posted September 01, 2020 at 12:15 am , Manila Standard by Gary Olivar
"He is being nominated to be the country’s newest National Artist in the field of theater."
No, this piece isn’t about the notorious Panamanian dictator whose country was invaded in 1989 by the U.S. just to kick him out of power and jail him for various offenses.
We’re writing here instead about the much more benign, but infinitely more talented, Bienvenido “Boy” Noriega. Boy was a veritable Renaissance man whose 26th death anniversary is being observed this month, even as he’s also being nominated to be the country’s newest National Artist in the field of theater.
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