Mucho Mucho Amor

Yehudit Mam
5 min readJul 15, 2020

And Mucho, Mucho Makeup: the Story of Walter Mercado

I had no idea of who Walter Mercado was until I arrived in the US in the early 90s and discovered his campy astrological readings on Spanish language TV. At the time, I thought he was a total fake. Too much hairspray, too much plastic surgery, too much everything. More than predictions, his prognostications were like a cheering squad. I wanted my zodiac readings to micromanage my…

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Yehudit Mam

Author of Serves You Right, a novel in NFT. Cocreator of dada.nyc. A Jewish Aztec Princess with a passion for film, food, and human foibles. yehuditmam.net