Word: ernesto
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...ambitions of business heirs fly far beyond anything the founders imagined. When he was rolling penny cigars on a sidewalk in early-1900s Cuba, Teorifio Perez-Carillo could not have dreamed that someday his handiwork would be legendary among Hollywood stars and other aficionados. Or that his son Ernesto would buy the building behind his sidewalk stake and turn it into a tobacco warehouse. Or that his grandson, also named Ernesto, would take over the operation in Miami and become a multimillionaire...
...favorite on the early betting line was the Argentinean film ?The Motorcycle Diaries,? directed by Walter Salles (an Oscar-winner for ?Central Station?) and starring the current hot boy of international cinema, Gael Garcia Bernal. It is the story of a northbound trip the young Ernesto Guevara (Garcia Bernal) and his friend Alberto Grenado (Rodrigo de la Serna) took from Argentina through Latin America on an old Norton 500 motorbike in 1952. The film was meant to show the burgeoning social awareness of the two men, one of whom became Che the guerrilla, the other a doctor in Havana...
...Zhang films foregrounded a crucial movie element often lost in Cannes' ponderous auteur gazing: star quality. Bad Education's lead actor is Mexico's Gael García Bernal, who rocketed to international celebrity in Y Tu Mamá También, and who plays the young Ernesto Guevara, pre-Che, in Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries. Salles makes icons of the struggling (but always beautiful) poor of South America until the movie becomes a kind of liberal cornography, but García Bernal commands the screen with a winsome power. The main Dagger doll is Zhang Ziyi. Four years...
...Ernesto Arroyo, a.k.a. “Eroc,” a Boston native and MC in the hip hop group “The Foundation,” introduced himself with a rap: “I am the Foundation, I’m an entire nation/I’m persistence, resistance, the reason for existence...I’m evolution, I’m revolution/They can’t stop us, ’cuz we are free...
...belief that admitting one's errors is abhorrent? It's a pity that the people in charge would nonchalantly throw away their potential to do good because of false pride. Maturity is required in leadership, but officials today think humility can lead to a loss of dignity. Ernesto Kelly Magtoto Las Pinas City, the Philippines...