Talk:Weng Weng

message: Hopefully someone can provide more sourcing for some of this material. I can't even find confirmation that he is definitely deceased, the "mid 90s" reference is also given on some other web pages, but at least one of them cites this page as the reference for that. IMDB has him appearing in a movie in the Phillipines in 1997. Hopefully someone can provide a decent source for this. The sentence about balut eggs needs attribution as well, it seems somewhat out of place but given the relative dearth of information I guess it might as well stay in for now. Lb34 05:55, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sourcing needed

message: I added the info that he died in the mid-1990s. I am very sure of this because it was reported in Movie Magazine, a Philippine TV entertainment show hosted by Nap Gutierrez and Cristy Fermín that ran on Saturday afternoons at GMA 7 during the 1990s. They even aired close-up shots of his corpse as it lay in state, and the sight freaked me out then. I don't remember though the cause of death. At the time he died, WengWeng had more or less been out of the public eye for sometime, since around the end of the Marcos era. 
I've been searching for additional reference materials on Wengweng, but that is very difficult to find. No books have been written about him, and his current fame I think rests more overseas than in the Philippines, where there is no strong nostalgia for his movies. Perhaps the best sources of info on him would be contemporary newspaper accounts or press publicity materials from the late 70s to early 80s, which can be accessed from sites as the U.P library. In the meantime, added citation tags as to his date of death. --Anyo Niminus 11:27, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Death of WengWeng

message: I removed some duplicate info that was in the wrong place anyway. We just heard about his big breakthrough, and then the story returns to his discovery? 
This bit:
"He was discovered by Eddie Nicart in a circushttp://www.nanarland.com/divers/divers.php?id=25. His first movie part is believed to be that of the baby Moses in the 1972 Filipino biblical epic "Go Tell It On The Mountain", which also starred future Philippine president Joseph Estrada as the adult Moses. Most of Weng Weng's early movie roles involved him either playing babies, children, small cuddly animals or strange alien beings in a number of low budget Filipino sci-fi features. In 1973 he appeared in filmmaker Pedro Manoy's super-low-budget science-fiction fantasy "MoonBoy From Another Planet" in which he played a lovable three foot alien who befriends a poor Filipino boy."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.167.54.37 (talk) 21:52, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  misplaced info 

message: Just a section to keep a record of what is currently unverified.
Weng Weng trained in many disciplines of martial arts including Jeet Kune Do under fellow Filipino Dan Inosanto and the hybrid martial style Ju Gran Chaud which he was taught by Ju Gran Chaud's founders Laurent Painchaud and Matthew "Granimal" Granahan who travelled through Southeast Asia and Compton preaching the discipline.Filmman3000 (talk) 04:57, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unverified information