Late Inquirer editor Nestor Torre honored by Bibeth Orteza, Rita Daniela

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Members of the entertainment industry honored Inquirer editor and columnist Nestor Torre Jr., who passed away at 78 years old yesterday, April 6, due to complications caused by COVID-19.

Actress-writer Bibeth Orteza, for one, remembered her good friend Torre for directing “Ang Isinilang Ko Ba’y Kasalanan?”—the first movie she starred in back in the late ’70s.

“Our friend left us only this morning, no thanks to [COVID],” she posted on Facebook yesterday. “He directed my first feature film, this man who refused to write his screenplays, stageplays and columns on the typewriter, no way on computers much later on, simply doing all of them by hand, on yellow legal-sized pad.”

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