The uglification of Sunshine Dizon

The creation of the prosthetics took three weeks but the application was over in barely three hours, done by artist Adrian Batoctoy at Rene Mejia’s studio on Scout Esguerra, Quezon City.

Voila, beautiful Sunshine Dizon was turned into komiks’ ugly duckling Bakekang in a jiffy, ready for the cast pictorial (including Lovi Poe and Yasmien Kurdi as Bakekang’s daughters pushed by their mother into showbiz, and Sheryl Cruz as the other stage mom who pits her own daughter, played by Nadine Samonte, against Bakekang’s girls) and the shoot which starts any day now.

"I never imagined that I would be ‘it’," said Sunshine who beat other worthies (among them Angel Locsin and Jolina Magdangal) for the coveted role played in the movie version by Nora Aunor in the early ’70s.

Bakekang’s creator, Komiks King Carlo J. Caparas, must be nodding in quiet approval.

"When I was called by Ma’am Wilma (Galvante, GMA’s SVP for Entertainment) to a meeting," recalled Sunshine, "I thought I was going to be cast in another new GMA teleserye, Atlantica. I could only gasp ‘Talaga po!?!’ when I was told that I would be Bakekang."

The STAR was the only paper invited to cover Sunshine’s "uglification" at Rene Mejia’s studio last Friday.

Batoctoy explained that he used dental alginate for measurement of the dentures, the first to be fitted into Sunshine’s face.

For the mold, plaster of paris and cast stone were used to get the negative (details of Sunshine’s face) and positive (the actual bust type). After the bust was formed, modeling clay was used on it to shape Sunshine’s features. Another casting was done from the clay and then another negative mold.

The third mold was cooked in an oven, from which the prosthetics appliance was made (it consisted of soft, foam-like "breathable" material). The application of one prosthetics appliance alone on Sunshine’s face took about an hour, two to three hours for the whole face.

"It takes that long because it involves a lot of pasting, blending and make-up," said Batoctoy.

"The whole process is repeated everytime we have a shoot," said Sunshine.

Taking the prosthetics appliance off takes time because it has to be done slowly and carefully to avoid pulling fine hair on Sunshine’s face.

Okay, now. Lights, camera, action!!!

Bakekang will start airing next month.

Ornusa bares all — well, almost! — in Maxim mag

Ever since that infamous fistfight involving Borgy Manotoc and Jay-R last month at Embassy, a lot of people (this one included) became curious about the "gorgeous model" said to be Borgy’s girlfriend who (unwittingly) caused it all.

Wonder no more. She’s none other than Ornusa Cadness, cover girl of the latest (second) issue of Maxim Philippines where she gives readers a generous peep not only into her soul but also into certain parts of her glorious anatomy.

Here’s a sketchy introduction:

Ornusa said that she’s 23, half-Thai and half-Kiwi but Filipino by heart. She has been modeling since she was eight years old and has been to Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore for work. She never stayed in Thailand but she lived in New Zealand for about six months when her parents divorced.

Ornusa is quoted in the story’s subtitle saying, "I can do the cherry stem trick with my tongue."

How is that?

Buy a copy of Maxim and find out for yourself.

That and what she has to say about the guy "with the famous middle name," you know...

(Note: Borgy and Jay-R have since smoked the peace pipe, so to speak. All’s well that ends well?) E-mail reactions at [email protected]