THE concert dedicated to the Blessed Mother dubbed Halad Concert for Mama Mary: It’s All About Her is happening tonight at the IEC Pavilion in Mabolo, Cebu City. The show will start at 7:30.
Featured performers are Born Diva Raki Vega, Girlie Lapinid, Fr. Jonas Mejares, Izarzuri Vidal and the Sakdap quartet. They’ll also be performing pop songs in addition to the religious ones dedicated to Mama Mary.
Let’s support this endeavor as the proceeds will be used to finance the construction of a two-classroom school building at the Mama Mary Eucharistic Adoration Foundation School Inc. in Barangay Lindogon, Sibonga where, as most of us know, the shrine of Mama Mary is located.
This project is spearheaded by the Kapandesal Multipurpose Cooperative and supported by the Archdiocese of Cebu. Let’s watch the show.
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There’s a minor change in the original schedule of the three-day visit of the image of Mama Mary of Simala-Lindogon. As per news on TV, there will no longer be a penitential procession tomorrow from the IEC Pavilion to the Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño.
The image will instead be brought on board a vehicle to the Basilica where masses and veneration and prayer sessions will be held until the image leaves for Lindogon on Sunday.
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As of this writing, there was still no advice from promo diva Josie Pereyra that the Cebu visit of the lead stars of the latest Star Cinema movie The Third Party will push through.
I’m sure fans of Angel Locsin, Sam Milby and Zanjoe Marudo are quite excited to meet them once again, up close and personal, but there seems to be a problem somehow, somewhere.
So, because we will not be able to see them in person, let’s just be contented in watching them on the wide screen when The Third Party opens in movie houses starting Wednesday.
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I agree with award-winning director Olivia Lamasan that “moviegoers will not see” John Lloyd Cruz while watching Ang Babaeng Humayo. For indeed, what one will see onscreen is Hollanda, the gay character portrayed by Lloydie.
After a very long absence from the wide screen, Charo Santos comes back via her role as Horacia in the said movie. Her wails convey a mixture of emotions that the character felt in those scenes.
Despite having won the Best Picture award in the recent Venice Film Festival, there are still scenes in the movie that I found to be unrealistic and unbelievable. Take the case of the scenes where a balut vendor roams around in an area that looks like a no-man’s land with only Charo’s character constantly meeting him (and most of the time also refusing to try the balut).
If the people were afraid of the character of Rodrigo Trinidad (played by Michael de Mesa), it was not well established.
Had the movie not been in black and white, for sure the color of the building that obviously has a modern architecture would stand out like a sore thumb. My nephew Marx, who watched the movie with me, wondered if there was already a Fortuner in 1997.
I also wondered if the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) campaign poster that stated: “May problema ka ba? Itawag sa LTFRB” or something like that was already around at that time. If they were already present at that time, eh di wow!
Compared to the other Lav Diaz movie Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis that ran for eight hours, Ang Babaeng Humayo lasted for half that time only. Still there were dragging scenes that could have been shortened to make the viewing time less cumbersome.
But then, who can argue with Lav who, as the credits tell, is the director/producer/writer/editor of the movie?
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Most of the time, the early morning show Magandang Buhay hosted by “momsies” Jolina Magdangal, Melai Cantiveros and Karla Estrada makes me smile and, at times, laugh.
That particular episode though caused a tear to fall from my right eye almost unnoticed. It had PBA player Mark Pingris and wife Danica Sotto as guests. When Mark narrated that the first time he met his father he had in mind to slap his father first (his dad left him when he was still a baby), then tell the latter “I love you, Dad!” and hug him, I was immediately able to relate to it.
However, he was not able to do it when he saw his father already in tears upon seeing him. Father-and-son stories, more often than not, easily affect me emotionally.
Need I tell you why? My life story is almost the same as Mark’s. Whew!