I really thought that Direk Eric Salud was only kidding when he told me that I will have another taping day when we packed up the airport scene for Betty La Fea three weeks ago. He said that I will still have a scene where there will be a press interview of the deported Filipinas from London. So when I finally got a text message from Levi that I will have a taping for Betty La Fea last week, I was so glad since that means additional...

   If reading Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo is still part of History and Rizal works courses today the way it was during my high school and college days, I can safely presume that today’s students know that during the Spanish time, in a Pueblo or a Municipio, if there was a Prayle, there would also be an Alcalde. No need to expound more on it.   In the indie film “KOLORETE”, as I have mentioned...

    As part of the preparatory activities for the promotion of the 2008 Film Festival of CINEMA ONE ORIGINALS which will showcase the seven grantees, pictorial and on camera interviews with the cast and crew of the seven films were conducted.     The pictorial for KOLORETE cast and crew was scheduled last October 8, 2008, at 4:00 p.m. at Studio 8 of the ELJ Building, ABS-CBN compound.     I was...

The independent film “ KOLORETE’  which is one of the seven grantees of the Cinema One Originals for 2008 topbills Soprano Jean Judith Javier.   To theatre enthusiasts, the name Jean Judith Javier is very familiar. Last February 13 to March 2 2008, she played the role of Gulnara in “Orosman at Zafira” a part of the 1st International Komedya Fiesta of the UP Centennial Celebration. It was staged at the...

  I have been traversing  Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City almost daily since 1985 when I moved my family to our new home in the City of San Jose del Monte, Bulacan. Last year,  I noticed the on-going development of the area between Philippine Atomic Energy Commission and Philippine Coconut Authority. The development was very fast and early this year, it was already imminent that another world-class Business District is emerging...