Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Back Story Timeline
Coming soon a brief chronology of events which occurred before the action starts...
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Finally found it buried amid a myriad of rewrites and other peripheral material; following is but one of the Chronologies I pieced together from memory and contemporaneous news stories.
CHRONOLOGY
1985
OCT. 5th SATURDAY:
Arrive Manila, get dragged out by Arnie, then round to his place for dinner…he is under the impression I’ve just come from Sydney…I’ve come from L.A. jet lag is rapidly catching me up.
OCT. 6th SUNDAY:
A day to recuperate, late lunch/early supper with Antonio
OCT. 7th MONDAY:
First work day, start of contract? (Achille Lauro incident)
OCT. 10th
(Orson Wells dies)
NOV. 6th
(Columbia, rebels seize control)
NOV. 13th
(Volcano in Columbia)
NOV. 15th
Zen's Birthday (not yet known)
DEC. 21st
Work Xmas Party
DEC. 31st
New Years at Zeny's
1986
JAN. 1st
any time after New Years, ticker tape parade pro Cory group Salcedo St.
JAN. 7-14th
Zeny...Pizza scene...Carmen
JAN. 28th TUESDAY:
(Challenger disaster) run up to election; escalating violence, protests (Olaf Palme assassinated. Halleys Comet?)
FEB. 7th FRIDAY:
Election
FEB. 9th SUNDAY:
Ballet
FEB. 10th MONDAY:
(Mir launched)
FEB. 11th TUESDAY:
30th Birthday
FEB. 22nd SATURDAY:
in the wee hours of the morning, just after midnight, the coup leaders start the ball rolling.
FEB. 23rd SUNDAY:
FEB. 24th MONDAY:
Phone call to Sydney…helicopters
6 A.M. Seven Sikorsky helicopters dispatched by Marcos loyalists land at Crame to side with rebels.
9:50 A.M. MBS Channel 4 went off the air during a live news conference in Malacañang and during an exchange between Marcos and then Chief of Staff General Fabian Ver.
The work day totally falls apart at this point. People start to trickle out, nobody comes back after lunch.
Chi Chi comes in with discs for line tester.
NOON Three rebel gunships destroy choppers on the ground at Villamor Air Base.
Rob's breakdown, after the above and before the following…
MAR. 27th THURSDAY:
trip to Hong Kong
MAR. 31st MONDAY:
Return from H.K.
APRIL 4th FRIDAY:
end of first 6 month contract
MAY
Flores de Mayo
JUNE SUNDAYS, 1,8,15,22,29
D and M’s wedding
JULY 20th SUNDAY:
Depart Manila
JULY 24th THURSDAY:
Depart Hong Kong
CHRONOLOGY
1985
OCT. 5th SATURDAY:
Arrive Manila, get dragged out by Arnie, then round to his place for dinner…he is under the impression I’ve just come from Sydney…I’ve come from L.A. jet lag is rapidly catching me up.
OCT. 6th SUNDAY:
A day to recuperate, late lunch/early supper with Antonio
OCT. 7th MONDAY:
First work day, start of contract? (Achille Lauro incident)
OCT. 10th
(Orson Wells dies)
NOV. 6th
(Columbia, rebels seize control)
NOV. 13th
(Volcano in Columbia)
NOV. 15th
Zen's Birthday (not yet known)
DEC. 21st
Work Xmas Party
DEC. 31st
New Years at Zeny's
1986
JAN. 1st
any time after New Years, ticker tape parade pro Cory group Salcedo St.
JAN. 7-14th
Zeny...Pizza scene...Carmen
JAN. 28th TUESDAY:
(Challenger disaster) run up to election; escalating violence, protests (Olaf Palme assassinated. Halleys Comet?)
FEB. 7th FRIDAY:
Election
FEB. 9th SUNDAY:
Ballet
FEB. 10th MONDAY:
(Mir launched)
FEB. 11th TUESDAY:
30th Birthday
FEB. 22nd SATURDAY:
in the wee hours of the morning, just after midnight, the coup leaders start the ball rolling.
FEB. 23rd SUNDAY:
FEB. 24th MONDAY:
Phone call to Sydney…helicopters
6 A.M. Seven Sikorsky helicopters dispatched by Marcos loyalists land at Crame to side with rebels.
9:50 A.M. MBS Channel 4 went off the air during a live news conference in Malacañang and during an exchange between Marcos and then Chief of Staff General Fabian Ver.
The work day totally falls apart at this point. People start to trickle out, nobody comes back after lunch.
Chi Chi comes in with discs for line tester.
NOON Three rebel gunships destroy choppers on the ground at Villamor Air Base.
Rob's breakdown, after the above and before the following…
MAR. 27th THURSDAY:
trip to Hong Kong
MAR. 31st MONDAY:
Return from H.K.
APRIL 4th FRIDAY:
end of first 6 month contract
MAY
Flores de Mayo
JUNE SUNDAYS, 1,8,15,22,29
D and M’s wedding
JULY 20th SUNDAY:
Depart Manila
JULY 24th THURSDAY:
Depart Hong Kong
Friday, June 15, 2007
The Worst of Times...
Searching for the detailed timeline I prepared from other research all I could find was this e-mail posted to a friend marking a sad anniversary on January 28th, 2006..
Today is the 20th anniversary of the Challenger disaster...twenty years ago today I was in Manila...at work, when a friend informed me that the shuttle had blown up just after lift off.
I have relied on researching past news events as a spur to trigger my own remembrance of things past.
When I first started writing my script I prepared a chronology of which events in my own life must have occurred at what time based both on personal recollections and what was happening in the wider world.
My ten months in Manila were rather convoluted and complex...a lot happened...and yet I can now look back on it as an episode; a self contained little bundle of chaos and loose ends...sealed up in a Manila envelope.
I would still love to do this film or bring this story to life somehow...right about now (circa Xmas 2005-Jan. 2006) would have been the perfect time to release it...in just a few weeks it will be the 20th anniversary of the People Power Revolution.
Today is the 20th anniversary of the Challenger disaster...twenty years ago today I was in Manila...at work, when a friend informed me that the shuttle had blown up just after lift off.
I have relied on researching past news events as a spur to trigger my own remembrance of things past.
When I first started writing my script I prepared a chronology of which events in my own life must have occurred at what time based both on personal recollections and what was happening in the wider world.
My ten months in Manila were rather convoluted and complex...a lot happened...and yet I can now look back on it as an episode; a self contained little bundle of chaos and loose ends...sealed up in a Manila envelope.
I would still love to do this film or bring this story to life somehow...right about now (circa Xmas 2005-Jan. 2006) would have been the perfect time to release it...in just a few weeks it will be the 20th anniversary of the People Power Revolution.
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