Take 2: HBO wants Stone to reinterview Castro in documentary

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:55:10 -0400
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Subject: Take 2: HBO wants Stone to reinterview Castro in documentary

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/5650659.htm

BY LUISA YANEZ AND GLENN GARVIN
ggarvin () herald com

In a rebuke to Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, the pay-cable network
HBO yanked his new documentary on Fidel Castro just three weeks before it
was to air and ordered him to reinterview the Cuban strongman about a recent
wave of political repression on the island.

An HBO spokeswoman, who asked not to be identified, said Wednesday that
''it's very unlikely'' that the documentary Comandante, which depicts a
relaxed Castro amiably denying that Cuba has any political prisoners, will
ever appear on the network if Stone doesn't agree to the changes.

Stone is in Europe preparing to make a new film about Alexander the Great,
and could not be reached for comment. HBO officials are uncertain if he'll
agree and have not rescheduled the film, which was set to appear May 5.

The news delighted Miami's anti-Castro groups. ''Everyone who's seen it says
it's reckless,'' said Joe Garcia, executive director of the Cuban American
National Foundation. ``There's no counterweight to it, it's just Castro in
all his glory.''....


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