FREIXENET ADS

Of course, it's difficult to top those Andre champagne ads that ran for years in the 70's with glasses clinking to that unforgettable ring-ting-a-ling Christmas tune which I forgot the name of , but I also love the new Freixenet ads with morphjing inkblots. I couldn't find that exact version, but did find a similar one and though it's news to me, I guess Freixenet is known for their glitzy ads in Spain, some with American A-list movie stars.



PERFORMING WATER BALLET IN DIAMOND BRACELETS!



GREAT ANIMATION SET TO LATIN JAZZ!



WITH KIM BASINGER AS A SULTRY SIREN!



WITH ANTONIO BANDERAS AND SHARON STONE IN HER BEST ROLE YET!



WITH LIZA, ANN-MARGRET, RAQUEL WELCH AND TOO MANY OTHER SUPERNOVAS TO MENTION!



GWYNETH PALTROW IN THE MOST GORGEOUS EXTENSIONS EVER!



THERE'S EVEN A PARODY AD WITH SOME AWFUL DRAG!



AND A PUERTO RICAN VERSION WITH A TRANNY, PANTOJA!



OK, NOW I'M OBSESSED WITH PANTOJA. HERE SHE SPEAKS OUT AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA--I THINK. (DON'T SPEAK SPANISH.)



HERE'S PANTOJA GIVING JAMIE SUNFLOWER LIP-SYNCHING LESSONS.



AND SPEAKING OF DRAG QUEENS AND CHAMPAGNE, MISS RITCHFIELD 1981, THE TOAST OF PROVINCETOWN'S SUMMER SEASON, WILL MAKE A RARE NYC APPEARANCE ON NEW YEAR'S EVE.



FOOTNOTE: SOMEONE FROM MYSPACE WAS KIND ENOUGH TO TRANSLATE PATROJA'S HOMOPHOBIA INTO ENGLISH!

Hey Bunny I translated the interview with Pantoja for you...she unfortunately relates a story that so many LGBT youth share. Thanks for posting this....it's a great reminder that we should open our hearts (and homes when possible) to the kids out there that are just thrown away by the people who are supposed to love them but sadly do not

Narrator: This is the image of Pantoja of Puerto Rico, a woman apparently happy with her body, her lifestyle….her look. But to get to this point she has endured unimaginable situations. In her adolescence a terrifying episode at the hands of her father made her flee her own home

Pantoja: At 13 years old he asked me, we were having dinner – my whole family, and he asked me “hey I’m going to ask you a question are you a man or woman?”

Interviewer: Your father?

Pantoja in response to the interviewer: “Yes.”

Pantoja in response to her father: “Are you asking me if I’m a man or woman? You don’t know what your children are? I am a homosexual.” And then he took out a gun and he told me….”

*Pantoja asks the interviewers if she can say the word he used and they say yes*

Pantoja: “ ….I don’t want faggots in this house!” And I said “if you want to shoot me go ahead and shoot me then.” I got up, got a bag, put all my clothes in it and left…and I’ve never been back since

Narrator: At only 13 Pantoja found herself alone without the affection/love of her family…without support and trying to earn a living while still a child.

Pantoja: That week I was sleeping on the streets, but there was a place….a gym, where I would go and brush my teeth and wash up and go to school because I never stopped going to school/studying…I always stayed in school.

Interviewer: but how did you live/eat?

Pantoja: I had a little bit of money saved and I lived off that. And then one day some schoolmates saw that I was living in the streets and took me to their home. I lived in their home for like 2 years. Their mother had a sewing machine, and since I make clothes…I would sew and give them something towards the bills and I would save the rest. When I had enough money I got a place and moved.

Narrator: While she tried to make a living she fought to realize her dream…to turn herself into what her soul dictated. She only heard from her family after her parents disappeared…the death of her father reunited her with her siblings.

Pantoja: My parents died…my mother…had an accident in a part of the house where she fell…and after my mother died I never heard about my father again until the day he died when my siblings called to let me know. I went to his funeral but that’s it.

(I hope that someone from Freixenet comes across this to see how a truly demented quee's mind works--mine not Patroja's.)