Chompoo gets her own mini-me

Fourteen-year-old Maneepatsorn “Myra” Molloy, who won television’s “Thailand’s Got Talent” competition, also came out on top of the auditions for the musical, landing the role of the juvenile Reya.
The show – a joint production by the Nation Group’s Mango TV (they’ve got the cash), original novelist Taitao Sucharitkul (she’s got the script) and her son the conductor Somtow (he’s got the music) – was never going to have a problem with casting. The talent at the auditions overwhelmed Somtow.
The choices were posted on the show’s Facebook page, but the cast is still not actually finalised. Several of the selected actors are under contract with various showbiz firms that might end up barring them from joining the musical.
They needn’t worry too much, though. Chompoo’s got an ironclad contract with Channel 3, but she had no problem getting its permission to go and live a separate life elsewhere as Reya.

Won’t wash out
Sukhumpong Ngonkam used to be on the executive of the People Power Party. Remember them? Some sort of political organisation that once ran the country, we hear. Then they had to go away in a hurry and no one heard much about Sukhumpong and the others for a while.
But he showed up again recently, attending a Thailand Development Research Institute seminar on legislation changes. Sukhumpong is a member of Law Reform Commission.
“Long time no see!” reporters said. They got him talking about the current state of politics, but then noticed the Thai Rak Thai logo on his shirt. What was up with that? Sukhumpong said all his other shirts were at the laundry.
Kinder souls mused that maybe he still missed politics a little. More active imaginations combined the concepts “laundry” and “law reform” and were not surprised to find the image of Thaksin Shinawatra.