You’ve seen her play a woman in love so many times. But you’ll never ever see her scaring the daylights out of you. Nor will you catch her in some make-believe role that can only happen in some out-of-this-world place.
Bea Alonzo admits having turned down offers to do horror flicks and will most likely do the same thing for fantasy projects that will come her way.
“It’s not just I don’t like horror or fantasy films,” she explains. “I just feel that there are many stories on real people, real happenings in this world. I feel better acting out stories that you can really feel because you see them happen in real life.”
As a media person, Bea adds, it’s her responsibility to “represent what’s really happening in our world.”
Her non-fantasy sympathies explain why Bea has not seen a single Harry Potter movie. The story of a boy with magical powers may appeal to many young people like her. But that doesn’t mean she’ll ride on the bandwagon. Fantasy is not just her cup of tea, thank you.
Bea is not closing her doors, though. She says she can make an exception when she sees a redeeming value in the story, or if someone like Peque Gallaga directs a horror or fantasy picture.
“Then perhaps, I can make that kind of movie,” she says.
Otherwise, Bea will stick to the colorful characters she plays opposite perennial partner John Lloyd Cruz and soon, Lorna Tolentino in the family drama Sa `Yo Lamang and Gretchen Barretto in a teleseries with the working title Sisters.
But first, Bea will spend Holy Week, as she’s been doing for the past few years, working.
The family breadwinner is now in the US as guest in Heartthrob & Friends, a concert tour topbilling Piolo Pascual, Sam Milby and John Lloyd. Bea knows that it’s springtime in the US, so she is packed colorful clothes and all shades of makeup in her suitcase.
“I experiment with colors whenever I go out of the country,” she admits. “And I’m so fussy with makeup.”
That’s one of the reasons Bea agreed to be the face of cosmetics line Colour Collection (which now also carries Tupperware brands).
“ It has so many colors which you see in international brands. When you want, say `pink,’ you just don’t have pink. You have Paradise Pink, which is what I’m wearing today,” she says.
The shade of lipstick also means the world to Bea. It should match the personality of the character she’s portraying, or off-cam, her mood at the moment.
Timid, undecided characters on screen call for lighter shades while strong woman roles make Bea wear lipstick with more intense color.
It’s a different story off-cam, when Bea is freer to express her mood at the moment. She resorts to all the colors of the rainbow for this.
When she wakes up in the morning, one of Bea’s first thoughts is what to wear for the day. She picks pink lipstick if she feels all girl.
When she thinks it’s time to glam up, Bea reveals she’s partial to bloody red.
Not all days are sunny and bright. So Bea matches her lazy mood at this time by doing something simple.
“I just put on lip gloss,” she reveals. “This way, I can still look beautiful even if I’m not in my best mood.”
Bea has no reason to have this blah feeling these days. A sibling she’s sending to college will graduate soon. That’s another feather on her cap besides the house she built for her mom.
At 25, Bea feels it’s about time to “think of myself.”
For her, that means investing on something she can call her own, like a land planted to mangrove trees in Antipolo. Bea has asked her mom to oversee the property while she’s busy working.
Meanwhile, Bea has not given up hope on working with her dream leading men: Aga Muhlach and Robin Padilla.
Nothing has come out of talks about a movie with Aga.
“He knows I really want to work with him, but I just don’t know when,” says Bea.
That’s not just a hint. It’s Bea’s outright request. http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=561015&publicationSubCategoryId=70
Voters are advised to check their names in the watch list of multiple registrants to avoid disenfranchisement in the May 10 elections.
Elections Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal said voters have only eight week to verify whether they are in the list of double registrants.
“We encourage people to visit the Comelec offices in the different cities and municipalities to just verify their records and avoid confusion,” he said.
“There’s just (more than) a month to go so you can just pass by the Comelec office so we can also address your concerns.”
The Comelec said the watch list will serve as guide for voters, as well as to the Board of Election Inspectors to determine whether an individual is registered in the precinct where he or she will vote.
The poll body has discovered 704,542 multiple registrants in the voters’ list.
Based on a previous resolution, the Comelec ruled that in cases of voters with double registration, the latest registration shall be retained.
However, if the multiple registrations are within the same district/city/municipality, the original registration shall prevail, the Comelec added.
Marines killed seven suspected Abu Sayyaf members during a pre-dawn raid in the southern Philippines, state-run media reported.
The amphibious assault was carried out early Sunday in the town of Siasi, on the southern island of Sulu, said Lt. Col. Edgard Arevalo, a navy spokesman, according to the Philippine News Agency.
Abu Sayyaf does not routinely comment on such encounters and did not immediately confirm the raid or any losses.
The raid comes three weeks after marines killed Abu Sayyaf leader Albader Parad and five of his men during an assault in Maimbung. Parad led a number of high-profile kidnappings in Sulu, PNA reported.
"The people of Sulu could be another step closer to their longing for a lasting peace in the area after another successful" operation, Arevalo said.
Abu Sayyaf is one of several Islamic militant groups fighting the Philippine government to establish a separate state for the country's minority Muslim population.
The U.S. State Department considers it a terrorist organization and says it is linked to al Qaeda.
The Philippine government has been fighting to contain the group, which is blamed for several terrorist attacks in the country, including the bombing of a ferry in 2004 that left about 130 people dead. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/08/philippines.militants/index.html?section=cnn_latest