The way the cookie crumbles NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 08/20/2010

The way the cookie crumbles

NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 08/20/2010 SPOT.PH, one of the more interesting Web sites that’s been pointed out to me by family members who know I wouldn’t know how to surf the Internet on my own, has put out a 10-item list that may help us to understand Willie Revillame. Those out of the loop will ask: Who is this Revillame guy and why is there need to know him? Only because he’s dared buck ABS-CBN, the giant TV network that gave him his break well into the job that paid as much as anywhere from P30 million to P45 million a month, thus affording him his four mansions, two yachts, and many other etceteras, including a luxury car of dubious ownership, or so he said when the car’s tax papers were questioned. So we’re informed that he started as a sidekick, and of sidekicks, there are those happy to be so, and “those who aspire to be the main man.” That he’s “a graduate of the School of Hard Knocks” “grew up poor… reportedly took on odd jobs as a jeepney maintenance boy and a barker… probably explains why he has surrounded himself with the best things that money can buy. That he’s an Aquarian, born Jan. 27 and therefore “expected” to be “friendly and humanitarian,” as well as “contrary, perverse and unpredictable.”... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100820com4.html

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