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| Jorge Garayoa The legend has just begun
e was born under the sign of Aries and the world shook once again. He lost his theatrical virginity when he was six months old (surpassing all previous attempts by Latin Lovers) by slobbering all over Alberto Closas’s tie and groping Maria Duval’s upper breast area in the movie ”The Story of a Bad Woman”, because before the invention of the cinema, Oscar Wilde wrote “Lady Windermere’s Fan”. At 11 years old, and after 11 years of kvetching his father had had enough and he agreed to bring Jorge into the world of television acting. Until he was 14 he was the star of programs such as “A Gang to Remember”, “Great Argentine Authors”, “Where the Road Starts”, in which he played the parts of Strauss and San Martín, “Every Year is Christmas”, where he did not play the parts of a tree nor a turkey, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, where in a spectacular display of histrionics he played the parts of Tom and Sawyer at the same time. The famous magazine “Canal TV Guide” featured him and his characters on its cover, which it obvious as to what level this pip-squeak had risen. He continued with some rather boring performances in High School and as an absurd law student (this must be mercifully ignored in this story) until our hero returned to life when he remembered why he had been born. Under the guidance of Carlos Gandolfo he graduated with a degree in Theater Direction from the National School of Dramatic Arts, as well as Announcer from Superior Institute of Radio Arts (ISER), as Director of Television from El Salvador University in Buenos Aires, and he says he studied acting with Beatriz Matar as an excuse to achieve his true objective which was to fondle the girls in the erotic scenes rehearsed in the classes. From here on he conquered many other objectives in the world of communication, except to communicate with his ex-girlfriends. Theater At the beginning, and also later on, he acted and or wrote and or directed a herd of comedy spectaculars for the glory which generated a lot of laurels but little cash. Radio He made more radio than General Electric: conductor, journalist, producer, writer, disk jockey, announcer, actor and a fanatic creator of his own programs on first rate radio stations: Excelsior, Rivadavia, Continental, Splendid, Belgrano, El Mundo and Municipal. I swear!.. Magazines Besides 20 other publications he was a special writer for “Humor Magazine” during the glorious years of the military junta, where he had to have imagination and guts to speak badly about Jorge Rafael Videla, the dictator, not like now when Carlos Menem serves up the humor on a platter. Movies Among other scripts he wrote “Dr. Cureta’s Clinic”, directed by Alberto Fischerman, an invited guest at the Vevey International Film Festival in Switzerland, and Cairo International Film Festival, nominated for best script by the Cinematagraphic Journalist Assc. of Argentina (“Cóndor de Plata” award). Television He spent much time in the bed with premier showgirl / actress Moria Casan, to help her with her lines in: “Monumental Moria”, “To Bed with Moria” and “Night Games”. He wrote and directed comedy sketches for “The Fantastic Show” and “Pinky and Fontana Live” and musical comedy sketches for “Badía and Company”. Shameless as he is, and that he knows no embarrassment can be recognized in what he wrote for Mario Sapag in “A Thousand and One” and “Dangerous Imitations”, for Jorge Porcel in “Kittens and Mice” and for Carmen Barbieri and others in “The Friday Review” and the unique author of all of the lines which Nito Artaza forgot in his series “The Little Summer”. In a impressive, heroic act he made the stiff face journalist Bernardo Neustadt laugh by writing and acting in satirical sketches on his program “New Time” produced by the advertising firm Ayer-Vazquez. Books An oracle announced to him that he must do something that has never been done before. Indecisive in the front of the possibility of testing his homosexuality, he decided to write a book. But for the next two years he couldn’t stop and he penned seven humorous books (humor of course is much more sophisticated than a joke books), they were a financial success. They are called: “The Cruelest Chauvinist Stories”, by which he lost favor in the eyes of many women, “Flattery”, by which he recovered his earlier losses, “Lawyers and Other Vermin” and “Doctors, Psychoanalysts and Other Enemies of Heath”, two other publications in which he shouts the truth about these honorable professions, ”600 Excuses for Weaseling Out,” a self help book, “Blood, Sweat and Soccer” and “Con Pelos en la Lengua” (word game that means the opposite to “not to mince words”). Expedition In order to explore other creative neighborhoods he directed musicals; he directed an opera, “The Marked Cards”; directed the Carlos Barragán Spectacular which won the World Championship in magic (Germany, 1997); he wrote and directed another humor, magic and rock spectacular called “Where the Hell’s the Rabbit?”. Always insatiable he wrote, directed and starred in a satirical soap opera acting as the couple of the singer María Marta Serra Lima. Synthesis It’s tiring to speak about this man … advertising?, he’s done it… theater?, he’s taught it… he made the tango funny… directed works by Bertolt Brecht and Luigi Pirandello… collaborated in the argument of a ballet. Anyway, he made fun of the military in “Boots and Votes”, and of the argentine president Menem and Sherlock Holmes in “El Menemigo” (The Menemy). What can I tell you? I don’t want to exhaust you. With the exception of slides shows he has done it all and I’ll admit, very well. Future For this you can’t go wrong if you consider that in Argentina there is a talent that can be converted into very good business for you… by writing, acting, directing. Think about it. He already has it all thought out about how to succeed. He has all of the blood, the creativity and imagination to face any challenge. It would be tremendous if you would accompany him. |
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