We haven't seen any of the performance that will likely be honored with an Oscar nod (except possibly Heath Ledger's Joker), but the race is tightening up. Local crazy person Mickey Rourke is still in the running for his turn in The Wrestler, but Sean Penn jumped into the lead with his performance in Milk. Now we like to pick our Oscar favs like John McCain picks running mate: we prefer the long shot, unstable picks. Which is why, job unseen, we're already rooting for Rourke. And, ugh, we h
So how do you beat the notoriously fiesty Cuban protesters in Vigilia Mambisa once they've set their sign-waving, bullhorn-screaming sights on your event?If you're Steven Soderbergh, you just plain outlast 'em. Even Vigilia couldn't make it all the way through Soderbergh's epic "Che," a four-hour long beast about the favorite T-shirt icon of disenfranchised suburban teens everywhere. About fifty angry protesters crowded behind police baracades outside Miami Beach's Byron Carlyle Theater before S
If you know anything about basic physics, you probably are familiar with the law of inverse reactions. Basically, it states that any cultural event that's greeted with a screaming protest in Miami from Vigilia Mambisa will be met by an equally welcoming reception in Cuba. It's science.And sure enough, just a few days after Vigilia pelted Benicio Del Toro and Steven Soderbergh with insults as they premiered their new 4-hour epic about Che Guevara in Miami Beach, the film opened in Havana to wides
