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Gilda Cordero Fernando
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                    [ArticleID] => 2039351
                    [Title] => The wacky, showbiz side of Gilda Cordero Fernando
                    [Summary] => Distinguished writer Gilda Cordero Fernando breathed her last on a Thursday, Aug. 27. She was 90.
                    [DatePublished] => 2020-09-02 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorID] => 1637392
                    [AuthorName] => Pablo  A. Tariman
                    [SectionName] => Entertainment
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                    [ArticleID] => 1349936
                    [Title] => Moonlight becomes Jacqui
                    [Summary] => 

“Real happiness doesn’t come from a certain person but within oneself.”

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1302774 [AuthorName] => Elizabeth Lolarga [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/entertainment/20140725/jacqui-mango-7.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 825419 [Title] => Martial law remembered anew [Summary] =>

Anvil Publishing, the University of the Philippines National College of Public Administration and T’bak Inc. will launch the book Tibak Rising: Activism in the Days of Martial Law on July 21, 4 p.m., at UP Diliman.

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 716412 [Title] => The CCP Jesus Christ exhibit: It ain't art [Summary] =>

The artist who set up that controversial Jesus Christ exhibit at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) the other week must be grinning and enjoying all that brouhaha that has made him the central object of attention in the last few days.

[DatePublished] => 2011-08-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134336 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1314981 [AuthorName] => F Sionil Jose [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 596856 [Title] => Gilda Cordero Fernando: Rara avis [Summary] =>

It was past midnight when I received an e-mail from our editor, asking 24 of her columnists to write about their icon or hero.

[DatePublished] => 2010-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133877 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1215267 [AuthorName] => Cecile Van Straten [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/7353/star21thumb.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 490465 [Title] => Books fill empty spaces in homes, minds and spirits [Summary] =>

Stacked on tables and chairs by my bed are piles of books waiting for when the spirit moves me.

[DatePublished] => 2009-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1367375 [AuthorName] => Jaime C. Laya [SectionName] => Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => lifestyle [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 430315 [Title] => From whom all good things come [Summary] =>

Once, called upon to sit at the table of the fabulous Gilda Cordero Fernando (when the Queen of all Queens summons, one does not dare to not come), as we spread our artichoke dip on our Sky Flakes, I was casually asked about religion.

[DatePublished] => 2009-01-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1689868 [AuthorName] => Rica Bolipata-Santos [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 61638 [Title] => Emo culture [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-05-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134677 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1248080 [AuthorName] => Danton Remoto [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 321483 [Title] => Gilda Cordero Fernando’s autobiography [Summary] => Gilda Cordero Fernando is well known as a writer, as a publisher of books, and as a producer of plays. Therefore the publication of her autobiography is welcome news to her many admirers. It is entitled The Last Full Moon.

Two chapters in this book are outstanding. The chapter entitled "Literary Angst" (page 81) is important because it not only discusses her own writing, but also gives an insight into the literary scene in the Manila of the 1950s and 1960s.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133160 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804677 [AuthorName] => Fr. Miguel A. Bernad, SJ [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 313549 [Title] => Lunching with Gilda Cordero-Fernando [Summary] => Two fabulous pre-Christmas gifts I received were Gilda Cordero Fernando’s autobiography (The Last Full Moon: Lessons on My Life) and Sylvia Mendez Ventura’s A Literary Journey with Gilda Cordero Fernando. These are going to be unequalled presents beyond the holiday season, and I suggest you get them for yourselves and for friends who really matter. Call GCF Books, tel. 4113048 to order Gilda’s life story, and the UP Press, tel. 9253243 and telefax 9282558 for Sylvia’s critique of Gilda.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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By Danton Remoto | May 12, 2008 - 12:00am
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