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AJ Perez Died in a Highway Accident

AJ Perez was pronounced dead at exactly 12:20 a.m. today due to a vehicular accident.



According to reports from various celebrities on Twitter, AJ Perez died due to multiple head injuries caused by the highway accident. AJ, his dad Gerardo Perez, driver Christopher Bautista and 3 other companions namely Christina Ferrer, Edwin Patelos and Danny Linunga were on their way back to Manila from Dagupan City’s Bangus Festival event when their van collided with a Partas bus along McArthur Highway in Barangay San Julian, Tarlac.
The 18 year-old Kapamilya actor was declared dead on arrival at Paniqui Tarlac hospital.
Luckily, AJ’s 5 other companions were all alive and were taken to the hospital for treatment.
AJ was part of the Kapamilya Karavan at the Bangus Festival which was held yesterday, April 16, at the Dagupan City Plaza.
Showbiz reporter and talk show host Ogie Diaz posted the following on Twitter: “Galing ng Dagupan, pauwi na. Tulog lahat sa van. Sa Tarlac, biglang bumangga sa trak. Bago pa nadala si AJ Perez sa ospital, wala nang buhay.”
Diaz added that the truck hit the side of the van where the actor was resting.
Here is AJ’s last tweet which he posted around 11:00 p.m. Saturday night right after the show:







The 18 year-old Kapamilya actor was declared dead on arrival at Paniqui Tarlac hospital.

Columnist-host Ogie Diaz was able to talk with AJ's dad after the accident. On his Twitter, Ogie wrote Mr. Gerardo's reaction : "Sana, panaginip lang to, Ogie. Si Aj ang buhay namin ng mami nya, bakit sya pa? Sana, ako na lang."

AJ's mom was also in shock when Ogie spoke to her. She supposedly told the talent manager, "Tinanong ko si dadi, bat ang tagal nilang umuwi? Pauwi na raw sila from Dagupan, pero nag-aalala pa rn ako, d ko alam kumbakit balisa ako."

AJ's remains will lie in state at La Salle Greenhills starting this afternoon until Tuesday lunchtime.

She's Got Elizabeth Taylor Eyes

posted by Vera H-C Chan

Elizabeth TaylorEverett CollectionIn death, as in life, it is her eyes that haunt.

After Hollywood's grande dame Elizabeth Taylorpassed away, people paid their online respects, searching out her biography, baby pictures, good works (AIDS foundation), her relationships both familial (children, Richard Burton) and famous (Michael Jackson, Andy Warhol). Yet most unique were those eyes, and people wanted another look into them as they sought out "elizabeth taylor eyes," "elizabeth taylor violet eyes pictures," and "elizabeth taylor's eye close up."

Could someone's eyes truly be purple? If photos or her namesake perfume -- Violet Eyes, which debuted just last spring -- weren't proof enough, eyewitness accounts certainly testify to those riveting orbs. A remembrance by Hollywood Reporter film critic Todd McCarthyrecalled a meeting in the 1970s, when the actress had essentially retired from the big screen. "What should abruptly stop me in my tracks," he wrote, "but a pair of eyes unlike I've ever beheld, before or since; deep violet eyes of a sort withheld from ordinary mortals that were suddenly looking up into mine from mere inches away."

David Stratton, a film critic for the Australian, also swooned in a 1973 encounter following a festival premiere of her movie "Night Watch": "I was ushered into her presence at the official reception and found myself transfixed by her famous violet eyes. I have never seen eyes of that color before or since and I don't believe cinemagoers were able to appreciate how remarkable they were."

Eye of the Beholder

Violet is indeed a rarity, more so than green eyes, although theories as to what makes them purple vary. Color, of course, is determined by how much melanin pigment the eye has and, toget really scientific, those variations in single nucleotide polymorphisms (thankfully shortened to SNPS) near the OCA2 gene, which are responsible for the color of eyes, hair, and skin. Then again, the simplest explanation would be the same one her doctor gave her mother when describing baby Elizabeth's double row of eyelashes: a "mutation," according to the 1996 book Elizabeth.

Those eyes inspired longing, envy, and a few beauty products: Chicago optical company Wesley-Jensen created violet contact lenses in the 1980s. Before their debut, a W-J spokesperson toldThe New York Times, "pictures of Elizabeth Taylor are pasted all over our R&D lab." A California ocularist, one of the few in the world to create artificial eyeballs, fulfilled one patient's request for "Elizabeth Taylor eyes."

If you wondered what the scent of violet eyes might be, that would be "light shades of purple rose and violet peony, combined with velvety accents of white peach" with a "voluptuous blend of cedar wood and amber [to] convey the power, sensuality, and mystery of Elizabeth Taylor's eyes."

Minamisanriku town - JAPAN

Minamisanriku town is submerged after Friday's strong earthquake-triggered tsunami in Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan, Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING ALLOWED IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

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White smokes rise from fishing boats at the port of Kesennuma, in Japan's Miyagi prefecture. The impact of the 8.9-magnitude quake may now threaten an economic recovery that was seen to be gathering momentum in the first quarter of this year after losing steam in the fourth quarter of 2010, analysts say.

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