Movie Review: Vampire's Kiss

Moneysaver Vol. 4 No. 6 June 1995

Third Anniversary Special featuring “The Best of MS”

Written for Moneysaver March 1995 issue, my article “They Who Swallow Snakes.....” made it to Moneysaver Third Anniversary Special’s “The Best of MS.”

TV Star Guide (Later Atlas TV Guide) Vol. 8 No. 102, June 2008

On the cover: Brooke Shields, Kim Raver and Lindsay Price

Movie Review (Assigned write-up for “Prime Time Movie” section of TV Star Guide): Vampire’s Kiss starring Nicolas Cage, Jennifer Beals and Elizabeth Ashley.

 

 

 

“For the undeserved kindness of GOD which brings salvation to all sorts of men has been manifested, instructing us to repudiate ungodliness and worldly desires and to live with soundness of mind and righteousness and godly devotion amid this present system of things, while we wait for the happy hope and glorious manifestation of the great GOD and of the savior of us, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us that He might deliver us from every sort of lawlessness and cleanse for Himself a people peculiarly His own, zealous for fine works.” – To Titus 2:11-14, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.

 

Dagdag Kaalaman: Samu't-saring Tribiya

Dalawang magkasunod na isyu ng The Daily Sun,
Vol. 1 Nos. 52 & 53, Mayo 9 at 10, 2013.

Sa tabloid na The Daily Sun, inilathala ang maiksing info & trivia column ko na “Dagdag Kaalaman.” Narito ang dalawang magkasunod na isyu.

“Ang kaluwalhatian ng DIYOS ay ipinapahayag ng kalangitan!
          Ang ginawa ng Kaniyang kamay, ipinapakita ng kalawakan!
Sa bawat araw at gabi, pahayag ay walang patlang,
          patuloy na nagbibigay ng dunong at kaalaman.”
          – Mga Awit 19:1-2, Magandang Balita Biblia, Tagalog Popular Version.

August 11




AUGUST 11

True Experience Stories Taon 1 Blg. 24, August 11, 1988
Nasa taklob-pahina ang kuwentong “Kapag Mabuway ang Pundasyon” na isinulat ni Zoila Meneses
na iginuhit ni Brix Bartolo

Agosto 11 sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas

          Noong Agosto 11, 2006, ang oil tanker na M/T Solar 1 na naglalaman ng dalawang milyong litro ng langis (bunker fuel) ay lumubog sa may humigit-kumulang 16 na kilometro ang layo sa katimugang dalampasigan ng Guimaras. Ito ay lumikha ng pinakagrabeng oil spill sa ksaysayan ng Pilipinas.

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          Itinanghal na ika-12 nagwaging senador sa 2007 election si Koko Pimentel nang bitiwan ni Miguel Zubiri ang posisyong ito matapos mailantad ang mga katibayan sa malawakang pandaraya at electoral frauds na naganap sa Mindanao.

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Personalities and celebrities born on August 11:

1926 – John Lim Gokongwei Jr, Chinese-Filipino businessman – in Gulangyu, Xiamen, Fujian, China.

1942 – Delia Domingo Albert, career diplomat and Secretary of Foreign Affairs (December 22, 2003 – August 18, 2004).

1953 – Cory Quirino (full name Socorro Alicia Rastrollo Quirino), author, columnist and television host – in Quezon City.

Cory Quirino
on the cover of Image Asia (December 2010-January 2011)

  



Brooke Shields with Chris Atkins
in the film Blue Lagoon, on the cover of
People Weekly (August 11, 1980).

Picture Trivia

          Brooke Shields was first seen in the film Pretty Baby (1978), where she portrayed the role of a child prostitute. In the film she appeared naked in several scenes, and because she was only 12-year-old then, questions were raised if the film can be classified as child pornography.
          In Blue Lagoon (1980), the film where Shields was always remembered, she was 14 years old. She also had many nude and sex scenes with her co-star Chris Atkins in a tropical island. Do you know in what tropical island was the movie made? The film was shot in Jamaica and in Nanuya Levu, a privately owned island in Fiji, except for the “blue lagoon” scenes, which were made in Comino Island in Malta, and in Champagne bay in Vanuatu.  

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May 29



MAY 29

TV Guide, May 29 – June 4, 2006
On the cover: Marcia Cross of the TV series Desperate Housewives

 

GLIMPSE FROM THE PAST

Brooke Shields, when she was 12 (looking very much mature),
on the cover of People Weekly, May 29, 1978 issue.

 

Events that happened on May 29:

1936 – Two Filipino pilot, Antonio Arnaiz and Juan Calvo, successfully made a trans-continental flight from Manila to Madrid, Spain

2012 – The Senate Impeachment Court headed by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile rendered a decision of guilty against Chief Justice Renato C. Corona on a vote of 20 to 3.

Personalities and celebrities born on May 29:

1906 – Manuel Colayco, writer and guerilla leader – in Pasay, Rizal (now part of Metro Manila) (d. February 10, 1945).

1964 – Jestoni Alarcon (full name Jesus Antonio Pineda Alarcon), actor and politician – in Quezon City.

A figure of Rameses the Great (Rameses II)

on the cover of Time May 29, 1995 issue.

Larawang Tribiya

          Si Rameses the Great (Rameses II, c. 1303 B.C. – 1213 B.C.) ay ang tinaguriang pinakamakapangyarihang pharaoh sa kasaysayan sa Egyptian Empire. Tinawag din siya sa salitang Greek na Ozymandias, na siyang naging inspirasyon ni Percy Bysshe Shelley sa pagsulat ng kaniyang tulang “Ozymandias.” Ang Remeses din na ito ang ginampanang papel ni Yul Brynner sa pelikulang The Ten Commandments (1956) na naging katunggali ni Moses na ginampanan naman ni Charlton Heston. Siya ang Rameses na paraong tinutukoy sa aklat ng Bibliya na Exodus.

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February 28



February 28

People Weekly, February 28, 1983

On the Cover: Brooke Shields

 

Events that happened on February 28

1583 – A large fire destroyed almost all houses in Manila.

1974 – Issuance of Philippine Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) license to Twinkle Vinzons for a nuclear-powered heart pacemaker, the first in Asia.

GLIMPSE FROM THE PAST

Shelley Winters (1920-2006) on the cover of Life (February 28, 1955).



Personalities and celebrities born on February 28:

1847 – Roman Faustino, prominent painter – in Cavite.

1877 – Roman Ongpin, philanthropist, nationalist businessman, co-founder of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce, and first treasurer of the Union Obrera de Filipinas – in Binondo, Manila. (d. December 10, 1912)

1916 – Cesar Cortez Climaco, politician – in Zamboanga City. (d. November 14, 1984) 

1942 – Leandro “Biboy” Enriquez, hotelier and world champion cockfighter.



Joan Collins on the cover of
Picturegoer (February 28, 1959).

Picture Trivia

          Joan Collins is famous for her role as the beautiful and vengeful ex-wife of tycoon Blake Carrington (John Forsythe) in the TV soap opera Dynasty (1981-1989). The role was offered to Collins in 1981 when Sofia Loren turned it down. Her performance is generally credited as one factor in the fledgling show’s subsequent rise in the Nielsen ratings to a hit rivaling and dislodging Dallas from the top of the ratings. For her portrayal in Dynasty, Collins was nominated six times for a Golden Globe Award (every year from 1982 to 1987), winning once in 1983, the same year she was nominated for an Emmy as Best Actress in a Drama Series.

          Did you know that Collins perform some singing in the 1959 Academy Awards night? She performed “It’s Great Not To Be Nominated” with actresses Angela Lansbury and Dana Wynter.

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