Posted on 12/10/2008 5:15:58 PM PST by slickeroo
Che Guevara on the Silver Screen
By Humberto Fontova Wednesday, December 10, 2008
SENTENCE first VERDICT afterwards, said the Queen. Nonsense! said Alice loudly. Off with her head! the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Alice In Wonderland
They say Lewis Carroll was a serious dope fiend, his mind totally scrambled on opium, when he concocted Alice in Wonderland. A place where the sentence comes first and the verdict afterward? Where people who protest the madness are sentenced to death themselves ?
Such a place rolled out the red carpet for Benicio del Toro this past weekend. I refer to Havana Cuba which put on the Havana Film Festival where the 4 ½ hour movie Che, was the main feature. In May del Toro won the Cannes Film Festivals best actor award for his role as Che Guevara in the movie he co-produced and Steven Soderbergh directed.
While accepting the best actor award at Cannes Benicio del Toro gushed: Id like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara! as the crowd erupted in a thunderous ovation."I wouldnt be here without Che Guevara, and through all the awards the movie gets youll have to pay your respects to the man!
In a flurry of subsequent interviews in Europe del Toro equated Che Guevara with Jesus Christ and told a Spanish interviewer, Ideologically I feel very close to Che.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Be my guest.
ok ... I give up - who’s “Mr. Pierrepont”?
> ok ... I give up - whos Mr. Pierrepont?
Albert Pierrepont. Famous British hangman. Amongst many others, he hanged over eighty Nazis as a result of the Nurnberg trials after WW-II.
When he wasn’t hanging people, he was a publican. IIRC he one day had the dubious pleasure of hanging one of his regulars.
I’m enlightened.
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