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Friday, May 05, 2006

Andy Garcia's "Lost City" Upsets Lefties

(Hat tip to Babalu Blog for link.) Andy Garcia is learning that his colleagues don't like movies depicting the truth about their favorite dictator, Fidel Castro. Many film festivals and Latin American countries have refused to show his film, "Lost City."

The film's offenses are many and varied. Most unforgivable of all, Che Guevara is shown killing people in cold blood. Who ever heard of such nonsense? And just where does this uppity Andy Garcia get the effrontery to portray such things? The man obviously doesn't know his place.

Garcia – that cinematic bomb-thrower – has seriously jolted the mainstream media's fantasies and hallucinations of pre-Castro Cuba, of Che, of Fidel, and of Cubans in general. In consequence, the critics are unnerved and disoriented. Their annoyance and scorn are spewing forth in review after review.

Maybe next time Garcia will use Oliver Stone's tactic and base his movie on an interview with Castro.