LOOK-ALIKES ON THE COVERS

        Browsing through hundreds, no thousands, of magazine covers, I found similarities of how the covers were presented, the angles, the features, and of course the persons on the cover. Yes, the persons on the covers that seemingly the mirror image of another – look-alikes.

        Since my high school days, I ostensibly developed some kind of mental retentivity. Recalling things that I have seen is a part of this. Using this ability, I tried collecting the images of magazine covers with similar features. Believe me, there are many.

          What beauty to behold! It doubles as they unfold! Donita Rose and Daisy Reyes..... The seeking eyes and the pouting lips, no mortal man can resist. And one more coincidence to spice up this post, they have the same initials “D. R.”

Donita Rose on the cover of MOD (May 21, 2004)
and Daisy Reyes on the cover of Vanity Magazine (January 2015).



          Kathryn Bernardo and Nadine Lustre, again, may I ask: “Are they sisters by any means?” For it seems every inch of one is clone of the other, even the twinkling of the eyes and the bedimpled smiles.

Kathryn Bernardo on the cover of Bannawag (December 19, 2011)
and Nadine Lustre on the cover of Metro (March 2016)



          Dina Bonnevie, who is now a hot grandma, has one of the most beautiful faces in Philippine showbiz. It’s quite hard to find a look-alike worthy of her, until I found a Nadine Schmidt cover courtesy of the second issue of Toyz for the Boyz.

Dina Bonnevie on the cover of FHM Philippines (December 2001)
and Nadine Schmidt on the cover of Toyz for the Boyz (August 2004)

 

          Sleepy eyes or wide awake, lips to the left or lips to the right, fully-clothed or topless, Regine Velasquez and Amanda Griffin are both anatomies of sultry seduction.

Regine Velasquez on the cover of Mega (June 2010)
and Amanda Griffin on the cover of Rogue (December 2010 – January 2011)

 
          So young and so hot, two beautiful lasses, one laughing and the other contemplating, both enjoying life on the opposite sides of the world. Yet they share many similarities. Hmmm.....

Bea Binene on the cover of Total Girl (April 2012)
and Selena Gomez on the cover of Sugar (December 2010)



Bea Binene on the cover of Total Girl (April 2012)
and Selena Gomez on the cover of Girlfriend (July 2013)



          Up-posture, down-posture, get the drift? You probably didn’t notice, but there are a lot of similarities between Liza Soberano and Miss Universe 2015, Pia Wurtzbach, at least on the magazine cover. Take a look.

Liza Soberano on the cover of Liwayway (March 16, 2015)
and Pia Wurtzbach on the cover of Liwayway (March 26, 2018)

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January 4

   

January 4



Sixteen Magazine Vol. 5 No. 139, January 4, 1974
On the cover: Vilma Santos



UNANG LABAS

Unang lumabas sa sirkulasyon ang mga sipi ng Revista de Administracion, isang lingguhang pahayagang Kastila na pinatnugutan nina Jose de la Rosa at Javier de Tiscar, noong Enero 4, 1866.

Enero 4 sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas

          Noong Enero 4, 1592, pinasinayaan ang Puente Colgante, ang kauna-unahang tulay sa Pilipinas, isang suspension bridge, patawid ng Pasig River, sa Quiapo, Manila.

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          Matapos ang pataksil na pakikipag-ugnyan ng mga Amerikano sa mga Kastila at paglagda nila sa Treaty of Paris noong ika-10 ng Disyembre, 1898, idineklara ni Elwell S. Otis noong ika-4 ng Enero, 1899 na pag-aari na ng America ang Pilipinas batay sa nasabing kasunduan.

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SULYAP SA NAKARAAN

Tampok sa taklob-pahina ng Espesyal Komiks Taon 11 Blg. 277, Enero 4, 1965,
ang pagbati ng “Manigong Bagong Taon” sa pitong dayalekto

 

Pinoy personalities and celebrities born on January 4:

1885 – Jimeno Damaso, Hiligaynon playwright and a pioneer in the development of the Ilongo sarsuela – in Tanza, Iloilo. (d. September 1, 1936)

1938 – Barbara Muñoz Perez, actress – in Manila.

1956 – Rez Cortez, actor – in Camarines Sur.

1986 – Katrina Halili (full name Maria Katrina Iren Pe Halili), actress, model and two-time FHM Magazine Philippines “Sexiest Woman in the World” – in El Nido, Palawan.



Katrina Halili
on the covers of FHM Philippines (December 2005), Cosmopolitan Philippines (June, 2007),

and Maxim Philippines (September 2008).

 1998 – Liza Soberano (full name Hope Elizabeth Hanley Soberano), Filipino-American actress and model – in Santa Clara, California.

Liza Soberano
on the cover of Bannawag (October 27, 2014) and Metro (September 2015).

 



Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev on the cover
of Time (January 4, 1988).

Picture Trivia

          Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a former leader of the Soviet Union. In the last part of the 1980s, he tried to put an end to the so-called Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. Gorbachev, together with U.S. President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), initiated a summit conference to resolve the conflict between the two superpowers, and he also implemented changes – perestroika – inside the Communist Party and introduced glasnost to the Soviet people. Because of this, Gorbachev was bestowed the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1990.

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