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Article: Jolo Revilla is the new Pepeng Agimat.(Showbiz)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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In Philippine folklore, a magical talisman or “agimat” is passed on from generation to generation. Of course, it should be to a “deserving person.” In the case of the Revilla clan, whose patriarch, senator and movie icon Ramon Revilla, Sr. is believed to possess a magical amulet that paved the way to his successes, his “agimat” is now passed on to his grandson Jolo Revilla in the form of “Pepeng Agimat” – the ABS-CBN TV series version of the movie of the same title which starred Ramon Revilla in the early ‘70s. “I’m very thankful to ABS-CBN for giving me such a big opportunity via remaking ...