Status symbols - in any colour
You might want to lay off hitting up Yuthana "Pa Ted" Boonorm for free passes to his Big Mountain Music Festival. He issued a frustrated tweet yesterday to his 67,000-plus fans: "What concert organisers find is that those who ask for free tickets are ofte
Is it simply a matter of being “cool” getting free tickets, he wondered, instead of buying them? He doesn’t name-and-shame anyone, just warns that he’s planning a new system. “I’ll make the free-admission wristbands a different colour so they stand out and people who pay for theirs will be able to spot the ones who get in for free.”
We can only hope the plan doesn’t backfire. It’s easy to imagine the freeloaders gloating over their specially coloured entry passes.
Maybe next time
Half-American half-Thai actress Taya Rogers is back home after two years of chasing her Hollywood dream. Gracing the cover of Lips magazine, she offers a career update.
Evidently her luk krung looks weren’t the guarantee of overseas success that people expected. Tinsel Town is big and she’s only tiny, she laments. “It is so tough to get work!”
Whereas Thais think Taya looks Chinese or Caucasian or a mix, she says, US show-biz folk saw Hawaiian and Latin American characteristics. And she lost out on a few roles where they just couldn’t fit her into a family situation because no one else looked like her. “I can’t help it if my face doesn’t match the role!”
She did manage to get an appearance on “Cold Case”. “Even then they asked me if I could dye my hair black. I said okay, but in the end they didn’t need me to dye it.”
Regardless, Taya is only 27, in high spirits and determined to keep trying. While in Thailand she’s looking at scripts for soap operas and movies and hints at a job at IN Channel.
Then it’s back to Hollywood for another crack at the big leagues.
