Word: spaniards
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...There is a single, irrefutable reason the pairing works: Francis Bacon spent his entire career aspiring to Picassohood. In fact, Bacon maintained that his first encounter with the Spaniard's work, the 1927 show "A Hundred Drawings by Picasso" at the Paul Rosenberg Gallery in Paris, made him want to be an artist. "Why don't I try it?" the Ireland-born, England-raised drifter asked himself; within months...
...teenager back in her native Seville, Paz Vega made up her mind to become famous. Another Spaniard and fellow Andalucian, Antonio Banderas, had made it big in Hollywood, so why couldn't she? "I had always loved theater and cinema," says Vega, 29, over the phone from Miami, where she's promoting her latest film, Spanglish. "So one day I said to myself that I would become an actress...
...would have already happened," says longtime Rome-based Jesuit priest Keith Pecklers. "He identifies with the mystery of Christ's suffering." Keeping the world updated last week on the Pope's latest health scare was Joaquín Navarro-Valls. A former psychiatrist and journalist, the 68-year-old Spaniard has been the papal spokesman since 1984 and is in constant contact with the Holy Father. Though some veteran Vatican watchers complain that Navarro-Valls spins the world about the Pope's physical condition - he insisted that John Paul was steadily recovering last week - few believe he would deny...
...making such a decision, Corgan follows in the footsteps of a plethora of musicians of different genres, including Jim Morrison, Tupac Shakur, Jewel and, perhaps most notably, John Lennon. His books Spaniard in the Works (1965) and In His Own Write (1967) both included poems, stories and drawings...
...Bardem's performance in Before Night Falls made him the first Spaniard nominated for a Best Actor Oscar. This year there could be two nominees from Spanish-speaking countries: Bardem as a paraplegic who persistently petitions for euthanasia in Alejandro Amenábar's The Sea Inside and García Bernal in ... take your pick...