Posts Tagged ‘Gabriel Garcia Marquez’
The Fiction of Garcia Marquez’s Putas Tristes Vs. The Reality of Polanski’s Rape of a Child
12:12 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Arts|Movies · Comments Off
12 Oct 2009
Filming of the movie version of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s book, Memoria de mis Putas Tristes, has been halted in Mexico due to a lawsuit brought by The Regional Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean that says that the film will promote pedophilia.
“As a book, it does not have access to the most vulnerable people in society,” Coalition director Teresa Ulloa told The Associated Press. “Once they make the movie, it will be in movie theaters and later it will surely be on television.”
According to the film’s co-director and producer, Ricardo del Rio, the lawsuit led to government officials in the Mexican state of Puebla withdrawing funding.
Love in the Time of Cholera Trailer
2:37 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books|Movies|Music · 1 Comment
5 Nov 2007Love in the Time of Cholera is my favorite Gabriel Garcia Marquez book (in spite of Oprah’s book club ). The trailer certainly entices me to see the film and I love the Shakira song in the background.
Carlos Fuentes on Bush: “The worst president”
2:50 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia|literature|mexico|Politics · 3 Comments
30 Mar 2007
Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, on hand in Colombia to help his buddy Gabriel Garcia Marquez celebrate his homage at the International Spanish Language Congress in Cartagena de Indias, had a few things to say about the need for U.S. politicians to speak Spanish, and about our current president:
“He is the worst president of that country that I’ve seen in my lifetime. I’m willing to forgive Ronald Reagan and Nixon, because he is so atrocious and does so much harm that I have never seen anything comparable in terms of stupidity, arrogance and ignorance. This has been a catostrophic presidency and is still causing very dangerous situations in the world,” said the author.
Castro and Gabo Take a Long Walk
11:12 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia|Cuba|literature · Comments Off
15 Mar 2007
Fidel Castro is working more than his lips. According to an article in a Spanish newspaper, the Cuban leader who hasn’t been seen in public since last summer, is working his legs as well and with Nobel Prize winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
“I tell you, it seemed like kilometers,” the Nobel Prize winning Colombian writer said, describing a stroll the two went for on Monday.“Fidel is a force of nature,” said Garcia Marquez, adding that he found Castro in good humor and interested in talking about global warming and Latin American politics.
Now if only Castro would talk and walk in public.
Via / MSNBC.com
Image Via / Progreso Weekly
Garcia Marquez awards Pablo Milanes in Havana
5:37 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Cuba|Music · Comments Off
12 Mar 2007
Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez bestowed La Casa de las Americas‘ highest honor, the Haydee Santamaria Medal, on one of Cuba’s most influential singer-songwriters, Pablo Milanes in Havana last Friday:
The Nobel laureate in literature, who turned 80 earlier this week, joked that it was the first time he had bestowed a medal on a younger person, the official National Information Agency known as AIN reported.Based in Cuba, Casa de las Americas represents music, literature and other fine arts throughout Latin America. Writers, musicians and artists from countries across the region often are called upon to present colleagues with the Haydee Santamaria Medal from Casa de las Americas.
No one can be sure, but rumors were flying that Gabo (pictured above with Milanes) spent his birthday in the company of Fidel, according to AP.
Via / Yahoo! News
Image: Am.com.mx via AP
Gabo’s hometown didn’t become Macondo
6:29 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Colombia|literature · 1 Comment
26 Jun 2006
Gabriel García Márquez‘s hometown of Aracataca (isn’t that a reggaeton lyric?), Colombia lobbied to have the name of the town officially changed to Macondo — the name of the fictional hamlet in 100 Years of Solitude — in honor of the writer. Citizens got out the vote, but were ultimately unsuccessful in their efforts:
Residents of the hometown of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez failed to pass a referendum Sunday to change the town’s name to Macondo, the fictitious tropical hamlet in his masterpiece “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”Although 93 percent of residents in Aracataca voted for the change, high absenteeism invalidated the results. In total, 3,600 of the town’s 22,000 eligible voters — less than half the minimum needed — cast ballots, town mayor Pedro Sanchez said.
Too bad for town officials who hoped that the name change would boost tourism and bring new life to the down and out village. According to AP, Gabo himself hasn’t commented either way.
Via / Yahoo! Entertainment and AP
Bardem to star in “Love in the Time of Cholera”
3:09 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books|Celebrities|Movies · 5 Comments
23 Feb 2006
Spanish uber-hottie Javier Bardem has been tapped to star in the film version of Gabriel García Márquez‘s “Love in the Time of Cholera”:
En su rol, Bardem personificará a un romántico joven que pierde a la mujer de sus sueños por culpa de un millonario que logra conquistarla. Y que durante los siguientes 50 años se empecina en lograr estatus y reputación con la esperanza de algún día tenerla.
Bardem will play the starring role in the film, after producers finally convinced Garcia Marquez to allow his book to be adapted for film. Filming starts this year in Central and South American locations.
Bardem is the first Spaniard ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, for his portrayal of Cuban exile poet Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls.
Via / People en Español
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Putting Down his Pen?
1 Feb 2006
Say it isn’t so! Nobel Prize winning Latino author Gabriel Garcia Marquez didn’t write one line in 2005 and he’s ok with it. According to an interview that appeared in Sunday’s Barcelona-based daily La Vanguardia the author , whose latest book is Memorias de mis Putas Tristes, didn’t sound optimistic about breaking through this bout of writer’s block. He said:
I haven’t sat before a computer. And besides, I have no prospect or prospects to do it.
Via / The Miami Herald
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