Will Ernie Delfin Produce the “Desperate Housebands (sic)” TV Series? |
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Friday, 19 October 2007 04:18 | |||
The Filipino grapevine is buzzing with news that a new Filipino-American pay-TV series called "Desperate Housebands" is on the works. "Houseband" is a parody of husband. According to this web site’s Deep Throat, the script is based on Ernie Delfin’s article entitled, "Filipino Nurses in America." The report also says that Mr. Delfin will bankroll the TV series and will serve as its main producer. The report said that the new soap-opera series may run in the Viva Pinoy Pak, which operates three channels on Dish Network. Mr. Delfin, a real-estate broker, writes an occasional column for the Philippine Daily Star of Manila, the Asian Journal of San Diego, California, and this online publication. He is the highest-ranking Filipino Rotarian in Orange County, California. He is also the immediate past president of the Filipino-American Chamber of Commerce of Orange County. He is also the president of the Progressive Funders, a mortgage-banking company. Here are excerpts from Mr. Delfin’s article: QUOTE. I have met hundreds of RNs (Registered Nurses) in my twenty-five years plus in America. And I admire a lot of them, yet I also "pity" many of them because they have often become the "martyrs" and main economic posts of their families in the U.S. as well as in the Philippines. BSN has been given the meaning "Binuhay sa Nars" and RN spouses have acquired another degree, PNA meaning "Palamunin ng Asawa." XXX RN has been referred with some derogatory slant as Reserved for the Navy, as many of them have married navy people who are generally less educated than the Filipino RN (often with a BSN degree). In many instances, the marriage is consummated because the single RN has to legalize her stay in the U.S. before her working or student visa expires. Since 1965, foreign-nursing graduates, after passing the so-called CGFNS (Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools) exams were issued an Interim RN license, but within one year they must pass the required state RN exams. If they fail, they must go home or face the traumatic experience of being deported. Obviously, many nurses are scared to become a TNT (tago nang tago) or NPA (no permanent address). Due to the bleak or precarious economic situation back home, no RN in her normal mind would like to go back to the Philippines after a few years in America. And oftentimes, a Navy man (hopefully he is really single) becomes the timely savior for these "helpless" single nurses who want to become permanent residents (green-card holders) in the United States. To read Mr. Delfin’s article in its entirety, please go to this link http://www.mabuhayradio.com/content/view/497/51/ Reports say that Mr. Delfin is assembling a cast of wannabe Filipino actors and actresses, script writers, directors, line producers and other members of the cast. {ice 409 -link} Photo shows Ernie Delfin talking with Ms. Linda Nietes of the Philippine Expressions book store (at the background of featured Filipino writers Fred Burce Bunao and Peping Domingo). Perhaps Mr. Delfin and Ms. Nietes were talking behind Messrs. Bunao and Domingo about the script of the new Fil-Am pay-TV series? (Editor’s Notes: Will Mr. Delfin tap also the literary services of a Fil-Am scriptwriters’ group that Poet-Pundit Fred Burce Bunao heads? Mr. Bunao was reported also to have been contracted by the alleged producers of a new ABC Network’s series, "Desperate Housemaids." Click the link to read the report on the "Desperate Housemaids " ABC's new series.
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