Thank God Rico Hizon gave up on ‘Camelot’!
Let’s start with a few fun facts you might not know about the BBC’s Filipino news anchor Rico Hizon:
Let’s start with a few fun facts you might not know about the BBC’s Filipino news anchor Rico Hizon:
I had to smile when I saw the joyful brouhaha made in the press over the marriage of 75-year-old lawyer King Rodrigo to 69-year-old actress Boots Anson-Roa. Similar goodwill and cheer met the press announcement of the engagement of actress Zsa Zsa Padilla and architect Conrad Onglao, both in their 50s. There was also much joy in the States last week when, after 15 years of widowhood, 57-year-old much-admired TV journalist Katie Couric married 51-year-old financier John Molner.
Boots Anson, soon to be Boots Anson Rodrigo, was right to go public about her second-time-around romance. She thought we could all use a reminder of the idyllic spot called “Camelot” at a time when so many things seem to be going tragically wrong for us as a people and a place.
Time is running out. Like in the song, “it’s now or never.” With friends dropping dead one after the other, the thought occurred to me, I might be next. The will and the living will are already in the right hands. It’s always best to get “pending” stuff like those out of the way.
Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table may have been a legend. But real knights did exist in the days of the Crusades, responding to the Pope’s call to defend Palestine’s holy places and Jerusalem, in particular, which the Seljuks of Asia Minor had captured.
Just as their invitations said, Dr. Jose Enrique “Joe-Em” de las Peñas and Jill Johns de las Peñas hosted “an enchanted evening to celebrate the 18th birthday of their beautiful daughter Mary Ellen.”
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