Former Miss Singapore Universe organiser Errol Pang died Monday morning at age 76. He was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer in April.
He was one of the first people I interviewed as a journalist in Singapore after returning from America in 1993.
I was working on my first major magazine feature on the state of the republic's (non-existent) movie industry back then and Pang had produced what was touted as “Singapore’s first full-length English film”, Medium Rare, in 1991.
Margaret Chan was in it.
The movie was poorly received, but Pang was surprisingly open and good-natured about it. He seemed like someone who was always happy to talk to the press for some publicity.
I have bumped into him once or twice over the decades since, though I don’t think he remembered me.
But I will always be grateful for his generosity with his time and humour with a youngish magazine writer 25 years ago.
Below are clips of the article from Man Life & Style magazine:
