Limelight

Music artists Ray-An Fuentes and wife Mei-ling are fighting for their lives at this moment.

As per visit and offering of last respects of movie scribe and best friend Linda Cabuhayan yesterday, Jukebox King April Boy Regino has no date of burial yet. “Wala pa (No schedule yet),” said Linda who considers the dead singer his loyal buddy in show business.

Actress Ryza Cenon recently gave birth to a healthy baby boy at the St. Luke’s Medical Center.

When award-winning actress Alessandra de Rossi begged a pivotal role in the new film version of the Balangiga bells epic in Samar because of the threat of COVID-19 pandemic, “Balangiga: 1901” director Danny Marquez was challenged to give newbie Lala Vinzon, daughter of prizewinning actor Roi Vinzon, the big break. 

I’ve known Ronaldo Carcamo—better known as Ony Carcamo—in the 90s when I was writing for a tabloid where he was a writer in the lifestyle and human interest pages of the paper. Ony was running around with the brilliant editors and writers like Jim Alcantara, Marc Guerrero, Lourd de Veyra etc. 

It was award-winning filmmaker Emmanuel de la Cruz (”Sarong Banggi,” a runaway winner the 2005 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival) who invited me over to attend the opening of an art exhibit which would present him and fellow artists, actor Ian de Leon, dance diva Edna Vida and regional arts organizer Noel Garrovillo in a gig at the Hot Off …

There is a saying among us that “there are no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests.” 

Aurea Erfelo, better known as Madam Auring in and outside show business, died noon today due to a lingering illness.

Everything was readied from the administrative to the creative team of Tanghalang Pilipino (TP) to roll its movie cameras for “Henerala Salud,” a foray into the life and times of Salud Algabre, a woman freedom fighter from Cabuyao, Laguna against the American invasion of the Philippines in the 1930s until its schedule was hampered by a major blow in the …

The exodus of stars in television has been quite striking after the giant Channel 2, the free-to-air TV of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation was shut down by Congress.