Spain’s most entertaining import since Pedro Almodovar has arrived in the New World: Arturo Pérez-Reverte (above). The hugely popular Spanish adventure writer’s best-selling novel “La Reina del Sur” (”The Queen of the South”) is debuting as a TV miniseries on Telemundo, and has been scheduled for a Hollywood movie as well. Bravo!
“The Queen of the [...]
U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama won heartfelt endorsements from talented representatives of the cultural world this week: Directors at the Venice Film Festival.
Academy Award-winner Jonathan Demme (”The Silence of the Lambs” and the new “Rachel Getting Married”) said he saw “the America I love” at Obama’s nominating convention last week. Kathryn Bigelow, director of the [...]
I love Spain.
So it broke my heart to see the Spanish Olympic basketball and tennis teams make such racially insensitive fools of themselves in Beijing this week. Here’s what I mean:
The men’s basketball team posed in the photo above for a delivery company ad that’s running in Spain now. The International Olympic Committee called the photo “clearly [...]
Watching Barack Obama give an extraordinary speech at the Victory Column in Berlin, Germany today, I couldn’t help recalling another great African-American who was once applauded in Berlin: Jesse Owens.
Jesse Owens ran for the U.S. Track & Field team in the 1936 Olympics. The Nazis were in power then, so those were called the “Hitler Olympics.” [...]
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