THE YOUNG MARICEL [SORIANO]: CHILD STAR OF THE 70s (Circa 1971-75) on Mar 20, 2010 in CHILD STARS OF PHILIPPINE MOVIES MARICEL SORIANO Bahay-Bahayan (1972)- TV show/ Channel 5/ with Roderick Paulate, Joe ALvarez, Beth Manlogat, Zernan Manahan, Maricel/ Over-all director-Butch Bautista "New Breeze" detergent ad (left) with Nida Blanca and the young Maricel Soriano; and Newton' Coco-...
JAIME DE LA ROSA IN "KONTRABANDO" (1950): A FILM BY DR. GREGORIO FERNANDEZ # 6 on Mar 17, 2010 in JAIME DE LA ROSA GREGORIO FERNANDEZ Kontrabando, serialized in the “Bagong Buhay” magazine and adapted into the screen in 1950, tells of a dashing, wily and sleek G-2 spy agent, Lt. Diego (Jaime de la Rosa) who infiltrated a notorious smuggling syndicate dealing with guns, jewelri...
"ANAK NG LASENGGA" (1958): KOMIKS SERIAL AND MOVIE ADAPTATION on Mar 14, 2010 in ZALDY ZSHORNACK EDNA LUNA ALICIA VERGEL "Anak ng Lasengga" (1958)- Stars Alicia Vergel, Edna Luna and Zaldy Zshornack/ with Lopito, Belen Velasco, Nello Nayo, Lily Marquez, Abraham Cruz/ Directed by Cesar GallardoHere’s one movie that touches the controversial theme of alcoholism. Based...
PACQUIAO OUTPOINTS, DOMINATES CLOTTEY IN A ONE-SIDED FIGHT on Mar 14, 2010 in MANNY PACQUIAO DALLAS – Manny Pacquiao did not get the knockout most people wanted, but he did get all the points needed to beat the defense-minded Joshua Clottey and retain his World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight belt late Saturday night at the Cowboys...
ROGELIO DE LA ROSA & LILIA DIZON IN "SA PAANAN NG BUNDOK" (1953): A FILM BY SUSANA C. DE GUZMAN on Mar 10, 2010 in LILIA DIZON ROGELIO DE LA ROSA SUSANA C. DE GUZMAN Susana C. de Guzman (1912-1992) was one of the very few successful woman directors in Philippine cinema. She was a prolific writer for popular magazines like Liwayway and many of the films she made for LVN were serialized in popular magazines. She wa...
"RAMADAL" (1958): PINOY VERSION OF THE INVISIBLE MAN/ KOMIKS SERIAL & MOVIE ADAPTATION on Mar 8, 2010 in CYNTHIA ZAMORA EFREN REYES SR. PINOY KOMIKS MADE INTO MOVIES NEMESIO E. CARAVANA "Ramadal" (1958)- Stars Efren Reyes, Cynthia Zamora, Ramon D'Salva, Melita de Leon, Oscar Roncal, Jose Garcia,Resty Sandel/ Directed by Nemesio E. CaravanaThe 1958 movie, Ramadal, a popular serialized novel by Jose D. Karasig and Nemesio E. Caravana,...
"THE HURT LOCKER" SCORES UPSET AT THE OSCAR on Mar 8, 2010 in OSCAR AWARDS MOVIE AWARDS It was a historic night at the Academy Awards.The Hurt Locker, the low-budget, low-grossing war film about bomb-disposal experts in Iraq, with only $20 million in worldwide box office, won six Oscars Sunday night, including best picture. Filmmaker Ka...
NORA AUNOR & CHRISTOPHER DE LEON IN GERRY DE LEON'S "BANAUE" (1975) on Mar 5, 2010 in NORA AUNOR CHRISTOPHER DE LEON GERRY DE LEON Banaue was one of Nora Aunor’s most expensive and ambitious movies. Nora shelled out an estimated P 1.6 million (a huge sum that time), excluding her talent fee. She mortgaged her house at Brg. Kapitolyo Pasig for P630,000 and secured a bank loan o...
"VICTORY JOE" (1946): A FILM BY MANUEL SILOS on Mar 1, 2010 in MANUEL SILOS ROGELIO DE LA ROSA NORMA BLANCAFLOR "Victory Joe" (1946)- Stars Rogelio de la Rosa, Norma Blancaflor, Art Cantrell, Jose Cris Soto, Monang Carvajal, Justina David/ Directed by Octavio SilosVictory Joe, set during the Liberation time, was one of the first movies to come out after the wa...
60's TV HOST-COMEDIAN OSCAR OBLIGACION, 86, PASSES AWAY on Feb 28, 2010 in OSCAR OBLIGACION "Da Best Show," the No. 1 ABS-CBN TV show in the 60s that made Oscar Obligacion a household name. It was made into a movie in 1965.Comedian Oscar Obligacion, whose antics as a bumbling Japanese soldier made generations of Filipinos laugh in a career...
