With Lola Ogunnaike and Kasia Anderson.
Daily News. Sunday, April 08, 2001
Kevin Costner and Fidel Castro have a date at the movies.
Cuba's maximum leader is due to relive his October 1962 missile crisis this
week when Costner flies to Havana to show his movie "Thirteen Days" to
Castro.
The Oscar winner is set to leave tomorrow in his GIII jet for his first
visit to the Communist nation.
"We look forward to a robust exchange of views with President Castro,"
says Peter Almond, who will be part of the Hollywood diplomatic mission, along
with his "Thirteen Days" co-producer Armyan Bernstein and Costner's
girlfriend, Christine Baumgartner.
Almond allows that the Cubans may "quibble with any number of facts,"
but believes the "big themes" will ring true. The first screening will
be a big public affair at the Charlie Chaplin Theater, where Costner is expected
to be grilled about whether he believes the U.S. should lift its trade embargo.
There will also be smaller screenings for film students and faculty at the
Fundacion del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, and for Americans at the residence of
Vicki Huddleston, chief of the U.S. Interests Section.
On Wednesday, Almond is due to fly from Havana to Moscow, for a screening
and discussion that will include Cuban Missile Crisis vets Anatoly Dobrynin,
Gen. Anatoly Gribkov, Ted Sorensen and Robert McNamara. | 