CUBAN CARICATURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300040016-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: June 16, 1969
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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Cuban Caricature
i'uur (:Ila (:nt?var:t. ~Yasu t it cuout;h
that ht~ tlit?a a failnro in lho hoonduoks
ul? liulivi;t lryinl; to ~prc~ua the Cuban
t?cvululiou uu iufc~rlilc soil? Wusu't it
euouhlc Ilutl sluclcnls the world over
have turned kiln info a pinup? Now
rl'wcntirth Contury-box has hired that
onmiprrscnt l:f;}?ptian, Omat? SLarif, and
turned Chc into cn~;l The cost in dollars
wets v millinn. And I hope cox loses
every pointy of it.
1~ lcischcr clots provide some Weird
comic nurments, lhon};L, like the split- I
screen soclucncc where on one side yot>< ~
sec the dcacl Che's feet and, on the oth-
cr, the, boots of hundreas of marching
fclr~fisla.c. That's really sophistication. i
The only raw truth [coin life "Chet"
dots document is that major studios with !
major amounts of money can tako tho
most conk-?oversial, jagged material, put ,'
it through tho Panavision version ol; tits
Procrustean bed,' and .make it all come I
out "enterkpinment" - '~_.~...~......`..;:
Chances arc they will drop n bundle, 1
since the youth market at which this I
caricalurc hiof;raphy aims will rif;hlly
sneer at director Richard hlcischcr's
galumplcing attempt to substitute monkey
fil:utcls for idcolof;y. Ana people who be-
licvc that Castro and Guevara are mod- ~
ern av;tt;u?s of Satan will hale the ro-
mantic sympathy the film hopes to evoke
'for its hero wilt shots of his .corpse and .:
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its bullet holes.
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I'lcischer, the man who gave you "Dr.
Dolittle," has, according to the official
handout, filmed "Chet" "in documentary
style" (that means there are Feckless ~.;
black-and-whito fade-outs between se-,
quences) and, by using so-called pro- ~
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and?con eyewitnesses to nan?ate, has
achieved an "objective story line." The
result is objective, all right, objectively I ,
awful. Real history of an extrcinely tom-'
plex nature, like the Cuban missile crisis,
is reduced to an Al Capp confrontation i
between a worried Russian ambassador,
an emaseulatcd ridel (Jack Palanco)
and an idiotic Citc wito wants to stool the
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