When producers cast stars in new projects, they’re after a stellar combination that’s novel, unique, and plays on the lead actors’ individual strengths, on point of compatibility, contrast or even combustible “conflict.”
Hot on the heels of our recent article on the best and/or most seminally instructive movies ever made, now comes some film buff’s query about those exceptional movies’ local counterparts: “What are the titles of the most outstanding Filipino movie productions ever filmed?”
“I love you, thank you for teaching me forgiveness.” This was Rodolfo Dominguez Quizon Jr.’s “final message” for his father, Philippine entertainment’s comedy king, Dolphy, who will be buried this afternoon at Heritage Park in Taguig City.
Former president Joseph Estrada expressed sadness over the death of Comedy King Dolphy.
Former president Joseph Ejercito Estrada and Manila Vice Mayor Isko Moreno pushed for the conferment of the National Artist award on ailing King of Comedy Dolphy Saturday night.
Now that Joseph Estrada is celebrating his 75th birthday, we’d like to pay tribute to him by way of this appreciative piece: We first got to know Erap soon after we got our MA in Radio-TV-Film from Northwestern University in the States on a Rotary International grant. We already had the advanced book knowledge, but we wanted to work in the industry, not end up as one of those hoity-toity theoreticians in the musty halls of academe.
Senator Lito Lapid, a former action star, said five veteran actors, including former President Joseph Estrada should be named as the new National Artists for Cinema of the Philippines.
Willie Nep as Joseph Estrada in “Stop! In the Name of Laugh,” answering Bernadette Sembrano’s question (To clear everything once and for all, kayo po ba si Jose Velarde? Clarissa Ocampo testified that she was one foot away from you when you repeatedly signed the name Jose Velarde.): “That’s ridiculous, a brazen lie! In the [...]
In the course of our TV-film-theater career as director, scriptwriter and performer, we’ve had the great good fortune of having been able to work with or otherwise interact with some of the best and most colorful icons of stage and screen. Nora Aunor, Joseph Estrada, Vilma Santos and Fernando Poe Jr. are only some of [...]
