by the El Reportero’s news services
Azapatas despedidas de Mexicana posaron para Playboy
Six of the 12 flight attendants who funded and posed for a popular calendar in an effort to advertise their job skills after the bankruptcy of Mexicana Airlines appear in the latest issue of Playboy Mexico. Posing in Playboy Mexico is the latest chapter in a scrappy entrepreneurial campaign by the former airline employees.
In November, a group of 12 newly unemployed Mexicana workers chipped-in to paid for and launch their very own 2011 sultry aviation calendar back.
The calendar was wildly popular and sold out various printings.
Bono’s first visit to Peru
Alongside his family and personal security, U2 lead singer, Bono, is enjoying a trip to Peru. This is the first time the singer has visited the South American country.
According to local radio RPP, Bono is enjoying his Peruvian adventure thus far stating, “Thank you, thank you very much friends. I am here with my family to see your beautiful country for the first time.”
After arriving in Lima on Thursday night and heading to Cuzco the following day, Bono visited the ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu Saturday, and then headed towards his next destination of Tambopata National Reserve, where he arrived on Tuesday. According to the country’s Foreign Trade and Tourism, Juan Arzola, Bono’s itinerary was similar to Mick Jagger’s October 2011 trip.
“When Mick Jagger was here he said he would work on an environmental crusade in the Amazon, that is why Bono is here, and therefore why we also expect other international singers,” Arzola said to Andina.
Latin artists go home empty handed from 2012 Oscars
Latin artists left the 84th Annual Academy Awards unrewarded, even as The Artist, a French silent film in black and white, took home five Oscars including the one for the year’s Best Picture.
As expected, Martin Scorsese’s Hugo was the biggest rival to The Artist, winning five gold statuettes, though all were for technical achievements.
Neither the Mexicans Demian Bichir and Emmanuel Lubezki, nor Argentina’s Berenice Bejo, nor the Brazilians Carlinhos Brown and Sergio Mendes, nor Spain’s Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal and Alberto Iglesias, had any luck at a ceremony that produced few surprises.
Lubezki wasn’t kept in suspense for long, being the first to know that an Oscar wasn’t in the cards for him, though he had been a top pick to win the Best Cinematography award for his work in The Tree of Life.
This was the fifth time Lubezki was nominated for an Oscar, but could only look on as Robert Richardson took the cinematography prize for Hugo.
