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Circles of friends

By Barbara Gonzalez-Ventura | January 29, 2016 - 9:00am

In some years of our lives we spent with family, we seemed to have forgotten our friends.

Modern Living

Will the real Tessie T. stand up?

By Boy Abunda | April 14, 2012 - 12:00am

Tessie Tomas is one of the country’s most brilliant artists. She is famous for her side-splitting impersonations of Amanda Pineda, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Bonnie Buendia and Meldita.

Entertainment

Tomas' winning T-shirt design launched in NY

By Ricky Lo | March 23, 2011 - 12:00am

For sure to show the world how proud she was of her son Robin, Tessie Tomas wore a T-shirt designed by Robin to Bloomingdale’s...

Entertainment

Humor the armor of wounded people

By Norma Japitana | May 6, 2010 - 12:00am

Pinoy humor is different.

Entertainment

Tessie and her alter-egos

By Ricky Lo | November 13, 2009 - 12:00am

Tessie Tomas is celebrating her 28th year in showbiz, fulfilled in every way.

Entertainment

Made with tender loving care

By Butch Francisco | February 20, 2007 - 12:00am

In the ’80s, most filmmakers made their lead characters work in banks if the setting required was middle class. (Hilda Koronel, Carmi Martin and Rio...

Entertainment

The Woman with Many Faces

By Ricky Lo | October 22, 2006 - 12:00am

What can you say about a woman who can be a hundred other women – and another man? Who, in the wink of an eye, can be Imelda Marcos (Meldita), Cory Aquino (Cory Anino), Miriam Defensor-Santiago (Miriam...

Entertainment

Kris-Joey issue in proper context

By Boy Abunda | October 1, 2003 - 12:00am

To deny that we are showbiz is not only silly but dangerous. If this persists, we will continue to elect the most "showbiz" into the most powerful positions of the land. There is so much disdain from...

Entertainment

Will the real Tessie please stand up?

October 13, 2001 - 12:00am

She was unforgettable as the funny, upwardly mobile Meldita in the long-running, much-traveled what else? – Meldita. She laughed and cried for the whole world to see in A Dange-rous Life, which suddenly thrust...

Entertainment

Will the real Tessie please stand up?

October 12, 2001 - 12:00am

She was unforgettable as the funny, upwardly mobile Meldita in the long-running, much-traveled what else? – Meldita. She laughed and cried for the whole world to see in A Dange-rous Life, which suddenly thrust...

Entertainment