Once more, we pay tribute to our dearly beloved movie, television and theater stars, gone in the afterlife.
It is All Saints Day and All Souls Day and as we observe them this year in a less restrictive fashion (although the wearing of face masks in many places around the country is still enforced) we give these departed the homage they mostly deserve although we always remember them all throughout the year.
Local show business gives them salute as they contributed honor and glitter for the advancement of the film business.
More than ever, their respective families will light a candle, offer flowers and say a little prayer for the repose of their souls.
The Iras of Sta. Maria, Laguna will troop to the public cemetery of the town to reminisce the good old days when Halina Perez, Vanessa Ira in real life, was still alive and painting glamour and sexy colors in her movies. Halina is buried near the entrance lot of the memorial park.
The Castillos are ready to share their moments of memorializing the life of award-winning filmmaker Celso Ad. Castillo who was buried in his family mausoleum in Siniloan, Laguna.
Beauty queen and actress Azenith Briones is all set to give her late husband, the controversial husband El Rey Reyes, businessman from San Pablo City who died of suffocation in the 2017 fire at Resorts World Manila.
Other dead artists not necessarily from Laguna but in neighboring provinces like Quezon are prizewinning directors Mel Chionglo whose ashes the Chionglos kept and blessed and Gil M. Portes whose remains were buried in Pagbilao, Quezon.
They also deserve remembrances.
