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...Philippines' former First Lady?a cunning child with a remarkable gift for both self-delusion and self-preservation. Marcos, who turned 75 last week, always maintained her childlike sense of entitlement, despite the harsh realities of life. As the film recounts, when the judges of a Miss Manila contest spurned her in favor of another competitor, the youthful Imelda complained so bitterly to the capital's then mayor that he offered her an alternative award, dubbing her "the Muse of Manila...
...subtlety, however softened by Marcos' own displays of disarmingly sweet self-deception. Last month, she obtained a temporary restraining order that delayed the film's distribution in the Philippines for 20 days pending a further hearing, thus scotching its scheduled premiere on July 7. Interviewed by TIME in Manila, Marcos calls it a "vicious" film, lamenting: "It's so ugly, and I've always maintained that the only things to uphold are the good, the true and the beautiful. We have to reject what's ugly." She adds: "The best compliment I ever got in my life came from Chairman...
...flawed. Supporters of losing candidates seem to believe that no one is defeated fairly in the Philippines; all the losers claim they were cheated. If such street demonstrations had occurred, I would have considered the election a total failure of the democratic institutions of our country. Joe Arcenas Manila...
...dysfunctional relationships. The grace is evident in the characters' unconditional love and acceptance of one another's foibles and downright annoying idiosyncrasies. The best thing about the show is not so much its humor but the way it depicts the virtues of true friendship. Emmanuel V. Arcenas Manila...
...hence much copied) prescription drugs, fakes may be outnumbering the real products by as much as 8 to 1, according to the IFPMA. "There are not any countries that are immune to [counterfeit drugs]," says Dr. Budiono Santoso, regional adviser for pharmaceuticals at the World Health Organization's (WHO) Manila office...