Friday, February 23, 2007
Talk back: Director Carlo Caparas' roots
By Art E. Cañares
THIS is a rejoinder to Sam Costanilla’s article (Sun.Star Cebu, Feb. 12, 2007) that denied the claim that writer, director and producer Carlo Caparas is a Cebuano.
Although texter Pampee Barcenas was the one that made the assertion, through a TextForum contribution in Sun.Star, that Caparas’ roots are from Minglanilla, it was made to appear that I was the source of the claim.
Admittedly, I have a limited knowledge on this issue.
There is a Caparas clan in Sitio Estaca, Tungha-an, Minglanilla that claims close affinity with Carlo.
But I don’t really know if Carlo belongs to this clan.
All I know is that he has the same facial features common in the clan.
Be that as if may, two elderly members of the clan, Virgilio and Jing Caparas, who were movie stuntmen in their prime, claimed that Carlos is their estranged younger brother---something that was dismissed by Costanilla as a lie.
Amen to that.
I am not against the move of making Carlo Caparas our adopted son.
Indeed, it would be a great honor to bring the country’s most prolific writer-producer to our fold.
What I truly abhor is the blurred criterion in giving the honor.
Come to think of it.
Here we are about to honor as our adopted son a man who disowns relatives bearing his famous surname.
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