Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Curtain Call for an Icon

Today, it wasconfirmed by news giant ABS-CBN that one of the pillars of the Philippine entertainment industry,Rodolfo “Dolphy” Quizon, passed away after more than a month being confined in the hospital due to respiratory ailments.
This happened before his 84th birthday which will be July 25. Tonight, I was watching the news with my sister and discuss about what his some said in the interview. Epi Quizon said that "Gusto nang umuwi ni Papa" or his father is telling them that he wants to go home. The first thing I said then is that " siguro gusto na niyang umuwi dahil malapit na siguro (ang oras niya) no" or I think that he wants to go home because his time is drawing near. And this happened. I went down to feed my dogs and when I came inside my house and was informed about his death.
This is such a sad day for the entertaiment industry. One of the icons, who was known as the "King of Comedy" has left us. I will miss his smiles, his punchline jokes as well as the happy memories when he makes people happy. It has been almost six decades since he started in show business and made a lot of generations laugh and cheer. Now he is gone, RVQ will surely be missed.
 P.S. To NCCA, President Aquino and his minions. You should be ashamed of yourselves for not giving Dolphy the National Artist Award. It was already long due. And you still making silly excuses that he is not qualified and sticking your political power to prevent him from having the award. Now that he passed away is the time that you'll act?!

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