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...convinced audiences he can be a dog-loving street punk (Amores Perros), a priest tortured by love (El Crimen del Padre Amaro), a randy teenager on a spree (Y Tu Mamá También). In The Motorcycle Diaries, which just opened, he incarnates the young Ernesto Guevara, soon to be Che. Bad Education follows in November, and after that, who knows? The kid from Guadalajara, Mexico, is high on Hollywood's muy caliente list, though he has yet to make a film there. But the future is limitless for an actor who can do anything...
...tracing the journey of Guevara from restless child of the upper middle class to abettor of the Cuban revolution, the movie runs into dead ends of sentiment (the little people Che bonds with include a gorgeous leper) and nearly sinks in bathos (he swims a wide river for one last visit to the leper colony). It's all to demonstrate the radicalizing of a guerrilla hero. "We wanted to show where Che came from and where he was going," García Bernal says. "So finding the tone was very delicate, like fine embroidery." Certainly his participation is faultless. He brings...
...GAEL GARCIA BERNAL IN THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES AND BAD EDUCATION This hunky, soulful Mexican could be his own toughest competitor. We'd pick his virtuoso turn in Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education over his more conventional role as the young Che Guevara...
...noisier after the election of Long Hair Leung and a pro-democracy former radio talk-show host, Albert Cheng. Leung campaigned both for democracy and for the government to do more for the poor. He says he has no intention of dressing up?his wardrobe consists of Che Guevara T shirts and Teva sandals?and the day after the election, Leung was at the gates of the main government-office building protesting about polling irregularities. Instead of getting arrested, he was invited in. Quaffing a beer at a bar the next day, he chuckled: "I think I can get used...
...Colombian uprising is scheduled to kick off this week in Washington amid a clattering of coffee cups and trays of Latin-fusion hors d'oeuvres. Diplomats and policy wonks will be able to get their picture taken with the leader of this urbane revolution, a capitalist Che Guevara literally rolling out the red carpet for his U.S. invasion. This glitzy cafe opening seems an odd counterpoint to the poncho-clad Juan Valdez and his trusty mule Conchita, but the advertising icon needs all the fanfare he can muster for his daunting new mission: to make Colombian coffee hip enough...