Long Live King of Comedy: Dolphy

After courageously battling  pneumonia for the past years, The King of Comedy, Rodolfo Vera Quizon, Sr , popularly known as "Dolphy", have died last night at 83. The nation is in  mourning for the loss of this great comedian.

 

I grew up watching only one of his movie "Home Along Da River" where Dolphy played a prisoner father who worked as a driver-bodyguard for his own son and daughter, but he is greatly known for his role as Kevin Cosme in  "Home Along Da Riles",

Maalala Mo Kaya: Manika

One of the most controversial episode of Maalala Mo Kaya (MMK on its 20^th Year) is the Manika episode aired last Sarurday, June 30, 2012. The story revolves on Nene (greatly played by Jane Oineza) who love her mother so much and just want for their family to be whole again, finds herself being abused repeatedly by her stepfather with her mother’s consent.

                

It’s heartbreaking to see such episode wherein a mother, which should be protector and who would sacrifice everything for her children in many cases, portrayed a different role. In this case, Nene’s mother, Cora, a drug dependent, afraid of being left again by her second husband, agreed to let her daughter be used by her husband so to stop his womanizing.  Nene pleaded for her mothers help but Cora end up even helping her husband. 

                              

You would probably say, no mother in her right mind, will do such thing to her daughter. And you are right. I just pitied her mother for letting herself be influenced by drugs and be drowned in too much obsession for her husband's attention and love.