Miss International 1964 Gemma Cruz Araneta is relieved that the dignity of the celebration of Jose Rizal's birthday has been restored after a horrible incident that took place during a previous administration.
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Cruz Araneta, a descendant of Rizal, recalled in her June 23 column for Manila Bulletin the cringe-inducing behavior of a presidential adviser who was invited as guest of honor at a memorial event in Calamba, Laguna. She did not, however, say the year in which the incident took place.
“Once the guest of honor and speaker was a hitherto unknown person who rose through the ranks and suddenly became a presidential adviser. He was 45 minutes late and arrived in a helicopter with a movie hunk in tow,” she said.
"When he introduced that character to the audience, the applause was weak, so Mr. Guest Speaker thought he could stir up laughter by describing the movie star as a 'sharp object'; he said it in Tagalog, which I have to translate into English to remove the gross vulgarity and lasciviousness of the word. He said that the then incumbent president was also a 'sharp object' and that included Jose Rizal!" added Cruz Araneta.
