By: Mario Baustista
PERLA BAUTISTA hosted lunch for intimate friends last Monday on the occasion of her birthday. "I have so many blessings from the Lord to be thankful for," she says. "Earlier, may lump ako in both breasts and I had them removed. Thank God they're not malignant at all. Tapos, heto, tuloy-tuloy ang projects ko. I play the role of Anne Curtis' yaya na may sariling love story in 'The Wedding'. Once a week, I go to the park to wait for my boyfriend who promised to meet me there. Anne promised that she won't get married hangga't hindi ako nakakasal. After 50 years, finally, bumalik yung boyfriend ko, si Lito Legaspi."
But she's more excited with the movie she just finished, "Hermana Fausta of Lucena". "First time kong makaganap sa title role and I want to thank Director Felino Tanada for getting me to play it. It's the true story of Hermana Fausta Labrador whose life story is in the book 'The Good Woman of Lucena' by Monina Allarey Mercado. She was born in 1858 and lived until 1942 during the Japanese Occupation. She was schooled in Manila then went home to Lucena to open the Sacred Heart College that she turned over to the Daughters of Charity and exists up to now. She ran it for 53 years. A woman of great compassion, she never married but has an outstanding devotion to the Holy Eucharist, the Mass and the Holy Rosary. Her portrait, painted by the late National Artist Fernando Amorsolo, is now still on exhibit in the college. Tommy Abuel plays Amorsolo in the movie that will be premiered at SM Lucena this Friday night."
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