It took James Reid only last year to pull the attention of the world towards the Pinoy teen stars, and fortunately, the teen stars were pretty & cute this time (a few years earlier during Jolina's time & I'm pretty sure it would have been a dud). For two decades of teleseryes, only Kristine Hermosa & Marian Rivera really created a big impact outside (but what an impact!). While we're winning all those international beauty titles, the stars of our silver screen became more and more ordinary, just as the stars of our neighbors looked more & more like the Pinoy stars of yesteryears (Thailand, which was never under Western occupation has practically replaced its superstars line-up with Western hybrids). How can one become a star in the Philippines? To tell you the truth, despite the many Pinoy movies and teleseryes shown outside, both pirated and legal, only a few Pinoy stars really stood out, that's how lackluster most of the stars churned out here in recent years despite the hype spinned around them. Star power in action here, & I don't even know the star. In fact, he was included as one of the ten best-looking Pinoy actors by an Indonesian magazine website. To gather material for this blog, I had to spread my reading to more countries and while researching other artists, my surprise only grew: I inadvertently discovered he has fans in Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Thailand, and even Russia. Teejaynatics and they were busy fundraising to finance his trip to Indonesia (which they ultimately accomplished & he went to visit them).

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