FMD: What's the Fuss About Barbecued Virus-Laced Pork?

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 22 No. 40, February 2, 1999

On the cover: Will Smith

This article – “FMD: What’s the Fuss About Barbecued Virus-Laced Pork?” – was written about two decades ago when the public was “jumpy” on infected meat.

“You must eat no detestable thing of any sort..... The pig...., because it is a splitter of the hoof but there is no cud. It is unclean for you. None of their flesh must you eat, and their carcasses you must not touch.” – Deuteronomy 14:3 & 8, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.

July 9



JULY 9

Moviestar Vol. 21 No. 1193, July 9, 2007
On the front cover: Diether Ocampo and Kristine Hermosa (main)
On the back cover: Melanie Marquez for the New Placenta print ad

 

Unang labas ng Alcala Fight Komix
(Hulyo 9, 1963). Tampok sa
taklob-pahina ang “Kapitan Limbas”
ni Amado “Ding” Castrillo.

UNANG LABAS

Ang Alcala Fight Komix na inilimbag ng CRAF Publishing ay unang lumabas sa sirkulasyon noong Hulyo 9, 1963. Itinampok sa babasahing ito ang mga katha at dibuho ng mga magagaling at bantog na pangalan sa larangan ng komiks. Kabilang sa mga pahina ng unang isyu ang mga sumusunod: “Kapitan Limbas” na kinatha at iginuhit ni Amado “Ding” S. Castrillo (tampok sa unang taklob-pahina ng Alcala Fight Komix), “Alamid” ni Tony Caravana, “Kagubatang Bato” ni Ruben N. Yandoc, “Lihim ni Gagamba” nina Virgilio at Nestor Redondo, “Siopaoman” ni Larry Alcala, “Virgo Amasona” ni Jim Fernandez at “Voltar” ni Alfredo P. Alcala. Una itong pinatnugutan ni Virgilio P. Redondo.

Madalas na may full-spread cover illustration ang Alcala Fight Komix, na naging Alcala Komix (Pebrero 22, 1967) matapos ang 90 isyu.

 

Events that happened on July 9:

1886 – Mayon Volcano erupted destroying the towns of Libon and Legaspi.

Personalities and celebrities born on July 9:

1908 – Alfredo Litiatco, leading pre-war short story writer and essayist – in Manila (d. 1943).

1939 – Domingo L. Siazon Jr, ambassador and Secretary of Foreign Affairs – in Aparri, Cagayan.

1984 – L.A. Tenorio (full name Lewis Alfred V. Tenorio), professional basketbal player – in Nasugbu, Batangas.

1993 – Jake Vargas (full name Jake Angelo Cunanan Vargas), actor, dancer and singer-songwriter – in Olongapo, Zambales.

 

Will Smith and Salma Hayek
(for the film Wild, Wild West) on the
cover of Entertainment Weekly
July 9, 1999 issue.

Picture Trivia

          The 1999 film Wild, Wild West starring Will Smith (as James T. West) and Kevin Kline (as Artemus Gordon) is a big screen adaptation of the CBS television series The Wild, Wild West (1965-1969). The TV version featured Robert Conrad as the courageous, resourceful and fast gun James T. West, and Rose Martin as the gadgets experts and master of disguise Artemus Gordon. The hit TV series was created by Michael Garrison at the time when “spy” films were very popular. Garrison called his lead character as the “James Bond on horseback.”

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June 24



JUNE 24

MOD Vol. 37 No. 1757, June 24, 2005
On the Cover: Carla Abellana

Events that happened on June 24

1571 – Miguel Lopez de Legaspi declared Manila as the capital of the Philippines.

1898 – Apolinario Mabini issued his “True Decalogue.”

          – The Hongkong Junta was organized by General Emilio Aguinaldo to seek international recognition for the newly-proclaimed Philippine Rep[ublic.

Personalities and celebrities born on June 24:

1860 – Marcela Mariño de Agoncillo, seamstress of the first official Philippine flag – in Taal, Batangas. (d. May 30, 1946)

1974 – Ruffa Gutierrez (full name Charmaine Gutierrez), actress, model and Miss World Second Princess – in U.S.A.

Ruffa Gutierrez
on the covers of Artista (January 12, 1996) and Health Today (October 2011).



1983 – John Lloyd Cruz (full name John Lloyd Espidol Cruz), actor and model, in Manila.

John Lloyd Cruz (with Bea Alonzo) on the cover of MOD June 10, 2005 issue (left),
and John Lloyd Cruz on the cover of Esquire Philippines June 2012 issue (right).

 

Will Smith on the cover of GQ June 1997 issue

Picture Trivia

In 1997, Will Smith (full name Willard Christopher Smith Jr) starred with Tommy Lee Jones in the blockbuster film Men in Black. In that same year Smith married Jada Pinkett. They have two children, Jaden Christopher Syre (born in 1998) which played the role of son to his character in The Pursuit of Happiness (2006), and Willow Camille Reign (born in 2000), which played the role of daughter to his character in the film I Am Legend (2007).

 

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