| An action film star, who narrowly lost this year's Philippines presidential elections and then sought to nullify President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's victory, has suffered a stroke and is in a coma, his spokesman said Sunday. Fernando Poe Jr. complained of dizziness while drinking and dining with friends and employees in his suburban Manila film studio. He was brought late Saturday to a hospital, where he was in an intensive-care unit, said his spokesman, Rep. Francis Escudero. "Initially, he thought it was only because he changed his eyeglasses but later he could no longer stand his dizziness," Escudero said. "He did not fall to the ground but his condition was no longer normal so we rushed him to the hospital." Poe, 65, later slipped into a coma and doctors needed to conduct more tests over the next 72 hours to predict his chances of recovery, Escudero told a press conference. |