Word: bernardo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Directed and Written by Bernardo Bertolucci...
...whom are now well assimilated, are growing increasingly hostile to the new arrivals. The term Marielito itself has become a fighting word in "Little Havana," the teeming, prosperous Cuban community in Miami; there are bumper stickers proclaiming NO ME DIGAS MARIELITO (Don't Call Me a Marielito). Says Bernardo Benes, a Cuban-émgré banker: "When I see Marielitos, I see numbers on them like the Jews in the concentration camps. There is a terrible lack of compassion for these people...
...trial might also have revealed that the Chilean secret police had attacked Bernardo Leighton, a founder of the Christian Democratic Party. Leighton commanded immense prestige both in Chile and among the vast exile movement of professional politicians, unionists, former state officials, and former military officers. After the junta learned that Leighton was perhaps close to unifying the exile movement behind a government-in-exile, gunfire on a quiet Rome street badly crippled him and his wife...
...three minutes from The Shining after its opening this May. Robert Altman planned an eight-hour Nashville saga for ABC, and Martin Scorsese hoped to restore many of the sequences cut from New York, New York for telecast on NBC; so far, neither dream has been fulfilled. Bernardo Bertolucci is a compulsive tinkerer. After the release of Last Tango in Paris, Critic Pauline Kael complained to him that one of the best paragraphs in her review described a sequence that Bertolucci...
Among the key actors, De Guzman brings a radiant innocence to Maria that is quite affecting. Marshall's handsome Tony is more wood than flame, and the incendiary performance is given by Debbie Allen as Bernardo's girlfriend Anita. This woman sizzles like a severed power line. When she dances, sings and blasts her way through America, the roof of the theater starts to buckle...