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Maybe because the Philippine delegates — save for Precious Lara Quigaman, who won Miss International in 2005 — had long been losing in pageants abroad, the interest of Pinoys in beauty contests had waned considerably.

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Tats Rejante-Manahan, one of the most in-demand writers on television in the ’70s up to the early ’80s, recalls that her time was the era of specials. With Fritz Ynfante directing mostly and then future husband Johnny Manahan as set designer, she wrote specials for Jose Mari Chan, Pinky de Leon, Celeste Legaspi, Basil Valdez, Leah Navarro, Hajji Alejandro and, much later, for Sharon Cuneta and Zsa Zsa Padilla.

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Back when television was less complicated, most TV viewers were at least familiar with the names of the people behind the camera who helped put together  their favorite  shows. Audiences at  home knew that Ading Fernando was the top comedy director (and it helped that he did onscreen appearances from time to time) and that Al Quinn (still very active to this day) did most of the  variety programs. [DatePublished] => 2007-07-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135733 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1186451 [AuthorName] => Butch Francisco [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 344237 [Title] => A dream come true for Tats [Summary] => Save for a few exceptions, I am sure all composers dream of one day performing their own works in their own albums.  One possible reason is that like most of us Filipinos, composers also dream of becoming a singing star like perhaps Carole King or Jose Mari Chan.
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Tats Rejante-Manahan, one of the most in-demand writers on television in the ’70s up to the early ’80s, recalls that her time was the era of specials. With Fritz Ynfante directing mostly and then future husband Johnny Manahan as set designer, she wrote specials for Jose Mari Chan, Pinky de Leon, Celeste Legaspi, Basil Valdez, Leah Navarro, Hajji Alejandro and, much later, for Sharon Cuneta and Zsa Zsa Padilla.

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