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...with his Cabinet. Their decision: no negotiations. Late Wednesday night soldiers set two explosive charges that destroyed large sections of the Justice building, sent 30-foot flames shooting into the air and may have killed many of the 100 siege victims. Early the next morning, the terrorists released Justice Reinaldo Arcienagas with a proposal for a cease-fire and truce. The government refused. The surviving guerrillas apparently realized that their situation was hopeless and reportedly began shooting the judges in cold blood...
...better place for them than painting. In 1996 he directed Basquiat, about you-know-who, with its peerlessly funny impersonation of Andy Warhol by David Bowie. Before Night Falls,made four years later, brought an Oscar nomination for Best Actor to Javier Bardem, who played Reinaldo Arenas, an AIDS-stricken Cuban writer who committed suicide in New York City in 1990. Even before Schnabel began directing, Longo directed a film, Johnny Mnemonic, starring Keanu Reeves in a futuristic film noir. So did David Salle, the painter whose voyeuristic conjunctions and overlays of imagery from all over had made him another...
...together and live happily ever after. However, replace the girl with a boy and you will have a tough time finding even a handful of blockbuster movies that apply. Recently, Before Night Falls made a splash as the story of gay Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas. For those thirsting for more such movies, the Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival is running from May 2—20 and promises to bring a variety of films and videos that will delight a wide range of audience members...
NOVEL SLEEPER BEFORE NIGHT FALLS FINE LINE Little-known Javier Bardem, who portrays Cuban novelist Reinaldo Arenas, was booked on the Early Show, Rosie, Charlie Rose and Weekend Today, while his director appeared in bookstores nationwide to sign copies of Arenas' work...
...MIGHT LIKE IT Looking for a male weepie with art-house credentials? Julian Schnabel's sprawling biography of the Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas spans a half-century, two countries, two languages, two extremes of regimes. Batista's rapacious tyranny keeps most people poor; Castro's stern, homophobic communism keeps them miserable. Bardem, who was excellent as the crippled husband in Pedro Almodovar's Live Flesh, plays a noble fellow suffering at the whip hand of a sadistic dreamboat like Johnny Depp, then wilting tragically from AIDS. It's a serious actor's dream role...