Wake-uppers:
Scene: The 17 official candidates of Sandugo Queen
2019. The search for Sandugo Queen 2019
is open to transgender females that best suit the five titles up for grabs in a
competition that showcases their beauty, wit and talent. The coronation night
is on July 26, 8 p.m. at the Bohol Cultural Center.
Seen: A new
species of shipworm or a clam with a worm-like body found in Bohol was
introduced by a group of scientists this week. What’s interesting is this
marine species Lithoredo abatanica eats rocks, rather than the wood
diet of other shipworm species.
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The world of Philippine showbiz mourned on the passing of
Eddie Garcia, a screen icon and director whose career spanned 70 years.
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| Scarlet Geulen-Boiser on legendary actor Eddie Garcia: “He was very modest, very unassuming. He was one of a kind.” Contributed Photo |
Garcia died last Thursday, June 20, after nearly two
weeks of being in a comatose state. He suffered a neck fracture after tripping
on a cable wire during his taping for a GMA Network teleserye.
Garcia was local Showbiz’s Sexiest Man Alive, a durable sex symbol who continued to amaze and intrigue the public by looking 25 years younger than his age.
Garcia was local Showbiz’s Sexiest Man Alive, a durable sex symbol who continued to amaze and intrigue the public by looking 25 years younger than his age.
He joined showbiz as kontrabida
(later metamorphosing into a bida so
versatile that he could play a screaming faggot with delightful credibility. In one of his media interviews, he said that “Tubog
sa Ginto,” directed by the late Lino Brocka where he played a closet homosexual
in that movie, was considered his best performance out of the hundreds of films
he had done.
Known as the original “Manoy,” he was a “Festival King”
in his own right, who figured prominently in the Metro Manila Film Festival,
Gawad Urian and FAMAS. He won several awards for his acting and directing
stints.
Colleagues and friends of Garcia took to social media to
remember and pay tribute to the veteran actor including Boholano
singer-actress-comedianne Scarlet Geulen-Boiser who worked with Eddie in a TV
drama.
Their friendship goes almost 7 years back, so when Garcia
died, Scarlet grieved as if she lost a member of her family.
"What do I remember most about Tito Eddie? Well, he
was a very nice person. He was very humble and very down-to-earth. He had no
star complex at all, despite his stature as a great Filipino star,” she told VRS.
They were together in the 2012 TV drama “Aso ni San Roque”
for about three months.
She shared that at the actors’ hub (standby area), Eddie
was so thoughtful that his co-stars loved him dearly.
“He brought fruits in the set and he convinced me to eat
fruits rather than eating cakes,” she said.
Garcia was so generous that he even bought all the “ube
jam” of Scarlet and gave them to the people in the set.
“He was very professional,” said Scarlet. He didn’t like
people working with him are pabaya sa
trabaho. That kind of attitude really bugged him. Sometimes he could not
tolerate it.
“He told his co-actors that there are no small roles in
acting that you could always do well in your roles,” said Scarlet.
In movies and TV series, Scarlet plays her role, no
matter how "small" with such honesty, so natural and so casual as if
she's not acting at all. Thanks to Manoy
Eddie for being her inspiration.
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