JLo fails to impress Santiago
By Maila Ager
It was a high energy performance that thrilled thousands of cheering fans at the Mall of Asia in Pasay Monday night.

It was a high energy performance that thrilled thousands of cheering fans at the Mall of Asia in Pasay Monday night.

SHARON CUNETA’S new TV5 show had a field day weeks ago with its peppy feature on the loquacious, bodacious Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago, but some of its subsequent telecasts have been rather standard and lacking in snap, crackle and pop!

TIME was when “pick-up lines,” or the verbal moves that guys on the prowl used to get women they didn’t know to go on an instant date with them, were limited to a small number of predictable possibilities: “Hey, don’t I know you from somewhere?” “Excuse me, but were we classmates (neighbors, townmates) in grade school?” “Did anybody ever tell you that you’ve got beautiful eyes (or other delectable parts of the female anatomy)?” And the classic, “Ah, excuse me, what time is it?”