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...Cooder's 1997 collaboration with a group of septuagenarian Cuban musicians, Buena Vista Social Club, sold 8 million copies and earned a Grammy for Best Tropical Latin Performance. It also earned Cooder a $100,000 fine from the U.S. government. "I learned that what Buena Vista means to the people who enforce the [Cuba trade and travel] embargo," says Cooder, "is not very much...
...time was a lover of Kahlo’s. More time is devoted to his role than Norton’s, surely, but it’s intensely painful seeing Taymor attempting to inflate his appearance by forcing us to watch Trotsky and Kahlo staring at a beautiful Mexican vista, all while listening to Trotsky wax corny Hollywood philosophical, with uplifting music ready to murmur...
...suspect in the disappearance of his brother, former NBA center Bison Dele, who was last seen sailing on a yacht in the South Pacific with Dabord and two others, who are also missing; after being found in a coma from an apparent drug overdose in Tijuana, Mexico; in Chula Vista, Calif...
Bookshelves filled with publications on Latin and Central American issues line the walls not covered with photographs, and music from the Buena Vista Social Club plays softly in the background. Excerpts from Falconi’s correspondence with both artists are printed in Spanish next to some of the photographs, reminding viewers how rooted the exhibition is in Harvard’s close-knit Latin American community...
...DIED. MILES DABORD, 35, brother of former NBA player Bison Dele; in Chula Vista, California. Dabord was suspected of having killed Dele and two others aboard Dele's luxury catamaran near Tahiti and disposing of their bodies in the shark-infested waters. He died after his mother asked doctors to remove life-support that had been keeping him alive since Sept. 14, when he was found comatose on a Tijuana beach...