Promising career in management awaits
Actress Chermarn "Ploy" Boonyasak is again in the news with a negative story, with the latest headlines saying she's fired her manager.
Not so, says Ploy, who quickly booked an appearance on Modernine’s “Chao Doo Woody” morning show to refute the stories.
“She’s here with me,” Ploy said, pointed to where her manager Mew sat in the studio.
Mew is in fact leaving Ploy, but only because she is starting her own business.
“I understand her and I’m not mad or upset. No one could do this for the rest of her life. I don’t think I’ll be a star forever either,” Ploy said.
The negative press might also work to Ploy’s benefit, because now everyone knows she’s in need of a new manager and just what that job entails.
“I don’t share the revenue from all of my jobs with my manager,” Ploy said, explaining that her management deal differs from other celebrities. “The successful candidate will get a monthly salary and a bonus. Like Mew, she would share in the revenues if the work originated through her.”
Mostly, the manager just needs to make sure Ploy sticks to her schedule.
“Sometimes my schedule is so hectic that I don’t need someone to accompany me all the time. My manager may have to go with me to an event but for other jobs like soap operas, I usually go alone.”
So if anyone wants to get up close and personal with Ploy, she’s hiring, with the job starting in mid-December.
Which bleeping floor?
Censorship is so common in Thai media that folks pay it no mind, but viewers of Channel 3’s prime-time soap “Raeng Ngao” were startled by the bleeping-out of the words “seventh floor”.
The problematic line had lead characters Weekit (Phupoom “Ken” Pongpanu) and Munin (Janie tienposuwan) talking about a certain five-star hotel.
“You’ve been to the Four Seasons?” Weekit asked.
“Yes. But I have never been on the [bleep],” she replied.
Apparently, Channel 3 was wary of upsetting any big shots rumoured to have been conducting “private business” on the seventh floor, hence the censorship.
Problem is, bleeps or no bleeps, everyone knows what was being talked about, so why censor at all?
