After Ang Lee’s espionage thriller Se, Jei, the film adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s celebrated novel is another movie I’d like to see – Love in the time of Cholera by the esteemed author, who more often than not looks like one of the Mario brothers of my childhood years. I haven’t read the book yet and I still don’t know when it’d be shown here in the Philippine shores.

In the meantime, Inquirer entertainment columnist Ruben Nepales shares an interview of the pop music Shakira, who was asked by Marquez, a fellow Columbian, to write songs for the film:

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