Word: creams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film begins, David (Vladimir Cruz), a young student of political science and committed member of the ruling Communist Party, wanders dispiritedly around Havana because his girl-friend has chosen to marry another man. At one of the city's famous ice cream parlors, David meets Diego (Jorge Perugorria), a thirty-something homosexual who tries to pick him up. David rebuffs Diego's advances, but eventually agrees to accompany the older man to his apartment because Diego has promised to give him some hard-to-get books which are forbidden under Cuban censorship laws...
When David returns to his dorm at the university, he tells his roommate Miguel (Francisco Gatorno) that he met a homosexual at an ice cream parlor. "How do you know he was a homosexual?" asks Miguel. David replies, "They had chocolate, but he ordered straw-berry." Miguel tells David that Diego is a subversive and that it is David's patriotic duty to return to Diego and attempt to extract information from him. And so begins the friendship between David and Diego...
...although this is in part due to a lack of resources and not resourcefulness. There are problems with aspects of the characterization, and the film's political and sentimental message can be a little broad sometimes. How ever, the film is as simple and as good as chocolate ice cream. Funny, insightful and a little irreverent, "Strawberry and Chocolate" remains a treat...
None of the sexually-charged or "blue," as Kamal calls it, material that appeared on the early bootleg tapes has made it onto the albums or into the film. An independent distributor did approach them, but Brennan says "they wanted lots of cream, heavy stoop and sexual stuff," that The Jerky Boys were not interested in providing, tough...
...include such delicacies as potato loaves, onion focaccia and crushed olive rolls, all obviously fresh and exceptionally well priced. A variety of pound cakes, cookies and giant biscotti lay on the counter; a friendly, exuberant staff sits behind it. Besides staple deli drinks such as IBC root beer and cream soda, they offer "Fresh Samantha" carrot juice, fresh squeezed orange juice and fruit smoothies, produced and delivered by a local businessman...