I heard last weekend that the producer/director of Temptation Island, Lipad Darna Lipad, Underage, Bomba Star, Katorse, Blue Jeans, 14 Going Steady and Pila Balde, Joey Gosiengfiao, has passed away due to a heart attack.

According to his dear friend Elwood Perez, he met Gosiengfiao when they were students at the University of the East. “He confided that his life was like the Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie,” Perez recounted. “His mom Maria was pure Japanese and looked like Lana Turner. She was erudite and genteel. Their house was filled with books. I used to borrow books by Sartre and Kafka from their library.” He would forever remember Gosiengfiao as “a bohemian in a turtleneck, a cigarette dangling from his lips, like French actress Jeanne Moreau,” Perez said.