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I was at last night’s Director’s Cut screening of Joel Lamangan’s Walang Kawala at the UP Film Institute. It was a mostly (~90%) gay men crowd, and as a friend said, “ansaya ng get together!” Another friend quipped, “ansarap ng feeling kapag nasa crowd ka na overpowered ng bading ang mga straight!”

Why was “Walang Kawala” such a hit? I think the promo photos did it. And the buzz about Marco Morales‘ two-time frontal exposure. The movie itself was palatable enough, in fact Emilio Garcia as the contravida had really funny scenes, such a welcome comic relief to the suspense/thriller that the film was suposed to be.

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The Bakla Review once again wows Migs the Manila Gay Guy with his Ten Best Macho Dancer Movies Ever. Here’s a snippet, and don’t miss reading the entire post by clicking on the link provided below.

If the Western has the Wild West with its cowboys, the Macho Dancer Movie nestles within the dark walls of the Gay Bar with its cast of gyrating, undressing male performers. Macho dancers are not to be confused with the callboy/common prostitute or the torero/live sex performer, although they can be those too. The Macho Dancer’s weapon is his particular brand of striptease. And just as the Western is American and the Samurai film Japanese, the Macho Dancer Movie is quintessentially Filipino. Is there any country other than the Philippines that can fill a top ten list of macho dancer movies with a few extra to spare? In these films, the plight of a people are played out via intermittent seductive numbers, like a musical, but hotter, where the thongs usually come off. Herewith, the zarzuelas of our time.

Read the entire post by clicking here.

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I was driving along EDSA one day, with a date. He was good looking, a smart conversationalist, very personable, and was *totally* straight-acting (meaning, does not have traces of femininity in the way he conducted himself — speaking, acting, dressing up, etc.). Very interesting, right?

Then this thing happens. He sees a billboard of JC de Vera, and I hear a shriek. A shriek. First time in my life that I heard I shriek, but when I heard it, I knew it was a shriek. A loud, sharp, shrill sound, somewhere in between a cry and a laughter. That’s what a shriek is.

From then on, I knew him much better. Thanks to JC. And by the way, coming up, shriek-inducing shirtless photos of the boy. Enjoy!
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Hep! Don’t let that naughty thought get to you yet. By “Jun-jun” I mean the autistic child character in the 1991 Vilma Santos-Christopher de Leon starrer “Ipagpatawad Mo.” Fifteen years later, “Jun-jun” re-emerges, not anymore as an autistic child, but as a gyrating macho dancer in Twilight Dancers. Presenting, Terence Baylon! Terence also appeared in “Barang” and “I wanna be happy,” both 2006 movies as well. Now I’m pretty sure you wanna see more of this big Jun-jun, yeah? Hehehe!
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It’s past noon and I just woke up — was at Big Papa last night. Yes, that gay bar in front of KIA in Pasay just off Tramo. It was nothing spectacular. Entrance fee was Php250 (non-consummable), and each customer is required to order 2 drinks at least — SanMig Light was at Php130 each, so yes it was kind of a rip-off. Each dance routine of the macho dancers was the same as the previous one, and the same as the next, except for one macho dancer who bumped his head on the stage for overzealousness, a great comic relief in a set of boring body gyrations. Nothing much to say but I thought there were more eye candies in Adonis. One of my uber excited companions wasn’t too happy too when we left the place. I can’t blame him, he lives right across Gigolo in Timog Avenue.

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Presenting all-Filipino, tall, dark, and handsome, Lauren Novero. In Twilight Dancers, he appeared as Cherry Pie’s swarthy, ex-macho dancer driver. Now, Lauren, can you be my driver?

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Pensive Allen…

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Famed gay author, academician, and aspiring politician Danton Remoto has this to say about Mel Chionglo’s Twilight Dancers:

I watched the preview of Twilight Dancers, the last in the Mel
Chionglo macho dancer trilogy, and I gen liked it. It is a political
film that satirizes the current state (or lack of it) of governance
in our govt. It is not perfect — no film, I think, is — but the
fact that it asks troubling questions in these troubling times is
enough to watch it.The boys are cute but all too fair-skinned or too
white. Allen Dizon and Lauren Novera (Novero?) are dark and sweet,
like Swiss chocolate. Hmmm.

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Ken Rudolph, a highly experienced film critic and member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1975, watched Mel Chionglo’s Twilight Dancers last September 11 in the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. And he has this to say:

I had my doubts whether to spend an early morning with straight Filipino macho dancers dancing and selling themselves in gay clubs. I’d seen at least 3 of the previous versions of this film; and only the first, by a different director, was actually special. However the films have held my interest in the past, so I gave this one a try. I’m sorry I did. There was nothing original in this story of a young guy who, along with his older, over-the-hill mentor in the twilight of his dancer-prostitute career, got involved with a ruthless lady “business woman”, whose business was drugs and corruption. The previous macho dancer film was about AIDS; but this one was all about political corruption. Unlike the previous films, it looked terrible: shot with inferior digital camerawork. And even the macho dancing was perfunctory and only used as throwaway sequences to separate the story sections. Apparently the film has been rated X by the Manila authorities, which means it is banned for everyone. Why is a good question. Maybe because it steps on crooked local politician’s toes; certainly not for any sexual titillation.

I say, not a good sign. See the film critic’s journal of the movies he watched in the festival.

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