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Jack Palance CHE! His bombastic portrayal of Fidel Castro in this 1969 flop gave the movie cult status. The campy effect was heightened by the casting of Egyptian-born Omar Sharif as Che Guevara...
...department at Radio Habana Cuba was the most prolific of all. One time I got I deck of "Heroes of the Revolution" playing cards with Fidel and Che on the backs. The station periodically sent me contest applications: "If you write in telling us what the most enduring legacy of the revolution is, we'll give you a trip to Havana! Courtesy of Fidel Castro...
...handful of Gromyko's tales are worth the trudge. For example, he recounts Che Guevara's story of how he became head of the National Bank of Cuba in 1959. Fidel Castro asked the assembled leaders of his revolution, "Tell me, friends, which of you is an economist?" "Che paused. 'I thought he had said, "Which of you is a communist?," so straightaway I said, "I am," at which he said, "OK, you handle the economy...
...conventions of drawing to a fixed scale, combining them with a fluent pen- and-wash technique to give a truthful, not just impressionistic, account of the future building. One sees his formidable skill as both a technical and a pictorial draftsman growing right through the show. "Altro diletto che Imparar non trouo," he scribbled in his notebook in Rome in 1614: "I find no other pleasure than learning." That pleasure stayed with him throughout his life and is almost palpable in the drawings he left behind...
...Soviet films is suddenly loud and clear. Did we say loud? Listen to the rock music that carpets the sound tracks. It drowns out everything but the angry shouts of the teen heroes, who sleep around and do drugs while aiming to be an amalgam of Elvis and Che. The revealing documentary Is It Easy to Be Young? portrays a generation given to graffiti and hooliganism. "I don't think about what will happen to me," says one young man, spiked hair framing a pocked face. "I don't particularly want to know ... Hey, you just gotta enjoy yourself!" Goodbye...