NOBEL PRIZE – If you ask this columnist, F. Sionil Jose is worthy of a Nobel Prize for literature. His many novels and short stories in English had been published abroad and translated in several languages.
To name some: “The God Stealer and Other Stories,” “Viajero,” “Ermita,” “Gagamba,” “Sin,” and The Rosales Saga (several novels related to each other).
Not to forget his novellas, “Two Filipino Women” and “Three Filipino Women.”
How does one call the attention of the Nobel Prize if there’s a deserving writer? If by nomination, hope someone does it for F. Sionil Jose.
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TRILOGY – Just reread “Three Filipino Women” during the holiday season and realized it would make a powerful trilogy onscreen, be it big or small.
It has everything…drama, comedy, mystery, action, and yes , sex.
The author has the usual disclaimer: “All the characters in this novel are real only in the reader’s imagination.”
Well, in this reader’s imagination, some of the characters in “Three Filipino Women” are familiar in real life. Legendary beauties, powerful politicians, think thanks, PRs, intellectuals, foreign dictator, prostitutes, gay, lesbian, and other characters.
Yes, all movie-TV materials.
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HOW SAD! – Now, into another subject. A former movie producer has fallen in very hard times. He’s now walking aimlessly in Manila streets, dirty and shabby.
He inherited a fortune but wasted it on actors and singers he discovered and built up, films which flopped, and drugs and gambling.
Relatives and friends, including those he helped in better times, have abandoned and forgotten him.
Indeed, how sad!