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                    [Title] => Why can’t we have this stuff on TV?
                    [Summary] => 

‘The positive acceptance of Heneral Luna throws a gauntlet on the stage of the entertainment world. The Filipino audience is not intelligence-challenged.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-14 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/entertainment/20151015/John-Arcilla-12.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 761692 [Title] => The Villa mis-centennial [Summary] =>

I’d been meaning to write about this for a few weeks now, but I keep forgetting, so here it is before the New Year comes.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/7936/lif1thumb.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 744824 [Title] => New talent banks on theater experience [Summary] =>

Mestizo-looking up close and personal, the skin of young actor Acey Aguilar, 22, has to be darkened whenever he plays a “native” in films and stage plays.

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1122250 [AuthorName] => Amadís Ma. Guerrero [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 691827 [Title] => Reminder for officials to lead 'modest lives' [Summary] =>

TRAVEL STYLE: Our colleague Alex Magno assessed last Tuesday in his column what he said was an uneventful official trip to Thailand days ago of President Noynoy Aquino with a 52-member delegation that cost taxpayers P4.5 million.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135304 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 680270 [Title] => The lowdown on writing in English [Summary] =>

It’s hard to overlook the fact of our longstanding, love-hate relationship with the English language.

[DatePublished] => 2011-04-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134405 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1732449 [AuthorName] => Samantha King [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/5682/ystar4thumb.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 555349 [Title] => Back to the classics [Summary] =>

I-Witness has become the face of TV documentaries for the past 10 years.

[DatePublished] => 2010-03-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 547934 [Title] => Books published, launched: Gani Cruz leads authors [Summary] =>

At the launching of Isagani R. Cruz’s book “The Other Other”, National Artist Bien Lumbera said that he gave Isagani a grade of A Plus for his excellent paper in Lumbera’s class at the Ateneo U. Tomas Santos said he was the biological son of Bienvenido Santos but Isagani was Bienvenido’s literary son, making him “the other, other son.”

[DatePublished] => 2010-02-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135822 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 338083 [Title] => Learning in from America [Summary] => (I was asked to deliver the keynote speech for this year’s batch of departing Fulbright scholars – including Hubert Humphrey and East-West Center grantees – last Friday, and given how many Filipinos are going abroad these days for college and graduate work, I thought I’d share with you what I told my fellow Fulbrighters.)

Congratulations, first of all, for having come this far. You are embarking on what will truly be a life-changing experience.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 283712 [Title] => Studying to write [Summary] => I know this isn’t the op-ed page, but since questions of censorship affect all writers and artists, may I register my protest against what I sense to be the creeping curtailment of free speech in this country.
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 281486 [Title] => A tribute to Morayta’s pen guru [Summary] => If only those who passed away could come back (even for a brief moment) to the world of the living, I am dead sure that Jess would pay me a visit to object to this requiem. Or most likely, he would give me a friendly smack on the nape. During the wake of Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero years ago, he got irked listening to the endless praises and honors being bestowed upon the renowned Filipino playwright by politicians, peers and colleagues. Jess was adamant because he knew when Wilfrido was still alive only a few extended a helping hand during the artist’s times of needs. [DatePublished] => 2005-06-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1135008 [AuthorName] => Archie Casilan [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) ) )
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