The Wenger
Weng Weng, originally uploaded by 160507.
Look at this fantastic t-shirt. I was at dinner with a film director and a retired but still fabulous movie queen (my late mother would’ve plotzed with joy) when an Australian video crew arrived. They were doing interviews with the directors and stars of Pinoy cult movies from the 60s and 70s, and they were wearing “The Search for Weng-Weng” t-shirts. I said, Where did you get that shirt, I need to buy one. So they gave me this shirt. It turns out that we all know Pete Tombs, yes, Tombs, what else would a guy who distributes classic cult and horror movies on video be called?
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January 24th, 2008 at 07:20
The search for Weng Weng will just be for naught. The comedian/action star who in the 1980s has impersonated Tony Ferrer’s agent X44 character is long dead. He may just be the prototype of personalities in the likes of Mahal & Mura, whose respective careers have already been flushed in the world of showbusiness.
January 24th, 2008 at 10:30
I was able to download a copy of For Ur Height Only using bittorrent and it’s a hit everytime I show it to friends. Another one of those “it’s so bad its good” flick. Check out my blog sweded.blogspot.com for homemade remakes of popular films. They have a term for this now, sweded, courtesy of Be Kind Rewind.
January 24th, 2008 at 11:50
I watched a few of Weng-weng’s movies when I was in grade school. Channel 13 would show great movies every Friday night–“Piling-Piling Pelikula (PPP). I don’t have any recollection of him doing his own voice in movies. He was the tiny version of Tony Ferrer, although he looked like a small Palito. Inday Badiday interviewed him in See-True and his voice sounded weird.
January 24th, 2008 at 14:26
nice shirt ah!
I love classic.
P.S. support your friend Danton Remoto for his candidacy as early as now. Publicity is beauty.