“You’re nothing but a second rate, trying hard, copycat!”

Sans the drama and the splashing of wine scene, actress Cherie Gil virtually uttered the famous line as she demanded that the producers of the musical adaptation of the 1985 film “Bituing Walang Ningning” stop using the line that she insists is her intellectual property.

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