....Brown, 4 feet and 11 inches tall, she was supposed to stand outside the rope barrier, and yet she was there on the red carpet, with the tall mestizos with their flawless skin and faces that belonged more to Copacabana Beach than a kampung in Manilas Tondo district. She looked ordinary, but she had overwhelming talents. She serenaded the nation out of its poor-man’s funk in the 1960s and 1970s with her mythic voice. Her performances in the movies she made, even those with shallow and superficial plots, were nuanced, honest and moving, having been dug deep from her difficult past. Her movies were social commentaries that plumbed both the ugly depths and resilient spirit of the Filipino psyche, and they have changed lives. When she broke into the scene, the masses finally were staring at a face in the cinemas who looked like them, and she’d shown them that greatness was within anyone’s reach. It didn’t matter that they were born poor or unremarkable. They didn’t have to stay in the background... -Read more:
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