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KEEPSAKES The icon smokes a cigar in most of the Che Guevara Postcards (Phaidon), a cigar-box full of vintage shots, on sale in September
...Kerry even faulted Bush's reaction in 2001 upon learning of the 9/11 attacks--the scene that everyone who has seen Fahrenheit 9/11 will remember as seven excruciating minutes of reading The Pet Goat with a classroom of Florida schoolchildren. At that point the Bush campaign hauled out that icon of 9/11, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to brand Kerry "an indecisive candidate who has demonstrated an inconsistent position on the war on terror" and one who has been reduced, moreover, to "armchair quarterbacking based on cues from Michael Moore." So much for terrorism being the one issue...
...seen the Halle Berry version. But Searcy knows that a person tormented by questions of image and identity can find encouragement in the message of Genesis 1: 27: "So God created people in his own image." That biblical quotation is projected on the screen, which also features an icon of a smiling cartoon Catwoman sporting purple tights, a feather boa and a whip...
...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...
DIED. RICK JAMES, 56, early '80s funk icon known for his outrageous fashion sense and a troubled personal life that included a five-year prison sentence for assault and a 10year addiction to cocaine; of natural causes; in Los Angeles. His infectious 1981 single Super Freak launched him to superstardom, but his career was soon derailed by drugs. Comeback efforts in the '90s were sidelined by a stroke and hip-replacement surgery...