The death of Ethel Ramos, the Dean of Philippine Entertainment Journalism wasn’t in vain. It truly wasn’t especially the outpouring of sympathies from all sectors of the biz. During her three-night wake at the Funeraria Nacional in Araneta Avenue in Quezon City, stars of all magnitude descended from heaven to pay their last respects to the well-loved veteran movie journalism …
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Lecturing on Theater Arts at the Leon Guinto Memorial College in Atimonan, Quezon these past few months was a refresher course indeed. It was also time to give back to the community as far as Atimonan and Lopez and other Fourth District towns in the province for the kindness they had extended to me in my youth. It was rediscovering, …
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Take a look at the past presidents of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) since its inception and creation fifty four years ago: Jaime Zobel de Ayala, Lucresia Kasilag, Maria Theresa Escoda-Roxas, Francisco del Rosario, Jr., Baltazat Endriga, Armina Rufino, Nestor Jardin, Raul Sunico, Isabel Caro Wilson, Arsenio J. Lizaso and Margarita Moran Floirendo. During their appointments or elections, …
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Music knows no size of a woman. Whether one is big or small, music will always be an inspiration to the female specie to go on with life no matter her shape, literally and figuratively, especially with loving people around her. Such is the case of singer and actress Aicelle Santos. Despite her being heavy with child, Aicelle is making …
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After tying the knot with British national Monty Blencowe at the historic Cliveden House in Berkshire, United Kingdom, Lovi Poe is back to the set of ABS-CBN’s “Batang Quiapo.” It’s the professional in Lovi that she has to honor her promise to go on cam immediately after the wedding. Without batting her eyelash, Lovi was in hurry to go back …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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