February 2012
214 posts
All things Mexico.: Oscar Statuette Modeled After... →
fuckyeahmexico:
The smoothly muscular, golden silhouette of an Oscar statuette wasn’t just based on anyone. It was actually modeled in 1929 after the nude body of a Mexican director.
Filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor Emilio Fernandez, nicknamed “El Indio,” fled Mexico for Los Angeles in the 1920s, exiled after…
“I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.”
– Morrissey (1984)
“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was...”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez (via inalittlelove)
