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...real Granado, now 82) and developing the screenplay, which was first written in English and then translated into the colloquial Spanish of the 1950s. The money from the deal went into the Che Guevara Center of Studies in Havana, from where March oversees all things Che. Mexican golden boy Gael García Bernal was Salles' first and only choice to play Guevara. "Could it be anybody else?" he asks. "Gael is the most visceral, talented and mature actor of his generation." Others have played the revolutionary onscreen: Omar Sharif in a much-reviled 1969 biopic; Antonio Banderas alongside Madonna...
...Motorcycle Diaries, the first of two movies about Ernesto (Che) Guevara (starring Gael Garcia Bernal, below), opens in the U.S. next month; the second, Che (with Benicio del Toro), will follow next year. They have sparked another batch of commercial tributes to the icon of '60s rebellion...
...GYMNASTICS Melanie Banville, Cornwall, Ont. Grant Golding, Calgary Ken Ikeda, Abbotsford, B.C. Alexander Jeltkov, Montreal David Kikuchi, Fall River, N.S. Gael Mackie, Langley, B.C. Am?lie Plante, Joliette, Que. Heather Purnell, Metcalfe, Ont. Kate Richardson, Coquitlam, B.C. Kyle Shewfelt, Calgary Kylie Stone, Calgary Adam Wong, Calgary...
...loss Germany The Christian Democrats' big win bodes well for three state elections in September The ruling Social Democrats' worst-ever loss in a national vote ratchets up the pressure on Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's government Ireland Voters elected Sinn Fein's first M.E.P.; the opposition Fine Gael had its best-ever result Premier Bertie Ahern's Fianna Fáil tumbled to its worst showing in 80 years, marring the government's six-month term as E.U. President Italy Small parties left and right gained; those in PM Silvio Berlusconi's coalition government instantly demanded more power...
...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...