Word: fidels
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...Loona, the court sorceress) is also a great addition to the comedy of the play, for her interpretation of the stereotypical little, old, lady is outstanding. Hunter A. Maat’s ’04 performance as Lord Sedarc, Communist dictator (à la Fidel Castro) and enemy to Delphinia, is also well done, and earns rounds of laugher from the audience...
...missile-crisis thriller Thirteen Days may not have been box-office plutonium, the film has exploded on the world-leaders scene. First George W. Bush and Ted Kennedy attended a screening at the White House; then, last week, it was viewed and critiqued by none other than crisis participant FIDEL CASTRO. Costner met with Castro for seven hours and discussed how the film's depiction of the events jibed with the Cuban leader's memories of the real McCoy. "I shouldn't be speaking for [Castro], but he responded to the film very favorably, and we had a very interesting...
...Pigs invasion of Cuba. Swelled with the possibilities that lay ahead, Kennedy believed he would soon stride the world as the bold young President blooded in World War II, tempered in the political battles of 1960 and daring enough to have subverted the Soviet Union's puppet Fidel Castro...
...December, tanked miserably and didn’t rack up the acclaim he clearly expected. So Costner railed against American audiences in interviews and decided that the movie was, uh, better suited for Cubans. He took the film to Havana, had a screening of it and smoked cigars with Fidel Castro, and according to one eyewitness, is “touring Havana incognito. Many people say he is going round Havana undercover, and is interested in seeing a game of baseball or, maybe like Hemingway, going fishing.” Only one problem—the Cubans don?...
...Fidel Castro once sought to challenge international capitalism by distributing weapons in the Third World; now he hopes to do the same with AIDS drugs. The Cuban leader on Tuesday signed an agreement with South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki to promote the development and distribution of cheap alternatives to the AIDS drugs marketed by Western pharmaceutical corporations, which are often priced beyond the reach of most HIV patients in the developing world. Castro also vowed to put Cuba's pharmaceutical industry to work on helping countries such as South Africa and Brazil manufacture generic versions of the drug treatments...