Talk:Weng Weng
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[edit] Sourcing needed
Hopefully someone can provide more sourcing for some of this material. I can't even find confirmation that he is definitely deceased, the "mid 90s" reference is also given on some other web pages, but at least one of them cites this page as the reference for that. IMDB has him appearing in a movie in the Phillipines in 1997. Hopefully someone can provide a decent source for this. The sentence about balut eggs needs attribution as well, it seems somewhat out of place but given the relative dearth of information I guess it might as well stay in for now. Lb34 05:55, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Death of WengWeng
I added the info that he died in the mid-1990s. I am very sure of this because it was reported in Movie Magazine, a Philippine TV entertainment show hosted by Nap Gutierrez and Cristy Fermín that ran on Saturday afternoons at GMA 7 during the 1990s. They even aired close-up shots of his corpse as it lay in state, and the sight freaked me out then. I don't remember though the cause of death. At the time he died, WengWeng had more or less been out of the public eye for sometime, since around the end of the Marcos era.
I've been searching for additional reference materials on Wengweng, but that is very difficult to find. No books have been written about him, and his current fame I think rests more overseas than in the Philippines, where there is no strong nostalgia for his movies. Perhaps the best sources of info on him would be contemporary newspaper accounts or press publicity materials from the late 70s to early 80s, which can be accessed from sites as the U.P library. In the meantime, added citation tags as to his date of death. --Anyo Niminus 11:27, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
