French Spring 2008 in Manila

The Philippines has always been known for having only two seasons.But in between the dry and rainy season, there’s spring. French Spring that is!

For several years now the French Embassy, in association with Alliance Française de Manille and together with the much-appreciated support of generous sponsors, has brought a fabulous festival and celebration of French art and culture to Manila!

The French Spring provides a varied showcase of French culture to a broad and growing Filipino public every year. Created with the objective of building on an increasing artistic collaboration between France and the Philippines, the French Spring has been a tremendous success. As part of this unique festival's mission, exciting artistic and cultural workshops involving Filipino local artists are programmed. Every year the French Spring offers to bring to Manila an array of topnotch artists, and cutting-edge French productions covering the fields of dance, music, circus, food and visual arts. It is a stunning three month-long celebration of the very best in French culture. READ MORE...

AS SWEET AS “PEACH,” AS EASY AS “PIE!”

Two of the country’s most exceptional actresses star in the super-spectacular family comedy “Manay Po 2… Overload!” Rufa Mae Quinto and Cherry Pie Picache are caught in hilarious crossfires in this sequel of Regal Entertainment’s tremendous box-office hit.

Rufa Mae is the bungling but beautiful babymaker whom the gay characters of Polo Ravales and Sid Lucero hire so they could have an heir. In spite of her ineptness, Rufa Mae’s bosomy presence creates tension between the gay couple, leading to constant LQs between Polo and Sid. Meantime, Cherry Pie’s character is “nagngingitngit sa selos.” She suspects that her partner played by Christian Vazquez might be having an affair with a sexy star played by Rubirubi.

Isang pinagseselosan, isang nagseselos? How will these ladies deal with the conflicts? And who will emerge as victors in the complicated love triangles? One thing for sure is that the audience of “Manay Po 2” will be the winners; they’ll certainly enjoy the comedic touches of Rufa Mae and Cherry Pie. Rufa Mae, also known as Peachy in the showbiz circles, has perfected the craft of making people laugh with her offbeat delivery of dialogue and patented quirky movements and gestures. Cherry Pie, meanwhile, is a cool comedienne who delivers the laughs with a twitch of an eyebrow, a witty one-liner or a surprising expression.

Both Rufa Mae and Cherry Pie are also “sukis” of Regal for comedy films. Cherry Pie, of course, was the distressed mother of three gay sons in the blockbuster “Manay Po;” she was also in “Ako Legal Wife!” where she traded barbs with Rufa Mae –-- whose performance as the eccentric sexologist in “Desperadas” has people laughing up to this day. Truly multitalented, Peachy and Pie are among the few actresses in Philippine entertainment who’ve won recognition and awards for comedy films.

As far as girl power is concerned, a “bonus” in MP2 is the presence of wacky Rubrubi who got raves for her performance in “Hide and Seek.” Playing the jittery maid, Rubirubi was the comic relief in the hit horror film. In MP2, Rubirubi plays sexy star Summer Rain.

“Manay Po 2… Overload!” is truly overloaded with stars: Polo Ravales, John Prats, Jiro Manio, Sid Lucero, Mike Tan, Alex Castro, IC Mendoza, Giselle Sanchez Marco Alcaraz, and more. This Regal family comedy extravaganza written by Dinno Erece and directed by Joel Lamangan.

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