Happy 70th Birthday, Luisa Valenzuela
por: Mark Axelrod
Once, over breakfast, we were talking about writing and I ironically asked, if she had prepared the breakfast for me. She gave me one of her patented Valenzuela gazes which is something that peaks out from the corner of her eyes a prelude to her comment: “if you remember anything about me, remember I don’t spend a lot of time in the kitchen.” Perhaps, it wasn’t exactly those words, but the meaning was clear. I wasn’t going to look a lizard’s tale in the mouth even though strange things have happened here, there, especially in terms of bedside manners.
