Word: guevaras
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...halt the war, and failed to heed the smoke rising from the ghettoes. In France, anger was directed first at a sclerotic university system, then at the Fifth Republic, which condoned it, then at the Republic's architect, De Gaulle. Orthodox Communist parties were spurned in favor of Che Guevara and Ho Chi Minh. In Warsaw and Prague, students marched against Stalinism...
Pier Carlo Talenti certainly looks the part of Che Guevara, the South American revolutionary who narrates the show, but he's a little short on the cynicism his role requires. It's hard to sing and be sarcastic at the same time, and Talenti has clearly opted for the former. Talenti has a good voice, but Evita asks more of him than vocal skills, and he falls short of the play's demands...
...become considerably poorer since 1979. The purchasing power of the average person with a job has declined to less than 20% of what it was in 1980. Food and fuel are tightly rationed. A few weeks ago the gas allowance, obtained with coupons bearing a portrait of Che Guevara, was cut from 20 to 17 gal. a month. Earlier this year, the government-subsidized rice ration was reduced to 1 lb. a person a month, down from 5 lbs. three years ago. "A pound of rice might feed a small family for a day," complains Jose Romero Arana at Managua...
...trooper in the easy drawl he has copied from Florida deejays. "Sure! Just look at that title, Born in the U.S.A.!" Even here, though, things are not quite as clear as they seem. In the ex-soldier's spacious home off once splendorous Fifth Avenue, a picture of Che Guevara stares across at an equally large poster of Barry Manilow. Downtown in central Havana, a 15-year-old schoolgirl goes him one better. On top of her dresser she has carefully fashioned a collage of her three great heroes: Michael Jackson, Jesus and Che. Thus the unlikely eclecticism of Cuba...
Until then, there are the perks of fame: access to Che Guevara, an invitation to party with Robert Kennedy and a judgeship at the 1984 Venice Film Festival, where the passionate individualist from the U.S.S.R. succumbs to a cultural bureaucracy in the West...