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Chiste do día, publicado no Periódico de Catalunya, de Ferreres, un dos mellores caricaturistas do mundo mundial

Unha mostra do seu traballo no que vai de ano: (more…)

“Q: If, indeed, this Administration is collapsing for lack of weight, what comes after it?

A: Martial law, that’s next. Bush is like a plane of glass. You can see all the worms turning around in his head at any moment. The first giveaway of what’s on his mind–or the junta’s mind. “

Recente entrevista a Gore Vidal.

Na espera de que os seus lle atopen un recuncho no faiado, o estadista que lle cabía un estado na cabeza está, quizais, a matinar na imaxe que del quedará para a posteridade.

Pode facerse unha idea repasando a filmografía deste señor:

“La escopeta nacional (The National Shotgun, 1978)—the first and best movie in a trilogy that follows the fortunes of the Leguineches, a formerly wealthy family descended from the nobility that has fallen upon hard times—concerns a businessman who joins the nation’s most powerful figures on a hunting expedition and provokes a crisis of state. The film was inspired by a real event that took place in the 1960s when the newly-appointed Government Minister of Information, Manuel Fraga, joined Franco and his family on a hunting expedition and by accident fired pellets into Franco’s daughter’s rear end. The anecdote, while containing a perfect array of ingredients for any comic filmmaker, proved pertinent both to the career of Berlanga in retrospect and to more recent current affairs. In 1963, Fraga was the Francoist Minister charged with justifying the execution of Julián Grimau to the world and, in passing, the person responsible for adopting reprisals against Berlanga for El verdugo. 40 years later, towards the end of the year 2002, an oil tanker called Prestige was wrecked off the Galician coast in north-western Spain. Thousands of tonnes of crude oil washed up on the region’s beaches causing what has been termed the nation’s most important ecological disaster ever. In the aftermath of the catastrophe it was revealed that—when it was assumed he was supervising the rescue and clean up operation—the President of the Galician regional government, the very same (albeit now octogenarian and democratically-elected) Manuel Fraga, was hundreds of kilometres away in the southern-centre of Spain participating in a hunting expedition.”

Quiteino do Galicia Hoxe:

“Por primeira vez en España amósanse dende onte na Fundación Caixa Galicia da Coruña noventa fotografías tomadas por Margaret Bourke-White que foi pioneira no seu oficio xa que ademais de ser a primeira que estivo en todos os acontecementos fundamentais do século XX ata o seu pasamento en 1971, tamen foi a primeira reporteira gráfica de guerra.

A mostra, tras estar tres meses na Coruña, pasará o 18 de xaneiro de 2006 á sala de exposicións da Fundación Caixa Galicia de Lugo onde permanecerá dous meses. Tematicamente repártense en varias series, entre elas a Segunda Guerra Mundial, Canadá, México, Fort Peck, Independencia da India, Sudáfrica e unha ampla reportaxe social.”

“Tom Tomorrow is the creator of the award-winning weekly cartoon of social and political satire, This Modern World, which appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the country. …”

A súa tira semanal pódese ver aquí

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Nin de Coppola (Francis Ford), nin de Sergio Leone. Ben se ve que falta na foto Robert de Niro.

Veño de saber que a protagonista da película Calle Mayor (1956) de Bardem, é unha actriz americana, Betsy Blair. Escoiteino no concurso ese da 2ª cadena de TVE que botan sobre as tres da tarde.

Eu vira esa película na tele fai xa anos. Seica pinta moi ben a sociedade daquel tempo nas vilas españolas. Polo que eu sei, Lugo foi unha delas: a calle Mayor ven sendo a rúa da Reina (ou da Raíña, non estou seguro do nome oficial), tamén tiña señoritos de casino e mulleres sen acougo por non poder casar.

Miro no web quen foi Betsy Blair. Naceu no 1923. Non puido facer carrera nos USA logo de que o senador McCarthy deu en putearlle a vida. Gracias que seu home é Gene Kelly pode traballar como protagonista na película Marty (1955). Despois marchou para Europa. Aínda vive, en Inglaterra.