The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
By Nestor Cuartero
Did you know? That BootsAnson Roa Rodrigo considers herself a perfect klutz?
She writes, in her own words, in Chapter 11 of her newly launched book, Grateful:
“For one formally trained in music and dance, my reflexes and timing in movement are shameful. I constantly spill water accidentally, unintentionally hit and break glasses, awkwardly drop spoons, napkins, cellphones, ball pens. The list is endless.
Event hosts, be forewarned. I topple over anything neatly arranged or stacked. Floral arrangements, neatly piled books, stacked plates, ice cream cone towers. Once, I pulled out a cap from a New Jersey Department Store rack—and, not surprisingly, the whole collection collapsed. I often put on clothes wrong side up. When I unlock a door, my finger sometimes gets caught in the seams. At least twice, I dropped my key card in the elevator and it slipped right through the slat down one floor. Without any prodding, my hemline or sleeve often gets caught in the car door and traps me.”
Chapter 11 is possibly one of the most revealing chapters in Grateful, titled “Things You Didn’t Know About Boots.”
The 200-page book, co-written by Boots and veteran journalist Jennie Ilustre, was launched January 30 at Club Filipino in Greenhills on the occasion of Boots’ 81st birthday. The event was celebrated with many of Boots’ family members in attendance plus her friends from the movie industry.
Written personally by Boots herself, the chapter lists down certain habits, practices, quirks, and unique behavior found only in the veteran actress.
The reader will probably smile, even laugh, at Boots’ inside info revelations that run the whole range, from being funny, clumsy, or downright silly it’s unimaginable such characteristics do exist in someone like the prim and proper Boots.
Of Chapter 11, Jennie writes: “You think because you’ve known Boots for years that you can read her like a book? Think again. Some of these unknown things will surprise you, and others will make you, in the Internet lingo, LOL (Laugh out Loud). Here they are, in her own words.”
‘Grateful’ has forewords by Senator Grace Poe and Boots’ husband, King Rodrigo. Consisting of 15 chapters, some of them are: The Big Picture, Beginning, Precious Family, Movie Magic, Life in the U.S., Comeback, Mother of Mowelfund, Why Showbiz Matters, Grateful at 80.
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