Sarah Geronimo has long established her credentials as gifted singer. A Very Special Love, which opened in theaters last week, proves her potential as a matinee idol. Sarah put on a captivating performance as a bubbly editorial assistant who’s smitten with her boss, played by John Lloyd Cruz.
The role was a challenging one: a modern-day Pollyana whose gushing optimism infects everyone around her. Sarah fits the role to a T. She brings a refreshing girlish charm to the screen. She’s not a teeny-bopper wired to her MP3, but a young career woman trying to survive in her first job. Think of Anne Hathaway as Meryl Streep’s gofer in The Devil Wears Prada and you get the idea.
John Lloyd is convincing as the slave driver of a boss who terrorizes his magazine staff. There’s a reason why he’s that way: he wants to be accepted by his family who seems bent on seeing him fail.
The gruff exterior slowly melts in the face of Sarah’s tenacious faith in the man.
The chemistry between Sarah and John Lloyd gives the movie that extra shine.
A Very Special Love is comedy that avoids the trap of being slapstick and romance that avoids the mushiness. The credit goes to Director Cathy Molina Garcia for keeping a tight rein.
The film was off to a good start, with Cinema Evaluation Board giving it a rating of A. Judging by the box-office receipts during the first days of showing, the team-up of Sarah and John Lloyd will not be their last.
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These are hard times, and even Ruffa Gutierrez is feeling the pinch.
That’s why there’ll be no grand birthday party for her kids Lorin and Venice. “I’ve cancelled the party. We’ll just go out, the three of us,” she said.
She’s moved in with her mom, so that’s a lot of savings for her. “Most of the expenses, Richard takes care of. Times are hard, so I really have to scrimp.”
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Cesar Montano hasn’t given up on his dream of making it big in Hollywood.
Three years after starring in The Great Raid, the host of The Singing Bee is reportedly flying soon to New York to explore the possibility of doing another Hollywood project.
He might be gone for quite a spell, he says. He has to move around, attend parties, make himself visible. That’s how the game is played there.
Sunshine and their children won’t be coming with him. But he quickly adds that that doesn’t mean that he and Sunshine are finally separating. The way he explained it in an interview in Philippine Entertainment Portal, it’s just a “stage in their relationship.”
He said his going away might even be good for both of them. “That will give us time to think more about what’s the best. Well, we know already what’s the best. But this is healing time, and realization,” he told PEP.
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Comedian Jerry Lewis got into trouble with the law because of a gun in his luggage.
The 82-year-old comedian was detained by police in Las Vegas when airport screeners found an unloaded gun in his baggage.
The firearm was a .22-caliber handgun.
Lewis was originally paired up in 1946 with Dean Martin and they starred in a successful series of comedy films. The act broke up ten years later. Lewis struck out on his own with considerable success.
Offscreen, Lewis has been active in a charity for muscular dystrophy patients. He helped establish the Muscular Dystrophy Association in 1952, and has hosted a telethon that helped raise approximately $2 billion for neuromuscular patient care and research.