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Alex & Emma is a test of whether Wilson can move beyond boyfriend status to the altar of the leading man. He plays Alex Sheldon, a novelist dogged by gambling debts and the Cuban thugs who want to collect on them. Wilson, who is required to convey more distress than in previous roles, is in virtually every scene, a fact that caused him some real discomfort. "I usually don't mind watching movies I'm in," he says, "but in this, there's just so much of me I can't take a breather and relax while other people are onscreen...
...Number of Cuban viewers who can legally get TV Marti (the Castro government blocks the signal...
DEFECTED. CARLOS MANUEL, 30, Cuban pop star; in Brownsville, Texas. The singer, who had been performing with his band in Mexico City, made his way to Matamoros and walked across a bridge into Brownsville with several family members. After saying his decision to leave Cuba was prompted by Fidel Castro's crackdown on dissidents, he was granted asylum...
...barman, in fact, is one indicator of change in erstwhile colonial clubland. At a luxury hotel 10 minutes away, the staff don't know how to make a mojito?the au courant Cuban cocktail of rum, mint and sugar. But at the LRC, they whip one up in seconds. There's not a whiskey soda in sight...
...refreshing to see someone like Paya fight for what he believes in with reason and logic rather than with Latin emotion. For years I have argued over the futility of the embargo with my fellow Cuban Americans, to no avail. Perhaps it takes someone still living inside Cuba to better understand that the embargo serves only to perpetuate the interests of Castro's government. And the restrictions on U.S. citizens' traveling to Cuba prevent an open dialogue with Cubans who are still think the U.S. wishes them harm. Unlike many of us who chose to leave Cuba, Paya has stayed...