Go ahead QUOTE ME
‘Since all kinds of reports have appeared, I’m actually waiting for someone to say I’m an alien’
Actress Rui En on the bad press she has had.
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By Rachael Boon
Shanghai-born actor Dai Yangtian returns to Channel 8 after a hiatus with two new shows.
He returns to the 9pm time slot in Poetic Justice, a drama about the lives of investigative journalists. He takes on the role of wealthy Fang Zhengye, who is at loggerheads with producer Liu Yanzhi (Rui En), but later falls in love with her.
Poetic Justice 微笑æ£ä¹‰ debuts 11 September 2012 9pm on Channel 8.
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By Rachael Boon
Pre-show jitters are suffered not only by newbies – even seasoned performers such as Singapore Idols Taufik Batisah, 30 and Hady Mirza, 32, get a case of the nerves.
Taufik, who won singing contest Singapore Idol in 2004, and Hady, who won in 2006, are in a concert line-up that includes home-grown songbird Tanya Chua and K-pop girl group 4Minute.
Straits Times: What songs will you be singing at the Star concert?
Taufik: I’ll be singing my new single Sky’s the Limit – which features Rui En, but she won’t be there – along with some familiar tunes.
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By Seow Tein Hee
Who is Singapore’s top actor?
It is not Fann Wong, Zoe Tay or Qi Yuwu.
According to Sarcount, a newly launched online entertainment chart which measures popularity by social media engagement, Leon Jay Williams takes the top spot.
Starcount taps the top 11 social networks to gauge a celebrity’s popularity. This includes networks such as Facebook and Twitter that are familiar here, and the Chinese-language RenRen and Weibo networks that have a far stronger presence outside Singapore.
To measure popularity, the engine looks through the number of followers and fans on a brand’s or star’s social media account. Fan engagement is also taken into consideration, depending on how many fans have shared the brand’s or celebrity’s social network updates.
Personalities are also rated by how often they engage their fans through conversations on these social networks.
On the Singapore Actors chart, Williams is followed closely by Fann Wong, Huang Jinglun, Rui En and Jeanette Aw, actors more familiar to audiences here because they feature in local productions.
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By Yip Wai Yee
It could be the epic storylines, the lyrical dialogue or the promise of grand spectacle in the sets and costumes. Whatever the reason, Asian period dramas have always garnered a strong and steady following.
Life! puts together a list of period dramas that TV buffs should keep a lookout for.
Joys of Life
When: Premieres on Channel 8 on June 26 at 9pm
What: Taiwanese actor Alien Huang (with actress Rui En) is in the lead as Zhao Mingxing, a young man who dreams of becoming a movie star, in this local drama set in 1950s Singapore. Sharing the same house with his family are a number of characters, including a Japanese Occupation survivor (Chew Chor Ming), a womanising wook (Huang Wenyong) and a beautiful woman (Cynthia Wang) who is intent on marrying a foreigner.
Why you would watch it: To see how the ebullient Alien Huang will play out against local actors on home-grown TV, following his role in local flick Already Famous (2011). The show also promises to be a fun trip down memory lane for most Singaporeans, given the retro 1950s outfits and old kampung atmosphere of the setting.
Joys of Life èŠ±æ ·äººé—´ debuts 26 June 2012 9pm on Channel 8.
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By Eunice Quek
At the Star Awards on Sunday night at Marina Bay Sands, Best Actress winner Joanne Peh did an imitation of Angelina Jolie’s protruding leg stunt at the Oscars earlier this year.
Other MediaCorp artistes, such as Constance Song, let other body bits protrude – the less said, the better.
It was not all hot messes, though, at the awards ceremony honouring the best in local Chinese TV programming.
There were those who, wisely, kept it simple, such as Rui En.
Rui En sleek in her Dsquared2 toga gown paired with Cartier jewellery and her icy demeanour. Asked about her style, she says coolly that it is a “conservative” option.
Winners’ List
Best Drama Serial:On the Fringe
Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes: Rebecca Lim, Yvonne Lim, Rui En, Kym Ng, Vivian Lai, Paige Chua, Jeanette Aw, Cynthia Koh, Joanne Peh, Ann Kok
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Fan clubs are furious that this year’s event is ticketed with high prices.
By Rachael Boon
For the first time, fans will have to pay to attend the Star Awards, MediaCorp’s annual glitzy affair which honours the best in local television.
The awards ceremony this year will be held at Sands Grand Ballroom at Marina Bay Sands on April 29. Tickets cost $58 and $98, and went on sale from April 5 from Sistic and the MBS ticketing site.
The event was previously held in the MediaCorp TV Theatre and places such as St James Power Station in 2006, and Resorts World Sentosa last year. Tickets were distributed to fans of nominated artists, which depended on the nominations an artist got, or to fans who wrote in.
The admission fee was a surprise to fan clubs of local artists, whose members are regular attendees of the show.
Undergraduate Rina Oon, 24, chairman of Jollity Club for fans of actress Joanne Peh, has attended at least three shows. “I’m shocked. In previous years, MediaCorp allocated tickets to fan clubs but when we wrote in for tickets this year, they said they’d be charges,” she said.
The Star Awards this year will feature a performance by Korean-American R&B singer Jay Park.
Mr Paul Chan, vice-president of MediaCorp Channel 8 Branding & Promotions, said: “In line with the practices of international award shows, the Star Awards will be a ticketed event and 95 per cent of the tickets have been snapped up.”
Some fans, who are students, said the tickets prices were too steep for them. Ms Oon said:”Some of our secondary school members cannot afford to pay.”
Only five Jollity Club members, including Ms Oon, will attend the show this year, compared to more than 20 members last year. They are all working adults who bought the $58 tickets.
To cope with the costs, fan clubs such as RBKD, which supports actress Rui En and the Yverlasting Yvonne Official Fanclub, which supports actress Yvonne Lim, have plans to help members.
RBKD has an instalment plan for student members, who can pay for tickets in three instalments over three months, while an anonymous donor is sponsoring more than 10 tickets for members of the Yverlasting Yvonne Official Fanclub.
Student Yip Kah Yin, 17, who is a RBKD member, took up the instalment scheme. She will pay for her $98 ticket in three parts and has already paid $41.
Freelancer Stephanie tay, 23, president of Yverlasting Yvonne Official Fanclub, said it was unreasonable to ticket the Star Awards. “The event seems to be catering to international fans who went to see artists such as Jay Park,” she said.
This defeats the purpose of the awards, she added, because “this is an event for Singapore, which is a very big deal for people like us who support local stars and it is held once a year.”
Asked if subsequent Star Awards would be ticketed, Mr Chan said: “We will review this on a year-by-year basis.”
The main reason local fan clubs are so furious, said Ms Tay, is because MediaCorp has not been helpful with the tickets.
She said: “I understand they are ticketing it to make it an international show.
But if they want to maintain the standard of being a prestigious event, at least help local fan clubs by blocking off seats or giving better seats, the way organisers block seats for official fan clubs at concerts.”
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Plots involving surgeons, policemen and lovers provide twists aplenty in this week’s crop of serials.
By Foong Woei Wan
Playing it safe is the one thing you can’t accuse Channel 8 police drama Unriddle 2 of.
Would you attempt a psychodrama about a policewoman (Rui En) going off the rails, knowing it could be a tortured mess?
Would you kill off your stronger actors (Tay Ping Hui, as a twitching detective with a brain ailment, and Desmond Shen, as a scar-faced criminal) and leave your viewers at the mercy of a weaker actor (Elvin Ng, as a lollipop-sucking police whiz-kid?)
Would you risk your actors’ dignity in an amateurish shoot-out scene, knowing they could look like they all have two left hands and two left feet?
MediaCorp does all of the above, and it sure seems to like living dangerously. It isn’t entirely inept though.
In its first season, the series packed an emotional punch whenever it placed its every-woman (Chen Liping, as a reluctant informant of Rui En’s) in peril.
In its second season, it drags her adopted family members into trouble too and puts her in the painful position of deciding whom to save.
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UNRIDDLE 2 (DEBUT)
Channel 8, 9pm
Rui En plays a police officer who investigates murder of a Japanese man.
Catch #Unriddle 2 最ç«ææ¡£ II from 5 March 2012 9pm on Channel 8.
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