Thanks to the Catholic Bishops, we had to watch My Husband’s Lovah
Publicity photo for the telenovela My Husband’s Lover.
MTRCB will follow due process on CBCP warning over My Husband’s Lover.
My Husband’s Lover is about a man who is married to a woman but is really in love with another man. Yes, it’s practically a documentary. No thanks, we have enough examples (Tantanan niyo na si Jun Encarnacion, ano ba, namamahinga na siya). The actors playing the lovers do not telegraph their gayness to the audience in the stereotypical manner—mincing about, speaking baklese, gushing over their make-up. They act like straight guys, and that’s probably what distresses some viewers. (“They’re fooling us! We thought they were hetero!” and “What a waste of good genes!” When Brokeback Mountain came out, we know married women who freaked out because the lovers looked, sounded, dressed, and went on trips together—just like their husbands.)
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Turns out we sort of know the people behind My Husband’s Lovah.
* Our sister’s friend Paul Sta. Ana is one of the writers.
* The director is Dominic Zapanta, who has told us many gross stories. (Remember the one about the monobloc chair?)
* One of our friends had a massive crush on Dennis Trillo. He (our friend) was standing outside their building, waiting for his car, when Dennis Trillo’s car drove up. Our friend, a very visual thinker, described Dennis’s arrival thus: “Bumukas ang pinto. Lumabas ang sapatos. Lumabas ang binti. Lumabas ang tuhod. Lumabas ang shorts…”
“At hiwa-hiwalay silang lahat!” Noel interrupted.
* A couple of years ago, at a friend’s birthday dinner, Joji Alonso introduced us to Tom Rodriguez, who was starring in her production, Here Comes the Bride. “Hello,” he said, “I’m Tom Mott.”
“Like Mott Street?” we said. He said yes. “Your name is a palindrome!”
Way to talk to the cute guy, nerd.
* Andresa has a huge crush on Roi Vinzons, who plays Vincent’s father. (Just say the word, she makes killer ostrich burgers and has a wood-fired pizza oven.)
* Kuh Ledesma plays the cruel mother-in-law. Many years ago, at the defunct Republic of Malate, our friends were recalling the Kuh Ledesma movie, Tinimbang Ang Langit. Before long they were singing one of the songs from the movie, “Try A Little Suicide”.
“Won’t you try a little suicide…suicide…” complete with second voice. Suddenly they spotted Kuh Ledesma walking towards them. She did not look amused. They did a quick fadeout.
* Our best story involves a snappy retort from Chanda Romero, but we can’t print it.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
June 27th, 2013 at 05:04
That’s actually one of my pet peeves: how people conflate sexual orientation with gender identity. Why do all gay men have to be effeminate and all lesbians butch? Was there some sort of decree that went “fine, you can have homoromantic relationships, but you must still slot yourselves into traditional gender roles”?
It’s much more amusing to keep the worried straight people guessing and wondering “Could that be us? Noooooo!”
June 27th, 2013 at 11:44
I love Dennis Trillo!!!
June 27th, 2013 at 15:14
Thanks to this show, more straight people (at least those who watch telenovelas and pick life lessons from them) not used to straight-acting gays just might realize that ‘discreet gays’ walk all over the earth. It might get them to stop asking girlfriend-less guys things like ‘bakit wala ka pang girlfriend?!’ etc. And then, maybe, closet cases can stop obligating themselves to act sassily whenever they’re around heteros who are uncomfortable at the thought of non-flamboyant gays.
Ampogi ni Tom Rodriquez. That’s all, thank you.
June 28th, 2013 at 00:34
I will never get over the Dennis Trillo joke. Never. That’s golden.
June 30th, 2013 at 15:13
Didn’t know Paul Sta. Ana is one of the writers. If this is the same Paul Sta. Ana from AHS 1995, then he was also my classmate.
My favorite moment remains to be Eric (Dennis Trillo) landing in the airport coming from abroad. Just a few scenes earlier, he was playing basketball in a flashback. This time, he was walking through the airport with a magenta maleta in tow. Hee. Subtle (or maybe not), but it’s an interesting telltale sign of how his time in the USA must have changed him.
July 1st, 2013 at 00:13
allancarreon: Yup, that’s Paul. Ooh magenta maleta. Although we do know straight older guys who dress out of the preppie handbook and wear pink shirts, often with loud, hideous ties.
July 3rd, 2013 at 06:09
Yup, that magenta maleta would never leave my mind. I wish I had one.
It’s nice you see straight older guys who dress that way. I’ve only seen: (1) fashionable gay guys, (2) pa-fashionable dorks, and (2) fashionable gay dorks.