Spielberg is still Spielberg
Interesting datum:
My Fidel book includes the hyperventilating quote from Spielberg about his dinner with Castro being, "the eight most important hours of my life!"
Upon the book's release, Spielberg's publicist contacted me post-haste and claimed that Spielberg never said that.
"Well," I replied, "you better go after the AP, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, etc. etc. etc. 'cause they all carried the quote, as I footnoted."
"What happened is that Castro's press actually made that quote up," replied the publicist.
"And you're MAD AT ME?!" (By now I was convulsed in mirth.)
"If Spielberg were genuinely offended by this, he'd go to the press and make a formal statement: "Castro is a goddam LIAR!" and explain this issue."
HAH! Nothing of the sort took place (and counting since 2002). Apparently Spielberg wasn't miffed at Castro, the one who played him for a DONKEY!!, just at us.
Unreal.
Unreal indeed. Funny, he visited Cuba, and spent time with fidel, has he ever disclaimed the 8 hour timeframe? He is on record calling for an end to the embargo and increased "cultural exchanges," mouthing the usual platitudes, and as you point out, if he was misquoted and played, why no anger/public statement placing blame where it belongs? I for one don't buy it, and you have to wonder what transpired during those 8 hours.
Spiellberg is a schmuck! Take a look at his film Munich. It completely paints Isreal as the cause of 9/11. It condems Isreal for defending itself, saying to be Jewish is to forgive. Excuse me, I aint Jewish, but doesn't a person have to ask for forgiveness before you can forgive them? The last shot of the two jews standing in front of a digitaly inserted Twin Towers would make Osama proud. The shot basically, and hamfistedly, says we got 9/11 because of the Zionist Jews killing those poor Arabs.
And don't get me started on his movie 1941. A flop even with a cast that includes John Beliusi, Dan Ackroyd, and John Candy. Watch it and see how it paints all Amercians as racist idiots and the Japanese as noble, great people. Funny how we have a billion movies on the Holocaust yet none about Japanese attrocities. Possibly due to most of their victims are yellow and not rich, white and European. Hell, according to a PBS doc on chem warfare, The Japanese killed more civillians than Germany did! Yet according to Hollywood and the MSM only attrocities of WW2 were the Holocaust, and on the Jewish victims(non Jews aren't worth mentioning) and Hiroshima and Nagasaki!
Either Spielberg and his minions are lying and he DID make the infamous statement, which I expect is the case, or he's too opportunistic or too afraid of stepping out of the Hollywood line to say Castro, Inc. is the liar. Fact is, in his Bizarro World, that grotesquely repulsive statement is not only OK but admirable, and obviously he doesn't even begin to give a shit about what Cubans might think of it. Either way, he's a dirtbag.
Sorry Humberto, Hollywood is busy at the moment ...
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