The National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA) and the Cultural Center of the Philippines announced Thursday that they have began accepting nominations for the 2012 National Artist Award.
President Benigno S. Aquino III confers the Order of National Artists for Cinema (posthumous) to the late “King of Philippine movies” Ronald Allan Kelley Poe, popularly known as Fernando Poe, Jr., represented by FPJ’s wife actress Susan Roces, in a ceremony at the Rizal Ceremonial Hall, Malacañang Palace on Thursday.
President Aquino has confirmed an earlier proclamation declaring the late movie actor Fernando Poe Jr. a national artist six years ago.
Bulacan Governor Wilhelmino Alvarado on Thursday said that Bulacan has a resolution showing that it was one with the nation in mourning for the death of Comedy King Rodolfo “Dolphy” Quizon.
Lawmakers on Wednesday offered prayers and issued their respective statements as tribute to the late icon of Philippine entertainment, 83-year-old Rodolfo Vera Quizon, Dolphy.
Veteran actor-comedian Rodolfo “Dolphy” Quizon could have been given the National Artist Award in 2009, had it not been for the disapproval of Dr. Nicanor Tiongson, said former National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) executive director Cecile Guidote-Alvarez in a radio interview Thursday afternoon.
Derek Ramsay is relieved that his dad is out of the hospital at long last.
House minority leader Danilo Suarez on Wednesday said that he hopes the title of national artist be given to ailing comedian Rodolfo “Dolphy” Vera Quizon “before it is too late.”
Despite President Benigno Aquino III’s decision to leave Rodolfo “Dolphy” Vera Quizon Sr.’s nomination as a national artist to cultural authorities, Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. has ordered the House committee on basic education and culture to tackle a resolution on the said issue.
“You can count the scenes of Leo Rialp on TV5’s ‘Sa Ngalan ng Ina’ on the fingers of one hand, but in every scene he’s in, you can feel his presence and character. I believe this is because he knows where (or how) his scenes are going,” shares Jorge Demafeliz, banker. “Rialp’s being a theater [...]
