Tuesday Vargas is a champ at "musical" comedy.
9. TUESDAY VARGAS
Sassy trademarks: Those long lashes those flirty glances. She is sexy as hell, but gives her womanliness a queer twist by just seemingly gayish. But how she takes that in stride!
Best remembered for: Her plaintive cry of mock distress, played for laugh, in the guise of a song, "Babae Po Ako," where she begs not to be mistaken anymore as a gay man.
Why gays love her: According to Chris Martinez, her director in Here Comes the Bride, Tuesday has clock set inside her—“quiet in the daytime, mad as a hatter at night, peaking just around 3:00 a.m. When she does a mean (and hilarious) Eugene Domingo in that film, portraying a tigress of a lawyer displaced inside a housemaid's body, she went straight to our hearts and to our collective funny-bone.
Everyone may get distracted by Angelica Panganiban's body, but she should also get props for her fantastic comic timing.
10. ANGELICA PANGANIBAN
Sassy trademarks: The famous FHM bikini shot—“and the flak that followed it! (Which she willingly parodied, of course, in Here Comes the Bride, in the scene where she quickly "accentuated" it with a see-through purple slipover.)
Best remembered for: We knew there was something a little devilish in her when she essayed the role of Santa Santita, but she had always played the tweetums role everywhere else it was too easy to overlook that this girl has range. But with Chris Martinez's body-swapping comedy Here Comes the Bride, she goes all out—“and becomes the best gay man this side of contemporary Filipino cinema.
Why gays love her: Because of one strange wedding march cum fashion show, one honeymoon night striptease, and one immortal line: "Apir apir apir! Hindi na uso 'yan. Wisik wisik na lang, masdan mo ang beauty ko! Tataas ang kilay mo!"
Special thanks to J. Neil Garcia, Jose Wendell Capili, Gino Dizon, Chris Martinez, James Renan Dalman, and Paulie Romano for help in this article.
Image credits: Dindoscope.com (Rita Gomez) and PEP.ph (Celia Rodriguez, Angelica Panganiban, Maricel Soriano, and Giselle Sanchez)
