Ricky Reyes plays the Parlor Game

Author: Isah V. Red
Column: Life & Entertainment

After successfully turning his small beauty parlor in San Juan into a multi-million enterprise with more than a dozen salons across the archipelago. Ricky Reyes has shifted his energy (although just a wee bit of it) to television.

Not that he is new in the medium. He is in fact become one of the most durable TV hosts (longer than Kris Aquino and Boy Abunda combined) and just a few steps away from German “Kuya Germs” Moreno from becoming virtual wallpaper on your TV screens.

After hosting (and producing) a beauty show on RPN-9 every Sunday for nearly a decade, he moved to GMA Network when the latter inked a deal with Eddie Villanueva to provide secular programming for his fledgling Channel 11 (then operated as Zoe Broadcasting by the born-again-Christian group Jesus Is Lord of Villanueva) with an Oprah-inspired show called Gandang Ricky Reyes.

Ricky, a typical Aries (he is celebrating his birthday on April 12), wants to get into new and unexplored areas, discover how far can his mind go.

And so Gandang Ricky Reyes has evolved into something else, and not quite like Oprah, the show.

Ricky has asked his TV team to retool the show and make it more “exciting.”

“I get a certain kind of excitement when I think of something new, either for the salon or the TV show,” he said during an early teatime at Dulcinea last midweek. I realized that I was talking to the person referred to by the local lifestyle media as the beauty guru and endearingly called “mother” by his battalion of hair stylists and makeup artists that make Gandang Ricky Reyes salons the most profitable chain of beauty parlors in the Philippines (and probably in the Asian region, if not the whole world).

Isn’t he the one who introduced the word “rebonding” into the beauty lexicon?

After nights of brainstorming, the team came up with a game show cum reality TV, and as usual Ricky provided a very apt title… Parlor Game.

The game consists of several rounds—elimination, semi-finals, and finals.

In the elimination round, 15 hairdressers will have to answer multiple choice questions in three categories: Ganda, Super Ganda and Mega Ganda. The host will ask questions until only four players are left. These four will advance to the semi-finals round in which they will be put in the Gandang Arena for a Ganda Challenge that they must accomplish within a given period of time. They will be judged based on the following: skills—35 percent; over-all look—35 percent; audience impact—30 percent.

The player who receives the most number of lucky cards from the judges (Ricky Reyes, Joanne Quintas, Renee Salud and Hair Diva Champion Rommel Dobluis) will advance to the final round.

The final round or Master One-On-One is the showdown between the semi-finalist and the defending champion. Ricky will give the two contestants another Ganda Challenge. The same criteria for judging used in the semi-finals round will be used to determine the winner.

Again, the player with the most number of lucky cards from the judges will be proclaimed Salon Master of the Week.

Parlor Game of Gandang Ricky Reyes airs every Sunday, 10:30 a.m., on QTV-11.

‘Papaya’ in Good Morning, America

Edu Manzano’s “Papaya” dance, also a track in a compilation CD that bears his name, has reached a new audience in the US of A.

A recent edition of the popular Good Morning America on ABC News showed its hosts, led by Diane Sawyer discussing the dance craze that swept the country last year and continues to hold sway among young and old.

“Forget the Chicken Dance. Forget the “Macarena.” Everybody’s taking a shot at it (the Papaya dance),” the popular hosts declared over US TV.

To prove their point, the show flashed footage of children dancing the Papaya, and even Army soldiers dancing to its catchy beat. The heretofore staid and serious soldiers actually broke their characteristic formally to unabashedly dance to the Papaya beat! And no one thought less of them at all.

How can one think less of them, and others who have taken the Papaya bandwagon when, as the Good Morning America hosts said, it’s all over, even on YouTube?

And just to show how widely followed it is, the four American hosts danced the Papaya, with a hesitant Sawyer chiding her co-hosts, “You practiced [the steps!] You practiced!”

The best part of all is that Sawyer and company recognize it came all the way from the Philippines, and it’s another source of national pride all over again.

Take a bow, Edu!

Rewind to the good times

If you were already around in the ’60s and the ’70s, you must be consumed by a wistful desire to revisit the era.

A tankful of gas at P20. No traffic jams. Lunch for P3. A movie for a peso. No VAT. Soft drinks at 10 centavos per bottle. A jeepney ride for the same amount.

For one enchanting night, you will be transported back to that era. Hotdog Productions, in cooperation with HARVEST Aid Organization Foundation, present YEBA Combo Festival—a grand reunion of the superstar combos that dominated the local music scene during those magical years.

To be staged on May 2 at the NBC Tent in Fort Bonifacio, YEBA will feature the Electromaniacs, Moonstrucks, Dynasouls, Deltas, Cobras and Sundowners. The combos (as bands were called during that period) will perform the music of icons like The Ventures, The Beatles, Herman’s Hermits, The Temptations, Peter & Gordon, and The Dave Clark 5, among others.

To add sparkle to this unforgettable event, special guests—Ramon ‘RJ’ Jacinto and Hotdog—will dish out their original compositions guaranteed to rekindle an avalanche of memories. Of course, no trip down memory lane will be complete without the presence of Steve O’Neal, the show’s host and designated “historian.”

You don’t need a time machine to be part of this unforgettable event. Reserve your seat now to YEBA Combo Festival by calling 817-0828 or 815-1924. It’s the feel-good concert of the year!

Be a ‘body Buddy’!

In this day and age, everyone—young or old, man or woman—wants to be physically fit. Simply put, it’s cool to lead an active and healthy lifestyle in pursuit of the perfect body. But how does one go about attaining the perfect body? How many hours should one exercise? Hardly anyone has time to go to the gym these days, since we’re all so busy.

That’s why Videoflick Productions, in cooperation with Gold’s Gym, has released Body Buddies: The Body Circuit Workout, an instructional exercise video featuring the all-male group The Studs, who rose to fame after their sexy pictorial in a popular magazine. Now, thanks to this video, you can work toward the perfect body from the comfort of your home!

It’s no secret that the The Studs—Coco Martin, Dion Ignacio, Edgar Allan Guzman, Felix Roco, JC Cuadrado and Mike Tan—have some of the best bodies in the industry. Their finely chiseled physiques are the objects of both desire and envy.

In the video, The Studs will take viewers through a series of exercises built around a special fitness program developed by the certified trainers of Gold’s Gym, one featuring the basics of circuit training. Wikipedia defines circuit training as “a type of interval training in which strength exercises are combined with endurance/aerobic exercises, combining the benefits of both a cardiovascular and strength training workout.” If you think it sounds intimidating, well, it’s not. The program has been tweaked to make it easier for people to follow along.

Also tacked onto Body Buddies: The Body Circuit Workout is a special segment on body techniques, which shows viewers what to do to whip certain body parts into shape.

Aside from The Studs—and the trainers from Gold’s Gym, led by group exercise trainer Paolo Sason—GMA-7 beauties Kris Bernal and Sheena Halili also appear in the video.

The video was launched at Gusteau’s Restaurant and Comedy Venue at Madison Square Building. Gusteau’s is now one of the most happening places in Libis, Quezon City which serves Filipino and Italian recipes. It’s the perfect venue where food and entertainment is at its best.

So if you want a body that will make the opposite sex go crazy, grab a copy of Body Buddies: The Body Circuit Workout and be a ‘body buddy’ today!

Pinoy movies wanted

The Torino Film Festival, through its director, Nanni Moretti, is extending an invitation to Filipino filmmakers for the 26th edition (Nov. 21 to 29) of the festival.

The festival accepts feature films, documentaries and short films in its various sections.

Deadlines are on Aug. 29 for shorts and documentaries and on Sept. 30 for feature films. Festival organizers say there is no entry fee.

Exhibition formats accepted are 35mm, HD, Digital Betacam, Betacam, DVD.

Preview screeners may be submitted on VHS tapes (PAL or NTSC) or DVDs (any region).

All the films submitted should have never been screened in any part of Italy.

Interested filmmakers can download online entry form and the complete rules of the festival from www.torinofilmfest.org

For direct correspondence to the organizer, address letters to Luca Andreotti, program Coordinator, 26th Torino Film Festival (Nov. 21 to 29), Via Montebello 15, 10124 Torino, Italy. For details call +39 011 8138-803 or send a fax to +39 011 8138-890.

Source: Manila Standard Today

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