DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA by Patti Lupone in Grammy Awards

Broadway Superstar, Ms. Patti Lupone, the original Evita in Broadway is shown in this video singing Don't Cry For Me Argentina in a way much better than Madonna [the Hollywood Evita] and Elaine Paige [The West End, London Evita].

This immortal song composed by Sir Andrew Llord Webber captures the charisma, the appeal and the pain of one of the most powerful women in the history of her country, Evita Peron. It reminds us Filipinos of our own Imelda Marcos, the girl from Leyte who used her beauty to charm the then Senator Ferdinand Marcos to take her as his wife. When Marcos became president they together produced what we call THE CONJUGAL DICTATORSHIP. They reigned as if they own the treasure box of the country's financial banks and stayed in power for 21 years, living in legendary luxury and style while the people were in misery. FOR THE MARCOSES, NO TEARS AT ALL.

They are lucky because we are Catholics, very easy to forgive. If we are masons and agnostics then the guillotines would have been sharper.