Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficult to see what anyone could find subversive in this intense, loosely structured narrative about the life of a middle-class intellectual in the days after the Castro revolution. The movie is complex, intelligent and totally lacking in hortatory propaganda. Tomas Gutierrez Alea is a director of cool passion and careful control. It is the measured force of Memories of Under development, as well as the novelty of its appearance, that has occasioned a critical reception somewhere between rapture and delirium. Yet just as it does not merit governmental suspicion, the movie cannot fully sustain that kind of response...
Raimundo López, a Havana physician, was more interested in practicing medicine than politics. But once Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba, López found himself unable to separate the two. When he refused to join the Communist Party, he lost his job at Havana's Calixto Garcia Hospital. His position was further undermined when his wife's brother was killed as he sought asylum at a foreign embassy. Finally López applied for permission to leave Cuba, was allowed to emigrate in 1969, and after an eight-month stopover in Mexico, arrived...
...just one of more than 2,000 physicians who have fled the country since Castro's takeover. Most of them, like López, came to the U.S., where they were free to do almost anything-except be doctors. Stymied by state licensing laws affecting foreigners who are not trained in the U.S., many able Cuban physicians had to take jobs as waiters, elevator operators or, if they could overcome language barriers and prejudice, medical technicians. There is a way out of the Cuban doctors' dilemma, however, and López, like many of his countrymen before...
Then there was the curious case in 1960 of the gangster's girl friend. Under a deal that was never fully explained, the CIA got information about Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba from Sam ("Momo") Giancana, then boss of the Chicago Mafia. Memo's girl friend was Phyllis McGuire of the singing sisters, and he wanted to chase off a rival, a well-known comedian. Sam's strategy was to convince Phyllis that the rival was a philanderer. The co median returned to his Las Vegas hotel suite one night to discover two private detectives...
...fact, the radical superstars of the 1960s are passé, along with their Marxist models: Castro, Che and increasingly, Mao Tse-tung. The new radicals, says Parisian Journalist Robert Pledge, who was a student activist in 1968, "have abandoned the idea of the political hero." Instead, they are promoting a more pragmatic, down-to-earth "Marxism with a human face...