but sitting in the seat in front of me is one of The Beatles," Sorkin said, referring to fellow guest Paul McCartney.

Veteran star Christopher Lee was presented with the Fellowship award by US director Tim Burton.

"This is a truly great honour, a great, great honour," the 88-year-old actor said.

"Two things really make it so. The fact that this was voted to me by my peers and secondly that I received it from one of the great directors of our age." (AFP)

Adam Sandler's romantic farce boasts secret weapon

LOS ANGELES: As generic as its title, "Just Go With It" aims at two different constituencies, Adam Sandler's rude-guy-humor fans and Jennifer Aniston rom-com loyalists and just partially hits both targets.

Labored, repetitive and lacking a single moment of surprise in the course of its indulgent two hours, this Sony release nonetheless has one ace to play in the beauteous form of Brooklyn Decker, the slo-mo sight of whom striding out of the sea during Super Bowl commercials last weekend no doubt guaranteed that guys won't object too strenuously to this as a Valentine's Day weekend date-night choice.

It won't mean anything to 99.9 percent of its paying customers, but this mildly racy, pictorially sunny PG-13 farce represents a very free reworking of the 1969 hit "Cactus Flower" (and its Broadway and Paris stage predecessors), with Sandler, Aniston and Decker in the Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn roles, respectively. The age bracket for the older two characters has been lowered by a decade or more, and little of the original remains in Allan Loeb and Timothy Dowling's adaptation other than the medical professions of the leads and some plot machinations leading to an ending that's preordained in the first few minutes.

With the world-weariness of "Funny People" out of his system, Sandler treads familiar ground here as Dr. Daniel Maccabee, a glib Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who, for more than 20 years, has racked up considerable romantic mileage from the trick of wearing a wedding ring and pretending to be unhappily married. He has no trouble nailing the hottest young thing at a beach party, math teacher Palmer (Decker), though contrived complications lead to his subsequently lying to her that he's not only married but has two children.

The only person Danny can't put anything over on is his assistant Katherine (Aniston), a good-natured, no-nonsense divorcee who actually does have two kids. Very minor efforts -- lab coat, drab hairstyle -- have been made in the early doctor's office scenes to make Aniston look plainer than she is, but these can't disguise the fact that Katherine is the woman for Danny; he's just too dazzled by his latest conquest to notice.

A couple of parties and medical scenes provide director Dennis Dugan (in his sixth collaboration with Sandler) the opportunities for easy yuks at the expense of patients who need some plastic surgery and those who have had too much. In the former category are a woman with one eyebrow considerably higher up her forehead than the other and a large lady with notably mismatched breasts because of an implant collapse. Notable among the latter is the very funny Kevin Nealon as an aging swinger with a face so frozen he can't close his mouth to swallow a drink.

Understanding her boss' dilemma as no one else can, Katherine gamely agrees to pose as Danny's about-to-be ex-wife when Palmer insists upon verifying the truth of his tall tale. The kids (Bailee Madison, Griffin Gluck) get dragged into the act in the bargain, whereupon the whole group, along with Danny's best friend Eddie (Nick Swardson), fly off to Hawaii, where the bedroom farce plays itself out -- to diminishing returns -- within the confines of a luxury resort.

The breeziness of the dialogue exchanges possess an agreeable casualness; the no-b.s. banter between Danny and Katherine makes them a convincingly good fit, and the variously motivated use of linguistic accents by Eddie (manic German) and Katherine's young daughter (cultivated British) lightly enlivens matters. But most of the time you wonder how Palmer could be so good-natured that she's not only willing to put up with the confounding shenanigans of her new acquaintances but actually keen to marry the central perpetrator of them.

Like Will Smith, Sandler appears to want to win approval by showing what a great guy his characters are; crude jokes to the side, he presents Danny as being motivated only by true love, as being great with kids and doing the right thing, however goofily. To his credit, however, he cuts a wide berth for his co-stars; in her big-screen debut, Decker gets plenty of time to prove her ease and natural allure in front of the camera, though Swardson, the kids and Nicole Kidman -- in a surprising, over-the-top comic turn as a long-lost school friend Katherine encounters in Hawaii but would have preferred to remain lost -- are considerably overexposed.

The beneficiary of the general excess is Aniston, who comes off as more energetic, alert and alive than she normally does in her generally formulaic movies. Whether it's the joshing mode of much of her dialogue or just a happenstance of collaborating with these particular people, she seems to be having fun, and this raises her scenes a notch above the rest.

The extent of product placement in "Just Go With It" makes you want to escape to a deserted island -- or even just to the desert -- to recover from the commercial bombardment. The soundtrack's barrage of familiar pop tunes, especially from the Police, is similarly overdone. (Reuters)

'Hannah Montana' destroyed family, Miley's dad says

NASHVILLE: Billy Ray Cyrus says the Disney TV show "Hannah Montana" destroyed his family, causing his divorce and sending daughter Miley Cyrus spinning out of control.

In a December interview published in the Feb. 22 issue of GQ Magazine, Cyrus said he wished the show that launched his daughter to pop stardom had never happened.

"I hate to say it, but yes, I do. Yeah. I'd take it back in a second," Cyrus said. "For my family to be here and just be everybody OK, safe and sound and happy and normal, would have been fantastic. Heck, yeah. I'd erase it all in a second if I could."

Cyrus and his wife, Tish, filed for divorce in October. They have three kids together - Miley is the oldest - and two from Tish's previous marriage.

Billy Ray Cyrus said when he asked about the rumored video footage of his daughter smoking from a bong at her 18th birthday party in December, he was told it was none of his business. He refused to attend the party, saying it was wrong to have it in a bar.

Cyrus, a native of Flatwoods, Ky., had his own success as a country singer beginning in the early 1990s with his huge hit "Achy Breaky Heart."

Cyrus says in the interview that he tried too hard to be a friend instead of a parent to his daughter. He said he is scared for Miley and compared her current path to those of other stars whose lives ended tragically, including Kurt Cobain, Anna Nicole Smith and Michael Jackson.

"I should have been a better parent," Cyrus said. "I should have said, 'Enough is enough - it's getting dangerous and somebody's going to get hurt.' I should have, but I didn't. Honestly, I didn't know the ball was out of bounds until it was way up in the stands somewhere."

He said his entire family was baptized before leaving Tennessee for Los Angeles to protect themselves from evil, and he believes Satan is attacking his family.

"It's the way it is," Cyrus said. "There has always been a battle between good and evil. Always will be. You think, 'This is a chance to make family entertainment, bring families together ...' and look what it's turned into." (Rueters)

'Black Swan' continues its twirl overseas

LOS ANGELES: Despite "Tangled's" continued lock on first place, "Black Swan" landed just a feather away from taking the top spot at foreign theaters over the weekend, missing No. 1 by a mere $131,664.

An obvious "Oscar Bump" is strongly in play as international audiences in 29 territories boosted the mainstream art house wonder over the $150 million mark in global revenue with $16.7 million in weekend receipts.

Third place got an unexpected visitor as the Franco-Belgian comedy "Nothing to Declare" in just four territories earned an impressive $13.95 million and is approaching $50 million worldwide. For a film that most people stateside have never heard of, that's not a bad haul.

In six more territories than last week another Oscar darling, "The King's Speech," held steady in fourth place with $13.2 million and a global cumulative that is just a shilling shy of $200 million. And other Oscar contenders continued to make their mark in the Top 20, with "True Grit" in ninth place and "The Fighter" in 19th place, having just crossed the $100 million mark in global dollars.

Here are the top 20 movies at international theaters last weekend, followed by international gross for the weekend (excluding North America), number of theater locations, number of territories, worldwide gross to date (including North America), and number of weeks in release as compiled Wednesday by global media measurement company Rentrak Corp. and provided by Hollywood.com:

"Tangled," $16,871,286, 4,400 locations, 44 territories, $490,473,734, 12 weeks.

2. "Black Swan," $16,739,622, 3,484 locations, 29 territories, $155,421,621, 11 weeks.

3. "Nothing to Declare," $13,956,964, 1,129 locations, four territories, $46,882,950, three weeks.

4. "The King's Speech," $13,211,028, 3,893 locations, 26 territories, $199,976,798, 12 weeks.

5. "Sanctum," $11,958,392, 3,856 locations, 13 territories, $45,453,535, two weeks.

6. "The Green Hornet," $10,787,977, 7,822 locations, 59 territories, $200,046,313, five weeks.

7. "Yogi Bear," $9,278,119, 4,246 locations, 31 territories, $155,338,796, nine weeks.

8. "Kokowääh," $8,524,143, 876 locations, three territories, $21,659,756, two weeks.

9. "True Grit," $8,469,692, 3,385 locations, 16 territories, $177,921,814, eight weeks.

10. "Gulliver's Travels," $7,644,591, 1,992 locations, 36 territories, $183,300,808, eight weeks.

11. "Tron Legacy," $6,289,869, 2,075 locations, 26 territories, $356,084,840, nine weeks.

12. "No Strings Attached," $5,525,670, 3,098 locations, 17 territories, $71,811,219, four weeks.

13. "Gnomeo and Juliet," $5,348,317, 3,633 locations, seven territories, $34,476,335, one week.

14. "Just Go With It," $5,229,806, 4,463 locations, 13 territories, $44,182,893, one week.

15. "Hereafter," $4,487,711, 1,500 locations, 27 territories, $88,829,879, six weeks.

16. "The Tourist," $4,234,232, 2,601 locations, 50 territories, $230,777,671, 10 weeks.

17. "Femmine Contro Maschi," $3,362,288, locations NA, one territory, $10,450,509, two weeks.

18. "Detective K: Secret of a Peddler's Inn," $3,354,139, locations NA, one territory, $24,321,180, three weeks.

19. "The Fighter," $3,321,450, 1,942 locations, 19 territories, $102,820,739, 10 weeks.

20. "Gantz," $3,092,464, locations NA, one territory, $25,870,868, three weeks. (AP)

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