Limelight

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.

Because of his professionalism and love for theater as well, Ricky Davao was chosen by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) through its president Arsenio J. Lizaso—also known as Nick Lizaso in the arts world—to direct the virtual art show on the classic verses of noted Filipino poet Jose Corazon de Jesus.

In the middle of John Regala’s fight against liver cirrhosis and other physical, psychological and emotional inconveniences he has been rigorously undergoing, actor Mel Francisco still denies him as son. “Hindi ko anak si John Regala (is not my son),” Mel has said again in an interview.

There couldn’t be more apt a description of the saying “death comes like a thief in the night” when Cynthia Alcantara-Barker, the very first British-Filipina Mayor of Hertsmere district in Hertfordshire county in the United Kingdom succumbed to a sudden demise last Monday, September 14, 2020.

Alessandra de Rossi and Paolo Contis’ film Through Night and Day has created a stir in the Netflix charts, a delayed blessing two years after the two made the movie.