Limelight

Actor Dante Balboa (“Temtasyon,” “Kasiping,” “Karelasyon” etc.) has embarked on a new journey—film directing. Dante has just wrapped the post-production phase of his directorial debut, “Graduation Day” and has started marketing it, initially in the form of a premiere night. Balboa invited me to watch the first public screening recently of his masterpiece at Trinoma Cinema 6. As the film …

by Boy Villasanta Alongside Anne Curtis’ retaliation and self-defense stance against Quezon City Fourth District Congressman Jesus “Bong” Suntay’s use on her person to illustrate the premise of “imagination” in defense of Vice President Sara Duterte’s charges of sedition, insurrection and political destabilization to warrant a new impeachment case as an analogy on his sexual fantasies over the actress, women’s …

by Boy Villasanta Now it can be told. Actor and multimedia host Edu Manzano has a new romance after separation from actress Cherry Pie Picache. Edu readily announced recently that he has found a new love whom he described as his “life partner.” The woman Manzano has replaced Cherry Pie in his heart with is technocrat Ann Cuisia, founder and …

by Boy Villasanta Finally, a public announcement was made on the forthcoming wedding of actress Bea Alonzo with businessman Ferdinand Vincent P. Co. Through an art card, the marriage banns of Bea and Vincent were flashed during a Facebook Live Sunday mass recently at St. Peter the Apostle Church in Paco, Manila.  Marriage banns is a document being announced three …

By Boy Villasanta The number of multimedia stars who are throwing invective on Quezon City Fourth District Congressman Jesus “Bong” Suntay over his lewd comments on actress Anne Curtis is increasing by the day. Since Suntay thrusted his sexual fantasies on Anne as a trigger of male’s worldly desires the same imagination as the sedition, insurrection and political destabilization cases …

Politics and show business are indeed no strange bedfellows. It has again surfaced when Jesus “Bong” Suntay, Quezon City Fourth District Representative said in his partisan privilege speech at the recent impeachment hearing of Vice President Sara Duterte that the charges of sedition, insurrection and political stabilization against her are just products of one’s imagination. Here, Suntay presented an analogy …

After a month-or-so-stay at the Gateway Hotel and Suites in Iloilo, one is tempted to say that its General Manager’s quest for quality in music as an artistic pursuit however on the pop culture level. After having jazz couple Jeannie Tiongco and Henry Katindig waxing out soothing and mesmerizing soulful tunes and Amazing Diva Armida Zuniega belting out goldies anthems …

Despite documentary films finally finding spaces, however gradually, in commercial circuit screenings in the Philippines and elsewhere, their filmmakers still find it hard to make the genre more popular and accessible to most viewers. “It will take a village…” said feisty and award-winning doc maker Baby Ruth Villarama as if saying it indeed costs a lot, money and otherwise the …

It must have been tiring and tedious for fashion designer Erick Valena to be shuttling from Lopez town in Quezon Province to Manila and back to attend to his dress shop in the countryside and stay half of the week in Muntinlupa and Makati where he maintains ateliers in both cities (although he just shares workshop with the iconic haute …

I came to the 40th anniversary of the People Power Revolution, at the Epifanio de los Santos Avenue or simply EDSA, purposely in the afternoon of February 25, 2026 after beating deadlines and finishing some domestic chores in our house in Villa Castillo, Pacita 2, San Pedro, Laguna. Apart from them, I was still nursing an already receding lump in …