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MOVIEGOER: Charo Santos, first-timer at the FAMAS

Published Aug 3, 2022 10:00 pm
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She has been an actress for about 42 years, but it was only last Saturday, July 30, at the Metropolitan Theater in Manila, that Charo Santos-Concio won her first ever best actress FAMAS award. She won for her work in the Visayan-language film, Kun Maupay Man It Panahon (Whether the Weather is Fine).

Prior, Charo’s checkered career has fetched for her best actress trophies from the 1978 Asian Film Festival (Itim) and the 2021 MMFF best actress for the same Maupay film.

In a statement, Charo took pride in finally owning a FAMAS, adding that learning how to speak Waray during filming had been worth it.

The former ABS-CBN network president Charo said she accepted Kun Maupay, set against the 2013 devastation of Tacloban by super typhoon Yolanda, because she was attracted to the story.

“That was enough motivation for me, and I also wanted to work with new directors like Carlo Francisco Manatad.’’

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Meanwhile, Charo’s long-running program, Maalaala Mo Kaya celebrates August with more highly charged episodes on love and life. On August 6, we caught an episode on online dating starring Heaven Peralejo and Markus Patterson.

August 13: Bela Padilla is a hunchback mother who struggles to raise her child.

August 20, Nonie Buencamino and Paolo Gumabao tell a story of unconditional love between father and son.

Watch "MMK," Saturdays, 8PM on A2Z, Kapamilya Channel, Kapamilya Online Live YouTube channel, ABS-CBN Entertainment Facebook page, and iWantTFC.

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PASSERBY:

Got to give it to Kim Atienza, who time and again, proves he’s the gentleman to reckon within and out of social media. By admitting that he is at fault, he stands taller than many who will resort to pinpointing and name-calling just to get away from it all.  

GMA’s Tiktoclock host was bitterly bashed by netizens over a remark he posted, thus: “Chicken pox is less severe and the virus is airborne. Monkeypox is sexually transmitted, usually M to M.”

M to M refers man to man or male to male sexual intercourse.

Members of the LGBT community rushed to lambast Kuya Kim, who immediately realized he had committed an indiscretion. He apologized, thus:   

“My deepest apologies to those that were affected by my tweet. Some of the things I said were ambiguous and caused a lot of hurt, especially to members of the LGBTQ community.”

It pays to get noticed by undressing in his first film, Lockdown. Paolo Gumabao has been following up his sexy entry into films by playing dramatic roles. Now, he’s got a beefy role in the new Darna.

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