Bella Flores, 84
By Marinel Cruz
Veteran character actress Bella Flores passed away on Sunday morning due complications as a result of massive stroke, according to her daughter Ruby Arcilla. She was 84.
Veteran character actress Bella Flores passed away on Sunday morning due complications as a result of massive stroke, according to her daughter Ruby Arcilla. She was 84.
A candlelight vigil was planned Sunday in California for Chi Cheng, bassist for Grammy-winning rock band the Deftones, who died after struggling to recover from serious injuries suffered in a car crash more than four years ago.
Henry Bromell, an Emmy Award-winning executive producer for the TV series “Homeland,” has died, a representative said Tuesday. He was 65.
Cherie Gil on what she’d miss the most about former “Champoy” co-star Subas Herrero, who died in the US on Friday (Manila time). “I only have wonderful memories. Never a day that he wouldn’t make me feel loved. No more words. I need to grieve now.” Lea Salonga on Herrero who played her dad in the musical “My Fair Lady”: “It was so much fun to watch him from the wings. A consummate professional.”
True to the lyrics of the theme from his popular 1980s “Champoy” television show, life was “bitter-sweet-and-sour” for actor Subas Herrero, who died in Rochester, New York, on Thursday (2 a.m. Friday in Manila).
US pianist Van Cliburn, who won a world competition in Moscow at the height of the Cold War and whose music transcended the decades-long standoff, died at age 78 on Wednesday, his foundation said.
Comedienne Elvie Villasanta, best known for her reality shows “Mommy Elvie’s Problematic Show” and “Mommy Elvie @ 18, passed away on Friday after a yearlong battle with breast cancer. She was 84.
Along with fellow “Kuarta o Kahon” co-hosts Encar Benedicto-Ordoñez and Plinky Recto, Amy Perez had been planning to visit mentor, pioneering TV host and comedian Pepe Pimentel for the longest time.
Former TV host Pepe Pimentel was found dead inside his house in Quezon City, police said. Senior Superintendent Marcelino Pedroso said Pimentel was found dead with a wound to his head inside the comfort room of their house at No. 37 Scout Tuazon, Barangay (village) Laging Handa in Quezon City around 10:30 a.m.
Scriptwriter Lynda Casimiro passed away on Jan. 12 after battling cancer. She was 63. Casimiro wrote Brillante Ma. Mendoza’s award-winning film “Lola,” which premiered in Venice in 2009. Venice fest consultant Paolo Bertolin wrote in Facebook: “Thanks to the profoundly human and sensitive writing of Casimiro … the characters so astoundingly embodied by (lead actresses) Anita Linda and Rustica Carpio became so real, touching and unforgettable.”—Bayani San Diego Jr.
The wreckage of a small plane believed to be carrying Mexican-American singing superstar Jenni Rivera was found in northern Mexico on Sunday and there are no apparent survivors, authorities said.
Before his death earlier this week, director Celso Ad. Castillo had been generally inactive for years, except for occasional outings as a character actor in indie productions. And yet, his demise was mourned by many in the Filipino movie industry as the loss of a major talent, unique in his career-long cinematic celebration of history, patriotism, religion and sex—what an idiosyncratic combination!
