OMG! There I am smack in the middle of the "The Personalities of the Year" cover of
Jente magazine! I would have liked to say that I was honored to have been the only non-Argentinean to have received the honor but I seem to have just spotted
Janet Reno,
Two Girls and a Cup and
El Chavo del 8? [Click on image to make it larger]
I'm pretty sure I'm the only Colombian, though.
This very special wrap-around version of the end-of-the-year
Jente cover is actually a clever parody of the end-of-the-year special published by
Gente magazine, which could be described as a cousin to the gossipy UK magazine
OK!, except with delusions of grandeur ("Gente", in Spanish, means "People").
I have no idea who most of these people are. I recognize journalists
Bruno Bimbi and
Osvaldo Bazan, singer-in-a-coma
Cerati, homophobic Argentinean Senator
Cynthia Hotton,
Homer Simpson, enfant terrible
Lisandro Puzzolo, the late Argentinean president
Nestor Kirchner and his widow and current president
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. The first grooms to tie the knot in Latin America,
Alex Freyre and
José Maria di Bello are also somewhere in the mix.
It's all in the mind of
La Tostada, who spent most of the year sending up Argentinean culture politics
on Twitter and, sometimes, spreading terror into conservative homophobic politicians through his mordantly acidic tweets.
Somehow, I find the whole fake "Jente" cover hilarious and feel more honored than if I had been featured on the cover of the real "Gente."
A good way to start the year!
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