Lola Juanita’s Catharsis

It was as if a memory nerve had been activated, and it could not be switched off  even after the lights had gone out in the studio.  Lola Juanita’s sharing on Public Forum last Monday was the most gripping and also the most pained. We were talking of war memories and Japanese apology. Juanita Jamot … Read more

Tributes to the Living

I am certain that the late Gerry Gil of the Standard would have postponed his death by at least a week if only so he could read what his friends and admirers have written  about him after his untimely passing.  But hasn’t this always been the unhappy side of dying?  That we do not get … Read more

3 Daughters & Larry Henares

Like most kids their age, my children love to watch TV.  But they’ve always dreaded the thought of ever appearing on it.  Until one late Wednesday evening at a restaurant, when Larry Henares came to our table to talk me and my 3 daughters into guesting in his talk show for 10 easy minutes. Those … Read more

Airport Thieves

It could have been just another typical traveling day for him, my younger brother Isaac.  As Senior Vice President of Filipinas Dravo Corporation, a Manila-based engineering and consultancy firm, Engr David has had to go to  Vietnam several times a year  on business. Last Tuesday, July 18, he left his house early, partly to avoid  … Read more

A Family on Trial

Soon after Hubert Webb was tagged a suspect in the Vizconde killings, the media became interested in his performance at school.  Was he average or outstanding?   Did he finish or did he drop out? What kind of schools did he attend? The answers to these questions were diligently sought almost as if his guilt or … Read more

In Search of Anonymity

What was popular British actor Hugh Grant (Four Weddings and a Funeral) trying to prove in picking up  a prostitute in Los Angeles recently? Was he trying to re-enact a scene from Pretty Woman? Grant was  arrested  by the police “for lewd conduct” while having oral sex with Divine Brown inside his parked car. This … Read more