Limelight

It’s a fact that many, if not most of the members of the Philippine movie press, belong to the so-called self-employed lot in rigmarole. By self-employment, it means that not a few of us depended our livelihood on a contractual if not a freelance basis. In the print media, a columnist or a feature story writer is paid per piece …

If GMA Network news and public affairs stalwart Mike Enriquez dies a thousand times, he would still be remembered and revered manifold just like what his friends, colleagues and acquaintances are paying him homages on his passing. Mike died last August 29, 2023. Enriquez’s newsroom buddies are showering him with words of fondness. “Mike had been very supportive of my …

It’s not the kisses of actors Joem Bascon in “The Other Wife” and “The Annulment”; Tom Rodriguez in “The Significant Other”; Marco Gumabao and Tony Labrusca in “Hindi Tayo Puwede,” among others, that spelled cathartic effects on actress Lovi Poe’s romance for they were reel and artifice but British beau Monty Blencowe’s real and passionate lip service that sealed her …

How does one feel when spending a holiday, breathing fresh air in the countryside after all the excruciating and stressful media works like shoots of films and TV dramas in imperial Manila only to be interrupted by a call that someone has to go back to the city because of an award to be given pronto? It might be a …

For several months, the general public has not seen veteran broadcaster Mike Enriquez on the face of television where he is a daily staple on newscasts. A co-anchor of Mel Tiangco and Vicky Morales in the primetime news program “25 Oras,” Mike’s absence has been pitched in by several GMA Network male news anchors like Ivan Mayrina, Atom Araullo, among …

Moodie Jam (left) and Faye Romero (right) (Photo Credit: Faye Romeros Facebook) I should have met her up immediately upon my return to country. I am as guilty as charged,” said former DZEC broadcaster Faye Romero dishearteningly over the phone. Faye was sorry about the sudden demise of one of the most prized possessions of Eagle Broadcasting Corporation (EBC). Moodie …

She unceremoniously left her media work at ABS-CBN’s “Batang Quiapo” on the latter part of July and early August but formally advised the management and production crew about her absence.    True enough, Lovi Poe, daughter of the late Movie King Fernando Poe, Jr. and erstwhile model Rowena Moran tied the knot with her British beau Monty Blencowe lat August …

Aside from Asia’s Sentimental Songstress Imelda Papin, it was also Bulacan Governor Daniel Fernando who Emma Ferro, younger sister of the late veteran and award-winning actress Angie Ferro who said that the two showbiz and political persons were expected to pay Angie a visit at a hospital and vigil at her wake. Emma in the presence of actress Nadia Montenegro …

It was actress Nadia Montenegro and entertainment writer Art Tapalla who witnessed the rants of Emma Ferro, one of the younger sisters of the late veteran and award-winning actress Angie Ferro, at the funeral wake of the latter. According to Emma, there were fillers that Bulacan Governor Daniel Fernando and Asia’s Sentimental Songstress Imelda Papin were coming to the sickbed …

Even if veteran and award-winning actress Angie Ferro was already cremated and gone to the great beyond, and her ashes were brought home for homage, her family still carries burdens of her loss. In the afternoon of paying our—with entertainment journalist Art Tapalla—last respects to the dead at the St. Peter Chapels along Scout Chuatoco in Quezon City, it was …