Stars and intellectuals hit out at Castro in Paris event

AFP, via Yahoo! ^ | October 9, 2003 | wire

[Cincinatus]

Film stars and intellectuals including Catherine Deneuve, Sophie Marceau, Pedro Almodovar and Jorge Semprun attended a soiree here supporting the Cuban people and hitting out at repression by leader Fidel Castro.

Actress Deneuve opened the event organized by the association Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders) at a theatre on the Champs-Elysees by reading from a speech made by Castro in Havana on January 8, 1959 just after the victory of the Cuban revolution.

"Fooling the people will have the worst consequences ... I shall do everything in my power to resolve the problems without shedding a drop of blood," the revolutionary leader promised.

Semprun, the Spanish writer and former culture minister, charged that 40 years later "the people are still on their knees in front of the rifles" and spoke of "the occultations of truth that have for so long been the prerogative of part of the European Left."

Special homage was paid to poet and journalist Raul Rivero, sentenced recently to 20 years in prison at a closed-doors trial for "attacking the sovereignty of the (Cuban) state."

His daughter Cristina Rivero took to the stage to ask "how could a poet, one man, like a modern Hercules divide the country?"

Actress Sophie Marceau read a poem by Raul Rivero and Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, brandishing a fan bearing the words "Cuba si, Castro no" expressed the hope that Castro would restore Cuba's freedom and get rid of dictatorship.

[Cincinatus]

Not all the French have their heads up their butts, apparently. The outrage is that the same thing isn't happening in Hollywood.

[Cincinatus]

Bump this to you, sweetie! Can you believe this??

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[Eric in the Ozarks]

Must be serving strong black coffee in Paris these days.

[shotgun]

Castro's speech was written for people like the Clintoons and his words must be carefully parsed. Like when x-42 said that he was going to pass a middle class tax cut, but instead raised taxes retroactively on the people. He didn't want to but there was no other choice....

[M_Man]

Especially when the French are Spaniards!

[aynrandfreak]

Where was Sarandon-Robbins-Garafolo-Asner-Farrell-Depp-Springsteen-Speilberg et.al.?

[aruanan]

Stars and intellectuals hit out at Castro in Paris event

Hit out? The writer must be an ESOL student. The phrase is "strike out."

[doug from upland]

Film stars and intellectuals including Catherine Deneuve, Sophie Marceau, Pedro Almodovar and Jorge Semprun.....
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Marcel Marceau was giving his opinion but people kept screaming "Speak up, we can't hear you."

[Cincinatus]

There were a couple of true French in the mix...

Catherine Deneuve, quoting El Presidente.

[drjimmy]

The beautiful and brainy Catherine Deneuve and the whacked out Susan Sarandon share a tender moment.

[bandleader]

You took the words out of my mouth!Ms.Deneuve is not only"Drop Dead Gorgeous",there is something else residing between her ears!!How come our own HollyWeird A**holes are so Bleeping Stupid??

[bandleader]

Or how about the speech that he delivered to a bunch of Buffalo,NY Kool Aid guzzlers where he said:"I Could Have Given You A Tax-Cut,But I Couldn't Be Sure That You'd Spend It Right"!!!!!

[Prodigal Son]

The ironic thing here is Deneuve did that love scene with Sue Sarandon in "The Hunger". I don't think she'll be sleeping with Sue again any time soon.

[Prodigal Son]

Marceau and Deneuve are Spanish? Whodda thunk it?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thanks for the post sweetie. Better late than never, huh?

[headsonpikes]

We could use some 'reporteurs sans frontieres' in the Blue states.

;^)

[Ebenezer]

Remarkable! This article reminds me of the Gospel account of Jesus encountering the Roman centurion whose servant was sick. Our Lord marveled at the Roman's faith which, He declared, He had not seen in Israel.

I wish the closet-socialist "entertainers" in our own country showed the same principle these European actors and filmmakers did in denouncing the Castro regime. ¡Viva Cuba libre y democrática!